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-._,-,,. two dolulrs per annum in ndv.-inee.b v -, ments inserted at si per square for the first . r»r each subseqaent insertion court or percent b f on the national intelligencer ! lli i • y important from liberia ! gccapturt by captain belt of nine //■■/■-! ,/,-, ,/ slavi s off tin afi icon coast and tin ! landing of seven hundred and ff/y-si.iu ',< 1,1 al monrovia ! washington march 12 1846 ! gentlemen : j have received a eircu'a letter from the press of the methodist mis fl in liberia hearing dale as late as i u-l december containing an account oil the capture by captain bell of tbe uui-h ted states sloop of war yorktown of ilu-l barque anus uf philadelphia three davsl m cabenda with nine hundrcdl onboard ni eteen of whom dud day of capture and the number "'■during a fourteen day's voyage :<>! monro ia was reduced to seven liun.ire.lh and fifty-six which were landed and r.-h reived at lhat port under ihe pro'cctionh of dr 1 vv lugenbeej the united sai.sh agent for recaptured africans tin geu-h ral facts of the case are announced in he following brief letter from dr lu_eu-m mr editor in the midst of mv nrdu-m - ind responsible duties 1 cannot liudh en time to write a detailed a.-eounth lhe recaptured slaves who we e^h to my care hy the officer infl of lhe slave-ship pons now anchor in our harbor ; but 1 wiiifl • few of i he pari icnlars pons was captured by f'aplain^b a he united states ship s'oi kiovvn i bout ihree degrees south three ■lav ■1 iron cabenda at the lime ie-l ere aboui /////,- huuilreii^m < fi 1 he liisl da a fieri i at ihis place during a pn-^a_e^b di fourteen days the number was ri-diu-cdb nhuutlredund fifty-si i ■,-(|| ol'whoml day succeeded in lauding — fl nl lb in aie now m a dying con-fl lhe majority of them are line hoys from about len to iw.-ntyh i age there are only ibrv-seven^h in company was truly delightful to witness ibeh ustrations of pleasure which w.-i-.-b ted by these rescued victims of theh bominahle ira flic when ihey again pre i soil of iheir native counii y and i < i i ir.lth thai ihey were in-e.u^.b lie au of freedom their songs l were borne upon the pa-sinehh p while the simul aueoiish c!appe ( l - lor joy i have a beady l oi nearly three hundred of ihem :<>! ihle persons in the colonv iie-bid-l - hundred which i placed in ie-l lhe rev j 15 ileal a n superin-^fl i of the methodist episcopal b ■be educated f r in lire u-el'ulne-s^b ____ j v lugenbeel i v liberated airicans h mr communicates a ' number h la cular touching ; h the melhodist mi--i<u:,^b ii w are obliged to omil to-day im b room 1 1 ■then p i feeds :] h we have no doubt tha governor flo h frlsand the agent of the united staies^b rrcaptured africans and lhe humani-l of tl nl i he colony « ill di i b be done lo afford relief foo.l.h . 1 she o this large number of liumniifl fings tddenly cast upon iheir eare-.h it vvi the t rov rnmi-ni will im-b i accordance with ils imilbrmh sine the act ot congress of i s *:!). m lecessary appropriation for theh il sistenc uid comfort of these vieinis si cruel of all traffics which our now on the eoa-t of africa fl ' pss and from ihe grasp of which i of the country and that ol thcfl icers who in this case have vin-h i led ihe honor of our flag these poi rfl ipidly perishing for the want ofl nose most common and most nece-saryfl fall blessings of ibis life air food and t have i n rescued by the aulbmi-b command of our laws i rcular slates on the authority oil i • iflieer of an english brig thai lhe bri-i on has since april last captnr-b - ldl vessels concerned in the slaveb i hope these appalling facts in regardh ve hade will produce it lhat bel ■a deep r and more universal oi mity : and thai liberia • and christian vv elcoming i w e had well nigh said the ited victims ol this traffic to a i higher life will become more sted w iih intet est and far - - be put forth both for lhe tion and l in civilization of all ica iththe greatest respect gentlemen i friend and servant r r guri.ey t he captured slave sill ha\*e already laid before our read -' harrowing accounl of the -! ive !*, captured on lhe coasl of ali ica of-war yorktown captair r of dr lugenbeel anc rom the circular of the meth i in lil i i which we inser per furnished the par '::; - t lhe capture and of the dread ition of the wretches found cram briber & james ' . *" n ."■*" ' . ( " kef.r a check ctoh all yuur editors '• proprietors \ is sare -. ( new series rcxeks do this a.vd liberty < gent harrison ) number 48 of volume ii salisbury n c friday march 27 1846 med beaea'h tin decks of the slave ves sel : but i is due lo captain bell lo giv also his official account of the cap are which we accordingly insert below [■pre sents the most shocking caseof out-rage humanity which has ever appeared in out columns the vessel employed in thi ecrable transaction went it appears originally from philadelphia accor ding to the united states gazette sin was sold af rio de jane*rioasa trader b her owners and all interest in her on ih part of citizens of philadelphia on friday iu charge of lieut cogde.ll of lhe york town and a prize crew of ten men she brought in four prisoners portuguese who were found on board af the lime of the capture it is devoutly lo be hoped that all ol whatever country who shall be convicted of having been engaged wheiin directly or indirectly in ihe inhuman af fair may be math to sutler the extreme peiia if v ot i in law i i.s remarkable that within lhe same week ihree v*-ssel should have arrived in our poi-is as prizes to lhe american squad ron for having been engaged in the slave trade — viz the pons above mentioned captured by the yorktown the panther a prize of ihe same vessel which arrived at charleston on monday and the robt ii ilsini a prize lo the sloop-of-war james town which reached charleston on thurs day \\ •• congratulate the officers of our na vy engaged on the coast in the perilous ■ar against enemies of the human race th tin ir vigilant efforts have been rewarded wilhso much success they will receive ihe thanks of the w hole country — v /,•//. letlcr from capt bell in th ■secretary of the nary r.mif.i states ship yorktown (' vium.a ( m'rica ih . 1g 1845 sir i have the honor io inform von that i addressed a letter to you on tho 3 jth ultimo giving an account of the capture of the american barque pons of phila delphia v i h eight bundled jmd niie-iy six on board a duplicate ol w hich i now enclose 1 was so anxious lo dispatch the vessel in lhe shortesl lime for liberia in order to land lhe slaves and relieve hem from iheir miserable confinement thai it was not in my power lo give you a more particular account of ihis vessel i will now endeavor ;,, ,|,, soj uh | .,| m state stun ' lac s which nave since come lo my know dge the pons under the command of james perry was at anchor al kabinda for a i oui twenty days before she took on hoard :!■>(• slaves luring which time she w.-.s closely watched by her britain majesty's brig cygnet c.tnmtn ler lav ton at about nine o'clock on the morning of the 7ih november the cygnet got underway and tood to se;i im media el v b rr gave up the ship lo gallano who commenced getting on boa id the water provisions and slaves aud so expeditious were they in iheir movements ha al eight o'clock that evening lhe vessel was under weigh hav embaikcd nine hundred aud three slaves lu-lead of standing directly to sea she kept in with the coast during the nighl — at daylight tbey were oitkacongo abou twenty-live miles north of kabinda when ihey discovered the cygnet in the offin_r they immediately lurlert i || iheir sails and drilled so near the shore \\\-.\\ \\ u - ne groes lined lhe beach in hope of ; t ship v reck tbey continued in ihis situain imlil meridian when finding they had not been discovered ihey set iheir lower s i is in older to clear lhe shore and as the ! c guet drew off from the land they after ! wards set their more lofty one two days i a itei w ards we cap u red her her crew beonsisied of spaniards poituguese bra bziiian and some from olber countries b and all hough continuing under the amer b ieau ilag wiih probably american papers i ' one american was en board b as i could not dispatch her the evening bui her capture they kepi company with us i night the next morning i regretted hloleain that eighteen had died and one h jumped overboard so many dying in so i short a time was accounted for by lhe cap hiain in lhe necessity he had of thrusting lli low all who were on deck and closing i'e hatches when he lirst fell in with us hin order to escape detection h the vessel has no slave-deck and up h wards of eight jtuiul red and fifty were h piled almost in bulk on the water-casks t , 1 >\\-. these were males about forty i 1 ".