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In the course of replacing the headliner and window gaskets on my 1967 Mustang coupe, Robert Wooley of Classics & Customs noticed the stainless steel trim around the front and back glass was also in need of some TLC.
With a little extra time and effort, he demonstrated how dents could be removed and the metal restored to its original luster — just be sure that the material you're working with is in fact stainless. Generally heftier and shinier than anodized aluminum, thinner and more durable than pot metal, stainless is the only trim you can restore yourself with very little expense. However Wooley cautions that you may want to first practice on a junkyard piece to get the technique down. Also, no two dents are the same, so be prepared to vary your technique to meet the challenge. Now to tackle that Delorean...
Step 1: Lightly spray ink on the area that you believe is dented; if you don't have this spray available you can use a felt tip marker and rub it over the section. Next, take a fine "mill bastard" file, which can be bought at any hardware store, and gently rasp it across the area. This will remove the ink from the high areas, revealing the dents. It is important that you use a relatively fine file so that you don't gouge the surface.
Step 2: Working on top of a piece of plywood, turn the metal over and locate the dents on the reverse side. Using a punch, gently push on the dent in several spots. Patience — do not rush, use a lot of pressure or beat on it! Every once in a while check your work by scrapping the surface on the other side with the file. Eventually this will reveal that the area is flush. Also re-check for more dents that may be revealed now.
Step 3: Once Step 2 is completed, even out the surface with the file, making sure to reverse direction every once in a while so that you get a cross-hatch pattern. Going in one direction the entire time will create deeper gouges that will be harder to take out later. At this point its also critical that you don't let the file load up with a lot of shavings as this could gall the stainless steel.
Step 4: Here's where the patience factor really comes in. Using water-soaked 220 grit sand paper, wet sand out the scratches caused by the file. Be prepared to take a lot of time and sand paper. Once you've cut through all the file marks, use wet 400 grit sand paper to take out these scratches.
Step 5: The final polishing requires the use of a polishing/buffer wheel, a piece of equipment some people may not possess,


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|Andrei Markov is third among NHL defensemen with 17 points.
The NHL released the results from the first six days of the All-Star Fan Balloting on Tuesday and the 28-year-old leads all defensemen with 48,134 votes and is second only to Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby in the overall totals.
"It's a big surprise for me," admitted Markov when the media gave him the news following practice. "It's a good feeling, being recognized like that. I don't do anything special. I just try and do my best on the ice and help make this team better."
Blue line partners since last year, Mike Komisarek says it's about time his road roommate and locker room neighbor got his due.
"It's great to see him get that recognition. He's been tremendous," said Komisarek. "He may not be one of the most vocal guys but his play speaks for itself. He's really taken it upon himself to pick up this team.
"I'm just happy to be playing with him and riding his coattails," he added with a laugh.
Head coach Guy Carbonneau has known for sometime what his top defenseman was capable of, including witnessing one of Markov's best campaigns in 2006-07. But for others outside the city to realize what he was all about, apparently putting pen to paper back in May was all that was needed.
"I guess the contract woke up a few people outside of Montreal," said Carbonneau. "With Sheldon's [Souray] departure, he's been working extra hard. Not only is he contributing offensively, but he's a pillar on defense. He's proving right now that he's among the league's best."
While hockey fans around the world are now more familiar with Markov, the 28-year-old is also allowing himself to be noticed. Once a guy that the media spoke about more than they spoke to, he's been willing to give the sound bites this year.
"You guys never came to me! I'm definitely more comfortable. It's not my first year," laughed Markov.
He's been comfortable on the ice for many years and while he's hit career highs in points over the last couple of seasons and is off to a solid start once again, he has no plans to put it in cruise control and stay at the same pace.
"I hope my best start is going to be in the future and I hope it's going to be much better," said Markov.
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PARENTS of drug-addicted kids learn the hard way that when we think things can't get worse, they do. As a teenager, my son, Nic, was addicted to methamphetamine, heroin and other drugs. At 20, he had used most of the illicit drugs known to man. But one night, partying with a couple of friends in his basement apartment in Brooklyn, the combination and volume caused him to overdose. One of his friends called 911.
Nic was rushed to the emergency room, where he was resuscitated. When I spoke to a doctor there, I was told that if another 15 minutes had passed before Nic got to the E.R., he wouldn't have survived. My son has now been sober for five years. I don't know who called the paramedics, but not a day goes by when I don't thank him.
Other parents haven't been so lucky.
So many of the stories I've heard, from parents who have read my accounts of Nic's addiction, begin the same way. He was a wonderful child, a good student. She was popular, a hard worker.
David C. Humes described his son Greg as "Wonderful and bright. A.P. courses, good athlete. Warm. Loving.†On May 19, 2012, "Greg's earthly story ends,†David told me. His son overdosed and passed out. Someone — David doesn't know who — dragged Greg outside and placed him in the back seat of his own car. The person then drove Greg to the hospital and left him in the parking lot, where he was found dead.
A few days ago I heard from another father. He told me about his only child, Steve, who overdosed on a combination of OxyContin and Jack Daniel's. Steve's friends — "friends†may not be the appropriate word — put him in an ice-filled bathtub, a misguided intervention they had seen on TV. Steve died. His friends didn't call for help because they were afraid they would be arrested, and they probably would have been.
These children are among many thousands whose lives may have been saved if someone had called for help, and more are dying every day. There's no reliable data on the number of overdose deaths that could have been prevented had help been summoned immediately. But research suggests that, among those who witness an overdose, the most common reason people don't call for help is the fear of being arrested.
Meanwhile, the death toll keeps rising. Rates of lethal overdoses — now mostly with prescription opioid pain medications, like OxyContin, and street drugs like heroin — have more than tripled since 1990, leading to over 38,000 deaths in the United States in 2010. Overdose has become the No. 1 nonnatural cause of death in the country.
