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Customers in Racine and Sturtevant found themselves without power this afternoon.
We Energies reports 4,200 customers in that are lost power around 2 p.m.
The outage area was in an area east of I-94 near Spring Street and Francher Road.
We Energies reported that equipment at a substation had failed. Power was restored to all customers at 2:50 p.m.


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SQL cannot start !!!
Hi guys
This is my situation. I had sql running on a PC, on the PC there where 2 local drives( A c: and s:) SQL was installed on the S: We had to S: removed and put on another PC. We also renamed that computer. SQL cannot start now, I have mapped the S: that was taken out the PC to S:. Is there any way I can get it started without reloading?
I know, you must be thinking what an idiot....but I had no choice.
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You MUST reinstall SQL.
When you installed SQL in you previous PC, although the program files were in S:, the program registry settings were in C: (within the OS). So, even if you re-assign the drive letter to S, the program would fail to load because it cannot find the registry keys on the new computer !
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I have been disgusted with my country for a long time about certain things. I can't remember a time in my life where I didn't notice the palpable government intrusion in my life. I remember the first time I truly examined what freedom truly means while I was in high school, and understanding that the United States is not the home of the free that every school tries to indoctrinate its students to believe. This bothered me, but I believed that there is nothing one person could do, and let my frustration wane.
There is one thing that I have never been able to stomach though, and our government is doing it today more than it ever has, and we sit here fat and happy, ignoring or totally ignorant of the fact that our government is doing things to other people that it should never do, because it is unconstitutional, and the people that should be concerned are the very ones fighting to protect the practice.
We have a government that is supposedly based on the idea that all men are created equal, and among other things, that they all have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That simple phrase in The Declaration of Independence is one that helped spark a revolution, yet today our government totally and blatantly ignores it, our politicians fight against it, and most people are supportive of ignoring it.
I have to ask, since when is a human being in another country less deserving of his life, liberty, and/or happiness than a human being that happens to live on a section of dirt we call The United States? Is it okay that our government executes people without a trial, simply because they aren't a US citizen and we don't like them, or because they happen to be a US citizen on foreign soil and we don't like them? Should we be able to detain people indefinitely without a trial simply because we don't bring them to the United States?
I recently learned that the United States has taken to hauling around prisoners on ships in international waters in order to prevent them from getting to US soil and being afforded the rights we claim everyone has innately. It demonstrates that they know what they are doing is wrong, and that they are taking steps to keep from being held accountable. It sickens me. I feel it puts a stain on my name that the government that is supposed to work for me is doing these things, and it should sicken everyone else that has a decent bone in their body.
You and I are employers. We employ the government to act on our behalf. If your employee, while acting as an agent of your business, murdered someone and you knew about it, yet did nothing, should you not be charged with murder? If they went around, as your agent, and tortured your competitors, and you said nothing, are you not just as guilty?
Everyone that is silent about these abuses is guilty. Everyone that sits back and ignores it is guilty. Even those that are ignorant are somewhat guilty, as they should be interested and involved in what their employees are doing on their behalf.
If you have supported detaining people indefinitely, or said nothing when you found your government mistreated anyone, and especially if you argued that the government should be able to do those things, you are guilty of the very crimes that you would scream from the roof tops about if they were committed against you.
You are not neutral. You can't be neutral. You have no choice. You better pick your side, and hope it is a principled one, because the may come where all those that stood by and did nothing will be held accountable right along side those that took an active part.


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Top local badges to attend next week's Conference on Crimes Against Women
A who's who of local law enforcement brass will be on hand when the sixth annual Conference on Crimes Against Women gets under way next week in Dallas.
Almost 1,000 law enforcement officers, victim advocates and others will attend the three-day conference, which begins Monday at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel at Olive and Live Oak.
According to Genesis Women's Shelter, a co-sponsor of the conference, those expected to be there include:
– Dallas Police Chief David Brown
– Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez
– Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins
– The U.S. attorney for North Texas, Jim Jacks
– The agent in charge of the Dallas FBI office, Robert Casey
– The agent in charge of the Dallas office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Jim Capra
The keynote speaker is Cindy Dyer (right), former director of the U.S. Justice Department's Office on Violence Against Women. Before that, she was the chief prosecutor in the Family Violence Division of the Dallas DA's office.
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Many birds enjoy eating sprouts, and they are an excellent source of nutrition. Most species, from macaws to finches, enjoy nibbling on fresh sprouts. Magazine articles and even entire books have been written about sprouting. There are special supplies available for sprouting, and entire websites are devoted to sprouting.
There is some science and a lot of good sense involved in the process of sprouting seed, grain and beans at home. The first step is to purchase top-quality, pesticide-free ingredients. Some seeds that can be sprouted for your birds are:
Assemble your equipment. Glass jars, a flat glass baking pan or special sprouting containers can be used to sprout the seeds. You will need a fine mesh strainer or mesh covers for jars to facilitate draining and rinsing and to provide air circulation to the sprouts inside. Sterilize all sprouting equipment between batches.
Clean the seeds you intend to sprout. Discard broken or cracked seeds, and remove empty seed hulls from the mixture.
Put the seeds into the strainer, and rinse them thoroughly under running water. Soak the clean seeds overnight in purified water (boiled, then cooled). The water should cover the seeds. The recommended ratio is 2 to 3 parts water to 1 part seed. As you become more experienced, you will learn which seeds soak up more water. Sprouts can develop mold quickly if not conscientiously rinsed, drained and cared for. Proper ambient temperature and air circulation are also crucial.
Inhibit mold and bacterial growth by adding a little grapefruit seed extract to the soaking solution used prior to sprouting. Grapefruit seed extract is available under several brand names at health food stores, on health- and bird-related websites. For proper dilution proportions (usually about 30 drops per gallon), read package directions prior to use, or consult your grain, bean and seed supplier.
Rinse the seeds thoroughly in the morning. They will have swollen considerably from soaking up a lot of the water. After rinsing, spread the seeds in the sprouting receptacles you've chosen, and place them in a dim, well-ventilated area of your home. Rinse and drain the seeds several times a day.
Seeds will usually sprout within a few days. When they have shed their seeds (two tiny "leaves" will appear), they are ready to be moved to brighter light so that they can turn green. Greening will not occur without light, but direct sunlight is much too strong at first. The rinsing and draining process is still important at this stage because the sprouts will require more moisture to grow in the brighter environment.
