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FAA to close 149 U.S. airport towers in automatic budget cut
WASHINGTON -- The United States will close 149 air-traffic control towers run by contractors at small- and mid-sized airports beginning April 7 as a result of automatic budget cuts at government agencies.
The Federal Aviation Administration spared 24 towers on its original list of 173 subject to closing, it said in an email Friday. All towers being shut down are run by private companies, not the government as at larger facilities. Another 16 private towers will face 5 percent cuts.
"Unfortunately we are faced with a series of difficult choices that we have to make to reach the required cuts under sequestration," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in an email.
The FAA spared the 24 facilities because airport operators convinced the agency that closing them "would have a negative impact on the national interest," according to the agency statement. The shutdowns will be phased in over four weeks.
Advocates for pilots and airports said shutting the towers will harm safety and impose economic hardship on businesses such as flight schools that rely on controllers to guide planes.
"The White House does not understand the consequences of these actions, or they do and they simply do not care," Craig Fuller, president and chief executive officer of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, a Frederick, Md.-based advocacy group, said at a town-hall meeting Thursday at DuPage Airport in West Chicago, Ill. "Either way, this approach is dangerous and should not stand."
Florida is set to lose 14 towers, the most of any state. They include facilities at Naples Municipal, Boca Raton and Ocala International airports, according to a list provided by AOPA. Texas will lose 13 and California 11.
Airports in San Carlos, Calif.; Jacksonville, Fla., and Meridian, Miss., were spared, according to the list.
Spencer Dickerson, executive director of the Alexandria, Va.-based Contract Tower Association, said it was unfair for the government to shut down more than half the 251 private towers while sparing government-run facilities. The association represents firms that run the towers.
"Controllers at contract towers perform a host of important functions, including separating aircraft, issuing safety and weather alerts, and assisting with military, emergency response, and medical flights," Dickerson said.
Planes, including airliners, can continue to fly to airports without towers. Most of the roughly 5,000 U.S. public airports don't have towers. Instead of being guided by controllers, pilots radio each other to coordinate landings and takeoffs, according to FAA procedures.
No FAA air-traffic facilities will be shut down for at least a year, Doug Church, spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association union, said in an e-mailed statement.
The FAA's union contract requires that controllers get at least a year's notice before a facility is closed, Church said. The agency Feb. 22 issued a list of 49 FAA towers that were subject to closing in addition to the private towers.
The FAA's 15,000 controllers will be forced to take one unpaid day off every two weeks starting April 21, which will aggravate delays at some of the busiest U.S. airports, including Chicago O'Hare and Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson, Administrator Michael Huerta told Congress Feb. 27.
The FAA must cut $627 million out of its $16 billion budget by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, Huerta said.


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Bread Making
One of our most popular bread making courses, learn the ins and outs of truly great bread, with a day of mixing, kneading, baking and eating!
"There is nothing in the world as satisfying to eat as home-baked, handmade bread. Of course, technically, the artisan baker down the road is much better at it, but no amount of skill and craftsmanship can replace the utter joy of eating and sharing the stuff you make yourself." The River Cottage Bread Handbook
Bread Making is one of our original and most popular courses here at River Cottage HQ. Our chefs take you through every stage of the process from mixing, kneading and proving to baking and devouring the results. With the knowledge and confidence gained from this intensive one day you will be ready to tackle the joys of bread making at home.
At River Cottage we bake all our bread including our classic farmhouse loaf so we begin the day showing you how to make this and the number of ways it can be adapted. You will also explore international breads like focaccia and roti, make wood-fired pizza for lunch and create your own wild yeast starter, for a fabulous sourdough. Once you start making your own bread nothing else will do!
"A fantastic day out that far exceeded my already high expectations. I am well and truly a real bread convert now." – Jen, My Make Do and Mend Year
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Your day
10:00 - 17:00
Arrive at River Cottage
You'll begin your River Cottage experience with a 10-15 minute walk through the wonderful pathways down to the farm, enabling you to really soak up the views of the valley.
Make yourself at home
You will be greeted by our friendly front of house team with tea, coffee and treats fresh from the kitchen. This may be a pile of drop scones with local honey or our home-baked sourdough, topped with soft egg, chestnut mushrooms and wild garlic or bacon (depending on the season).
To begin, we cover the basics – looking at the ingredients, learning the differences between flours and yeasts, and measuring and mixing a great bread dough.
Practical session one
You'll have a go at kneading your own dough, which you will leave to prove as we break for coffee.
Practical session two
You'll learn to 'knock back' your dough, then create focaccia and pizza to cook in our traditional wood-fired oven.
Practical session three
Once your dough has proved, you'll master the art of shaping and baking your loaf to perfection.
We'll take a break for lunch, which will include your homemade pizzas and other local, seasonal produce prepared by the kitchen.
Here you will learn to make an unleavened frying pan bread, such as flatbread, roti, tortilla or socca (a French chickpea pancake).
Practical session four
Next there will be a quick lesson in rustling up the perfect speedy teatime loaf, soda bread.
You will create your own wild yeast starter to take home, and learn how to use it to make a distinctively chewy, tangy loaf of sourdough bread.
If there are any questions that have not been answered throughout the day now is the time to ask them and make sure you have all the expert tips you need for bread success at home.
You'll head back up to the car park at 5pm.
Please note: This is a guide to the activities that will make up your course at River Cottage. This is by no means set in stone and will depend on seasonal availability.
On occasion cookery schools will use equipment that includes induction hobs. It is recommended that people with pace makers should not work on these units. If you are concerned or would like to check whether or not induction hobs will be used on the course you are interested in, please call us on 01297 630302.
Further information...
This course is run from River Cottage HQ on the Dorset/Devon borders. Full address details of HQ will be provided once you have booked.
We are a licensed venue. We have a wide selection of the finest organic wines available to purchase.
Stay in our famous Farmhouse, click here. For other local accommodation click here.
We would advise that this course is only really suitable for 12 years of age and upwards. Under 16s must be accompanied by a paying adult. We put these guidelines in place for the safety, comfort and enjoyment of all our guests.
Sorry, we're afraid this course is not suitable for those with coeliac disease or wheat intolerances. However we do run Gluten Free Cookery courses.
With many of our courses there are often treats and leftovers to take away with you. In our quest to be more sustainable we are encouraging guests to bring their own containers and bags to transport their produce home. Details of what is required for each course will be included in booking emails.
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WASHINGTON — About the only thing former President Ronald Reagan doesn't have named after him is a mountain, not one recognized by the federal government anyway.
Now, Republican Rep. Joe Heck of Nevada is pushing a bill that would name a part of Frenchman Mountain, located just east of Las Vegas, after the nation's 40th president.
The House Natural Resources Committee approved Heck's bill by voice vote Wednesday, but not before some Democrats on the committee had fun with the issue.
Democratic Rep. Pete DeFazio of Oregon said a more fitting tribute would be to name Yucca Mountain after Reagan. Steps taken to develop Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository accelerated during Reagan's presidency. Nevadans are overwhelmingly opposed to the proposed waste repository and members of the state's congressional delegation have worked diligently to kill it.
"If we were going to name something after the president, it ought to be something that actually had to do with the president's service in office, and something the president supported that was extraordinarily significant to the state of Nevada," DeFazio said.
Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., said he thought DeFazio's amendment was "terrific" but wanted to take it a step further and name the planet after Reagan.
"We may want to consider going big with this Reagan-naming enthusiasm," Huffman said. "I'm beginning to see some possibilities in this."
Huffman said his reasoning was that if the planet were named after Reagan, then Republicans might be more concerned with taking up legislation dealing with global warming.
Republican members of the committee played along.
"If the gentleman would introduce legislation, I would guarantee that he'll have a hearing on that bill," said Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Washington, the chairman, in response to Huffman's idea for renaming the earth.
The committee then rejected DeFazio's amendment and went on to pass the bill.
Reagan's name is ubiquitous. A long list of landmarks, buildings, highways and schools bear his name. Virginia has Ronald Reagan International Airport just outside the nation's capital. Indiana has Ronald Reagan Expressway and Ronald Reagan Parkway. California has two parks named after Reagan and seven elementary schools. North Dakota even has a former intercontinental ballistic missile site named in his honor.
But a mountain? Well, the state of New Hampshire renamed Mount Clay to Mount Reagan, but the U.S. Board of Geographic Names, the official scorer of geographic nomenclature, declined to go along, citing a reluctance to change a longstanding historical name. The board's minutes from the May 2010 meeting state that the rejection was in no way intended to be a negative reflection on Reagan's legacy.
