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… at The Chic of Domesticity.
He wasn't really very angry. He'd call it just a bit past annoyed. The conversation with his wife had gone the wrong direction, and he was angry enough to be tense.
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of any persons, places, or events to anything in real life is purely coincidental. Copyright © 2013
It wasn't a major incident. The driver at the light had gone through just a little late. Late enough to be going through on red. He'd seen her face looking his way as he raised that middle finger. It made him fell better, or so he told himself.
She was having a bad day. Having someone show her the middle finger put her over the line. She was normally patient, but that nasty man at the light had no business making an obscene gesture at her. She was in a hurry! She hadn't been very late at the light. And because she was in a hurry, and she was so angry already, when the driver in front of her was slow to get moving (on his cell phone) she laid into her horn and kept it going until the car got moving.
He, in turn, was receiving bad news on the phone. He had taken about all he could take, and that woman behind him laying into her horn was just too much. He got moving, but pounded on his steering wheel and yelled obscenities, which nobody at all heard.
His next turn was onto the entrance ramp to the interstate, followed by a merge. Because he was so angry he was driving too fast. He knew it, but he didn't really care. How dare that woman rush him! He sped up some more to cut in directly in front of a pickup truck.
The pickup truck driver was distracted. She was saying something to a child in the back seat. She barely avoided a collision. She was angry enough already at the child, and having this driver cut her off sent her over the edge. She knew the offending driver could hear her, so she yelled at the child instead. He started crying.
The child was also angry. He didn't think he'd deserved all that yelling. He decided to work it out by throwing his toy truck at his mother in the front seat.
His mother was just about to change lanes, and just as she should have been looking in her blind spot, the toy truck hit her. She didn't see the truck in the lane to her left.
The truck driver hit his brakes. Hard. But the laws of physics were against him and nearly thirty vehicles behind him.
Nobody really understood why the driver of the pickup truck made that turn at that moment. How could they?
"How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire!" — James 3:5b (NRSV)
I've posted before on the idea of what is great literature and what is not, and particularly on the tendency of some people to become gatekeepers over the distinction. I personally reject the very idea of reading lists. If people think my reading is eccentric (it is), or that I have not read certain pieces of supposedly classic literature (in many cases, they're right), that's fine with me.
Sam Sacks enters this debate (not with me on my tiny blog, but with the heavies) with a post Canon Fodder: Denouncing the Classics on The New Yorker site. I call attention to it because I think it's interesting, but I also think it tends to miss the point. This is because it falls into the trap of thinking that a word must have one referent. There are at least two senses of "classic," at least as I would use them. First, there is the classic that is so great (in my opinion), that it deserves to be read widely. Thus I will use the term "classic" of literature that might not be old enough to be considered a classic by more normal people. (The question is, which is to be master–that's all!) The second use is illustrated by my parenthetical quote. A classic is something that has worked its way so far into the way we think about things that it would be helpful for you to have read it in order to understand your own culture. But in my view you won't make it through any good sized list without neglecting something anyhow. So I make no apologies for leaning my literature reading a bit more to the contemporary than "true literati" would find acceptable. I'm not a "true literati." I'm just a publisher. (Note the use of scare quotes, or in this case, perhaps, disdain quotes.)
In any case, I remain convinced that choice in reading is personal, and that you can objectively determine if literature is popular or influential, but not whether it is good or not. That's a matter of taste. Mostly.
… at On Planting Seeds. Some good stuff here!
At first I really didn't want anyone to know.
Well, that's not quite accurate. I wanted my wife to know, but only so that she would fell less alone in her pain. But otherwise I didn't want anyone to know.
But as I think back on that time, I have to admit that wasn't accurate either. I didn't mind if other people knew about the sadness. I just didn't want them to talk about it, and even more I didn't want them to make me talk about it.
Unlike most stories on this blog, this story is as true as I can make it, and you are free to use it in any way that will be helpful.
It was just a depressing time. A couple of weeks before, I had been watching Hurricane Ivan approach. My wife and I have a simple rule. If there's a storm above category 1 approaching the coast near enough, we're out of here. But our son James was in the last few weeks or even days of his life, and we couldn't move him far enough to get away from the storm. I tried to discuss it with my wife, but she just told me she couldn't handle one more decision. "Just tell me what we're going to do," she said. So I worried (a lot) and prayed (a little)–how often that's the case when we most need the opposite!–and decided we'd go to a friend's place that was much more hurricane-ready than ours.
After the storm we'd seen the devastation around the area. But our house was still there and even had power–partially. James wanted to be back in his house, so we moved back. Struggling with the limitations left by the storm didn't help at all.
But James was able to be in his own house when God called him home. It is now going on 9 years, and just typing that sentence still brings tears to my eyes. I'm sitting in the same room, in reach of the place where his hospital bed was located. I can see him now.
I've had people tell me that it can't be as bad for me, because James is my stepson. I hope they're wrong. If it gets harder than this, I don't want to experience it. I don't even want to know about it.
For days I would regularly hear his voice somewhere else in the house, clearly enough that I would get up to go to where he was, only to suffer the shock of finding he wasn't actually there. While I haven't heard that voice for some time, I can still picture everything. I see the bed. I see James. I see his little dog Barnabas under the bed waiting and watching. After James died we thought we'd lose Barnabas as well. But after about two weeks, he decided he'd make do with Grandpa. I wasn't James, but I took him for his walkies. But there would still be those moments. I'd usually walk Barnabas in the morning and as James went to school, he'd stop the car and greet his dog. For as long as Barnabas lived, he would stop on those walks and look at any cars that passed by, waiting for the right one.
I had to learn to talk about it. It wasn't just for me. Jody and I found that when we taught about just about anything, if the subject of bereavement and loss came up at all it would take over the conversation. There were so many people suffering and wondering why. They wondered if there was something wrong with them. Shouldn't they be joyful as Christians? But still the sadness is there.
And so I'd talk about it. How does it work? My wife and I experience this grief differently. For her, it's Christmas, James's birthday, and the anniversary of his death that bring back the memories. For me, I remember mostly the day in June when I called his doctor and got the results of a set of tests. They said that the cancer was back–again. James had extracted a promise that I would call him as soon as I got word, no matter what. I should confess here that he was definitely more courageous that I am, and less willing to tell himself a happy story in order to avoid the reality. Then I had the task of telling Jody. She was on a mission trip and out of reach by phone. My only option was to send an e-mail, and then spend the hours waiting for her to get it (via an unreliable dial-up connection), knowing what kind of devastation it would wreak when it arrived. June is just a bad month for me, every year.
It's a depressing story, isn't it? It's also as true as I can tell it, every word.