Responding to this epidemic, 11 states — including North Carolina earlier this month — and the District of Columbia have enacted laws that encourage people to intervene at the scene of a drug overdose. These laws, generally, shield a person who calls 911 from arrest and prosecution for drug use or possession, underage alcohol use and similar crimes. (A few other states offer weaker protections for 911 callers in overdose cases, and many already have so-called "Good Samaritan†laws that protect people from being sued if they are at the scene of a non-drug-related accident and try to help.)
The law that recently took effect in the District of Columbia is among the more comprehensive of the statutes — preventing evidence from being used against a person who called emergency services "if it was found through the process of providing health care.†The law also ensures that a person who calls 911 can't be arrested, in connection with that call, for a parole violation, and protects people who themselves are OD'ing if they call for help.
Such legislation, of course, won't touch the problem of addiction; nor will it prevent every death from overdose. But it will save lives.
That message had been lost on Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who "conditionally vetoed†a similar measure last year after it passed the state legislature with bipartisan support, saying it would have let drug dealers "off the hook.â€
"How about if the person calling is not a Good Samaritan?†Mr. Christie asked at the time of his veto.
Fortunately, in the months since, Mr. Christie appears to have had a change of heart, thanks to lobbying by parents whose children have died from overdoses. Today, Mr. Christie is expected to announce his support of an "Overdose Prevention Act†that includes a Good Samaritan provision. Should the law pass in New Jersey, that would still leave more than three dozen states without protections for those who call 911 in OD cases.
One state on that list is Pennsylvania, where David Humes's son died. "If they had this law,†says Mr. Humes, "maybe it would have saved my boy's life.â€
David Sheff is the author, most recently, of "Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy.â€
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Definición de snappish en inglés:
1.1Irritable and curt: she was often snappish with the children
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- I'd noticed that in a few short hours that his curt and snappish side was back.
- 'Shorten my name,' I clarified in a curt, snappish tone.
- I was snappish and rude to either of my parents if they spoke to me and I dragged my feet, glaring down at the linoleum floor beneath my scorched sneakers, which had somehow managed to be salvaged.
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- 'Not that it's any of your business,' I began snappishly, 'but she wants me to baby-sit for her on Sunday.'
- I said, snappishly, pushing my glasses higher on my face, 'Did you hear me?'
- I think the little man drinking tea in China heard you,' Nicole said snappishly.
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- Irascibility was the wrong word, really… I meant snappishness, irritability - irascibility implies a higher degree of temper, I think.
- I exploded at Anthony, who was all smiles after knowing it was not he who was the root of all my snappishness.
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Tampa, FL - With all the youth and new faces on the University of South Florida women's basketball team, it was a battle tested sixth-year senior that led the Bulls tonight to a 80-42 win over instate foe Stetson tonight at the Sun Dome, and improving the team to 2-1 on the year.
Although she didn't lead the team in scoring on the night, Porche Grant, who played in her first game since the Women's National Invitation Tournament championship game against Kansas tonight, gave the Bulls the lift it needed, scoring 10 points and grabbing 10 rebounds in 23 minutes for her sixth career double-double, and her 21st career double figure rebounding game. She also added two steals, and blocked shot and an assist.
The Bulls got off to a slow start hitting just 33.3 percent (4-12) of their shots from the field through the first 11-plus minutes, while the Hatters shot at a 50 percent (6-12) clip and held a 13-9 lead with 11:47 left in the half.
USF would tie the game three times after that at 15, 17, and 19-all before Grant scored her first basket of the game on a layup with 5:16 remaining in the half giving the Bulls their first lead of the contest, 21-19. That basket would start a run that would blow the game open for USF as it would close out the first stanza on a 15-4 stretch that would give the Bulls a 13-point lead, 35-23, when Leondra Doomes-Stephens hit a three-point shot as time ran out.
Grant would score eight of her 10 points and grab three of her 10 boards during that five minute span.
USF would keep the pressure up in the second stanza as it outscored the Hatters 44-19 in the final 20 minutes of action. The Bulls would start to share the wealth on the offensive end of the floor as eventually five players would end up in double digits in the scoring column, while just one of the 12 players that saw action on the night – Andrea Smith – logging more than 30 minutes. Smith would finish with 31 minutes on the floor.
Smith and Kaneisha Saunders would lead the way for the Bulls with 13 points apiece while Doomes-Stephens added 12 points in the win. Jasmine Wynne also chipped in with 10 points.
In addition to her 13 points, Smith also recorded three steals and three assists.
Stetson (1-1) was led by Sasha Sims and Tierra Brown with 11 points apiece.
USF gets back to work on Saturday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. when it battles Morgan State in the second game of its three-game home stand. The Bulls will close out their three-game stretch in the Sun Dome on Monday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. when Southeastern Conference foe Auburn comes to Tampa.


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"Fascinating and important. . . . Now, of all times, there is a need for cool heads, such as Todorov, who approaches the limits of free speech with admirable dexterity."
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The relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become increasingly tense. A growing immigrant population and worries about cultural and political assimilation—exacerbated by terrorist attacks in the United States, Europe, and around the world—have provoked reams of commentary from all parts
The relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become increasingly tense. A growing immigrant population and worries about cultural and political assimilation—exacerbated by terrorist attacks in the United States, Europe, and around the world—have provoked reams of commentary from all parts of the political spectrum, a frustrating majority of it hyperbolic or even hysterical.