In the end, however, the final say on geographic names goes to Congress.
House passage of Heck's bill is expected. The Senate is another story.
Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada controls the floor schedule. Asked whether Reid supports or opposes the measure, his spokeswoman, Kristen Orthman said: "He has higher priority land bills for Nevada that he would bring up" for a vote.
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text: The Silicon Valley Fight Club has been around for quite a while now, but this documentary shows the grown up nerds actually fighting. They smash keyboards on each other, use vacuums in fights, anything really. It sounds like a joke, I know, but watch the documentary, this club really exists and means a lot to these people. [The Next Web]


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(Pocket-lint) - The super-zoom is not the most exciting category of compact around at the moment, but the Canon PowerShot SX30 IS does an excellent job of shaking up the party. To give it its dues, it's not just a super-zoom, it's currently the super-zoom with the most super of zooms of them all. It's a 24-840mm equivalent lens that runs from an aperture of F/2.7-5.8 and feels almost embarrassingly phallic to have at the full 35x magnified extension.
At its purest, it seems squarely aimed at the kind of person who's probably not that interested in making the jump to DSLR but wants as much of a hot rod as the simple compact can offer. Like many of these bridge models it's not small - that lens has to go somewhere. The PowerShot SX30 IS weighs a pretty hefty 601g - more than one or two DSLRs out there - and it's nigh on the same chassis size as well. In fact, the only time you really notice that it's smaller in the hand is when you accidentally hit the Zoom Frame Assist button with your right thumb. Other than that slight annoyance, which doubtless you'll come to be careful of in time, it is a typically ergonomic and well laid out device.
Interestingly, the conventional D-pad on the rear also has a selector ring around it. Essentially, it's superfluous but in practice there are some option screens that are easier to roll through than navigate with a series of left and right jabs. It also gives this compact the illusion of something more professional by imitating a jog wheel.
Other good additions are the ever-popular instant video record button conveniently near your thumb; the aforementioned Zoom Frame Assist, which will jump back 100mm or so down the lens to help you find what you're supposed to be close in on, before extending once again when you release it, and a function button which can be assigned to any number of other jobs. The only issue is that none of those jobs include ISO, aperture or shutter speed selection - perhaps not such a big deal though given the market for this camera. On the other hand, there is a hot shoe for an external flash - complete with rather near protector - so obviously Canon is expecting for someone to be thinking down those lines.
The prize of the rear is probably the 2.7-inch, 230k-dot, vari-angle LCD which has five different brightness settings that you can access by surfing the menus or, rather more conveniently, by just holding down the Display button on the back. No matter how bright the sunshine you're in, you'll always get an excellent view of what you're trying to shoot. Great feature. Were it ambient light-sensing, it would be even better.
Should you wish to get old school, as indeed many do, there's also a relatively non-poxy, 200k-dot, electronic viewfinder which is quite surprising on compacts these days. It's not huge on the visual field, but there's no distortion when you look down it and it does display all the settings in real time in the same way as the LCD. There's also a dioptre adjuster that was good enough to mean a -3.25 short-sighted eye didn't need glasses to look down it. All the same, although the EVF is well put together, it's not a wildly comfortable way of using this camera. If that's your thing, shop elsewhere.
As for the insides, the PowerShot SX30 IS is fitted with a 14.1-megapixel CCD sensor, Canon's DIGIC 4 processor and it'll offer an ISO of up to 1600, and in practice that makes for plenty to play with. The zoom itself works really well in the daylight with the image stabilisation system easily enough to capture sharp shots even all the way out. Once indoors it gets a little trickier with the danger-shaky-hand sign showing up a little too often for our liking, but it's probably the AF that impressed the most. It doesn't always get a lock if there's something tricky like smoke in the way and it's a notch off being fast but it's generally very good and rarely lets you down. Best of all, it even works in video mode, automatically doing its job as you pan around, and doing so in absolute ultra-sonic silence so as not to cause a stir through the stereo mic.
On top of the raw power available and the perfectly accomplished 720p movie shooting at 30fps, what makes this camera so much more fun than most like it - think the Panasonic Lumix FZ100 - is that Canon has also rammed in everything you'd expect to find on a lifestyle compact camera as well. There's a bag of scene modes including fish-eye, foliage, miniature effect, smile shot and a particular amusing one called Wink Timer - a self-timer mode where you can trigger the shutter once in position by winking at the camera. And, yes, it does work. We tried blinking to fool it but it wasn't going to go down that easy.
Another two worth a mention are the Color Swap mode where you can pick out one colour and get the camera to see it as a different colour altogether - this worked with varying results - but the really nice one was Color Accent which allows you to pick out one or two colours in the frame and turn everything else to black and white. The only mode that's a bit of a dud is the Stitch Panorama which was just too much of a pain to use, particularly in the era of Sweep Panorama as seen on Sony cameras. What's great though is that you can use one or two of these art modes when shooting video too.
As for the results, the stills are as accomplished as you'd hope. The colours come out well, the majority of what you shoot is sharp even moving around at speed and, although it won't rattle off many shots per second, what you get is good. Once you move into lower light conditions, it gets rather noisy at ISO 1600 and it might even be best to avoid 800 as well. Thankfully, the IS means you can get a lot done at low shutter speeds. There's also an excellent and fairly user-friendly manual mode if you really want to get in deep.
In practice, the zoom is serious. If you want to know what 35x gives you then take a look at the difference in the size of the BT Tower and the London Eye as taken from Primrose Hill, London, at full magnification compared to the wide shot.
The video results, again, were excellent outdoors with the one above showing just how good that continuous AF generally is; right at the end it shows how it misses a trick once in a while too. The camera does pretty well with motion. You can't make an awful lot of the cars speeding past but the action is consistent and not jumpy and, in fact, the flames on the grill in the second video (on YouTube here) are very decent although there does appear to be some noise creeping in when filmmaking indoors.
Probably the last thing of note about this camera is that it is generally easy to use. Once you've sorted your orientation, the quick menus are fantastic. They're both comprehensive and well laid out offering the perfect amount of information at each bite with the eye. You can achieve all your shooting needs without having to go to heavily into the set up menus.
This is probably the best super-zoom we've had our hands on. There's slight issues of noise indoors, the odd kink here and there that might have been a little smoother given an almost infinite amount of product development time but, ultimately, it is a winner. The PowerShot SX30 is a really good blend of power and fun and it's just an all round entertaining camera to use.
It's not cheap at £449 but, with everything Canon has packed inside it, you'd be hard pushed to say it's not worth the money.


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As many clients learned firsthand during the 2013 tax season, the new 3.8 percent net investment income tax (NIIT), also known as the additional Medicare tax, has created new planning challenges that have not yet shown up on many advisors' radar. In year one, this was perhaps unavoidable, as advisors and clients alike adjusted to the intricate set of circumstances that can trigger the tax, but planning to minimize the additional tax hit will prove an advisor's worth in 2014. This is especially the case because the otherwise sensible retirement income-planning strategies employed by even the most tax-savvy advisors can actually create NIIT liability where none existed before.
The NIIT has added a layer of complexity to many of these retirement planning strategies. Now, additional steps or a combination with tax-preferred life insurance products may be key to producing smart tax results in 2014 and beyond.
Retirement income and the 3.8 percent tax trap
Officially, distributions from traditional retirement accounts (IRAs, 401(k)s) are excluded from the NIIT. Similarly, amounts that are rolled over into Roth accounts from these traditional accounts are technically excluded. These rules can cause clients and advisors alike to overlook the application of the NIIT when looking toward distributions and Roth conversions — an oversight that can prove costly.
The 3.8 percent tax on net investment income is imposed upon taxpayers with adjusted gross income (AGI) of more than $200,000 for single filers or $250,000 for married couples filing jointly. Once the client's AGI exceeds these thresholds, the tax applies to the lesser of the taxpayer's net investment income or to the amount by which taxpayer's AGI exceeds the applicable ($200,000/$250,000) threshold.
While retirement account distributions (and Roth conversions) are excluded from the definition of net investment income, these amounts still count in determining a client's AGI and can cause a client to exceed the applicable threshold and become subject to the NIIT.
New planning opportunities
The attraction of the tax-free distributions that Roth accounts generate has many clients flocking to convert traditional retirement funds to Roths in their pre-retirement days. However, Roth conversions will increase a client's AGI by the amount converted, potentially subjecting the client's investment income or a portion of AGI to the NIIT if AGI crosses the threshold.