Once they've begun to turn green, you may begin harvesting them and feeding them to your birds. Rinse the sprouts, and drain them until they are as dry as possible before offering them to your pets. With the exception of soybeans, it is unwise to offer uncooked beans to your birds. Discard any remaining bean parts from sprouts before giving them to your birds.
Fresh sprouts will keep quite well in your refrigerator. Rinse and drain them daily, and rinse well before offering them to your birds. Do not refrigerate wet sprouts, as mold and spoilage will result.
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•Coldwell Banker brings on 12 agents in its three local offices•
An ex-football player, former stay-at-home Mom and the owner of a retired race dog are among Coldwell Banker's passel of new Realtors.
The list of agents also includes an Arizona transplant; a Sun City homeowner; a former mayor; a California native; a one-time auto production planner; a Navy wife; and a real estate team with husband, spouse and associate.
Coldwell Banker United, Realtors added people in each of its three offices in Goose Creek, Summerville and Mount Pleasant. Peggy Murray joined in Goose Creek; Sonya Moore, Diessa Sligh, Tammy Myrda and Jennifer Hale in Summerville; and Chris West, Cindy Owens, Vicki Mangus, Cheryll Woods-Flowers, Franne Schwarb, Mark Schwarb and Chari Karinshak in Mount Pleasant.
The East Cooper additions are:
• Mangus, long-time agent with Coldwell Banker King Thompson in Ohio and licensed Realtor for more than 30 years. She relocated to South Carolina and has a home in Sun City, Bluffton near Hilton Head Island. Mangus moved to the Charleston area to be close to her daughter who teaches in the Mount Pleasant area. "Charleston seems like a city with fireworks every day, always something going on." Mangus can be reached at 843-540-6198, email@example.com, www.vickisellscharleston.com or www.vickimangus.com.
• Owens, who like her husband is a Texas native. The couple spent much of their adulthood in Phoenix, where they owned a commercial printing business for close to 16 years. They sold the business five years ago and moved to St. Louis for her husband's job in the aerospace industry. He has since joined Boeing, relocating to the Charleston area last year. Owens "decided to pursue a career she had always dreamed about: real estate." She can be reached at 843-375-2774, firstname.lastname@example.com or www.DiscoverCharlestonWithCindy.com.
• The Schwarbs — who are husband and wife — and Karinshak, who comprise the Charleston Fine Homes team. They have 40-plus years of real estate experience including new, second home and lot sales; foreclosure and short sales; and relocation. "The team emphasizes attention to detail, 24/7 service and putting the client first." Franne Schwarb can be reached at 843-270-1207 or firstname.lastname@example.com; Mark Schwarb, 843-345-3989 or email@example.com; and Karinshak, 843-810-8287 or firstname.lastname@example.com. CharlestonFineHomes.com is the website.
• West, who was born and raised in Asheville, N.C. He earned a degree in education at Appalachian State University while playing football for the Mountaineers. He was involved in school teaching before fulfilling "a life-long interest in joining the real estate profession." West and his wife were married in Mount Pleasant and have lived here for the past 10 years. "He has a passion for helping others, as well as a desire to do whatever it takes to make his clients' dreams become a reality." West can be reached at 843-412-6627, email@example.com or www.ChrisWestSellsCharleston.com.
• Woods-Flowers, who was a town council member in Mount Pleasant for six years and then mayor for eight years. She has been in the real estate field for more than a decade, selling all types of residential property from Summerville to the coast. "She is most happy meeting new people and helping them make one of the most important decisions they'll ever make." Woods-Flowers earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and a masters in Accountancy from the College of Charleston. She can be reached at 843-442-2219, email@example.com or www.woodsflowers.com.
The new agents in Summmerville are:
• Hale, who began her professional career as a production planner for automotive suppliers. She has since married and is the mother of two children. That moved her to focus her job sights on marketing, online sales and advertising and website design. Most recently, she worked with local businesses as an event planner and brand ambassador before becoming a real estate agent. Hale can be reached at 843-708-0698, firstname.lastname@example.com or her website www.JenniferHaleSellsCharlestonHomes.com.
• Moore, who moved from Tennessee as a young mother and has lived in the Charleston area for 18-plus years. "She knows how stressful relocating can be." She attended Tennessee Tech for a short time studying interior design before choosing to be a stay-at-home mom. Moore has stayed involved raising three kids, being a soccer and basketball mom and volunteered at church. She managed the building a new home, learning construction trades herself. She can be reached at 843-442-8849, email@example.com or www.LoveCharlestonHomes.com.
• Myrda, who is recognized by the National Association of Women and Cambridge Who's Who of Real Estate. She has more than 20 years experience in real estate, including nine years of selling homes. Myrda has was born and raised in Los Angeles before settling in San Diego for seven years and then moving to the Charleston area in 2001. She lives in Summerville with her husband and five children. She can be reached at 843-442-9928, firstname.lastname@example.com or her website at www.cbunited.com/tammymyrda.
• Sligh, a California native who relocated to the Charleston area seven years ago to start a family. One of the 11 real estate agents to recently join Coldwell Banker United, Realtors, she has been involved with Girl Scouts as a parent volunteer for the past several years and this past year was a Brownie leader. Sligh lives with her family, including their retired racing greyhound, in Summerville. She can be reached at 843-419-5124, email@example.com or at her website at www.DiessaSellsCharlestonHomes.com.
Joining the Goose Creek office is:
• Murray, who fell in love with the Charleston area when her husband was transferred here in 1977 with the Navy. She was born and raised in Ashland, Pa., graduating from McCann Business College. She would also attend University of Maryland and Trident Technical College. The Murrays have stayed in Charleston and raised their children. In recent years, her experience has been in new construction site sales as sales agent and community sales manager for several local builders. Reach her at 843-200-2673, firstname.lastname@example.com or www.PeggySellsCharleston.com.
For more information, contact the Mount Pleasant Coldwell Banker office at 1127 Queensborough Blvd., Suite 103 and 843-856-8800, where Ann Whalen is the broker-in-charge; the Summerville office at 810 N. Main St., 843-875-5525, where Pam Griffin is broker-in-charge; or the Goose Creek office at 205 St. James Ave., Suite 5 and 843-572-3131. where Kimo Esarey is the broker-in-charge.
•Sales model opens at new East Cooper neighborhood•
In its first completed home for house hunters to tour, a newer builder in the Charleston area is evoking the name of an Atlantic island spectacle.