- fiftv females were confined iu one hall h of the round-house cabin on deck : the ..; h i . r half of the cal tin remaining for the use hot the ollit-ers as the ship appeared to h esv lhan ihree hundred and fifty ions i 1 seemed impossible that one-half could llnvc livol in i-rii lhe atlantic about llwo hundred filled up the spar-deck alone bwlicn ihey were permitted lo come uj i from below and yet lhe capiain as hsm-ed me that il was his intention to huva b i :. four hundred nuin on board if he b ukl have spaied the lime i the stench from below was so greal bi'va - i ; was impossible to stand more ihar i a few moments near lhe hatchways ( lut i men who wen below from curiosity wen forced up sick in a lew minutes : then al ithe hatches were off what must have i been the sufferings of these poor wretch bes when the hatches closed i i am in formed lhat very often in these cases tin stronger will strangle the weaker and this was probable the r son why sn ma i ny died or rather wen found dead the i morning at'icr ih j . capture none bul fl an eye witness can form a conception ol i the horrors these poor creatures must en h dure in their transit across the ocean i i regret to say that most of ihis misery i is produced by our own countrymen ; they i furnish the means of conveyance in spite fl of existing enactments and although i ther are strong circumstances againsl i berry the master of the pons sufficient i io induce me to detain bim if 1 should i meet with him yet i fear neither he nor i his employers can be reached by our pres i i-iil laws he will no doubt make it ap i pear lhat th " pons was beyond his cm i trol when the slaves were brought nn i hoard vet from the testimony of men i whe came over from rio is p ussengers h there i.s no doubt the whole affair was ar i ranged at itio between berry and galla i ua before the ship sailed these men i state that the first place they anchored m was at onin near the river l'igos in the h bight of benin here they discharged a i portion of their cargo and received m/m board numb of hogsheads or pipes filled with i water these were slowed on the grourid i tier and a tier of casks cont.-tining spirits m were placed over them they were tin it i informed that the vessel was going to ku i bind a for a load of slaves h on their arrival at the latter place tin 1 spirit was kepi on hoard until a i'ewdavsm belore berry gave up the command eov-h ring up the water casks in order io elude i lhe suspicions of any cruiser for twen-b iy days did berry wail in the rode-stend i of kabinda protected by the hag of hi.-b country yet closely watched by a foreign man-of-war who was certain of his in-h lention ; but the instant that cruiser i>l compelled to withdraw for a few hours,^b h springs at the opportunity ofenrichingm himself and owners and disgracing thefl hag which had protected him as we are short-handed 1 haved shit.-^b ped those men much to their gratification who cane oui as passengers in the poiish from itio to kabinda in order that ihcirh testimony may be taken should berry l><b in the i nifed slates on our return andfl committed for trial 1 have landed t!n-h balance of the prize cr.-w here with th<-h exception of one who died of coast lever^b a few days after he came on bord ihis miip.h 1 have the honor to be with much rr-h spect your obedient servant chai1lbs h bell commander h to the ion george bancroft h secretary of lhe navy h w — b~w — a — — . lilw from mexico — by the mail oil yesterday we received private auvices^h irom pensacola announcing lhe arrival there on the evening of the 1st inst l he i . s brig lawrence from vera cruz^b in 11 hays unfortunately we reeeived^b in papers by this arrival bul our corres-^b poudence informs us that there had beeiib no change iu affairs in mexico a h-itei-h from \ i t cruz dated lhe 18th nil i'ronil a most responsible source induces us toh believe confidently lhat noihing like al revolution has occurred iu mexico since h the 1st of feb up to which day we havch had advices by way of havana theh lawrence brought despatches to the c.o-h vernment from our minister mr slideil.h tins gentleman was si ill at jalapa await h ing instructions from washington h the i . s brig somers was to sail from h pensacola on lhe 2d ins for vera crn . i from letters received in ihis city oth i er in our osv ii it would seem that mr i slidell i •.!,,- city of mexico on lhe 17:hl jan as we haw previously stated one i letter stales that he ,- ns .* r j l p t q u b etly awaiting despatches r pom our (", v - b einiiiciit at washington wher i l . would b remain until such documents were r n"v b ed as might determine his course on b of our pensacola letters states that he wasb much disgusted with the treatment he had b received tt the hands of the mexican go-b vernment i another letter slates that ihere wasl i great reason to believe that mr slidell'sb treatment had been such as must lead tol hard blows with mexico the writer says that the course of the leading men oil mexico had been ofa nature most outra-l geous in the matter of the reception of al minister from this country — so outrageous lhat no oiher recourse lhan a resort lo war was left us the writer thinks that it musi be declared immediately we have till along thought it the pro per course for our government to bring the mailers at issue wiih mexico to an imiin bale settlement ; and lhe reports re ceived yesterday should ihey prove true would make ihe duty still more impera tive if the mexicans will not settle with ins we must settle wiih them — v 0 pic ayunt _> h inst i al n mei ting of the board of managers of the arner i ., bible society held at new york the hon john i'.i |,,.; :;: . ,,;• 01 io one of he justices of ihe supreme icoun d sta.es was ninn ipres - : ■■merican b e society the v*a i leaih of govi i xi pi id ill 5 gazette says that ur dyon isius i t has his arrival in paris in in this l-i . in the preparation of a phi oso laccouni : this country to be entitled five years iresiden ■inamerica or " america in the nineteenth bcentury i a bill appropriating l,8g6 to pay the texan volun iteer from new orleans has pass d the " lower house it the louisiana legislature together wiih a resolntion linstruciing iheir members of cong ess to have the 1110 ney at or.ee paid back to the state extracts i from the speech of the hon revekdv john fl so in the united stales senate wednesday i march 11 1-46 i mr revekdv johnson being pnlided to the fl fl er addressed the senaie nearly as follows : i it is with unaffected emhai a a ssinei.t 1 rise fl to address the senate on the subject new i under consideration ; but iis great importance i and the momentous issues involved in its final i seltleinenl are such as compel me not wit stand i it my distrust of my own ability to be useful i to my country lo nj.ii the attempt we have i all f.-ll that ai one time at least 1 trust that i ih now past ) we were in imminent danger i from lie moment the president of il states deemed it tight and becnni b i •_, ia the lii-.-t step ( it ids official duty to an i iioiince lo the world ibal our title to oregon was clear and unquestionable dowu to the period of his message lo congress in december last h when lie reiterated the declaration i could not see how it vv.is possible that war should be i averted that apprehension was rendered h much more intense from the character of theh debates not iii this chamber hut elsewhere ash well as from the speeches of some of the presi h dent's political friends within this chamber lh could not but listen with alarm and dismay t<>h what fell from the very distinguished and expe-^b rienced senator from michigan mr cass ml an early period ol this debate ; and ihen to what^b i heard irom tin senator from indiana ( v 3 r h hannegan :) and above all to what was said hyb the senator from ohio mr allen the chaii b in in of the committee on foreign relations bb who in my simplicity i supposed must necessa-bfl rily he apprized of the views of the government bb in regard to the foreign concerns of the country.