But it isn't the whole story. I want you to know that I don't have a bunch of answers. I can't tell you why James died, except for the basic science. That's what cancer does. I don't have a list of wonderful things that will make it OK. Oh, I do have a list of wonderful things that he accomplished in his life, and even things that were accomplished by his death. But they don't make it OK. None of those things make me feel repaid in some way for the fact that I never got to see him march in a college marching band, or get married and raise a family, or become a professional musician.
It's not that I can explain why. But I can say this: God is with me. God is with us. There are things we cannot understand, things we probably will never understand, but we do have hope, and we can have joy.
For every one of those times when I sit here with tears in my eyes thinking about the loss, there are many more when I remember James with joy, and celebrate him in my heart. I remember the day he'd just gotten his learner's permit. We were headed to Panama City, Florida, a bit over a hundred miles. Jody had explained to me that it was my job to teach James to drive. She couldn't handle the teaching. As soon as he knew he'd have his permit, he started talking to me about driving. By the time we were backing out of the driveway, he'd concluded he would just drive the first few miles. As those miles passed, he thought he could drive to the interstate. Was that OK with me? It was. We got to the ramp, and he thought he'd just try getting on the interstate. (In case you're wondering, he was very good behind the wheel. I had high expectations and he exceeded them.) Once we were on the interstate and had gone a few miles, he figured he'd be OK until we got off the interstate again. Driving in a strange city, he told me, would probably be going too far. But then we got off the interstate and it didn't seem so bad. He didn't get out from behind the wheel until we were parked in our friends' driveway.
Then there was the fact that no surface anywhere was safe. If he had drumsticks, he'd be beating rhythms with them. If there were no sticks, hands would do. You always knew you had a drummer in the house. If you suggested he should stop, he'd look shocked that anyone could mind the sound of a bit of rhythm.
I don't think it's a matter of letting go of the sadness. I think it's right for me to feel loss when I remember James. He's in a better place, but I miss him. I'm going to continue to miss him. There are the moments when the loss is as strong as the original moment.
But so is the presence, so are the memories, and so is God.
I can be sad, but also joyful. I can feel loss, but also gain. I'm in much less danger of forgetting that I'm a pilgrim and a stranger in this land, waiting for my true home.
As Christians, we don't need to forget. We don't need to deny. We need to keep everything in perspective. Consider the incarnation. Jesus is fully human. He experienced our sorrows and suffering. But Jesus is also fully divine, capable of lifting us above. We can't forget either one. We can't let one take over for the other (Hebrews 2:9-18, 4:14-16, 7:26-28).
We don't need to deny. We don't need to forget. But we also don't have to let the sadness rule our lives. We have the means of living with and living through.
We can rejoice!
(This story was written for and submitted to the one word at a time blog carnival – sadness.)
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"It's very simple. We need to ask for surrender terms," said the deputy commander of the city militia of Qenixtlan. His words fell clearly on the silence in the conference room. "The reason is also simple. The fact is that the Grand Empire's army always succeeds. They win every battle. But we always fail. We have never won a single battle."
Copyright © 2013 Henry E. Neufeld
The commander looked around the room. He saw the failure on every face. Nobody believed that there was any reason to fight. No matter how horrible the stories were of how the Grand Empire of the Sun treated conquered peoples, there was not one person who was willing to take the risk resistance. However badly they might be treated if they surrendered, it would be much worse if they resisted and lost. And in their minds, they had already failed.
And he knew that they were right, at least about the history of failure. Their city had been conquered four times in the previous century. Their militia had proven quite capable of arresting thieves and rounding up juvenile delinquents. Every time they met a foreign army in battle, however, they lost. The only reason they were independent right now was that their last conqueror had simply collapsed about a decade ago.
He looked around the room, and he knew he couldn't fight it. Not today, in any case. "Very well, then," he said. "You are dismissed. The militia is disbanded." He stood up and walked out the door without meeting anyone's eyes.
It took a several minutes for the shocked men to leave the room. They were stunned. Everyone would complain. It was expected. Nobody actually believed they would succeed. Why should they? It was true that they had never won a single battle against a foreign invader. They had a truly unbroken record of failure. But there was a tradition to uphold. The commander was supposed to lecture them. He was supposed to exhort them. He was supposed to raise their morale by telling them they could succeed. They wouldn't believe it. Likely he wouldn't believe it either, but they would all pretend. Then when the enemy attacked, they would stand for a few minutes for form's sake before they dropped their weapons and raised their arms over their head.
The word spread through the city. Some people started collecting a few possessions and loading them into carts so they could escape the city before the enemy arrived. The king wanted to call the commander in to ask him what he thought he was doing. What negotiating platform would he have if he didn't even have a militia? There would be no reason for the invader to offer the city any kind of favorable treatment when they could simply march in. But the commander could not be found.
The next morning people were shocked to see recruiting posters all over town. They were signed by the commander and they read: "All those who are willing to resist the invader should report to a point one kilometer north of the city at the old fortress at noon today. Only those prepared to fight should report. We will form the Regional Defense Militia."
It was signed by the missing commander.
Men looked at one another. Everyone was hoping that his neighbor wasn't going to go meet north of the city. Then some of the younger men grabbed whatever weapons they had and headed north. Soon some of the older men, shamed by the action of the younger men, headed north as well. By noon, there was quite a crowd at the fort. Almost all of the same men who had been in that comfortable conference room were there. Even the deputy commander had showed up.
Somehow those who were used to being leaders found themselves inside the courtyard. It wasn't comfortable like the conference room downtown. It wasn't in all that good of repair. Since the fort was only intended to help resist invaders, nobody paid much attention to it. After all, nobody had successfully resisted an invader in living memory.
The commander raised his hand. Amazingly, silence fell in the room, though there was still quite a bit of noise coming from outside where the crowd had gathered.
"We are the Regional Defense Militia," he said. "We just came into existence. We will send messengers to all the towns, villages, and farms within a week's travel and invite them to join us in fighting the enemy. And fight we will. We will stand. We will not surrender. We are the Regional Defense Militia of Qenixtlan, and we will win, because we have never failed."
The entire group broke into cheers. They didn't know why, but they even believed it.
But the commander knew. He knew these men knew how to fight. He knew they were willing to die, if necessary. But they had known—not believed, but known—they were going to fail.
And that is why the southern border of the Grand Empire of the Sun is located just to the north of Qenixtlan. Three times they have sent their armies to take the city, and three times they have lost.
The commander will tell you this is because for the first time, they have encountered an army that has never failed, never lost a single battle.
(See Ephesians 6:13, or perhaps 6:10-20.)
(This story was written for and submitted to the One Word at a Time Blog Carnival – Failures.)
When 16-year-old Winifred determined that she was pregnant, she knew she had to take action immediately. It would not be long until her mother would start asking questions. Her mother, in turn, would doubtless tell either Winifred's father, or her maternal grandfather, depending on how angry she was. If she was really angry, she'd tell both. In any of these cases, the consequences did not bear contemplation.