The model dwelling from FrontDoor Communities is the two-story Bermuda. It is in Tributary at RiverTowne Country Club in Mount Pleasant. Carolina One New Homes is handling sales and marketing in the village off S.C. Highway 41.
"For the discriminating buyer, the Bermuda is a 2,433 square foot, four bedroom home that features an open living room and dining area as well as a large, friendly front porch," the marketing group says.
Along with three full baths and a powder room, the Bermuda touts a spacious first floor owner's suite that opens on to a semi-private porch accented by an outdoor fireplace, Carolina One and FrontDoor say.
For more information, visit www.tributarysc.com, drop by the sales center at the entrance to RiverTowne Country Club or contact Kerri Mahoney for a private showing. She can be reached as 843-607-2087 or via email at email@example.com.
Carolina One New Homes touts itself as the leader in marketing and sales for new homes communities in the metro Charleston area. It represents more than 35 new homes neighborhoods.
Based in Atlanta, FrontDoor Communities is also building in Naples and Orlando, Fla., and is planning to frame houses in Watermark in Mount Pleasant.
•Carnes Crossroads real estate team being assembled•
A broker, associate and manager will be the core group to market a sprawling new village getting underway in Berkeley County.
The team is with Carnes Crossroads Real Estate — "responsible for all new home sales within the Daniel Island Co.'s emerging Carnes Crossroads community in Goose Creek," the company says.
Initial staff on the sales and administrative team are Chuck Buck, broker-in-charge; Terri Hartig, sales associate; and Cheryl Waker, office manager. They will be housed at the newly opened Carnes Crossroads Information Center at 513 Wodin Place in Goose Creek.
According to Daniel Island Co., the first single-family homes are under construction within the 2,300-acre master planned community.
Buck, who is also director of sales for Carnes Crossroads Real Estate, is a 23-year veteran of the residential sales and construction industry. He has background in sales, marketing and operations for national home builders, including Beazer, Centex and Ryland homes.
As vice president of sales for Beazer Homes, he managed sales for 15 communities in Charleston, Columbia and Savannah.
Buck was named Sales Representative of the Year in the Charleston area for the 1997 Prism Awards and was National Sales Manager of the Year at Beazer in 2005.
"Chuck is a natural for this role," says Matt Sloan, president of the Daniel Island Co., noting that he is a top sales performer with extensive management experience within the home building industry.
Hartig is a "seasoned sales professional" with 10 years experience in the new home industry, according to Daniel Island Co. She was formerly a top sales performer for the Charleston division of Beazer Homes and "possesses a strong work ethic that has helped her earn awards for sales and customer service."
Waker, meanwhile, previously spent 10 years as the office manager at the Daniel Island Co.'s corporate offices on Daniel Island. At Carnes Crossroads, she will be responsible for the office and administrative management of the Carnes Crossroads Information Center, as well as assisting the sales team, the company says.
Development of Carnes Crossroads is being managed by Daniel Island Co.
The first builders — David Weekley, Eastwood and Sabal homes — have started framing houses. The master-planned community will feature a mix of single-family homes, townhomes and condominiums.
Traditional residential neighborhoods, southern architecture, parks, trails and lakes at Carnes Crossroads are being carefully integrated with retail businesses, corporate offices, medical facilities, schools and churches to create a small-town community where people live, work and play, the company says..
As many as 15,000 people eventually will call Carnes Crossroads home, according to Daniel Island Co.
For more information, visit www.carnescharleston.com.
•New York company to hold auction of Hilton Head Island house•
A South Carolina oceanside townhouse originally offered for $3.3 million will be put up for bid Friday, March 8.
Concierge Auctions is handling the proceedings. The New York City-based auction house says it has been retained to sell the private oceanfront retreat on Hilton Head Island. The gated property, located at 120 South Shore Drive, is in the exclusive Leamington community at Palmetto Dunes.
According to the auction company, the property will sell to the highest bidder regardless of price in cooperation with Robbie Bunting of Hilton Head Properties. The company says that luxury real estate auctions are becoming more commonplace "as high-end sellers search for alternatives to the unpredictable traditional sales route."
Laura Brady is president of Concierge Auctions and the listing agent. To learn more, visit www.conciergeauctions.com.
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Mary loves her boyfriend Jake, but at times she wants to be bi-playful with Sally
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Is Government Inevitable?
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Inspired by Holcombe's (2004) argument that government is inevitable, this paper reconsiders some of his claims. We contend that his argument fails on two counts: it both fails to show that anarchy must break down and that limited government will not. The arguments Holcombe raises against the viability of anarchy can be applied to the viability of limited government, and the arguments he uses for the viability of limited government can be applied to the viability of anarchy. We discuss the problems with Holcombe's theoretical arguments as well as historical evidence that casts doubt on his claims.
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Steelhead Report, Dec. 10
Recent rain has led to improved fishing conditions throughout the region's creeks.
With fresh fish in the waterways, anglers have been successful up-and-down Walnut Creek and Elk Creek. At Walnut Creek, bait anglers have been using single eggs and minnows while egg and minnow patterns and soft-colored nymphs have done well for fly fishermen.
Murky water at Elk Creek led to bait and fly anglers using bright colors on their egg sacks and patterns.
Fishermen on the city's east side -- particularly at Twenty Mile Creek -- have also fared well. Anglers there have been using egg sacks and minnows, with pink being the color of choice.
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BERKELEY, California — Berkeley's unusually large population of giant Bonsai-like trees has caught my attention since moving from Brooklyn. Why are they here and what do they mean?Continue Reading →
Based on Alejandro Zambra's masterful novella, the film Bonsái is a story of love, plants, death and the literature that seamlessly links them all. Bonsái premiered at Cannes to favorable reviews and took the top prize at the Miami Film Festival earlier this year. Directed by the Chilean Cristián Jiménez (Illusiones Opticas), it is an exercise in minimalism and nuance.Continue Reading →


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Join Cycle Craft in bringing Thanksgiving dinner to families who could use a little help this year.
On Saturday, November 20th, for the second year, participants in Turkey Bike 2010 will ride as a group over to the supermarket to pick up some frozen turkeys, and then deliver them to the New Jersey Food Bank turkey drive drop off point in Florham Park.
The ride is not far – about 10 miles - but it is a bit challenging to carry a 25 pound frozen turkey on your bike!
