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(1) Syria and the Dogs of War By Conn Hallinan Foreign Policy in Focus September 27, 2012 http://www.fpif.org/articles/syria_and_the_dogs_of_war Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial Julius Caesar Act 3, scene 1 William Shakespeare "Blood and destruction," "dreadful objects," and "pity choked" was the Bard's searing characterization of what war visits upon the living. It is a description that increasingly parallels the ongoing war in Syria, which is likely to worsen unless the protagonists step back and search for a diplomatic solution to the 17-month old civil war. From an initial clash over a monopoly of power by Syria's Baathist Party, the war has spread to Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq, ignited regional sectarianism, drawn in nations around the globe, and damaged the reputation of regional and international organizations. Once loosed, the dogs of war range where they will. Although the regime of Bashar al-Assad ignited the explosion with its brutal response to political protests, much of the blame for the current situation lies with those countries, seeing an opportunity to eliminate an enemy, that fanned the flames with weapons and aid: the United States, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, plus a host of minor cast members ranging from Jordan to Libya. The results are almost exactly what Russia and China predicted when they warned about trying to force regime change without a negotiated settlement: an opening for radical Islamists, a flood of refugees, and growing instability in a region primed to erupt. The war has claimed between 20,000 and 25,000 lives and wreaked havoc on a number of cities, including the country's largest, Aleppo. Just who those casualties are is in dispute. While it is undoubtedly true that the Damascus government's use of heavy weapons in urban areas has killed and wounded many civilians, the opposition has carried out extrajudicial executions of Syrian soldiers and Assad supporters as well. "This is an asymmetrical war, and there is a degree of expansion of violations of international law by both sides that seems to be escalating," says Kristalina Georgieva, UN commissioner for crisis response. The Damascus government has developed its own spin on the casualties, claiming they are not Syrians but "foreign fighters." There is no question that "foreign fighters" are involved-mostly Islamic jihadists from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Libya, Jordan, and Turkey-but most of the insurgents are Syrians. Truth is always the first casualty in a war, particularly a civil one in which the protagonists are not always easy to define. The fighting has produced a refugee crisis that, while nowhere near the catastrophe generated by the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq-when 4 million fled their homes-has still sent hundreds of thousands of people into neighboring countries. At last count, the UN had registered almost 250,000 refugees, some 80,000 in Turkey, 70,000 in Jordan, close to 57,000 in Lebanon, and over 16,000 in Iraq. The uprising has also become increasingly sectarian. Syria has one of the most complex mélanges of ethnicities and religious identities in the Middle East. Although most Syrians are Sunni Muslims, there are sizable minorities of Druze, a variety of Christian sects, and Alawite Muslims. The Alawites, among them the Assads, have dominated the Syrian military since French colonial days. The sect is associated with Shiism, although it has a pre-Islamic history that is deeply rooted in the country's western mountains. According to reporting by foreign media, jihadists are playing an increasingly powerful role in the fighting. "The Islamist groups, which are superbly financed and equipped by the Gulf states, are ruthlessly seizing decision-making power for themselves," Randa Kassis, a member of the opposition Syrian National Council told Der Spiegel. "Syrians who are taking up arms against the dictator but not putting themselves under the jihadists' command are being branded as unpatriotic and heretics." While the Syrian National Council and the Free Syrian Army disavow the more extreme jihadists, the latter hold the whip hand because of their support from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the main source of weapons and funding. The rising number of car bombings is the signature of such al-Qaeda-affiliated groups as the al-Nusra Front. Speaking in Jordan on September 9, al-Qaeda leader Abu Sayyaf called for a jihad against the secular Assad regime. French surgeon Jacques Beres, a founder of the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders who recently returned from treating wounded in Syria, told Reuters that 60 percent of his patients were foreign fighters. "It's really something strange to see. They are directly saying that they aren't interested in Bashar al-Assad's fall, but are thinking how to take power afterward and set up an Islamic state with Shariah law to become part of the world emirate." The surge of extremism is not restricted to Syria. Iraq has been convulsed by bombings aimed at the Shiite community, killing over 300 people between July 21 and August 18. On September 9, nearly 400 people were killed or wounded in 13 Iraqi cities. Alawites have been targeted in Turkey and Shiites in Lebanon, the