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How can I keep leaves out of my pond? Rick – Birds, IL
This Tent's Not for Camping
You may not want to admit it yet, but the summer season is coming to a close. While we love the mild weather and the changing colors of the trees, us water garden owners have to turn our attention to the falling leaves. No worries however, we have one simple tool that you can use to avoid having to deal with leaves falling into your water garden.
We are of course talking about pond netting. If you dealt with Herons in the summer you may already have a pond net on hand. While they are great for keeping unwanted predators out of your pond they are more commonly used for keeping leaves and other blowing debris from falling in. There are two basic styles of pond netting you can purchase. The most simplistic version of this being a pre cut piece of mesh netting. This netting is available in an Economy Grade which is ideal for single season use or a Heavy Duty version. You can pull this mesh tight across the surface of your pond and secure it using stakes or rocks. This application works well for water gardens that may receive minimal amounts of debris. If you are in a heavily wooded area or are prone to massive amounts of debris you will be better off utilizing a Pond Protector Net Kit that implements a domed design to better protect your pond. The netting included with the kit extends beyond the tent-style frame allowing you to pull netting along the contours of your pond so there are no gaps left open for debris to enter.
Keeping leaves out of your pond in the fall will help keep the pond clean and manageable going into the colder seasons and will ensure a faster, easier cleanout and start up next season. Leaves left in the pond to decompose tend to create "tea-colored" water due to the tannins they release in the decomposition process. You can fill Media Bags with Activated Carbon and place them in your filter boxes to help clear the water if this happens to you. Also continue to use Nature's Defense® and Muck Defense® to manage the muck left behind by decomposing leaves and fish waste. As water temperatures fall below 50 degrees Fahrenheit you can switch from Nature's Defense® and Muck Defense® to Seasonal Defense®. Seasonal Defense® is a cool water natural bacteria that will continue the decomposition process throughout the fall and winter.
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"My family and I have been so blessed with the opportunities afforded to us in this country. We love this country. It has meant so much to us. So we feel privileged to be able to give back in any way that we can, no matter how small that contribution might be."
Those words could have come from any number of great Americans, men and women who consistently sacrifice to make a positive impact on our national landscape.
But instead they came from a resident alien, a man with a Green Card and a clipped accent: South African Masters champion Trevor Immelman who, like many immigrants, articulates his love for America better than a lot of people whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower.
The venue for my conversation with Trevor was Country Club of Columbus in Georgia, close enough to Fort Benning to hear the muffled echoes of artillery rounds from the 69th Armor Regiment. Trevor was in town with his father, Johan, his mother, June, his brother, Mark, and his sister-in-law, Tracy, to promote Golf 9-12, a day of unity and remembrance in a post 9-11 world.
"Golf 9-12 was established to bring everyone together, and to use golf as a vehicle to promote that spirit of unity that we all felt the day after 9-11," Trevor told me. "My parents first moved here in 2000. My children were born here and are American citizens. So this country has been very, very good to me and to my family."
Johan Immelman launched Golf 9-12 two years ago. The original idea was to create a day of golf that would raise awareness nationally while raising funds for first responders locally.
"By focusing on first responders, and by partnering with local colleges and universities to seed scholarships for children of first responders, we feel as though Golf 9-12 gives us all a sense of worldwide unity while supporting those who are closest to a crisis when it occurs," Johan told me. "With all the many wonderful and successful charities that help our military men and women, we felt that too many first responders were being overlooked. They are the people who are running into the flames, into the danger, as we are running out. And they are the ones you call when you need help."
Events were held all across the country. The Immelmans couldn't be at all of them. They chose Columbus because Mark is an instructor there as well as being the men's golf coach at Columbus State University.
And the irony of their Cape Town roots was lost on no one.
"I feel more than a little conflicted that the three men who put this entire thing together are South African," said Brent Reid, one of the 96 players in Columbus for the event. "It's wonderful what they are doing, don't get me wrong, but it's just kind of a sad commentary that they're the ones carrying the mantle while those of us who were born here sort of stand idly by."
Not everyone born in the USA is standing by. Maj. Dan Rooney's Folds of Honor foundation has raised millions for the families of fallen servicemen. Davis Love III and his wife Robin do wonderful work through their foundation, and Butch Harmon supports scores of wounded veterans through Harmon's Heroes.