In The Fear of Barbarians, the celebrated intellectual Tzvetan Todorov offers a corrective: a reasoned and often highly personal analysis of the problem, rooted in Enlightenment values yet open to the claims of cultural difference. Drawing on history, anthropology, and politics, and bringing to bear examples ranging from the murder of Theo van Gogh to the French ban on headscarves, Todorov argues that the West must overcome its fear of Islam if it is to avoid betraying the values it claims to protect. True freedom, Todorov explains, requires us to strike a delicate balance between protecting and imposing cultural values, acknowledging the primacy of the law, and yet strenuously protecting minority views that do not interfere with its aims. Adding force to Todorov's arguments is his own experience as a native of communist Bulgaria: his admiration of French civic identity—and Western freedom—is vigorous but non-nativist, an inclusive vision whose very flexibility is its core strength.
The record of a penetrating mind grappling with a complicated, multifaceted problem, The Fear of Barbarians is a powerful, important book—a call, not to arms, but to thought.
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There has never been any value of civilization that was not a notion of femininity, of gentleness, of compassion, of non-violence, of respect for weakness ... The first relation between a child and civilization is the child's relation with its mother. Romain Gary, La nuit sera calme
If we are to talk of the relations between peoples or societies, we first need to tackle a difficult question: can we use the same criteria to judge acts that arise within different cultures? One often has the impression here that it is impossible to escape from one excess without immediately falling into another. Those who believe in absolute, and thus trans-cultural values, risk taking as universal values those to which they are accustomed, and falling prey to naive ethnocentrism and blind dogmatism, convinced that they have eternal possession of truth and justice. They risk becoming really dangerous on the day when they decide that the whole world needs to benefit from the advantages proper to their society and that, so as to better enlighten the inhabitants of other countries, they have the right to invade them. This is the line of argument taken by the ideologues of colonization in previous times, and it is also the line frequently followed by the current apostles of democratic interference. The universalism of values thus threatens the idea that human populations are all equal, and hence the universality of the species.
However, those for whom all judgements are relative - relative to a culture, a place, a historical period - are in turn threatened, albeit by the opposite danger. If every judgement of value is subject to circumstances, will we not end up accommodating everything, just so long as it happens in other countries? That would mean accepting that human sacrifice is not necessarily to be condemned, since certain societies practise it; the same applies to torture, and to slavery. It would mean deciding that one people is ripe for liberty, another not, and eventually leaving each of them to its fate, and ourselves too - since our values are not necessarily better than others'. As this relativism systematizes itself, it gradually ends up in nihilism. And if each person, equal in principle to every other, chooses his values arbitrarily, the unity of the species is again denied, albeit in another way, since people no longer have any common spiritual world.
Dogmatism and nihilism are the Scylla and Charybdis of transcultural judgement, and sometimes seem inevitable. And yet, every day, we are required to comment on deeds and customs that arise in different cultures, and we would like to transcend this alternative. We would simultaneously like to acknowledge the infinite diversity of human societies and have some unique and reliable scale of values that will enable us to find our way around them. But how?
To advance some distance in that direction, I propose to start with an old word filled with meaning, and to use it as a thread through the labyrinth. This word is barbarian.
Being a barbarian
I do not intend to relate here the story of this word 'barbarian' and the ideas that it covers, a story that has already been studied by various specialists. Rather, I would like to reread certain pages of the past with a different aim in mind: starting with various older uses of the word, I will construct a meaning that can be of use to us nowadays. Between the past and the present there will be neither a complete break nor a strict identity, but rather the quest for a certain coherence.
As everyone knows, the word itself comes to us from Ancient Greece where it was part of common usage, especially after the Persian War. It was contrasted with another word, and together they made it possible for the population of the whole world to be divided into two unequal parts: the Greeks (or 'us'), and the barbarians (the 'others', the foreigners). In order to recognize whether a person belonged to one or other group, you resorted to the Greek language: the barbarians were all those who did not understand it or speak it, or spoke it badly.
We might well decide that there is nothing to object to in such a usage, even if Plato in The Statesman mocked those who behave as if all non-Greeks formed a coherent population, when in fact all those peoples had no resemblance to each other and, worse, did not even understand each other. But, after all, distinguishing between those who understand and those who do not understand our language is not a way of passing judgement, but of providing a piece of useful information. It is just that, for reasons to which we will need to return, the distinction was from the outset given a secondary meaning, and a judgement of value, with the contrast barbarians/ Greeks being accompanied by a contrast - let us say, as a first approximation - between 'savage' and 'civilized' peoples.
The savagery of the barbarian was not defined with precision, and from one document to another the meanings of the word do not always overlap. It is, however, possible to isolate a set of characteristics that are convergent and suggestive:
1 Barbarians are those who transgress the most fundamental laws of common life, being unable to find the right distance to observe between themselves and their relatives: matricide, parricide, infanticide on the one side, and incest on the other, are definite signs of barbarism. In Euripides, a character speaks of Orestes who has murdered his own mother and says: 'Not even a barbarian would have dared to do that!' In the first decades of the first century ad, the Greek geographer Strabo wrote a book in which he stated that the inhabitants of Ireland practised ritual cannibalism, and were thus barbarians. 'They are man-eaters as well as herb-eaters, and [...] count it an honourable thing, when their fathers die, to devour them.' They did this so as to absorb the father's power, thereby making no distinction between spiritual proximity and material absorption.
2 Barbarians are those who postulate a complete break between themselves and other men. Strabo, again, depicts the Gauls as barbarians since, he says, they have a particular custom: 'when they depart from the battle they hang the heads of their enemies from the necks of their horses, and, when they have brought them home, nail the spectacle to the entrances of their homes [...] We are told of still other kinds of human sacrifices.' By extension, those who systematically resort to violence and war in order to settle the differences between them are perceived as being close to barbarism. Here, the opposite of barbarism consists in practising hospitality, even towards strangers, or indeed in cultivating friendship: you give to other people what you would like to receive yourself.
