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Well, that didn't take very long. Just like that, Milan Lucic made a nice pass from behind the net to set up a Michael Ryder goal. This makes it 1-1 early in the first period. Stay tuned for more scoring updates and hop into the Game of the Week chat, why don't you?
Capitals have big plans for Dmitry Orlov, but there is just one problem . . .
Dmitry Orlov is still without a contract for the upcoming season.
A restricted free agent, the 25-year-old defenseman had eight goals and 29 points last season, while making $2.25 million in salary for the season, as per General Fanager. His previous two-year contract had an annual cap hit of $2 million. But with training camps approaching, he remains unsigned for right now.
As noted before, there is a cap crunch for the Capitals heading into the new season. Orlov is the only RFA left for the Capitals to re-sign.
According to generalfanager.com, Washington has $3.4 million in salary cap space left, but to allow for in-season roster flexibility or a 14th forward, the Capitals have around $2.6 million to devote to re-signing Orlov.
Still, despite that fact, the Capitals coaching staff has big plans for Orlov for the upcoming season.
"I envision him playing with a [Matt] Niskanen or a [John] Carlson, probably more prime minutes as we try even out our defense a little bit in terms of [workload]," said Capitals head coach Barry Trotz, as per CSN Mid-Atlantic.
"It's a great opportunity for him. He's at the right age where he can really contribute. We'll look for his contributions on the power play, the penalty kill, playing in that top-4 on a pretty regular basis. I just think it's right for him."
Maurice: 'Zero repercussions' for Jets prospect Laine following offseason knee surgery
With NHL training camps approaching and the beginning of the World Cup of Hockey next month, Winnipeg Jets head coach Paul Maurice had some good news to report.
It appears that forward Patrik Laine, the second overall selection in this year's draft behind Auston Matthews, is progressing well from the minor knee surgery he underwent following the NHL scouting combine. That same operation kept him off the ice when the Jets held their development camp early in July.
"He was held out of (Jets) development camp for precautionary reasons, but he's back to full training and has been for quite some time," Maurice told NHL.com.
"There will be zero repercussions moving forward."
Laine, the reigning World Hockey Championship MVP from earlier this spring, was named to Finland's World Cup team. The tournament begins Sept. 17. Finland begins the competition the next day against Team North America.
After an unbelievable 2015-16 season — he was named the Finnish league's playoff MVP and won gold for Finland at the 2016 world juniors with seven goals and 13 points in seven games — Laine now looks to make the leap to the NHL.
With his shot and skill — not to mention an entry-level deal with that carries an AAV of $3.575 million, including $2.65 million annually in performance bonuses, as per General Fanager — he'll be given plenty of opportunities.
"Patrik is going to be able to do all those things he's always been able to do," Maurice continued.
"How long it takes him to do it, I don't know, but he's going to get a chance to play. He fits in to what we're trying to do as a hockey team, so you'll live with some mistakes that are youth-generated, but he's a very special talent and I would not be surprised if he comes in and is able to finish and put up numbers."
Capitals coaching staff remains intact, after close calls for Reirden and Lambert
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — After the best regular season in franchise history, the Washington Capitals almost lost two assistant coaches to other NHL teams.
Todd Reirden was a finalist for the Calgary Flames' head coaching job and Lane Lambert for the Colorado Avalanche's. The Flames hired Glen Gulutzan in June, and then after the abrupt resignation of Patrick Roy the Avalanche hired Jared Bednar last week. That left Jack Adams Award-winning coach Barry Trotz's staff intact for another run at the Stanley Cup.
Trotz was selfishly glad to still have Reirden and Lambert on the bench, especially considering the Capitals have most of their players back and are again a Cup favorite.
"You never like to lose high-quality people and coaches, but at the same time these are guys that if they're not replacing me, they're replacing someone else in the league," Trotz said Tuesday. "Both of them were right there in the end. It says a lot about them. It says a lot about our program here in Washington."
Reirden and Lambert contributed to and benefited from the Capitals' success last season, which ended with a second-round loss to the eventual Cup-champion Pittsburgh Penguins. Reirden comes back for 2016-17 as an associate coach after being given that promotion Monday when the team announced he'll run training camp while Trotz is on Canada's staff at the World Cup of Hockey.
Going through the experience of interviewing is something Reirden believes will help him and Lambert moving forward.
"We went through those situations, both of us, with different teams, but not for one second was I disappointed about coming back and being a part of this team," Reirden said. "We've invested a lot in the last two years and our growth of our team in two years I think has been outstanding."
The success so far has made Reirden and Lambert two of the more sought-after assistants in the NHL. Reirden learned just how competitive the process of earning a head job is and was able to help Lambert through his situation two months later.
Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan had a more difficult decision to make on Lambert, too, given that Joe Sakic of the Avalanche asked permission to talk to Lambert a month before the start of camp. Trotz had to come up with four or five potential replacements but agreed that Lambert should get the chance to interview.
"It might've been a different decision if it was the Rangers or someone else calling that you play a lot more," Trotz said. "But for the most part I think we've developed a relationship with our staff that if you get an opportunity to move up, we want to give you that opportunity."
Next year one if not both will be in the mix for vacancies and likely gone. Players understand that's part of the business
"Todd is certainly on the horizon, I think," Niskanen said. "He's probably going to get a chance. Selfishly I was hoping that it waits another season, at least, and I think that's good for our team, too."
The future looks bright in Toronto, but no sense rushing prospect Mitch Marner
This post is part of Toronto Maple Leafs day at PHT…
What remains for Mitch Marner to accomplish in junior hockey? What's the point of another year in the Ontario Hockey League?
Selected fourth overall in the 2015 NHL Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs, Marner has posted back-to-back 100-point seasons with the London Knights in the OHL.
Actually, that's understating his production. In his draft year, he scored 44 goals and 126 points in 63 regular season games. The following season, he played in six fewer games, with 39 goals and 116 points. He won a Memorial Cup in London this year and was the OHL's playoff MVP.
That's quite a list of accomplishments. However, it's possible that following Maple Leafs training camp, the highly touted forward prospect could be sent back to junior. After turning 19 years old in May, he's not yet eligible to play a season in the American Hockey League. So the options for him next season include making the NHL, getting sent back to junior or potentially playing in Europe. According to the Toronto Star, Marner doesn't seem into the latter option.
Skill isn't an issue.
The more pressing concerns facing Marner are size and strength. He's listed at five-foot-eleven-inches tall and, as per the Leafs, 160 pounds. There were reports this summer Marner tipped the scales at 163 pounds.
The Maple Leafs continue through their rebuild.
