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Comics Legend Brian Michael Bendis on Guardians of the Galaxy, Sexism, and Making a Nonwhite Spider-Man
"You know what Captain America would never do? Go online anonymously and shit on a girl for having an opinion."
This interview originally ran on May 1, 2014. We are republishing it now in time for this weekend's Guardians of the Galaxy.
With the possible exception of Stan Lee, no writer has thought about Spider-Man more than Brian Michael Bendis. The 46-year-old Marvel Comics scribe has penned hundreds of issues' worth of stories about the web-slinger since launching the ongoing series Ultimate Spider-Man in October of 2000. That title just hit 200 issues, each of which was written by Bendis. In the meantime, he's also featured Spidey in his decade-long run as writer of multiple Avengers series, as well as in several Marvel-wide crossover events.
As you might infer, Bendis's influence extends far beyond Spider-Man. He currently writes six monthly series, sits on a creative committee that offers consultation to the filmmakers behind the Marvel cinematic universe, and just got back from a company retreat where he helped the company plan the next few years of its future. And in a summer where Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Guardians of the Galaxy are all headlining tentpole movies, Bendis is writing flagship titles for all three franchises. In short, he is — and has been, for many years — Marvel's chief ambassador for converting moviegoers into comics readers.
You can trace Bendis's success to a balancing act he's mastered: maintaining franchises while also knowing when to take huge risks. In 2011, he killed off Peter Parker in the pages of Ultimate Spider-Man (don't worry, Peter's alive and well — Ultimate takes place in an alternate universe) and replaced him with a half-African-American, half-Latino teenager named Miles Morales. Despite some initial uproar (Glenn Beck infamously said the character was part of a Michelle Obama–led conspiracy), Miles has become a fan favorite. In fact, Ultimate Spider-Man is being retitled next Wednesday, May 7, as Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man. Bendis has quietly become a champion of diversity in superhero comics elsewhere, too — filling his ongoing titles with nonwhite, non-male protagonists.
With this summer's big-screen Marvel movies — as well as a TV show based on his cop-superhero mash-up Powers, which will debut soon as the first original series made for PlayStation consoles — on the near horizon, we caught up with Bendis to talk about how Spider-Man has always been multicultural (despite the statements of the movie's producers, which were delivered long after our interview), why people should care about an obscure team like the Guardians of the Galaxy, and what it was like to work for Marvel when the company was so bankrupt that it was selling its own filing cabinets.
In your 15-ish years of uninterrupted Spider-Man writing, what have you learned about the concept?
It's a story with a very strong theme: "With great power comes great responsibility." And that theme is so perfect in its simplicity that you could build a religion around it. As a fan, I carried it around with me, but when you start writing it, you realize, Oh, this is the most important lesson in the world. It's not a superpower lesson. It's a lesson about power, itself. If you have the power to sing, or to grab people's attention, or anything, then with that comes responsibility that you need to identify and raise yourself up to. I had no children when I started [Ultimate Spider-Man], and now I have four, and it's what I teach them.
So you've had the classic Peter-and–Uncle Ben talk with them?
No, because if you actually say "with great power comes great responsibility" out loud, you get murdered right after. [Laughs.] I do not want an ironic death. I don't want to have Uncle Ben's death as the writer of Spider-Man. I can't handle that.
Let's turn that previous question on its ear. In your years of writing, have you added something to the Spider-Man concept?
Y'know, my job is very unique. I write Ultimate Spider-Man, which from the get-go was supposed to be starting from scratch, asking what would happen if Spider-Man started today and was not something that started in the 1960s. And the transition that we made was based on the fact that the concept of Spider-Man wasn't broken. The Spider-Man origin and its themes are pretty much perfect. So adaptations are much like a Shakespeare play: The trick isn't to fix it and say you know better than Shakespeare. It's to find the truth of it and keep the truth going for a new audience.
The most cosmetic change we made, obviously, is a couple of years ago when we made the determination that, if Spider-Man were created today, there's a very large percentage chance that, based on where he's living and who he is, that he would be a person of color. So we made the choice to send Peter Parker off with a heroic death and have a new young man take the mantle in the form of Miles Morales, who's half Hispanic and half African-American. That gave a multicultural voice to Spider-Man that was always there, but never fully championed in the books themselves.
What do you mean by that? How was a multicultural aspect "always there" during decades of Spider-Man being white?
When you become the writer of Spider-Man, all of a sudden, every day, every week, every month, someone of color — all different races — comes up to you and tells you, "Spider-Man was my favorite and this is why," and then I hear a version of this story: "My friends, when I was a kid, wouldn't let me be Superman, wouldn't let me be Batman, because of my skin color. But I could always be Spider-Man, and Spider-Man became my favorite. As a little kid, I didn't even understand why he was my favorite, but it was because anybody could be Spider-Man under that costume, because it was head-to-toe." That's not why we created a Spider-Man who's a person of color, but afterwards, I was like, "Oh man, this was subconsciously why we did it."
Owing to the bizarre world of licensing disputes, Marvel Entertainment doesn't have creative control over the Spider-Man movies. But since Sony owns the film rights to the Spider-Man characters, Miles Morales could theoretically become the onscreen Spider-Man. Do you think we'll ever see that happen?
Hopefully, whoever's in charge of movie and media rights will realize that they're sitting on a goldmine and that they should pursue it as quickly as possible. I can't imagine why they wouldn't. We made Miles because we wanted to make Miles, but once you make Miles, you realize it was kind of an obligation to make Miles. Y'know? It was the right thing to do.
Marvel's comics output has suddenly become very inclusive of nonwhite, non-male characters in the past five or six years. Was there a conscious effort to make that happen? Some big meeting where the editors said it was time to pay attention to inclusivity?
There was no big meeting. It's a few things. I know I sound like I'm a hundred years old when I say this, but with the growth of the online comics community came more awareness of the world and who's really reading these books. And y'know what? Sure, there are people who look like Captain America who read comics, but there are very few people in the world who look like Captain America. I go to conventions, and you meet hundreds of people over the course of the day, and no two of them look alike. You see women and people of color who love comics, and there's nothing representing them in a way that isn't sexualized or something.
Now, you can't make these decisions [to be more inclusive] consciously, because then you're just writing in reaction to things, and that doesn't work out, dramatically. But subconsciously, if you look at the world around you and see your readers, you go, I wanna write something that I know is true. So you start writing women better and you write people outside of your experience better, because you look at pages of other people's comics and you don't recognize it as the world around you.
You attempt to rectify that — sometimes subtly, sometimes boldly — and if enough people are doing that, there's a sea change. And then you go to the publisher and say, "Miles is gonna be half Hispanic and half African-American," and they go, "Oh, good, we should publish more of that." And it's not just me: It's [fellow Marvel writers] Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick and Ed Brubaker and others who fight the good fight and put characters out there that don't represent everyone, but all of them put together represent more of the world that we live in. And the response you get back is something else, boy oh boy.