3 Another sign of barbarism: when performing the most intimate acts, certain people ignore the fact that they may be visible to others. In Ireland, according to Strabo, 'men openly [...] have intercourse, not only with other women, but also with their mothers and sisters', as if it were animals and not men who were gazing at them. To couple in public, Herodotus had already said, is to behave like 'cattle'. Modesty is a specifically human trait; it means that I am aware of the gaze of others.
4 Barbarians are those who live in isolated groups instead of gathering in common habitats or, even better, forming societies ruled by laws adopted in common. Barbarians are people of chaos and randomness; they are unacquainted with social order. In another way, countries are close to barbarism when all who live within them are victims of the tyranny of a despot; and countries are not barbaric when citizens are treated on an equal footing and can participate in the conduct of the business of the community, as in Greek democracy. In the view of the Greeks, the Persians are barbarians in a twofold sense: because they do not speak Greek and because they live in a country subject to a tyrannical regime. 'O tyranny, beloved of barbarian men!' as an ancient fragment puts it. Helen, in the tragedy by Euripides that bears her name, utters these striking words: 'in barbarian lands all except one man are slaves'.
These characteristics of barbarians, and some others too (we shall be returning to these), can be subsumed into one main category: barbarians are those who do not acknowledge that others are human beings like themselves, but consider them as similar to animals and thus consume them, or judge them as being incapable of reasoning and thus of negotiating (they prefer to fight), and unworthy of living freely (they remain in subjection to a tyrant); they frequent only their blood relations and are unacquainted with the life of the community as ruled by common laws (they are savages and live scattered apart). Parricide and incest, in turn, are categories that do not exist for animals; the men who commit these acts start to resemble beasts.
Barbarians are those who deny the full humanity of others. This does not mean that they are really ignorant or forgetful of their human nature, but that they behave as if the others were not human, or entirely human. This meaning of the word is not defined in this precise way in classical Greece, but it is suggested by usage. It is not universal in the sense of being already accepted at all times and in all places; but it may become universal: as it does not espouse the point of view of any particular population, this definition could be adopted by all.
If the Gauls cut off their enemies' heads and tied them to their horses' necks, this was not because they viewed these men as monkeys or wolves; it was because they wanted to proclaim loud and clear their victory over their rivals - a victory that was all the more precious because these rivals were, precisely, human beings like themselves. Nonetheless, by so doing, they refused to treat them as beings that resembled themselves, denying that they belonged to the same humanity as themselves: defeating these enemies was not enough for them, nor even their death - the humiliation of these former rivals, now mere booty, had to be displayed to the gaze of all, at the gates of the town; this is what made the Gauls barbarian. One passage in Herodotus makes this particularly clear. A Spartan military chief, Pausanias, has won a battle over the Persians. A Greek witness gives him this piece of advice: following a previous battle, the Persians had cut off the head of the king of Sparta and nailed it to a post; to avenge himself, Pausanias ought to do the same. But the latter vehemently refuses: 'that would be an act more proper for foreigners [barbarois] than for Greeks, and one that we view as blameworthy even among foreigners'. Such reprisals carried out on the corpses of vanquished enemies would amount to doing to others something you would not wish to have inflicted on yourself, and you would then resemble barbarians. By refusing to imitate his enemies, to show them that he can beat them at their own game (violence), Pausanias emerges from a relation of rivalry and behaves like a civilized person.
The Greeks had merged together two oppositions, one formed from terms with an absolute moral value (barbarian/civilized), the other from neutral, relative and reversible terms (being able/unable to speak the language of the country). Their thinkers soon pointed out and criticized this conflation. In the third century BC, Eratosthenes, the author of a treatise on geography and ethnography that has since been lost (but is frequently quoted by Strabo), argues in these terms: 'Now, towards the end of his treatise - after withholding praise from those who divide the whole multitude of mankind into two groups, namely, Greeks and barbarians, and also from those who advised Alexander to treat the Greeks as friends but the Barbarians as enemies - Eratosthenes goes on to say that it would be better to make such divisions according to good qualities and bad qualities; for not only are many of the Greeks bad, but many of the Barbarians are refined - Indians and Arians [i.e. Persians], for example, and, further, Romans and Carthaginians, who carry on their governments so admirably.' Not only do Greeks and non-Greeks resemble each other, but moral virtues are not divided up in virtue of the language one speaks. The opposition between vice and virtue needs to be maintained, but cannot be confused with the distinction between 'us' and 'them'. Strabo, who quotes these lines, does not agree with Eratosthenes on everything, but he himself sometimes sticks to the relativist conception of barbarity: barbarians are those who do not speak Greek well, 'as is also the case with us speaking their languages'. So he knows that, to the 'barbarians' whose language we do not understand, we appear as barbarians.
We may well wonder, however, whether the coexistence among the Greeks of the two senses, absolute and relative, of the same word was a matter of confusion. It might be possible, on the contrary, to see a continuity between the first meaning of 'barbarian' (not acknowledging the humanity of others) and the second (not speaking the language of the country in which you happen to be). A being who cannot speak appears to be incompletely human. The use of the same word, logos, to designate 'word' and 'reason' simultaneously makes it easier to emphasize the value placed on being able to speak a language. The ignorance of my language that is characteristic of the foreigner prevents him from perceiving me as completely human; thus he is a barbarian. Linguistic impotence becomes a sign of inhumanity, and it is in this sense that the relative and absolute meanings come together. When the Greeks call foreigners 'barbarians', they admittedly omit to say that this 'barbarity' is provisional and easy to cure: you merely need to learn the language of others, those among whom you happen to find yourself, or, even more simply, to return home to your own people. The ignorance proper to the foreigner is a very temporary form of barbarity.