So Winifred packed a small bag and exited the house through her own bedroom window. Her mother was not the sort of person who could imagine exiting any building through a window, so Winifred was relatively certain this was safe.
She made her way to the home of the Keretian commercial representative.
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters, places, and events to those in the real world is coincidental.
To understand her decision, one must have some understanding of her home town, the small seaport of Aroqra. Despite having a relatively good seaport near several major shipping lanes, Aroqra was a poor town. It was multicultural, not in the sense of having developed a diverse mix of thriving cultures, but in the sense of having collected the remnants of many cultures. Specifically, those who were unable to leave for some reason.
Aroqra could, by the very optimistic, be called a city-state. At the moment it was ruled by someone who styled himself the sultan, though less than a decade earlier, it had been ruled by a king, and before that by a mayor. Few remembered any further back than that. It mattered very little to the inhabitants. The same man had been chief of police through all those changes of government, and he and his people enforced a sort of consensus law as best they could. The mayor, king, or sultan could decree, but the police enforced, and they enforced what they thought they could get by with enforcing. What they couldn't manage to solve in this way, they let people solve for themselves.
The Keretians were primarily a seagoing people, with widespread commercial interests. They preferred to establish commercial representatives, who served as their ambassadors, wherever they could. In general, they expected these to be treated as embassies, unless they could manage to arrange extraterritorial rights for their citizens. In the case of Aroqra, they had simply stacked silver coins in front of the sultan until he guaranteed them their extraterritorial rights.
But to get back to the world as Winifred knew it, the Keretian ambassador had a son, also 16 years old, who had become quite popular in the community. His name was Malkish, and it was to him, not the building, that Winifred ran.
Malkish hid Winifred in one of the unused rooms of his father's rather large home. It should be noted that this home was also his father's place of business, and that it was surrounded by a substantial wall and guarded by armed guards. None of these guards paid any attention to the activities of the teenagers, however.
However long it might have taken Winifred's mother, Marga, to discover that her daughter was pregnant had the girl stayed home, it took practically no time at all for her to come to that conclusion when she discovered the girl had run away. It took very little time after that for her to discover where Winifred had gone. Winifred was sneaky enough to climb out the window, but not sneaky enough to avoid the many witnesses who had seen her walk from her home to Malkish's home.
And thus began the trouble …
"Our daughter is pregnant," Marga said to her husband.
"Pregnant?!" he yelled. "Impossible!"
"Nonetheless it is so."
"You have failed in your duty as a mother! You should have prevented this." He would have struck his wife, but he restrained himself. After all, she could enter any room while he slept and she cooked his food.
"It is you," she said, "who permits her to roam the town. What did you think would happen?" He was unhappy to be reminded of this, but it was true that he was very indulgent of his daughter.
Winifred's father thought throughout the afternoon. Finally he decided that he would have to take a little trip into the countryside to the west, a trip from which Winifred would not return.
"Honor demands that this stain be erased," he told his wife.
She had expected precisely this result.
"Bring her to me!" he demanded.
When he found out that Winifred was not available, he was furious. He went out and told his relatives who told their relatives. By the next morning, there was a crowd gathered in front of the Keretian commercial representative's building.
Yarub, the representative, could not understand what the problem was. The crowd was demanding that he bring out a girl he'd never heard of. He asked his staff, but nobody knew. He asked his guards, and finally someone said that Malkish had brought a young woman into the compound the day before, but that wasn't particularly unusual, was it?
So Yarub called for Malkish, who admitted that he had hidden the girl in the compound.
"She has sought refuge here," said Malkish. "Doesn't honor demand that we protect her?"
Yarub couldn't see any reason why honor would demand that he protect a random girl, but then he thought of one circumstance in which it would. If Malkish was the father of this pregnant girl's child, then honor would demand that he protect them both. Keretians were very protective of their offspring, even if they had not been conceived after the wedding.
Yarub allowed Winifred's father to come into the compound to talk.
"Honor demands that my daughter be given to me, so she can pay for the disgrace she has brought on our family," said the angry father. He didn't specify just how the girl would pay.
"But she is carrying my son's child," said Yarub. "Honor demands that I protect her and my grandchild!"
One of the guards whispered to Yarub. "What?" he asked. "This man would kill his daughter!"
"I didn't say that," muttered Winifred's father.
"But you didn't deny it either. That's what you mean, 'pay'. You mean to kill her, and my grandchild at the same time! I will not allow her to leave this compound! You will leave immediately!"
"You are a dishonorable man! Who are you to stand between me and my daughter!"
But the guards threw the angry father out of the gate. The crowd continued to yell and occasionally throw rocks, but there was little they could do other than block the entrance.
Marga also told her father what had happened, and explained how her husband was going to kill her daughter if he could, because honor demanded it.
But Marga's clan did not have the same custom's as her husband's.
"Honor demands that we kill the man who has defiled my grandaughter," said Marga's father.
Soon there were two competing crowds in front of the Keretian commercial building, one demanding that Winifred be sent out to them, and the other than Malkish be sent out. From time to time, men from the competing groups would get into fights.
Jeloran was a captain in the city police. In fact, his task was criminal investigation. And despite the fact that he had no tools or training, and was paid very little, he took his job seriously.
For some time he observed the groups gathered in from of the Keretian commercial building. He heard the crowds yelling at each other about honor and what it demanded. Perhaps, he thought, honor demands that someone find out exactly what has happened here!
So he started asking around. Very quickly he discovered that Winifred was not known to be regularly in Malkish's company. Like most of the young people of the town, she hung around the group that hung around him. He was rich, he was flamboyant, he was exotic, and the young people did that. But Winifred was not especially closely connected to him.
He kept asking, and finally he discovered that there was a young man, from the wrong side of town (there were lots of wrong sides in Aroqra). He contrived to corner the young man out of sight of any of the contenders. This was easy to do, as the contenders were all gathered at the gate to the Keretian compound.
"Pregnant?" said the young man. "How could she be pregnant?"
"The usual way," snapped Jeloran. Surely the young man knew how babies were made.
"We played around," said the boy, "but we didn't go all the way. I swear it! But if she is in trouble, she can come home with me."
Jeloran thought about that for a moment. It would never do! The people who were now outside the Keretians' gate would burn this poor kid's house down around him in a moment.
"Don't tell anybody what I've said. I'll see to it she's alright. But things will go very badly if you say anything. Understand?"
The kid understood.
Jeloran went and found a healer, and they both went back to the Keretian compound. They made it through the crowd because Jeloran listed so sympathetically to the demands of both sides that he bring Winifred and/or Malkish out with him. Instead, Jeloran went to Yarub's office.