latter in a replay of sectarian attacks five years ago in Tripoli by the Saudi-funded Fatah al-Islam. While Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Recep Erdogan is playing a key role in the war by supplying the rebels, Ankara is discovering that the dogs of war are ranging uncomfortably close to home. Iraqi-based Kurds, who have long fought for an independent state made up from parts of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran, have stepped up operations against the Turkish military, and the Turks are apprehensive that Syria's Kurds might join in. Turkey's "Kurdish problem" might explain why Erdogan has toned down his rhetoric against Syria, though the explanation might also be simple politics-Ankara's involvement in the Syrian civil war is not popular with the average Turk. The conflict has also damaged the UN, though that is mainly fallout from the organization's role in the overthrow of the Gaddafi government in Libya. Moscow and Beijing backed UN Security Council intervention in Libya because they were assured that there would be an attempt to negotiate a political solution. The African Union (AU) had already begun such talks when the French started bombing and the war went full-tilt. The AU is still unhappy at the United States, France, and Britain over Libya, and the African organization's warning that the collapse of Libya might fuel instability in other areas of the continent appears to be coming true. The current war in Mali is a direct result of the massive number of weapons that poured into the rest of Africa following the Libyan war, as well as the empowering of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, an extremist group that played a role in overthrowing Gaddafi. As intractable as the Syrian war looks, there is room for a political resolution, but only if the protagonists and their supporters stand down. The Damascus government will have to recognize that one-family rule went out with feudalism, and that its opponents have real grievances. On the other side, the opposition will have to drop its insistence that there will be no talks until the Damascus government resigns. A zero-sum approach by either side will simply translate into a continuing war. But this will also mean countries fueling the opposition with guns and supplies will have to back off as well. And those nations that constantly talk about the threat of "terrorism" need to confront the extremists' financers. "The US and Israeli obsession with Iran has led Washington to turn a blind eye to the dangers posed by Saudi policy," writes Anatol Lievan, a war studies professor at King's College, London, which "has helped lay the basis for Islamist extremism in Pakistan and elsewhere." Other countries affected by the war, including Lebanon and Iran, need to be brought into the process as well. Lastly, the role of regional and international organizations needs to be reconfigured. The Libya war damaged the AU, the Arab League, and the UN because the political process was hijacked by NATO and Gaddafi's enemies. The UN can play a key role in bringing peace, but not if it serves the interests of one side over the other. "The Western powers would be well advised to unite with Russia and China in putting maximum pressure on both sides to put up their arms and come to the table. Diplomacy, rather than war, is the only way to preserve what is left of Syria for its hard-pressed citizens," says Patrick Seale, a leading British expert on the Middle East. The alternative is death and destruction, floods of refugees, religious extremism, restive minorities, and a divided international community. Such ground makes rich hunting for the dogs of war. It is time to bring them to heel. (2) American Influence on The Middle East Is Past Its Peak - Someone Should Tell Them World View: Is the US now in the same position as the Soviet Union in 1989, when it had to allow its satellites to collapse around it? Patrick Cockburn The Independent 30 September 2012 http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/american-influence-on-the-middle-east-is-past-its-peak--someone-should-tell-them-8190901.html Are the days of American predominance in the Middle East coming to an end or is US influence simply taking a new shape? How far is Washington, after refusing to try to keep Hosni Mubarak in power in Egypt, facing the same situation as the Soviet Union in 1989, when the police states it had sustained in Eastern Europe were allowed to collapse? The US is obviously weaker than it was between 1979, when the then Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat, signed the Camp David agreement and allied Egypt with the US, and 2004/05, when it became obvious to the outside world that the Iraq war was a disaster for America. At the time, General William Odom, a former head of the National Security Agency, the biggest US intelligence agency, rightly called it "the greatest strategic disaster in American history". Since then, the verdict of the Iraq war has been confirmed in Afghanistan, where another vastly expensive US expeditionary force has failed to crush an insurgency. In the last few weeks alone, Taliban fighters have succeeded in storming Camp Bastion in Helmand province and destroying $200m worth of aircraft. So many American and allied soldiers have now been shot by Afghan soldiers and police that US advisers are under