HINT: A large backpack works pretty well …
The meetup is at 8:00 am at Cycle Craft Parsippany (located at New Road & Route 46), and the group is expected back at around 10:30 am, with cider, donuts, and coffee waiting at the store as your reward for a good deed done well.
Last year they delivered 12 turkeys. This year, with your help, they would love to make it over 20.
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Perth: Moises Henriques scored 70 runs and Brett Lee returned 2-21 after dismissing Herschelle Gibbs with the first ball of the match as the Sydney Sixers beat Perth Scorchers by seven wickets on Saturday to win the first edition of Australia's expanded Twenty20 Big Bash League.
Lee took two wickets in the first over before Mitch Marsh's 77 from 57 balls helped Perth to 156-5.
Henriques struck six boundaries and four sixes and Stephen O'Keefe contributed 48 to the 110-run opening stand to lead the Sixers to 158-3 to claim victory with seven balls to spare.
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Tight Ends
The Seahawks seem set at tight end this offseason. John Carlson still needs to live up to his full potential, but we have decent depth behind him in Cameron Morrah and Anthony McCoy, both of whom seem very capable and have lots of potential.
Gone are the two tight end sets favored by Jeremy Bates, and that change in offensive scheme is going to make us less likely to carry four TEs on the roster this year. It should also lessen the need for a full-time blocking TE like Baker was for us in 2010. I think that it is fair to assume that Viasanthe Shiancoe is a good baseline for gauging the sort of TE our new offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell is going to be looking for talent-wise, plus his role in Minnesota's offense should give us an idea how Bevell might use the tight ends we already have.
But even though the chances of Seattle actually signing a free agent tight end are minimal at best, I think that it's only fair that I point out at least one that the team might be interested in.
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Zach Miller (OAK)
25 years old, 6'5", 255 lbs
Miller is young and a great talent. He is without a doubt the Raiders' top offensive weapon in the passing game. He's a reliable target who has produced at a high level despite not having a great team surrounding him. Unlike many hybrid pass-catching tight ends around the league, Miller is also a good blocker. I've been a big fan of this kid for a while now, and he has a bright future ahead of him.
Other Notable Free Agents:
Marcedes Lewis (JAC)
Ben Patrick (ARZ)
Dante Rosario (CAR)
Jeff King (CAR)
Desmond Clark (CHI)
Reggie Kelly (CIN)
Alex Smith (CLE)
Leonard Pope (KC)
Joey Haynos (MIA)
David Thomas (NO)
Matt Spaeth (PIT)
Kris Wilson (SD)
Randy McMichael (SD)
Daniel Fells (STL)
John Gilmore (TB)
Bo Scaife (TEN)
Anyone else noticing a huge trend this offseason in Raiders free agents? I would assume that this is due to the coaching change in Oakland, but whatever the reason it could turn out to be a huge benefit for us! If we still had Jeremy Bates as offensive coordinator, I would love to see Zach Miller signed as a Seahawk — the thought of Miller and Carlson lining up in a two TE set makes me feel warm and tingly on the inside.
However, I don't see us going after Miller now that Bevell is our offensive coordinator. Seattle is going to be linked to Miller in the press because of the Tom Cable connection, but I just can't see it happening. I really thing the Hawks are going to stand pat at the tight end position this offseason, which is fine because we have too many other holes to fill.
Running Backs
The worst position in football for signing free agents is running back because they just don't hold up to the beatings they take. The best, most productive years for any running back is when they're fresh out of college, or roughly ages 22 through 26. Once they have four years in and ready to hit the free agent market they're more between the ages of 26 to 28, and most RBs that age will be looking for a longterm, lucrative contract that will set them up for life after football. It simply isn't cost-effective, especially since the dreaded 30 year old mark is still proving to be true.
Because of the wear and tear at the positions, most teams are now going with a running back by committee approach. Why spend huge amounts of money on one back when you can hedge your bets with three decent backs? Or in the Hawks' case, three better than decent backs.
The running back situation for the Seahawks is now a strength. Between the earthshaking power of Marshawn Lynch (signed through 2011), the small but mighty Justin Forsett (also signed through 2011), and the lightning-quick Leon Washington (signed through 2012), I don't believe Seattle is going to seriously spend time this offseason looking at free agent RBs, or at least not at ones any of us have heard of before. So if you've been having visions of Mike Tolbert wearing down defenses for us next season, you can keep dreaming because it isn't going to happen.
Still, thought I would at least throw up a list of free agents so you'll know who is going to be out there whenever free agency begins (please, Football Gods, let it happen soon!).
The Big Hitters at RB in Free Agency:
DeAngelo Williams (CAR)
Arian Foster (HOU)
Ahmad Bradshaw (NYG)
Cedric Benson (CIN)
Mike Tolbert (SD)
Darren Sproles (SD)
BenJarvus Green-Ellis (NE)
Ronnie Brown (MIA)
Ricky Williams (MIA)
Michael Bush (OAK)
Pierre Thomas (NO)
Other Notable Free Agents:
Tim Hightower (ARZ)
Jerious Norwood (ATL)
Mike Bell (CLE)
Laurence Maroney (DEN)
Kevin Smith (DET)
Brandon Jackson (GB)
Derrick Ward (HOU)
Joseph Addai (IND)
Mike Hart (IND)
Patrick Cobbs (MIA)
Sammy Morris (NE)
Kevin Faulk (NE)
Fred Taylor (NE)
Danny Ware (NYG)
Jerome Harrison (PHI)
Mewelde Moore (PIT)
Brian Westbrook (SF)
Kenneth Darby (STL)
Michael Spurlock (TB)
Cadillac Williams (TB)
(As always, thanks goes out to Football's Future for the free agent lists.)


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Carpenter delivers in clutch
WASHINGTON -- Chris Carpenter was every bit the postseason ace he's been in the past for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Taking the mound for only the fourth time in 2012, missing a rib after surgery to cure numbness on his right side, Carpenter, 37, pitched scoreless ball into the sixth inning, rookie Pete Kozma delivered a three-run homer, and the defending champion Cardinals beat the Washington Nationals 8-0 Wednesday to take a 2-1 lead in their NL Division Series.
"If the baseball world doesn't know what an amazing competitor he is by now, they haven't been paying any attention," Carpenter's teammate Matt Holliday said. "Every guy on this team has watched him work his way back, watches him in between starts. He's a stud. Just a guy that you want out there."