As a result, for some clients, Roth conversions are best exercised in small steps over time — converting only a small portion of traditional retirement funds each year to avoid crossing the AGI threshold. For other clients, Roth conversions may no longer be the best option for generating tax-free income during retirement, especially if the client cannot balance the added income by contributing additional pre-tax dollars to traditional accounts because he has already maxed out the annual contributions.
For these clients, a cash value life insurance policy may be a better option. Contributing to these policies has no impact on a client's current AGI but will create a tax-free retirement income source that is similar to a Roth account in the future. Once the policy is permitted to grow over a period of several years, the cash value in the account can be accessed through tax-free policy loans (which reduce the policy's death benefit, but create a viable Roth alternative for those seeking to avoid the NIIT).
Required minimum distributions (RMDs) from traditional retirement accounts for clients age 70½ and older can also push AGI above the thresholds and this, in many cases, may be more difficult to avoid. For some clients, however, converting a portion of IRA (or 401(k)) funds to a Roth each year remains a viable option, depending on the client's current AGI and ability to shoulder the additional income tax burden if he is no longer working (there is no age limit on a client's ability to convert to a Roth).
The indirect application of the NIIT to retirement account funds may have caught many advisors and clients off guard in 2013, but with proper planning and structuring of investments, the tax hit can be minimized for 2014 and beyond.
For previous coverage of planning for the investment income tax in Advisor's Journal, see The Investment Income Tax: Don't Get Caught in the Passive Activity Trap.
For in-depth analysis of the tax treatment of IRA distributions generally, see Advisor's Main Library:Income Tax Distributions.
Your questions and comments are always welcome. Please contact the Panel of Experts.


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The Rise of Google, the Ascent of Facebook and the Decline of Everyone Else
If you pay the slightest bit of attention to Internet advertising, you know this. But it's always good to see it spelled out: Look how ginormous Google is!
This exclamation point comes courtesy of Zenith Optimedia, via its new (scaled back) ad forecast today. It pegs Google's share of the overall Web ad market at 44 percent, a number that has been steadily increasing for years, with the exception of a one-year hiccup in 2009.
The other takeaways are also old news: Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL are foundering and have been for years (hence their new alliance). And Facebook is starting to generate a real ad business — as opposed to just a very sticky Web site.
And based on everything we've heard this year, the 2011 column will look just like the ones preceding it. Except it might show even steeper gains for both Google and Facebook, given the moves both are making (YouTube and display ads for Google, new tricks like "Sponsored Stories," plus the overwhelming attractiveness of an 800 million user base for Facebook).
Quite reasonable to assume the two of them will end this month with more than 50 percent of global spending.


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Weeks ago I read a blog post that solved my Great Dilemma.
I have a daughter who is cultivating a two-year fascination with mermaids.
Two years ago we saw a movie called Aquamarine about a mermaid of the blonde persuasion who had a lovely blue streak in her hair.
This little blue lock of tress made quite an impact on my (then) nine-year old and the campaign for azure adornment was born.
For two years she was denied.
Just when she had nearly worn me down I came upon this post and instantly I knew: Feathers were the answer.
So I did what any mom of a tween-ager does: I Googled it.
Within days I had The Girl sitting in a posh salon where, for three-minutes and twenty-bucks, you could have your blue streaks... and your feathers too. It's quick, and easy, and best of all not permanent.
I watched the stylist put this thing in her hair and the mantra I have on a day-to-day basis began to chant in my head: I could
All it took was a feather, some hair, a small crochet hook, a pair of pliers and a special bead to attach it with...I had everything but the feather and bead.
So I came home and ordered some.
They've been sitting on my bathroom counter for a couple of weeks.
One of the great joys of my life is to think up things to do and say that will make my kids laugh.
Yesterday morning after drying my hair I had a brilliant idea: put one of those dark feathers in your hair and see how long it takes for the kids to notice.
(This was going to be WAY more fun than that time I put googly eyes on their toothbrushes.)
As I was putting in my purple plumes I had a flashback to my college days when I had come home and was searching for snack in my parents kitchen. My dad walked in and asked about my day, when i looked up he had a small gold-ball piercing... in his nose.
In the moments that passed (that felt like hours) I contemplated my response... this was the man who told my brothers that if they ever came home with a pierced ear they better be wearing a dress. This was the man who had long let us know that his preference was that we keep our tattoos and piercing down to a minimum... but here he was with a ring in his nose.
But before I could say anything he started to laugh in the quiet way my daddy does... laughing, laughing laughing... while I wondered if he was having a crises. Oh, he was tickled with himself.
Turns out he had found a magnetized earring and bought it. Hours later I was in my room studying when I heard my brother walk in the front door and say, "Dad! What is that in your nose?!?!"
And the laughing commenced... still makes me laugh today.
All feathered and ready I ran downstairs waiting for someone (anyone!) to find it.
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They laughed (a little), and declared it looked "cool."
I guess for big laughs nose-rings are best.
I had decided I would take them out, but The Boy said, "Why mom? I think they look nice." So I am going to keep them for a day or two... or at least until co-op starts in September.
Who knows? Maybe I'll start a trend with all the other housewives and home-educators. You know what they say.....birds of a feather.
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Sunday, February 7 (3 p.m.) at Travis Park United Methodist Church, Camerata San Antonio is performing an attractive program that will begin with a work by Bohuslav Martin? (1890-1959). Martin? is a composer that I keep promising to learn more about, but never seem to get around to it. He is known for his six symphonies and his style was initially influenced by Dvo?ák and Stravinsky. He fled to the US during WWII and it was here that he flourished as a symphonic composer. Everytime (rarely) I hear one of his works I love it, but still I'm barely familiar with this music.
I'm making it official — one of my 2010 New Year's Resolutions will be to listen to the complete symphonies of Martin?! Let's check back together in December and see if I kept my promise….
Here is a video of Martin?'s first madrigal, which is part of Camerata San Antonio's program:
Martinu: Madrigals for Violin and Viola
Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet
Dvo?ák: String Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 97 "American"
Kerrville, 2/4/2010 @ 7:30 (800 E Jefferson)
Boerne, 2/5/2010 @ 7:30 (205 E. James)
San Antonio. 2/7/2010 @ 3:00 (230 E. Travis)
The musicians of Camerata San Antonio will be Karen Stiles & Matthew Zerweck, violins; Emily Freudigman & Lauren Magnus, violas; and Kenneth Freudigman, cello.
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Navy linebacker Brye French had never met Brendan Looney, only hearing stories about the former academy lacrosse star and his two brothers from longtime coach Richie Meade. Then one day during French's sophomore year, Meade told his team that the eldest Looney brother had died in Iraq.
French, who had come to Navy to play both lacrosse and football, began to understand the reasons he was in Annapolis when he heard about Looney's death in a helicopter crash. It was further clarified for French when the lacrosse team attended the funeral of Navy SEAL from Silver Spring.
"This place teaches you about sacrifice. Who cares how much you play — [it's] whatever you can do to help the team," French, now a senior and one of Navy's football team captains, said after practice Monday. "Brendan Looney made the ultimate sacrifice; he set the ultimate example."
On Saturday in Philadelphia, when Navy (7-4) plays Army (2-9) for the right to take home the Commander in Chief's Trophy, French will wear a patch on his uniform representing SEAL Team 3, the unit Looney was serving with when he was killed.
It marks the second straight year French has honored Looney by wearing the patch against the Black Knights.
"I never met him, but it's definitely a privilege to wear his patch," French said of Looney, who came to Navy as a football player from DeMatha before switching to lacrosse.
All Navy players will wear patches representing individual units or in a few cases the entire Marine Corps. Sophomore offensive guard Jake Zuzek will wear the patch representing the USS Midway, the legendary aircraft carrier on which his grandfather served.
The Army players will also wear patches in the game at Lincoln Financial Field, where the Black Knights have never won (0-9) and the Midshipmen are looking for their 11th straight win in a rivalry now in its 113th year.
"Our captains and our seniors involved [did] this on on their own," Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo said. "I'm grateful that they're willing to pay tribute, that they're not just football players, they come to the academy to serve their country and in a small way pay tribute."
Navy senior slotback John Howell, whose season and playing career ended when he tore an anterior cruciate ligament in the team's fourth game against San Jose State, said the idea of wearing a patch was motivation to get healthy enough to put on his uniform and possibly run out of the tunnel for the last time.