A first set of conclusions can be drawn from this quick reminder of the past. The concept of barbarity is legitimate and we must be able to draw on it to designate, at all times and in all places, the acts and attitudes of those who, to a greater or lesser degree, reject the humanity of others, or judge them to be radically different from themselves, or inflict shocking treatment on them. Treating others as inhuman, as monsters, as savages is one of the forms of this barbarity. A different form of it is institutional discrimination towards others because they do not belong to my linguistic community, or my social group, or my psychological type. Not all uses of the word 'barbarian' correspond to our definition; it is sometimes used to stigmatize those who attack us or those whom we do not like, and it sometimes helps disguise might as right, or camouflages our will to power as humanitarian intervention and a struggle for justice, since we are punishing 'the barbarians'. However, in spite of these abuses, the concept itself deserves to be preserved.
This choice does not coincide with what we have inherited from the Christian tradition. Within the framework of the latter, there has rather been a tendency to consider the notion of 'barbarian' as irrelevant, since it did not easily fit into Christianity's universal message. St Paul declares, in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, 'There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.' Barbarity has here become a mere question of point of view. For the true Christian, all that counts is unity in the faith, since all separations between human beings are held to be negligible. Thus, in ad 395, St Jerome summarized several remarks by the Apostle Paul: 'And since even in the flesh, if we are born again in Christ, we are no longer Greek and Barbarian, bond and free, male and female, but are all in Him.' From this point of view, the category 'barbarian' has lost its raison d'être. However, in the world in which Christians dwelt, the category could not entirely be done away with: it was no longer used to designate all those who spoke the local language badly, or did not speak it at all, but those distant foreigners who appeared as a threat and were distinguished by their ferocity and inhumanity - the Germanic tribes who swept down from the North to pillage the Roman Empire, for example, or the Huns who emerged from the Mongol steppes.
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From the very founding of the nation, the North and the South were different in almost every way. Economically and politically, the South revolved around the institution of slavery and an agricultural economy that benefited from slave labor. By contrast, the North, less rural and depending far more on free labor, had become the industrial and financial center of the country by the early nineteenth century. As the abolitionist movement gained strength in the North, the South became increasingly concerned that the North would find a way to put an end to slavery, thus destroying—in the eyes of southern plantation owners—their very way of life.
The Constitution, ratified in 1787, provided for some protections of the institution of slavery, but also prohibited the importation of slaves after 1808. By the first half of the nineteenth century, states north of the Mason-Dixon Line, the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania, began to outlaw slave labor. Political leaders hoped to temper the brewing sectional conflict. In the Missouri Compromise of 1820, northern leaders accepted into the Union a new slave state, Missouri, on condition that another addition, Maine, gain statehood as a free territory. The Compromise of 1850, in which politicians negotiated the status of territory gained after the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), was also aimed at maintaining the balance of power in Congress between leaders of slave states and of free states. Still, these compromises did not prevent divisions from growing deeper, and in some cases further facilitated the rift. For instance, the Fugitive Slave Act, a stipulation in the Compromise of 1850, required free states to assist in the capture of runaway slaves who might seek refuge in those regions. The free North despised this law and the power it gave to the South.
The South based many of its grievances on the doctrine of "states' rights." The Constitution aimed to carve a middle ground between a strong federal government and the freedom of individual states to make decisions for themselves. In fact, the federal government before the Civil War looked nothing like the federal government of today; almost all decisions were made at the state level, with the government in Washington responsible for the army, Indian affairs and foreign policy, and not much else. As time went on, the doctrine of states' rights—a founding principle upon which the United States was established—became the battle cry of the South in its struggle to prevent the North from imposing anti-slavery measures upon it.
When Abraham Lincoln beat three other candidates for the presidency in 1860, the die was cast. Lincoln was not even on the ballot in nine southern states so his victory was seen as the North imposing its will on the South. Lincoln himself was a moderate on the issue of slavery, and many northerners feared that Lincoln was not enough of an abolitionist for their tastes. His most famous speech, given in 1858, declared that, "A house divided cannot stand," and promised that America could not endure "half-slave and half-free." Still, during the campaign, he repeatedly insisted that he would not violate the doctrine of states' rights and impose northern sentiments on the South. Few in the South believed him.
Within days of Lincoln's election, South Carolina seceded from the Union, declaring that it was not under the jurisdiction of the federal government of the United States. When six other states followed South Carolina's lead, the Confederate States of America were formed with Jefferson Davis of Tennessee as its president. After his inauguration as President of the United States on 4 March 1861, Abraham Lincoln warned the South that secession was illegal under the Constitution and that he bring war against the rebelling states if necessary. By April 1861, both sides were mobilizing for armed conflict and war seemed inevitable.
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The Revolutionary War was won by American soldiers and French ships. Spain provided money and ammunition, and the Netherlands gave the new American nation large loans to keep them fighting. The South had good reason to hope that eighty years later, the major powers of Europe would intervene on their side. The South hoped cotton would be the key to European aid. Its leaders knew that with no cotton coming from southern fields, the textile mills of Britain would shut down. Britain, then, should have had a major interest in supporting the South. France had some interest in keeping the U.S. divided, since a warring America would allow the French to continue meddling in Mexico undisturbed. Throughout the war, the European powers watched and waited for one major southern victory, withholding aid until the South proved they could win the war. Without help from abroad, however, the South could never quite manage to win that all-important victory.
For the North, foreign diplomacy meant keeping European powers from intervening in the war on the southern side. Later in the war, when it became clear that Europe was going to stay out of the conflict, the North focused its attention on domestic politics. Always fearful of the threat of southern sympathizers in northern states, Lincoln, for the first time in American history, used his authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus—the right of prisoners to a trial. Thus, the Union could arrest citizens who were suspected southern sympathizers. It was a controversial decision at the time, but Lincoln always maintained that it was an unfortunate but necessary measure to save the Union.