orders to wear full body armour when having tea with their local allies. The Arab Spring uprisings posed a new threat to the US, but also opened up new options. Support for Mubarak was decisively withdrawn at an early stage, to the dismay of Saudi Arabia and Israel. But the Muslim Brotherhood had long been considering how it could reach an accommodation with the US that would safeguard it against military coups, and enable it to chop back the power of the Egyptian security forces. This was very much the successful strategy of the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development (AKP) party, explaining why it was prepared to join the US in invading Iraq in 2003 and why it has become the chief instrument of American policy towards Syria in the past year. This alliance with Islamic but democratic and pro- capitalist parties in Egypt and Turkey is obviously in the interests of the US and the Atlantic powers. But their support for democratic change in North Africa and West Asia is determined by self-interest. It does not, for instance, extend to Bahrain where the Sunni al- Khalifa monarchy has been busily locking up its Shia opponents and retreating from promises of meaningful reform. But new allies must at some point mean fresh policies. In sharp contrast to the Mubarak regime, a new government in Egypt is unlikely to support covertly Israeli military action such as the bombardment of Lebanon in 2006 and of Gaza in 2008. A problem for the White House is that American voters have not taken on board the extent to which US influence has been reduced. For all the rhetoric about the Iraq war being a strategic disaster, the American political and military elite has also failed to appreciate the extent and consequences of failure. It is extraordinary to discover, according to recent revelations, that as late as 2010 Vice-President Joe Biden was under the impression that he could blithely decide who would be president of Iraq. Biden's grip on Iraqi geography appears to be as shaky as his understanding of its politics. On one occasion in Baghdad, he lauded all the good things the US had done for Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, having apparently mistaken it for Basra in southern Iraq. The killing of the US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and the burning of the US Consulate in Benghazi could have been a worse political disaster for President Barack Obama than it turned out to be. It highlighted that the rebels who overthrew Muammar Gaddafi were not quite as they had been presented by the US government and media during the war past year. The US State Department appears to have had an unhealthy belief in its own propaganda, not seeing that its consulate in Benghazi was in one of the most dangerous places in the world. The assault did not come out of a blue sky. Fighters had shot at the convoy of the British ambassador, Sir Dominic Asquith, in Benghazi a few weeks earlier. In July last year, the rebels' own commander, Abdel Fatah Younis, was abducted and murdered by men nominally under his command in revenge for repressive actions he had carried out before he defected from Gaddafi's forces. Diplomats and soldiers are often curiously blind to dangers facing them. It may be that both live in very inward-looking communities and somehow cannot internalise how somebody outside may think and act. I remember in 1983 in Lebanon talking to the highly intelligent US marine commander whose soldiers were based near Beirut airport. In theoretical terms, he could see very clearly that American forces had some very dangerous enemies and were vulnerable to attack, but he unaccountably failed to take effective measures that might have stopped a truck packed with explosives killing 241 marines when their base was destroyed. Likewise, the Green Zone in Baghdad from 2003 on had elaborate fortifications, but its outer defences were manned at one moment by former Peruvian policemen from Lima and, at another, by ex-soldiers from Uganda hired on the cheap by a security company. A more effective political opponent than Mitt Romney could surely have inflicted damage on Obama over the Benghazi debacle. A measure of Romney's ineptitude is that he failed to do so and, instead of scoring points, he came across as opportunistic and ignorant. After all, Obama has been conducting a policy of retreat in Iraq, Afghanistan and Egypt without quite coming clean about it. Romney's denunciation of Obama for "apologising" for America was shallow demagoguery, though rhetoric on the American right should not be dismissed too casually. George W Bush's supporters used to spout similar nonsense, but only after 9/11 did it become appallingly clear that they believed a lot of what they were saying. Supposing Obama is re-elected in November, will the US stance change at all? The endlessly repeated Israeli threats to launch air strikes on Iran have always struck me as being most likely highly successful bluff, since threats alone have served Israeli purposes so well, isolating Iran economically and diverting attention from the Palestinians. More immediately, will the US move after the election, possibly acting through Turkey, to take military action to displace Bashar al-Assad in Syria? There is something deceptive about David Cameron implying that Russia and China are responsible for the slaughter of Syrian children. A central