Retaining the No. 1 overall pick that turned into Auston Matthews (he's Under Pressure) is a boon for the task the Maple Leafs are currently undertaking. They also have forward William Nylander, who had six goals and 13 points in 22 games with the big club last season.
Head coach Mike Babcock told TSN that Marner has a "good chance" of making the Maple Leafs roster this upcoming season. The big focus, the coach continued, isn't so much about putting on weight, but getting stronger.
"I want to make sure I feel comfortable enough to go out against men and play hard, and make sure I can go out there and do the things that I like to do," Marner said earlier this summer.
The speed of today's game has allowed for smaller players — Johnny Gaudreau, Brendan Gallagher, Max Domi to name a few — to excel. This is something Marner himself has pointed out.
"The NHL's changed. It's not about height. It's not about cross-checking as hard as you can. It's not about hooking. A lot of those will get you a penalty nowadays," Marner told Sportsnet.
"It's about the speed game now; it's about thinking. If you have the brain to play in the NHL, you can play. If you can dodge hits, you can play. It's up to you to put the work in."
It's understandable for Maple Leafs fans to want to see Marner in the NHL as soon as possible.
With the talent the Maple Leafs have been adding to their system, the future looks bright. With that in mind, it doesn't make sense to rush a player of Marner's talent into the NHL if his body isn't physically ready for the demands.
Canada's world junior team, which looks to reclaim gold on home ice, would certainly welcome the news.


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By Charles A. MillerJune 29, 2010
In contrast to the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan enjoyed widespread domestic U.S. and international support. Widely perceived in the wake of September 11, 2001 (9/11) as a just and legal war to prevent future terrorist atrocities, the U.S.-led war had the active support of many allies from Europe and elsewhere. However, at the time of writing, this support has dropped off dramatically among the public in all six countries under study. In the United States, support levels as high as 91 percent in early 2002 have declined to approximately 50-60 percent in 2008, with many polls showing a majority now opposed to the war. In the United Kingdom (UK), support fell from over 70 percent in early 2002 to just over 30 percent in the summer of 2008.4 In Canada, previous high support levels of 60-70 percent have been transformed into a current support rate a little above 35 percent.
In Australia, the war in Afghanistan, an electoral asset for John Howard's Liberals in the 2001 election, now enjoys minority support of around 42 percent, according to the latest polls. In France, support fell from 67 percent shortly after 9/11 to a mere 34 percent by
September 2008. Finally, Germany has seen a similar drop in support from a comfortable majority of 61 percent in favor of action to a small minority of 27 percent by December 2009. From a policy perspective, this drop in support is concerning.
As is outlined shortly, the main finding of this monograph is that, although other factors such as confusing and inconsistent rhetoric from political leaders have been important, the key driver of the fall in support for the war in Afghanistan is a combination of casualties with an increasing perception that the war on the ground is being lost. If policymakers wish to halt this decline in public support, the single most important thing they can do is to consistently articulate a clear and credible plan to achieve success in Afghanistan. Other options, such as tightening the rhetorical justification for the war or inducing greater multilateral cooperation, may have some effect at the margins, but if publics do not believe the war can be won, then Afghanistan will be a lost cause in the court of public opinion.
This monograph will address the reasons behind this universal fall in support by looking at each country on a case-by-case basis. While it may be supposed that all of the countries in this monograph share certain generic similarities as highly developed democracies, each public's attitude is also presumed to be shaped by country-specific historical and cultural factors, and by the differing experiences of their militaries in Afghanistan.
Each country will form a separate case study. In turn, each case study will be prefaced with a short outline of the given country's recent historical experience with, and public attitudes towards the U.S. and towards the use of force overseas. Any assertion that a given country is "pacifist-inclined" or "pro-interventionist" must be backed up by historical facts and hard data, because in some cases-for example France or Canada-many stereotypes, which are popular even among well-informed policymakers, turn out on closer inspection to be poorly founded. Along with opinion polls on public attitudes both of the United States and of the use of force in international affairs, this short introductory section will include information on whether the country in question imposes parliamentary caveats on its forces in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, for secrecy reasons, we are not aware of the actual content of most of these caveats. However, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has made public information on which countries do and do not have caveats. This will be used, as it provides a good indication of a given country's preexisting attitudes to the use of force.
In seeking to explain the fall in support in each case, the author draws on both the academic literature on casualty sensitivity developed from the study of public opinion in previous conflicts and on theories that are popular in policy circles and the news media with respect to Afghanistan. The remainder of this introductory section will outline these theories. Academic theories are not important because they hold some kind of intrinsic, aesthetic value but because they provide policymakers with some guidance on where to look for the causes of an important phenomenon such as the decline in support for the war in Afghanistan. Academic debates are ultimately important only in so far as they are capable of yielding actionable and accurate advice to policymakers. At the same time, the academic literature does have some advantages over the news media debate in its ability to clearly and rigorously to spell out the mechanisms by which causes are linked to effects. With some news media-driven theories-such as the theory that the Afghanistan war has contracted illegitimacy from the war in Iraq-the precise way in which this process plays out in the minds of individual voters is somewhat nebulous.
Thus theories that are popular in the news media will sometimes require some additional fleshing out to gauge how crucial they really are.
The first set of explanations popular both in academia and in news media and policy circles is that the decline in public support for the war is a straight-forward result of increasing casualties. There are two variants of this "casualty phobia" explanation. First, there is the view that public support for the war starts high but then drops rapidly when the first casualties are sustained, then drops more slowly afterwards- this is known as the "logarithmic casualties" theory and is associated with John Mueller. Second, there is the view that public support for the war drops sharply with the first casualties and then declines more sedately, unless there are then sudden bursts of increased casualties, which cause correspondingly sharp falls in the level of public support for the war. This theory is termed "marginal casualties" and is associated with Scott Gartner and Gary Segura.
In addition to these claims, there exists a set of explanations that the author terms "casualties plus politics." The first of these, associated with Eric Larsson, states that elite discord about the mission, along with casualties, are what cause public support to fall. Elite discord most commonly means disagreement between the major parties but it could also mean public disagreement over the mission in the news media and upper reaches of the foreign service or military.
A different perspective claims that the public will tolerate casualties provided that the mission is based around restraining the aggressive foreign policy designs of a rival state-like the Gulf War of 1991-rather than around nation-building or counterinsurgency. This is known as the principal policy objective theory associated with Bruce Jentleson and would suggest that the Afghan war lost popularity as it transformed from a straightforward defensive mission to extirpate al-Qaeda's bases post-9/11 to a more complex counterinsurgency and nation-building exercise.
