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Will the nation accept horse slaughter?
Opinion on the recent opening of two slaughterhouses: why horsemeat isn't such a radical idea.
A judge in Denver may have finally ended the national ban on horse slaughter for good -- or for bad -- depending on your perspective.
On Dec. 13, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals lifted an emergency injunction that had blocked two slaughterhouses, Valley Meat Co., in Roswell, N.M., and Rains Natural Meat in Gallatin, Mo., from killing horses for money. The lifting of the injunction, which was brought by a coalition of animal welfare groups, opens the door to legal horse slaughter within weeks.
For the time being, the horsemeat would be exported. Domestic sale of horsemeat is not illegal, but Congress doesn't currently allocate funds to regulate it for human consumption, something Valley Meat owner Tim Sappington hopes will change. Sappington told Bloomberg News that he eats horsemeat three times a week, chicken-fried horse steak being his favorite dish.
The opening of these slaughterhouses and the outcry it has provoked highlights the complex relationship Americans have with horses. Many people consider horses as friends, and the thought of killing them is deeply disturbing. But the problem remains: What do we do with the unwanted animals? Especially since there are so many of them.
The racehorse industry produces a regular supply of spent thoroughbreds and quarter horses. Farmers and ranchers have to dispose of old workhorses, as do horse-drawn carriage operators in big cities. Selling spent horses rather than paying to keep them alive is a logical choice from an economic perspective. That's what's been happening, in fact: Since Congress stopped funding activities related to horse slaughter seven years ago, unwanted horses have been auctioned off to meat buyers and quietly shipped to Mexico and Canada for slaughter. Last year, nearly 200,000 animals were shipped across our borders, in a journey that was difficult for the horses and often brutal.
But because the flesh of retired horses can contain vaccines, antibiotics, steroids, painkillers and other medicines unapproved for use in food animals, the European Union is planning to be more selective about the horsemeat it allows to be imported for sale within its borders. Japan and Russia are on the same track.
Meanwhile, a burgeoning population of mustangs roams the arid West, causing ecological and economic damage. While often called "wild," these free-roaming horses (and burros) are more accurately described as "feral" – the descendants of animals brought over by Europeans. Now, the Bureau of Land Management spends $75 million annually to manage mustangs that live on federal land. This budget includes $43 million dedicated to "holding costs" for the approximately 40,000 "excess horses" that have been removed from their range and currently reside on five long-term pasture facilities in Kansas and Oklahoma. The animals deemed most adoptable, meanwhile, are held in one of 54 facilities, all of which are currently at capacity, says the BLM.
Logically, it is these free-roaming horses that should be slaughtered. Given the changing food preferences of today's world's purchasers, market prospects for clean meat from free-range horses are good. Yet so long as the American relationship with horses remains conflicted -- and a powerful horse-loving lobby holds the stronger hand -- sensible horse management policy may not be in the cards.
Until Congress decides otherwise, millions of taxpayer dollars will be spent each year to manage and protect an invasive species that also happens to be a great source of lean protein, has legitimate market value, and is delicious. I've tried it myself: enjoying it stir-fried in China, where it tastes like a sweet cross between beef and pork, and even eating canned horsemeat in Mongolia, which was better than Spam -- perhaps not the highest praise.
If any horses should be adopted, it's the spent work- and racehorses that have given their better years to human service. Already trained, these horses are used to people, and because their edibility is questionable, they are the ones that should be adopted by horse lovers.
Lynn Montgomery lives in Placitas, N.M., a community surrounded by open space that's home to several herds of wild horses. Many people there treat the animals like outdoor pets, even providing them food and water. It's common in Placitas to have cars stopped in the middle of the road, while folks ogle a herd.
"I love the horses," Montgomery told me. "But in the drought we're in, the horses are just devastating. They make trails, which turn into arroyos, which funnel the rain and carve away the land. And when those rare but ferocious drought rains come, it's a total mess.
"When I was growing up in the 1940s, the stores carried Hill's Horsemeat," Montgomery recalls. "The label said, 'For Pet Food Only,' but it had a USDA stamp, so people took it home and ate it. My mom made a wonderful salad, like tuna fish salad with mayonnaise and onions, and we made sandwiches."
Horsemeat for sale at the supermarket. Is that really such a radical idea?
Ari LeVaux is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News. He writes about food and food politics in Arizona.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Every animal - horses included - deserves better than a final terror walk down the killing chute of some fetid abattoir.
Meatless diets are clearly healthier for people and are far more benign ecologically. How about not stuffing our bloated American abdomens with more meat? Why not go vegetarian? Is that really such a radical idea?
There is a scarcity of wild horses on the range. Seventy (70) percent of herd populations are below the minimum level necessary for genetic viability.
BLM uses different methodologies for counting cattle versus wild horses. A cow and her calf -- the pair -- are treated as a single unit; while a mare and her foal are inventoried as two adult horses. Further, BLM counts unborn foals -- those still in the womb -- as if they were already adult members of the current herd. On the other hand, when foals die, their deaths are not tallied -- BLM's wild-horse population data ignores foal fatalities. Dead foals count as if they too were living adult horses. Here are the wild-horse stats:
Acres of public lands on which BLM currently allows wild horses:
Maximum number of wild horses that BLM permits on the range:
Acres per wild horse or foal ... or unborn foal ... or dead foal:
Although wild horses are supposed to enjoy principal use of their designated habitats, within those very areas BLM awards cattle ranchers ten times more grazing slots than it does the wild horses.
Here are the overall commercial livestock stats:
Acres of public lands on which BLM allows cattle:
Cow-plus-calf pairs that BLM permits to graze:
Acres per cow-plus-calf pair:
Acres per cow or calf:
Note the vast discrepancy in acres per animal. BLM would have us believe that each wild horse -- born, unborn, or undead -- requires nearly two square miles of land. That is 16 times more land than BLM allots per cow, even though both species have been determined to consume comparable amounts of forage.
When the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act became law, there was nearly twice as much land designated for the horses than there is now. Over the years, BLM has wrongfully taken away millions of acres of wild-horse habitat:
Acres of public land originally set aside for wild horses:
Acres of land that BLM has taken away from the wild horses:
Wild horses now held in captivity:
Acres per wild horse if set free on that land:
But even without restoring those millions of acres, there is abundant room for all wild horses to live in freedom. Population density would still be sparse -- five times less than for commercial livestock.
Acres of public lands on which BLM currently allows wild horses:
Wild-horse population if the 50,000 captives were set free:
Acres per wild horse:
Horses are true companion animals, but wild horses are more than that. They are an American native species, living history, esthetically beautiful creatures that must be conserved.
It is cost-effective to do right by them, to set them free:
Cost to keep 50,000 wild horses in captivity:
Cost to let them live free on the range:
$ 0
Population control? Should be courtesy of apex predators -- mountain lions, wolves, bears, and coyotes.
Cost per population-control predator:
$ 0
Jan 01, 2014 12:38 AM BLM uses different methodologies for counting cattle versus wild horses. A cow and her calf -- the pair -- are treated as a single unit; while a mare and her foal are inventoried as two adult horses. Then you wrote: Acres per cow-plus-calf pair: 150
Acres per cow or calf: 75
We have had slick (unbranded) horses abandoned in local pasture because individuals could no longer care for them. If they could sell them at slaughter at least they could recoup some of their costs.
My overriding question is why isn't anyone upset at the fact that Indians eat puppies?
You contradicted yourself:
The prehistoric argument is a total fraud; eohippus died off many millennia before human settlement, has zero relevance to present.
The vegetarians, and all-emotional city folk are basically ignorant, with a different agenda anyway, being to stop people from eating any meat. So that's also irrelevant in this subject. Humans evolved as omnivores, meat being a huge part of diets, for perhaps 100's of thousands of years, as science/archaeo proves.