Can you give me an example of that kind of response?
Sure. I don't make a lot of appearances anymore, but I took my kids to a comics convention recently and this little African-American boy came up to me in his homemade Miles Morales Spider-Man costume, which are not available to purchase. You have to make them yourself. It was just about the cutest thing I'd ever seen in my life.
And, of course, there's been an insane outpouring of fan support for Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel, which both star female superheroes — and a lot of that response came before the books were even finished.
Yes! Because that fandom was there, patiently waiting for just that! Saying, "Please show us something like that," and once it's there, they throw their hands in the air and rush to buy it. They were always there. They were always there! Waiting for just this thing that's fun, exciting, and representative.
Speaking of changes, you've been at Marvel during a period of insane transformation. When you started, Marvel was grappling with Chapter 11 bankruptcy—
This is absolutely true. It's so the opposite now, that people don't even know. When I got hired, I literally thought I was going to be writing one of the last, if not the last, Marvel comics.
You didn't really think that, did you?
They were full-on in bankruptcy! My first visit to the Marvel bullpen was haunting, because they were literally selling filing cabinets.
Come on.
Dude. There was a big pile of filing cabinets back in the corner. I was like, "What's that?" and someone said, "Oh, they're selling them." You're a fan from a long time ago, right? Stan Lee sold the idea of the bullpen as being this crazy circus, and then I got there, and in the middle section of the bullpen, the lights are out and the computers are gone. There was a small row of editors there, and that's the only place where the lights were on. So I remember saying to myself, I guess this is the end!
But they quickly turned it around by making some very good decisions, one of which was launching Ultimate Spider-Man and using that as leverage for a lot of mainstream attention and licensing. Then, quickly, the Spider-Man movie was a big component of Marvel righting itself. Riding that wave all the way through the Iron Man movie and the Avengers movie. It's been an amazing change of course. I saw it at its absolute lowest, and now it's one of the crown jewels.
With that enormous success of the Marvel movies, has there been a new pressure to make the comics sync up with the films? For example, you relaunched Guardians of the Galaxy as a comic just a year or so before the movie debuted. Is there a philosophy of, "These comics have to tie in to the movie somehow"?
No, actually, and that's why I like it. If you're seeing the movie, you don't wanna come read the comic book and have the same experience. You want someone to go, "If you like the movie, you should see what they're doing in the comic!" You want it to be the advanced course, or the next step. I've now done a bunch of franchises as they've been put through as movies, and I never got anything but that same note. Hopefully, it's intriguing enough to moviegoers that they get sucked into the weekly comic-buying habits that you and I have, and which has ruined our lives. [Laughs.]
Also, I think Marvel likes that the Winter Soldier was created in a forward-thinking manner inside the books, and then it was there for them when they were thinking, "What's the most kick-ass thing we could do with Captain America in the movies?" And it was obviously Winter Soldier! The writers don't do that stuff with the thought of, "I want this to be in a movie." But there's certainly an editorial idea now that they can pluck good ideas from the comics for the movie franchises.
The great comics writer Grant Morrison once said every worthwhile superhero team should be able to be boiled down to a specific social analogue: the Fantastic Four are a family, the X-Men are a school, the Justice League are the United Nations, and so on. By that rubric, what are the Guardians of the Galaxy?
I say they're pirates for good. But I also think there's something — a lot of people today end up making their own family. Y'know? There's the family you came from, and it may have been broken, or you may not have fit in it, or whatever. Then, you grow up and you make your own family. Your friends become more than just friends. The Guardians are like that. The thing that ties them together is, everything that was broken in their lives led to them meeting. They're banded together by the idea that the world can be a lot better than it is, and we should do something about it immediately. You look at someone like [Guardians of the Galaxy protagonists] Gamora or Peter Quill, and the thing that binds them together is that their fathers really are nightmares, and they do everything they can to correct the damage that their fathers have done to the galaxy.
So it's "space pirates for good with major daddy issues."
Right! And nothing says "Marvel" quite like daddy issues.
Along those lines, what's the core idea of the Avengers? I've always found it to be such an amorphous concept.
The essence is getting together to fight the fight they can't fight by themselves. There's a power to that idea. The idea of turning to your friends and saying, "I need this. We need to help each other with this."
Do you think the wild success of the Avengers movie franchise has changed how writers approach Avengers comics?
I think there are certain actors who have embodied certain characters so perfectly that, if readers don't see a semblance of that in the comics version of that character, they won't see it as correct. Robert Downey Jr. is, of course, the pinnacle of this. But I think the first time it happened was with Patrick Stewart as Professor X. It could be that some people heard a voice similar to his as Professor X, but now I think it's all they hear. And now, if you write it as not sounding like that voice, people will just see it as wrong.
Do you see fans of superhero movies become readers of superhero comics?
Oh, for sure. Y'know, there's a frustration sometimes, where people say, "Why don't all people who watch The Avengers start reading comics?" And I'm more like, "Why don't all people who watch The Avengers read at all?" [Laughs.] It's more of a problem with people not reading, in general.
The next step of what we're really talking about, which will be very interesting, is if comics start to take over television. I actually always thought that was a more logical transition, because comics are an ongoing pile of cliff-hangers in serialized stories. I must say, it took a lot longer than I thought it was going to. I thought it'd happen ten years ago. But now, we're on the cusp: We've got the Netflix Marvel shows, the Powers television show is coming, Arrow, all these other things. That pure serialized storytelling and the quiet character moments that comics do so well — that'll fully bloom on the small screen, and that'll be a game-changer.
What's the superhero comics industry's biggest challenge?
Oh, I got a pile of stuff. Just yesterday, a woman wrote an article analyzing what she thought was a poor comic book cover, and she was met with just a bunch of shitty anonymous people being awful to her online. I think that a huge problem is people who read comics and don't understand the point of superheroes, which is to be the best version of yourself. You love Captain America? Well, you know what Captain America would never do? Go online anonymously and shit on a girl for having an opinion.
I would like there to be more of a connection between why people read these stories, and how they act. You should see Peter Parker and then want to act like Peter Parker. You shouldn't want to be Peter Parker because you want to sling webs and punch people. It should be because you want to be someone who lives with the idea of "with great power comes great responsibility." And that means that the power of the internet and the power of your ability to interact with people, should be treated like a power. You should treat it like a responsibility.
Wow, look at you, you really brought that full circle!
Yeah, you see what I did there? [Laughs.]


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Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield—weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep.
Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. This edition collects all of the alternative endings together for the first time, along with early drafts of other essential passages, offering new insight into Hemingway's craft and creative process and the evolution of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Featuring Hemingway's own 1948 introduction to an illustrated reissue of the novel, a personal foreword by the author's son Patrick Hemingway, and a new introduction by the author's grandson Seán Hemingway, this edition of A Farewell to Arms is truly a celebration.
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This is a slicker, shallower exercise. It's hypnotic as it unfolds, but once the credit roll frees you from its grip, it doesn't bear close scrutiny.
Marked by clever twists and turns, the story unfolds at just the right pace. The dialogue -- adapted by Polanski and British writer Robert Harris from Harris' novel The Ghost-- is incisive and interspersed with wit.
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Language: A few mentions of "f--k," though most of the swear words heard here are milder, such as "s--t" and "goddamn."
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Difference Between Valor And Heroism Essay
Heroes (singular: hero, or sometimes heroine) are persons of great courage who perform extraordinary and praiseworthy deeds.
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
- Arthur Ashe, s quoted in Worth Repeating : More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 169.
- Andrea: Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero.
Galileo: No, Andrea: Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.
- Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo (1938), Scene 12, p. 115.
- Variant translations: Pity the country that needs heroes.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
- The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said that changing the name of Newark Airport to Liberty International Airport would be a way of honoring "the more than 3000 heroes who died for their country in the World Trade Center." Pardon me for pointing this out, folks, but stock traders, clerks, receptionists, cooks, waiters and building maintenance people in the World Trade Center didn't die for their country. They died because they went to work. Not one of them would have shown up for work that day if you had told them they would die as a result. Try to get your heroes straight.
Not everyone who died in 9/11 was a hero. Hero is a very special word, that's why we reserve it for certain special people. … If everyone's a hero, then the word doesn't mean much anymore. And sooner or later we'll have to give the real heroes (the heroic ones) a new name, to distinguish them from the rest of the pack. Too bad "superheroes" is already taken; it would have been perfect. But relax, folks, if I know us, "megahero" can't be too far over the horizon. Although to be honest, I kind of like the alliteration in "hyperhero." Let's shoot or that.
- George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops (2004), "Heroes Who Died for Their Country".
- Nature seldom makes a hero and Fortune does not always proclaim those that she makes.
- Christina, Queen of Sweden, Maxims of a Queen, selected and translated by Una Birch (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907), p. 25.
- Someone can conquer kingdoms and countries without being a hero; someone else can prove himself a hero by controlling his temper. Someone can display courage by doing the out-of-the-ordinary, another by doing the ordinary. The question is always-how does he do it?
- Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being, and will go out of his or her way to help them -- even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.
- Bob Forestier had pretended for so many years to be a gentleman that in the end, forgetting that it was all a fake, he had found himself driven to act as in that stupid, conventional brain of his he thought a gentleman must act. No longer knowing the difference between sham and real, he had sacrificed his life to a spurious heroism.
- People would be amazed at the behind-the-scenes activity in hero-making; quarrels over which cases are most deserving; seeing that all ranks and units are properly represented; dressing up weak cases to make them appear stronger; last minute switches from one class of decoration to another. … The number of decorations is determined, not by the number of deserving cases, but by the number and types of medals the admiral totes along.
- The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood. Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.
- General George S. Patton, in a speech to the Third Army (5 June 1944); published in The Unknown Patton (1982) by Charles M. Province, p. 32.
- Could it be … that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.
- I need a hero, I'm holding out for at hero 'till the end of the night
He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the morning light
He's gotta be sure and it's gotta be soon
And he's gotta be larger than life, larger than life
- Do you know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed. You can look it up later.
- Zoe Washburne, in Serenity (2005), by Joss Whedon
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- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 365-66.
- My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song.
- Tel maître, tel valet.
- As the master so the valet.
Like master, like man.
- Attributed to Chevalier Bayard by M. Ciniber.
- As the master so the valet.
- Ferryman ho! In the night so black
Hark to the clank of iron;
'Tis heroes of the Yser,
'Tis sweethearts of glory.
'Tis lads who are unafraid!
Ferryman, ho!
- I want a hero: an uncommon want,
When every year and month sends forth a new one.
- Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
- If Hero mean sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
- Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind.
- Il faut être bien héros pour l'être aux yeux de son valet-de-chambre.
- A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
- Marshal Catinat
- He's of stature somewhat low—
Your hero always should be tall, you know.
- Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.
- No man is a hero to his valet.
- Mme. de Cornuel. See Mlle. Aissé—Letters. 161. (Paris, 1853).
- The hero is not fed on sweets,
Daily his own heart he eats;
Chambers of the great are jails,
And head-winds right for royal sails.
- Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.
- Es gibt für den Kammerdiener keinen Helden.
- But to the hero, when his sword
Has won the battle for the free,
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word,
And in its hollow tones are heard
The thanks of millions yet to be.
- It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe.
- Richard Hansard, Description of Hungary, Anno 1599. Lansdowne Manuscript, 775, Volume 149. British Museum.
- The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck,
Shone round him o'er the dead.
* * * * *
The flames roll'd on—he would not go
Without his Father's word;
That Father, faint in death below,
His voice no longer heard.
- Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.
- Homer, The Iliad, Book XV, line 157. Pope's translation.
- Hail, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
- Joseph Hopkinson—Hail, Columbia!
- Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona
Multi: sed omnes illacrimabiles
Urgentur, ignotique longa
Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.
- Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises.
- Horace, Carmina, IV. 9. 25.
- The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow.
- Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.
- Rarement ils sont grands vis-à-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.
- There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.
- 'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves
Of a legendary virtue carved upon our father's graves.
- Tel a esté miraculeux au monde, auquel sa femme et son valet n'ont rien veu seulement de remarquable; peu d'hommes ont esté admirez par leur domestiques.
- Such an one has been, as it were, miraculous in the world, in whom his wife and valet have seen nothing even remarkable; few men have been admired by their servants.
- Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book III, Chapter II.
- See the conquering hero comes!
Sound the trumpets, beat the drums!
- Dr. Thomas Morell—Words used by Handel in Joshua, and Judas Maccabæus. (Introduced in stage version of Lee's Rival Queens, Act II, scene 1).
- My personal attendant does not think so much of these things as I do.
- Plutarch, De Iside, Chapter XXIV. Also in Regnum et Imperatorum. Apothegmata, II. 28. (Tauchnitz Ed.).
- Do we weep for the heroes who died for us,
Who living were true and tried for us,
And dying sleep side by side for us;
The martyr band
That hallowed our land
With the blood they shed in a tide for us?
- He who dreamed of democracy, far back in a world of absolutism, was indeed heroic, and we of today awaken to the wonder of his dream.
- Louis Sullivan, in "Education" an address to the Architectural League of America, Toronto (1902), later published in Kindergarten Chats (revised 1918) and Other Writings (1947).