All in all, it was quite a damper on the day for a Nationals Park-record 45,017 red-wearing, towel-twirling fans witnessing the first major league postseason game in the nation's capital in 79 years.
Three relievers finished the shutout for the Cardinals, who can end the best-of-five series in today's Game 4 at Washington.
"We're not out of this, by a long shot," Nationals manager Davey Johnson said. "Shoot, I've had my back to worse walls than this."
Kyle Lohse will start for St. Louis. Ross Detwiler pitches for Washington, which is sticking to its long-stated plan of keeping Stephen Strasburg on the sideline the rest of the way.
The Cardinals won 10 fewer games than the majors-best Nationals this season and finished second in the NL Central, nine games behind Cincinnati, sneaking into the postseason as the league's second wild card under this year's new format.
But the Cardinals become a different bunch in the high-pressure playoffs -- no matter that slugger Albert Pujols and manager Tony La Russa are no longer around.
Carpenter still is, even though even he didn't expect to be pitching this year when he encountered problems during spring training and needed an operation in July to correct a nerve problem.
The top rib on his right side was removed, along with connecting muscles.
He returned Sept. 21, going 0-2 in three starts totaling 17 innings, so it wasn't clear how he'd fare Wednesday.
Carpenter allowed seven hits and walked two across his 52/3 innings to improve to 10-2 over his career in the postseason.
"I'm not going to go out there and compete," Carpenter said, "if I'm not good enough to compete."


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CHICAGO -- Enrique Gonzalez, who impressed Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland in spring training as a reliever and had been pitching in Toledo's rotation, was recalled Thursday to replace Ryan Perry (bicipital tendinitis) in the bullpen.
Gonzalez was 4-5 with a 3.46 ERA for the Mud Hens.
"He was throwing well down there and was the guy they recommended," Leyland said. "That's how we do it. Right now our intention is to relieve with him, and take Perry's spot."
The manager added that he will pitch the same late-inning situations Perry had, but also has the capability of going in long relief. Gonzalez said he's comfortable in any role.
"I'm pretty excited to come to Detroit," said Gonzalez, who could have opted for free agency rather than accept being sent to Triple-A.
His agent convinced him that staying in the Tigers organization could work out best.
"They give a lot of chances to their guys who pitch in Triple-A," Gonzalez, 27, said.
He added that improved command and "keeping the ball down" helped him find his groove in recent outings.
Gonzalez is pitching in the majors for the fifth straight season. Though, he's only pitched more than four games once in a year, when he was 3-7 with a 5.67 ERA for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2006. The Venezuelan right-hander is 4-7 with a 4.91 ERA in the majors.


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Ambrose Bierce
|Ambrose Bierce
Bierce around 1866
|Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
June 24, 1842
Meigs County, Ohio, United States
|Circa 1914 (aged 71–72);[1]
last seen in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
|Journalist · Writer
|Literary movement
|Notable works
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
"The Death of Halpin Frayser"
"The Moonlit Road"
The Devil's Dictionary
|Mary Ellen "Mollie" Day (m. 1871; div. 1904)
|Day (1872–1889), Leigh (1874–1901), Helen (1875–1940)
|Military career
|United States of America
|Union Army
|Years of service
|First Lieutenant
|9th Indiana Infantry Regiment
|American Civil War
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842[2] – circa 1914[3]) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled a satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. His vehemence as a critic, his motto "Nothing matters", and the sardonic view of human nature that informed his work, all earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce".[4]
Despite his reputation as a searing critic, Bierce was known to encourage younger writers, including the poets George Sterling and Herman George Scheffauer and the fiction writer W. C. Morrow. Bierce employed a distinctive style of writing, especially in his stories. His style often embraces an abrupt beginning, dark imagery, vague references to time, limited descriptions, impossible events, and the theme of war.
In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. He was rumored to be traveling with rebel troops, and was not seen again.
Early life[edit]
Bierce was born in a log cabin at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio, on June 24, 1842, to Marcus Aurelius Bierce (1799–1876) and Laura Sherwood Bierce.[2] His mother was a descendant of William Bradford. He was the tenth of thirteen children whose father gave all names beginning with the letter "A": in order of birth, the Bierce siblings were Abigail, Amelia, Ann, Addison, Aurelius, Augustus, Almeda, Andrew, Albert, and Ambrose.
His parents were a poor but literary couple who instilled in him a deep love for books and writing.[2] Bierce grew up in Kosciusko County, Indiana, attending high school at the county seat, Warsaw.
He left home at 15 to become a "printer's devil" at a small Ohio newspaper.[2]
Military career[edit]
At the outset of the American Civil War, Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry. He participated in the Operations in Western Virginia campaign (1861), was present at the "first battle" at Philippi and received newspaper attention for his daring rescue, under fire, of a gravely wounded comrade at the Battle of Rich Mountain. In February 1862 he was commissioned a first lieutenant, and served on the staff of General William Babcock Hazen as a topographical engineer, making maps of likely battlefields.
Bierce fought at the Battle of Shiloh (April 1862), a terrifying experience that became a source for several later short stories and the memoir "What I Saw of Shiloh". In June 1864, he sustained a serious head wound at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain,[5] and spent the rest of the summer on furlough, returning to active duty in September. He was discharged from the army in January 1865.
His military career resumed, however, when in mid-1866 he rejoined General Hazen as part of the latter's expedition to inspect military outposts across the Great Plains. The expedition proceeded by horseback and wagon from Omaha, Nebraska, arriving toward year's end in San Francisco, California.
Personal life[edit]
Bierce married Mary Ellen "Mollie" Day on December 25, 1871. They had three children: sons Day (1872–1889)[6] and Leigh (1874–1901)[6] and daughter Helen (1875–1940). Both of Bierce's sons died before he did. Day committed suicide after a romantic rejection,[7][8] and Leigh died of pneumonia related to alcoholism.[6] Bierce separated from his wife in 1888, after discovering compromising letters to her from an admirer. They divorced in 1904.[6] Mollie Day Bierce died the following year.
Bierce was an avowed agnostic.[9] He suffered from lifelong asthma,[10] as well as complications from his war wounds.[1]
In San Francisco, Bierce was awarded the rank of brevet major before resigning from the Army. He remained in San Francisco for many years, eventually becoming famous as a contributor or editor of a number of local newspapers and periodicals, including The San Francisco News Letter, The Argonaut, the Overland Monthly, The Californian and The Wasp. A selection of his crime reporting from The San Francisco News Letter was included in The Library of America anthology True Crime.