Yes, starving horses have been documented, for over-running habitat. That's why BLM removes some. Just because that writer has seen no reports only underlines how making judgments minus knowledge creates falsehoods.(Starving deer are awful too, been there, seen that, so piteous.)
The comparison with pet dogs and cats is a ridiculous phony, intended only to evoke equal emotion. Euthanizing a cat or dog, one's companion, is gut-wrenching; I had to let my beloved Border Collie go to end his suffering, cried for days, but knew it was best for him, not me. Wild horses are not comparable, being Not Pets. They are an invasive, recently-introduced species, which destroy land, being very fertile. And: anti-fertility drugs are proved ineffective. Those are facts.
If wild horse advocates were knowledgeable and truthful, they would admit that for thousands of years horses were normally hunted as food, only relatively recently tamed. Don't believe it? Check out the many archaeo and other reports.
So what's a humane end? It's not the sappy "going down the aisle last time" attitude expressed. It's instant and humane. Native Americans thanked the animal, as we should, even at factory facilities, but that doesn't change the fact that too many horses exist, not only on public lands. There would be no problem if city-suburban people adopted them all, but they cannot afford to. That's why so many tame ones have been abandoned all over USA.
Where I live in way S Central CO there may be a feral herd with original Spanish bloodlines; people here are trying to save them, a good effort that I hope gets proved and works.
Meanwhile, many parts of the Great American West--that "wild" horse advocates have never seen close up, and never will, being guided by emotion only--are being decimated, habitat-wise, by feral horses, who reproduce a lot. BLM has in fact done well, while hamstrung by fervent, loud, ideological, Wild Horse Annie types who know nothing about actual land capabilities. And that has nothing to do with cattle, by the way, nor grazing permits.
Sooo, should excess be eaten, if not in USA, in other countries which value the protein and flavor? Yes.
So, having lived with both horses and cattle, I agree with Mr. Darness, Notestine and Ms. Sanders.
Knee-jerk, romanticized, pretend-morally-upright, Save All the Horses beliefs ignore reality, responsible land management, and what's better for feral horses. Such persons are driven by emotion and not facts and consequences.
I've never eaten horsemeat, but years ago saw London signs for buying it. It seems only in USA that's not normal for excess animals. I suggest excess feral horses should be able to provide good protein to others, while making our public lands more sustainable for many other species, now endangered by horses, also well-documented. For centuries, people bred and re-bred horses for various uses, after taming them long before; feral--not "wild--ones can still be good food, if not here, then where emotion rules less stridently.
I can only hope ideological horse lovers will take these comments to heart, and address reality instead of romance. Likely won't, but this is the real world many others live in.
From a moral perspective, I simply cannot understand anyone trying to take the high ground as long as human hunger exists and horse overpopulation creates problems.Wasting a viable protein source will never be a green solution to this problem. Having eaten horse for a two year period in the early 70s in Catron county N.M. I would assure anyone that it can be prepared to be both tasty and life sustaining.
Having retired from over 30 yrs. of service to these nobel creatures probably plants me squarely in the camp of the horse lovers, but from a completely different background. My hopes are that there will always be room for us to allow free roaming horses as long as they do not destroy habitat for indigenous species. The opening of more processing facilities can and should eliminate much of the suffering created by the long ride to the border.


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3 Stocks to Benefit From an Internet-Obsessed Nation
Having grown up on the Canadian Border -- in Niagara Falls, N.Y. - I have always had a deep love for Canada. I grew up and remain a Toronto Maple Leafs fan. Unlike a sizable swath of Americans, I have never ignored Canada. I have been to many of its great cities -- many times -- and keep tabs on what's happening over there. Thanks to my hockey fandom, I watch Canadian television and consume online media out of Canada daily, almost year-round.
For more than a year, I have been hyper-bullish BCE, Inc.
You would not know this if you disregard Canada as irrelevant. Rogers and Bell, along with, to a certain extent, Telus
It's a no-brainer for long-term investors to consider BCE and RCI as core positions.
While I wouldn't refer to BlackBerry
Consider some numbers from the above-mentioned comScore report.
First, Canadians, compared to the rest of the world, rank first or second in key metrics that measure online visits, engagement and online video viewing. It's really quite remarkable.
Second, and maybe more importantly, these numbers have plenty of room to run as smartphone adoption continues to grow.

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When a dog is part wolf
I sit on the porch, waiting. It could go either way, because Aluco is part dog, part wolf, and one side will win out depending on the day. Today is a good day. Aluco steps toward me and lightly touches me with his black nose. Slowly, I extend my hand and pet him. I know that this is all I am going to get. Any sudden movement will cause him to shy away, though it is harder for him to move now.
Aluco's history is unknown, but it is obvious that some timber wolf blood runs through his veins. He has a sweeping tail, long legs and coarse brown fur shot through with gold. At the shelter, he was moved around in his pen with a noose and a pole. My husband, Jerry, could not leave him there, facing a certain death.
Jerry spent hours with Aluco, sleeping on the porch for months. Slowly, he was able to put a leash on him, then a pack on him for overnight trips. Aluco has come a long way. But he will never be the same kind of dog as the others, who freely tolerate me using them as pillows, who flop like fish into our bed. Instead Aluco keeps his distance, wary, afraid, half-wild.
This corner of Oregon is torn apart by the people who love wolves and those who hate them. The wolves slipped in from Idaho on their own, but there are people here who believe that the government brought them here in a deliberate plot to drive out the ranchers. There are people who refuse to walk the moraines that bracket Wallowa Lake because they are afraid of being taken down by wolves. This is a hard place to have a dog like Aluco.
The people who hate wolves are not bad people. They are people whose livelihood hangs on a thin balance. Under cover of night, wolves creep into their pastures and kill. These people see no value in wolves.
I don't debate this with them. Because of the choices I have made in my life, I can live with wolves in these mountains. Their howls add a touch of spice to the sweep of land dropping to the banks of the Imnaha River. Their tracks punctuate the snow on Tenderfoot Pass. I want them to survive here, but this is a wish I keep mostly to myself.
We drape Aluco in colorful flagging whenever we take him on trails, but people ignore his playful ribbons. They jump in fright at the mere sight of him. They put a hand on their rifles. I fear a shot in the woods, so we mostly go off-trail, in the places where people don't go.
There are times when I really wish Aluco were a different kind of dog. I want to lie next to him, listening to the bellows of his lungs. I want to be able to take him for trail runs along the moraine, on backpack trips into the wilderness. It makes me sad that he won't know the comfort and safety the other dogs do, lying sprawled by the fire.
"You have to accept him for what he is," Jerry says, and I know that he is right.
We are losing Aluco, slowly, an unknown problem causing his back legs to buckle. We are at the tipping point now. Do we drive him hours north of our small town for invasive procedures, or do we let him go? Jerry doesn't say so, but I can tell that his heart is breaking.
Loving Aluco has not been easy, and losing him won't be either. I can't shape him into the dog I want him to be, any more than I can transform this rugged and lonesome country into a place where everyone agrees on the virtue of an intact wilderness, where even the predators we fear and dislike are welcome. I can't make him better, either; eight years might be all we get. Sometimes I am dwarfed by all I do not know and cannot change.
Inside all of us beats an ancient drum, a reminder of a time when we were wilder than we are now. One at a time, we all came to the fire and were tamed. Every once in a while, something reminds us of that time, and for me it is loving Aluco. Running through the woods, when he could run, he was eclipsed by something like joy. He disappeared into the trees, striped black by shadow. He always came back when we called him, but I know that he is disappearing now and we won't see him again.
Mary Emerick is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). She is a writer in Joseph, Oregon.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at firstname.lastname@example.com.
