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I don't know why people don't think Rob is nice in real life. From everything I've seen of him outside the game he seems like a decent guy. One thing is for sure...he really loves his family. The way he treated Amber on TAR is what ultimately won me over. While he was ruthless in the race, he was always respectful to Amber. Even when they had disagreements. I think people who aren't nice....well, that carries over into their personal relationships and I just don't see that with him.
As for Natalie following him blindly...she's young...fresh out of high school and really 'green'. Perhaps she was raised in an over protective household and was taught that the man wears the pants. While it's not fitting for some women, for some it's fits them perfectly. She's probably going to grow up, get married, have kids and be the doting wife and mother. Nothing wrong with that if it's what you want. Obviously Julie isn't cut from that clothe, but it doesn't mean it's wrong. And at the end of the day, Natalie gets to say she was F3 in a game where she otherwise didn't stand a chance. In a normal season, she would have been picked off early.
I hate when the cops throw me in the back of the squad car ....like they didnt hear me call shotgun.
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Whether you're a fan of Rob or not, and I for one am, (and I certainly don't consider myself a worthless human being, just because I like Rob) if you watched this season you can't deny he deserved the win. He controlled his tribe from start to finish. Just like he did in All Stars, except that jury was too bitter to give him the win, and they had all played before, and should have been able to overcome their bitterness and vote for the best player. But they were a bunch of whiny babies, and gave it to Amber instead. Some of them are still a bunch of whiny babies, even after all these years. The best player won this season, hands down. Personally, I am thrilled he won. I didn't bother voting for fan favorite, but if I had, it would have definitely been Rob that I voted for.
A few thoughts on the finale and on Rob in particular.
Last night was the correct ending for the show, who else outwitted any of them let alone all of the players? I liked the proposal, but, I wouldnt want any guy to propose to me on live tv. How do you say no to someone and embarrass them for life if you arent feeling the love. Not an Aww moment for me. More of the creepy.
Phillip should not have gotten any votes. If you voted for Phillip you only voted that way because you couldnt grasp the whole you were beaten by a better player angle of the game. Natalie is 19, she deserves credit for figuring out what all the others couldnt, that Rob was the leader and if you follow the leader you end up next to him at the end.
Phillip could have won this game in my opinion. All he needed to do was stand up at tribal council and say, "I faked being crazy, you all bought it, I won.".
To the haters of Rob. I can only say this. The man had a goal, he sought that goal for ten years, he reached his goal. He should be rewarded. Isnt this a life lesson for all of us? Keep trying, never give up, learn from your mistakes. Skip how you feel about a guy who none of know in real life, go straight to the lesson he gave all the viewers. He is playing a game. Who shows up at a poker table and doesnt try to bluff at least on hand? Who plays Monopoly and doesnt buy all the property they can because they are afraid of how they greedy they will appear? Rob played by the rules of Survivor. It may have taken him ten years to get it right but to me that just represents what a competitor he is in real life.
Or, I guess, we should all just never try and try again. Oh, I lost, I refuse to ever play that game again. Sounds a little childish to me.
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Lamest season and dumbest cast ever. Good for Rob in finally winning; maybe now he can disappear.
I wonder if he'll use any of his after-tax million to buy a post-vocalic "r." [/sarcasm]
"There's no crying in baseball!"
-- Tom Hanks, A League of Their Own
This is a point I have to say to all who say that Rob basically got lucky because he had a bunch of "worshippers" and the like:
Rob's played for four seasons, and made it pretty far in all of them, just missing jury in two (or at least his first go in Marquesas), been in the final two in the other two.
At the time, people knew - or should've known - that he had skills in manipulation, puzzles and winning challenges that he had control over himself to win important immunities.
All these players knew Russell's quite well - it's why the Zaps were wise to not carry him to the end.
Had the roles been reversed, I think the Zaps would've eliminated Rob quickly, not as quickly as Russell, but they seemed to have more respect for his game play because he is sneaky, but understands the difference between the games.
Ometepe isn't so stupid they'd kept Russell had the duo been in each other's tribe. Russell'd been gone quickly - he most likely wouldn't have made the finals.
As far as Phillip's one vote - I can see Ralph's point. I think he is the only one dense enough to see that Phillip's craziness was partially at least an act. Why you may ask? - if he were really as crazy as he was portrayed in psych testing, he'd not been cast. His antics were borderline certifiable, and not caused by having to detox from cigarettes or alcohol, like we've seen in the past.
Everyone, including the jury, seems to think that Natalie was young, naive, & had no game whatsoever. I saw her a little different.
Here we had a very young girl, barely out of school, playing a physically mentally & socially difficult game against people much older, wiser & more experienced in life & relationships. In many ways she was out of her league.
The ultimate goal is to win the $$$, but in order to do that you have to reach an important secondary goal: Get to the final tribal council.
Instead of just being cannon fodder she made a day one alliance with the most experienced & competent tribemate. Rob promised to get her there if she stuck to their alliance. That was her goal - get to the end, & he offered it to her.
How many other contestants were able to do that? Certainly not the high & mighty jury members. Young & inexperienced as she was, she reached her goal & Rob got her there, just like he promised. Her strategy worked just fine, & she won an immunity or two on the way.
I wish she would have stressed this at final tribal council instead of being so passive. She used her wits, that's a plus.
Don't get the idea I would have rather seen Natalie win than Rob. No way. I just would have liked to see her get credit for some gameplay.
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"Success is getting what you want; Happiness is wanting what you get."
Congrats to Rob for a well deserved win.
No way did Rob coast to a finish. He had to work his arse off each and every day, and you could tell by the end that it was taking its toll on him.
And so it begins, the end of times..


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I am the Black Knight, and I remain inappropriately stiff when everyone else is clearly trying to relax! As a result, I am often not invited to social functions....
From World's Finest #69:
Wow. I get to watch Superman do math? Such a magical thing comics are...
And since superhero comics became so crummy, this paved the way for war and western comics. Let this be a lesson to all of us:
I really don't understand why Hopalong Cassidy was a film star. Frankly, he looks a little doughy and long in the tooth to be a tough guy. I imagine he became a Hollywood cowboy because the real cowboys made him muck the stalls.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
When Superhero Comics Fell Wednesday!
5 comments:
- Robert Gillis said...
Superman finally comes up with mathematical proof WHY the "Quest for peace" sucked so badly -- variable "FILM_BUDGET=10 cents"
- August 13, 2009 at 8:44:00 AM CDT
- FoldedSoup said...
I love those "just sittin' around" panels.
- August 13, 2009 at 10:37:00 AM CDT
W-why is everyone... in the first panel... l-looking at me?! GAAAAAAH!!
- August 13, 2009 at 10:38:00 AM CDT
- Dave said...
The best part of that Super-Math panel is the question mark coming from the airplane.
- August 13, 2009 at 2:30:00 PM CDT
- Aaron Carine said...
If Superman has super intelligence,how come Batman is always able to outwit him?
- August 14, 2009 at 9:29:00 AM CDT
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Demonstration of Starfield's observations about relationship between primary care quality and health system cost at the level of primary care teams in Ontario
Presenting author: Carol Mulder, Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario
Co-author: Rick Glazier
Objective: Starfield observed that high quality primary care was related to lower per-capita healthcare costs. The regional/national nature of these observations make them less actionable for providers. This study examines the quality-cost relationship at primary care team level in Ontario to facilitate healthcare sustainability via high quality primary care.