"Just dressing alone feels great. To the extent that my knee was [injured], being able to suit up after two months is a great feeling," said Howell, a native of Hatfield, about 30 miles north of Philadelphia. "If I could run out, that would just add to it, being home in Philadelphia. It would definitely be a nice way to end my senior season."
Howell will wear a patch representing J.P. Blecksmith, who on Veterans Day in 2004 became the second former Navy football player to be killed in combat in Iraq. Blecksmith died a little more than two months after Ronnie Winchester was killed.
Initially Howell had inquired about getting a patch representing any infantry unit, but hearing that one of the officers at the academy had Blecksmith's patch intrigued him.
"I knew he played football, but seeing that he was the first officer killed in action at Fallujah in Operation Phantom Fury, I told them that I would be completely honored," Howell said. "They are going to take a picture and send it to his dad."
Niumatalolo was the offensive line coach when Blecksmith was finishing his career at Navy as a wide receiver; Blecksmith caught a pass in the 2001 Army-Navy game after starting out as a strong-armed quarterback out of high school in California.
Asked what he remembered about Blecksmith, Niumatalolo said: "Just a typical Navy football player. Unselfish, hard-nosed, good person, never said anything, just worked as hard as he could. We moved him to wide-out, and he didn't say a word, symbolic of the kind of kids we have here now."
French was a plebe when he started hearing the stories about the Looney brothers, Brendan in particular, from Meade.
"Coach Meade in practice would always reference the Looney brothers, particularly Brendan and how influential he was … that he set the example, everything he embodied — commitment, hard work, toughness, love," French said. "When he passed away, you could tell it hurt Coach Meade."
French said Looney's funeral was "very touching" and sees how he will carry on Looney's mission when he goes into the Marines after graduation.
"He was one of us — an athlete at the academy, who in a few short years, he paid the price for our freedom," French said. "It's kind of a cliche when you hear that, but he lived it with countless others, including his best friend [Travis Manion, a former Navy wrestler who was killed in action]. It's an honor to represent him."
Kevin Looney said Tuesday that the Army-Navy game has long been a part of his family's life, even before his three sons all went to the Naval Academy. The elder Looney said he plans on being in Philadelphia on Saturday. Having French wear the patch representing his late son's unit is meaningful.
"It's always good that we know he won't be forgotten," Looney said, "and that's the one thing the Naval Academy and the SEAL community is good about — remembering all those that have fallen, not just Brendan, but all of them."
Note: Navy senior linebacker Keegan Wetzel was named to the Capital One Academic All-America first team by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Wetzel, who carries a 3.89 GPA in systems engineering, is the eighth Navy player to be named a first-team Academic All-American; offensive lineman John Dowd was chosen in 2010 and 2011. After playing sparingly his first three seasons, Wetzel has a team-high six sacks — two shy of a single-season program record — and has made a team-best 13.5 tackles for loss among his 63 stops. He has also forced a fumble and recovered a fumble.
J.P. Blecksmith's name was misspelled in an earlier version of this story. The Sun regrets the error.
Navy linebacker Brye French had never met Brendan Looney, only hearing stories about the former academy lacrosse star and his two brothers from longtime coach Richie Meade. Then one day during French's sophomore year, Meade told his team that the eldest Looney brother had died in Iraq.


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It's been a weird year.
At the All-Star break (which really is no break at all), the Crew is scrapping away in the middle of the pack, with a 7-7-4 record good for sixth place out of 10 in the Eastern Conference. They have no breakout stars but lots of budding fan favorites - all role players, many of them still learning their roles. They have persevered despite so many injuries you almost expect to see someone entering a match on crutches.
Here are some of the least likely storylines so far.
5. Attendance on the rise: After the Crew's once-mighty attendance numbers plummeted near the bottom of the league, it's pleasantly surprising to see figures back in the 17,000-20,000 range these past three home games.
4. Frankie Hejduk returns as the face of the Crew: Perhaps some of the credit for those butts in the seats belongs to Hejduk, by far the most publicized face in the organization. His return as "brand ambassador" wasn't all that shocking, but the fact that he's gotten more press than any of the active players is somewhat alarming.
3. Injuries, injuries and more injuries: Again, the Crew suffering from rampant injuries isn't the surprise. But the sheer epic quantity of them is shocking, as is the diversity (collapsed lung?). So is the team's persistence in spite of it all.
2. Chris Birchall faces off against his old pals at Stoke City: Birchall is a naturalized citizen of Trinidad, but he grew up in Stoke-on-Trent, the network of villages in central England that's home to Premier League club Stoke City. Many of his oldest friends, including his best man Andy Wilkinson, play for Stoke. So imagine his surprise when, mere days after Birchall signed with the Crew, they announced an exhibition against none other than Stoke City.
1. The triumphant emergence and tragic frustration of Josh Williams: Not sure which story is crazier. Is it the one where Williams rebounds from a 10-game suspension and 10-percent salary reduction in 2011 for violating the league substance-use policy, rising from benchwarmer purgatory into the 2012 starting lineup?
Or is it the one where Williams is the Crew's most dangerous attacking threat (as a defender), yet he's had two goals called back because of phantom offside calls, and another one saved off the line, and a bicycle kick off the crossbar?
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In $1908$ the Olympic Games were held in London, that's just over $100$ years ago. Then, just after World War $2$ they were again in London in $1948$
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$800$ metres $109$ secs
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I'd say all our activities take place in a region 900 by 900 ly. In the Mid Rim for convenience and slight realism, why not?
I've actually been working on a 10x10 grid map for quite some time now, mapping out the galaxy's known species. Maybe you could wait for that to be finished until you start putting star systems everywhere, please?
I could fix that if everyone wanted it, but it would take a while and the multiple of 3 thing works a lot better on grid paper.
Say, can you give some specific examples of Inner Rim species? Nothing springs to mind...Nothing I can regard as really canon, that is. (I'm making a timeline too, if you weren't aware.)
Say, when it comes to territory shapes which approach are we using? Will we use the Star Wars method and have blobby outlines that look like land-based countries? Or will we take the Star Control method and have literal spheres of influence? Well, oblate spheroids if they get big enough.
Well, oblate spheroids if they get big enough.
Also, the Mongol(ian)s hasn't been really involved in today's politics, yet I'm quite sure that they aren't extinct. Same for Macedonia, Romania and many other formerly badass but now just obscure countries.Just because a country is not actively participating in the stories that we tell doesn't mean they don't exist anymore. I mean, having filler races are okay but maintaining canon races who participated in 90% of all major events in the galaxy is a huge resounding no?A lot of African countries are basically clones of each other, just with different names. Doesn't mean that a hypothetical future historian is in the right to deliberately erase some of them from the records.
Quote from: UFO King on November 05, 2011, 08:14:15 pm-snip-But still, they're a part of canon, regardless of our personal literary preferences.
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the Iavolg are a brown skinned race of mindless slaves to this super smart white guy. doesn't help that I used vague elements of Ashanti folklore as a framing device. I get the trophy of shame for being the most accidentaly racist.
...Okay, let me just get this out of the way: That bolded statement is damn wrong.
and not so. we are here now. they are not. As titans we walk in the timeless garden of stars.
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The Idea of a League of Nations: "What has happened is essentially this, that the natural limitations upon warfare which have existed hitherto appear to have broken down."
by Herbert George Wells
The Atlantic
January, 1919
The 10th annual session of the League of Nations meets in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 15, 1930.AP
H. G. WELLS, Chairman
H. WICKHAM STEED, VISCOUNT GREY, GILBERT MURRAY, LIONEL CURTIS, J. A. SPENDER, WILLIAM ARCHER, Secretary, A. E. ZIMMERN, VISCOUNT BRYCE
Unification of human affairs, to the extent at least of a cessation of war and a worldwide rule of international law, is no new idea; it can be traced through many centuries of history. It is found as an acceptable commonplace in a fragment, De Republica, of Cicero. It has, indeed, appeared and passed out of the foreground of thought, and reapeared there, again and again.
Hitherto, however, if only on account of the limitations of geographical knowledge, the project has rarely been truly world-wide, though in some instances it has comprehended practically all the known world. Almost always there has been an excluded fringe of barbarians and races esteemed as less than men.