But, I get it that cattle ranchers operate on razor-thin margins and all wolf repopulation is going to do is hurt them. While I have worked on a couple of horse ranches in the past I have never raised cattle for a living and thus really don't have a good idea of what they go through. My only knowledge comes from friends who have grown up ranching cattle. And what I do hear is that the loss of a few cattle is a major blow, and, while hard to quantify, wolves stress the cattle potentially resulting in fewer calves and more sickness.
So because I haven't "walked the walk" I find it hard to criticize the ranchers when they complain about wolves. Like you, I tend to keep my mouth shut.
I was at the Brookfield Zoo back in the '70s when I was drawn to the wolf pen. The alpha male came over to me and we chatted. I sat down during our conversation and when I got up to say good-bye, the wolf told me to wait and then he disappeared over the hill. Soon he was back with the rest of his pack and we all had a howl together. It was an amazing gift!
Instead of killing all of the predators, let the cattle have long horns again so they can defend themselves, and sheep? Well, the saying goes that they live to die. Perhaps breeding sheep that are smarter would be a good idea, or put guardian dogs with them. Do what is right, not just what is convenient. My dad rode fence, they just didn't turn out the livestock to fend for themselves like ranchers do today. Personally, I am tired of my tax money going to subsidize ranching on public land. There are some places where livestock does not belong. Time for man to stop being the bully of the natural world.


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Are antiemetics still contraindicated for gastroenteritis in children? Solid evidence now supports the safe use of ondansetron
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
- Correspondence to James E Colletti
Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St, NW Rochester, MN 55902, USA; colletti.james{at}mayo.edu
Implications for practice and research
■ In children presenting with vomiting from acute gastroenteritis, ondansetron is a reasonable therapy to allow for successful oral rehydration.
■ Further research on ondansetron and rehydration should investigate the effects of different dosing regimens, time to cessation of vomiting after antiemetic administration, as well as a cost-effectiveness analysis.
Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a common reason for a child to require emergency care and hospitalisation. In children under the age of 5 years, dehydration secondary to AGE is responsible for as many as 200 000 hospitalisations in the USA and 24 000 in the UK each year.1 2
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Special Congress votes on softball and baseball merge
HOUSTON, TEXAS (USA) – Today, the International Softball Federation held their Special Congress to consider and vote on a resolution to combine with Baseball (the International Baseball Federation) for the 2020 Olympic Programme. Even with travel concerns with Hurricane Sandy, the ISF experienced a good turnout among their national softball federations.
After considerable discussion and debate, the Special Congress approved the creation of a charter for a new international confederation for Softball and Baseball. The Congress voted for the new international confederation with 71% in favor.
ISF President, Don Porter said, "I was pleased with the results and look forward to meeting with the IBAF officials for further discussions and continuing preparations for the IOC presentation in December. There's going to be a lot of positive things that we can do together for both our sports, not just for the Olympics but in the long term."
Tomorrow, President Porter will be traveling to Paraná, Argentina to attend the 9th ISF Junior Men's World Championship. Fourteen of the world's best 19-and-under Junior Men's will participate over the 10 day tournament.
About ASA
The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National Governing Body of softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation's largest sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 76 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 200,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit http://www.asasoftball.com/.
About USA Softball
USA Softball is the brand created, operated and owned by the ASA that links the USA Men's, Women's, Junior Boys' and Junior Girls' National Team programs together. USA Softball is responsible for training, equipping and promoting these four National Teams to compete in international and domestic competitions. The USA Softball Women's National Team is one of only two women's sports involved in the Olympic movement to capture three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games since 1996. The U.S. women have also won nine World Championship titles as well as claimed six World Cup of Softball titles. For more information about USA Softball, please visit http://www.usasoftball.com/.
About the ISF
The ISF is the world governing body of the sport as recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and SportAccord (formerly the General Association of International Sports Federations). Softball (women's fast pitch) made its Olympic debut at the 1996 Games in Atlanta. There are 127 affiliated countries in the ISF and millions of participants in the sport worldwide.
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Rank of Job: Post-doctoral Research Fellow Areas Required: Corpus Linguistics Other Desired Areas: Discourse Analysis, TESL/TEFL University or Organization: University of Michigan Department: English Language Institute State or Province: Michigan Country: USA Final Date of Application: May 31, 2002 Contact: Dr. Rita Simpson ritacsimumich.edu Address for Applications: Rita Simpson MICASE/3012 NUB English Language Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1057 The English Language Institute at the University of Michigan is inviting applications for a post-doctoral research fellow to work on research involving the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE). The position is for one year in the first instance, with the possibility of renewal for an additional two years, with a start date between July and September, 2002. The MICASE project was started at the English Language Institute in 1997-98, and we are entering an exciting phase of development as we have recently completed the transcription and initial SGML markup of the 1.7-million-word corpus and are actively expanding our research and development program. Some of the projects that we would like to work on in the near future include grammatical tagging, lemmatization and lexical statistics, and the annotation of the corpus with additional pragmatic metadata. In addition, we are moving forward with various research projects beyond those already completed on features of spoken academic English, and are keen to implement strategies for utilizing the corpus for in-house teaching and testing applications. The main members of the MICASE team at present are Dr. Rita Simpson (project manager), Professor John Swales (faculty advisor), and Dr. Sarah Briggs (advisor for testing). We are interested in hearing from candidates who have recently completed, or are nearing completion of a Ph.D. with a strong corpus linguistics component, preferably including some programming skills, as well as a good background in spoken discourse analysis. The ideal candidate will also have some ESL/EAP research or teaching experience. The 12-month salary will be in the range of $30,000 to $34,000, depending on qualifications, and includes excellent benefits, some moving expenses, and generous reimbursement for conference travel. To apply, please send a cover letter and cv, including contact information for referees. For additional information or informal inquiries, please contact Dr. Rita Simpson at ritacsimumich.edu. General information about MICASE is available the ELI website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/micase.htm and the online searchable version of MICASE can be found at http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/micase. Address for Applications: Rita Simpson MICASE/3012 NUB English Language Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1057 The deadline for application is May 31, 2002, but applications will be considered as they arrive.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue


text: I am not at all impressed with this team. If anything, I think our hitting has gotten worse since last year. Teams are going to be running on VMart all year long. Bucholz is the same, Dice-k, a 100 mill bust, Wake is good when healthy, Beckett's best days are behind him, Lackey will emerge as our ace, Lester is very good, but CC is better. The pitching has improved for sure, and so has the fielding, but does defense really win championships? I think the Evil Empire has the AL east on lockdown for easily this season and possibly the next. I think this team does not even make the wildcard as Tampa looks to be resurgent to me. We desperately need 1-2 boppers as Papi is all done and Bay is gonzo. Sign AGon by the all star break and we could make the playoffs. My prediction: It's going to be a painful year to be a fan. What say ye?


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Skip to comments.War in the Wilderness [Book Review of George Washington's First War]
Posted on 01/20/2011 5:29:35 AM PST by Pharmboy
A callow youngster's thirst for honor triggered the Seven Years' War.
Unlike many of his fellow Founding Fathers, George Washington never wrote an autobiography...His sole effort at memoir emerged from notes he wrote clarifying points for a proposed biography by a former aide and trusted friend, David Humphreys. These "Remarks" were written in 1787-88, when Washington was in his mid-50s and pondering the daunting prospect of becoming the first president....Washington chose to reminisce about the five years when he had labored as a loyal subject of the British Empire to thwart French designs on the Ohio Valley.