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By 1864 after three bloody and inconclusive years of war, many in the North were fed up with the struggle and wanted peace. For this reason, in the election of 1864 was a close race, with Lincoln winning reelection by only a small margin. The Democrats, who demanded peace, nominated General George McClellan to run against Lincoln, the Republican candidate. McClellan was a popular general whom Lincoln had fired in 1862 for failing in his duties. But with Lincoln's leadership waning, McClellan attacked the president's handling of the war, and even questioned its goals. Lincoln eventually resorted to somewhat nefarious tactics. For instance, in swing states he released soldiers from their duties on election day hoping they would go to the polls to vote for him. Ultimately, General Sherman's capture of Atlanta, an important victory that boosted northern support of the war, saved Lincoln's campaign.
The End Comes
Looking haggard and worn after bearing the burdens of war for four long years, Abraham Lincoln delivered his Second Inaugural Address on 4 March 1865. In it he committed himself to winning the war and restoring peace to the nation. "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right," he said, "let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." A month later, on 9 April 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
Just five days later, on 14 April 1865, President Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln drove to Ford's Theater on 11th street in Washington, D.C. to watch a play called Our American Cousin. The city of Washington was in a state of euphoria since Lee had surrendered and the war seemed to be over. But as Lincoln sat in his box watching the show, actor John Wilkes Booth, a southern sympathizer, snuck into the box and shot Lincoln in the head. Booth jumped from the balcony onto the stage, breaking his ankle in the process, walked to the apron and shouted in his loudest stage voice, "Sic semper tyrannus!" ("Thus always to tyrants!") He then fled the theater and, twelve days later, after the largest manhunt in American history, was shot and killed in a burning barn.
Lincoln was carried to a nearby house where he died the next morning. An unprecedented period of national mourning ensued—at least in the North. Millions of people watched as the special train carried the president's body from Washington, D.C. to his final resting place in Illinois. In the North, Lincoln's assassination cast a pall over victory.


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This product is tough to review, for a very simple reason:When you get a good box, it's of superalitive quality that no other charcoal I'm aware of can match; when you get a bad box, it can be unusable.Wondering what all the hype was about, I bought a box of HB a few months ago and was extremely impressed. If I'd written this then, it would have been an unmitigated rave review. That fisrt box of HB allowed a degree of control I'd never experianced from natural charcoal; it satyed sharp surprisingly long, and the rectangular shape meant you could sharpen it to a chisel poingt and it would pretty much remain self-sharpening just thpugh use. It was actually pressure senitive to surpising dehree, and it stuck to the paper much better while creating less dust than other charcoal, while still remaining equally erasable.Then I bought a box of B, wondering if it might be an even better balance, as the HB was just a *bit* harder than I'd like. Inexplicably, the B was MUCH harder than the HB and indeed was entirely useless. You had to press hard to get any mark at all and even that would be a grey mark that scratched the paper and could barely be erased.Since then I've stuck with the HB and find it indespensible, but I must say I purchase it very grudgingly. It's twice the price of other charcoal, and about one stick in four is a complete dud. That said, no other charcoal I've found allows anything close to the same controllalbility. It allows me to make a surpisingly precise light-toned base drawing that is indefintely correctable and and makes a superb foundation to be built upon with compressed charcoal or conte.I'm extremely annoyed that their quality control is simply nonexistent - this is not an exaggeration - but those sticks that aren't duds are really without peer. So there you go.
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Southwest pecan crop improves with rain, pests remain a challenge.
Southwest pecans get relief with July rainfall.
In Texas, hot dry conditions, coupled with drought from the previous two years, have made it a difficult year for trees in what is generally believed to be an off-year in the production cycle. In spite of a light nut load reported by most commercial growers across the state, they continue to worry about defoliating insect and disease pressure. In some areas of the state, black pecan aphids were reported in June, several weeks ahead of schedule. Growers should watch for black aphids in crowded/shaded areas and in the center portion of the canopy.
Also of concern in Texas are reports of migrating grasshoppers. Bill Ree, Texas A&M Extension Program specialist for pecans, recommends creating buffer zones around orchards if grasshoppers are not yet spotted in the canopy.
"My general recommendation is to treat the orchard floor, fence lines, ditch banks or any area that could provide a buffer zone between the hordes of migrating grasshoppers and your trees," he says.
But he cautions growers to be mindful of ground treatment where livestock graze around the trees.
Once grasshoppers are spotted in the canopy, an application of a broad spectrum insecticide may be required, but Ree also warns that frequent foliar applications can create problems with aphids, mites and even leafminers.
Another pest of concern across parts of Texas includes a second generation of walnut caterpillar. Walnut sphinx caterpillars also have caused problems in Central Texas this year, but not the degree experienced in the 2012 crop.
While pecan specialists warn it is too early to accurately estimate crop production levels for 2013, a check across the largest pecan producing states provides a peek at what producers are expecting, provided the current crop progresses through the second half of the growing season at the same level it did the first half of the year.
Most agree that overall U.S. production should be in the neighborhood of 220 million pounds this year. While Georgia is once again expected to produce the largest crop, scab problems there likely will be a limiting factor in crop size and production. Overall, Georgia is expected to produce about 85 million pounds.
New Mexico is expected to capture the number two spot of overall U.S. production with an estimated 52 million pounds, and Texas is expected to follow with 30 to 32 million pounds for the year.
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A pilot did not appear seriously injured when his small, single-engine plane crashed Thursday night in a field off Kreger and Long Mountain roads in Chestnuthill Township at 6:50 p.m. Thursday, witnesses said.
State police, firefighters and ambulance personnel were on scene.
Witnesses said they were walking nearby on Serfass Road, off Long Mountain Road, when they saw the plane flying low and heard the engine cutting on and off. They then saw the plane descend quickly toward the field and ran toward it. Witnesses checked on the pilot's condition and called 911.
Plane landed in a soybean field and flipped onto its roof, police said. Pilot was able to crawl out by himself.
Police aren't releasing his name yet.