Bierce lived and wrote in England from 1872 to 1875, contributing to Fun magazine. His first book, The Fiend's Delight, a compilation of his articles, was published in London in 1873 by John Camden Hotten under the pseudonym "Dod Grile".[11][12]
Returning to the United States, he again took up residence in San Francisco. From 1879 to 1880, he traveled to Rockerville and Deadwood in the Dakota Territory, to try his hand as local manager for a New York mining company. When the company failed he returned to San Francisco and resumed his career in journalism.
From January 1, 1881 until September 11, 1885 he was editor of The Wasp magazine, in which he began a column titled "Prattle". He also became one of the first regular columnists and editorialists on William Randolph Hearst's newspaper, The San Francisco Examiner,[2] eventually becoming one of the most prominent and influential writers and journalists[citation needed] of the West Coast. He remained associated with Hearst Newspapers until 1909.[13]
Railroad Refinancing Bill[edit]
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad companies had received large, low-interest loans from the U.S. government to build the First Transcontinental Railroad. Central Pacific executive Collis P. Huntington persuaded a friendly member of Congress to introduce a bill excusing the companies from repaying the loans, amounting to $130 million (worth $3.7 billion today).
In January 1896 Hearst dispatched Bierce to Washington, D.C. to foil this attempt. The essence of the plot was secrecy; the railroads' advocates hoped to get the bill through Congress without any public notice or hearings. When the angered Huntington confronted Bierce on the steps of the Capitol and told Bierce to name his price, Bierce's answer ended up in newspapers nationwide:
My price is one hundred thirty million dollars. If, when you are ready to pay, I happen to be out of town, you may hand it over to my friend, the Treasurer of the United States.[14]
Bierce's coverage and diatribes on the subject aroused such public wrath that the bill was defeated. Bierce returned to California in November.
McKinley accusation[edit]
Because of his penchant for biting social criticism and satire, Bierce's long newspaper career was often steeped in controversy. On several occasions his columns stirred up a storm of hostile reaction, which created difficulties for Hearst. One of the most notable of these incidents occurred following the assassination of President William McKinley, when Hearst's opponents turned a poem Bierce had written about the assassination of Governor William Goebel of Kentucky in 1900 into a cause célèbre.
Bierce meant his poem to express a national mood of dismay and fear, but after McKinley was shot in 1901, it seemed to foreshadow the crime:
The bullet that pierced Goebel's breast
Can not be found in all the West;
Good reason, it is speeding here
To stretch McKinley on his bier.
Hearst was thereby accused by rival newspapers—and by then-Secretary of State Elihu Root—of having called for McKinley's assassination. Despite a national uproar that ended his ambitions for the presidency (and even his membership in the Bohemian Club), Hearst kept employing Bierce.[15]
Literary works[edit]
During his lifetime, Bierce was better known as a journalist than as a fiction writer. His most popular stories were written in rapid succession between 1888 and 1891, in what was characterized as "a tremendous burst of consummate art".[16] Bierce's works often highlight the inscrutability of the universe and the absurdity of death.[17][18]
Bierce wrote realistically of the terrible things he had seen in the war[19] in such stories as "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", "A Horseman in the Sky", "One of the Missing", and "Chickamauga". His grimly realistic cycle of 25 war stories has been called "the greatest anti-war document in American literature".[20]
According to Milton Subotsky, Bierce helped pioneer the psychological horror story.[21] In addition to his ghost and war stories, he also published several volumes of poetry. His Fantastic Fables anticipated the ironic style of grotesquerie that became a more common genre in the 20th century.
One of Bierce's most famous works is the much-quoted Devil's Dictionary, originally an occasional newspaper item, first published in book form in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book. It consists of satirical definitions of English words which lampoon cant and political double-talk.
Bierce's twelve-volume Collected Works were published in 1909, the seventh volume of which consists solely of The Devil's Dictionary, the title Bierce himself preferred to The Cynic's Word Book.
Bierce has been criticized by his contemporaries and later scholars for deliberately pursuing improbability and for his penchant toward "trick endings".[17] In his later stories, apparently under the influence of Maupassant, Bierce "dedicated himself to shocking the audience", as if his purpose was "to attack the reader's smug intellectual security".[22]
Bierce's bias towards Naturalism has also been noted:[23] "The biting, deriding quality of his satire, unbalanced by any compassion for his targets, was often taken as petty meanness, showing contempt for humanity and an intolerance to the point of merciless cruelty".[24]
Stephen Crane was of the minority of Bierce's contemporaries that valued Bierce's experimental short stories.[25] In his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature", H. P. Lovecraft characterized Bierce's fictional work as "grim and savage." Lovecraft goes on to say that nearly all of Bierce's stories are of the horror genre and some shine as great examples of weird fiction.[26]
In October 1913, Bierce, then age 71, departed from Washington, D.C., for a tour of his old Civil War battlefields. By December he had passed through Louisiana and Texas, crossing by way of El Paso into Mexico, which was in the throes of revolution. In Ciudad Juárez he joined Pancho Villa's army as an observer, and in that role he witnessed the Battle of Tierra Blanca.[27]
Bierce is known to have accompanied Villa's army as far as the city of Chihuahua. His last known communication with the world was a letter he wrote there to Blanche Partington, a close friend, dated December 26, 1913.[28][29][30] After closing this letter by saying, "As to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination," he vanished without a trace, his disappearance becoming one of the most famous in American literary history. Skeptic Joe Nickell argued that no letter had ever been found;[31][page needed] all that existed was a notebook belonging to his secretary and companion, Carrie Christiansen, containing a rough summary of a purported letter and her statement that the originals had been destroyed.
There was an official investigation by U.S. consular officials of the disappearance of one of its citizens. Some of Villa's men were questioned at the time of his disappearance and afterwards, with contradictory accounts. Pancho Villa's representative in the U.S., Felix A. Sommerfeld, was contacted by U.S. chief of staff Hugh Scott and Sommerfeld investigated the disappearance. Bierce was said to have been last seen in the city of Chihuahua in January.[32]
Oral tradition in Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, documented by a priest named James Lienert, states that Bierce was executed by firing squad in the town cemetery there.[33] However, Nickell[31][page needed] finds this story to be incredible. He quotes Bierce's friend and biographer Walter Neale as saying that Bierce had not ridden for quite some time, was suffering from serious asthma, and had been severely critical of Pancho Villa. Neale concludes that it would have been highly unlikely for Bierce to have gone to Mexico and joined Villa.