- The last flash … and the hideous attack
Dies like a wisp of storm—discouraged flame;
And soon these battered heroes will come back,
The same but yet not the same.
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- True heroism is alike positive and progressive. It sees in right the duty which should dominate, and in truth the principle which should prevail. And hence it never falters in the faith that always and everywhere sin must be repressed, and righteousness exalted.
- John McClellan Holmes, p. 312.
- Never was there a time, in the history of the world, when moral heroes were more needed. The world waits for such, the providence of God has commanded science to labor and prepare the way for such. For them she is laying her iron tracks, and stretching her wires, and bridging the oceans. But where are they? Who shall breathe into our civil and political relations the breath of a higher life? Who shall touch the eyes of a paganized science, and of a pantheistic philosophy, that they may see God? Who shall consecrate to the glory of God, the triumphs of science? Who shall bear the life-boat to the stranded and perishing nations?
- The courage of Daniel is true heroism. It is not physical daring, such as beneath some proud impulse will rush upon an enemy's steel; it is not reckless valor, sporting with a life which ill-fortune has blighted or which despair has made intolerable; it is not the passiveness of the stoic, through whose indifferent heart no tides of feeling flow; it is the calm courage which reflects upon its alternatives, and deliberately chooses to do right; it is the determination of Christian principle, whose foot resteth on the rock, and whose eye pierceth into heaven.
- With quaint manners and quaint names these men had the hero's heart and the confessor's faith. Their faith was, indeed, their strength. Strong in the supremacy of conscience, in that real earnestness which springs from conviction, and which prompts to enterprise; far-sighted in political sagacity, because seeing Him that is invisible; shrewd enough to know that the truest policy for the life that now is, is a reverent recognition of the life that is to come, they were brave in endurance and patient under trial; and never losing sight of the principle for which they struggled, and of the purpose of their voyage afar, they " won the wilderness for God."
- Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do your best to bring the glory of a real heaven down, and ray it out upon your fellows in this work-day world. Seek to make trade bright with a spotless integrity, and business lustrous with the beauty of holiness.
- The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.
- The calm, tranquil energy of the Redeemer's soul; the deep strength of principle which nothing could shake; the serene courage which looked down upon menaces, clamor, contumely, sacrifice, death, — this is the temper which pours contempt upon the intrepidity of heroes, but which the Holy Spirit infuses into the humble Christian.
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Nov. 2, 2007
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Twice in the last few weeks, Yale has taken on teams ranked in the top 10 in the nation. The Bulldogs battled sixth-ranked Boston College to a scoreless tie in September and later dropped a hard-fought 2-1 decision to No. 2 UConn. On Saturday, Yale gets another shot at a highly ranked foe when Brown, ranked sixth in this week's NSCAA poll, visits Reese Stadium for a 4:30 p.m. kickoff. Live stats of the game will be available on GameTracker by visiting the schedule section of yalebulldogs.com.
The Bulldogs (3-6-5, 1-1-2 Ivy) have been involved in a number of close games this season as 10 of their 14 games have either been decided by one goal or ended in a tie. Yale's five ties are one shy of the school record set in 1974.
Recent history would suggest a close game on Saturday as well. The last six Yale-Brown games have either ended in a tie or been decided by one goal. Last year in Providence, Alex Munns '07 scored the only goal of the game late in the first half when he headed in a Max Rhodes cross as the Bulldogs escaped with a 1-0 victory.
One goal may not be enough this year against a high-powered Brown offense, but Yale showed it is capable of offensive outbursts last Saturday in a 4-1 win over Columbia. Jordan Raybould, Kevin Pope, Andy Shorten and Aden Farina-Henry all scored for the Bulldogs.
The Bears (12-1-1, 4-0 Ivy) sit alone atop the Ivy League standings, two points ahead of second-place Dartmouth (3-0-1). Brown has won six straight games and features two of the top four goal scorers in the league. Dylan Sheehan and Kevin Davies each have eight goals. Goalkeeper Paul Grandstrand was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the second time this season on Monday.
In news off the field, Yale midfielder Tyler Guse was named to the ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA All-Academic District I second team. Guse, an economics major, has been limited to eight games because of injury but is still tied for third on the team with four points.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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Urinary Tract Infection
A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection in any part of the urinary system. Most UTIs start in the lower urinary tract in the bladder or urethra. The urethra is the tube that carries urine out of the body. A UTI can also include an infection in the upper urinary system, including the kidneys.
There are different names for infections in different parts of the urinary system, including:
- Uretheral infection—urethritis
- Bladder infection—cystitis
- Kidney infection—pyelonephritis
The infection may also occur in the tube connecting the bladder to the kidney (ureter). All of these infections are considered to be UTIs.
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UTIs are caused by bacteria that most often come from the digestive tract or rectal area. The bacteria cling to the opening of the urethra and begin to multiply. If the infection is not treated right away, bacteria may move up the urinary system to the kidneys.
Most infections are caused by a bacteria that normally lives in the colon. The bacteria may move from the rectal area to the urethra.
UTIs can also be sexually transmitted. This type of infection usually does not spread past the urethra. Both partners need to be treated.
Risk Factors
UTIs are more common in women because the rectum and urethra are close to each other, making infection more likely.
Other factors that may increase your chance of a UTI include:
- Being sexually active
- Using a diaphragm for birth control
- Menopause
- Diabetes
- Kidney stones
- Enlarged prostate
- Weak immune system
- Abnormalities of the urinary system, such as vesicoureteral reflux or polycystic kidneys
- Paraplegia or quadriplegia
- Sickle-cell anemia
- History of kidney transplant
- Bladder catheter in place, or recent device inserted into the urinary system
- Pregnancy
UTIs may cause:
- Frequent and urgent need to urinate
- Passing small amounts of urine
- Pain in the abdomen or pelvic area
- Burning sensation during urination
- Cloudy, bad-smelling urine
- Increased need to get up at night to urinate
- Leaking urine
- Fever and chills
- Nausea and poor appetite
An infection in the kidney can be more serious. Call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of a kidney infection, such as:
- Bloody urine
- Low back pain or pain along the side of the ribs
- High fever and chills
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will also be done. A sample of your urine will be tested for blood, pus, and bacteria.
In general, children and men are less likely to get UTIs. Their infections are more likely to be caused by structural problems of the kidneys, bladder, or tubes. As a result, children and men may need more testing to determine the cause of a UTI.
UTIs are treated with antibiotics. Standard medical care for a UTI includes taking antibiotics for 3 days. You will probably start to feel better after 1-2 days. It is important that you continue to take the entire course of medication, even if you feel better.
You may have your urine checked after you finish taking the antibiotics. This is to make sure that the infection is truly gone. If you have recurrent infections, you may be referred to a specialist.