Methods: All 184 members of the Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario (AFHTO) were invited to contribute quality and cost data to Data to Decisions (D2D), a performance measurement report, now in its 4th iteration. Consistent data extraction and compilation were enabled by team-level Quality Improvement Decision Support (QIDS) specialists. A composite measure of quality was calculated from patient experience, administrative and EMR data. Each component of the composite was weighted by its importance to patients in their relationship with their provider. It was compared to per-capita healthcare costs for primary care, hospitalization, diagnostic and consulting services and institutional care.
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Is increasing physician supply the key to solving access/provision challenges in primary health care in British Columbia?
Presenting author: Lindsay Hedden, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation
Co-authors: Morris L. Barer, Kimberlyn M. McGrail, Michael R. Law, Ivy L. Bourgeault
Background/Introduction/Objective: Reports of access issues in primary health care are ubiquitous in British Columbia (BC), and despite significant financial and policy attention, 300,000 British Columbians are currently without, and are activity seeking, a primary care physician (PCP). At the same time, per capita physician supply has been increasing since 1986. We used a population-based, retrospective cohort study to examine the extent to which workforce feminization, aging, and secular period effects may explain the dual observations of increasing supply alongside frequently heard claims about difficulties in accessing primary care in BC.
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Results: We found limited change in per-physician remuneration over the study period, after taking out the effects of changes in fee levels; however, total patient contact counts and per-PCP practice sizes declined by 10% (111,577 total contacts/year) and 13% (38 patients/physician/year) respectively. Although workforce feminization, and to a lesser extent aging, contributed to these declines, the primary driver is a broad secular trend toward reduced clinical activity over time. Removing the effect of this trend while allowing for demographic shifts would have resulted in an additional 2.03 million patient contacts by 2011/12, the equivalent of one additional physician visit for half of BC's population.
Conclusion: Despite overall growth in PCP supply in BC, shrinking per-physician levels of service delivery and practice size have meant that the increased supply has not kept pace with demand. Workforce feminization and aging both contributed to the reduction in activity over time, but their effects were dwarfed by the secular decline in activity levels observed among all PCPs.
Access to primary health care and the hospitalization rates for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in First Nations communities in Manitoba
Presenting author: Naser Ibrahim, University of Manitoba
Co-authors: Josée Lavoie, Wanda Philips, Stephanie Sinclair, Grace Kyoon-Achan, Kathi Avey Kinew, Alan Katz
The objective of this study was to assess the performance of models of PHC delivered in FN communities in Manitoba, using hospitalization rates for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSC) as a key indicator. The iPHIT study is a partnership between Nanaadawewigamig, the First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba (FNHSSM), researchers from the University of Manitoba, Manitoba Health, and 63 FN Communities from Manitoba.
We used administrative claims data (1986-2013) housed at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy which includes all Manitoba residents insured under the Manitoba Health Services Insurance Plan. Data was analyzed using generalized estimating equation logistic regression, controlled for age, sex, and socioeconomic status to find the relationship between hospitalization rates for ACSC and models of PHC in FN communities.
The study shows that the hospitalizations rates for acute and chronic conditions have decreased over time in FN communities, but the rates are increasing for mental health related admissions. FN communities served by Nursing Stations had lower admission rates for all ACSC compared to the other models of care. Nevertheless, Manitoba FN people living in FN communities have significantly higher hospitalization rates compared to other Manitoba residents.
In conclusion, local access to a broader complement of responsive PHC is associated with lower admission rates for ACSC. Improving access to PHC in FN communities, to an extent comparable to a Nursing Station model could lead to a reduction in avoidable hospitalization rates in these communities.
Development of a provincial evaluation framework for A GP for Me: Measuring collective impact
Presenting author: Sarah Fielden, Doctors of BC
Co-authors: Andi Cuddington, Kathi Hendry, Garey Mazowita, John Hamilton, and the GPSC Evaluation Working Group
Context: Evidence suggests that patients who have an ongoing relationship and are "attached" to a primary care provider have better health outcomes. A GP for Me is a province-wide initiative funded by the Government of BC and Doctors of BC with the goals of helping BC residents find a regular family physician and strengthening the physician/patient relationship.
Problem/issue: A provincial evaluation framework was required to help guide and assess the initiative. This presentation describes the process of its development. It utilized a two-pronged approach that addressed the need for province-wide as well as community-based measurement in partnership with the Divisions of Family Practice (DofFP) across BC. The evaluation framework was based on the five core conditions of the Collective Impact evaluation approach* and included learnings of three prototype Divisions' projects (2010-2013).
Intervention: A GP for Me supports DofFP-led projects emerging from community-based assessment of need. Interventions are diverse throughout the province but include themes of: physician recruitment and retention; 'medical-home' development; and optimizing physician practice office efficiency. Creation of the evaluation framework development was informed by the US Center for Disease Control model and included stakeholder engagement and an overarching logic model.
Measurement: Based on reviewing Canadian primary care evaluation models, domains were selected to categorize outcomes: health system performance; quality of care; governance and policy; and partnership. Key outcomes were informed by goals of the initiative as well as the US Institute of Health Improvement's Triple Aim. Quality indicators were selected based on three main criteria: scientific soundness; potential feasibility; and capturing an important performance aspect.
Challenges & lessons learned: Challenges of the process included: timeliness, data access and reporting, and the multiplicity of strategies proposed to address community-level needs. The primary lessons learned relate to beginning the evaluation process and engaging with relevant partners as early as possible and aligning measurement with existing evidence.


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Is PAM necessary for any of the above to work?
I thought the above applications like openldap , samba ,...etc use their own database for users , groups or security permissions. Or do they need PAM.
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I ran sound for a couple of bands this past Saturday night for their "St. Patrick's Day Bash". I've worked sound with some of the musicians in the past, but not in this band (there was an opening band, but I know nothing about them). Well, someone asked me who I was doing sound for this weekend. I had no idea. I never asked the name of the band. So I decided to look it up.
First I went to the find the FaceBook page of the guy that hired me, Ed. I couldn't find Ed's FB page (he and I aren't "friends"). So I went the club's FB page. No schedule of events. No postings on their wall as to who was playing. But they did have a link to their website, so I went there. On their website, I could easily see who was playing next week, but not this week. Apparently they already updated their site, though a little too soon.
Hmm... Wait a minute, I think I know who their guitar player is... Let me look on his FB page (he is "friends" with me and maybe he is in this band). Again, I don't see any reference to him playing out, or even the name of his band. But I keep scrolling down his FB page... Eventually I see a posting by Ed (the guy that hired me). Cool. I'll go to Ed's FB page. No reference to him playing a gig nor to the name of his band. So I continue scrolling down his page. Eventually, I see a post by Ed mentioning his band's new webpage, so I followed the link.
All in all a nice looking page. Obviously a cookie-cutter page from the hosting site, but it is clean. But no gig announcement. SO I start clicking around. They have a link that says "calendar". Cool, I will look there. It brings of a full calendar (month of March showing). The holidays are listed, including "St. Patrick's Day", but no obvious gig. However, St. Patrick's was listed as being on Saturday, not Sunday. So I hover my mouse over it, and sure enough it is a link. I click it... Finally I know the name of the band that is playing.
BTW: I have been through a very similar situation with a couple regulars here in this forum (HC, not just BSWTB). There have been a couple of people that I've wanted to go check out. In many cases, I couldn't find out when their next gig was (even though I knew their band's name, FB page, and web page) or where it was. I would see posts like, "can't wait to play tonight", but no mention as to where!