Third, both academic analysts and news media pundits frequently suspect that a lack of multilateral backing for a mission may also be a key factor in causing support for it to fall. A lack of multilateral support for a mission may delegitimize it in the eyes of the peoples of participating nations, it may also cause them to doubt the judgment of the leaders who took them into the war (because other leaders did not come to such a judgment), or it may simply cause them to turn against the war out of resentment at the perceived "freeloading" of their allies. Popular though it is to blame a lack of equitable, multilateral burden sharing for the decline in support for the Afghanistan war, it is problematic for several reasons. First, the Afghanistan war is authorized by a specific United Nations (UN) resolution, and all leaders of the Western alliance at least publicly claim the war to be just and worthwhile.
Second, it is very difficult to tell whether the perceived lack of multilateral burden sharing is really having an independent effect on the downward trajectory of support for the war or whether the unwillingness of some countries to contribute merely reflects the same factors that are causing public support for the war to drop in the main participating countries-such as the deteriorating progress of the war itself. Determining whether the lack of equitable burden sharing is actually having an effect in its own right requires a natural experiment-an instance in which a previous under contributor decided, for its own reasons, to ramp up its deployment. I argue that the reaction to the decision by France's President Nicholas Sarkozy to increase the French deployment to Afghanistan after his election in 2007 provides such a natural experiment, because this decision was essentially personal, not part of his election campaign, and did not reflect a sudden upsurge in France in support for the war or an improvement in the situation on the ground in Afghanistan.
Finally, an increasingly popular view of the relationship between conflict and public opinion stresses that the public will be able to support military operations involving significant casualties only if they believe that the war will be won. This theory was developed by Peter Feaver, Christopher Gelpi, and Jason Reifler through close analysis of U.S. public opinion and the Iraq war22 and is here first applied to the war in Afghanistan.
Their work also suggests that the American public contains a segment of around 30 percent of "solid hawks" who will support a mission regardless of costs and who provide a "floor" below which public support will not fall. This author argues that this explanation is the only one that works in all of the cases surveyed, even those such as Australia in which all other factors would suggest a different outcome to what we observe. This author also claims that the solid hawks, as identified, do have counterparts in other developed democracies and account for the interesting fact that in all of the countries surveyed (except Germany), once support hits the mid to low 30 percent level, it tends to flatten out and not decline further.
Consequently, the rising belief that the Afghanistan war will not and perhaps cannot be won, when combined with rising casualties, is the most important factor in causing public support to fall. If policymakers wish to halt or reverse this trend, turning around the public's perception of the likely outcome of the war is the key.
Additionally, this paper examines two other popular explanations for the decline in public support for the war that have developed in the news media, policy circles, and academia and were specifically inspired by the case of Afghanistan. The first of these "Afghanistan-specific" theories is that the unpopularity and perceived illegitimacy of the Iraq war has spread to the war in Afghanistan. As evidenced by the popular slogan "Bush lied, people died," this perspective suggests that the Iraq war destroyed the public's belief in the honesty and integrity of the existing political leadership and made them suspicious of any conflicts initiated by them, even if apparently unconnected to Iraq. This author argues that if this theory holds water, one would expect to see the public's belief in the legitimacy of both conflicts decline at the same time and that if the leadership that initiated the Iraq war were to give way to a leadership that opposed Iraq but supported Afghanistan, we would see an increase in support for the latter conflict. In fact, evidence suggests that neither is the case and that the public is judging the Afghanistan war on its own merits, regardless of the situation in Iraq.
Also, it is widely held that the fall in support for the war derives from a poorly executed rhetorical strategy on the part of political leaders. Leaders have often cycled through numerous rationales for the war- from counterterrorism to counternarcotics to humanitarianism and nation building to women's rights to helping one's allies and protecting the Western way of life. This has been accompanied by often vague and grandiose language. Critics charge that this has left Western publics confused and cynical about the true goals of the war. Far better, it is claimed, if leaders had simply stuck to a clear and simple rationale based on counterterrorism. This author contends that the evidence on this is mixed-most politicians have used the multiple rationales strategy at most times, so it is difficult to say what would have happened had they used some other strategy. Nonetheless, using many rationales probably has not helped politicians rally support for the war. Sticking to a clearer and more consistent rationale may help to stem the decline in support, but it will be insufficient by itself if the situation on the ground does not improve.

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A Yahoo! User Mar 16, 2009 01:22 Flag
you ower your north London brothers!!
Blimey do you lot owe us or what!!
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FABONGRASSS FABONGRASSS Mar 16, 2009 01:28 Flag
dont owe you bugger all, about time you won a game isnt it?
Fabongrass, you're a twat. Greg, cheers mate I dont often celebrate a spurs win but you lot properly helped us out!
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A Yahoo! User Mar 16, 2009 03:01 Flag
Fab ..behave mate, we'd have been well chuffed had you lot done us some favour in the league at some stage had we needed it, come on admit it, you were dying for us to beat Villa today, thats natural ...whatever team you follow.....you wnat the team threatening your postion to lose ...anyhow looking forward to another set of north London derbies next year ......personally I think your gonna do ok in the CL
FABONGRASSS FABONGRASSS Mar 16, 2009 02:52 Flag
why cos i believe we are where we are due to how WE have played??? sorry fella, if you would rather think the yids put us where we are thats up to you, but its not my opinion.


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. March 30, 2014—A disappointing finish. Such is the mindset of the ABC Supply/AJ Foyt Racing team that a top-10 finish in the Verizon IndyCar Series no longer ranks as a good day. Takuma Sato, who won the Verizon P1 award with the No. 14 ABC Supply Honda, finished seventh in the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.
"In the end it was a very tough day today," Sato said. "The start off the line was good and I got into a nice rhythm the first stint but it looks like we didn't have enough speed on the second and third set of tires—we struggled a bit to get the balance right. We had a little issue with the pit stop as well, lost a couple places. I tried hard but it was difficult to gain positions on the track today. Overall, I think after such a great qualifying, it's a disappointing finish. At least the team fought really hard and it was a good job for the weekend and we brought home some points."
Will Power won the race while Ryan Hunter Reay finished second. Third through fifth were Helio Castroneves, Scott Dixon and Simon Pagenaud.
Sato and the entire ABC Supply team had been fast the first two days on the 1.8-mile street course, and topped qualifying to win the pole—Sato's fourth and the team's 44th. They were fast at the start of the 110-lap race as Sato leapt ahead of row-mate Tony Kanaan to easily take the lead into Turn-1 and extend it to nearly six seconds by the time of his first pit stop.