The infection may cause pain and spasms in the bladder. Your doctor may recommend a medication called phenazopyridine. It may turn your urine, and sometimes your sweat, an orange color.
Severe UTIs may need a strong initial dose of antibiotics. You may be given antibiotics through an IV or an injection.
To help keep bacteria out of your urinary tract:
- Drink plenty of fluids throughout the day. Cranberry juice is a good choice.
- Urinate when you feel the need and do not resist the urge.
- Empty your bladder completely and drink a full glass of water after having sex.
- Wash genitals daily.
- If you are a woman, always wipe from the front to the back after having a bowel movement.
- Avoid using douches and feminine hygiene sprays.
This content is reviewed regularly and is updated when new and relevant evidence is made available. This information is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with questions regarding a medical condition.
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Communications systems are the backbone for much of the critical infrastructure within the United States and many of the other infrastructure components are completely dependent on communications systems to perform their missions. The communications sector provides the basis for information exchange for all other sectors including voice, data, video, and Internet connectivity. As such, communications systems serve part in parcel with other key national security and emergency preparedness resources and are an important component of our overall national critical infrastructure. It is therefore incumbent to recognize the importance that communications has for national security policy and issues of homeland security. At the same time, it is important to recognize the key factors upon which the communications infrastructure is dependent. In this topic, the core principles of public safety communications form the basis for a discussion of the interdependencies of communications systems. In particular, the focus of this topic is the interdependencies between the communications sector and the national utility infrastructure.
One way of investigating the interdependencies of the communications architecture is to look at them from a critical infrastructure perspective. The National Infrastructure Protection Plan1 (NIPP) is intended to meet the requirements set forth by the President in Presidential Directive 72 (HSPD-7), Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization, and Protection, and is an overarching approach for integrating the nation's Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) protection initiatives. One of the critical sectors within the CIKR is the Communications Sector3. In addition, the Energy Sector is comprised of the oil, gas, and electric power production, refining, storage and distribution facilities and the Water Sector includes all those facilities for fresh water and waste water management. These two sectors are administered by national or local public service commissioners.
The national protection plan highlights those sectors that are critical for national security and emergency preparedness and delineates measures to protect these resources. Similarly, the Communications Sector-Specific Plan details factors that are important for the protection of the communications sector. Alternatively, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners4 (NARUC) has published a set of Critical Infrastructure Technical Briefs that "...identify key strategies for our consideration as we meet ongoing challenges within each of the electricity, natural gas, water, and telecommunications sectors."5 The following diagram from the NARUC "Issue Paper on Critical Infrastructure Protection" shows many of the interdependencies for the utility "sector."6 It only partially illustrates the extent of the interdependencies between the utilities (electric power, oil and gas, water), and other sectors including communications, transportation, banking and finance, government services, transportation, and government services.
It is clear from this diagram that there is a great deal of interdependency between the Communications Sector and a number of the functionaries within the utility community. This diagram illustrates that almost all of the utilities have critical requirements for communications of some form. Alternatively, the communications community has a number of instances where they are dependent on the utilities. The remainder of the topic will highlight some of these issues.
Without question, the dominant dependency for the Communications Sector is electrical power. Every node in the communications architecture - whether it is a switching center, radio relay site, cell site, other remote site, or any other facility - relies on electrical power for its operation. Electricity powers the communications systems equipment, the central control/management/operating systems, and even the environmental control systems surrounding the communications equipment. In most cases, the power to run the communications infrastructure is provided on a continual basis by the commercial power industry. As such, there is a direct and critical link between the electrical power networks and the communications networks that are dependent on them.
On the other hand, the electrical power industry is dependent upon the communications providers for inter-facility communications, management and control of operations, and management of facilities. Although many power production and distribution facilities have their own organic communications facilities that utilize the power grid infrastructure, nevertheless, the power industry is still reliant on commercial communications facilities for transferring information.
In order to overcome any loss of commercial power, most communications locations have some form of alternative power capability inherent to the facility. This backup power is usually in the form of battery support for short duration power outages while larger facilities will subsequently utilize organic power generators to provide power until the commercial supplier is back on line. In both cases, the backup power capability is limited. First, batteries have only a short term life of approximately a few hours. Second, the local generators have a limited supply of fuel and must be resupplied depending on how long the generators must continue to operate.
A number of recent large scale power outages including the 2003 Northeast region blackout and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 have highlighted the strong interdependencies of the power and communications sectors. In response to these outages and the resulting studies done by the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC),7 in 2007 the National Communications System Committee of Principals (COP) established the Communications Dependency on Electrical Power Working Group (CDEP WG). The report of this working group found a number of conclusions and recommendations for the communications sector to address long term power outages and their impacts on the communications sector.8
The requirements for locally generated power suggest another dependency for the Communications Sector. Where it is necessary to generate power independently, the generators rely on some source of energy (water, fuel, etc.) to run the generators and this is usually a fossil fuel of some form – usually diesel fuel. Thus, the reliance on the Energy Sector is critical for communications providers when there is a loss of commercial power and for as long as they must run their generators. This is not the norm though and usually the communications providers have limited on-hand supplies of fuel and rely on support agreements with local fuel and transportation providers to be able to support them in times of disaster, outages, or other emergencies. Closely related to fuel for generators is the requirement in many cases for natural gas or other fuels for heating purposes. Most communications facilities require environmental control to maintain nominal conditions for equipment to operate; this may require either water for cooling or gas for heating.
The potential dependency on water resources as a source for energy to generate power is most likely a small factor when compared to the use of water for other purposes. Access to water and the ability to handle waste water can be critical dependencies for communications providers. In most cases, the environmental control systems for communications facilities rely on fresh water for air conditioning and other environmental services. The availability of fresh water is therefore extremely important for facility owners and operators. Similarly, the ability to handle waste water from chillers or coolers is also important. Both the supply of fresh water and the handling of waste water are essential for most large scale communications facilities.
The next critical dependency for the Communications Sector as well as the other sectors is related to security of the facilities, but in this instance it is security of a different kind. Much of the communications infrastructure, including the SS7 control architecture itself, is vulnerable to cyber attack from either inside or outside of the network. The fact is that perhaps the largest vulnerability – and dependency – of the national communications infrastructure as well as the infrastructure for other sectors is on cyber security. The control of communications networks and all of its functional components are vulnerable to various degrees of cyber attacks on the software operating systems by either the idle hacker or the more malicious intruder participating in information warfare. This is also true of all of the networks within other sectors. In all instances, the networks must be protected and guarded from attack.
Finally, the communications infrastructure and the utilities are extremely dependent on the Information Technology Sector. This dependency is due to the reliance of the communications systems on the software that runs the control mechanisms of the operating systems, the management software, the billing software, and any number of other software packages that are used by industry. This also includes the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition9 (SCADA) systems that provide the real time control mechanisms for most of the power and utility facilities.