The Roman Empire realized the idea in a limited sphere and in a mechanical, despotic fashion. It was inherent in the propaganda of Islam—excluding the unbeliever. It may be said that the political unity of Christendom overriding states and nations was the orthodox and typical doctrine of the Middle Ages. The individual states were regarded as being, in the nature of things, members of one great body politic, presided over by the Pope, or the Emperor, or both. It was the idea of the world supremacy of the Empire which inspired Dante's De Monarchia; but, as Lord Bryce has remarked, 'Dante's book was an epilogue instead of a prophecy.'
It cannot be claimed that history shows any continuously progressive movement of human affairs from a dispersed to a unified condition. Rather it tells a story of the oscillating action of separatist and unifying forces. And the process of civilization itself, if we use the word in its narrower and older sense of the elaboration of citizenship in a political and social organization, and exclude mechanical and scientific progress from it, has on the whole been rather on the side of fragmentation. It was, for example, much easier for loosely organized tribes and village communities scattered over wide areas to coalesce into vague and often very extensive 'nations,' like the Scythians and Thracians, or to cooperate in 'amplictyonics,' or federations, like the small peoples of central Greece, than for highly developed city-states or fully organized monarchies, possessing a distinctive culture and religion and definite frontiers, to sink these things in any larger union. For such higher forms of political organization, enlargement occurred mainly through conquest., which created unstable empire systems of subject and subordinate peoples under the sway—which might of course be the assimilative sway—of a dominant nation, rather than real unifications.
The Renaissance presents a phase in history in which a large vague unification (Christendom) is seen to be breaking up simultaneously with the appearance of a higher grade of national organization. Machiavelli, with his aspiration toward a united Italy, involving a distintegration of the Empire, opened the phase of the national state in Europe, which reached its fullest development in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Before the Renaissance Europe was far more of a unity than it was at the close of the reign of Queen Victoria, when it consisted mainly of a group of nations, with their national edges sharpened and hardened almost to a maximum, each aspiring to empire and each acutely suspicious of and hostile to its neighbors. The idea of international organization for peace seemed far more Utopian to the normal European intelligence in 1900 than it would have done eight hundred years before.
But while those political and social developments which constitute civilization in the narrower sense of the word were tending to make human societies, as they became more elaborately organized, more heterogeneous and mutually unsympathetic, there were also coming into play throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for the first time, upon a quite unprecedented scale, another series of forces diametrically opposed to human separations. They worked, however, mutely, because the world of thought was unprepared for them. Unprecedented advances in technical and scientific knowledge were occurring, and human cooperation and the reaction of man upon man, not only in material but also in mental things, was being made enormously more effective than it had ever been before. But the phrases of international relationship were not altering to correspond. Phrases usually follow after rather than anticipate reality, and so it was that at the outbreak of the Great War in August, 1914, Europe and the world awoke out of a dream of intensified nationality to a new system of realities which were entirely antagonistic to the continuance of national separations.
It is necessary to state very plainly the nature of these new forces. Upon them rests the whole case for the League of Nations as it is here presented. It is a new case. It is argued here that these forces give us powers novel in history and bring mankind face to face with dangers such as it has never confronted before. It is maintained that, on the one hand, they render possible such a reasoned coordination of human affairs as has never hitherto been conceivable, and that, on the other, they so enlarge and intensify the scope and evil of war and of international hostility as to give what was formerly a generous aspiration more and more of the aspect of an imperative necessity. Under the lurid illumination of the world war, the idea of world-unification has passed rapidly from the sphere of the literary idealist into that of the methodical, practical man, and the task of an examination of its problems and possibilities, upon the scale which the near probability of an actual experiment demands, is thrust upon the world.
All political and social institutions, all matters of human relationship, are dependent upon the means by which mind may react upon mind and life upon life, that is to say upon the intensity, rapidity, and reach of mental and physical communication. In the history of mankind, the great phases seem all to be marked by the appearance of some new invention which facilitates trade or intercourse, and may be regarded as the operating cause of the new phase. The invention of writing, of the wheel and the road, of the ship, of money, of printing, of letters of exchange, of joint-stock undertakings and limited liability, mark distinct steps in the enlargement of human intercourse and cooperation from its original limitation within the verbal and traditional range of the family or tribe.
A large part of the expansion of the Roman Empire, apart from its overseas development, may be considered, for example, as a process of road-making and bridge-building. Even its trans-Mediterranean development was a matter of road-making combined with ship-building. The Roman Empire, like the Chinese, expanded on land to an extremity determined by the new method of road-communication; and sought to wall itself in at last at the limits of its range from its centres of strength. The new chapter of the human story again, which began with the entry of America and the Oceanic lands upon the stage of history, was the direct outcome of that bold sailing out upon the oceans which the mariner's compass, and the supersession of the galley by the development of sails and rigging, rendered possible. The art of printing from movable types released new powers of suggestion, documentation, and criticism, which shattered the old religious organization of Christendom, made the systematic investigations and records of modern science possible, and created the vast newspaper-reading democracies of to-day. The whole of history could, indeed, be written as a drama of human nature reacting to invention.
And we live to-day in a time of accelerated inventiveness and innovation, when a decade modifies the material of inter-communication far more extensively than did any century before, in range, swiftness, and intensity alike. Within the present century, since 1900, there have been far more extensive changes in these things than occurred in the ten centuries before Christ. Instead of regarding Around the World in Eighty Days as an amazing feat of hurry, we can now regard a flight about the globe in fifteen or sixteen days as a reasonable and moderate performance. The teaching of history compels us to recognize in these new facilities factors which will necessarily work out into equally revolutionary social and political consequences. It is the most obvious wisdom to set ourselves to anticipate as far as we can, so as to mitigate and control, the inevitable collisions and repercussions of mankind that are coming upon us. Even if we were to suppose that this rush of novel accelerating contrivances would be presently checked,—and there is little justification for any such supposition,—it would still behoove us to work out the influence which the things already achieved will have upon our kind.
And it is not simply an increase of range and swiftness that we have to consider here, though these are the aspects that leap immediately to the eye. There has also been, for example, a very great increase in the possible vividness of mental impact. In education and in the agencies of journalism and propaganda, there has been an increase of power at present incalculable, owing to vast strides in the printing of pictures, and to the cinematograph, the gramaphone, and similar means of intense world-wide information and suggestion.
While all these things, on the one hand, point plainly now to such possibilities of human unification and world unanimity as no one could have dreamed of a hundred years ago, there has been, on the other hand, a change, an intensification, of the destructive processes of war which opens up a black alternative to this pacific settlement of human affairs. The case as it is commonly stated in the propaganda literature for a League of Nations is a choice between, on the one hand, a general agreement on the part of mankind to organize a permanent peace, and on the other, a progressive development of the preparation for war and the means of conducting war which must ultimately eat up human freedom and all human effort, and, as the phrase goes, destroy civilization. We shall find as we proceed that these simple oppositions do not by any means state all the possibilities of the case; but for a moment or so it will be convenient to confine our attention to this enhancement of the cost, burden, and destructiveness of belligerence which scientific and technical progress has made inevitable.
What has happened is essentially this, that the natural limitations upon warfare which have existed hitherto appear to have broken down. Hitherto there has been a certain proportion between the utmost exertion of a nation at war and the rest of its activities. The art and methods of war have had a measurable relation to the resources of the community as a whole, so that it has been possible for nations to be well armed by the standards of the time and yet to remain vigorous and healthy communities, and to wage successful wars without exhaustion.
To take a primitive example, it was possible for the Zulu people, under King Chaka, to carry warfare as it was then understood in South Africa—a business of spearmen fighting on foot—to its utmost perfection, and to remain prosperous and happy themselves, whatever might be the fate they inflicted upon their neighbors. And even the armies of Continental Europe, as they existed before the Great War, were manifestly bearable burdens, because they were borne. But the outbreak of that struggle forced upon the belligerents, in spite of the natural conservatism of all professional soldiers, a rapid and logical utilization of the still largely neglected resources of mechanical and chemical science; they were compelled to take up every device that offered, however costly it might be; they could not resist the drive toward scientific war which they had themselves released. In warfare the law of the utmost immediate exertion rules; the combatant who does not put in all his possible energy is lost. In four brief years, therefore, Europe was compelled to develop a warfare monstrously out of proportion to any conceivable good which the completest victory could possibly achieve for either side.