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Posted on Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 by Russ Fischer
"You've been dead for around 25 years now." So begins this interview between Twin Peaks co-creator David Lynch and Leland Palmer. Specifically, that's Lynch speaking not to the actor Ray Wise, but to Wise in character as his Twin Peaks alter-ego. It's part of what is sure to be the strangest bonus feature on the upcoming Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery Blu-ray set, in which Lynch speaks to the Palmer family as they exist now. (Or something.) Now you can watch a clip of the interview below. It's the first new legit Twin Peaks material in many years, and that alone warrants a look. Read More »


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17 March 2015
The Government has announced new reforms to significantly increase the development and growth of Indigenous businesses and employment in its initial response to Creating Parity – the Forrest Review. These announcements can be found at: www.indigenous.gov.au
Submission Period Now Closed
2 October 2014
Following the release of Creating Parity – the Forrest Review – the Australian Government began consultations and sought submissions to obtain feedback on the overarching direction of the Review to inform its response to the Review's recommendations. The six week consultation period ended on 20 September and submissions have now closed.The Government will provide its response after careful consideration of the Review's recommendations.
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Mr Forrest has finalised his Review of Indigenous Training and Employment Programmes. The Government is now seeking your feedback on the recommendations made in the report Creating Parity – the Forrest Review.
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Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott released Mr Andrew Forrest's review of Indigenous Training and Employment Programmes.
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The Review of Indigenous Training and Employment Programmes is expected to report to the Prime Minister in June 2014. Extra time has been provided given the scope and breadth of the Review to ensure matters were given appropriate consideration.
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Submissions to the Indigenous Jobs and Training Review have now closed. Over 300 submissions were received, so thank you to everyone who made a submission and has contributed to the Review.
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Read through the ideas, suggestions and proposals that others have made in their submissions to the Review of Indigenous Jobs and Training.
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More than 1,500 people turned out to attend public consultation meetings across Australia last week as part of the Federal Coalition Government's Review of Indigenous Training and Employment Programmes.
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, the Hon Alan Tudge MP has released a media release following the week of initial consultations.
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Ravens Yanda, Weddle Make Top 100 NFL Players ListThe Baltimore Ravens have two players on Pete Prisco's 'Top 100 NFL Players of 2016' list.
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3 Things Ravens Need Going Into Free AgencyNorris and Davis spoke with John Eisenberg Of Baltimore Ravens.com ahead of the NFL Free Agency deadline and what the Ravens need going into the 2016 season.
Ravens Part Ways With DE Chris CantyThe Ravens confirmed that DE Chris Canty's 2016 option won't be picked up.
Ravens Super Bowl Defense Statistically Better Than BroncosThe numbers show that the performance by the Ravens' defense in Super Bowl XXXV was statistically more impressive than Denver's Super Bowl 50 defense.
Steve Davis: Broncos Defense Vs Ravens Defense In Super BowlAnyone that remembers Super Bowl XXXV knows that that game was a complete domination by the Ravens defense.
Red-Hot Illinois Defeats Coppin State 114-56While Illinois hung 114 points on Coppin State Sunday, coach John Groce didn't want to talk about the offense.
C. J. Mosley Named Defensive Rookie Of The MonthRavens linebacker C.J. Mosley has been named Defensive Rookie of the Month for October
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Written By EGN on Monday, January 7, 2013 | 19:43
Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully announced late this afternoon that she will not seek reelection when her current term ends in 2014.
Scully, who has been with district attorney office office for 34 years, was first elected to her current position in 1994. In the memo announcing her decision Scully said that she is leaving with mixed emotions but is ready to start a new chapter in her life.
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
The Poet Looks Up, Three Poems by Bettie M. Sellers
Have you read Wild Ginger, Poems by Bettie M. Sellers?
During the month of March, we have celebrated the life, poetry, and accomplishment of former Georgia Poet Laureate Bettie M. Sellers. Here, at the end, I acknowledge poems from her most recently published collection, WILD GINGER. It's in the Wild Ginger poems that we get the whole person. The poems of Bettie M. Sellers observe nature and the passing of the seasons in the beloved north Georgia mountains where she lives. Her poems resemble vivid portraits of people she met in her travels through life. The final section of Wild Ginger takes the reader traveling with her into Greek Mythology and to the land of Greece itself.
The poems I cannot forget are poems of this woman, painting her house on a summer day, her head cocked to one side, listening. Nor will I think of Bettie M. Sellers and not imagine her eyes looking up to the sky.
the season of cicadas by Bettie M. Sellers
It is the season of house painting
and cicadas, the soft swish of my brush
indistinguishable in the disembodied music
filling the valley as bright as leaves
edging red into September.
I have found their shells shadowed
on bark of dogwood and pine -
but I cannot see their wings liberated
into the air that fills the space
between this ridge and Double Knob.
It is the season of grape jelly,
of skimming the boiling surface
to make it clear in the jars
as purple glass.
When winds chill and I make hot biscuits
to butter and spread with this jam,
I shall hear cicadas hiding in the grass
and smell fresh paint
coating the boards of my house.
killdeer above the stars
by Bettie M. Sellers
They keen, a shrill song circling
the gravled roofs that cap
the planetarium dome,
for nestlings fallen out through
apertures that empty Apil's rain
and three small birds.
Each year we see them weaving
in and out among campus grasses,
gathering stuff for yet another nest.
They build, warm eggs, three specks
like bits of gravel skittering
across the roofs, around the silver
pipes. From a window high across
the lawn, we watch a day, a week,
until the black-barred parents
warn us with their mourning song.
They cry above the dome, among maples
leaning down to shadow Betelgeuse.
Then they are gone until April returns,
and killdeers nest again above Andromeda.
watching the stars fall by Bettie M. Sellers
Perseid, the meteor showers
of late summer, the Big Dipper
pours out snippets of light
on the slopes of Rabun Bald,
on ground-pine spreading green
stars under low brush.
Jewelweed catches yellow, golds,
shares orange with Turk's Cap
lilies nodding beside the road.
In this near darkness,
I cannot see Joe-Pye -Weed,
wild asters absorbing
the purple rays or a great
mushroom splashed with reds
spilling over onto a terra-cotta
mound of black ants.
When morning comes,
I will forget the light
streaking down the sky
above the mountain,
see only replenishment,
colors touched up, warmed
across the August land.
Western From Bald Mountain (1974) Out of Print
Appalachian Carols ( 1976)
Spring Onions and Cornbread ( Pelican Publishing 1978)
available www.alibris.com
Morning of the Red Tailed Hawk (Green River Press 1981
available www.alibris.com
Satan's Playhouse (1986)
Liza's Monday (Appalachian Consortium Press, Boone, 1986)
The Bitter Berry: The Life of Byron Herbert Reece
(1992 University of Georgia Press)
Wild Ginger (Images 1988, Reprinted by Kennesaw State University Press 2004)
Wild Ginger also available at www.alibris.com. Note from Alibris:About this title: Best known for her poems about life in the north Georgia Mountains. This collection of poetry from the former Poet Laureate of Georgia was chosen by Georgia Center for the Book for its Georgia 2005 Top 25 List.