From this discussion, it is clear that the any number of interdependencies could threaten one of the key components of our critical national infrastructure, the communications sector. These factors are the "realities" of the communications domain and go beyond just the core precepts of good communications systems development and design. Clearly, there is a great deal of interdependence on other outside factors that could threaten communications and other key resources. Without the active participation of each of these sectors, the key and essential facilities of the communications industry could be very vulnerable – a fact that is not acceptable for the protection of our national interests.
1 For an overview of the NIPP and the accompanying programs, see the Department of Homeland Security's NIPP web site at http://www.dhs.gov/xprevprot/programs/editorial_0827.shtm.
2 For an overview and copy of HSPD-7, see http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/laws/gc_1214597989952.shtm.
3 See http://www.dhs.gov/xprevprot/programs/gc_1179866197607.shtm for a discussion of the sector specific protection plans and see http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/nipp-ssp-communications.pdf for a copy of the May 2007 Communications Sector Specific Plan.
4 "NARUC is an association representing the State public service commissioners who regulate essential utility services, such as electricity, gas, telecommunications, water, and transportation, throughout the country. As regulators, our members are charged with protecting the public and ensuring that rates charged by regulated utilities are fair, just, and reasonable." The NARUC web site is at http://www.naruc.org/.
5 See http://www.naruc.org/cipbriefs/. "The purpose of these complementary and reinforcing papers is to provide public utility commissioners and other participants in the regulatory policy community with introductory overviews, suggested protocols, and additional resources on critical infrastructure protection issues."
6 See NARUC Issue Paper on Critical Infrastructure Protection.
7 See NSTAC's Report to the President on Telecommunications and Electric Power Interdependencies: The Implications of Long-Term Outages at http://www.ncs.gov/nstac/reports/2006/NSTAC_XXIX_Reports_082206.pdf.
8 Communications Dependency on Electric Power Working Group Report, "Long-Term Outage Study" National Communications System Committee of Principals, February 17, 2009.
9 See http://www.tech-faq.com/scada.shtml for more information on SCADA systems.


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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A map that China has incorporated into its passports has drawn diplomatic fury because it appears to claim the entire South China Sea, ignoring competing claims from the Philippines, Vietnam and other countries.
Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario told reporters in Manila that he sent a note to the Chinese Embassy that his country "strongly protests" Beijing's inclusion of an image showing China's claimed maritime borders in its new passport.
Del Rosario says China's claims include an area that is "clearly part of the Philippines' territory and maritime domain."
The Vietnamese government said it had also sent a diplomatic note to the Chinese embassy in Hanoi, demanding that Beijing remove the "erroneous content" printed in the passport.
In Beijing, the Foreign Ministry said the new passport was issued based on international standards.
"The outline map of China on the passport is not directed against any particular country," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Thursday.
China maintains it has ancient claims to all of the South China Sea, despite much of it being within the exclusive economic zones of Southeast Asian neighbors. The potentially oil- and gas-rich South China Sea islands and waters also are claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brunei and Malaysia.
There are concerns that the disputes could escalate into violence. China and the Philippines had a tense maritime standoff at a shoal west of the main Philippine island of Luzon early this year.
The United States, which has said it takes no sides in the territorial spats but that it considers ensuring safe maritime traffic in the waters to be in its national interest, has backed a call for a "code of conduct" to prevent clashes in the disputed territories. But it remains unclear if and when China will sit down with rival claimants to draft such a legally binding nonaggression pact.
The Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam are scheduled to meet Dec. 12 to discuss claims in the South China Sea and the role of China.
Associated Press writers Chris Brummitt in Hanoi, Vietnam, and Zhao Liang in Beijing contributed to this report.


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He may have been first in the hearts of his countrymen, but George Washington has not necessarily been first in the minds of composers. This makes the National Symphony Orchestra's premiere at the Kennedy Center Thursday night of the distinctively titled "george WASHINGTON" by Roger Reynolds all the more newsy.
When you think of great American presidents in orchestral contexts, the name of Abe Lincoln is likely to come most readily to mind, thanks to Aaron Copland's ever-popular "Lincoln Portrait."
Another assassinated leader, John F. Kennedy, has had a fair share of musical commemorations, too. One of them, Peter Lieberson's "Remembering JFK," was premiered by the NSO a couple years ago.
The Copland and Lieberson pieces employ a single narrator; Reynolds employs three, each reciting words spoken or written by the soldier/statesman from Virginia.
The trio of narrators -- they frequently divide up sentences, creating an interplay of voices -- adds to the theatricality of a work that is very much about theater, incorporating film (by Ross Karre) and sound effects (Jaime Oliver and Josef Kucera).
The engaging high-tech visual and aural components connect the audience closely to our first president's world. Mount Vernon is evoked in particularly atmospheric fashion -- bleak wintry scenes, bird calls (the first-night audience got quite a kick out of hearing ducks), a grinding mill.
With 36 individual screens arranged to form three large ones suspended above the orchestra, and with all those cool surround-sound components, the result resembles the kind of presentations offered in visitor centers at historic sites (including Mount Vernon).
In the space of about 25 minutes, the piece provides a brief survey of Washington's life, with texts that trace his early military career on through marriage, revolution and retirement.
As for the musical content, the opening passage, a recorded harpsichord playing an early American ballad, is especially inspired. The tune floats through the hall, from corner to corner, before slowly distending, dissolving and distorting electronically, as if eroded by time and memory. A great attention-getter.
Once the orchestral portion begins, Reynolds reveals a free harmonic language, capable of considerable spice and kick, and a potent flair for colorful instrumentation. The composer mostly sticks with the tried-and-true approach of narrator works, using the music primarily to punctuate and underline the text.
On first hearing, the score struck me as somewhat faceless, but deftly crafted. The NSO, guided by Christoph Eschenbach, delivered it in vivid style. Clark Young, Thomas Keegan and Philip Larson handled the speaking parts with considerable expressive weight (coordination wasn't quite tight at the start, but quickly jelled).
There's a nice synergy about the NSO premiering a work in Washington about the man the city was named for, and sharing the co-commissioning of "george WASHINGTON" with the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union (the University of California was also a partner).
And, given what has been happening in the capital/capitol this week, there was an extra charge to hearing some of Washington's well-chosen words -- especially the ones about reconciling "opposite interests"; and how "the highest ambition of every American" should be "to extend his views beyond himself"; and how "knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."
Speaking of happiness, the remainder of the program proved most pleasurable. At the start was an early Haydn symphony, No. 21. Eschenbach shaped it with great finesse and an ear for dynamic subtleties, drawing lithe, transparent playing from the ensemble.
An arresting account of Saint-Saens' "Organ" Symphony capped the evening.