In late 1753, the 21-year-old Washington had volunteered for a diplomatic mission deep within the hostile wilderness....Washington's mission was a failure, but it demonstrated his courage, determination and stamina. He would shortly need such qualities when his thirst for honor and distinction helped ignite a global war. Sent, in 1754, with a small force to secure the Forks of the Ohio (present-day Pittsburgh), Washington ambushed a French party intending to warn him off under the command of Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville. That sharp encounter triggered the French and Indian War, which itself spurred much wider hostilities between Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War.
David A. Clary's "George Washington's First War" presents a detailed narrative of the "Jumonville Massacre" and the rest of Washington's service...
Mr. Clary shows how these episodes constituted crucial training for the ambitious but callow Washington, allowing him to test his abilitiesand make mistakes. The blunders came thick and fast. Washington, Mr. Clary argues, lacked the maturity to balance the heavy responsibilities heaped on him by superiors who should have known better. Mr. Clary's treatment of Washington's early military career is unsympathetic and his verdicts harsher than those reached in Ron Chernow's new biography.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
It seems that it's too hard for the left to criticize Washington once he reaches about 30 years of age, so they now go after the 21 year old...and even his teenage years.
He was--at the age of 21--one of the few Virginians who had ever ventured over the mountains into what is now Western MD, West VA and the Pittsburgh area. He did this as a 16 year old seeking to survey parts of this land (accompanied by a guide).
That he was chosen to lead the VA militia alone may not have been the wisest move, but to attack him from here for some questionable decisions is just mean spirited.
Hey...was it JFK's fault he lost the PT-109?
If I were to recommend one book on George Washington it would be "The Real George Washington" by Andrew Allison. It's a huge book, but an easy and very interesting read. Glenn Beck holds it up allot on his show.
Wow. That's what I call BAD HISTORY.
Besides, the real cause of the French and Indian War was slavery. And George Bush.
Hardly a hatchet job....I've read this many times. He just wasn't ready for the job. Virginia politics...
I working on Sacred Fire right now. I say working on because I have a rapidly advancing cataract in my left eye and floaters in my right so reading is not too easy. Hopefully will be better in a few months. But good book on his faith.
Some speculate that it was...
Yes, it was.
For example, I believe in the 7-volume Freeman biography, there is evidence presented that when the colonials came upon the French (it was not an "ambush") in the glen, they watched and waited, but a musket went off (it could very well have been by accident...not an unheard of event with a cocked Brown Bess) and the stuff hit the fan. Also, it was a vengeful Indian guide who applied the killing blow to the French ambassador, something Washington was powerless to stop.
This appears to be a one-sided account who's scholarship is even called into question by the reviewer (you can click and read the whole review if you have not).
I was trying for irony and I hit truth? Hmmm...even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
On my Dont Bother list.
Wow...many times? It's been out only a week, hasn't it?
It sure seems like a hatchet job to me, using poor sourcing. As the reviewer points out, he was very political and inexperienced in the early days. I think everyone agrees he made many mistakes then.
But to rely on edited letters that were never sent? Poor scholarship.
As for being a hatchet job, did you find commentary like the "getting it on with slaves rather than a married woman" to be important for reminding the reader of the context of the times instead of just being snarky? Was this an isolated example, or does the book have such little jabs throughout?
Yes, you did....and please leave leave my ex-wife out if it.
Don't forget the heated rhetoric on the time's talk radio and Sarah Palin's crosshairs...
P.S. The cherry tree story is not true...he actually killed his mother's favorite colt horsing around with the guys.
You need to get into history books AT LEAST prior to WWII.
Sparks says in the introduction: "The importance attached to this correspondence by himself may be understood from the fact, that, many years after the letters were written, he revised the first drafts, and caused them to be carefully recorded in volumes".
And your point is?? That a statesman--indeed, a man more than a mere statesman--would want to revise the diaries and letters from a fevered youth is proof of...of...precisely what? Bad judgement? Perhaps...but knowing a bit about the character of the man, I would say that he may have acted in that way to spare others' sensibilities. To assume that he was acting selfishly seems to me intemperate.
General Washington was not a perfect person, although he came closer to the ideal than any other Earthly man that I know of, and this book will not change that opinion.
Your Humble and Obdt. Svt.,
While the Jumonville event has certainly been recounted many times over, who fired first and whether willful or accidental on the colonials' part is still open to debate.
Of course I haven't read this book...but the Jumonville event is very well documented many times over.
Ummm...nobody is denying that. As the reviewer states, the author is supported by the evidence in those descriptions.
Your post doesn't make sense to me. The review doesn't take issue with those things; I likewise don't. What's at issue are the other aspects of the book, where he extends beyond evidence and uses edited sources rather than originals--and you tell us that it isn't a hatchet job. Okay....why? Because the evidence would support him anyway? Because it the snarky comments are helpful to understand context? I wonder why you believe what you expressed.
Then you write that you haven't read the book that you said isn't a hatchet job...?!?
Are you just going by the examples given in the review? And if so, why don't you think they are part of a hatchet job?
I'm so confused.
You need to get into history books AT LEAST prior to WWII.
Heck, you can go back to before the War of 1812 and still stumble into the ordure of distortions and revisionism. In fact, Washington's excellent Valley Forge propaganda was the source for the War of 1812 propaganda on the same topic.
And though I believe Wirt's reconstruction attempt for "Liberty or Death" was in good faith, we know it's not perfect, for example.
But despite that, later scholarship can add to understanding. Few had heard of The Battle of the Clouds when I was writing about it 15-20 years ago, and I had probably published more pieces on it than anyone. Since, there has been increased interest, further research, and better understanding. And now, there's even a municipal park named after it! Writing about it would be so much easier now, and it would be crazy to reference things I published then rather than using the expanded information available now.
See other replies above...this is certainly one thing I have learned today!
Where does that statement make any value judgement? It merely infers that GW thought they were important.
Wow. At first I was excited about this book when I saw your ping with the pix.
Now I'm disheartened. I guess it's another revisionist beating up on Washington.
I find it curious they mention the Chernow book in the same vein - I haven't read it yet, but my husband is. My mother and dad did (they are devout members of the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Assoc), and they listened to the author at Mt. Vernon. I'll have to ask them just how "critical" it is.
This is laughably bad history. George Washington started the Seven Years War???
The Seven Years War was a continuation of the War of the Austrian Succession, after the parties had rested and rearmed. The first hostilities were after Washington's battle but were not remotely connected. First hostilities were between Prussia and Austria and the cause of conflict was the contest for supremacy in Germany.
I couldn't even say with a straight face Washington started the French and Indian War. Both the British and French wanted the Ohio Valley and as we now know the British wanted French Canada, too. I suppose this clown would also claim it was Washington who drove the British to fight the Battle of Plassey rather than the intense British desire to have India for themselves? And young George so deranged Whitehall that they also sent an expedition to attack the French in West Africa??
The left will do anything to make The General look like less than he is...the Constitution was laughable, and so were the Founders. Yuk yuk...Marx was a genius though...just ask Jon Stewart.
I share your high opinion of the man who was first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Thanks Pharmboy, I won't waste my time or money on anything maligning a great American and a Great President and Leader.
He WAS bigger than life.
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How Republicans will lead again
What will the Republican Party look like when it retakes the lead in governing? I'd bet it will be a coalition that identifies more with what Alex Castellanos is laying out at NewRepublican.org.
Some of it is new messaging for old ideas. Castellanos rebrands spontaneous order and subsidiarity as "open," "natural," "organic," and "bottom-up." He tags statism, command economies and federal control as "closed," "artificial," and "top-down." Those are elegant ways to tell Whole Foods shoppers and Silicon Valley what we're about without assigning them F.A. Hayek or a history of the Soviets.