^b supposing the condition of the country to i"'b what it was represented to be by the three sen-^b ators i cotild not imagine how it could be fl sible that that most direful of all human eeern ties war was to he avoided ; and i was accord-^b ingly prepard lo say on the hypothesis of the se-^b nator from michigan that if the effort at m'-h gotiatitui shnuld fail war was — i will not ' ■- b in lhe language of the honorable senator " e evilable because lhat phrase seems on some account not to in in favoi with that gentle man^b — but i will use his own paraphrase on his v.nh expression and say i thought that " war uiusth bb what did they represent to he the cnaiiioih of the nation ' i speak now more particulai h of the last i wo senators ivom indiana and ohio^b they told ihai negotialion was at an end ; tl>;>h we were now thrown back on our oii^inab ri_ii!s ; that our title to the whole country v:ifl beyond ail question ; and that the national heih or mast u forfeited if that title should not b maintained by f>r<-e of aim i felt that ' h must hue been a careless and a profitless " : fl ei of english history who could indulge uch hope that if such was lo be lhe course and cniih duel of this country war was not inevitable — h then in addition to my own opinion i heard fl admitted y the honorable senator from mvhih gan with that perfecl candor w inch always dis^fl ti.igiii>!ies him on this floor that in his opinn nl england would never recede aud that v-.aih would be il necessary result 1 now rejoice iii hoping and believing irmih what i have subsequently heard thtit the lei h of the senaie as well as my own apprehen jb sinus weri i think unfounded since then fe-h statesmanlike view taken by the senator fienih new york who lirst addressed us mr divih and by lhe senator from missouri mr benton h to whom this whole question is as familiar as ih household term — and lhe spirit of peace lu'eith-h ed in every sentence aud word uttered by thh these gentlemen — have fully satisfied me lhat.h so far as depends upon ihem a fair and liberalbb compromise of our difficulties would not be inb wuil of zealous advocates bb id his hope has been yet mnre strengtheu-h the recent speech of the senator fromh ; i carolina mr haywood not now in hish p-.ee knowing as i thought i did the iuti-h male relations both personal and poliii.-al.h which that senator bears to the chief magis.h irate knowing loo lhat as chairman of theh committee on commerce it was his special duly lo become informed in regard to all mat i is having a hearing on the foreign relations of the country 1 did not doubt and i do not now doubt lhat every thing he said with regard to the determination of tin president to accept if nt'-fl fered '. v the briiish government the samefl terms whiek he had himself proposed in jnlyfl last was perfectly well founded and thai sucl>b an offer if made would he accepted i do notfl mean lo say because i did not so understandl the senator that in addressing this body wit hi regard to the opinions or purposes of the presi 1 dent he spoke by any express and delegated au-l ihorilv but i do mean to say that 1 have noi doubt from his knowledge of the general views of the president taken in connexion with cer-b lain omissions on the part of the executive thalb when he announced to us that the presi lentb would feel himself in honor hound to accept hisb own offer if now reciprocated by great britain b he spoke lhat which he knew to he irue and this opinion was * - i more strengthened and con firmed by what i found to he die effect of his speech on the two senators 1 have named — the leaders if ihey will permit me to call them so uf the nltraists on this subject — 1 mean the se nator from indiana mr hannegan and the senator from ohio mr allen if musi have been an undiscerning witness ol lhe scene which took place iu this cl amber immediately after the speech of ihe senatoi bom north car olin i mr haywood ) who mast not have seen thai those two senators had consulted together with the view tl ascertaining how far the sen ator from no th carolina spoke by authority an i that lhe result of their consultation was a determination to catechise lhat senaloi ; and lie belter i i avoid all mistake that they reduced their interrogatory lo writing in order thai it might be propounded to him by the senator from indiana mr hannegan : ) and if it was not an swered by the senator from ohio mr alien what the result of die denouement whs i do not i.retend lo know : hut this 1 will venture to say lhat in th keen encounter of wits to which their luoqnv led two senators who commenc ed it got ruth-r the worst of the c_i.t__t my hope and belief h as been yet further strenglh ened by what has since not happened the speech of the senator from ninth carolina was made on thursday and though a week has nearly elapsed since that time notwithstanding the anxious solicitude of both tho-e senators and their evident desire t set the public right on that subject we have from that day to this beard from neither of the gentlemen the slight est intimation that lhe construction given lo the message b nator from north carolina was not a : mr hannegan i refer tbe senator to the columns ' the government taper mi ' ov very well i am glad to hear from one who has a right lo know whal all the relations of the president are that tie paper he alludes to is " the government paper :" because as i read what is in the governm ml paper to which he refers it seems to me as clear as the sun at noon thai the senator from v rth carolina was right and lhe senators from indi ana and ohio were wrong it was noi my pur pose lo have made use of extracts from dial pa per as the organ of lhe government by name ; but now we have it admitted from very high an thority lhat that paper is the organ of the 1 v ernment i believe however there was a time when the senator from indiana would have ve ry promptly disclaimed the authority of that or gan mr haxxki an i do not speak beyond the authority which i find iu the paper itself mr johnson that is quite sufficient i am content with the senator's judgment as be ing quite correct but to resume on friday night after the scene to which i have alluded and which apparently threw so much dismay over the few or the many wheiher they are fi'\v or many will appear hereafter who go for • i i 40 or a war and after the attention of the president must have been called to what had passed in this chamber we are told in relation to the conduct wbicb the president is likely to pursue in this controversy lhat his future course must be judged by his pasl conduct ;" — that is whether he will acc*"pl the offer of 49 may he decided by the fact that he formerly of fered lb 0 . nor is this ail in cautious ami honeyed words of which the editor of lhat print is so complete a master he reads a mild lecture to the senators from ind and ohio and a who concur with them in their views of ihis matter after saying of the senators on this side of the chamber who were evidently enjoying the cor ruscations which took place on ihe other side <■( it and chuckling over what lie storm foreboded the editor goes on to say : " the generous spir it of the senators will prevenl their repetition our fi iends from indiana and ohio are no long er seen catechising lhe senator iron north carolina they are till lhe friends of the president as much as to say to the senator from indiana '" il is useless no evanescent remarks will swerve him from bis course nor disturb that self-balanced equanimity of spirit ' which graces tin chief magistrate who is ( e ' termined to do his duty amid ail the difficub ties lhat beset his pith wheiher they proceed ' from political enemies or his friends at home ' or from ihe cabinets of foreign nations — whatever therefore may proceed from the se nator from ind mr hannegan or tin sena tor from ohio mr alien we fire told lhat the self-balanced mind of the thief magistrate may proceed in tin course of duly regardless , t till difficulties come they from what source they may if that is given by authority from lhe president then i concede that the senator from indiana is the leader of a forlorn hope a laugh mr li v ■;-.-• an a hope however that vv ill lead to v mr joiin.