Eschenbach's remarkable ability to breathe fresh life into the most familiar music was everywhere in evidence. One notable example was the way he had the noble themes of the second movement gathering intensity and warmth as they climbed to the climactic peak.
The conductor's pacing of the last movement was likewise inspired, allowing the tension to build wonderfully, so that the final dash was truly exciting and last chord could really hit home, held the extra few seconds that can make all the difference emotionally.
Once past a bit of slippery articulation and intonation, the NSO turned in a cohesive, rich-toned performance. The strings sounded downright radiant throughout.
William Neil was the polised and polished soloist on the Kennedy Center year-old Rubenstein Family Organ, letting the pipes rip mightily in the finale. I only wish a second or two more reverberation could somehow be added to the Concert Hall -- what an impact that could make with a piece like this.
The hall does have one new thing this season, a fresh paint job. That weird mauve-ish shade is gone at last, replaced by a white/cream mix, closer to how the place first looked in 1971.
The NSO repeats the program Friday and Saturday nights.
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MADISON, Wis. — Be careful against No. 4 Wisconsin. A couple of missed shots can quietly snowball into a huge hole for opponents.
No. 23 Illinois is the latest team to get run over by the surprising big red juggernaut. Ben Brust scored 18 points, Sam Dekker added 17 and the Badgers used a 20-0 run in the first half in an easy 95-70 win Wednesday night.
The Badgers improved to 16-0 (3-0 Big Ten), the best start in school history — not that coach Bo Ryan is paying attention.
"I'd have gone home, maybe had a beverage, eaten something and gone to bed and it would never be brought up until you just brought it up," Ryan told a reporter after the game.
"For the players, what they've accomplished ... I'm certainly proud of them," he added. "But you know, you start thinking about that too much, it can go the other way in a hurry."
Just like it did for Illinois (13-3, 2-1) in the first half.
Wisconsin shot 53 percent from the field in the half to open up a 25-point halftime lead, and finished 56 percent from the field for the night. The Illini (13-3, 2-1) stumbled badly in their debut this year as a Top 25 team and lost a sixth straight to their border rival.
Rayvonte Rice led Illinois with 19 points on 7-of-21 shooting.
The Illini missed 13 straight shots, some on easy looks, while Wisconsin methodically wore them down inside and on the perimeter during the big first-half run.
"Two-point field-goal efficiency and production. They got it done, I'll give it to them," Illlinois coach John Groce said.
Illinois outrebounded Wisconsin 48-35, including 25-5 on the offensive end, but still lost badly.
"It's kind of a positive thing knowing that we gave up 25 offensive boards but we still won the way we did," freshman forward Nigel Hayes said. "It just goes to show that if we clean that up ... we can probably win by even more and play a better game."
Joseph Bertrand added 18 points and nine rebounds for Illinois, and Tracy Abrams had eight points. Nnanna Egwu grabbed 10 rebounds, including nine on the offensive end.
The balanced Badgers had five players with at least 11 points, with Frank Kaminsky adding 15 and Hayes 11 off the bench. Traevon Jackson had 15 points and went 7 of 7 from the foul line.
The end of Wisconsin's first-half run typified Illinois' frustrating evening. Kaminsky, Wisconsin's 7-foot outside shooter, hit a 3 to make it 29-10 with about 10 minutes left before proving his worth at the other end.
The only defender back initially against two Illini, Kaminsky got in Abrams' way to force a missed jumper. Illinois grabbed the rebound, but Egwu missed a short layup.
Two more offensive rebounds, two more misses before the ball went out of bounds to Wisconsin.
By contrast, the Badgers played with typical efficiency at the other end, a hallmark for coach Ryan's teams.
The ball wound around the perimeter before going into Dekker. The lithe 6-foot-7 forward backed down his defender with about 5 seconds left on the shot clock before turning and hitting an easy layup.
"We're at our best when everyone's attacking, everyone's looking to make a play," Jackson said about the run.
Bertrand's short jumper finally ended the spurt, but Illinois was well out of it already down 33-12 with 7:56 left in the first half. The Badgers gave them a few easy looks on the defensive end but Illinois failed to convert.
"They just came out and threw the first punch," Rice said. "We've been fighting back all year and they just came out and were the better team tonight."
Illinois played a little better to open the second half and still could get no closer than 17.
Just another solid win for Wisconsin. The Badgers aren't necessarily flashy, but they've got much more firepower offensively than in years past.
Dekker can beat opponents off the dribble, as he did on a pretty diagonal drive through the lane that ended with a hesitation move and three-point play during the start of the 20-0 run.
Kaminsky can hit the 3 or smoothly maneuver in the post. The pesky Brust can make opponents pay from the perimeter, finishing 4 of 8 from 3-point territory.
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Skip to comments.Fraud Charges Cloud Senate Election in Daschle's Home State
Posted on 10/17/2002 10:17:03 AM PDT by kattracks
(CNSNews.com) - Reports of voter registration fraud involving Democrats and Indian reservations are pouring out of South Dakota, the home state of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
Less than three weeks before the mid-term election, the allegations complicate one of the closest Senate races in the country, one Republicans hope to win in order to regain control of the chamber.
A Zogby International poll of 500 likely voters conducted Oct. 9-11 found that 45 percent of voters favor GOP Rep. John Thune, with 43 percent favoring incumbent Democrat, Sen. Tim Johnson. Ten percent remain undecided.
The FBI and the state attorney general have launched investigations into incidents in which employees of the state Democratic Party allegedly tried to register dead or nonexistent people to vote absentee in the November election.
Voters are allowed to vote absentee between Sept. 24 and Oct. 21. The state works largely on an honor system in which voters who go to the polls on Election Day aren't asked for identification.
At least six counties near Indian reservations are reportedly implicated: Dewey, Pennington, Fall River, Charles Mix, Shannon and Ziebach.
In Ziebach County, someone allegedly sent in an absentee ballot application for Denise Red Horse, a woman who died in a Sept. 3 car accident. Her application was signed Sept. 21, more than two weeks after her death, and mailed with a bundle of other applications by the Democratic headquarters.
The Wall Street Journal reports a Shannon County election clerk received a high number of new voter registrations, many "clearly signed by the same person" and some hailing from Nebraska.
Bret Healy, the executive director of the South Dakota Democratic Party, has said he notified the U.S. attorney about the fraud and subsequently fired contractor Becky Red Earth-Villeda after she allegedly submitted invalid voter registrations.
Two former Daschle staffers, Rich Gordon and Brian Drapeaux, head the Democrats' Indian voter project. And the Johnson campaign has made outreach to potential Indian voters a priority in this year's election.
FBI special agent Paul McCabe said he could not comment on specifics of the agency's on-going investigation, which is being conducted by the FBI's Minneapolis office. The FBI became involved because Indian reservations come under federal jurisdiction.