All investigations into his fate have proven fruitless, and Nickell concedes[31][page needed] that despite a lack of hard evidence that Bierce had gone to Mexico, there is also none that he had not. Therefore, despite an abundance of theories (including death by suicide), his end remains shrouded in mystery.
Legacy and influence[edit]
At least three films have been made of Bierce's story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". A silent film version, The Bridge, was made in 1929.[34] A French version called La Rivière du Hibou, directed by Robert Enrico, was released in 1962;[35] this black-and-white film faithfully recounts the original narrative using voiceover. It aired in 1964 on American television as one of the final episodes of the television series The Twilight Zone: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".[36] Prior to The Twilight Zone, the story had been adapted as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.[37] Another version, directed by Brian James Egen, was released in 2005. It was also adapted for the CBS radio programs Suspense and Escape.
Actor James Lanphier (1920-1969) played Bierce, with James Hampton as William Randolph Hearst, in the 1964 episode "The Paper Dynasty", of the syndicated western television series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. In the story line, Hearst struggles to turn a profit despite increased circulation of The San Francisco Examiner. Robert O. Cornthwaite appears as Sam Chamberlain.[38]
Two adaptations were made of Bierce's story "Eyes of the Panther". One version was developed for Shelley Duvall's Nightmare Classics series and was released in 1990. It runs about 60 minutes.[39] A shorter version was released in 2007 by director Michael Barton and runs about 23 minutes.[40]
"The Damned Thing" was adapted into a Masters of Horror episode of the same title directed by Tobe Hooper.[41]
American composer Rodney Waschka II composed an opera, Saint Ambrose, based on Bierce's life.[42]
Carlos Fuentes's novel The Old Gringo is a fictionalized account of Bierce's disappearance; it was later adapted into the film Old Gringo (1989), starring Gregory Peck in the title role.[43] Bierce's disappearance and trip to Mexico provide the background for the vampire horror film From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000), in which Bierce's character plays a central role.[44] Bierce's fate is the subject of Gerald Kersh's "The Oxoxoco Bottle" (aka "The Secret of the Bottle"), which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post on December 7, 1957, and was reprinted in the anthology Men Without Bones. Bierce reappears in the future on Mount Shasta in Robert Heinlein's novella, "Lost Legacy".
The short film "Ah! Silenciosa" (1999), starring Jim Beaver as Bierce, weaves elements of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" into a speculation on Bierce's disappearance.[45]
In the fall of 2001, An Occurrence Remembered, a theatrical retelling of Bierce's An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge and Chickamauga, premiered off-Broadway in New York City under the production and direction of Lorin Morgan-Richards and lead choreographer Nicole Cavaliere.[46]
Bierce was a major character in a series of mystery books written by Oakley Hall and published between 1998 and 2006.[47]
Bierce's short story "The Difficulty of Crossing a Field" is one of the first works of fiction to deal with an inexplicable occurrence. In this story, a man disappears from existence while crossing a field. The story precedes several stories in modern folklore and urban legends regarding mysteriously vanishing individuals.
Biographer Richard O'Conner argued that, "War was the making of Bierce as a man and a writer... [he became] truly capable of transferring the bloody, headless bodies and boar-eaten corpses of the battlefield onto paper."[2]
Essayist Clifton Fadiman wrote, "Bierce was never a great writer. He has painful faults of vulgarity and cheapness of imagination. But... his style, for one thing, will preserve him; and the purity of his misanthropy, too, will help to keep him alive."[2]
Author Alan Gullette argues that Bierce's war tales may be the best writing on war, outranking his contemporary Stephen Crane (author of The Red Badge of Courage) and even Ernest Hemingway.[2]
Author Kurt Vonnegut once stated that he considered "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" the "greatest American short story" and a work of "flawless... American genius".[48][page needed]
American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena Charles Fort wrote about the unexplained disappearances of Ambrose Bierce and Ambrose Small, and asked, "Was somebody collecting Ambroses?" [49]
- The Fiend's Delight (1873), published under the pseudonym Dod Grile (novella, short stories, poetry)
- Nuggets and Dust Panned Out In California (1873) (stories, maxims, sketches, epigrams, quips, witticisms)
- Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (1874), published under the pseudonym Dod Grile (stories, fables, poetry, maxims, sketches, epigrams, quips, witticisms)
- The Dance of Death (1877), published under the pseudonym William Herman (nonfiction)
- Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891) (short story collection)
- The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (1892) (with Adolphe Danziger De Castro) (novella)
- Black Beetles in Amber (1892) (poetry)
- Can Such Things Be? (1893) (short story collection)
- In the Midst of Life (1898) (short story collection)
- Fantastic Fables (1899) (short story collection)
- Shapes of Clay (1903) (poetry)
- "The Shadow on the Dial" and other essays (1909) (nonfiction)
- The Devil's Dictionary (1911) (first published in book form as The Cynic's Wordbook, 1906) (nonfiction)
- Collected Works (1909) (short story collection)
- Write It Right (1909) (nonfiction)
- A Vision of Doom: Poems by Ambrose Bierce (1980) (poetry)
Short stories[edit]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "Ambrose Bierce". The Literarure Network.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Floyd 1999, p. 18.
- ^ D'Ammassa, Don (2006). Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction. New York: Facts On File, Inc.
- ^ Ousby, I, ed. (1996), The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 85.
- ^ "1861–67. The Civil War", The Ambrose Bierce Project (timeline).
- ^ a b c d Floyd 1999, p. 19.
- ^ Morris 1999, pp. 206–08, 238.
- ^ "Along the Pacific Coast". Sacramento Daily Record-Union. July 27, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
- ^ Donald T. Blume (2004). "The Boarded Window". Ambrose Bierce's Civilians and soldiers in context: a critical study. Kent State University Press. p. 323. ISBN 9780873387781.
Contrary to McWilliams's claim; however, in the public arena Bierce was not merely an agnostic, but a staunch unbeliever regarding the question of Jesus' divinity.
- ^ Floyd 1999, pp. 19–20.
- ^ Bierce 2003, p. 8.
- ^ Morris 1999, p. 143.