My point to this is that I had to do an awful amount of work to find out who was playing where and when, even when I already had some of the information. Do you think your average fan or person looking for a place to go hang out and watch live music would have been this persistent? Hell no.
You have a few seconds, maximum, to get out your message to a fan. If you're playing a gig and want people there, make that the 1st thing they see on every outlet available to you (that includes the venue's sites). People are not going to your site because they want to look at that picture of you playing that one gig last April. They are going there to find out when they can see you. Make it so that they can't miss it.


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We have implemented a bunch of Angular 1 Kendo controls into our application. We have been encountering some slowness on the front end with the browser freezing when transitioning view states. I did some investigating, and was able to identify the issue as being related to the destroy methods kendo has implemented.
I put in some performance testing code around the destroys, and for EACH calendar control on the page, the .destroy() method is taking ~100ms, and for kendo windows, it is taking ~120-160ms per instance. If I comment the destroy method calls out, the page runs smoothly (but obviously we open ourselves up to memory leaks, so probably not a viable option).
We have plenty of our own directives on the page, and destroying all our controls collectively takes under 5ms. Why is each instance of these kendo controls taking 20+ more time than the rest of our controls combined? Is this a known issue?
We aren't doing anything overly fancy with our implementation, below is how our date picker is implemented.
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We are using ~6 month old version of the library, however updating it to the latest made no improvement.
Any help would be appreciated!
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The issue I am seeing is directly in the kendo library itself. The method in question is kendo.destroy under initWidget.
kendo.destroy = function (element) {
$(element).find('[data-' + kendo.ns + 'role]').addBack().each(function () {
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if (key.indexOf('kendo') === 0 && typeof data[key].destroy === FUNCTION) {
The line: data[key].destroy(); is what seems to be taking a lot of time per control.It seems that this destroy is occurring automatically (which makes sense as per the documentation stating: "Kendo UI widgets are destroyed automatically when the web page is unloaded.")
Attached is an image of the javascript CPU profile from the Chrome debugger.
You are correct, that it seems manually invoking the destroy seems to be much faster, therefore I attempted to add the $scope.$on('$destroy', function(){}) hook within our directives so that we can destroy the elements manually, but unfortunately the slower, automatic Kendo destroy is invoked before the hook in our directive, so we can't preemptively destroy them this way. Is there a means in which we could implement the destroy via the $scope.$on('$destroy') hook before the automatic destroy so that the directives can manage destroying the contained kendo controls themselves? Do we have to destroy them at the controller level?
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I think we can come up with a solution to get around this (something such as broadcasting our own destroy event from the controllers on $scope.$on("$destroy") hook, as the controller destroy hook runs first).
Thanks for your assistance Stefan!


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Colombia (0-0-1) vs. France (1-0)
World Cup: Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 1:00 pm (Canada)
The Line: Colombia +1556 / France -1163 -- Over/Under: See the Latest Odds
France and Colombia meet Saturday afternoon in their second match of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.
France is coming off a 1-0 victory in its opening match, as Eugenie Le Sommer's first half goal was the difference. France controlled the match 58 percent of the time and got four of its 16 shot attempts on goal. France was the aggressor throughout the match, as it stuck to its uptempo and rapid style. While the offense gets much of the credit, France also did a great job of limiting opportunities, as England got just three shots all match and only one on goal. Although a close score, France dominated both sides of the field and should feel confident heading into this match. However, France still walks a fine line of being too aggressive, which at times results in sloppy play and turnovers. Louisa Necib will make her mark at some point.
Colombia is coming off a 1-1 draw against Mexico, as Daniela Montoya's late goal gave her country a point. Colombia controlled the ball for 44 percent of the match and got two of its seven shot attempts on goal. Colombia's defense, which is what this team is known for, led the way, as Mexico got just one shot on goal all game, which of course, was the one that found the net. While great defensively, Colombia has to be smarter, as it committed 25 fouls and three yellow cards. Colombia now has one goal in four World Cup games and has to be willing to be a little more aggressive on the offensive end if it hopes to advance. Look for Hazleidy Rincon to provide more of a boost.
This will be a fun match, as France wants to push the pace offensively and get tons of shots on goal, while Colombia wants to sit back and play elite defense.
Which style is going to prevail?
Call me crazy, but I like the value of Colombia and the upset. Colombia has the defense to slow France down, as it allowed just ONE shot on goal against Mexico. A bounce here and there and Colombia could win outright. I'll take the shot in the dark.


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I come to poetry, storytelling and a love of language from my childhood because of the poems and stories I received from my tale-telling, poetry reciting, mandolin playing, master gardener grandfather. In all of my work—as a teaching artist, university teacher, poet and writer—whether with young immigrants and refugees, incarcerated youth or elders, or in writing poems and essays, or in activism for social justice, my deep trust in the possibilities of language to humanize us is guided by the complex beauty, vulnerability and soulful truth-telling within story and poetry.
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Merna is the founder and co-director of the Stories of Arrival: Youth Voices Poetry Project with a gifted ELL Classroom teacher, Carrie Stradley.
Merna is a poet, nationally known storyteller, and an essayist. She also teaches creative writing, social justice and humanities courses at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She has been a teaching poet for many years, though her career began as a pediatric nurse. She was in the first group of nurses to work with Elizabeth Kubler Ross, an experience that has shaped her life-work helping others give voice to their sorrow while discovering their sources of resilience. She has worked as a poet and storyteller at BRIDGES: A Center for Grieving Children in Tacoma and in pediatric hospitals, homeless shelters for teens and youth detention centers. She is honored to have received a 2008 Jack Straw Writers award, a National Storytelling Community Service Award and a National Storytelling Network Brimstone Award for Applied Storytelling. She continues to write essays and poems which have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.
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The young people who participate in our poetry project, now entering its sixth year, are refugees and immigrants. They create poems that speak to loss, forced migration, struggle and hope. We bring their voices to the larger community to educate and inform others about the consequences of war for young people who are caught in violent conflicts not of their own making. Our wish is to expand the ways in which others can learn how to welcome these young people and support them in reaching their dreams for education, citizenship and for contributing their profoundly humane and compassionate insights and gifts to the larger community.
High school age refugees and immigrants at Foster High School in Tukwila, WA, presently the most language diverse high school in the U.S. Our project participants have arrived in this country from many points around the globe including Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma, Democratic Republic of Congo, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Honduras, Iraq, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Russia, Somalia, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, and Vietnam.
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A main purpose of our project is to continue the amazing and powerful process of trusting the power of poetic expression that shapes the poems created in the project as evidenced by the expressions of young people who have walked through unimaginable difficulties and yet bring gifts of courage and hope to their poetry.
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To provide high school age refugees and immigrants with an opportunity to create poetry that will speak to their memories of their cultures and countries and their experiences as refugees and immigrants;
To share the moving poems that come forth in the project in innovative ways as a tool for spreading awareness about the tragic events and forces that cause and/or force people to emigrate, such as escaping war, communal violence, natural disasters and other circumstances that make their home countries unlivable;
To serve as a model for any school district or community organization that understands the need for approaches to teaching that reflect a keen awareness of the fact that our American-born students and our larger mainstream communities need to understand the immigrant and refugee experience. To this end our goal is to "put ourselves out there" with radio broadcasts, community visibility and ever expanding community outreach and partnerships;
To continue to create and sell our annual poetry anthology so that we can generate funds to support granting college scholarships for students in the project who write a winning essay as to what poetry means to them and how the project has and will continue to affect them as poets while they meet their dreams and goals for higher education.