We may take as a typical instance of this logical and necessary exaggeration which warfare has undergone the case of the 'tank.' The idea of a land ironclad was an old and very obvious one, which had been disliked and resisted by military people for many years. The substantial basis of the European armies of 1914 was still a comparatively inexpensive infantry, assisted by machineguns and field-guns and cavalry. By 1918 the infantry line is sustained by enormous batteries of guns of every calibre, firing away an incredible wealth of ammunition; its structure includes the most complicated system of machine-gun nests and strong posts conceivable, and every important advance is preceded by lines of aeroplanes and sustained by fleets of these new and still developing weapons, the tanks. Every battle sees scores of these latter monsters put out of action. Now, even the primitive tank of 1917 costs, quite apart from the very high running expenses, something between seven and ten thousand pounds. At that stage it was still an expedient on trial and in the rough. But its obvious corollary in movable big-gun forts with ammunition tenders—forts which will probably be made in parts and built up near to the point of use, however costly they may be—is practically dictated if war is to continue. So too is a production of light and swift types of tank that will serve many of the purposes of cavalry.
If war is to continue as a human possibility, this elaboration of the tank in scale and species follows inevitably. A mere peace of the old type is likely to accelerate rather than check this elaboration. Only a peace that will abolish the probability of war from human affairs can release the nations from the manifest necessity of cultivating the tank, multiplying the tank, and maintaining a great manufacture and store of tanks, over and above all the other belligerent plants which they had to keep going before 1914. And these tanks will supersede nothing—unless perhaps, to a certain extent, cavalry. The tank, growing greater and greater and more numerous and various, is manifestly, therefore, one new burden—one of many new burdens—which must rest upon the shoulders of mankind henceforth, until the prospect of war can be shut off from international affairs. It is foolish to ignore these grimly budding possibilities of the tank. There they are, and they cannot be avoided if war is to go on.
But the tank is only one of quite a multitude of developments, which are bound to be followed up if the modern war-process continues. There is no help for it. In every direction there is the same story to be told—if war is still to be contemplated as a possibility—of an unavoidable elaboration of the means of war beyond the scale of any conceivable war end.
As a second instance, let us take the growth in size, range, and destructiveness of the air war. Few people realize fully what a vast thing the air-service has become. A big aeroplane of the raider type may cost anything up to twenty thousand pounds; the smallest costs not much less than a thousand. The pilot and the observer are of the very flower of the youth of the country; they have probably cost society many thousands of pounds' worth of upbringing and education, and they have made little or no productive contribution to human resources. And these costs units have been multiplied enormously. From a poor hundred or so of aerial planes at the outset of the war, Great Britain alone has expanded her air forces until she has an output of thousands of new machines a month, aerodromes abound throughout the country, and there is scarcely a corner of England where the hum of the passing aeroplane is not to be heard. Now all this vast plant of aeroplane factories and instruction aerodromes must be kept up, once it has been started, war or no war, until war is practically impossible. It may be argued, perhaps, that during a peace-spell some portion of this material may be applied to civil air-transport; but the manufacturers have made it abundantly clear that this project does not strike them as reasonable or desirable; their industry has been created as an armament industry and an armament industry they wish it to remain. And besides this opposition of the interested profiteer, we have to remember that the aeroplane has imported into warfare possibilities of surprise hitherto undreamed of. So long as a sudden declaration of war, or an attack preceding a declaration of war, is possible, it is imperative now, not only that the air force of a country should be kept always in striking condition, but that the whole vast organization of coastal and frontier anti-aircraft defenses should be equally ready. Tens of thousands of men, most of them economically very valuable, must keep watch day and night, prepared at any moment to flash into warfare again.
The same story of a tremendous permanent expansion of war-equipment could be repeated in a score of parallel instances drawn from the land war and sea war. Enormous new organizations of anti-submarine flotillas, of minefield material and its production, of poison-gas manufacture and the like, have been called into existence, and must now remain as going concerns so long as war is likely to be renewed.
But enough examples have been cited here to establish the reality of this present unrestricted, illimitable, disproportionate growth of the war-process in comparison with all other human processes. Mars has become the young cuckoo in the nest of human possibilities, and it is—to state the extreme alternatives—a choice before mankind, whether we will drift on toward a catastrophe due to that overgrowth, or so organize the world as effectually to restrain and reduce warfare.
It is not impossible to adumbrate the general nature of the catastrophe which threatens mankind if war-making goes on. Modern warfare is not congenial to the working masses anywhere. No doubt the primitive form of warfare, a murderous bickering with adjacent tribes, is natural enough to uneducated men; but modern warfare, and still more the preparation for it, involves distresses, strains, and a continuity of base and narrow purpose quite beyond the patience and interest of the millions of ordinary men who find no other profit in it but suffering. The natural man is more apt for chaotic local fighting than for large-scale systematic fighting. Hatred campaigns and a sustained propaganda are needed to keep up the combatant spirit in a large modern state, even during actual hostilities; and in the case of Russia we have a striking example of the distaste a whole population may develop for the war-strain, even during the war and with the enemy at its gates.
What is likely to happen, then, when the working masses of Central and Western Europe, being no longer sustained by the immediate excitement of actual war, find themselves still obliged to go on, year after year, producing vast masses of war-material, pledged to carry a heavy burden of war loan rentiers on their backs, and subjected to an exacerbated conscription? Possibly, so far as the rentier burden on the worker goes, a great rise in prices and wages will relieve the worker to some extent, but only at the cost of acute disappointment and distress at another social level. There is a dangerously narrowing limit now to the confidence of the common man in the intelligence and good faith of those who direct his affairs; and the probability of a cruel confused class-war throughout Europe, roughly parallel in its methods to the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, and released by a similar loss of faith in leaders and government, appears at the end of the vista of waste of directive energy and natural resources, completing that waste of energy and resources into which the belligerent systems of Europe, the German Empire being the chief and foremost, have led mankind. Systematic force, overstrained and exhausted, will then give place to chaotic force, and general disorganization will ensue. Thereafter the world may welter in confusion for many generations, through such ruinous and impoverished centuries as close the Roman imperial story, before it develops the vitality for an effective reorganization.
Such, roughly, is the idea of the phrase 'downfall of civilization' as used in discussions like these. It is a vision of the world as a social system collapsing chaotically, not under the assault of outer barbarians, but beneath the pressure of this inevitable hypertrophy of war.
Let us now look a little more closely between the two extremes of possibility we have stated in the preceding section, between a world-unanimity for peace, on the one hand,—Everyman's World League of Nations,—and a world-collapse under the overgrowth of war-organization and material, on the other.
The affairs of the world are now in a posture which enables us to dismiss the idea of a world hegemony for Germany, or for any other single power, as a fantastic vanity.
We have to consider, however, the much greater probability of a group of the more powerful states, including perhaps a chastened Germany, agreeing among themselves to organize and enforce peace in the world for ever. This would give us still a third type of league which we may call the League of the Senior States. It is perhaps the most probable of all the possibilities.
And, on the other hand, we have assumed, quite crudely, in the first section that the forces of popular insurrection are altogether destructive of organization, whereas there may be as yet unmeasured constructive and organizing power in the popular mind. There is a middle way between a superstitious belief in unguided democracy and a frantic hatred of it. Concurrently, for example, with the earlier phases of Bolshevik anarchy in Petrograd and Moscow, there seems to have been for a time a considerable development of cooperative production and distribution throughout European and Asiatic Russia. Mingled with much merely destructive and vindictive insurrectionism, there may be a popular will to order, reaching out to cooperate with all the sound and liberal forces of the old system of things. We can only guess as yet at the possibilities of a collective will in these peasant and labor masses of Europe which now read and write and have new-born ideas of class-action and responsibility. They will be ill-informed, they may be emotional, but they may have vast reserves of common sense. Much may depend upon the unforeseeable accident of great leaders. Nearly every socialist and democratic organization in the world, it is to be noted, now demands the League of Nations in some form, and men may arise who will be able to give that stir quite vague demand force and creative definition. A failure to achieve a world guaranty of peace on the part of the diplomatists at a peace conference may lead, indeed, to a type of insurrection and revolution not merely destructive but preparatory. It is conceivable. The deliberate organization of peace, as distinguished from a mere silly clamor for peace, may break out at almost any social level, and in the form either of a constructive, an adaptive, or a revolutionary project.
We have not, therefore, here, a case of a clear cut choice of two ways; there is a multitude of roads which may converge upon the permanent organization of world peace, and an infinitude of thwarting and delaying digressions may occur. Complicating and mitigating circumstances may, and probably will, make this antagonism of war and peace a lengthy and tortuous drama. There may be many halts and setbacks in the inevitable development of war; belligerence may pause and take breath on several occasions before its ultimate death flurry.