Castellanos also stresses the superiority of private compassion over state welfare, but instead of getting trapped by placing charity in a bidding war with the welfare state, or quibbling over the definition of charity, he casts the state welfare agencies as "machine-like" or "factory-like" and "archaic," and more importantly labeling them as "social mercenaries" that allow Americans to "distance ourselves from our responsibilities as human beings," which involve "person-to-person" compassion.
That leads into a much more substantive change: redirecting social conservative energy to where it can actually accomplish something for itself and for the party, namely local and fulfilling private action instead of trying to seize the top and push down, which outsources to politicians and bureaucrats the promotion of our values.
Several items on the list of 67 beliefs of New Republicans (67!) deal with this:
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6. We believe that when we allow big-government to enforce our values, we legitimize it to enforce other values, as well.
7. We believe in natural and organic ways of addressing social challenges, not political and artificial controls directed by Washington.
12. We believe Washington should stay out of our wallets, and out of our bedrooms.
39. We believe we are Republican for Everybody, and Republicans Everywhere. We believe our principles are an indispensable force for good, needed now to alleviate poverty, misery, dependency, and family breakdown destroying American lives in our inner cities.
Social conservatives lost the battle to use federal levers to enforce family and religious values, and damaged the good reputation of those values in the attempt, but those beliefs are still popular in many states, towns, and households. They can still gather a majority coalition with libertarians and moderates to carve out the space to practice their values and their faith without interference from the state, with more confidence and optimism than Paul Weyrich had in the late '90s; if they revert to using top-down power, those potential allies will be embarrassed of their association with social conservatives. That's coalition politics.
The New Republicans will avoid being associated with Big Everything, including Big Business. What saps the Republican Party's entrepreneurial spirit and daring to cut government and promote free markets is its reliance on forces that want the state to protect them against change and competition; Milton Friedman repeatedly observed that this makes business community a frequent enemy of free enterprise. But the GOP need not be anti-business, just suspicious to the extent of keeping anything Big at arm's length.
Finally, Castellanos does stress a couple of times that New Republicans believe in "campaign[ing] for our solutions in the most benighted parts of America, from the barrio to the inner city." I've heard noises to that effect from Republicans for years, but that will only succeed if it's a major, sustained effort; if we have nothing to say about urban problems beyond school choice, and we don't learn how to assertively persuade people that we are absolutely superior at addressing poverty, we're cooked. These things require practice, trials and errors, and personal experience with the poor and with urban life. We have to be able to win at least sometimes, electing mayors and city councils in major metro areas, to show that our way of governing works for the growing portion of the country living in cities.
I said at the beginning that this is how Republicans will think when they regain the lead in governing, and I chose those words instead of "winning elections" because it's possible the GOP can temporarily get over 50% here and there by other means, but it won't have the initiative until it accepts the challenge to persuade all of America that its principles are relevant to them. The party could and should also make gains by modernizing the way it learns and reorganizes itself, how it encourages and channels activism, its campaign tactics and strategy, and more. But those things go naturally with a mindset that's reflexively entrepreneurial and not only open to change but so hungry for it that we're unafraid to stop doing what isn't working.


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Loving it so far. Lots of cool things to play around with.
Good to hear...everything should be working fine now, as I've located all the new images that did not exist in the old version and uploaded them.
What are some new / modified features that you guys have noticed? The "Tags" feature is the first one I've seen, which is brand new in 3.7.
Social Groups? Maybe I can form my own "Gang of Ten"?
This is completely freaking me out. I do not deal well with change on the internets. I'm still adapting to seeing pictures on it.
There is no such thing as a pitching prospect.
Tell me about it, vp. I'm just now adjusting from upgrading to Web 1.1.
What if this wasn't a rhetorical question?
All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.
FWIW, we have this version at the place where I moderate. It has a lot of nooks and crannies where members make mischief.
They have the internet on computers now?
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Oh wait. Those are tags and they all say different things.
I sorta get it, but I'm a dummy.
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" ~ Jim Bouton
Just wondering if maybe the new software is causing the site to be slow?
Refreshing and pretty much everything else takes a bit longer.
Anybody else notice this?
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Skip to comments.Philly student's Romney T-shirt likened to KKK sheet
Posted on 10/03/2012 3:59:31 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Last Friday was dress-down day at Charles Carroll High School in Port Richmond - a day for students to leave their uniforms at home and wear whatever they liked.
One young woman chose to wear a shirt showing her support for Gov. Mitt Romney's presidential candidacy. Her geometry teacher didn't like it, the girl's father said on a radio call-in show on IQ 106.9 FM today.
The teacher allegedly told the girl to take off the shirt, saying it was like wearing a Ku Klux Klan sheet.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Teacher got an "Obama phone?"
Another Detroit in the making. Sad.
The good thing about being old is I am not going to have to put up with this PC BS forever.
Yall are nuts.
What a silly teacher. I wish all would just stop with the KKK, nazi, hitler crap. Most who play this card obviously do not know their history. And it shows.
Another Dem re-writing his history.
If so, it should be supportive of Democrats since they were the ones who created the KKK. If the kid was astute enough and knew more American history he could have come right back in that teachers face with "Why? It was the Democrats that created it"
She was given a choice between a Che t-shirt or a Free Mumia pullover instead.
Oops, meant her. Sorry. BTW, he told her to take off her T-shirt? In class? Sexual harassment.
How many times is the Teach planning to vote for Zer0 this time?
The KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party. Romney's father was a civil rights supporter. Obama and Holder are racialists.
It's an out-and-out lie that a Romney t-shirt is the equivalent of KKK regalia. This teacher shouldn't be telling teenagers that crap.
How many times is the Teach planning to vote for Zer0 this time?
At least a few dozen times since PA just killed enforcement of photo-id ... the prior poster was right .. the KKK was started as a DEM/RAT group to suppress the black vote which was 99% republican after the civil war.
I would have said next dress down day
I will remember to wear higher boots
Due to all the bull crap your dropping
On the floor, I fell sorry for the janitor to clean up your mess.
When I was a freshman the seniors were
Afraid of us. We were badass. :)
Had one teacher complaining all the time that communism is the better system and Reagan wouldn't give Gorbachev the ability to prove it.
.. Sorry for double posts earlier.
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My post unlike my computer. Know better now.
The perfesser can confiscate my t-shirt like a sharia cop, if I can confiscate his face like a chimp. hee hee hee
Take off the shirt as commanded, call the cops and have them arrest the pedophile teacher!
Take off the shirt as commanded, call the cops and have them arrest the pedophile teacher!
She violated the liberals' rule against free speech for Republicans/conservatives.
Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, Ex-Klansman
by Michelle Malkin (March 8, 2001)
Ex-Klansman Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, casually used the phrase "white nigger" twice on national TV this weekend. Enraged civil rights groups organized a protest campaign against Sen. Byrd and demanded that he undergo sensitivity training ... not.
The ex-Klansman, you see, is a Democrat. Democrats can join hate groups and utter the ugliest racial slurs and get away with it because they are Democrats. They belong to the party of racial tolerance and understanding. They're paragons of virtue, and the rest of us are bigoted rubes.
The ex-Klansman showed his true colors when asked by Fox News Sunday morning talk show host Tony Snow about the state of race relations in America. Sen. Byrd warned: "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."
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In 1942, 24-year-old Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), whose parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, he had witnessed in his childhood. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops, or leader, of his local chapter.[8]
Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, although he lamented that they involved the Klan. According to Byrd, a KKK official told him "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[4] He participated in the KKK during World War II, holding the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops [the top officer in the local Klan unit]. He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed]
Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military:
"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"
He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]
YouTube - Senator Robert Byrd says "white niggers" on TV:
From the Washington Post:
"Byrd said in the Dec. 11, 1945, letter -- which would not become public for 42 more years with the publication of a book on blacks in the military during World War II by author Graham Smith -- that he would never fight in the armed forces "with a Negro by my side." Byrd added that, "Rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.."..."