"I would like to see Malkish and Winifred," he said.
"I am not going to let any of you barbarians kill my grandchild!" said Yarub. "Honor demands that I protect both the child and its mother!"
"Are you sure there is a grandchild?" asked Jeloran.
"What do you mean?"
"Are you sure the girl Winifred is pregnant?"
"My son said she was. Why would he say that if it wasn't true?"
"What if he just took her word for it? What if he even knew he couldn't be the father?"
Yarub sat there silently. "He always did have a soft heart," he said finally. Then he called both of the young people to his office.
When Winifred saw the healer she tried to run. The healer just said, "What do you think I'm going to do to you, girl?"
"I don't know!" said Winifred.
"Are you actually pregnant?"
"No. I thought I was. I was late. I now know I'm not."
"Could you have been the father?" Yarub asked Malkish.
"No, father, but honor demanded …"
"Yes, I know. Honor. Everyone is talking about honor." He turned to Jeloran. "What can we do? Everyone wants to kill someone."
"Oh, I think this can all be solved, if you're willing to spend what will be, for you, a small sum of money. The healer hear will confirm that the girl is not pregnant. There's no way he can really be sure at this early stage, but the people out there believe he can. He'll want his bill paid, by the way. Then your son will swear that he did not have sex with the girl at any time. If the two men, the girls father and her maternal grandfather are satisfied, then the crowds will disperse. Then you offer her a job that requires that she go elsewhere for training."
"In my experience, men around here are not anxious for their daughters to get jobs," said Yarub.
"That is quite true, but in this case, they are going to have problems marrying this girl off to anyone after this. There will always be a taint. Her father will accept that she's innocent, because he never really wanted to kill her in the first place. But everyone else will have doubts. But you'll need to offer a bit of money to keep the father happy."
"It seems I'm paying a lot for a girl who is not my son's girlfriend," he said, looking pointedly at Malkish.
"But," said Jeloran before the boy could speak, "you'll end the disturbance at your gates, and you'll have several people in your debt."
"True," said Yarub.
And so it happened that Winifred was recruited for a job in a distant land, and her father gave her permission to accept.
After all the negotiations were complete, Jeloran had one more task to complete. He called Yarub aside.
"There's a young man," he said, "who is actually Winifred's boyfriend. I'm wondering if you could do something for him."
"And why would I do that?"
"Might I suggest that my honor demands that I do something for him, to reward him for honestly answering the question that led me to the solution to all of this."
"That's your honor, not mine."
"But would it not, perhaps, be helpful for you to have the chief investigator of the city police in your debt as well, a debt of honor? I take my honor very seriously."
"Oh, I see," said Yarub. And he did.
(This post was written for and submitted to the One Word at a Time Blog Carnival – Honor.)
"You have to pay your dues," said the professor. "You must give due honor to the people to whom it is due when it is due. Honor comes only after due time spent in study as a leaner, and a duly humble one at that. Just as the dew falls on the ground, this is what the student must do."
The professor thought himself a rather clever man with words. In fact, he was a professor of military science, and wasn't nearly as clever as he thought. But he was still the professor, and today he was lecturing a student, though one he expected to soon be an ex-student. Ex-student, he would point out, as though his students would miss it, is very different from graduate. An ex-student is just someone who pretended to learn, but failed to do so. A graduate is due honor and respect. Less honor and respect than his teacher, but nonetheless honor and respect.
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters, places, and events to those in the real world is coincidental.
"Now you, Schultweiss, you are not a good student. The only thing due you is a dismissal from this university. You will never amount to anything. You will never be a great tactician or strategist. You will never be cited by other scholars when they research military history or other topics." To the professor, honor was measured in how often one's works were cited by other scholars.
Armand Schultweiss only half listened to this lecture. He'd tried to argue earlier when the professor told him that his ideas about maneuverability were really quite wrong, but the professor cut him off. Nobody had ever operated in that way before. It wouldn't work. Where were his citations? He wrote entire pages of his thesis without any footnotes at all! Did he think one of his youth and lack of credentials was capable of having his own thoughts, thoughts not rooted in and nurtured by the authorities?
And then, after making his final clever speech, he dismissed Armand. Four years of hard study wasted. No degree meant no recommendations. No recommendations meant nobody was going to hire him for their guard. He could try to enlist in the army, but his career potential as a commoner would be limited.
***** 25 years later *****
General Armand Schultweiss watched as his opposite number and staff marched stiffly into his command tent. It was a reversal of historic proportions. He had come into this battle outnumbered two to one, with troops that were considered less well-trained. (It should be noted that Schultweiss disagreed with this assessment of his troops.) He commanded the forces of the tiny new Republic of Zeeland, formerly the province of Zeeland, against the forces of the Ardenean Empire, at least those available in the local area.
But then Schultweiss noticed one man in the opposing delegation. It was the professor, serving as an adviser to his opponent. The professor showed no sign of recognizing Schultweiss. In fact, he showed no sign throughout the surrender ceremony.
But before closing the ceremony, he turned and asked, "Professor, what are you doing here?"
The professor was startled. He was not surprised that he had been recognized as a professor. Every well-educated military officer should know his name and should have read his books and papers. What surprised him was the question. If his services were available, why would he not be employed on a general's staff? He was the foremost expert!
"Why would I not be here?" asked the professor.
"After you expelled me from the university, I checked your record. You have never before served on a military staff, nor were you ever a soldier or an officer. Isn't this the first time you've served on any officer's staff?"
"Well, yes. It seemed to me that since I've retired from teaching it was due time that I put some of my knowledge into practice."
"And would you say that your advice was appreciated?"
"Oh yes! The general relied heavily on my knowledge, especially of military history."
"So you would say that the battle plan used by the imperial forces was yours?"
"You could say that." The professor seemed oblivious to the situation. He was proud of his plan and the fact that it had been adopted.
"A long time ago you said to me: 'You have to pay your dues. You must give due honor to the people to whom it is due when it is due.' That was right before you expelled me. Do you remember that?"
"I said that to many upstart students, students who failed to give their professor and their betters the respect they were due."
"I'm just wondering, professor, how much honor is due a battle plan, or the person who crafted it, when that battle plan fails as miserably as your plan has today."
The professor looked stunned. It was at least a full minute before he spoke. "I can see why I expelled you. You have no respect for your betters. My battle plan was perfection itself. It took into account all the established principles of strategy. It took account of all the historical factors."
"But you lost," said the general.
The look on the professor's face was genuinely puzzled. "I'll tell you what I think," said General Schultweiss. When he saw that the professor was about to speak, he continued quickly. "I think that very little respect is due to a battle plan that fails. I think little honor is due to a professor whose first experience of battle came after he retired, in a battle which he lost. But I'm thankful to you, professor. If so many of the empire's officers had not been trained under you, I would probably have lost this battle."