Such delays, such backwater phases and secondary aspects, must not confuse the issue and hide from us the essential fact of the disappearance of any real limitation upon the overgrowth of war in human life. That unlimited overgrowth is the probability which is driving more and more men to study and advocate this project of a League of Nations, because they are convinced that only through counter-organization of the peace-will in mankind can the world be saved from a great cycle of disasters, disorder, and retrogression.
And it does not follow, because the origins and motives of the will for such a world-league are various, that they involve a conflict over essentials, as to the character of the final result. It is the declared belief of many of the promoters of the world-league movement that a careful analysis of the main factors of its problems, a scientific examination of what is possible, what is impossible, what is necessary, and what is dangerous, must lead the mass of reasonable men in the world, whatever their class, origins, traditions, and prejudices, to a practical agreement upon the main lines of this scheme for the salvation of mankind. It is believed that the clear, deliberate, and methodical working out of the broad problems and riddles of the world-league idea will beve a sufficient compelling force to bring it within the realm of practical possibility.
But at this point it is advisable to take up and dispose of a group of suggestions which contradict our fundamental thesis, which is, that war is by its nature illimitable. War is, we hold here, a cessation of law, and in war therefore, it is impossible to prevent permanently the use of every possible device for injury, killing, and compulsion which human ingenuity can devise or science produce. Our main argument for a League of Nations rests on that. But there are people who do not accept as a fact the illimitable nature of war. They fall back upon the theory that the horrors of the Great War are due to a sort of accidental relapse into savagery on the part of the German people, and that future wars can and will be conducted under restrictions imposed by humanity and chivalry. They believe that war can become a conventional Ordeal by Battle, in which the nations shall deliberately refrain from putting forth their full strength, and shall agree to abide by the decision of a struggle between limited armies, operating, like the champions in a tournament or a prize-fight, under an accepted code of rules.
This is, we hold, a delusion. Our case is that the nations can agree far more easily to abolish war than to restrict war.
It is true that in the Great War Germany has carried her theories of ruthlessness to self-defeating extremes. She has done many deeds which recoiled upon herself—deeds inspired by a sort of ferocious pedantry which inflicted very small material damage upon the Allies, but hardened their resolution and brought thousands, nay, millions of recruits to their ranks. None the less must we face the fact that, individual stupidities apart, the German theory of war is the only logical one.
If it be said that, in past times, nations fought with comparatively small armies, and often accepted defeat without having thrown anything like their full strength into the struggle—the objection is met by a twofold answer. Firstly, the logic of war, the law—as we have termed it elsewhere—of the utmost effort, had not yet been thoroughly thought out. Primitive peoples in general—and the same applies to all but the most civilized and sophisticated of modern states—are guided in matters of war and peace more by their emotions than by their reason. They are lazy, as peoples, and muddle-headed. They fight because they are angry; they stop because they are tired; they cease pursuing the enemy because they want to attend to the harvest. It is the mark of a highly organized and intellectualized government to subordinate national emotions to the remorseless logic of the case. And the logic of war was reserved for Napoleon to express in practice and Clausewitz to formulate in theory.
But the second answer goes more to the root of the matter: namely, that the strength which a nation can put into the field is limited by many conditions both material and psychological, and that, if we examine into these conditions, we shall often find that what may seem to us, on the face of it, an insignificant effort, was in very truth the greatest of which, at the given moment, the nation was capable. It is a quite new social fact, a creation of the last fifty years, to have a central government supplied with exact information about all its resources in men, money, and material, and with means of organization and control which enable it, at the cost of some delay and friction, to exploit those resources to the last inch. When Babylon was captured by the Medes, we are told, there were parts of the city itself which were unaware of the fact for several days; and there must have been vast islands of population in the country which, so far as their personal experience went, never knew. But that sort of thing has passed.
If we look into the history of warfare, we find that it has completed a cycle and is now returning to its starting-point. A nomadic horde of the barbarous ages was 'a nation in arms' in the full sense of the word. Having no fixed place of abode, it had no civil—as distinct from military—population. The whole people—old men, women, and children included—took part in the toils and perils of war. There were no places of security in which the weak and the defenseless could take refuge. Everyone's life was forfeit in case of disaster; therefore everyone took part in the common defense. Modern warfare, with its air fleets, its submarines, and its 'big Berthas,' is more and more restricting the area of immunity from military peril and reverting to these primitive conditions.
Agricultural life and city settlements brought with them the distinction between combatants and non-combatants; but still, in the normal state, every able-bodied citizen was a soldier. The citizen took his place as a matter of course in the militia of his country, leaving to old men and women, or to slaves and captives, the guardianship of field and vineyard, flock and herd. Only when wealth and luxury had reached a certain pitch did the habit of employing denationalized mercenaries creep in. Then came the time when the mercenaries encountered nomadic or thoroughly mobilized 'nations in arms,' and civilization went to the wall.
In the Middle Ages, the feudal chief, the dominant, soldierly, often predatory personality, gathered his vassals around him for purposes of offense and defense, while the cultivation of the soil devolved on the villains or serfs. Thus war became the special function of a military caste, and, as in the Wars of the Roses, campaigns were often carried on with comparatively little disturbance to the normal life of the country. When the royal power crushed or absorbed that of the barons, the centralized monarchy everywhere recruited a standing army, often consisting largely of foreign mercenaries, as the bulwark of its security and the instrument of its will. It was quite natural that dynastic wars, and wars in which the common people of the contending nations had little or no interest, should be fought out on a restricted scale by these specialized military machines. Frederick the Great employed a mercenary army as the nucleus for a national militia; and so lately as the beginning of the last century, this system was celebrated as ideal by the noted military authority who was the immediate predecessor of Clausewitz.
With Napoleon came the Nation in Arms; and the military history of the intervening years has consisted of the ever completer concentration upon warlike purposes of the whole powers and resources of the great European peoples.
If it be asked why this logical evolution of the idea of war has taken so many centuries to work itself out, the main reason—among many others—may be stated in two words: munitions and transport. Before the age of machines, it was impossible to arm and clothe immense multitudes of men; before the days of McAdam and Stephenson, it was impossible to move such multitudes and, still more, to keep them supplied with food and munitions. Again we find ourselves insisting upon the vital importance of transit methods in this, as in nearly all questions of human interaction. The size of armies has steadily grown with the growth of means of communication. The German wars of 1863-70 were the first in which railways played any considerable part, and the scale of operations in 1870-71 was quite unprecedented.
What is the chief new factor since the days of St. Privat and Sedan? The aeroplane, most people would reply; possibly it may become so, but thus far a less picturesque invention has been of even greater influence—the motor-lorry. No one can go anywhere near the Western Front without realizing that the gigantic scale of this struggle is almost wholly dependent upon motor-traction. Had not the internal-combustion engine been invented, the war would probably have been over long ago; and at all events millions of men would still be alive and well who now lie dead or crawl mutilated over the face of the earth.
Seen in this light, the invention of the motor may appear to have been due to a special interference of Satan in human affairs. But that is an unphilosophical view to take. Our race must perfect its power over matter before it can wisely select the ends to which it will apply that power. The idea of war had to work itself out to the full and demonstrate its own immpossibility, before man could find the insight and the energy to put it behind him and have done with it. Thanks to Prussian ambition and Prussian philosophy, the demonstration has now been completed. The idea of war has revealed itself in its full hideousness. All the world has come to look upon it as a sort of mythological monster which, if left to itself, will periodically reemerge from hell, to devour the whole youth and the whole wealth of civilized mankind. It is useless to dream of clipping the wings or paring the claws of the dragon. It must be slain outright if it is not to plan unthinkable havoc with civilization; and to that end the intelligence and the moral enthusiasm of the world are now, as we see, addressing themselves.


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President Obama delivered his 2014 State of the Union address on Tuesday night, discussing everything from healthcare and gender income gaps to raising minimum wage and international affairs.
Many celebrities watched the address and live-tweeted, some expressing serious concern and others cracking jokes.