"during the general election campaign, Byrd's GOP opponent uncovered a letter Byrd had handwritten to Green, the KKK Imperial Wizard, recommending a friend as a Kleagle and urging promotion of the Klan throughout the country. The letter was dated 1946 -- long after the time Byrd claimed he had lost interest in the Klan. "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia," Byrd wrote, according to newspaper accounts of that period. Byrd makes no mention of the letter in his new book."
According to their curriculum, it is required to take one credit (1 year) of African-American History.
I drove through Philly on Sunday on the way back from a wedding in NJ to get a cheesesteak. I used to live there. Long story short, the cheesesteak place was still there, but the entire Italian market neighborhood has now neen overrun by the Mexicans. Ironically, the cheesesteak place is the same one that made the news recently with the sign that they only serve you if you speak English. Now I see why the sign was needed. I left Philly in 2001 I dont remember any Mexican presence. That was fast. I hope the cheesesteak place can survive without the Italians patronizing and keeping the neighborhood clean and safe.
Um.....,call me crazy but I have no idea what what he's seeing in that shirt. It just looks like a plain old ordinary campaign shirt to me.
If there's anything Dems know, its the KKK.
Very sad. My mother grew up in Port Richmond. Of course, that was almost 100 years ago.
I looked up this school. It is very small, and I see only two math teachers listed. I hope the guilty one gets into big trouble, but I suspect he's following the general philosophy of the rest of the school staff.
I'll just say that if this were my kid I'd be in jail tonight and leave it at that.....
These incompetents actually believe they can make up their own laws as they go along.
Sue that moron loser personally.
Sue the school district.
Refuse to settle, demand a trial, and make sure that the hidden face of this army of Obama Flying Monkeys, the totalitarian shock troops, is seen for what they are...
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Team USA Years: 3 years
Hometown: Lancaster, California
Current residence: Bremerton, Washington
Personal website/social media pages: Facebook
When did you begin playing hockey: playing for 7 years
Current skating club/ Coaches name: Bremerton Hurricanes/ Frankie Lee and Mike Forbes
Occupation, current employer: Diver/tender for Rising Tide CO.
High school attended: Olympic High school
Year of graduation: 2012
Location of high school: Silverdale, WA
Sports you competed in while in high school (include number of years): Rink Hockey 5 years
College attended: US AIR FORCE
Pan American/World Games/International Experience: Member of 2011 and 2013 JR MENS Team USA
Team USA hockey awards, honors and statistics: Ranked #1 for 2011 and 2013 junior team.
Other awards, honors, and statistics in hockey: 9 MVP's, 2 being at National Championships. three 1'st place medals, one 2nd place medal and two 3rd place medals all at the National championships in Freshmen, Junior and Silver divisions
Future goals you hope to obtain as a hockey player: I hope to make the USA Men's team!
Favorite sports figure: Frankie Lee
Favorite food before a competition: None, I can't compete with food in my stomach
Favorite movie: The Goonies
Favorite place to shop: Ross
Favorite music to listen to during training or competition: Hard rock
Favorite possession: My Car, 2000 VW GTI Vr6
Favorite hobbies: Hockey, friends, working out, tv
What makes you a unique and special person: I'm funny and sarcastic, but I can be serious at the right times
Who is the person you most admire/greatest influence in your life and why: My dad, because he is my dad he is the guy I always go to if I' m in trouble and he always listens.
Father's name: Aaron Elkins
Father's occupation: Fire Fighter
Mother's name: Suzzane Elkins
Mother's occupation: Stay at home mom
Brothers: 3
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About the Author: Brian H. Hook serves as Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations Affairs.
The 63rd UN General Assembly (UNGA) has opened, and the bilateral and multilateral meetings are already underway among the 192 members of the United Nations.
This is my first General Assembly as the acting Assistant Secretary for the Department's Bureau of International Organizations, and it happens to fall at a remarkable time. First and foremost, this is the President's last General Assembly, and on Tuesday, he will be addressing the assembled world leaders for the final time as President of the United States.
Second, this year marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a declaration the United States was instrumental in creating, and which warrants the world's renewed support. Finally, I would note that this is also the 60th anniversary of the UN's first peacekeeping mission.
On Monday morning, I gave a briefing at the Foreign Press Center on 52nd Street, not far from UN headquarters. I briefed invited foreign media about U.S. priorities for the upcoming General Assembly and also discussed the President's multilateral legacy.
Much is said about this Administration's supposed unilateral approach to foreign affairs. In fact, the United States is more broadly, actively, and substantively engaged with the world's multilateral bodies than at any time in its history.
A number of journalists covering the 63rd UNGA have asked me about the President's legacy at the UN, his key accomplishments. I think there are many areas that one could choose. One example is the President's commitment to the promotion of democracy and good governance. The President was instrumental in the conception of the UN Democracy Fund, for example, which supports grassroots organizations around the world in their efforts to build civil society and strengthen the roots of democracy.
Another area is the President's groundbreaking actions to address the devastation brought by HIV/AIDS and malaria in much of the world. Some people don't realize that, in addition to launching the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the President's Malaria Initiative, he has spearheaded a drive to ensure that U.S. efforts complement and extend the activities of the World Health Organization and UNAIDS.
Despite the historic scope and nature of those actions, I look at yet another issue as the President's greatest multilateral legacy. When terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, it wasn't clear how the international community would or should respond. It was President Bush who pointed the way, when he came to the very same General Assembly in October of that year and underscored to the assembled leaders that 9/11 was a defining moment for the UN, and that UN members must take responsibility to oppose all forms of terrorism.
From that day forward, I think you can safely say that U.S. priorities at the United Nations shifted. We have seen a steady strengthening in the UN's ability to address and respond to perpetrators and supporters of terror, and we now have UN Security Council committees which seek to contain al-Qaida and the Taliban, help countries prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, and crack down on terrorist financing.
Of course, the UN is a multilateral body, which means disagreement is one of its hallmarks. I think, though, as we look forward to the President's speech on Tuesday, most would agree that the UN is a different body than it was eight years ago.
Editor's Note: Read Acting Assistant Secretary Hook's next entry about the 63rd UN General Assembly.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Assistant Secretary Hook,
Sir, it is only fitting that the UN be located where freedom of speech prevails, and one hallmark of the UN is it's strict adherance to an old New Mexican tradition.
That when a person is bound and determined to hang themselves with thir own words, we'll (as good host will) lend them all the rope they need.
Best regards.
Susan in Florida writes:
The United Nations has long sought to champion the children of the world, through UNICEF and other organizations. With the AIDs tragedy leaving millions of children, around the world, orphans, how successful has the UN been in addressing this global crisis? I realize that the UN charter and the sovereignty of the member nations probably limit progress, which must be frustrating. This brings me to my question, what changes could the UN members make to help the UN be more effective, especially in noncombatant situations? I do want to thank the UN peacemakers who put themselves in harm's way to try and deal with many of these overwhelming problems.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Susan, I think you'll find your question's been answered by President Bush in his address before the UNGA.
And a good one it was to ask, for sure.
As long as member states aren't living up to their responsibilities there will inevitably be question regarding the UN's effectiveness.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
(response to post on question of the week, submitted too late for posting on that thread.)
Babar in Pakistan, thanks for your post. Let me suggest something to you and see if it makes sense to you.
Lot has been made of the soveregnity of Pakistan in protest of US military action against al quaida safe havens in Waristan.
As I look at Pakistan's situation, internally and externally, the soveregnity of your nation has already been compromised by Taleban and al quaida's presence on your soil.
Pakistan has national responsibilities as outlined by UN resolutions to confront terrorism, and eliminate safe haven.