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The students in Carrie Stradley's ELL classes at Foster High School in Tukwila, Washington have migrated from their home country due to war, violence, poverty, lack of education and health care and other issues that have affected their own and their family's safety and survival. Often these young people were forced out of their countries, separated from their families, and sent to refugee camps before arriving in the U.S. Each year of the past five, the students in the project have created an inspiring poetry anthology with beautifully crafted poems that tell of loved ones, loved places, loss, dreams and hopes.
For many participants, this opportunity is their first experience with creative writing. The students are individually mentored which supports them in improving their English language writing skills. They also receive professional voice coaching and the opportunity to record one of their poems in a state of the art sound studio at Jack Straw Cultural Center in Seattle, one of our project partners. One of the many benefits of our partnership with Jack Straw Cultural Center is that they send the recordings of our students' poems to a local Public Radio station, KBCS, 91.3 FM. The poems are broadcast throughout April in honor of National Poetry Month. In this way our poets' compelling stories reach the wider community so that listeners increase their understanding of the consequences of war and forced migrations on the lives of young people. That the young people in our project can articulate their own sense of longing, grief, and hope as it connects to both the experience of living through heartbreaking conflicts and to creating peaceful solutions to war and the effects of poverty, discrimination and violence is a tribute to the power of poetry.
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Wednesday, 24 November 2010
dream city
I hadn't been back to Barcelona for two years before my little trip a couple of weeks ago. As often when I revisit a place, I was struck not by what had changed but at how familiar everything was. I lived there for a year and a half, and I lived there intensively: constantly biking through old and new streets, taking the metro to far flung corners, walking everywhere. Bicycles are the best way to see a city; you don't worry about getting a bit lost because you can backtrack quickly, and they're a great way to zip through dodgy neighbourhoods at night! Also for chasing down people who try to steal your bag. Anyway, it was lovely but strange being back. I walked across the whole city one night alone and never doubted my way once, anticipating the buildings before they appeared, and thinking at almost every café I passed "Oh, I had a coffee/beer/clara/lunch there! ; )
And it was a little bittersweet too, knowing that in one week I could never do even a quarter of the things that made Barcelona my own special city, that it wasn't quite mine any more, that I would soon be gone again.
Waiting by Café Zurich, the meeting place of all Barcelona. And everyone is always late.
dress: Vero Moda
top and jacket: Smart Set
tights: Dorothy Perkins
shoes: ebay
shawl: second hand
37 comments:
- Closet Fashionista said...
Sooo fun! i love your tights and shoes :D
- 24 November 2010 at 01:31
- Raquel said...
You make me miss Barcelona as well Emily, and I've only been there for a week! It's truly an amazing city and I can imagine myself riding a bike through the streets! Though I walked a lot and got the metro while I was there.
Maybe you can get a job in Barcelona after you finish your master's ;)
About the outfit, I love the romantic feel of the tights, you look so lovely! And those are the kind of shoes that I really need, and can't get due to shopping ban grrr, I'm really upset now because I had to spend a lot of money in order to get documents, translations and even mail, and can't spend it on shoes! lol
PS: Regarding your coat! It was an amazing buy, even 85 pounds, which is like 100 euros us great for a 100% wool AND handmade coat!
- 24 November 2010 at 01:46
- Emily, Ruby Slipper Traveller said...
@ Raquel: I only wish there were real jobs to be had in Barcelona. I think now there aren't any in the whole of the Iberian Peninsula, your problem and mine...
- 24 November 2010 at 01:49
- Terri said...
Emily--what wonderful lights. The photo in the "alley" (I don't think that is the precise word)is lovely. Living smack dab in Oz, where so much depends on an automobile, I can't imagine a city so livable one could bike everywhere.
- 24 November 2010 at 02:20
- A said...
Nice pictures once again. We lived in Europe for sometimes and used to visit different places every weekend. I love European towns, streets to walk and CAFE. We will sit there for hours.
Amsterdam is another Bicycle city...you may want to visit in summer
- 24 November 2010 at 03:13
- Shannon said...
Really lovely pictures, it looks so pretty there and I love your tights!!
- 24 November 2010 at 03:43
- ching said...
oh wow Barcelona looks like such a lively place. :D looking great dear.
- 24 November 2010 at 03:44
- NRIGirl said...
Love to bike
- 24 November 2010 at 03:48
- Anything but Bland said...
I know what you mean about not being able to do and see everything or maybe just something new? It is disappointing, but hopefully you had a spectacular time despite the fact. Thank you SO much for your thought provoking comment.. I really enjoyed reading it!
love, polly :)
- 24 November 2010 at 04:35
- Kristen said...
I'm so jealous you get to live/go to these wonderful places! How do you do it?!
- 24 November 2010 at 05:13
- 20 York Street said...
Ah Barcelona, yo lo quiero! And the tardiness!
Those are really cool looking rental bikes! Have you seen the ones we have in Ottawa and Montreal? The Bixis!
- 24 November 2010 at 06:08
- Chelsea Lane said...
I llllooovveee those tights! your outfit is so cute here <3
- 24 November 2010 at 06:57
- Fleur-de-Lis said...
Your photos are great! I've never been to barcelona. It's almost ridiculous - I live in Portugal, so near, and yet, I have no €€€ to travel or clothes -.- Oh well, we can't complaint anyway. It's great to dream and I now I'll visit many things someday :)
Until then, I'm also glad you share your photos ^^
- 24 November 2010 at 10:13
- Green Tea and Cupcakes said...
Love your tights, cute look.
- 24 November 2010 at 13:26
- danniekate said...
i love barcelona, such a stunning city! great tights x
- 24 November 2010 at 14:12
- Shanna Maren said...
My mum's been to Barcelona, but without me. I really want to go there!
- 24 November 2010 at 16:37
- daisychain said...
I LOVE your tights.
- 24 November 2010 at 17:35
- CAITLIN said...
what a lovely post :) i definitely know how it feels to go back to a place you once lived and feel like you basically want to relive everything at once. there's never enough time to satisfy nostalgia.
your tights are spectacular. get thee to a drugstore and pick up some red lipstick! you could totally pull it off :)
- 24 November 2010 at 18:54
- Erin Cathleen said...
Wow, it's so pretty there. I love the lighting in your photos, particularly the first one. And your outfit's adorable. Gotta love those sweet tights!
Goodness, if I had the chance to live somewhere like Barcelona, I'd never want to leave!
Happy travels...
- 24 November 2010 at 19:24
- Starr Crow said...
your tights and shoes are adorable x 1000! i would love to go to Barcelona one day. :)
- 24 November 2010 at 20:30
- Shallow Mallow said...
Such cute tights :) Lovely outfit & photos.
It 's so strange returning to a place you used to know like the back of your hand.
I visited some friends a while back who'd moved into a house I lived in before. I kept having to remind myself that I didn't live there anymore. It was odd because I knew where everything was and in a sense I knew more than them about the place (origins of stains, holes in the plaster, what was underneath each paint job hastily completed by my housemates and me) It was sort of freaky being back as a guest. Obviously that was just one house, not a whole city :D
- 24 November 2010 at 20:50
- Amber Blue Bird said...
beautiful photos and I love your tights. I feel the same way when I visit New York like it doesnt belong to me anymore...bittersweet is the best word to describe it.