-on then it will be a victory over your own president a laugh 1 - therefore that though my mind at the commencement of this session and ever since the inaugural address was delivered had under gone the most intense and agonizing alarm it is now comparatively easy j it is so from lhe settled and abiding conviction lhat the president esteems himself in honor hound to seiiie ihis controversy hereafter as he offered to settle it in july last before i sit down it will he my object to prove that the honor of lie country is hound to that settlement * * mow is ihe negotiation to be again resumed ! what are the steps most likely to bring about this result ? are they to remain tts they are or is the advice of the president to us to he a dopted ? i confess that on this subject my mind has been solicitously anxious and has under gone recently a change and that change has been owing to tacts to which i have already al hided impressing mi wiih the conviction in which i am sure i cannot be misled that tbe president's motives are peaceful in what con dition are we now the title lo oregon — oregon all or none — may be made not in lhe hands of senators of the united states forlhev are incapable of turning it to such a purpsse : it may be made i say a parly watchword ; ii may made to lill the whole land and la-h it in to a state of feverish excitement emigrants to that territory taking lie excitement with them members of lhe senaie iu lh exercise of their admitted authority proclaiming to those emigrants that ihey stand on american soil and 0111:111 to be protected exclusively by american laws and that every englishman is aire --- er ; a divided jurisdiction ; one system of aws extending its protecting arm over our househol i and another system over another : a conflict in my judgment in such a case would be inevita ble the'state of things provided for bv lhe treaty of 1819 and continued by lhat of l*-_7 cannot last nor will il last how then is a conflict to be avoided clearly by bringin this state of things lo an end by dividing lhe disputed territory hy erecting each tort ion inn a separate sovereignty to be placed under the armed jurisdiction of iis own government — this can only be done by abrogating die trea ty england d ■-■- n<»l giv e the notice an i un less we do all lhe dangers lo wbicb i have re ferred will follow . i think the notice ought to he given and be fore i it down i shall propose a form of notice somewhat different but substantially lhe same with one which has already been subm " die consideration of the senate if i was sat islied thai ttll that to which i have a u i-d wo.im not drive us int a conflict 1 should iiilinitely prefer the present condilit.n of things the ad vice of the senator froth sonlh carolina mr calhoun the opinion which be has expressed wisely expressed — expressed iu the spirit ol wisdom — that our policy should he a masterly inactivity is the true policy for this nation by em sural ion we would in the course ol time ne cessarily have made lire terriloi-y ours bul thai masterly inactivity has ceased lo he masterly becatfseoftbe wiawslcrly activity ofs ine oth ers but i am sure without knowing iindividu ally what the opinion oflhe hon nator to whom i have all ijed now is he will agree with me that tbe day for masterly iuactivi gone and lei me say that we aie in the dis charge ol function of lawful and tremendous re sponsibility — ivilh the civilized world tiling in ju.igm nt upon us with the eyes of the people iiry turned vvidi dec and intense solicitude towards us with the hopes ul bu maniiy the . 55 of christian faith christian iii unphs resting on what the senate of the united states may be willing to ib — rvery i ver i consiilutional freedom wherev er he may he found lot ks with intense anxiety lo the judgment and decision of the repre.en sentatives of this free repubke if we wisely humauel . in a chrisli in spirit in thai spiril which prevails as the highest aud most earnest wish of heaven that there shall ha on earth and good will to men we will o on prospering and to pr sper but if we act ith : w ,-•• ; if we give ourselves up lot he lead ing ol in ia us spi ils ; it 1 • 1 ■• kless re lions .: iu it and christianity * if we fl in the face of the spirit if pe.n -, iu w inch a i can alone live 1 repi i so fir from having the blessings of tl.e w upon us we will go down t • posterity as die em uiies of ail _■• ■''.. \.. . i think it is our inly to apply to that god whom we mi in com non adore and iuv«k bis mercy to save us from those desolating calamities with w hi li we bave been threaten i and preserve us a peace ill and happy nati 11 1 propose then in ci 1 liug to offer by way of amendmeni n ibe resolution which ame from the house ol representatives on his subject and is a substitute li 1 thai ri solu ion the preambl ■and resolutions ul i-red by he senator from kentucky mr critl nden ivith ihis difference providing always lhat nstead of deferring the notice as lhe original intendment proposed to be given from and af er the termination of the present session of ongress ji ni.ty he given from and after lhe irsl day of june next with ihis alteration 1 hall move the adopli4.11 of ihose resolutions ind cease to trouble the s uate further on tho object gallant exploit of general lunar it is perhaps not generally known that he celebrated lamar owed much of his success in the military and political world o i single gallant 1 xploil performed by 11m at the battle ■i s m 1 icinto almost til great men have been indebted lo some asual circumstance lo suggest and guide be course of their future life : and so too jas it been .. ith i the fortunate and glorious chance which ed io lamar's attainment ol the highest nililary rank his countrymen could l.e nr.v upon bim and afterwards lo the aighesl civic honors was as follows mirubenu lb lamar a n il i n of the state of georgia and an adopted citizen if texas entered fbe battle of san jacin 0 us a private dragoon d iring a skir nish with lhe enemy's 1 n \ airy on the clay receding the battle the horse of lamar 1 wild and impetuous animal carried bis qually impetuous rider nt full gallop a ivay from his own companions into the cry centre ol a troop of mexican horse rhe young dragoon was immediately sur ounded and though lighting desperately vas made prisoner and placed in the cust ody of two mexicans also dragoons in his position lamar remained for some ime ar unwilling spectator ot the fight vliieh was now becoming general li was mi irksome position to one pos essing the feelings of the young georgian md he resolved to free himself from his juard or perish in the att mpt lie was till upon horseback — a huge dark iook ng mexican on each si !,- 0 f him : — but he md been deprived of !.. sword when cap ured and w,-t nov .. r unarm d ach oflhe dragoon . ■• a large sabre it his belt and on one ol these he eves 1 lamar became fixed grasping the elt with u fierce eagerness the young i'exan succeeded in securing both sword md scabbard and men drawing the for ner he put spurs lo his horse und gallop d oil towards his own comrades v bo ivere from iheir position witnesses of the eat bul lamar was not destined to each the texan lines without fighting for 1 as soon as ihe troop stationed on the round perceived that he had escaped from iis guard a general rush was made toin 1 rcepl him aud several horsemen gallop ed between him and the approach to lhe i'exan lines lamar brave as a lion was soon en gaged wiih several mexicans al once but having resolved to die rather than be ta ken a second lime he soon cut bis way through the ■tn :,;.' lin and amidsl ihe whistling of hullei and the buzz is of bis comrades many of whom had been wit ■- of the exploit be was carried back to in frii nds this gallanl action va performed on the day preceding lhal of lhe battle of s in jacinto lei lh n a we bave before mention d only a private dra goon i ibe da ol ih battle however ca plain lamar b the 1 rderand appoint ment of general 1 1 oust 01 , c mmander-in ( hief led the texan cavalr — a company ol ;. ■ul *" :| no tilled men la -■■; r soon ros iu lh i on of bis ' i_en and afterwards as is .'. , became president of the •• loin s ai " lb public lamar did not male a bad use of the swoi d w iieh he had frn si i from the mi-mean dragoon for having r turned on a visit to in native country he presented it to mr yale who deposited it in the philadelphia museum where it is still to be seen among ihe thousand and one cu rio-iti of ibe place — phil sat cou
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Copper analysts are the most bullish in five weeks because of mounting optimism the global economy is strengthening, diverging from hedge funds holding their biggest wager on a retreat since August.