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Nancy, I really enjoyed the poem "Season's of Cicadas." And what a lovely book! Glad to be able to read Bettie's Work this week. Glenda Barrett
- April 1, 2009 at 8:28 AM
- karenh said...
Bettie's poems have such wonderful sounds. Really enjoyed reading these. Thanks, Nancy.
- April 2, 2009 at 7:17 AM
- Nancy Simpson said...
Hello Jack, Thank you for the heads up about the incorrect date. It has been corrected.
I love Bettie's poems, as you have guessed.
Are you her brother?
- March 12, 2010 at 6:09 PM
thanks for this nice post 111213
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sound installation, wood, polycarbonate roof panels
A missing roof is reconstructed. The sound of falling water from a nearby river is amplified in real time. An urgent gap between past and present is sealed.
The vestiges of an abandoned water mill stand alone in the countryside. A large portion of its roof has caved in, while a portion of its waterside façade has collapsed as well. What walls remain, enclose a space of loose bricks and overgrown weeds.
Alongside this area, a white construction rests at an awkward angle between the ground and the building. From certain perspectives this pointed construction resembles a roof, appearing to have "slid" off the mill's superstructure. From other perspectives the construction appears to be a shed, composed of wooden beams and thick, rippled polyester sheets. Upon entering the construction, one notices that it stands against the mill's outer wall, creating a slanted, transient compartment. Two shattered windows from the mill's original façade complete the compartments "interior" and enable the viewer to peer "outside" into the overgrown area within the ruins. Mounted speakers inside the compartment play intermitted real-time recordings of the nearby watercourse, which is also acoustically audible by listening through the open windows.
The construction's outer appearance clearly mimics the building's missing roof. Though constructed of new materials, its inelegant position against the decaying façade grants it the posture of having been "cast off" or "discarded" by the wear and tear of time. When comparing the crumbling condition of the original building with the fresh pseudo-roof structure, one witnesses an illogical, mismatched architectural relationship. As if the mill itself had conjured an incongruent concept of its initial design. One realises that despite the picturesque setting surrounding the water mill and its odd, prosthetic annex, these two modules will never fit together. The existence of the second roof conveys an ineffable and nonetheless abortive attempt to replace something gone astray. It poetically discloses that memories decompose along with their host and that the ability to recall or even facsimile a condition lost in time produces only a peripheral synthesis.
Unlike the open panoramic aspects of the work's exterior, the installation's sealed compartment takes the viewer "inside" a paradoxical loft of reversed points of view. When gazing through the shattered windows, one looks out into what was once part of the water mill's main workspace, now overtaken by wild vegetation. While this one-time interior is exposed to the elements, the viewer moves about inside a sheltered room that stands outdoors. Though invisible from inside the constructed compartment, one hears the sound of falling water coming from the mill's far side. These peaceful acoustics linger in the distance through the open windows, continuing their steady course, unaffected by the passing of time. When this sound is occasionally amplified by speakers inside the compartment, it creates yet another artificial mirroring. The viewer is thus enveloped within three simultaneous reflections of the abandoned water mill: an imitated reflection of its attic, a parallel reflection of its ground floor area and the ambient reflection of its small river.
With her installation, Split-Second, Heidi Voet formulates a multipart equation that both magnifies and diminishes the effects time dictates upon man's devices. The physical distance separating the new construction and the old mill is at some points indistinguishable, though they stand several decades apart in purpose and function. Moment by moment, the ethereal pressure of time has slowly pushed in the building's roof, though it took only a split-second for the actual collapse to occur, a split-second stretched into continuance by the water's endless flow. The construction next to the ruin becomes a remote exoskeleton haunted by the things taken away in time, allowing one to "look back" into the present and hear the ever-present echo of the current moment.


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These days, there are two kinds of Linux runners. Thanks to the
corporate-sponsored yuppy geeks at KDE/Gnome/freedesktop.org and
the distros that support those Windows-clone user-interfaces,
There are the true Linux runners, who want to learn Linux and to
share their knowledge with others and/or write-maintain the free,
open-source software that makes Linux possible.
And there are the false Linux runners who simply want a
free operating system and free technical support, who
don't care about learning Linux and don't have any intention
of doing their fair share of the work needed to maintain
Linux. Or of donating to the developers and maintainers of
the software they use.
They just want to watch videos and listen to music and shop
and play video games and engage in mindless chatter with IM
and IRC and on web forums, etc.
The false Linux runners are destroying Linux, which is precisely
why the corporations have put 10's of millions of dollars into
KDE and the like.
They know the couch potatos won't take the time to learn Linux
from the command line (note that I am not talking about Linux
without X, which I use) and they won't learn to type because
they need one hand free for their beer, cigarettes, junkfood,
cellphone, or whatever else they are consuming while they click
and point with the other hand.
The corporations really want that other hand free to consume...
And they really _don't_ want people to learn how to run computers.
Once most of the people running Linux are ignorant couch potatos who think
that KDE (etc.) and Linux are the same thing, the game is over. The
software will become non-free and non-open source.
They've already tried, remember:
But there wasn't a high enough percentage of couch potato, false
Linux runners around to allow them to pull it off.
If we don't do something about this situation, if we don't drop KDE (etc.)
like the radioactively hot potatoes they are, you can kiss Linux good-bye.
Or prepare to become, literally, outlaws.
No, KDE (etc.) are not nice ways to introduce people from the Mac/Windows
world to Linux. They are traps deliberately set and baited by huge corporations
who hate free and open source software and people who really understand computers.
And they especially hate computers they can't access at will. Which they cannot
on Linux OSes that don't run KDE (etc.).
Yes. I know that every blabbermouthed idiot on the Linux groups going to reply to
this. Sorry. But don't blame me. If it wasn't for KDE (etc.) none of these
lazy, thieving couch potatoes would be running Linux.
If I can ignore their malicious gibbering, so can you.
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Living Labyrinth is a fun, light-hearted race through an ever-changing maze of garden tiles. Players hurry to be the first to cross the maze and reach their goal, all the while moving pathways, changing the maze, and even moving the victory goals. Should you race ahead at full speed? Should you delay to spend precious time cutting off your fellow players? Only one player will succeed and escape the Living Labyrinth!