Your nation is at risk, your soveregnity is out the window, and you need our help to create the democracy Pakistanis have long strived for.
Let us do the job we are good at, so you can regain your soveregnity and eliminate the intenal threat to your nation.
We'd much rather do it in partnership with your military and political leadership, but I must say that because your soveregnity alone is not the only one at risk here, that my nation will do what it must, regardless of the level of cooperation your leadership offers us.
So in order that Pakistanis don't get angry for the wrong reasons, I think they need to understand why we do what we do, and why it is in your nation's interests that we do what we do.
The alternative is that you do it yourselves, but it should be quite obvious that if your nation was capable of this on their own, you would't be having these problems today.
Your nation has never exerted soverign control over those provinces, and does not now. It's really a poor excuse by your leadership to say your soveregnity has been violated by the US to hide you nation's ineffectiveness in the war on terror.
It is their responsibility to tell the truth to their own people, and unfortunate that they don't in this matter.


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Khozyain I rabotnik, Leo Tolstoy
Khozyain I rabotnik Leo Tolstoy
The following entry presents criticism concerning Tolstoy's short novel Khozyain I rabotnik (Master and Man; 1895). For additional coverage of Tolstoy's short fiction, see SSC, Vols. 9 and 30.
The novella Master and Man is considered one of the more notable works from the later stage of Tolstoy's illustrious literary career. Critics often compare it to his earlier classic story, Smert Ivana Illyicha (The Death of Ivan Ilych; 1886), in that both short novels are concerned with protagonists facing impending death and undergoing a profound spiritual transformation.
Plot and Major Characters
The protagonist of Master and Man is Brekhunov, a dishonest country merchant living in nineteenth-century Russia. Brekhunov is both egocentric and materialistic, character traits that contrast dramatically with the artless and instinctual behavior of his servant Nikita. After a local festival, Brekhunov is anxious to pursue a lucrative business deal in another town. The two men depart together and soon encounter a bizarre, apocalyptic snowstorm. They reach shelter, but Brekhunov insists on continuing the journey in pursuit of his business arrangement. After hours of frustrated attempts to reach another shelter, Nikita accepts his ineluctable fate and lies down to die; after which Brekhunov experiences a revelatory moment as he confronts and rejects the hollow values of his past, and comprehends the finality of death. Consequently, he saves Nikita's life by sacrificing his own.
Major Themes
In Master and Man Tolstoy explores the effects imminent death has on a man's perceptions of his own life, and how this parley with death can be a revelatory occurrence. The spiritual crisis and epiphany seen in Master and Man, a result of the intimate encounter with death, fosters a numinous redemption for Brekhunov as he rejects his former, corrupt values and sacrifices his own worldly existence. The story also underscores class differences, as the two men's social standing informs their reaction to the crisis: Nikita, the servant, humbly accepts his fate; Brekhunov, the master, attempts to command his own destiny. When Brekhunov confronts death and accepts its utter inevitability, he embraces a master greater than the self. Another significant theme in Master and Man is the mastery of God or Nature: whereas the fantastic and omnipotent snowstorm renders the two capable men virtually blind and impotent—symbolizing the protagonist Brekhunov's plight as a man spiritually bereft, lost in a tempest of superficial and corrupt meanings—there is an ultimate redemption.
Critical Reception
Critically, Tolstoy's works are generally divided into an early period, before he wrote his major novels Voina I mir (War and Peace; 1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), and a later period, the works of which were influenced by the moral and spiritual crisis Tolstoy experienced in the late 1870s. Commentators perceive Master and Man as one of Tolstoy's finest works of this latter stage. While many critics acknowledge the emotional power of the story, others complain that Brekhunov's transformation is too sudden to be credible. Some commentators emphasize the parallels between Brekhunov's conversion and that of Ivan Ilych's, the dying protagonist of Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Ilych. The correspondence of Master and Man to Tolstoy's own life is also a rich area of literary scholarship, as critics trace autobiographical aspects of the story to the author's own spiritual transformation late in life. The religious symbolism and biblical allusions in the short novel are other commonly analyzed motifs by critics and scholars.
Principal Works
Detstvo [Childhood] 1852
Otrochestvo [Boyhood] 1854
Sevastopolskiye rasskazy 2 vols. 1855-56
Yunost [Youth] 1857
Semeinoe schaste [Family Happiness] 1859
Kazaki [The Cossacks] 1863
Polikushka [Polikouchka] 1863
Smert Ivana Illyicha [The Death of Ivan Ilych] 1886
Kreitserova sonata [The Kreutzer Sonata] 1890
Khozyain I rabotnik [Master and Man] 1895
Otetz sergii [Father Sergius] 1898
The Novels and Other Works of Leo N. Tolstoi 22 vols. (novels, novellas, short stories, dramas, essays, and sketches) 1899-1902
Khadzhi Murat [Hadji Murád] 1911
L.N. Tolstoi: polnoe sobranie proizvedenie. 90 vols. (novels, novellas, short stories, dramas, essays, and sketches) 1928-58
Short Stories 1968
Voina I mir [War and Peace] (novel) 1869
Anna Karenina (novel) 1877
Ispoved [A Confession] (essay) 1882
V chiom moya vera [What I Believe] (essay) 1884
Vlast tmy [The Dominion of Darkness] (drama) 1888
Plody prosvesh cheniya [The Fruits of Enlightenment] (drama) 1889
Chto takoe iskusstvo [What Is Art?] (essay) 1898
Voskresenie [Resurrection] (novel) 1899
Tolstoy's Letters 2 vols. (letters) 1978
Bookman (review date 1895)
SOURCE: A review of Master and Man, in Bookman, Vol. 1, No. 6, July, 1895, pp. 409-10.
[In the following laudatory review of Tolstoy's story, the critic deems Master and Man "beautiful in conception, so masterly in development, so skillfully delicate in workmanship."]
Tolstoy has warm admirers who could only under severe compulsion read The Kingdom of God is Within You, just as he has others who read War and Peace and Anna Karénina, in the rather vain hopes of extracting a gospel from them. The former had grown to think that the vein they valued was completely worked out; but the inventive faculty and the power of scenic representation, when they are as strong as they were in Tolstoy, are not easily exhausted or weakened. In his case an absorbing mission, and perhaps some ascetic principles, have had far more to do with the arrest of his artistic career than any decay of genius. The proof is, that now and again in his later peasant stories, written purposely for an uncultured audience, the old strength and beauty of phrase and incident refuse to be suppressed. Notably is this so in Master and Man; and surely we may be allowed to rejoice freely at the reappearance of the earlier Tolstoy. After all, next to life we learn most from art. Precept and homily have not half its reach. And the best reason for rejoicing he himself involuntarily provides. As a story-writer he is a fastidious artist; none more eager to search for the word, or, at least, the circumstance that will produce the desired effect on our imagination; there is nothing casual or haphazard in word or arrangement. He has plainly loved his imaginings, and tended them till they have become fair. In his books of precept, on the other hand, in spite of their striking thought, the form is as careless, and often as unsatisfactory as it could be. Unconsciously, and against his will, he has himself apportioned the respective values to be set on his two orders of books.
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N. K. Mikhaylovsky (essay date 1904)
SOURCE: "Master and Man and The Death of Ivan Ilych," in Critical Essays on Tolstoy, edited by Edward Wasiolek, G. K. Hall & Co., 1986, pp. 175-79.
[In the following essay, initially published in 1904, Mikhaylovsky contrasts Tolstoy's approach to death in The Death of Ivan Ilych and Master and Man.]
How does one preserve life without the thought of death that poisons one's existence? How does one burn out, destroy this fear of death that, as we have seen, "is put into everyone?" This is Tolstoy's main task lately. Although it concerned him before, now he is exclusively concerned with it, and all his writings are merely peripheral to it,...