Thirteen analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expect prices to rise next week. Four forecast declines and three were neutral, for the highest proportion of bulls since Feb. 1. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. recommended March 1 buying the metal for a 16 percent gain in six months. Speculators are betting on a drop for the first time since November after inventories monitored by the London Metal Exchange advanced to a more-than two-year high.
Global equities rose to the highest since 2008 yesterday on speculation central banks will continue stimulus to aid economies. China's growth accelerated for the first time in two years in the fourth quarter and the Federal Reserve said March 6 the U.S. is expanding. While LME copper stockpiles doubled since September as supply outpaced demand, Barclays Plc forecasts a return to shortages in the next six months.
"With the U.S. improving and China coming out of its doldrums, we think copper is well supported," said Carole Ferguson, an analyst at SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP, a broker and adviser in London. "Copper has been volatile because the stockpiles have been high. Outside the U.S. there's still not great visibility. Europe is probably going to take a while to turn around."
Copper Price
Copper fell 2 percent to $7,769.25 a metric ton on the London Metal Exchange this year, rebounding from a three-month low of $7,652 March 1. It's still the second-best performer of the six main metals on the LME. The Standard & Poor's GSCI gauge of 24 commodities lost 0.5 percent this year and the MSCI All- Country World Index of equities gained 5.5 percent. Treasuries declined 0.6 percent, a Bank of America Corp. index shows.
The U.S. economy grew at a modest to moderate pace across most of the country, the Fed said in its Beige Book business survey. Expansion will accelerate every quarter to 2.8 percent at the beginning of next year, while China's growth will rise to 8.3 percent in the second and third quarters, from 7.9 percent at the end of 2012, economists surveyed by Bloomberg predict. China accounts for 42 percent of all copper usage and North America 11 percent, according to Barclays.
Central banks have pledged more action to spur growth as commodities rose less than 2 percent since the end of 2010, compared with an 81 percent surge over the previous two years. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke defended $85 billion in monthly purchases last week and the European Central Bank yesterday left interest rates at a record low. The International Monetary Fund predicts world economic growth will climb to 3.5 percent this year from 3.2 percent in 2012.
Shortage Returning
Copper demand will outpace supply by 288,000 tons in the two quarters through September, reducing this year's surplus to 56,000 tons, according to Barclays. The drop since mid-February presents a buying opportunity and prices will reach $9,000 in six months as China imports more metal, Goldman said in a March 1 report. Chinese refined copper imports in January were up 5.4 percent from October's 15-month low, customs data show.
Goldman's bullish outlook contrasts with hedge funds' expectations for further declines. Speculators held a net-short position of 7,172 futures and options as of Feb. 26, the most since Aug. 14, compared with a net-long position of 11,413 contracts the week before, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show.
LME Stockpiles
There are signs that demand may be slowing. Inventories in warehouses tracked by the LME, the largest metals bourse, jumped to 481,225 tons yesterday, the most since May 2010, exchange data show. Orders to withdraw copper slumped 68 percent since Jan. 4 and reached an almost nine-month low on March 6.
This year's oversupply may increase if the debt crisis worsens in Europe, a region that accounts for 17 percent of copper demand. The IMF expects a second year of contraction there. Budget cuts and economic reforms were rejected by more than half of voters in an Italian election last month, undermining optimism that Europe will come out of its recession.
Prices will come under pressure this year as demand slows and supply starts to increase, Steven Lewis, a senior copper analyst at Wood Mackenzie Ltd., said March 7 at a conference in Madrid. China called for higher down payments for second-home mortgages in some cities on March 1 in an attempt to cool the property market. Construction accounts for about 40 percent of usage, the Copper Development Association estimates.
China's Demand
China will still need 450,000 tons of new copper this year, Javier Targhetta, senior vice president of marketing and sales at Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., said in Madrid two days ago. The nation's copper usage will climb as much as 5 percent in the next five years, Rodrigo Toro, corporate sales vice president at Codelco, the biggest producer, said the same day.
In other commodities, eight of 15 people surveyed expect raw sugar to rise next week and four predicted a drop. The commodity slid 5.2 percent to 18.5 cents a pound on ICE Futures U.S. in New York this year.
Ten of 25 people surveyed anticipate higher corn prices next week and nine said the grain will drop, while 14 of 26 said soybeans will climb and 10 expect lower prices. Eleven of 23 traders predicted gains in wheat and nine were bearish. Corn lost 1.4 percent to $6.8875 a bushel in Chicago this year as soybeans rose 4.4 percent to $14.72 a bushel. Wheat slipped 11 percent to $6.9125 a bushel.
Gold Survey
Twenty-three of 32 traders and analysts surveyed said gold would advance next week, five were bearish and four predicted little change. Bullion fell 5.7 percent to $1,579.56 an ounce in London this year after advancing the previous 12 years, the longest run of gains in at least nine decades. It slumped the past five months in the worst losing streak since 1997.
The S&P gauge of raw materials dropped 5.2 percent from a four-month high on Feb. 13, reaching a 10-week low March 4. U.S. President Barack Obama ordered the start of $85 billion in spending cuts on March 1, beginning a potentially decade-long wave of belt-tightening. Combined with tax increases enacted earlier this year, that will depress U.S. economic growth by about half in 2013, according to government projections.
"For many developed markets you've got a situation where they're going down the route of fiscal austerity and there are significant drawbacks to that," said Ross Strachan, a commodities economist at Capital Economics Ltd. in London "The U.S. is a little bit stronger at the moment, so they may be able to offset some of that negative effect."
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How Parents Can Help
Leaving for college is a big step — for you as well as for your son or daughter. In a sense, they are leaving home and taking a step into a new world. Your relationship is changing and it's not always easy to know how best to support your child so you can be most helpful. After observing hundreds of college students and their parents negotiate these often tricky emotional waters, we've developed the following five tips for parents that, when followed, almost universally make the adjustment easier on both sides and lead to a stronger, healthier relationship through adulthood.
1. Step Back. Let Your Student Take Responsibility.
It can be difficult at first, but part of getting out on your own is being able to rely on yourself. Fight the urge to "fix or solve" problems for your son or daughter. It's a real confidence builder to take charge and work things out on your own.
2. Avoid Saying Things Like 'These Are the Best Years of Your Life.'
From choosing a major to passing an exam, students face pressures and challenges while in college that at times can seem stressful, even overwhelming. Parents can best support their children by recognizing this and not making comments that can subtly add pressure.
3. Visit Campus — But Not Too Frequently.
You miss your son or daughter. They miss you. But give them some space to get settled in their new college life. Plan a visit every few months, so your student can show you his or her dorm room and activities. By keeping visits short and well timed, you help assure that your arrival is always welcomed.