The pilot said he was flying from Beltzville to Pegasus Airport near Greenview Drive, Sciota, when he lost power and had to "put it down in the field," according to state police, who were awaiting the National Transportation and Safety Board's arrival on scene.
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What if Hall & Nash never left in 1996?
First and foremost let me say that I'm sure this thread has been done at least once before. But last week I bought a VHS copy of "nWo: Back In Black" for $7.99 (for anybody who cares) and just got around to watching it today. Anyways, toward the beginning Scott Hall said that he didn't want to leave the WWF, but had to do what he felt was best for his family. So that got me to thinking what would the wrestling world be like if Scott "Razor Ramon" Hall and Kevin "Diesel" Nash stayed with the WWF in 1996 instead of jumping ship.
Obviously, the nWo was one of the main reasons for the 90's boom period for wrestling. The Outsiders were a huge piece to that puzzle of the birth of the nWo. In the same sense in my mind the nWo also made WCW a lot more watchable (well the early days of the nWo at least). I'm sure Hulk Hogan would of retired from full-time competition by the time 1998 rolled around. WCW would of probably have more of a feel that TNA currently has. By my guesses WCW would of been strictly about Bill Goldberg, Sting and the Cruiserweights. While Goldberg and Sting were big deals nonetheless. Without the nWo I could see Goldberg of being some major heel by 1999 and the streak would of probably went longer than it did.
Back to Hall & Nash though. I don't think they would of always had their Razor Ramon and Diesel names by the mid/late 90s if they stayed with the WWF. Eventually, I think their names would of been changed to strictly Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. D-Generation X to an extent probably would of never happened or at least the name. Think The Kliq would eventually have an on-air stable together. Guys like The Outlaws would of been their own team. I could of seen a Kliq/Hart Foundation feud going strong by mid-1997. Also, that would leave me to have doubts about Sean Waltman jumping to WCW as well. He would of been more of I guess the Brian Pillman (not a Loose Cannon, more or less the equivalent toward Pillman in the Hart Foundation) of the Kliq.
WWF Attitude would of still happened, as that was more thanks to ECW. But WCW as a whole would of been a different product.
What would be your thoughts if Hall & Nash stayed with the WWF?
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Honestly, I feel if they had never left in 1996, WCW may still be around today.
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If Vince would have kept them, he would have had to releas other big name talents to make up for it. Warrior might not have ever come in and would have gone to wcw.
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As far as the WWF/WWE goes all you have to do is look at the kliq's history to know that they would of chased out every potential star that would of signed with the company in order to keep themselves and over why? because they were group of miserable, short sighted, narrow minded narcissists. Kind of like who Vince McMahon has become today.
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You can say the rating plummeted but the fact is, NWA/GCW/JCP/WCW was pumping money into the Turner Networks for nearly 20 years. Ted just didn't know shit about wrestling and by his willing to spend whatever it took to make the company better and putting certain people in charge, it ultimately ruined the company. Once Hall and Nash came in, it started to die. Everything was a mess, Bischoff kept a loaded roster, which explains him being able to have 60 man battle royals and was giving out huge contracts. But, that all came from the influence and brainwashing of guys like Hall and Nash, which is sad that Ted/Time Warner didn't realize the harm they was doing to their own company.
And the second part of your posts explains the same thing I said about Hall and Nash, regarding WCW. You're saying they would have killed WWE and WWE has did great without them but disagree with me saying they killed WCW and WCW would still be around without them. Exact same scenario except WWE had guys in charge that knew how to put on a wrestling show, without giving guys HUGE contracts to do nothing. And I doubt Vince would be stupid enough to pay those guys millions to sit home.
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a lot of things would've changes , since they aren't gonna leave the infamous MSG curtain call wouldn't have happened , thus Triple h wouldn't have gotten punished and eventually get his push as 1996 KOTR thus delaying the launching of the Attitude Era
WCW would've been in a whole lot of change , without Hall and Nash there wouldn't be no nWo thus no Hogan heel turn , and i doubt that WCW management at the time would risk Hogan turning heel solo
so no Hollywood Hogan = no Nitro dominating ratings = no need for Vince to push his envelope to the limits = no Attitude era
no Attitude Era = no hot competition = no wrestling boom = wrestling declines heavily
of course that's all speculations , maybe things would've turned otherwise
one thing is for sure , Austin wouldn't have had his badass Hell Frozen Over theme , it was originally made for Scott Hall (without the police sirens)
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Razor Ramon would have no doubt won the WWF Championship had he kept his act together.
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The specific type of "mindful" (focused awareness) meditation used in the meditation group is called integrative body-mind training. The trainees were guided in body relaxation, mental imagery, and mindfulness while music played in the background, with the goal of becoming aware of the body and mind working together to reach a meditative state. The relaxation group was guided in progressive relaxation of muscle groups throughout the body, with the goal of reaching a state of mental relaxation and calmness.
The smokers answered questions about their cravings for cigarettes and smoking habits at the beginning and end of their training program. Breath tests were used to verify how much they were smoking and brain scans were used to measure changes in neurological activity. The collected data showed the following:
The study authors suggest that integrative body-mind training offers a unique way to help smokers because it focuses on improving self-control, capacity to handle craving, and smoking behavior, rather than requiring participants to resist craving or quit smoking. "Our results to date suggest it may be possible to reduce smoking and craving, even in those who have no intention to quit smoking," they said.
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Potato Creek Hatchery off Lake Marion in Clarendon County is a South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Category II Waterfowl Management Area. The state manages two types of waterfowl areas, known as Category I and Category II. Category I areas are intensively managed, high-quality habitat, and permission to hunt in these places is granted solely through a computer draw. Category II sites, such as Potato Creek Hatchery, are less-intensively maintained and are of a lower quality habitat. People may hunt here during the regular waterfowl season on a first-come, first-served basis on designated days.