- 24 November 2010 at 20:54
- johanna said...
So pretty. I love Barcelona! Take a look on my blog and feel free to follow me, I would love if we could follow each other, ohh and if you have twitter you can add me too or facebook . I would be so glad. ♥, Jo
- 24 November 2010 at 21:10
- Ashley said...
Oh my gosh, I love every picture here!!! :)
In one picture it looks like you are holding a little Turkish evil eye, but maybe it's just a button :D haha.
- 24 November 2010 at 22:23
- ana said...
I was in Barcelona 10 years ago!! OMG you made me remember those good days!! It's such a beautiful city! Your outfit is gorgeous!
- 24 November 2010 at 22:35
- Brittany said...
Its so pretty there, jealous :) I love those tights theyre so great!
- 24 November 2010 at 23:29
- Lisa said...
lucky girl to be in barcelona..love your tights too!
- 25 November 2010 at 01:09
- Kayraheart.fashion said...
Adorable!! Amazing tights!!
- 25 November 2010 at 03:52
- La Vagabond Dame said...
Beautiful place! It's one of my go-to places for when I'm older! Great post and blog :)
stop by sometime, xx nat
- 25 November 2010 at 05:02
- Rio said...
Aww must have been bittersweet for you :). I always feel slightly sad going back somewhere that I've spent a lot of time! I love your tights and red top, and you look adorable in the bike shots! ;)
- 25 November 2010 at 06:15
- hiven said...
Beautiful as always. You're on my blogroll :) x hivennn.
- 25 November 2010 at 12:08
- Emily, Resplendent Tranquility said...
First things first. It's a good thing we're an ocean apart or else I'd probably find a way to swipe those tights from you! ;) I love how they look with your white dress and red top. How are your shoes holding up?
However bittersweet, it looks like you were able to capture enough special moments in your special city to fill your heart until you can return again :)
RE: Oh, that is tragic about the UK and pumpkin spice lattes. I can believe it! A friend of mine moved to England to be married and she'll often tell me of things she misses or foodstuffs her husband has never had.
- 25 November 2010 at 14:19
- qatch said...
Great! Barcelona is so amazing. I can see you had a great (and fashionable) time :)
- 25 November 2010 at 17:02
- Anthea said...
What a treat it is to see the streets of so many wonderful places on your blog. Aside:love the tights!
Embracing Style
- 26 November 2010 at 15:47
- Katz NYC said...
Gosh I miss Europe. So laid back, walking and biking everywhere unlike the Americans and their love for driving cars everywhere. Lovely shots of the city. Have a great weekend!
- 26 November 2010 at 18:01
- Megan said...
I love Barcelona. I've been twice and can't wait to go back someday.
- 27 November 2010 at 04:11
- Molly said...
You look so beautiful and "at home" in the city. PLUS, I love your tights. Glad you had a great visit!!
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- 29 November 2010 at 02:14


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A very long, detailed and fair article about Iraq by Ullrich Fichtner in Der Speigel. It moves from achievement in Ramadi, to virtual despair in Baghdad and then north to hope in Mosul. It is rich in characters, American and Iraqi, and including Petraeus. How I admire the restraint of the man. His assessment has developed from [in January] "The situation is not satisfactory." to [in July] "it gives rise to hope".
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Ramadi is an irritating contradiction of almost everything the world thinks it knows about Iraq -- it is proof that the US military is more successful than the world wants to believe. Ramadi demonstrates that large parts of Iraq -- not just Anbar Province, but also many other rural areas along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers -- are essentially pacified today. This is news the world doesn't hear: Ramadi, long a hotbed of unrest, a city that once formed the southwestern tip of the notorious "Sunni Triangle," is now telling a different story, a story of Americans who came here as liberators, became hated occupiers and are now the protectors of Iraqi reconstruction.The final words are
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text: I got a very nice PM today asking if I had written anymore from a timeline I wrote a few years ago and it is indeed quite long but also unfinished! I've also divided it up to make it more readable. It's probably not edited as well as it could be considering how young I was when I started. Well, I'm still young. I've been focusing lately on adding visuals such as maps to help the reader and I have a few but there are far, far more words than visuals. WARNING: This is not for British Empire lovers. PART I: WORLD FROM 1807-1860 Chapter 1: Conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars The Defeat of Portugal and the Triumph of the Continental System The year 1807 began with Napoleon Bonaparte in firm control of Europe. In the past two years his armies, fighting under the red, white and blue Tricolor which had been the scourge of traditional European regimes for fifteen years, had brushed away Continental resistance. The fields of Austerlitz, Jena and others were bathed in his imperial glory. Only Great Britain remained defiant. Their great victory, taking place on water off Cape Trafalgar, was still cause to triumph as a Briton. Because of their naval superiority and the French superiority on land, the war had reached a stalemate of sorts. Napoleon resorted to economic warfare under a system known as the Continental System, aimed to isolate the British from trade with the Continent. In late 1807 only Denmark and Portugal remained opened to British trade. Soon, however, Denmark was attacked by the British in a desperate ploy to save the Danish navy from falling into French hands and as a result the old Danish king was forced to ally himself with Napoleon. Only Portugal remained. Portugal remained a thorn in the side of Napoleon. The ancient alliance between his enemies across the channel and the Portuguese could prove disastrous for the French Emperor. He cajoled the Spanish into attacking Portugal which was done in late 1807. The French invasion of Portugal was precipitated by the latter's lack of embrace for the Continental System. To the Spanish court, this was taken as a warning and Spain vowed to not make the same mistake its Iberian neighbor did. Under the leadership of the largely unpopular Prime Minister Manuel Godoy, appeasement to the French Emperor became the predominant attitude for the Spanish government. Defiant Portugal was quickly subdued in a brief campaign involving numerous victories from the armée du Portugal under General Junot. Backed by numerous Spanish divisions, Junot proved to be a capable commander in defeating the Portuguese. With Iberia thus under the Continental System, Napoleon was content on leaving the Peninsula alone. It may have crossed his mind to take advantage of his Spanish allies while so many French soldiers were in the area, but no orders were given out to act. On the Third of May, 1808 the French and Spanish signed the Treaty of Madrid which reinforced the Franco-Spanish relationship. As for Portugal itself, the country was divided into three parts as per the Treaty of Madrid. The southern portion, with a northern border on River Tagus, was given to Manuel Godoy who was crowned King of the Algarve, title of the ruler of the area which was known as the Kingdom of Southern Lusitania. His coronation was met with both enthusiasm and relief by Spaniards; they were glad to have him out of their country. Everything north of the River Douro was greedily annexed by Spain while the left over land remained Portugal. Only the crown changed hands in this area. Dom Joao VI was replaced by Joseph Bonaparte, older brother to the Emperor, who became Dom Jose I. The partition of Portugal further strengthened the relationship between France and Spain. Although there were a few resistance groups in Portugal, most insurrections were ruthlessly crushed with the use of the armée du Portugal and the newly promoted Marshal Duvot. The Immediate Effects of the Portuguese Defeat During the chaos that inflicted Portugal during its conquests by the French, the Portuguese royal family of the ancient Bragança line was forced to flee their homeland. They managed to escape Portugal and sail to Brazil under heavy Royal Navy escort. When Dom Joao VI learned of the conquest and partition of his country he was deeply shaken but established himself as King of Brazil and Portugal. The fact that Brazil came first in the illustrious title mirrored his idea that the regaining of his homeland would be futile especially since most insurrections had thus far been successfully put down. Nevertheless, the very fact that the true Portuguese king lived and reigned inspired many resistance groups to act. Still more Portuguese actually left their homes in Portugal and made the arduous transatlantic journey to Brazil, to settle among loyal Portuguese. Although some hotheads vowed to fight for their mother country, others were content in Brazil. The arrival of the cream of Portuguese society enhanced the power of Brazil