4. Keep In Touch, Even If They Don't
Don't be hurt if your son or daughter doesn't call or contact you as often as you'd like. Send a short e-mail or note keeping them informed about news from home each week. It keeps the connection strong even while they are away. And don't ask about homesickness. Be supportive and positive about their efforts to get an education.
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You've raised your children. Now let them test their wings. Relax, enjoy the inevitable changes that will come as your children grow. Have faith in the good job you've done in raising them. They won't disappoint you.


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U.S. officials illegally allowed a Canadian company to begin preparing the route for its proposed 1,700-mile-long oil pipeline from western Canada to Texas, even though the project hasn't gained final government approval, three conservationist groups contend in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service should not have allowed TransCanada Corp. to begin clearing a 100-mile corridor through northern Nebraska grasslands because the State Department hasn't signed off on the Keystone XL pipeline project, the groups argue in their lawsuit filed in federal court in Omaha.
TransCanada was allowed to mow down delicate native grasses and to relocate an endangered species living there, the American burying beetle, they say.
"It's our contention that that activity is illegal. They should not be constructing the pipeline, and they should not be out there," Noah Greenwald, the Center for Biological Diversity's endangered species director, said at a news conference in Omaha.
The plaintiffs, who also include the Western Nebraska Resources Council and Friends of the Earth, are seeking to stop the preparations for the proposed pipeline, which would carry an estimated 700,000 barrels of crude per day from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, to Texas Gulf Coast refineries.
TransCanada spokesman Shawn Howard said the claims made in the lawsuit are false and that it mowed some grass as part of efforts to protect and move some of the protected beetles. In every case where mowing was done, the company received permission from landowners, Howard said.
"We respect the regulated review process currently under way and in no way would we impact that by beginning construction without a permit," Howard said in a written statement.
Howard stressed that mowing doesn't constitute construction.
Pipeline supporters, including some business groups and unions, say it would double the capacity of an existing pipeline from Canada and make the U.S. less reliant on Middle East oil. They also say it would create jobs in the states it would pass through _ Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
In Nebraska, the pipeline has drawn opposition from an unlikely coalition of farmers, ranchers, landowners, environmental groups and other activists who fear it will leak and contaminate the Ogallala aquifer, which supplies drinking and irrigation water to eight states.
Some climatologists have also argued that by increasing production from the tar sands, the U.S. would begin a dramatic increase in the burning of carbon-intensive fossil fuels at a time when it should be trying to reduce the release of gases that contribute to global warming.
Earlier this week, opponents of the pipeline released emails and other internal documents that they say demonstrate an overly cozy relationship between State Department officials and TransCanada. The groups asked President Barack Obama to intervene and block the pipeline project.
In their lawsuit, the conservationist groups say the decision to allow TransCanada to begin preparing the proposed route for its pipeline shows that federal officials aren't committed to the full, legally mandated review. State Department officials held public meetings last week in the states the pipeline would pass through, and have defended the process as fair.
"The State Department has further confirmed that it is running a corrupt review process by giving TransCanada a green light to begin construction," said Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth. "It makes a mockery of the public and sends a message to Nebraska that their concerns don't matter. If the State Department was truly doing its job, this lawsuit wouldn't be necessary."
By mowing and transplanting an endangered species, TransCanada has already created environmental damage, said Bruce McIntosh, staff ecologist with the Western Nebraska Resources Council.
"It's not just clearing. It's destruction," said McIntosh, who recently flew over the mowed swaths to document the razing.
He also said the attempt to move the beetles, which have been on the endangered species list since 1983, would result in some dying. The beetles are now found in only six states: Nebraska, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Kansas, and Arkansas, according to University of Nebraska-Lincoln entomologists.
Although the State Department has final say over the project because it crosses international boundaries, some claim the state of Nebraska could control the pipeline's route through the state.
That could yet happen. Hours after the announced lawsuit, Nebraska Speaker of the Legislature Mike Flood announced that a group of Nebraska lawmakers will meet next Tuesday with a TransCanada official to discuss concerns about the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline through Nebraska..
Flood, as well as state Sens. Chris Langemeier, Annette Dubas and Kate Sullivan, will meet with the official.
Earlier this week, Dubas circulated a bill that would give state authorities the power to relocate the pipeline around the aquifer. Dubas and several other lawmakers are pushing for a special legislative session to address concerns over the pipeline's route before the State Department's expected decision in December.
Gov. Dave Heineman has said he supports the pipeline but opposes the route. The Republican governor has declined to call a special session, citing a lack of legislative support, and he questioned whether the state can supersede federal law, despite U.S. State Department assurances.
Asked Wednesday whether a special legislative session is likely to be called this fall, Flood said he believes more than a majority of lawmakers are leaning toward calling a special session.
"In my opinion, we're not ready for one yet," Flood said. "You don't call a session because you've got an issue. You usually call a session because the governor and the Legislature are working together and you've identified a potential solution."
State law gives the Legislature the ability to require the governor to call a special session by request of two-thirds _ or 33 _ of its 49 members. But, Flood noted, the Nebraska Legislature has never taken that route in its 144-year history.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday contends that many Nebraskans who oppose the project cannot speak publicly out of fear for their job prospects and professional relationships.
The lawsuit names the U.S. State Department, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as defendants, because of their oversight roles. TransCanada is not named as a defendant.
Grant Schulte reported from Lincoln, Neb.


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Nice way of saying "fucking the dog". Wasting time while on the clock.
I don't get much work done on Fridays, because I spend most of the day screwing the pooch.
by Motorhead October 15, 2011
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by gravedigger33 July 16, 2009
The definition comes from when you go to your car and the driver unlocks the doors but you pull the handle to soon. What happens from this is your door remains locked but every other door in the car is unlocked. People refer to this as screwing the pooch.
Narrator: Person one and person two are outside of their car as person one unlocks the car doors. Person two accidentily opens the car door too soon making his door stay locked.
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Gerard Butler: Laughing with Leto!
Gerard Butler visits his pal Jared Leto on the set of a Hugo Boss commercial on Thursday (October 14) in New York.
Earlier in the day, the 40-year-old Scottish actor went apartment hunting in the Big Apple with a broker and saw a spacious loft in downtown Manhattan.
On Tuesday (October 12), Gerard supported his P.S. I Love You co-star Hilary Swank at the NYC premiere of her new drama Conviction.
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We are thrilled to be returning to Download for our 5th time!!! In honor of both the festival and fans that embraced Trivium first, we have decided to play our 2005 setlist from start to finish, preceded by a set of some our other festival favorite tunes. However, to make the it all the more unique and special, we will be playing this "one time only" set on the Red Bull Stage, the most intimate and intense setting possible for revisiting this special moment in time.
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Zac Skipp '11 says he wants to become a filmmaker, but one look at his impressive resume shows he has already spent nearly half his life in that role.
At the tender age of 11, he was part of a film crew that produced "Party Animals," an HBO documentary that chronicled the 2000 presidential election.
"I was sitting at home and my cousin's next door neighbor called and said, 'I'm going to Texas to interview George W. Bush. Do you want to film it?'" recalls Skipp.
Cameraman Skipp, director Chaille Stovall, then also 11, and sound technician Elizabeth Farrell, 10, traveled the country to the early primaries and both national conventions, asking how politics was relevant to young people's lives.
They spoke with Bush at the Governor's mansion in Austin, Texas, and interviewed Al Gore as he kneeled in the snow during the New Hampshire primary.