With rules that can be taught in less than five minutes, Living Labyrinth is an ideal game for families and children of all ages. The action cards give players a handful of simple tactical options, and the double-sided tiles ensure that the maze is never the same twice. Each turn is easy and fast -- but strategic -- making Living Labyrinth a great board game to teach new and young players. Living Labyrinth also gives them a fast introduction to strategy in a fun, colorful package.
Finish a game in fifteen minutes, and then play again and again for the whole evening. Each game is different, with new mazes, new cards, and new strategies. Don't expect the same plan to work in every game, because the ground under your feet is ever-changing!
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Shuffle the 25 game tiles and spread them out in a 5x5 grid, adding the Goal tiles to the edges of the board. Each player takes a character pawn and places it on the opposite side of the maze from their colored Goal. The first player to get to their own goal wins!
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Good game ! The game is tiles with parts of paths on them. The tiles have to be moved to make the path connect, so you can move to the next tile. You have to create a path from start to finish, using the cards in your hand. While you are building your path, your opponent is building theirs, and disrupting, or changing your path.
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Ignatieff's bill would return pay equity to the human rights realm.
It would also create a federal pay-equity commission charged with implementing an equal-pay regime in the federal public service, federally regulated companies and Crown corporations by 2012.
Ignatieff says pay equity is really about gender equality, noting that women, on average, still earn only 72 cents for every dollar earned by men for the same work.


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It's the time of year, when parents and kids are stocking up on school supplies and teachers are decorating bulletin boards and scrambling through professional development days while poring over their new class lists. For me, it is a good time to say a last word on some disparate issues.
Teach Your Baby to Read
Awhile back, an entry here focused on the "Teach Your Baby to Read" program (Teach Your Baby to Read Blog Entry). I criticized those programs for fostering a mis-definition of reading as word memorization and said it was not likely to be effective. I pointed out the need for research. That turned out to be a controversial blog and it generated lots of response. Most critics were parents, two of whom even offered to bring their toddlers to me to see that they were reading.
It is hard to invest in something that doesn't work; it creates "cognitive dissonance." That's just a fancy way of saying that people look hard for reasons to like those things that they have already bought into. Buy a new car and you start reading more car ads than before because you look for evidence that confirms your good judgment.
This week, Susan Neuman and her colleagues published, in the Journal of Educational Psychology, a randomized control trial of studies on baby literacy programs. Their conclusion: "Our results indicated that babies did not learn to read." The programs had no impact on measures of early literacy and language. Nevertheless, the parents who delivered the programs were sure they were working. Cognitive dissonance strikes again.
Teaching Vocabulary to English Learners
My recent blogs on academic vocabulary elicited this request: "I love that you are addressing this topic! Any advice for those of us working with large populations of ELL students?"
It's a good question. Research suggests vocabulary learning supports reading comprehension, and this impact is greater with ELLs than native speakers. ELL students are less likely to know English words, so teaching words would have a particularly powerful impact for them.
One thing that is different for ELL kids is that it is not just academic vocabulary that they lack. If we only teach book language or the words that aren't usually heard in oral discourse, then ELL kids may be left out. It is essential that ELLs be assessed to determine their language status. If their language development is similar to that of their English classmates, then emphasizing academic vocabulary with them makes great sense.
More likely, however, their language will lag behind. In such cases, providing them with additional instruction in vocabulary would make sense. But this instruction should focus on oral language—not written. Claude Goldenberg has promoted the idea of having a daily period devoted to English language instruction for ELLs and that makes great sense to me. Give these kids a chance to close the gap with their English-speaking peers.
I would also argue that it is important to do more than teach word meanings. That has value, of course, but so do listening comprehension and grammar lessons. Language includes more than words.
My Daughters
There have been many responses to my blogs about teaching my daughters to read. The most chastening was from my eldest who claims I attributed the anecdotes to the wrong daughters. That may be the case, as since they were little, I often would call them by the wrong names. I always told them they were lucky that we didn't have a dog (who knows they might have come to think Fido was their name).
I also heard from someone who wanted to know the impact of teaching the girls on their later school performance. E., the oldest, who entered school reading at a third-grade level, was chagrined to find that the kindergarten teacher would spend the year teaching letter names and sounds (she enjoyed the inflatable letter people). They let her attend first-grade part-time that year which didn't help much since those kids could read either. She loved the freedom of being able to leave kindergarten for first-grade and, to her thinking, it was a good year. She later skipped a grade to try to get a closer match (I wish we hadn't done that, but it was the only choice given the teaching available to her at the time—not the case in all schools).
M., the youngest who was slow at language learning, entered kindergarten with more modest accomplishments (she was reading at about a grade 1 level). Her advantages were less obvious, but I suspect more valuable. There was a very real chance that M. would have struggled with reading when she entered school. Instead, her biggest weakness was a modest strength. I have long believed that if I hadn't taught E. to read, she would have learned at school quickly and easily anyway. M., on the other hand, may have languished with the wrong teacher or program, and she may have played catch up in language from then on. Her reading levels might have been less remarkable initially, but her reading success was guaranteed.
Both girls did well in school, and one has a degree in law and the other in engineering.


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Even from his training facility in West Palm Beach, Fla., Lucian Bute can already hear the partisan fans at Capital FM Arena in Nottingham, England, cheering from ringside for their hometown challenger, Carl Froch.
"We've created a sound editing of the ambience in Nottingham with previous fights of Carl Froch and soccer games in England," said David Messier, a publicist for Bute.
"We have included the wife of Carl Froch. At each training session, [trainer] Stephan [Larouche] plays the sound clip in the gym for Lucian to be well-prepared."
Bute won't face Froch until May 26, but that hasn't kept the IBF super middleweight titleholder from imagining what it will be like to perform in front of his adversary's enthusiastic supporters.
"While training, we recreate the atmosphere of what we expect to hear at the Capital FM Arena of Nottingham. I can't hear the bell and I can't even hear my coach talking to me. On May 26, I will be ready to face not only Carl Froch but also the hostile atmosphere of Froch's fans," said Bute.
"My team takes me out of my comfort zone every training session. In the coming weeks I will work extra at the gym and during sparring. I am training for a 12 round war so I am sure to have all the energy required to fight Carl Froch in his hometown."
Replicating the hostile atmosphere has been critical to Bute's psyche.
"This training camp is much like every other," said Larouche. "However, the psychological preparation is different. We started this camp as if we were the challenger. On the evening of May 26 in Nottingham, Lucian will have to play the spoiler. Most of the fans in attendance will be against him."
"Nobody there other than a few fans will want him to win. This is the first time that Lucian will live this experience. Lucian will have to work harder than he does for his fights in Quebec and if he does, at the end of the evening, he will be the hero of the crowd."