on the South American continent and the former aristocracy of Portugal became the ruling class of Brazil. However, it left actual Portugal without many of its traditional leaders, allowing for Spanish and French people to take over many functions there. The defeat of Portugal with the combined forces of France and Spain expelled the British totally from the continent. They thus committed themselves to destroying the trade Spain had with her American holdings and blockading European ports. Rather then seek an honorable peace with Britain, the Spanish and French went about reorganizing their navies with plans to create a new fleet "from the ashes of Trafalgar". Not that they did not try diplomatically. On the contrary, Napoleon was very much in want for a peace with Britain so long as they admitted defeat. Britain was by no means defeated and declared they would fight till Europe was rid of the Bonaparte menace. Their defiance was comforting to other defeated nations on the Continent who soon rose up to help the British in their fight. The Fifth Coalition The Austrians bravely entered the war with Britain on April 10th, 1809 but the lack of either Russia or Prussia on their side resulted in a disastrous war for Austria. It was shrewd diplomacy and vague monetary promises from the vast vaults of the British Treasury that enticed the Hapsburgs into war; however it was quite unpopular once announced. It is wrong however to say the Austrians were completely drawn into this futile war because of greed. They wanted to avenge the memory of Austerlitz that had haunted the Austrian nation for nearly four years. A series of reforms and improvements in the Austrian army gave the Austrian leaders false hope that a victory would be easy. Strategists for the Austrians noted a number of pros for their side. With the majority of French soldiers at the coastline and elsewhere, the border with Bavaria was quite thin. Certainly the reforms had strengthened the Austrian confidence and they were eager to have another shot at the French. Austrian military leaders hoped for a series of quick blows to the French that would culminate in a favorable peace for them. They were quite wrong on a number of counts: The army in Bavaria had been reinforced with veterans from Portugal and the French were highly aware of the Austrian reforms. The short war culminated in the crushing Battle of Wagram in which the Austrian army was nearly wiped out. The Treaty of Schönbrunn was concluded on October 14th 1809 which gave 75 million francs to France as well as much of the Adriatic coastline and various other lands to Bavaria, Warsaw and Russia. It was a total humiliation for the Hapsburgs. Meanwhile the Netherlands were formally annexed to France in 1810. Napoleon's displeasure at the way his brother Louis was handling business of state led to the action. Louis in turn retired to his Duchy in Berg and Cleaves while the French Empire increased in size. In 1810, a marshal of Napoleon, Charles Bernadotte was chosen to be crown prince of Sweden, a position he graciously accepted. He became King Charles XIV in 1818 at the death of his adopted father, Charles XIII. His treatment of Swedish prisoners had made him popular in Sweden and he was elected heir to the Swedish throne, a post he held from 1818-1848. Fight against Britain The British blockade of both France and Spain was kept although by this time the British were extremely overstretched. With just Britain left to fight Napoleon turned once again to his navy to vanquish his old foe. The war, which had been going on for more or less eighteen years, now entered its "Naval Stage". A massive new fleet, backed by the millions of francs gained from recent wars, was put on order to be completed by 1813. His plan was just to gain naval superiority in the channel for just a few days at most or at least keep the English out of their channel. Starting in 1809 much more attention was spent on naval affairs and not even secretly. Headed by the capable Denis Decrès the French Navy started to slowly and surely rebuild itself and with little British interference. The Royal Navy was overstretched as it was from blockading much of Europe. Admiral Decrès also founded the Académie française impériale de la marine in early 1809 with the aim of turning out capable sailors. Previously the lack of capable sailors was what led to the defeat of the French but soon hundreds are applying from across France. For many, the navy appeared to be the "way to go" as it was where the future and glory lay. Certain incentives were handed out toward possible recruits and sailors enjoyed, at least for this period, a higher pay than the average soldier. The Académie was one of the best of its kind. It provided tough training for future sailors and in order to graduate each sailor needed a certain amount of time at sea. This was sometimes hard to do because of the British blockade but by the time the class of 1813 had graduated, the Académie had turned out over five thousand capable sailors. British public opinion remained staunchly anti-French with peace "out of the question" for most, despite a growing imperial navy, lack of foreign allies and no British troops on the continent anywhere, save Gibraltar. Under the government of Spencer Perceval the British began to strengthen their shore defenses which have been built and rebuilt time and again with each invasion threat. Perceval's anti-Catholic bigotry strengthened feelings of Anglophobia across Catholic Europe, most notably in France. His administration saw the Orders of Council drafted to counter the Continental System. These were generally unpopular and led to his assassination by John Bellingham in May, 1812. He was succeeded by Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool who was a very capable and all around good man. He mediated the opposing sides and created a coalition government, the first of any kind in Britain, against the new French threat which was quite evident by June 1812. Liverpool's kind and honest attitude gave the British strength during the invasion scare of 1812-1813. Meanwhile the French fleet had grown tremendously especially with the help of patriotic funds across France which helped pay for many ships. Even though the Continental System was beginning to show a strain on Europe, the funds for the great naval projects were never dried as Napoleon put it at top priority. The Second Imperial Flotilla, numbering some 2,300 ships by mid-1813, was comprised of some original ships from 1803-1804 but most were new. Also by that time a staggering 70 new French warships had been created - yet all remained in French harbors due to a much strengthened British blockade. It was led by the incapable Admiral St Vincent who was nearly eighty years old, former First Lord of the Admiralty, yet still a self-proclaimed hero. This seemed to be the same situation as 1805 except there was no inspiring Nelson, accomplished Cornwallis or sturdy Pitt to guide Britain. In fact the deep debt Britain was in because of the creation of more ships was starting to hurt the economy and several were put on hold. The English had no massive amounts of war booty to help support their navy They had, rather, irregular convoys from far flung colonies which were increasingly under attack by French and Spanish raiders. In January 1813 Napoleon appointed Admiral Ganteaume as commander-in-chief of the Grand Imperial Fleet which was supposed to rendezvous at Brest in April of that year. This would include numerous Spanish ships under the command of Admiral Hidalgo de Cismeros who was wounded at Trafalgar. Around 30 French ships and 15 were in ports east of the straits with a further 7 French, 12 Spanish and 4 Portuguese (built in the puppet state under King Joseph) west of the straits on the Atlantic. The remaining 33 French warships were across French Atlantic ports, 23 of them in Brest alone. This gave a total of 101 ships for the Grand Imperial Fleet! The order of battle of the Combined Fleet on February 10th 1813 – Mediterranean Fleet (Admiral Allemand) Toulon 13 French warships 1 French warship Marseilles 9 French warships Cartagena 4 French warships 10 Spanish warships Other (Italy, etc.) 4 French warships 4 Spanish warships Iberian Atlantic Fleet (Admiral Rosily) Cadiz 5 French warships 3 Spanish warships El Ferrol/La Coruna 2 French warships 6 Spanish warships Vigo 3 Spanish warships 4 Portuguese warships Atlantic Fleet (Admiral Gourdon) Brest 23 French warships Rochefort 10 French warships February 21st 1813 saw the departure of Allemand's Mediterranean fleet, with the Toulon and Marseilles squadrons (a total of 23 ships) meeting the next day. Sailing toward Cartagena to meet up with the 14 warships there, they met head-on into elements British Mediterranean Fleet numbering 15 ships by the Balearics. It was a surprising French victory resulting in the captire of one prize as the British fled eastward.The Battle of Minorca becomes the first French naval victory in an extremely long time. Meeting up with the ships in Italy and those at Cartagena, the French Mediterranean Fleet was chased by the somewhat superior British fleet past Gibraltar. A number of