Along the way, they became news themselves, appearing on ABC's Good Morning America and on The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
Having endeared themselves to the late ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings, Skipp and his fellow filmmakers found themselves on a mission. Jennings had tipped them off as to where Bush was staying.
"We went and found Bush and actually got into the hotel and interviewed him in the hallway," says Skipp.
Great get, right? There's a "but." A big one.
The sound girl hadn't replaced the batteries in the microphone, leaving them with absolutely no audio from the conversation with the soon-to-be President of the United States.
"She didn't come on the next trip."
But kids can be forgiven, because they are, after all, just kids, even if they are playing with the big boys.
"We were running around, breaking the rules, being kids," Skipp says, "and getting yelled at by a woman from The New York Times, because we were being too loud in the back of Al Gore's campaign bus."
That same year Skipp also worked on "The Big Ouch," an HBO Family documentary that followed a young girl through chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.
A Miami native, Skipp was bitten by the film bug at an early age, so he has had a lot of time to learn from mistakes (like the self-proclaimed disaster he encountered while shooting a friend's wedding) and to focus on the direction he wants the story of his life to take.
"I came to Bowdoin because I didn't want to go to film school right away. If you go to a big school for film studies, you focus on that, but if you go to a liberal arts school, you see everything," says Skipp, an art history and Spanish major with a film studies minor.
"I know I want to be a filmmaker, but I wanted to be educated about the world and not just one thing."
His sophomore year, Skipp served as general manager at BCN, a position he'll resume this fall. He has also produced the Commencement video and edited the video shown during the College's Climate Days.
Skipp, along with Kaitee Daley '09, produced a segment about "The Monster," Bowdoin's historic Zamboni — one of the oldest collegiate ice-resurfacing machines in the country — that aired on ESPNU as part of the sports network's Campus Connections series.
The duo also produced a video commemorating the centennial of Robert E. Peary's historic trip to the North Pole, which appeared on ESPN's Web site.
Skipp is spending part of the summer in New York City for an eight-week internship with Jigsaw Productions, whose "Taxi to the Darkside" won the Oscar for best documentary in 2008.
While Skipp's earliest productions were documentaries, he envisions a future in feature films.
"I just think it's a lot of fun to start with nothing — an idea — and then see where it goes."
In the production of the life before him, Skipp is hardly starting with nothing, but where he goes will certainly be something to see.
I just think it's a lot of fun to start with nothing - an idea - and then see where it goes.
— Zac Skipp '11


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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Patrick Willis not happy with Matt Millen's criticism
Matt Millen, the former NFL linebacker and former Lions president who currently serves as a TV analyst, was unimpressed with the 49ers' linebackers when breaking down San Francisco's loss to the Giants on Sunday. When 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis heard that Millen criticized him, he wasn't happy.
Millen said on 95.7 The Game in San Francisco that he thought Willis and 49ers linebacker NaVorro Bowman had the worst game he had ever seen the two of them play on Sunday. Willis later went on the same radio show, heard the same comments, and said Millen doesn't know what he's talking about.
"Whoever this Matt Millen guy is, I'd like to ask him if he could do what we do every day and do what we do for 16 games a year and see if he can hold up every game," Willis said, via SportsRadioInterviews.com. "I doubt he would. I doubt he would be able to consistently play at a high level as Bowman and I do. I really don't care about what this guy has to say."
Now, it's easy to rip Millen after his disastrous stint running the Lions, and believe me, I've ripped Millen plenty myself. But the reality is Millen did, in fact, play linebacker in the NFL at a high level. So Willis is wrong when he says Millen couldn't do it. If Millen ever criticizes an NFL general manager for drafting too many bad wide receivers with Top 10 picks, that G.M. will be justified in saying Millen has no room to criticize. But Willis is wrong to suggest that Millen doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to playing the linebacker position.
Still, Willis may be right to think that people were too quick to jump off the 49ers' bandwagon this week.
"We went in and everybody is on your bandwagon when you are playing good," Willis said. "Everybody has everything positive to say and when you don't do well, they got everything critical to say. For us, we are going to continue to do the things we need to do and that's play football. Every game is not going to be a perfect game. Every game is not going to be your best game."
What the 49ers need to do now is play one of their better games on Thursday against the Seahawks. If they do, they'll be back to being clear favorites in the NFC West, and Sunday's loss to the Giants won't sting quite so badly anymore.
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Peter Rainer, noted Christian Science Monitor film critic, Bloomberg News columnist and reviewer for NPR's FilmWeek, reflects upon his three-decade career in "Rainer on Film: Thirty Years of Film Writing in a Turbulent and Transformative Era."
Rainer, who was also a film critic at the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, has divided the nearly 600-page collection into such chapters as "Overrated, Underseen" — he counts "American Beauty" and "Good Will Hunting" among the overrated; "Youngish Turks," such as Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola; "Auteurs," which features his ruminations on Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket," Mike Leigh's "Secrets and Lies" and Curtis Hanson's "L.A. Confidential"; "About Acting, Star Actors, and Acting Stars"; "Some Masterpieces," including "The Night of the Hunter" and "Something Wild," and "Comedies (Intentional and Unintentional)" — "Meet Joe Black" falls in the unintentional category.
Rainer will be discussing and signing copies of the book Monday evening at Book Soup (http://www.booksoup.com in West Hollywood and at Vroman's (www.vromansbookstore.com) in Pasadena on June 19.
PHOTOS: Hollywood backlot moments
What drew you to film criticism?
I just always loved movies from very early childhood. I grew up in the New York area, and that was a wonderful laboratory for not only seeing new movies but also revivals. I always felt I had things to say about movies — that I wanted to talk about movies and write about movies. When I first read James Agee's collected criticism when I was still in high school that sort of opened my eyes to the idea that one could be a real writer and be a film critic, that one could really be a kind of an artist writing about film in ways that were more than cookie-cutter stylistics. That sort of set me on my way.
Is it difficult in this era of shortened newspapers reviews, blogs and Twitter to be able to do any in-depth criticism?
Yes, because the opportunity to stretch out and really do justice to something, to try and be as definitive as you can is obviously limited by space considerations and other factors. But there is also something to be said here for writing with concision.
When I was starting out in the '70s as a critic, everyone felt that the more you wrote about a movie the better a critic you were. There were critics like Andrew Sarris and especially Pauline Kael who were terrific and wrote long, but a lot of times people who went on and on were just going on and on. James Agee, who for me was probably the greatest of all movie critics, if you go back and look at many of his reviews, they are not a whole lot longer than what you might get in a standard good newspaper today.
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Did you find while working on the book that your opinion about a movie had changed over the years?
I think 'Apocalypse Now' is an example — when it came out I was not severely impressed. I thought it was more a mess than a masterpiece. I am still not altogether sold on it, but I do think in retrospect looking at it again that it is the one Vietnam movie that really captured that hallucinatory craziness that was so much a part of what that war was.
Have your reviews stirred up controversy?
A: I don't like movies that don't deal with the consequences of violence. The book has a piece on my review of "Zero Dark Thirty," which was a movie that obviously was very polarizing. It wasn't only me who wrote reviews that were polarizing. But I did feel that the film was on some level, if not immoral then amoral, because it didn't deal with the ramification of torture in any real sort of moral sense. It didn't deal with or enlarge the whole notion of what torture means to society and the psyche of a country that is doing it.