Bute (30-0, 24 knockouts), who was born in Romania but recently became a Canadian citizen, will make the 10th defense of his crown against Froch (28-2, 20 KOs), whose last appearance in his home town was in defeating Andre Dirrell by split-decision in the first round of Showtime's Super Six Super Middleweight Boxing Classic in October of 2009.
"By saying yes to fight Carl Froch in his home town, I'm showing the world that I can fight anybody anywhere. I expect a tough fight," said Bute.
"I'm working harder at the gym to be ready physically and mentally. I'm really looking forward to defend my title for the 10th time. It's going to be an amazing experience."
Froch has made it known that in his opnion Bute never was good enough to be involved in the Super Six, pointing to the fact that other than once in his native Romania, Bute has never made a title defense outside of Canada.
Froch also used Bute's controversial win over Librado Andrade in October of 2008 to accuse him of getting special treatment from Canadian officials. Although Bute won the rematch with Andrade by fourth-round knockout in November of 2009, he had benefited from a long 10-count in their initial bout, allowing him to rise from a knockdown and avoid being counted out.
(Click here for video of Bute-Andrade I)
Those remarks from Froch aroused the competitor in Bute, who has channeled his ire into intense workouts.
"I started my training camp about seven weeks ago, and now with just under five weeks remaining, my training going very well. I am exactly where I should be. The sparring is started too," said Bute.
"I have good sparring partners and I'm satisfied. My objective is to win the fight and stay world champion. I don't target the KO, but if it comes, I will jump all over it. A KO would be a terrific ending to my fight."
And difficult to accomplish against the rugged Froch, who claims among his victories decisions over ex-world titleholders Glen Johnson, Arthur Abraham and Jean Pascal, and a 12th-round knockout of Jermain Taylor. His two losses came by unanimous decisions against two-time beltholder Mikkel Kessler and RING champion Andre Ward, both in the Super Six.
"Carl Froch has many strengths and we have to neutralize them all, as Andre Ward did last December. Froch has an awkward style. Lucian should expect to be hit from unconventional angles: From below, sideways, etc. Rest assured we are training to adapt to all situations," said Larouche.
"We fully expect Lucian to experience some discomfort on May 26. Fighting in England will be difficult for him. Winning in Europe as the opposing boxer almost never happens. We recognize we have a huge challenge in front of us, but we do have a huge advantage: We are the champion."
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Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System
Homeless program helps Veterans
Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System's Health Care for Homeless Veterans (HCHV) helps Veterans most at risk – the homeless – through a series of programs and events throughout the year.
In October, the program hosted a Homeless Veterans Stand Down at the Urgent Care Center in New Orleans. The Stand Down is an annual event aiding local homeless Veterans and civilians. This year 233 attendees received a hot meal and critical items like clothes, shoes and hygiene products. Veterans at the event also received medical screenings and flu shots as well as enrollment processing and mental health information.
Navy Veteran Neal McKain, 29, was one of the first Veterans through the doors. He came to New Orleans to attend college, but without any help or guidance he soon fell on hard times.
"After being in the military, some of us just aren't ready for the civilian life. The mindset is totally different and it's hard to transition," he explained.
McKain is working on getting into transitional housing with help from social worker Val Hebert.
"These Veterans need stability in order to get their lives back on track, and that's what we try to give them," Hebert said.
In December, the HCHV program hosts its annual Homeless Holiday Party at the Elks' Lodge in Metairie. The party offers homeless Veterans a hot meal, access to services, and a much-needed moment of peace and togetherness, according to HCHV coordinator Ken Rocky.
Special events like the Stand Down and Homeless Holiday Party supplement the HCHV program's regular offerings and give Veterans unfamiliar with the program a chance to learn about benefits available to them.
This year, HCHV staff processed 110 Veterans through the Stand Down and nearly 200 attended the holiday party. Many were enrolled in VA health care, but not all were aware of the benefits available to them.
"When I first got here, I didn't know anyone or anything. [HCHV] has really helped a lot of Veterans get their lives back in order," McKain said, noting that without the help of VA employees like Hebert, he would still be sleeping on friends' couches rather than working on getting enrolled in college.
"When you're out on your own, it's difficult. This program helps get people like me off the streets and transitioned back into civilian life," he said.
Once Veterans like McKain had a chance to go through the Stand Down, non-Veterans were admitted and offered food and clothing. The holiday party was also open to anyone in need.
"We're not going to turn away anyone that needs help," said SLVHCS Director Julie Catellier. She and SLVHCS Chief of Staff Dr. Paul Rosenfeld helped out during the Stand Down, at one point distributing water to homeless men and women waiting to come into the event. Mental Health Clinic Manager Richard Breaux was on hand with several staff members for the holiday party.
"We are so grateful," one woman, identifying herself only as Mary, said as she waited. "Thank you all so much for opening your hearts and arms to us."


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CHARLES TOWN - Frank Cavallaro has led an active life, one that took him around the world and the country.
As a boy growing up in Philadelphia, Cavallaro was very involved with sports and enjoyed playing games with the neighborhood children.
"I was raised by my grandmother and mother, and first thing when we got home from school was homework. You didn't leave the house unless you did your homework, and you had to show it to (my grandmother). Once she cleared me off after I had done my homework, I would change clothes and go down to the square and play," Cavallaro said. "We'd play baseball, basketball, football, marbles - you name it."
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Frank Cavallaro of Ranson, holds a picture from Army boot camp.
As a member of his high school football team, Cavallaro and his teammates earned two city championships.
When he was 17 years old, after he graduated from high school, Cavallaro left his home in Philadelphia and joined the armed services.
"I went into the service to go to school. After I got my (high school) diploma, I joined the service because it was the best option for me at the time," Cavallaro said.
After attending boot camp in Fort Jackson, S.C., Cavallaro was sent to the Army Signal Corps, which specialized in communications.
"I went to school there for about seven months, and I learned the Morse code," Cavallaro said. "I was able to copy, by pencil, seven words a minute, and by typewriter about 70 words a minute."
Cavallaro's job was to intercept messages sent in Morse code and transcribe them.
"After I finished school, they sent me to California. I was on a sheep ranch for about a week, before I was put on a boat. I went to Hawaii, I went to Guam, and I ended up in the Philippines. The Philippines is where I had my total career, for about four years," Cavallaro said.
According to Cavallaro, the relationship between Americans and Filipinos was a tense one while he was there serving.
"The Philippines was a funny place. We had a 99-year agreement (to lease military bases in the Philippines for 99 years), and when it expired they said, 'Yankee, go home.' They didn't care for us anymore, and they didn't care for us in the first place. They actually hated us immensely," Cavallaro said.