inconclusive actions between the two fleets resulted in the loss of two French ships, but the French managed to sail out of the straits by the 28th of February. The further blockade of French ports, especially Brest result in the delay in time for them to rendezvous. One particularly bad storm one day blew the British blockade away from Rochefort and the French there are quick to move towards the Iberian Atlantic Fleet, which had been moving north. The entire Iberian Fleet and Rochefort squadron meet on March 11th creating a fleet of 33 ships. The French Mediterranean Fleet attempts to catch up with this new fleet and reaches El Ferrol on March 15th, soon after the Iberian Fleet had left it. In the second time during the campaign, a storm hurt the British blockade and the French slipped out of Brest to meet with the Iberian and Rochefort elements after sailing south for a day. On April 3rd the Mediterranean fleet met and combined with the large fleet southwest of Brest, thus creating a massive fleet of 99 ships. Admiral Ganteaume - who was aboard his flagship the Empereur and was part of the original Rochefort squadron - was delighted with the massive fleet and he promptly sailed the fleet toward the British and a great battle. Within site of the port city of Brest a great battle was fought. Opposing the large French fleet of 99 ships was the British Channel Fleet, comprised primarily of those ships that had blockaded Brest along with a couple dozen more. They numbered 62 ships of the line under the Admiral St Vincent. Behind the French were the 14 ships of the British Mediterranean Fleet in addition to 13 others that tagged along, most from the Atlantic, bringing a total of 27 ships behind the French. However this fleet kept a respectful distance for a number of reasons. One, their commander was afraid the French would turn on their smaller fleet and destroy the two British fleets one by one. Second, they were unable to combine with the Channel fleet because the French were blocking the way. On April 29th, 1813 the Battle of Brest commenced, resulting in thousands of deaths which, to many, gave the battle the superlative as the worst and most horrendous battle fought on water in human history. It lasted nearly 24 hours and not a ship came out unscathed. Despite being extremely outnumbered the British managed to sink 3 French ships and capture 6. However the French were just as successful, sinking 2 and capturing a magnificent 24 ships! Admiral St Vincent was wounded but managed to escape the battle on the HMS Victory. Many British ships were damaged and unable to sail back and an additional 7 were captured. The outstanding numbers of the French fleet and their courage can not be overshadowed by the effort put into place by the Royal Navy who fought gallantly and with awesome skill. Years of training for many French officers and sailors for the moment helped to contribute to their ultimate victory. The Battle of Brest was the twilight of the British Empire and the end of their supremacy on the seas. To the horrified British public, peace suddenly seemed nearer than ever before. The vanquished Channel Fleet fled back to their ports to make much needed repairs while most sailors were taken off the ships with many cannon to help guard the coastline against the inevitable invasion. The Mediterranean fleet backs away from the massive and victorious French fleet but shadows them. Slowly and surely the French fleet now number 75 - minus losses and prize escort duty - sailed into the Channel now almost unopposed. The Second Imperial Flotilla, numbering 2,300 ships, sets sail with their full complement setting their sights on England. Around 200,000 men had waited for the invasion for twenty two months at several mammoth army camps across northern France. It had taken a tremendous effort to feed the men during the waiting tenure and at last they were ready to move. When the time came, these veterans of Austerlitz, Jena, Lisbon, and Wagram boarded their ships and sailed, with great dreams of conquest, to England. The landings took place in Kent, as anticipated by the Duke of York, commander-in-chief of the British defense forces and second son of King George III. The defenses in Kent were by far the strongest with many squat yet powerful Martello towers hindering any sort of French advance. A withering fire from the French Navy helped demolish some defenses but when the first French troops landed just to the north of Dover on May 1st 1813 they were met by a terrible fire from the strong defenses present there. General Dundas of the Kent military district had 90,000 soldiers at his disposal that day, with 20,000 in the Dover area. For a moment it had seemed like the French would falter, but a push drove the British away from their frontal defenses and within a few hours French troops were pouring into the area including the first artillery batteries. Towards the evening of "the Fateful First" Dundas launched a disorganized counterattack which was an immediate failure as units (the majority being freshly created militia comprised of enthusiastic volunteers) failed to coordinate their efforts and were defeated piecemeal by the newly landed French. An attempt to land south of Dover early the next day was repulsed due to the heroic efforts of the 50th West Kent Regiment under General James Duff who repulsed three efforts to land in this particular stretch of coastline. However this small victory was quickly overshadowed by growing events north of Dover, as more and more French troops landed. By the end of the second day the French had advanced ten miles inland and Marshal Davout's entire corps of 65,000 had been landed in an outstanding organizational feat. May 3rd saw the attack on Dover itself take place which fell on the 4th following a costly battle. The third of May also saw Napoleon himself arrive on the island which was a massive propaganda event and a gigantic morale booster. He took command of the invasion from that point. The fall of Dover provided the French with an adequate port to land the remaining troops which soon happened from May 5th - May 15th. Meanwhile light cavalry were making raids as far as Canterbury and on May 6th the 80,000 men present marched north to take that town, as well as nearby Sandwich. The Battle of Canterbury was fought on May 10th and further showed that the new militia was not proving itself to be very worthy in battle. Not at all short of bravery, they were short of skill and organization despite the best efforts of veteran officers. A French victory thoroughly crushed a part of the defenders here resulting in 2,000 British casualties. The British retreated to west of Canterbury and thus gave up all of eastern tip of Kent to the invaders. The French continued to advance westwards toward London and a series of small engagements did not halt the great blue columns of France. Militia and regular units from all over Britain were streaming south toward London and a great showdown was inevitable. By May 15th, approximately 200,000 French soldiers were in Kent with a daily shipment of reserves from France coming into Dover. The French met many setbacks, including a very hostile civilian population and the flooding of the Romney Marshes, although the latter wasn't as successful as it planned to be. The 200,000-strong army advanced as a solid wall, ravaging the countryside for food and fodder. About 225,000 British soldiers were in the London area at this time under the command of the Duke of York and they set out toward Rochester, with men continuing to arrive in London. By no coincidence the large French army was moving toward Rochester. Napoleon realized that without defeating the British in a large-scale battle, he cannot take London and win this war decisively. That battle came on May 23rd - 25th 1813. The British were barring the way to Rochester by setting up just to the southeast of it. Their left flank was the River Thames while their right was given the most attention and commanded by a General Wellesley, who had won brilliant battles in India. The French however attacked the left flank in full force, turning it and causing the numerous militia there to retreat. The British in turn attacked the French salient - on the French right - thus drawing considerable numbers from the center and right. Another attack into the center broke through and now both salients joined together to surround some 5,000 British soldiers, who were led back as prisoners of war. The first day of battle ended in French victory. The next day the shattered divisions of the left and center withdrew to create an oblong line with Wellesley's undamaged divisions to be the anchor and most southern units. The French viciously attack the southern flank at dawn and after three bloody charges start to roll the British line up. The cost in life was horrendous and Wellesley's orderly retreat nearly turns into a chaotic route. Along the banks of the Thames were the soldiers of Soult's corps who would be the anvil in the next day's attacks. When night came, the cries of the wounded sounded and the piles of dead stacked up. The last day of the battle saw the British utterly surrounded save for