Then General Schultweiss laughed. The delegation that had just surrendered were first astonished, then furious at this treatment. Even a surrendering general and his staff were due respect. "Actually, professor," the general concluded, "the Republic of Zeeland thanks you for its independence!"
And he turned and left.
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London: Indian actress and popular VJ Sophiya Haque died in a hospital here today. She was 41. Haque was suffering from pneumonia and had been undergoing tests during which she is believed to have developed a clot in her lungs and passed away in her sleep. The model-actress, who lived in London with her partner and musical director David White, had fallen ill just before Christmas and was diagnosed with cancer.
Sophiya Haque, best known in India as a bubbly Channel V VJ, was a popular stage and television actress in Britain. She recently made her mark on prime-time TV as barmaid Poppy Morales on the well-known soap 'Coronation Street' and was in the midst of a West End production called Privates on Parade.
Talking to PTI, Sophiya Haque's agent Oliver Thomson said, "Sophiya was a wonderful actress and client, but so much more than that a wonderful friend. She was adored by everyone she worked with and will be deeply missed." He described Haque's relationship with White as "very happy" and the couple were in the process of building a houseboat together when she fell ill.
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So we pick 7th this year. This is my take on what will happen on draft day WITHOUT ANDREW LUCK, this mock is based on the idea that Luck stays in school and simultaneously all other teams realize they have bigger needs then QB based on coaching changes.
However if Luck did come out we would assume Carolina drafted him and he didn't pull an Elway/Eli; consequently you could move Nick Fairley to my AZ pick and move Von Miller to another pick as both could fit there.
I've included the current head coach or possible successors and some alternate picks based on other needs.
Carolina -- Ron Rivera/Bill Cowher - one of these two is hired as the new HC. Both of whom run 3-4s, would love a guy like Fairley, molding him would be their version of developing a QB.
1. Nick Fairley, projected as a top 5 pick, I could see the panthers jumping at him if they go for a defensive minded coach. It is said that the Panthers also want a first time coach and what better way to make it known your here for defense by drafting a staple like Fairley?
1a. If Auburn wins the national title Newton will undoubtedly declare(again this is in a world that Luck stays in school). With Newton's charisma and raw talent the Panthers would gain everything that Clausen and Pike can't offer right now.
Denver Broncos -- Harbaugh/Mularkey -- I don't see the random connection of Elway. a Standford QB wooing the current Stanford HC to come to Denver. Mularkey, a current OC has had QBs from both ends of the spectrum. He will have the ability to pick between Orton and Tebow. I'll go out on a limb here and say he likes Tebow, who is a fairly physically well built player and as mobile and quick thinking which fits Mularkey's penchant for trick plays.
2. Patrick Peterson - The defensive side of the ball is horrible and Champ Bailey needs to be replaced.
Patrick Peterson is a great fit right here.
2a. The running game has been horrific for the broncos and I could see Ingram going here as well.
Buffalo Bills -- Chan Gailey -- The Bills are surprisingly unlucky. They have a DB who last year was tied for the lead in INTs with 9. a fairly good D line that could be improved and Shawne Merriman just announced he'll be back next year. The offensive side of the ball could be pretty good next year if Spiller is used more and the receivers step up again. Plus I see a hilarious scenario of Alex Smith being signed by Buffalo or Miami and for the sake of this mock he lands in Buffalo. Leaving the depth chart at Fitzpatrick, A.Smith, Brohm
3. A. J. Green could easily slide right in here and take over for Lee Evans and line up across from Steven Johnson.
Cincinnati Bengals -- Josh McDaniels/Mike Mularkey -- McDaniels still has enough "genius of Bill Belichick" aura on him to land a HC job again even after the horrible debacle in Denver. Mularkey is a possibility here too, Mike Brown will want a offensive minded coach this time around.
The Bengals WR corp looks really good without TO or Ocho in the mix, I don't think Mike Brown would allow the G.M. to go for a QB just for the sake of continuity. Palmer was 30 yards shy of his 3rd 4,000 yard passing performance but he also threw 20 picks in a season they all but abandoned the run heavy style that won the division last year. The Bengals will probably try to balance things out next year but there is a good chance Benson could leave in free agency, I could easily see the Bengals going after a RB if Benson leaves or a DE.
4. Mark Ingram, great after contact goes out of his way to hit defenders.
4a. It's been suggested that the Bengals would go for a DE top compliment Karlos Dunlap and Fairley will probably be available here.
Arizona Cardinals -- Ken Whisenhunt -- The cardinals defense has been absolutely atrocious this year and with rumors swirling that Joey Porter will be out after only 1 year see it completely likely they go for the defensive side here.
5. Von Miller would fix one of the biggest needs for the cards. With an impact player like Miller on the field the secondary would be able to make a lot more plays
Cleveland Browns -- Jon Gruden/Rob Ryan -- With Gruden's future in a cloudy haze we'll say that Ryan lands the gig thanks to an in house search.
A fun fact I learned earlier today was that the Browns hadn't allowed more then 28 points by an opponent all year until today's blowout loss to the Steelers. Ryan will want all the help he can get on the offensive side of the ball.
6. Julio Jones would provide a big play threat that the Browns lack, Both the running and passing game would benefit from a guy like Jones.
San Francisco 49ers -- Jim Harbaugh/Brian Shottenheimer -- With Harbaugh "almost certainly" leaving Stanford he will either land at Michigan or with the 9ers. RichRod's future in Ann Arbor is anything but secure and I could easily see us going for a hungry offensive coordinator like Brian.
7. Both Mallett and Gabbert are likely to be picked here. Whichever player declares the 9ers will draft him unless they opt to go the developmental route and use a later pick on Pat Devlin at that point.
Ryan Mallet gets my vote here, looking at the huge jump in completion percentage from last year, near identical attempts and 10% improvement I can't say I would want a guy like that. I've admittedly only watched 1 Arkansas game this year but he really impressed me, I can't recall the opponent but it was the game he hid the ball behind his back and hit the receiver on the seam route for a big gain, maybe td.
Some notes.
1. Yes defense really dominated this mock but this is why I included likely HC candidates and what direction they would probably go.
2. The Lions really screwed themselves with that 4 game win streak, they are in dire need of a great CB. If it looks like Jenoris Jenkins and Amukamara could come off the board they will probably pull the trigger on a trade to insure they get their hands on Amukamara so Detroit could fubar the top 10 by doing that.
3. Another possible development would be Justin Blackmon declaring for the draft and despite being a possible late first rounder/early second if not mistaken I could see his numbers and hype vaulting him into the top 10 -- possibly into the Browns pick, Blackmon is definitely an upgrade from Jones who is a bit more lanky and less imposing.