Cavallaro said about 15,000 Jeeps were stolen from military bases in the Philippines by the local population, who turned them into taxis.
"They would take (the stolen Jeep) to a garage, and put awnings on the sides and stairs on the back. They called them jitneys. People would hop onto the back, pay a toll, and get a ride to wherever they wanted to go."
Toward the end of Cavallaro's service, he was asked if he wanted to stay in the Philippines for another six months to earn a promotion.
"At the end of 1949, one of the superior officers came up to me and said, 'Frank, do you want an extra stripe?' I was a corporal at the time, and I said I would stay because it looked good in my records and it was more money. I was supposed to get out in February of 1950, and so it was moved to August."
In January 1950, Cavallaro was told that all promotions were frozen, so he left in April. He got back to California on Easter Sunday, and was officially discharged about a week later.
After returning to Philadelphia, Cavallaro went to Arlington, Va., and worked for the CIA.
"The unit I worked for in the Philippines was the Office of Strategic Services. The OSS became the Armed Forces Security Agency, which became the Army Security Agency, which became the National Security Agency, which was eventually the CIA. They hired me in the Department of State, and I spent four years in Cyprus doing the same work there I did in the service," Cavallaro said.
While working with the CIA, Cavallaro met his wife by chance at a dance he attended with some friends after work.
"If I had made the extension, I would have never met my wife. I turned it down, went home in April, and went to Arlington. After work, I said, 'Let's go to a dance,' so we went down to 18th and M Street to St. Matthews. There were lots of women and men, but I'm looking at her, and there's my wife. I met her by chance, and we've been married 57 years," Cavallaro said.
Currently, Cavallaro is retired and he and his wife reside in Ranson. He enjoys music, especially big band music from the 1940s.
"I have thousands of records and CDs," Cavallaro said. "I could probably play a different one every day for a year and never have to repeat a song."
Cavallaro also enjoys writing, and has written a book about crime and the judicial system in Maryland and Washington, D.C.
"I have a book that I wrote, but I'm running into copyright problems. The book is about homicides in the Washington metropolitan area. I've got it all finished, all I need is somebody to print it and publish it, and I'm home free," he said.
Cavallaro recently celebrated his 85th birthday and 57th wedding anniversary in October.
-Staff writer Mary Stortstrom can be reached at 304-725-6581 or www.twitter.com/mstortstromJN.


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Cutbacks leave UK with smallest army since Victorian times
Five battalions go and total strength drops from 102,000 to 82,000 in radical reorganisation
THE British Army is to lose 17 units, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced today, in reforms that will see 20,000 full-time troops axed. Five battalions will disappear entirely in the reorganisation - the 5th Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland, 2nd Battalion the Royal Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire regiment, 3rd Battalion the Mercian Regiment and the 2nd Battalion the Royal Welsh.
Three units will go from the Royal Logistics Corp, with the same number being cut from the Royal Engineers. The Army Air Corps will lose one unit and other jobs will go in units being merged.
Hammond said the cuts were "about the delivery of the future army, recognising and honouring the golden past of the army. Our first priority is to the army of the future."
Shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said the Army cuts, which will see the standing full-time force reduced by about a fifth from 102,000 to 82,000, had been cynically delayed not to coincide with last week's Armed Forces Day. He also noted that plans to double reservist forces to 30,000 could not compensate for losing 20,000 full-time regulars.
Tory MP Sir Peter Tapsell voiced concerns that one day the country would need to increase the army's size and demanded to know if the plans allowed for this, while Bob Stewart, a fellow Conservative and former soldier, noted that Scottish regiments had got off lightly as the government sought to shore up support ahead of the country's referendum on independence.
The Spectator noted today that the review is "uncomfortable for the Tories, who have long enjoyed the reputation of being the party of the armed forces. [ConHome editor] Tim Montgomerie tweeted this morning: 'Biggest tax burden since WWII. Smallest army since Victorian times. This isn't Conservatism'."
Meanwhile, the former head of the Army, Lord Dannatt, told the BBC 's Today programme that the plans were "risky" and would mean that Britain would only be able to engage in one major operation at a time. "Let us hope that the next decade is a rather more peaceful decade that the last decade, but I wouldn't bet on it," Dannatt said.
"There is no getting way from the fact that the Army will be 20 per cent smaller by 2020. The Army will be agile, it will be capable of being involved in one operation at a time, it won't be capable of getting involved in two operations at the same time like Iraq and Afghanistan," the crossbench peer warned.
For the Daily Mail, Allan Mallinson said that "Hammond is taking a gamble of huge proportions - he must not quit before he has seen it through", stressing the need for the Tories to steward the changes politically over the next five years, rather than moving the minister on to another department in the post-Olympics reshuffle.
If that happens, Mallinson says baldly, "it will be a real signal that the Tories are no longer serious about defence."
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There is no way around the need to make cuts. We have been trying to do too much with too little for decades and this is no longer sustainable. Since the early 1990s the Army has been designed for global intervention purposes rather than national defence. Scarce resources should be concentrated on the Navy and Air Force as the large scale deployment of land forces is a thing of the past. At least the coalition is being upfront about the cuts rather than running down and hollowing out the armed forces by stealth.


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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried Warfare: The Vietnam War Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Story Title.Paragraph)
Quote #4
A true war story is never moral […] if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. (How to Tell a True War Story.8)
Tim O'Brien keeps introducing us to characters we love and want to hang out with. He tells us about the brotherhood among these characters. And now he's telling us that there's no rectitude or virtue in the war at all? It's a little confusing. Use Kiowa as an example, though: O'Brien takes the most virtuous, moral character in the book and drowns him in poop. When O'Brien says that the war isn't moral, he doesn't mean that none of the people in it are moral. He means that the war itself destroys morality.
Quote #5
In many cases a true war story cannot be believed. If you believe it, be skeptical. It's a question of credibility. Often the crazy stuff is true and the normal stuff isn't, because the normal stuff is necessary to make you believe the truly incredible craziness. (How to Tell a True War Story.19)
Here we get more about the crazy things that happen in war. We also hear that soldiers know they won't be believed when they talk about the war. They consciously make up "normal stuff" so that they have a chance of communicating with civilians.
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In a true war story, if there's a moral at all, it's like the thread that makes the cloth. You can't tease it out. You can't extract meaning without unraveling the deeper meaning. And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh." (How to Tell a True War Story.63)
Tim O'Brien is kind of telling all of us who analyze stories to shut up and go home. If he's really succeeded in telling his true war story, then all there should be to this Shmoop learning guide is the word "Oh" in giant letters. Fortunately for us, how he makes us say "Oh" is as interesting and meaningful as any moral could be.