- ^ Joshi, S. T. (2010). Student's Encyclopedia of Great American Writers: 1830 to 1900. vol. 2. New York: Facts On File, Inc.
- ^ Beam, Alex (June 24, 2008). "Ambrose Bierce, mon amour". The Boston Globe. Retrieved April 5, 2015. (subscription may be required or content may be available in libraries)
- ^ Morris 1999, pp. 236–37.
- ^ M. E. Grenander. Ambrose Bierce. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1971. p. 55.
- ^ a b Ye Qi. Megashift from Plot to Character In American Short Fiction. ISBN 9780983875369. p. 48.
- ^ Curran, Ronald T. (2016). "Bierce, Ambrose". World Book Advanced. World Book. Retrieved 15 Jan 2016.
- ^ "Ambrose Bierce's Civil War". Opinionator. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
- ^ A. Teodorescu. Death Representations in Literature. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. ISBN 9781443872980. p. 143.
- ^ Jones, Stephen; Newman, Kim, eds. (1990). Horror: 100 Best Books. New York: Carroll and Graf. p. 74. ISBN 0881845949.
- ^ Fusco, Richard. Maupassant and the American Short Story: The Influence of Form at the Turn of the Century. Penn State University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780271041124. p. 112.
- ^ Judy Cornes. Madness and the Loss of Identity in Nineteenth Century Fiction. McFarland, 2007. ISBN 9780786432240. p. 52.
- ^ H. Hendin, A. O. Haas. "Posttraumatic Stress Disorders in Veterans of Early American Wars." Psychohistory Review 12 (1984): 25–30.
- ^ Bierce, Ambrose (1984). The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce. Compiled with Commentary by Ernest Jerome Hopkins; Foreward by Cathy N. Davidson. University of Nebraska Press. p. 5. ISBN 0803260717.
- ^ s:Supernatural Horror in Literature/The Weird Tradition in America
- ^ Varhola, Michael (2011). Texas Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in the Lone Star State (First ed.). Cincinnati: Clerisy Press. p. 176. ISBN 1578604583.
- ^ Starrett, Vincent (1920), Ambrose Bierce, WM Hill, p. 39.
- ^ Bierce 2003, pp. 244f.
- ^ Day, Leon (August 8, 2007). "My Hunt For Ambrose Bierce". The Ambrose Bierce Site. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
- ^ a b c Nickell 1992.
- ^ Friedrich Katz, The Life and Times of Pancho Villa, Stanford: Stanford University Press 1998, p. 865.
- ^ Lienert, James (2004), "Monument in the Sierra Mojada cemetery", The Ambrose Bierce Site, with inscription stating that Bierce was shot there.
- ^ Vidor, Charles (2009-09-22), The Bridge, retrieved 2016-04-11
- ^ Enrico, Robert (1962-05-01), Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, retrieved 2016-04-11
- ^ Enrico, Robert (1964-02-28), An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, retrieved 2016-04-11
- ^ Stevenson, Robert (2000-01-01), An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, retrieved 2016-04-11
- ^ "The Paper Dynasty on Death Valley Days". Internet Movie Data Base. March 1, 1964. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
- ^ Black, Noel (1989-11-26), The Eyes of the Panther, retrieved 2016-04-11
- ^ Barton, Michael (2007-08-10), The Eyes of the Panther, retrieved 2016-04-11
- ^ Hooper, Tobe (2006-10-27), The Damned Thing, retrieved 2016-04-11
- ^ Waschka II, Rodney, Saint Ambrose, Capstone Records.
- ^ Fuentes, Carlos, Gringo Viejo (Planeta, 2004) ISBN 978-968-6941-67-8
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- ^ Civil War Times Illustrated, December 2001
- ^ Latiolais, Michelle. "In Memoriam Oakley Hall". University of California. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
- ^ Vonnegut, Kurt, A Man Without a Country, pp. 7–8,
And I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," by Ambrose Bierce. ...It is a flawless example of American genius...
- ^ http://www.anomalist.com/fort2.html#Collecting
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- Fatout, Paul. Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Lexicographer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1951.
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- Morris, Roy (1999) [1995]. Ambrose Bierce: alone in bad company. US: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512628-0.
- Nickell, Joseph 'Joe' (1992). Ambrose Bierce Is Missing and Other Historical Mysteries.
- O'Conner, Richard (1967). Ambrose Bierce: a Biography, with illustrations, Boston, Little, Brown and Company.
Further reading[edit]
- Ambrose Bierce Papers, 1872–1913 (2 linear ft.) are housed in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives at Stanford University Libraries.
- The Ambrose Bierce Papers, ca. 1894–1913 and the Collection of Ambrose Bierce Papers, 1875–1925, bulk 1890–1913 are housed at The Bancroft Library.
- Nickell, J. (1992). Ambrose Bierce is missing and other historical mysteries. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
External links[edit]
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- Works by Ambrose Bierce at Project Gutenberg
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- Ambrose Bierce at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Works by Ambrose Bierce at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Ambrose Bierce at the Internet Movie Database
- Ambrose Bierce (Character) at the Internet Movie Database
- The Ambrose Bierce Site
- The Ambrose Bierce Project
- Ambrose Bierce at PoetryFoundation.org
- The Devil's Dictionary hypertext at the University of Virginia
- Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
- One of Bierce's last letters
- Very Trustworthy Witnesses: The Many Deaths of Ambrose Bierce – Paris Review article on the many stories about Bierce's death
- Collected journalism of Ambrose Bierce at the Archive of American Journalism
- "Ambrose Bierce: The Evanescent Man," Indiana Historical Bureau
- "Ambrose Bierce and 19th Century Freethought," Indiana Historical Bureau
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Hey gooner, we're over here. And relax with the doritos
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Someone who supports a team who plays "beautiful football" but never actually wins anything.
That gooner in the Arsenal jersey may as well be French!
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Refers to female girls/woman who are strangely addicted to men who wear facial hair. (beards, mustache, fu-manchu, etc;). Most of which female gender girls/women are more often then not name Sabrina, Shelly, or Yvonne.
Someone who is extremely weird is known as a "Gooner"
Someone who is extremely weird is known as a "Gooner"
Hey, that girl is a Gooner because she is obssesed with Brian Wilson's beard
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Someone that acts like a fool.
Trevor is a gooner.
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the state of being more "goon" or "G acting" than another person place or thing.
jill is gooner than brian.
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