problem in getting rid of President Assad and the Baathist regime is that the war against him is not just for and against autocracy. If this were the only issue, how come that the Sunni absolute monarchies of the Arabian peninsula are Assad's fiercest enemies? The struggle is also between Shia and Sunni and between Iran and its enemies, guaranteeing that Assad has support in Tehran, Baghdad and Beirut. The quickest way to end the war is to reassure Assad's allies at home and abroad that they are not next in line for elimination. ___________________________________________ Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it. Submit via email: [log in to unmask] Submit via the Web: http://portside.org/submittous3 Frequently asked questions: http://portside.org/faq Sub/Unsub: http://portside.org/subscribe-and-unsubscribe Search Portside archives: http://portside.org/archive Contribute to Portside: https://portside.org/donate
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Transmission (v2.04) has been working fine for me for a couple of months now. I am running RAIDiator 4.1.6 on my ReadyNAS Duo. However, all of a sudden, recently when clicking on the Transmission Interface radio button via ReadyNAS Frontview, I receive the following error in Firefox:
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I've seen other threads where Super-poussin has suggested to 1) restart Transmission or 2) modify the following entries in the settings.json file (which did not work for me):
"rpc-whitelist": "*",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
Here is my current settings.json file:
"alt-speed-down": 50,
"alt-speed-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
"alt-speed-time-day": 127,
"alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
"alt-speed-up": 50,
"bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
"bind-address-ipv6": "::",
"blocklist-enabled": false,
"dht-enabled": true,
"download-dir": "/var/local//Downloads",
"encryption": 1,
"incomplete-dir": "/c/addons-config/Transmission/transmission-daemon/Incomplete",
"incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
"lazy-bitfield-enabled": true,
"lpd-enabled": false,
"message-level": 2,
"open-file-limit": 32,
"peer-limit-global": 240,
"peer-limit-per-torrent": 60,
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"peer-port-random-high": 65535,
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"peer-port-random-on-start": false,
"peer-socket-tos": 0,
"pex-enabled": true,
"port-forwarding-enabled": true,
"preallocation": 1,
"proxy": "",
"proxy-auth-enabled": false,
"proxy-auth-password": "",
"proxy-auth-username": "",
"proxy-enabled": false,
"proxy-port": 80,
"proxy-type": 0,
"ratio-limit": 2.0000,
"ratio-limit-enabled": false,
"rename-partial-files": true,
"rpc-authentication-required": false,
"rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
"rpc-enabled": true,
"rpc-password": "{dd9391aab4a5fdc513ef4cee5bcf49ec870a882aJckOKSV3",
"rpc-port": 9091,
"rpc-username": "",
"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
"script-torrent-done-enabled": true,
"script-torrent-done-filename": "/c/addons-config/Transmission/email_alert",
"speed-limit-down": 100,
"speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
"speed-limit-up": 100,
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"start-added-torrents": true,
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Beautiful brand new Costa Mesa home designer decorated and furnished, located 1 mile from Huntington Beach. Masterbedroom with California King Bed and private bath with shower, dbl sinks, walk-in closet. Bedroom #2 has a Queen bedroom set and a shared bath in hall with Bedroom #3 which has a set of Full over Full Bunk beds. Upstairs laundry room. 42" Plasma TV's in all bedrooms, 50" in livingroom. Beautifully upgraded with granite counters, Travertine floors, stainless steel appliances, hard wood floors & upgraded carpeting. Powder room downstairs, and attached 2 car garage with remote.
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Workers unloaded champagne and plastic wrap from a white delivery truck inside Comerica Park as the A�s dressing room was transformed into a party room.
And for a while, it looked like Oakland would be celebrating a trip to the American League Championship Series, courtesy of leadoff man Coco Crisp.
Crisp helped the A�s jump out to a 3-0 lead over the Tigers on Tuesday, driving starter Doug Fister batty.
But ...
The bubbly in the locker room was taken off ice for one simple reason: Crisp cannot lead off every inning. Thus, he cannot keep the team from crumbling, as it did in an 8-6 loss that sent the series back to Oakland for a deciding Game 5 on Thursday.
�He is our igniter, no doubt about it,� A�s manager Bob Melvin said. �He can hit, he steals bases, he gets on base. He takes the pitcher�s attention off the hitter. He is our engine.�
The only reason the Tigers are still alive is because Crisp didn�t come up to bat when the A�s loaded up the bases in the eighth inning with no outs. He was on deck when pinch hitter Alberto Callaspo lined out to center fielder Austin Jackson to end the threat.
A pain to Tigers
The bad news for the Tigers is that Crisp will stand in his customary leadoff spot Thursday, with no signs of slowing down. He�s hitting .500 in the series after going 4-for-5 with three runs and an RBI on Tuesday.