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Skip to comments.Seagate Readies 5TB, 6TB Enterprise-Class Hard Disk Drives.
Posted on 07/17/2013 8:51:01 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Seagate Technology, one of the worlds largest hard disk drives makers, plans to add high-capacity models into its Terascale hard drive family in the first half of 2014. The new models will expand storage capacity of enterprise-class capacity-oriented hard disk drives to 5TB and 6TB. It is likely that such HDDs will be based on new-generation platters.
According to Seagate enterprise hard drives roadmap published by Myce web-site, the new enterprise-class Terascale HDDs with 5TB and 6TB capacities due in the first half of 2014 will belong to the same code-named Constellation ES.3 Megalodon family as the current 4TB drives. The drives are likely to feature 5900rpm spindle speed, 64MB DDR2 cache as well as Serial ATA-600 interface. What is unclear is which platters will be featured in the 5TB and 6TB HDDs.
The Terascale hard disk drives are based on enterprise-class platform with high vibration tolerance (HVT) technology and provide data centers with the maximum storage scalability they need to meet demands in low workload, 24x7 replicated environments. Equipped with Seagates own Instant Secure Erase (ISE) technology, the Terascale HDD saves money and time by reducing drive erasure times from hours to milliseconds providing quick, safe and easy drive disposal or repurposing.
Separately, Seagate prepares to put its Cheetah 15K.7, Savvio 10K.5 and some other hard drives into LTS status, which essentially means that it will supply such drives until there is demand, but will not introduce any new models. The code-named Valkyrie enterprise-performance drives will likely be enterprise-grade solid-state hard drives and will not be pure SSDs.
Seagate did not comment on the news-story.
I would assume this is all for server farm use ... what with the cloud and all.
Yeah, or as my buddy who is an ISP points out, "Data Center" nowadays generally is a euphemism for "My Porn Stash" ;-)
Video playout servers...huge market, tremendous thirst for high capacity, low latency, low power.
That's almost enough room to store all the B&W photos of Obama's mother posing naked for porn magazines.
>>..huge market, tremendous thirst for high capacity, low latency, low power.<<
The same for Russian brides...
>>My first hard drive had a capacity of 20 megs. We are rapidly approaching the point where an inexpensive external hard drive will store a million times that much.<<
The first HD I had was 5MB Winchester. It was better than the 8" floppies we had to carefully store.
And we had to write our programs in Z80 ASM
A 64 bit address space is in excess of 180,000 terabytes.
My wife gave me a 20 meg drive as a Christmas present when we had our original Mac 128...oh, the thrill of such massive, nearly unlimited storage compared to those floppy drives! I remember it cost $600.
What comes after tera?
Not funny.
Ijust bought a 4 Tbyte Seagate 5900 rpm drive for less than 1/3 of that cost....before Cal State Taxes...kicked in.
"What comes after tera?"
General Sherman.
OMG...they're $170 on Amazon, now.
/HDD junkie
Are you keeping Medical records for Obamacare?
I will be. No joke. :-(
That would be Peta....then it is Exabyte.
That sounds about right. I'm getting ready to replace the drives in an older RAID drive that we have in an instrumentation system. If I go with 3 TB drives, which are now nothing particularly special, it will have a whopping 48 TB. Incredible.
And on the other end, Mega is the new Kilo in terms of being almost trivially small. A meg is starting to be like the penny on the ground that you don't pick up because it's not worth the effort.
Spinning disks are dinosaurs. Our new SAN's first tier is SSD, second tier is 15K 2 TB drives (will be 4 TB in six months) and the third tier is SAS. Insanely fast. The third tier used to be tape when I joined this outfit, no lie. When we wheeled the last tape library out the door last week my chief operator had a tear in her eye - and tape number 00001 tucked under her arm for a souvenir. She has a stack of punch cards, too. The freshmen on campus weren't born when the Internet was invented. Damn I'm old.
Here's what annoys me. They make a fine 1TB drive, but then limit the size of the node failure storage to 2000 entries or so. So the storage fills up, and the drive is useless. Even though it still have almost all of it's capacity.
I'd hope that with the larger drives, they would increase the failed node storage size.
>>The freshmen on campus werent born when the Internet was invented. Damn Im old.<<
I was just talking to my intern today about when I started DP. COBOL programs on punch cards, CADE data entry systems, tape-in, tape-out Master Files, paper tape to run OS operations. DRUM storage.
We spoke in MBs, GBs were for the Ops floor manager. TBs were for huge shops like the IRS or USPS.
ASM that was great because the memory might be an instruction or data. But it had the hated SS operations...
I wrote my first program ...with Fortran ...for an IBM 650 which had a rotating drum for meory....no core memory on it.
+1 for use of the word Winchester.
This thread is pretty much why I love FR.
I bought my 4TB Seagate external drive for 140 just before Black Friday a year ago on AMZ.
What comes after tera?
General Sherman.
Correct, of course.
Scarlett loved it, but Sherman thought terabytes, and the rest is history...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn26pEDEhyY (non-https)
Damn.....Great to dig that old stuff up/......
Wow. I remember life back then, 10 MB was Hugh. Now, with, memory cards, the cloud and wireless .. if you can't do sub-nanular, it's just crap.
A sucker for bygone technologies, eh? Wanna buy some paper tape bootstraps? How about a how to program assembly aka 1s and 0s 'language'? Core memories was 'it' for me.. lol that and pressing buttons on old sperry rand/univac hymns. Basically fire control systems adapted for other poiposes like keepng tabs on supplies, etc
UYKs :-)
That's a lot of pr0n.
I did that one yesterday.
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A new study by the "Sun Safety Alliance" says Americans understand the dangers of sun exposure, but aren't doing enough to protect themselves.
There will be one million new cases of skin cancer diagnosed this year and dermatologists say five percent of those will be melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
This is why dermatologists are stressing the importance of sunscreen. Dr. Marcy Street, a dermatologist in East Lansing, says reports that sun exposure is healthy for people in order to produce Vitamin D are false. She says any color is damage to your skin and puts you at risk for skin cancer. She recommends wearing sunscreen everyday and reapplying often-especially after swimming or sweating.
Dr. Street says one blistering sunburn or five sunburns throughout your lifetime doubles your risk of skin cancer.


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maybe pilotwing will be fun to get, used. when it will be super cheap.
It's a Nintendo game. It'll never be super cheap.
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How come there is no love for Samurai Warriors on this board!!
You clearly read over a couple of our posts then.
Just looks like you and me playing this game. lol
It should be up for the title of "best game that people arn't playing"... although the way the sales are going in the UK for "Steel Diver" it looks as though that would win.
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So many Awesome video games coming out this year! So many games so little money! Crap!