Christopher Maynard, a Dakota State University political scientist, doubts that incidents of voter fraud are part of a comprehensive, intentional effort on the part of state Democrats.
"Much of the fraud that's been found so far has to do with money more so than trying to influence the election," said Maynard. "The problem comes in when many of these groups, such as the Democratic Party, give money based on how many people you can canvas, how many absentee ballots you can bring in."
He believes the Senate race will remain focused on issues like Iraq, Medicare, prescription drugs, and Social Security.
But the election could remain tainted by the accusations of fraud, says Maynard, if the attorney general is unable to unearth any evidence of the wrongdoing between now and the election, if the national media publicizes the matter, or if Johnson wins by a slim margin.
If Johnson wins by a few hundred votes, "then you might have a situation where the Republicans contest it in the court system," he predicted.
And it's Johnson who has an edge, Maynard believes, thanks to pork barrel politics.
"The reason this race is in a dead heat right now [is] because Daschle is in charge of the Senate, and that gives South Dakota a huge advantage as far as appropriations," he said.
But on Election Day, Maynard says, it's voter turnout that will determine the outcome, especially the senior vote.
"If it snows that day and it's cold and miserable and that brings down the elderly vote," he said, that could spell trouble for Johnson.
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However, I shall keep tryin' nonetheless...MUD
One thing about South Dakotans. They can't stand cheaters or liars once found out.
The rest of the blame goes right to Tom Daschle who became majority leader by "default". Republicans voted for Jeffords because he was the pubbie candidate and then he stabbed republicans EVERYWHERE in the back.
Now Tom Daschle is reaping what he sowed and hopefully, Tim Johnson will be defeated because SD doesn't have the stomach for this kind of stuff.
In Florida, we've been there done that. We could give rat seminars to other states IMO. It's a short course: NEVER TRUST A DEM RAT.
Isn't that illegal, immoral, or at least, PAINFUL? :o) fsf
Haven't they learned that the honor system only works with honorable people and that the Rats have no honor?
Well Stated.You can vote, but not have to identify yourself.It's simply unbelievable.I'm surprised Daschle and the state have been able to keep that fact under wraps for this many years.
And the 'Rats are shooting for a 113.6% turnout...
LOL! And the dead shall rise as Democrats as they did in the days of Daley!!
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Lady Grey in Peacock Blue Plaid
Added Jan 19, 2011
by amaydak
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I created this coat during Gertie's Lady Grey Sewalong. This project ended up being my first coat and my first time matching plaids. Obviously, I knew it would be my first time sewing a winter coat. The plaid matching, however, was something I thought about later. I simply fell in love with the colors and pattern at the fabric store, had it cut, took it home and only then realized I had to match the pattern. #$%#!! Just kidding, as with many things the idea ended up being much worse than the reality. It certainly took time to match the pattern (putting me well behind the rest of the group), but I wouldn't say it was technically very difficult.
What can I say, this project was so challenging and being able to wear the final product is such an amazing sewing-confidence builder! I still remain very impressed with the Lady Grey Pattern and Gertie's instruction; I would highly recommend both. The introduction to tailoring was amazing, really enjoyed it!
The only adjustment I made was to lengthen the sleeves. More images can be found on my blog refurl Check it out if you'd like.
Material Notes
Lambs wool/cashmere blend
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- Women
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Jan 27, 2011, 08.16 AMby hand-quilter
Your coat is seriously amazing! I love the choice of fabric and the colours within it. It looks great on you with those jeans too.
Great job! Sam xox
P.S I featured it on my blog also: http://hand-quilter.blogspot.com/2011/01/projects-i-am-loving.html
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Jan 27, 2011, 10.10 PMby amaydak
Very cool, thank you!
Jan 22, 2011, 10.32 AMby Deborah Zimmerman
Your coat is so gorgeous!! And impressive—your FIRST coat! You've inspired me to try one myself :)
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Jan 24, 2011, 03.57 PMby amaydak
Thank you!
You really should try it! Definitely time consuming, but really not all that bad.
Jan 21, 2011, 10.08 PMby peaches2218
I like the Lady Grey in theory, but yours is the only finished version I actually love. That fabric is to die for!
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Jan 24, 2011, 03.55 PMby amaydak
Wow, thanks! You really made my Monday! :)
Jan 21, 2011, 04.12 PMby amaydak
Thank you so much, matching plaids is sooo worth the effort!
Jan 21, 2011, 02.16 PMby strawberrypancakesbykim
I love the Lady Grey pattern and it looks FAB in this peacock plaid!!
Jan 20, 2011, 09.45 PMby amaydak
Thank you!
Jan 20, 2011, 03.28 PMby cquinn13
beautiful! nice job!
Jan 20, 2011, 02.31 PMby amaydak
Thanks everyone! It really was a fun project. ;)
Jan 19, 2011, 10.53 PMby erica-penton
Oh, that is gorgeous! Great job.
Jan 19, 2011, 10.23 PMby tasallison
I used to have a 1950's swing coat in fabric just like this! you've got a keen eye for faric choice!
Jan 19, 2011, 09.39 PMby zeegang
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard on Tuesday partially reopened a section of the Mississippi River southeast of New Orleans where a tugboat sank over the weekend.
Coast Guard spokesman Jonathan Lally said a mile-long stretch of the river, near the town of Venice, was reopened at 6:15 p.m. CDT Tuesday. He said a safety zone is in effect until further notice. The zone limits the area to one-way traffic. Lally said that means vessels are not allowed to pass each other within the zone and must coordinate with each other to see who goes through the area when.
The tug sank Saturday. The river was closed from Saturday afternoon until Sunday night as authorities searched for the tug and made sure it didn't pose a navigation hazard.
Some vessels anchored and waited out the weekend closure. Others, including a cruise ship bound for New Orleans, were re-routed.
The sunken tug was located Monday. The Coast Guard, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, local authorities and private companies were involved in the search, which included the use of sonar. As of late Tuesday, it still had not been salvaged, Lally said.
The Coast Guard said two people were rescued from the water after the sinking. The cause of the accident remains unclear.
The Coast Guard and Fab-Con Inc., a marine construction company working on the salvage effort, said late Tuesday that the operator of the tug and the designated "responsible party" in the accident was A & R Marine LLC of Belle Chasse, which has no listed phone number.
Fab-Con Inc. spokesman Shawn LeBeouf said other companies involved in the salvage effort were Couvillion Group of Belle Chasse, Blackwater Diving, and T. Baker Smith.
Couvillion operations manager Michael Roy said the tugboat would first be moved out of the navigation channel, then removed from the water. Shawn LeBoeuf, a spokesman for Fab-Con, said in an e-mail from the salvage site that the companies were making "great progress."