Crisp is simply a pain.
The Tigers couldn�t keep him off the bases and couldn�t stop him from driving in a go-ahead run in the seventh inning.
While he seemed to make Prince Fielder laugh every time he got on base, Crisp is causing everyone else to cringe
He led off the game with a triple and scored.
He singled in the fifth and scored.
He drove in Stephen Vogt in the seventh for a 4-3 A�s lead after the Tigers had clawed back to make it 3-3 after five.
And, he sparked a two-run ninth with a single.
�He is in a good grove right now,� Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. �When he gets a pitch, he doesn�t miss a chance. He�s a terrific player and he�s a catalyst.
�We�re fortunate we�re 2-2 because we haven�t shut him down. I said in this series that was one of our missions, to try to slow him.�
Just what's needed
Crisp has been on base 10 times during the series. Tigers leadoff man Austin Jackson? He�s struck out 10 times.
Crisp scored three times Tuesday. Jackson? He has scored once the entire series.
There are simply no flaws in Crisp�s game. He gets on base and keeps the Tigers pitchers guessing.
Crisp is exactly what the Tigers need.
He gets on base. He takes pitches and drives up pitch counts.
He does the big things and the little things for the A�s.
And if the Tigers have any hope of winning Game 5 and heading to the ALCS, they need to find a way to knock Coco cuckoo.
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A's leadoff Coco Crisp launches a triple and later scored to open a 1-0 lead for Oakland in the first inning of Game 5. / Daniel Mears / Detroit News
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1. Fake IDs have come a long way since I was 17. Back then it simply required peeling off the top layer of a real one, changing a 5 to a 1, and replacing the plastic. Today there are holograms and magnetic strips. Still, shady shops in Toronto are overcoming the technology and creating passable "novelty" driver's licenses and university ID cards for anyone with roughly $50, CBC News reports. It just goes to show that if demand is strong enough, the black market will respond.
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Here's some background information about the Norwegian terrorist attack on July 22, 2011. Eight people died in a bombing in Oslo while 69 young people died on nearby Utoya island. This was the deadliest attack in Norway since World War II.
The Perpetrator: Anders Behring Breivik
Pronounced: AHn-ders BRAY-vick
Ethnic Norwegian
No military background or training
Described as a right-wing Christian extremist, with a hatred of Muslims.
Reportedly the author of a 1,500 page manifesto, called "2083: A European Declaration of Independence," critical of Muslim immigration and European liberalism.
He registered a farm in Rena, in eastern Norway, which allowed him access to large amounts of fertilizer.
Other Facts: The young people killed on Utoya island (Pronounced: Oo-TOY-ah) were attending a Labour Party youth camp. Most of the 700 campers ranged in age from 16 to 22, some as young as 13.
Norway does not have the death penalty.
Timeline: July 22, 2011 - At approximately 3:26pm, a fertilizer bomb explodes outside the building housing the office of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. Eight people are killed in the bombing. - After the bombing, Anders Behring Breivik takes a short ferry ride to Utoya island, approximately 20 miles from Oslo. - Breivik, who witnesses say was wearing a police uniform, opens fire on young adults at a Labour Party youth camp. He roams the grounds of the island, killing campers trying to escape. - At approximately 6:27pm, Breivik is taken into custody by members of an elite Norwegian police unit.
July 25, 2011 - Breivik attends his first court hearing, which is closed. - His request to wear a uniform to court is denied. - He is prevented from reading from his manifesto during the court hearing. - Breivik claims to be working with two other cells of terrorists. - Two court psychiatrists are assigned to the case. - He is ordered to be held for eight weeks until his next court hearing. - The first four weeks of detention will be in solitary confinement. He won't be allowed contact with anyone except his lawyer. He also will not be allowed mail or news.
August 19, 2011 - The families of the victims visit Utoya island.
August 19, 2011 - A judge rules that Breivik should be held in solitary confinement for another four weeks, until September 19.
September 19, 2011 - A judge rules that Breivik will remain in solitary confinement for another four weeks.
October 13, 2011 - The Oslo police announce that Breivik will leave solitary confinement within days.
November 14, 2011 - More than 500 people attend Breivik's first court hearing that is open to the public. Breivik is not allowed to deliver a speech he prepared, and the judge orders him held in custody for another 12 weeks.