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Leo Shestov (essay date 1932)
SOURCE: "The Last Judgment: Tolstoy's Last Works," in Tolstoy: A Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice-Hall, 1967, pp. 157-72.
[In the following excerpt, originally published in 1932, Shestov summarizes the plot and outlines the major themes of Master and Man.]
Many people, in the effort to calm themselves and dissipate the uneasiness which seizes them on reading Tolstoy's works, have thought to explain his struggles and his wild outbursts as the result of his fear of death. They think that such an explanation would free them once and for all from every difficulty and would also re-establish in their old strength the solutions which he had rendered null and void....
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Elizabeth Trahan (essay date 1963)
SOURCE: "L. N. Tolstoj's Master and Man—A Symbolic Narrative," in Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1963, pp. 258-68.
[In the following essay, Trahan explores the symbolism in Master and Man, contending, "even a superficial reading reveals a certain mysterious, magic quality which suggests additional dimensions."]
In his essay What is Art? (1897), Tolstoj rejects contemporary art as involved, affected and obscure (Ch. X). He attacks the French Symbolists for their incomprehensibility (ibid.) and heaps ridicule on Richard Wagner for his use of myths and leitmotifs (Ch. XIII). Good art, Tolstoj suggests, must express...
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Ernest J. Simmons (essay date 1968)
SOURCE: "Later Short Novels," in Introduction to Tolstoy's Writings, University of Chicago Press, 1968, pp. 146-53.
[In the following excerpt, Simmons regards Master and Man as a successful embodiment of Tolstoy's ideal of religious art.]
In addition to the short story, Tolstoy also devoted a substantial amount of creative effort, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, to that longer type of fiction which he had attempted in his earlier period—the short novel. Though they vary a great deal in length, no one of them could properly be regarded as either a short story or a novel. For like the earlier short novels, each...
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John Hagan (essay date 1969)
SOURCE: "Detail and Meaning in Tolstoy's Master and Man," in Criticism, Vol. 11, Winter, 1969, pp. 31-58.
[In the following essay, Hagan analyzes the religious symbolism found in Master and Man to better understand Tolstoy's artistic method.]
Though Master and Man (1895) has long been generally recognized, together with The Death of Ivan Ilych, Father Sergius, and Hadji Murad, as one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's third period of authorship, close study of its artistic methods has only begun. Turning as it does (in accord with Tolstoy's favorite device of antithesis) on an obvious contrast between two types of men and two...
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T. G. S. Cain (essay date 1977)
SOURCE: "The Fruits of Conversion," in Tolstoy, Elek Books Ltd., 1977, pp. 154–64.
[In the following excerpt, Cain offers a thematic and stylistic overview of Master and Man and compares it to The Death of Ivan Ilych.]
Though they too deal with conversion, the accession of illuminating insight as to the true meaning of life and death, the stories of Ivan Ilyich and of the dealer Brekhunov in Master and Man are altogether more convincing than is that of Pozdnyshev. Together, they represent the peak of Tolstoy's achievement in this group of stories and novels: more incisive and much more carefully made than the longer but uneven Resurrection,...
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Michael Henry Heim (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: "Master and Man: Three Deaths Redivivus," in American Contributions to the Eighth International Congress of Slavists, Volume 2: Literature, edited by Victor Terras, Slavica Publishers, 1978, pp. 260-70.
[In the following essay, Heim perceives Master and Man as a reworking of Tolstoy's earlier work, Three Deaths.]
Tolstoj's stories Three Deaths [Tri smerti, 1859] and Master and Man [Xozjain i rabotnik, 1895] stand equidistant from the years of his "conversion" and the autobiographical Confession [Ispoved', 1879]. In many respects Master and Man is a reworking of its predecessor....
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Richard F. Gustafson (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "The Way to Love," in Leo Tolstoy, Resident and Stranger: A Study in Fiction and Theology, Princeton University Press, 1986, pp. 197–202.
[In the following excerpt, Gustafson considers the autobiographical nature of Master and Man.]
The perfect type of Tolstoy's fiction is Master and Man. This late (1895) narrative is an emblematic journey of discovery and a parable of the way to love. Vasily Andreevich Brekhunov, a "local merchant of the second guild," is the one who thinks he is the master (i). He is in a most profound sense, therefore, a liar and a braggart. His name (brekhun) suggests both. He "boasts to himself and rejoices in...
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Further Reading
Noyes, George Rapall. Tolstoy. 1918. Reprint. New York: Dover Publications, 1968, 395 p.
Examines Tolstoy's multifaceted body of literature, offering biographical information pertaining to his short fiction.
Andreyev, Nikolay. Introduction to Master and Man, and Other Parables and Tales, pp. v-xvi. London: Everyman's Library, 1958.
Surveys the defining characteristics of Tolstoy's short fiction.
Additional coverage of Tolstoy's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 104,...
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Shakespeare's gripping tale of temptation, ambition and murder comes to the opera stage set to the intense music of Giuseppe Verdi, as Macbeth and his power-hungry Lady Macbeth embark on a bloody course to take the Scottish throne. You'll be on the edge of your seat watching the hair-raising drama instigated by other-worldly witches and ghost apparitions, and swept away by the powerful orchestral melodies and arias.
Experience Verdi's full throttle opera with Palm Beach Opera audience favorite Michael Chioldi ("big, open, baritone…power, lyricism to do justice to Verdi"- Chicago Tribune) and Luis Ledesma ("commanded the stage with a rich, well controlled baritone"- Opera News) sharing the title role. The famous sleepwalking scene of Lady Macbeth interpreted by Csilla Boross ("roof raising and electric performance"- Baltimore Sun) and Jennifer Check's ("rare talent that can send shivers down a listener's spine"- New York Times) is an experience that will leave you breathless.


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BiologyThe sandbar shark spends the majority of its time near the sea bottom, where it patrols continuously for prey (4), such as small bottom-dwelling fishes, molluscs and crustaceans (2). Whilst the diet of the adult consists primarily of fish, the pups appear to feed more on soft blue crabs (7). Despite its size and large triangular teeth, the sandbar shark has never been blamed for attacks on humans, preferring instead to stick to its live fish meals (2). Like most other members of the Carcharhinidae family, the sandbar shark is viviparous, giving birth to between 1 and 14 pups in each litter (2). The size of the litter varies depending on the size of the mother, with large females giving birth to larger litters (2). Pregnancy is estimated to last from 8 to 12 months (2), and appears to differ between geographical locations (8) (9). The time of year in which the pups are born also varies slightly, but all females move inshore to shallow nursery areas to give birth (2) (8) (9). These nursery grounds are separated from the normal ranges of adults (9), and presumably offer the young a calm, food-rich environment in which to begin their lives. The females leave these coastal areas soon after giving birth, while the young remain in the nursery grounds until winter (9), when they move into warmer and deeper water (2). A common feature of sharks is their slow growth rate and low reproductive output. Estimates of the age at which the sandbar shark matures range from eight to ten years in Hawaii (10), to between 12 and 15 years of age in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean (11). Females give birth every other year at most (2). Populations of sandbar sharks appear to segregate by age (6).


text: This course introduces studies that provide an understanding of individual and group approaches to assessment and evaluation in a culturally diverse society. This course also provides an understanding of assessment in counseling through (1) an overview of basic counseling assessment concepts, (2) an understanding of test construction, (3) familiarity with instruments, and (4) an overview of test interpretation. It also provides a discussion of typical problems and approaches to individual and group testing in the areas of intelligence, aptitude, achievement, interest, and personality measurement. History, rationale, and ethical issues in the use of counseling assessment instruments are included.