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Four. Super Street Fighter IV, Super Monkey Ball, Pilotwings, Ridge Racer. ALL either good or brilliant.
Next up is Oot and Pac Man and Galaga Dimensions
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"They say video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock n' roll."
Cut down my collection from SSFIV, Asphalt, RR3D, Pilotwings and SMB. Got rid of SMB, Asphalt and SSFIV and added Rabbids 3D. Got bored of that andd traded it for Steel Diver. So now I just have 3 games.
The 3D is a gimmick, so I'm trying to stick to games that I know I'll like rather than something that may look interesting in 3D.
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11 billion, just like the number of brain cells in my head.
i agree, i wouldnt mind getting it used one day. i loved dynasty warrior games, and im glad its a possible title on handheld.
it doesnt look all that bad. maybe deceiving for its price, but used would be a good deal.
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hi, the theme is very nice but i don't understand as show the carousel. please tell me where I have to start.
hi, the theme is very nice but i don't understand as show the carousel. please tell me where I have to start.
You can add any post, page or product (any custom post type).
Edit a page and in the right side, in a box titled "Carousel", you can check if you want to display it in the carousel. Adding an image, it will be displayed in the background.
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I have checked the boxes to include images in the carousel and set the page to the Carousel full width. The images to not appear. Is there some setting I have overlooked? Thanks for any help.
Do you have featured image?
The carousel is only displayed at home or when you use Carousel full width template.
An url?
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I can only upload once picture for the carousel. how do i add more than one?
Thank you. I was able to figure it out. As I understand it the way to get multiple images to display is up post the images as a blog post and then select the box to show in the carousel. Works great. Now I just need to transfer my site to the server to go live. I now have database connection issues. Urg :)
To customize your carousel you need customize header.php (crate child theme!)
Then, open header and customize the carousel writing your own WordPress and TheCartPress template tags (gallery, etc). The carousel html begins at 187 line.
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I would like the carousel to appear on a aub page but not on the front page - is that possible?
I have selected the full-width carousel page as the template for the page but no carousel appears unless I uncheck the "hide carousel on front page" option. However, then the carousel appears on my front page even though I am not using the full-width carousel template.
Ok, I cannot figure out this carousel for nothing.
1. I've checked "hide Carousel in front page" in Appearance>Boot Store.
2. I've created a page called "Carousel". It's blank and I'm using
"Carousel Full-width Template, No Sidebar".
3. I've made a post Title=Test Text=Test checked "Add to carousel of
carousel template"
The result when I display the page is nothing. I've tried checking "Add to carousel of carousel template" for the page I created called "Carousel" but still nothing". Is there any documentation on an example of the Carousel?
I also want to mention that if I show the Carousel on the Front Page, regardless of what I change, it displays all posts, even ones that the are not checked "Add to carousel of carousel template".
Hello ,
I use bootstore template in my wordpress site. Please tell me how can i use side bar on Frontpage with some pages.
Tell me what is size of carousel Image slider?
I have strange problem. Carousel is not working as it should. The arrows don't work (change the post: prev or next).
I have tried installing the theme again. I even installed the whole wordpress, but it doesn't help.
...havent tryed to edit any .php files ect. Because I do not have competence to do it...
Anyone? I really need to get those sites working (voluntary work for small sport club)
Hi, Please download 1.6 version, there are some fixes about this post: (template in subpage @nospam2k )
Carousel background image: now has a cover style, so the image will be scaled to fill the carousel area. Anyway recommended size is 1170px*320px
@pelikortti_wbw your issue seems a javascrip conflict, take a look to console to see javascript issues or try deactivating other plugins. (be sure bootstrap javascript is not loading twice)
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Thanks sur!
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Word for Word/Historical 'What Ifs?'; Annie Could've Gotten Her Gun And Blown Away the Kaiser
Published: May 10, 1998
HISTORIANS try to answer many questions, but the one they seem to have the most fun with is, ''What if?''
Case in point: the current issue of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, 37 military historians were asked to ponder what might have been if fickle circumstance broke another way at this or that pivotal moment.
Robert Cowley, the journal's editor, writes that such musings ''can reveal in startling outlines the essential stakes of a confrontation.'' Four selections are excerpted below.
Stephen E. Ambrose
If D-Day Had Failed
What if the weather in the English Channel had turned worse rather than better on the night of June 5-6, 1944? Why then, the Germans might well have been able to drive the Allies back into the sea. Had that happened, there would not have been a second invasion in 1944, as there was no contingency planning -- Eisenhower insisted on planning for Operation Overlord on the basis that there was no possibility of failure. War-weary Britain would have about sunk into the sea; the Churchill Government, which had bet the house on Overlord, would have been thrown out; in the United States, Roosevelt would have lost the November election, for the same reason.
At that point, Stalin would have concluded that the capitalists could never be trusted, but a deal with Hitler could be had, on the basis of the 1939 division of central Europe between the Communists and the Nazis. So, going into the spring of 1945, the Western Allies, rebuilding in Britain, would have faced nearly the whole of the Wehrmacht, thanks to the second Hitler-Stalin pact. An invasion against such strength had little appeal -- especially when the atomic bomb was going to be available by summer. So failure of Overlord would have led to the first atomic bomb being used against Munich, and so on. Meanwhile, relations with the Soviet Union would have been impossibly difficult and dangerous.
In an opposite scenario, Stalin might have put more men and weapons into the offensive and overrun Germany, then France, and the war would have ended up with the Red Army on the English Channel.
Stephen E. Ambrose is the author of ''D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II'' (Simon & Schuster, 1994).
Thomas Fleming
A Country Without a Father
What if George Washington had been forced to resign by the conspirators of the so-called Conway Cabal in the winter of 1777-78? In his place this coterie of disgruntled officers and Congressmen wanted General Horatio Gates, the victor at Saratoga. . . .
There were grounds for arguing Washington had to go. In 1776, the ''Great Man,'' as his critics sarcastically called Washington, had been beaten repeatedly in the struggle for New York. He had lost the confidence of a great many Congressmen when his defeats at Brandywine and Germantown in the fall of 1777 forced the politicians to flee Philadelphia.
Gates's concern for his soldiers' welfare won him the nickname ''Granny.'' Even if his moniker was used affectionately, it was hardly inspiring. Trained as a staff officer in the British army, Gates had virtually no combat experience. At Saratoga he let Benedict Arnold, Daniel Morgan, and others lead the fighting -- and then omitted any mention of them in his dispatches. At Camden, South Carolina, in 1780, Cornwallis routed Gates. On the fastest horse he could find, Gates fled 160 miles, abandoning his army. . . .