November 29, 2011 - Police announce that Breivik is insane, stating that psychiatrists had found him paranoid and schizophrenic. They say that he suffers from "grandiose delusions."
January 13, 2012 - Judge Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen announces that the court wants a second opinion from psychiatrists concerning Breivik's sanity.
February 10, 2012 - A Norwegian court orders that Breivik undergo a month-long 24-hour psychiatric monitoring as experts seek to determine his mental state ahead of a trial.
March 7, 2012 - Anders Behring Breivik is formally charged with committing acts of terror and voluntary homicide.
April 10, 2012 - Two psychiatric experts release their findings, which judge Anders Behring Breivik to have been sane at the time of the crimes. The findings state that during the commission of the crimes Breivik was not psychotic, not suffering from any psychiatric condition and is not mentally challenged.
April 16, 2012 - Trial begins.
April 17, 2012 - Judge Thomas Indrebo is disqualified for saying online that the death penalty is the right punishment for Breivik. Norway does not have the death penalty.
April 20, 2012 - Breivik uses the video game, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," as training for his shooting which has reopened debates on violent video games.


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Stepping in Time
The Ed Larkin Contra Dancers take their cues from history
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Ed Larkin Contra Dancers Circa 1940
How many times have you read a story about some traditional art turned cool that started with the declaration, "This is not your grandmother's two-step" (or embroidery circle, or fiddling social, or whatever)? This story starts a little differently: This is your grandmother's two-step. Your great-grandmother's, even. So no dumping on grannies: The elder members of Vermont's Ed Larkin Contra Dancers cut a rug like Edward Scissorhands. Respect!
We're all familiar with the hippie contra-dance phenomenon — boho masses drawn to the flowing skirts, inviting social atmosphere and manageable movements. But the Larkin dancers are the real article. Similar skirts, different mission.
"We haven't changed any of the dances," says Dorothy Swayze, an Ed Larkin member for more than 30 years and the group's booking agent. Prior to a recent dance at the Tunbridge Town Hall, she explains by phone that, of the 30 traditional contras and quadrilles the group performs, all follow the original choreography, circa 1883. The "gypsy" move typically seen at a new-style contra dance — i.e., circling your partner in a passionate eye lock — is noticeably absent.
Contra dance originally came over with immigrants from England and France. Some suggest the name is corrupted from the French contradanse, meaning "country" dance. Others believe it refers to individuals standing in two lines facing, or "contra," each other. Either way, Swayze can quickly tell the difference between dancers who maintain 19th-century standards and those who have more modern interpretations. For instance, she notes the sashay: "Down the center, same way back is always called 'sashay,' and a sedate sashay it is, never done strenuously."
The names of the dances also haven't changed. "The White Cockade" and "The Girl I Left Behind Me" are Irish. There's a nod to the Scottish Lowlands with "Hull's Victory." The Ed Larkin Dancers' rendition of the quadrille, a precursor of square dance, is historically accurate as well, including the use of a "prompter" to gently remind dancers of their next step, rather than a "caller," who tends to shout.
Why 1883? That's the year the group's founder and namesake Edward Loyal Larkin first learned the dances, at age 17.
"The Larkin parents were God-fearing folks and did not allow their children to go to dances," begins the company's collected history, entitled And Everyone Would Sashay. Regardless, author Ruth Sher explains, a curious Ed Larkin couldn't resist and, while his parents were out of town, snuck out of his Westmore, Vermont, home one night to check out the Tunbridge Ball.
"Once inside the door, Ed made his way quietly and unobtrusively to his chosen point of vantage and seclusion behind the spacious box stove off to one corner," writes Sher.
Like a heat-seeking missile, a young miss snatched the wallflower up for a dance. A few weeks later, Larkin announced to his parents that he'd be attending another Tunbridge Ball, and there was little they could do about it.
Larkin enjoyed the event so much, he started to organize noontime contras and accompany them with his harmonica. But that wasn't enough; he soon contracted the so-called "fiddle itch"— an overwhelming desire to play the fiddle — and before long was doing just that all over town.
Though Larkin is long gone, Harold Luce remembers him well. The current fiddler for the Ed Larkin Contra Dancers, he learned to play at age 13 from the founder himself.
"He was very strict," remembers Luce. "He'd be calling, and, if you missed a step or someone turned wrong, he'd stop you. He was a perfectionist." Before Luce became the group's full-time fiddler, Larkin's daughter Gertrude used to accompany the dancers.