Wellesley's divisions who held out against the French and retreated. Unfortunately they numbered a mere 54,000 by this time and the remainder of the British army was annihilated by the pincers known as Soult and Davout. Napoleon had won his victory at a tremendous cost. Seventeen thousand French and 25,000 British casualties littered the fields near Rochester while a further 20,000 were taken as prisoner, the majority being not-so-enthusiastic militia. The Duke of York's army was demoralized and beaten and the retreat back toward Greenwich was an unpleasant experience. When news of this defeat reached Prime Minister Liverpool he was visibly shaken but regained himself and vowed to throw this evil off the isles. Another French victory at Hastings by Marshal Ney's troops on the 27th was largely symbolic and British morale plummeted. The fighting continued deep into June although no significant battles took place until July 5th when the British launched a large offensive aimed at cutting the French from their supply lines. That offensive failed and the British were repulsed at the Battle of East Kent. During that battle General Wellesley was wounded and had his left leg amputated. London was reached two weeks later after long and bloody campaigns. The French numbers had dropped to 160,000 but reinforced to 210,000 after reserves came. A bloody battle for the outskirts began, with nearly the entire population pitching in to fight. The French could very well have been lost in the meat grinder known as London, but instead Napoleon asked for an "honorable peace" on August 1st. Since the invasion, public opinion had changed from anti-peace to pro-peace. Being alone in the world against the French menace and with Americans threatening Canada the British were in a poor position. Thousands were dying against Napoleon's large army whose reserves seemed limitless and Kent was devastated. Although the British were mobilizing across the island, the recent defeats had turned the tide. Prime Minister Liverpool, despite his earlier attitude, showed his mediating side and accepted Napoleon's offer for an honorable peace. The war was over. Delegates traveled to Paris while the large French army maintained its presence in Kent, fighting an occasional skirmish against rowdy soldiers. Finally after a month of deliberating the Treaty of Paris (1813) was signed. Napoleon was master of Europe. American entry Across the Atlantic in the halls of the American Capitol, the War Hawks were screaming for war against Great Britain for a variety of reasons. Most notably, the impressments of American citizens onto British ships and the instigation of Indians on the United State's western border were cause enough for war. The United States had long ago declared neutrality but its "Freedom of the Seas" doctrine was not recognized by Britain. Other War Hawks viewed an American conquest of Canada as glorious and necessary for counry. War was declared on June 1st 1812 and ratified on June 18th. Napoleon was quick to see the benefits of the American declaration of war on Britain and sent Talleyrand himself to Portugal to negotiate an alliance with the American ambassador there. The Agreement of Lisbon was signed on July 16th 1812 and brought the Americans and French together against Britain. Napoleon was delighted, but the Americans were somewhat reluctant as they saw Napoleon as more of a dictator that suppressed freedom rather than a man fighting for the liberties the United States cherished so highly. Nevertheless, the War Hawks were delighted at the thought of expelling the British from the North American continent and applauded the agreement. As the Battle of Brest was being fought and England itself being invaded, the British and Americans were fighting their own war. The War of 1812, as the conflict came to be called, had a negligible result. Several American attempts to invade Canada ended in failure while British attempts to wage war on American soil met little success. When the first reports of European peace reached the Americans, several high-ranking military officers viewed the possibility of peace with consternation. Without the War Department's approval, an army under General Andrew Jackson launched an offensive from Maine and managed to drive deep into the Maritime Provinces of Canada. The British were for the most part reluctant to resist and the drive was completed in a month or so. Thus, when the two nations came to the peace table, the Americans had a slight upper-hand in the negotiations. Treaty of Paris and Canadian War conclusion The Treaty of Paris was a humiliation for the British but the desperate situation in which they were in allowed the French to squeeze out as much as they could from the beleaguered nation. The terms included the following: - The immediate end to all hostilities and the disallowing of a British declaration of war on France for the following thirty-five years. - A reduction of the British navy and army. The navy would have all ships over 80 guns given to France and Spain as payment, while the army was not allowed to ever surpass 85,000 internationally. - A monthly report to be sent to the Emperor showing the size, strength and location of all regiments and ships. - Twenty thousand French troops would be stationed in major cities to keep "seditious activities to an extreme minimum". This was the most humiliating clause of the treaty but luckily the proposed number of 135,000 was dropped way down. These 20,000 Frenchmen would endure the most miserable service and a high number of suicides would befall these soldiers. A posting to Britain was as good as a death sentence in the eyes of French privates. - As for land exchange the British lost quite a bit in the Caribbean. Every British holding was given to the French except for Jamaica and Anguilla. Ireland was hotly disputed but after much debate, allowed to remain under British jurisdiction. India stayed under British dominion as well. British Guinea in South America was given to France. Some minor posts in Africa were given up and lastly Malta was given French jurisdiction. - A payment of 100 million francs The effects were immediate and soon many of the largest British ships soon bearing French flags. By no coincidence, a number of them were burned before being handed over to the French, who, after years of war, could only resignedly accept this. In an act of kindness, Emperor Napoleon allowed the vanquished British to keep the HMS Victory as their own "in honor of my greatest foe", Nelson. The armée du Angleterre was established and the 20,000 unfortunate soldiers were sent to their various posts to the spits and anger of the local civilians. Meanwhile, in the Americas, a separate peace was signed in Toronto on October 24th. The Peace of Toronto was not nearly as strict as the Treaty of Paris mainly because the latter had already weakened the enemy. The Peace of Toronto merely ended the war and demanded a payment of some $5 million as an indemnity. A land change did take place though when New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were annexed into the United States thanks to General Jackson's last minute offensive into the Maritime Provinces.


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March 14, 2006
In 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley (SarbOx) Act attempted to crack down on accounting irregularities, punish those responsible for hiding them from the public and curtail potential conflicts of interest in corporations' relationships with their auditors. However, the act's overall acceptance has been slow, says Brian Doherty of Reason.
SarbOx -- which requires CEOs and chief financial officers to certify, under penalty of 20 years in prison and $5 million in fines, that their internal financial controls are in order and that they lead to accurate reports -- is a complicated law that consists of even more complicated guidelines, says Doherty:
- It created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and gave it the power to force accounting firms to pay both fees for its operations and fines for disobeying its edicts.
- SarbOx also requires auditors to switch out every five years, and prohibits them from jumping ship to executive positions at companies they have just audited.
- However, the cost of compliance is extremely high; in 2004, it was estimated to have cost $15 billion, leading critics to argue the benefits will be small, says Doherty.
Even though, SarbOx probably won't cripple the economy, it is bound to create bad incentives and unintended consequences. According to a survey of companies with under $1 billion in annual revenue:
- SarbOx has more than tripled the average annual regulatory costs of being a public company in the United States from $1 million to $3.4 million.
- The law also may tend to chill mergers, since purchasing companies will now be legally responsible for the financial records and statements of their targets.
Furthermore, the costs of SarbOx compliance will siphon revenues toward legal and accounting work, says Doherty.
Source: Brian Doherty, "You Can Be Too Careful," Reason, January 2006.
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