The Jokesters:
HAVING SO MUCH FUN AT THE #stateoftheunionaddressiswear !!!!'nnn @billyeichner is RUINING IT FOR ME pic.twitter.com/a3BQvhPQLv— Aubrey Plaza (@evilhag) January 29, 2014
Standing ovation for Michelle Obama, even without the bangs.— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) January 29, 2014
Not for nothing, but Obama would make a pretty good DJ for a smooth jazz station. #sotu— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) January 29, 2014
Seriously... How did Boehner get that tan in the Polar Vortex? Did he fall asleep on some beach?? #SOTU #BoehnerTan #Distracted— Mario Lopez (@MarioLopezExtra) January 29, 2014
My favorite part of the state of the union is the annual reminder that Republicans hate Obama, but love his autograph— Bill Maher (@billmaher) January 29, 2014
I still love you, Barack, but this #SOTU is slowly turning into #STFU.— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) January 29, 2014
I loved the #stateoftheunion speech! pic.twitter.com/VmCCSTFONy— Pee-wee Herman (@peeweeherman) January 29, 2014
The Haters:
Watching the #stateoftheunion on http://t.co/TkGhMmbVJE #POTUS is just starting to talk - is this live? Did it take him 18 mins to walk in?— Carson Daly (@CarsonDaly) January 29, 2014
Boy, this congress likes standing up in their bespoke suits and 350$ Hermes ties. But can they just pass a damb bill!? #donothingdudes— Holland Taylor (@HollandTaylor) January 29, 2014
caption anyone? #SOTU BfHZ4ySCEAAS3SA.jpg pic.twitter.com/3I0jNkrCs5— elisabeth hasselbeck (@ehasselbeck) January 29, 2014
The Fans:
Equal pay for equal work. Screw juanuary It's obamauary.— Jenny McCarthy (@JennyMcCarthy) January 29, 2014
I loved the speech. Loved it.— mia farrow (@MiaFarrow) January 29, 2014
Watching #SOTU - these real life examples are very compelling and effective. Are you watching?— Katie Couric (@katiecouric) January 29, 2014
gotta give it up to that #MadMen line— Andy Cohen (@Andy) January 29, 2014
I love that #President @BarackObama recognized First Lady @MichelleObama's achievements. Childhood obesity can be prevented #SOTU @letsmove— Bethenny Frankel (@Bethenny) January 29, 2014
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I'm trying to figure out a good way to say the Yiddish word באווארן in English. We used this a lot in Yeshiva, usually in the context of "to באווארן a question".
To explain:
A statement would be structured in such a way that it answers and negates a question before it is asked.
@IsaacMoses described it thusly below:
A statement that includes information that undermines a challenge you might otherwise pose to that statement.
An example:
I could say that rice takes 20 minutes to cook. You would then ask, "what about brown rice, it takes 40 minutes?" I would then answer I meant white rice.
Or I could say that white rice takes 20 minutes to cook. By adding the word "white" to the statement, I made it clear that I wasn't referring to brown rice, and thus your question about brown rice was answered and negated before you asked it. By phrasing the statement that way, I באווארנט your question about brown rice.
Google Translate offers "
guard", "
watch", or "
guarding", but none of that sounds right in this context.
The closest I've thought of is "
anticipate", as in "The statement was structured in such a way to anticipate your question".
Other possibilities that come to mind are "
obviate", "
preempt", "
negate", "
address", "
precede", but none of those sound right.
There must be an english word for this.


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When courting Olivia Langdon, his bride-to-be, Samuel Langhorne Clemens — better known to us by his pen name Mark Twain — would sometimes insert into his letters tiny mysteries for her to tease out. To wit, a 1868 missive in which Twain curlicued over a description of himself as a "lovesick idiot" followed by a similarly defaced comment, "I could not be so reckless as to write the above if you had any curiosity in your composition. [Oh!]"
Beyond his provocative remark, we know that Twain intended for Olivia to discover the hidden text, because the scribbles that cover it differ from Twain's usual style of cancellation, explained Robert H. Hirst, General Editor of the Mark Twain Papers & Project at the University of California, Berkeley who delivered a public talk titled "Editing a Humorist is No Laughing Matter" at the headquarters of the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. on February 16.
When Twain wanted to keep a correction hidden, Hirst told the audience, he was methodical about it, overlaying crossed-out words with extraneous letters to throw off prying eyes. (This more effective method he demonstrated in a later letter to Olivia, in which he crossed out an allusion to some on-the-road carousing, and taunted her with the cancellation's impenetrability.)
Hirst has come to this intimate knowledge of Twain's stylistic quirks through more than 40 years of poring over his papers — from personal correspondence and the uncharitable comments the author wrote on the backs of envelopes from obsequious fans, to the thousands of pages of books and essay manuscripts, some previously unpublished — amassed in the Twain archives of Berkeley's Bancroft Library.
Hirst began studying Twain's papers as a graduate student in 1967, the same year the National Endowment for the Humanities gave its first grant to the Mark Twain Papers & Project to produce scholarly editions of Twain's papers. Since then, with NEH support, the project has published more than twenty volumes of Twain's letters, essays, and novels. But for the past five years, Hirst and his team of editors have applied their expertise to cracking the mystery of Twain's last and largest work: his autobiography.
When Twain died in 1910, he left behind 5,000 typewritten pages of memoirs, with instructions that they not be published until those mentioned in it were long gone, to avoid causing offense to them or their children. His intentions for how it should be published, however, were less clear.
The manuscripts included several false starts, and multiple typed versions of nearly identical text but with vastly conflicting page numbers, and an assortment of handwritten revisions. Much of his autobiography had been dictated to stenographers, and Twain had begun experimenting with a new, more fragmented and discursive style of storytelling that he described as: "start at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale, and turn your talk upon the new and more interesting thing that has intruded into your mind meantime."
Previous editors who had examined this welter of documents had assumed Twain's autobiography was unfinished. They compounded the confusion by altering Twain's text, taking it upon themselves to censor and rewrite portions of his memoirs and reorder them into a conventional cradle-to-grave chronology.
When Hirst and his team set to the task of editing Twain's memoirs, they had to contend with the evidence of that prior meddling, sorting through a century's worth of annotations in multiple hands for clues to Twain's original structure. It was only through their familiarity with the typewriters and typing styles of the stenographers who worked on the manuscripts, careful investigation of the kind of paper used in the variously paginated copies of the autobiography, and painstaking scrutiny of the handwritten additions to the copies, that the team was able to finally discern Twain's intent. The breakthrough came three years ago when the group was able to reconstruct from handwritten notes 44 introductory pages that had appeared to be missing from the manuscript. "Once we had that solved," said Hirst, "we realized that Mark Twain had actually finished this text and that he knew exactly what he wanted in it, and exactly how he wanted it to appear."
Five years of sleuthing culminated in the publication of the first complete and authoritative edition of Twain's autobiography, published, according to Twain's wishes, 100 years after his death. Published in November 2010 by the University of California Press, Volume One of the Autobiography of Mark Twain is now a national best-seller. More than half-a-million copies have been printed, and the edition has received both critical acclaim and scholarly awards. Volumes two and three of the Autobiography are forthcoming.
Hirst gave a similar talk that evening at the Capitol at an event sponsored by Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, the state in which Twain was born. The event sparked a friendly disagreement between Senator McCaskill and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. In light of Twain's Missouri home and the prominence of the state in his great novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ("They speak Pike County," said McCaskill), Senator McCaskill said she was "proud to call [Twain] Missourian." Senator Reid, however, countered that Samuel Clemens coined his penname Mark Twain while working as a writer for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise in the Nevada Territory, and therefore claimed the author for Nevada.


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New KCPD officers trained for violent situations
Recent shootings heighten awareness for recruits
The Kansas City Police Department said its new recruits will have the training, courage and support of fellow officers to be well-prepared to face gun violence.
Thirty new Kansas City officers started Monday and will be sworn in over the next six months.
Recruiter Gordon Herndon said since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, there have been shootings at other schools, including a St. Louis school and a college in Texas.
"As officers, we're trained that every day could be a deadly situation," he said. "That's why certain people are drawn towards this. This job isn't for everyone."
Veteran Officer Matthew Masters said his son was inside Independence Center when a shooting happened last winter. He said it helped to confirm his believes that anyone could be armed these days.
He said his approach to his job is to constantly be aware of what's going on around him.
"I don't want to say that you're nervous, but I think that it's always in the back of your mind," he said. "If you're smart, it has to be, if you want to live for tomorrow and see your family."
He said with training and preparation, new officers should be ready to serve and protect.
"I don't think there's an instances that's come up that they haven't sat down and talked about, 'OK, how do we address this if this were to happen here?" Masters said.
Herndon said the number of recruits looking for police jobs is about the same as always. In some cases, the recruits are older than they have been in the past, with many starting in their late 20s and early 30s.


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