In And Everyone Would Sashay, Gertrude recalls nights spent riding with her father to kitchen junkets — contra events held in people's homes.
"Mom didn't want me to go. She thought I was too young," Gertrude says. "She would say, 'Ask your father.' Dad liked the company and someone to drive the horse home so he could sleep after a day's work and all-night fiddling and prompting. He didn't hesitate to say, 'Yes.'"
Gertrude remembers tackling snowdrifts and dancing till dawn as she and her father traveled the Vermont midlands, entertaining small towns along the way.
Today Gertrude no longer accompanies the group. "She has Alzheimer's and is down at the nursing home now, but we just let her keep playing until one day she sat down and said, 'I think I'm not going to play today,'" Luce says. "She never played again."
Luce himself shows no signs of slowing down, though. The spry eightysomething handles the fiddle with care and takes pride in his skill. "I can fiddle somersaults around most," he boasts, "but I don't find no fault in others' playing."
When asked if he thinks performing with the group keeps him young, Luce laughs and says, "It can't hurt." Like the aging singers in the current movie Young@Heart, the Ed Larkin Contra Dancers show an energy that speaks to the benefits of an active retirement.
The members are just as notable for their wardrobes. For performances, all of them dress in reproductions of 19th-century garb: top hats and tails for the gentlemen, bonnets and intricate bodice dresses for the ladies.
"Back in the day, some of the members wore their family's original clothing, but those are very delicate and a few are in museums now," explains Dorothy Swayze. Today, many of the female members sew their own. Swayze agrees that the costumes allow the group to strengthen their connection with the past.
They have Ed Larkin to thank for that, too. While he fiddled his way through the glory days of contra dance around Chelsea, Washington and Tunbridge, the style's popularity eventually waned as interest in ballroom dance grew. With admirable foresight, Larkin prevented the disappearance of his beloved contra by founding, in 1934, an organization to preserve its original steps.
Fast-forward to 2008 in that same idyllic village of Tunbridge, a place that resembles the label on a bottle of Hidden Valley Ranch. Every few months, the Ed Larkin Contra Dancers host an informal gathering at Town Hall to share their movements and teach the public. And, just as Larkin did back in 1883 — albeit not with buggies and ponies — dancers and curious guests arrive for an evening of old-time contra dance. More people show up than you'd expect.
"You meet people and have a good laugh," says Peggy Branwell, who looks about 25. She's come to the town hall with three young comrades. "Contra dance is really big in the Hanover area," explains Branwell. "There's also a crew that goes to Norwich, and there are dances at Dartmouth with a live band and caller. You have to bring a change of clothing and a lot of water — it's a workout."
The Ed Larkin crew quickly assimilates the youngsters. Luce rosins up his bow and starts to play. Troupe president Clyde Jenne takes the mike: "Hands in the middle, now sashay down. Sashay back, now spin around."
More people file into the tiny hall — friends, couples, a little girl hand-in-hand with her father. "Come on up and dance," the contra crowd calls out. It doesn't take much convincing. And it's hard not to smile when you're do-si-doing with a fourth-grader on one side and an energetic senior citizen on the other, while an 80-year-old plays an Irish tune from the 1800s. File this under Good Clean Fun — emphasis on fun.
Afterward, as we exit into the Green Mountain dusk, refreshments organizer Maryanne Johnson calls out, "We're looking for gigs." For a small fee, the Ed Larkin Contra Dancers will perform at events. And, of course, anyone is welcome to attend one of their open houses throughout the year. Top hats optional.


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Environmentalist Tony Juniper speaks at Wildlife Trust meeting in Winchester
3:30pm Sunday 20th October 2013 in News
HAMPSHIRE'S wildlife enthusiasts gathered in Winchester to hear from former executive director of Friends of the Earth, Tony Juniper.
The campaigner and environmentalist was invited to the Guildhall as guest of honour for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's AGM yesterday.
The day before, Mr Juniper visited Winnall Moors to see at the work being done there.
Two hundred members turned up to hear his presentation What Has Nature Ever Done For Us? which is the title of his latest book.
Debbie Tann, the trust's chief executive, said: "It was fantastic and his talk was brilliantly received.
"He was talking about what nature has done for us, including the value of nature systems and how they support the economy."