To avoid the gibbet, the shaken general might well have recommended some sort of negotiated peace, an idea that was already floating around Europe. The French were running out of money. The Spanish, eager to destroy the virus of independence before it infected Mexico and South America, were negotiating secretly with the British along this line. A desperate Congress might have swung to the opposite extreme and bet everything on a more aggressive general -- Benedict Arnold. Unaware that he was already deep in traitorous communications with the British, the politicians would have handed Arnold and his loyalist wife, Peggy Shippen, the opportunity to betray the Revolution on a scale beyond their wildest dreams. America would have become a restless but sternly repressed British dominion, ruled by ample garrisons and a local aristocracy, in the manner of Ireland, with Arnold as first Lord Lieutenant.
Thomas Fleming is the author of ''Liberty!'' (Viking), an illustrated history accompanying the PBS series on the Revolution.
Josiah Ober
Alexander Dies Young
At the battle of the river Granicus (334 B.C.), the first major engagement of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Empire, Alexander was nearly killed. . . . Alexander was confronted by an ax-wielding Persian who dealt the young Macedonian king a heavy blow to the head. Alexander's helmet was damaged; a second strike would certainly kill him. At this moment, one of Alexander's companions, Cleitus the Black, speared the Persian axman. . . . What if Cleitus had been a second or two slower with his spear? If Alexander had died at age 22 (instead of age 33, in 323 B.C.) human history would have been very different indeed. . . .


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Witnesses said a pedestrian running through traffic caused a collision between two vehicles when a driver had to swerve to miss him. A short time later, the pedestrian was struck by a vehicle down the street from the first incident.
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Holiday activities, severe weather and seasonal illnesses, like the flu, can pull people away from their regular blood donation schedules. This creates a greater need for blood donations this time of year, especially around the winter holidays.
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The 41 A By Pass will be closed until further notice and no idea on when we will be able to open the road. This is going to have a major effect on Traffic this evening.
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Clarksville, TN – Clarksville Gas and Water has rescheduled today's Ashland City Road/US Highway 41A Bypass lane closure to tonight at 11:00pm.
Construction crews will close the northbound lane of Ashland City Road/US Highway 41A Bypass from Riverwood Place to the intersection of Cumberland Drive and Riverside Drive for water main line maintenance.
The work is anticipated to be finished and the lane reopened by approximately 2:00am Thursday, November 13th, 2014.
Clarksville, TN – Clarksville Gas and Water will close the northbound lane of Ashland City Road (41A Bypass) from Riverwood Place to the intersection of Cumberland Drive and Riverside Drive at approximately 11:00am for water line maintenance.
The work is expected to be finished by approximately 2:00pm.
Clarksville, TN – American Red Cross volunteers from the Two Rivers Chapter are joining thousands of other volunteers across the country this weekend to kick-off a new effort to drastically reduce the number of people killed in house fires. «Read the rest of this article»
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Clarksville, TN – The 24-inch water main repair work at the intersection of Ashland City Road and Cumberland Drive will continue through 4:00am Wednesday, June 25th, 2014.
Low water pressure and possible water outages will also continue to affect the Downtown, New Providence Boulevard, St. Bethlehem, Madison Street and 41A Bypass areas. «Read the rest of this article»
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Clarksville, TN – Clarksville Gas and Water construction crews will begin repair work at 5:00am Tuesday, June 24th, 2014, on an additional section of the 24-inch water main line at the intersection of Ashland City Road and Cumberland Drive. «Read the rest of this article»


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Justine Jones Ambrecht, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. Ambrecht of New Canaan, Conn., was married yesterday to Michael Matthew Mullin IV, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mullin III of Gulf Stream, Fla. The Rev. Mark E. Bruce performed the ceremony at the First Congregational Church in Nantucket, Mass.
Mrs. Mullin, 29, is to become a financial consultant next month at AXA Advisers in New York, a subsidiary of AXA Group, the French insurance company. She graduated from Vanderbilt University and received an M.B.A. from Fordham. Her father is a managing director of high-yield bond sales in the Greenwich, Conn., office of the Royal Bank of Canada.
Mr. Mullin, 30, is a vice president for investing in the private banking unit of Citigroup in New York. He graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. His father is a real estate agent at Premier Estate Properties in Delray Beach, Fla.


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Try as they might, entrepreneurs haven't yet managed to figure out an ultra successful method for discovering, listening to, and sharing music — and it's not for lack of effort.
Music startup TastemakerX thinks it has an explanation for why this hasn't happened: Music services all have a small piece of the puzzle, but none of them are willing to put those pieces together.
TastemakerX has decided to refocus its efforts from delivering an independent solution to building a layer that sits on top of all music services and offers a more complete look at a person's musical tastes. Previously, TastemakerX built a service that tried to get music enthusiasts (aka music snobs) to help guide people to the best artists and tracks through gamification (because music snobs are always trying to out-do each other when it comes to finding the latest music). But this method didn't necessarily work because of all the different ways people were discovering and curating new songs.
"Let's face it, finding music should be fun and easy, but it really hasn't been since the days of High Fidelity, where Jack Black and John Cusack worked in that hipster record store eons ago," said TastemakerX founder and CEO Marc Ruxin in the company's blog post today. (Amen to that, brother. Amen to that.)
As for the new TastemakerX, it's shifted to more of an infrastructure that allows music fans to direct each other towards the best places to play, discover, or share music on a variety of services. So you won't be listening to music on TastemakerX, but instead you'll be pointed toward other services such as Spotify, Rdio, Soundcloud, YouTube, iTunes, Songkick, Twitter, Instagram, and others. Essentially TastemakerX wants to play nice with other music services so people can get what they want.
This seems like a pretty smart move for TastemakerX, mainly because it's now able to eliminate the expensive cost of hosting and licensing a decently sized music library. This is also something that the once mega-hyped music service Turntable.fm recently had to address in order to stay alive.
Yet, TastemakerX isn't completely abandoning its roots as a way to collect music and offer some level of competition for the active music fans. The revamped service allows users to create "TastemakerX collections" that are made up of artists, music tracks, and social activity relevant to both of those things. A user's "collection" will appear on their homepage and give a sense of their tastes in music. The content within those collections is regularly updated with links or widgets from other services. For example, you may have your favorite artist's Instagram account along with a playlist you created and linked to from Spotify and tour information about all the bands you follow. Admittedly, I haven't played with the new TastemakerX, so I can't say whether this concept is something that has staying power. It does sound like a definitive step in the right direction though.
TastemakerX also has a purely music-focused collections feature that allows you to put together a group of tracks from a single artist or many artists. There are some restrictions, meaning you can't simply add everything you like, which wouldn't provide much help to people trying to discover a crop of good tracks without having to sift through all the crap.
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The revamped TastemakerX service launches today and is available for free. However, you may need a premium subscription to gain access to some music services.
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