Potato Creek Hatchery is one of the state's top three Category II producers in terms of duck harvest numbers, though the manpower to report harvests accurately is not as readily available as it is for Category I harvests. Wood ducks account for 45 to 50 percent of all duck harvests in South Carolina, with mallards coming in second at around 16 percent. Other harvested waterfowl species include ringnecks, blue-winged and green-winged teal, gadwalls, American widgeon, black ducks, pintails, mottled ducks, and mergansers.
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Now school begins and she's excited to see her brother play quarterback for DeWitt High School against Eastern in a season opening game this Friday. She'll be around for awhile, then it's off to Tokyo in October for the world championships. She won't hit the Olympic trials until next June with the games later on in the summer in London.
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Understanding Heavyweight Food Production Equipment
For many caterers the demand on kitchen equipment is not just for heavy-duty, but for high volumes. To meet this need, equipment manufacturers produce a wide range of equipment that will cook large volumes of food. Typical situations where high volume cooking is needed is hospitals, universities, large banqueting operation, cook-chill units and prisons.
However, manufacturers of high volume equipment have begun to realise there is a demand for the same style of cooking equipment for slightly lower volumes for large hotels, staff restaurants and residential schools.
Bratt pans
A bratt pan gets its unusual name from the German word brat meaning to fry, though they are not called bratt pans in German, but kippentopf, meaning tilting pan and do far more than fry. Bratt pans are deep, rectangular cooking pots with a counter-balanced pull down lid. The heat source to the base of the pan can be gas or electric. They all have a tilting feature, operated electrically or by a hand-driven mechanism, so food that has been cooked can be poured into containers through a "vee" in the top edge of the forward side.
Bratt pans are a versatile piece of high production equipment, able to perform eight cooking functions: braising, boiling, steaming, poaching, stewing, roasting, deep-fat frying and shallow frying. Not all bratt pans are suitable for all eight functions, but looking at a model specification sheet will show what is possible.
They can be used for multi-function cooking of one product, such as browning-off meat with the pan set at a fry temperature with the lid open, then liquid added, the temperature turned down and the lid closed to softly braise. Soups and sauces can be similarly prepared using multi-cooking temperature modes.
At the end of cooking the tilt feature is very useful for emptying the contents out and helps wish washing the pan. Most bratt pans offer the option of being plumbed in so that a swivel tap is connected to the unit to allow water to be added both for adding liquid for the cooking and for washing out.
In addition to bratt pans that work at normal atmospheric air pressure, a more advanced version is a pressure bratt pan. This performs all the same functions as a standard bratt pan, but the lid can be clamped tightly shut for cooking at a higher water temperature than 100 deg C. As with any pressure cooker, the increase in pressure means the food is cooked much quicker and tenderised, so is very suitable for dishes which use tougher cuts of meat. A pressure bratt pan can also be used in atmospheric mode.
Boiling kettles
Boiling kettles work in a similar way to bratt pans in that they are large multi-function heated cooking pans. The main differences are that instead of the flat cooking bed of a bratt pan, the boiling kettle is an upright cooking pot with an in-built heating system.
An added feature of most boiling kettles is that while they have a tilting mechanism, they may also have a drain tap at the bottom of the kettle. This will be a wide-mouthed tap from which wet dishes such as sauces and soups can be drawn off with the need to tilt the kettle.
The popular use of boiling kettles is not actually to boil, but to gently simmer dishes such as soups, sauces, custard or stews. There are three types of heat source. It can be a direct heat applied to the underside of the kettle, which can cause burning on thick sauces such as custard. The more versatile heat source is indirect heating through a water jacket, a double pan arrangement as with a bains marie. This indirect water-based heat system can work with hot water or steam. Burning of delicate sauces is virtually eliminated and the cooking and holding process can go on with out constant attention.
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Black families continue to bear the brunt of the economic downturn as more find themselves unable to secure stable housing or to make ends meet. In a report just released by the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness [ICPH], in 2010, one out of every 141 Black families stayed in a homeless shelter a rate seven times higher than members of white families. The unfortunate fact is that Black families in the U.S. are much more likely to experience poverty than their white counterparts and are overwhelmingly represented in homeless shelters throughout the country, said Ralph da Costa Nunez, ICPH president and CEO. This report raises the question of how family homelessness has moved beyond simply a poverty issue and become a racial one. Prejudice and access barriers that Blacks continue to face lead to higher rates of poverty and unemployment, lower educational attainment and ultimately homelessness, said Matthew Adams, principal policy analyst, ICPH. But Ronald L. Book, chairman, Miami-Dade Homeless Trust, says the numbers in Miami are not as dramatic as the report indicates. Given the jobless rate and the overall socioeconomic conditions in Florida and across the U.S., its no surprise that Blacks are disproportionately represented, he said. Miami-Dade has not seen the kind of spike in numbers that other areas have experienced because we have taken our outreach program to portions of the County where the homeless tend to congregate downtown, the urban core and the inner city.
Homelessness occurs for a number of reasons
Book notes that the emphasis of outreach workers is to persuade people to participate in the various programs offered by the Homeless Trust. He says there are a number of reasons why people find themselves homeless. Theres a difference between situational and chronic homelessness but the majority of families and individuals are in need because of the economy theyve lost their jobs or have been downgraded in their work status, Book said. We have increased our efforts at reaching the chronically homeless that is, a person that has been homeless for 365 days or more in a calendar year. They often face other problems including mental health and substance or alcohol abuse. Some people turn their noses up at the homeless but we say it could happen to any of us we must find ways to solve the problem. Its certainly less expensive to help someone find housing and pay their utilities than to foot the bill for someone who goes to Jackson Memorial Hospitals emergency room over a dozen times in a year. By D. Kevin McNeir