The event also featured a special display on "the state of nature" which highlighted key challenges facing the natural world today – including in Hampshire.
"Sixty per cent of our species are declining and that's quite worrying.
"In Hampshire we have got to fit in about 130,000 new homes in the years ahead and the challenge is to fit those in so that the impact on wildlife is minimised.
"The River Itchen also has very high levels of phosphate, and that's worrying," Ms Tann said.
There are 27,000 Wildlife Trust members in Hampshire and this was the group's 52nd AGM.
Anne Ardill, 62, from Harestock, said: "I have really enjoyed it – it's been very, very good and Tony Juniper was brilliant."
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Cherry Blossom Weddings and Events had the privilege of coordinating another fabulous and colorful Indian Wedding. Married overlooking the outdoor garden of Meadowlark Botanical Gardens. Payal and Mayur said their "I dos" in special Indian fashion. Sticking to tradition, Mayur greeted the bride's family by a riding a beautiful white horse. After guests took their seats, Mayur and Payal were blest by the priest. After the ceremony, guests were asked to come inside for toasts given by friends and family of the bride and groom, and partake in a lavish Indian buffet. We absolutely love the colors and details that Indian weddings allow. Payal and Mayur took full advantage of the vibrant colors that summer brings, such as reds and purples. Beautiful custom made fans helped keep guests cool during the June outdoor ceremony. There were also the topiary place-card holders, the sweetest cake toppers, and their "guestbook" where guests asked to "leaf" their thumbprint. The cake table was decorated with fabulous family photos of past weddings. Their Indian culture was present throughout the ceremony and reception, and was beautiful to see how all the pieces came together.
Special thanks to Elizabeth Leibundguth for coordinating this fabulous day! Also thanks to KSD Photography for the beautiful photos!
Alexandra Pare is a DC Wedding Planner and owner of event planning firm Cherry Blossom Events. She loves modern details and those 'WOW' factors that make each event unique. To learn how Alex and her team can transform your vision into the wedding of your dreams, contact them today for a complementary consultation.


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Obvious chimney on Molar Tower left of the main Dihedral Routes. Great route with classic photo opportunities. Face opposite bolts and sub summit is still a little crumbly, but will clean up with future ascents. Can be done in one pitch, but recommend two pitches belaying from stance on sub summit. Crux move is a lunge from sub summit to the main summit. 5.8 crux can go as an A0 move or escape from sub summit anchor if needed. Please leave all fixed hardware. This is a great route for anyone wanting to start learning chimney technique and is well protected.
Obvious Chimney. Route is facing the river. Anchor on top.
5 Bolts, 2 Slung Huecos 7 Quick Draws
Hey guys great route! climbed it today. It was a challenge for lacy 17. It was her 6th time climbing. She made it. thanks for putting this classic mod up. Its a gem!
Pretty fun route, nice work guys.
This was probably the funnest 5.8 I've ever done. On top of this short tower is a box with a buddha next to it.
Super fun, cruiser chimney. Perfect for those new to chimneys and towers, or those just looking for some fun. Added to a short drive from town with a speedy approach and beautiful views means there are no excuses to not climb Root Canal. Good work, guys!
I firmly believe that safely bolting sick moderates like this is a huge service to the climbing community. Good on ya, and nice find! This would be the ideal first lead - short, fully bolted, ridiculously secure clips, and clean falls. This would be nicely shaded and great on a hot day, but probably uncomfortably chilly in <50� weather.
Does anyone know if the anchors have been replaced at the top of the Root canal. Lat time I climbed it, there were 2 slings and no chains.
it's on our to do list. we hope to up grade as soon as it gets warmer. as is, the anchors are still bomber. if you like molar, may i suggest terma or spear of destiny. both have super bomb new chain anchors. peace to all.
new anchors, DONE!!!! as of 2/25/13. probably now has the best anchors in the desert, maybe the planet and possibly the universe. a brontosaurus could rap off of these things.
Paul, Thanks for the anchor replacement. We're going back out for the Thanksgiving Holiday and this is on our Tick list. I love this route!


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STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) - A judge has scheduled a hearing to determine the sex offender classification for a high school football player convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl last year.
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Mays could have to report to a local sheriff every six months for 20 years, but can request to have the label removed based on his history of rehabilitation.
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its been a month now and i wanna hit it hard again with another test booster. any suggestions, please?
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