I think it turned the hunt for Bin Laden into a glorified or not so glorified police procedural and I just kept thinking, "What would Costa-Gavras or Gillo Pontecorvo do with the same material?" A lot of people said, 'How dare you?' I also got interviewed by Al Jazeera English, who thought I did a good job.
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"Lollipop Loving" came out with the Sugarsweet Collection as well, but again, I was not interested in it at all. It didn't seem like my kind of color. I'm not too into the corals and I wasn't really feeling all the shimmer. I was missing out! This color comes on a very nice shade of coral pink...a very soft pink. It's gorgeous, and the shimmer is just perfect. Jerrid has said that this is his favorite lipstick color of mine.
I'm kind of glad that I missed out on it, because now I have it in the hot pink Heatherette packing...us MAC addicts understand.


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U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Friday said Republicans and President Barack Obama are locked in a stalemate, a month before a $600 billion "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and spending cuts is set to kick in.
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"There is a stalemate; let's not kid ourselves," said Boehner, speaking to reporters a day after Obama made a budget offer that Republicans called unacceptable.
Obama and Republicans are holding firm in their respective positions, with the biggest sticking point being whether to extend low tax rates on household income above $250,000. Boehner said Republicans still oppose raising tax rates on any income group.


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As Maine's capital city, Augusta's rich history combines smoothly with a smart cosmopolitan edge that is unique to the Pine Tree State. History buffs will enjoy the Maine State Museum, a massive complex that traces the state's outdoors, agricultural and industrial heritage; while the Margaret Chase Smith Museum and Library in nearby Skowhegan chronicles the life of one of Maine's pioneering women politicians. Neary Old Fort Western is a stark reminder of Maine's frontier roots dating back more than 300 years ago. Both children and adults will enjoy the varied activities at the Children's Discovery Museum. This area has plenty of outdoor family activities in key areas such as Moosehead Lake, Lake St. George State Park, the Augusta Nature Center, and the Sunday River Ski Resort. In the evenings, top off your visit with some theater in the nearby village of Monmouth, offering many show-stopping performances.
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The Big Picture: Shock Treatment
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Alternate universe themed games are always great.
Another fantastic interpretation of the game...sweet...just sweet.
And I'll accept that.
The most D'aww response to Bioshock Infinite I'll ever see in my entire life.
Bioshock was one of the most half-assed narratives I've ever played. I couldn't believe the amount of praise it received, but it makes sense since people are so desperate for "adult" storylines, that anything resembling something more than the norm is seen as a drastic step forward. This looks like another game along that path.
You aren't the only one - I was also extremely disappointed by B:I (as others in this thread also are). The combat was dull and the narrative papers over any attempt at building a consistent narrative by bringing in 90% of the game's key plot points through trans-dimensional / time travel (it uses both) in the last section.
Where Bioshock managed to craft a multi-layered narrative, Bioshock has created an incredibly uneven one. It's an ending in love with its own cleverness, regardless that it renders the rest of the plot pointless.
Aw, man. MovieBob, I just submitted a query to the Escapist analyzing the major themes of Bioshock Infinite, and then I found this video. I don't want to look like a plagiarizer... v.v
I thought I was the only one who thought that. I may have bought into the "Elizabeth is the main character and Booker's a PC spectator to have exposition blasted at him" type of deal, maybe even a western version of Final Fantasy. But then I noticed how Booker was thrusted more into the fold with more connections in Columbia that I would have expected a satellite character to have. When the ending revelation came, I was convinced in my guess.
I did expect the meta-commentary elephant though.
This explanation seemingly confirms what I saw. Thanks MovieBob, for shedding more light. =P
The problem with Booker as a character is the same as it is with Kratos. He is trying to atone for his sins of being a murderous, psychopathic war criminal, by slaughtering hundreds, if not thousands of people in horrifically brutal ways and without showing any remorse. The story has its moments, but despicable protagonist, excessive amount of violence and dull gameplay definitely hurt it a lot.
Aw man. I thought this was going to be about that god-awful Rocky Horror sequel.
Honestly, I'm just shocked Bob played a game that wasn't on a Nintendo system... and LIKED it.
I'm in complete agreement with you. I've been a very harsh critic of this game for the failings you just mentioned, specifically the fact that the game's setting is irrelevant to the story. The over-the-top sci-fi story completely overwhelms the 1912 setting and pushes all of the racism and so on into just being window dressing... which I find borderline offensive.
However, there is one way to make the story almost decent: it never actually happened and was all the drunken hallucination of the remorseful, broken Booker dreaming that his daughter ended up being someone truly special... and he gets to play the hero for once.
That interpretation can still cause ire, though. As in, 'Why suffer through the mediocre gameplay for hours just for an "it was all a dream" ending?' I don't have an answer for that... but you can either choose to hate the game, choose to find a way to mitigate the disappointment or just move on.
When I got to the ending there was a part of my head that couldn't help but yell "END OF EVANGELION, END OF EVANGELION" I know the ending itself can't be compared but it gave me the same feeling when watching it.
Themes don't matter if your not going to do anything with them.
Infinite introduces these themes of racism, classism, and how these attitudes are magnified within a closed circle like Colombia, then decides it wants to be about one man's search for redemption for a horrible crime (ironically killing even more people), and then decides it wants to be about time travel.
I think Irrational Games may have a few tears lying around the office, because this game feels like three other possible Bioshock Infinites got fused together like Jeff Goldblum and a housefly.
And don't forget, Irrational Games apparently decided that they wanted to have people come to the conclusion that since a person might become evil/a monster/a drug addict/etc. they should be killed anyway, without someone coming to terms with the consequences of their decisions by atoning for them and living out their days knowing that they've done bad things, not commit suicide - and seemingly condemn the people that believe and love them to know that they could've done something to prevent it. Redemption doesn't come from removing oneself from the world; it comes from forgiveness from the people who have been wronged.
I have one huge issue with Bioshock Infinite and that's pretty much the same issue I had with Bioshock back in the day: Yeah, the "morale" of the story is kinda "cool" and "clever" and the ending was pretty cool to witness in both cases, but that didn't make going through the majority of the story any more fun, sorry.
What I'm trying to say is that I don't think it's such a good idea to do these kinds of things throughout a campaign that lasts several hours just to make some supposedly clever point.
This was a very well thought-out analysis Bob!
EDIT I totally didn't realise this thread was that old, the DLC wasn't even out then... I should just leave quietly.
It seems that Bob and hardly anyone played the Burial at Sea DLCs, which might make you change your opinion on Infinite. They tie Infinite to Bioshock 1 for better or worse depending on your opinion and pull some retcons that attempt to fix some of the more glaring plotholes/inconsistencies in Infinite. (e.g. not going in to spoilers but justification for Daisy's later out of character actions)
Personally my biggest gripe with Infinite was vigors, they were boring and seemed to be included because 'it's a bioshock game, we need plasmids!' but Burial at sea ep2 explains why/how they came about and was nearly enough to satisfy me on the vigors front.
The thing is the DLC is a continuation from the main story, where infinite was essentially a story about a person (booker, BaS is a story about a person (Elizabeth). Personally I enjoyed infinite's ending and after playing the DLCs see burial at sea's ep 2 ending as the 'true' ending of bioshock.
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