But as the color guard raised the stars and stripes, no American sang our anthem any louder than the Immelmans. And no one gives more of their time and talents than those born in other nations who understand how truly blessed we are.
"We hope that this grows from the grass roots," Johan said. "We all know how we felt on 9-12, the unity and the sense of giving that we all experienced. Hopefully we can regain that same spirit again."
Ours is a nation of immigrants, founded on ideals and not bloodlines. Families from around the world – families like the Immelmans - still come here because of those ideals.
Of all the uniquely American attributes, it is wonderful to see that one continue.
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HERE are a couple of techniques to help you cast with a centrepin reel, explained by Bill Rushmer.
Beginner's cast with a centrepin reel
When learning to cast you are best off casting using loops of line.
To do this, use your fingers and pull loops of line from between the rings lower down on the rod.
The more loops you make, the further you can cast.
Using loops, you can either cast from the side, under arm or directly over head.
All you need to do is release the loops when you feel the pull on your fingers as you cast the tackle out.
The great advantage of this is that you can cast fairly light weighs with it.
Advanced cast with a centrepin reel
1 Possibly the most advanced cast involves spinning the drum and is best attempted when you have gained complete mastery of the centrepin.When casting off the centrepin, you are best advised to be using fairly heavy float gear.
2 Start off with the rod behind you and cast it out.
3 By the time the float is in front of you, you need to pull a loop to set the reel running so that it is letting out line as the float travels out.
4 As soon as the float hits the water, you must instantly use your finger to apply a breaking on the drum of your centrepin to stop it over running and causing a tangle.
Now watch this video of Bill Rushmer explaining how to use a centrepin reel on stillwaters.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 21 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
I would like a design for a new rv rental business. I currently own rsrvsales.com and am expanding into the rental market. I need a site that looks similar but for our rental business http://www.rsrvrentals.com
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Build: The Urbanist reports from the Bilbao Urban Innovation and Leadership Dialogues conference, hosted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS).
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Day's Worst: Weiner's comeback
We're all believers in second chances, but we're not so sure that means it's right for disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner to run for mayor of New York City this year.
As revealed in a New York Times Magazine piece, Weiner, best-known as the New York congressman who tweeted a lewd picture of himself two years ago and then lied about it repeatedly, is considering a political comeback that may include running for New York mayor.
"…I want to ask people to give me a second chance," Weiner says in the Times interview. "I do want to have that conversation with people whom I let down and with people who put their faith in me and who wanted to support me. I think to some degree I do want to say to them, 'Give me another chance.' "
He also tells the magazine, "I do recognize, to some degree, it's now or maybe never for me, in terms of running for something."
There are politicians who've had personal scandals that have made comebacks. Look no further than South Carolina's Mark Sanford for an example of that.
Perhaps it's too soon after the events that ran Weiner out of office or maybe it's just the base and pathetic details of his scandal, but when we think "Weiner," we're not picturing the mayor of New York.


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CFP Affinities #4 – What is Radical Imagination: Horizons beyond "The Crisis"
Edited by Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven
The social crises of neoliberalism, so evident and provocative throughout the rest of the world, have finally come "home" to the global North in the form of a cataclysmic financial crisis wreaking havoc on the lives of people, workers and communities, intensifying already intolerable injustices and inequalities and justifying the intensification of surveillance, policing and militarization.
However, we have yet to see here the rise of radical mass political activity that has marked the landscape of political contention and alternative-building in the global South. From the Zapatista uprising to water and AIDS activism in sub-Saharan and southern Africa to general strikes in Korea to the Bolivarian revolution, the last 15 years has seen radical mass mobilizations animated (if not caused) by concrete and radical hope for a globalization from below. Yet in the North the question that has plagued Left scholars since the 60s has taken on new salience and urgency: why, in the face of increasing inequality, precariousness and exploitation, in the face, even, of imminent ecological collapse, do North American elites and governments enjoy reckless accumulation untroubled by mass movements demanding radical social and political change?
This issue of Affinities focuses on the importance of radical imagination to radical social change. On the one hand, imagination brings to mind utopian fancy, a dangerous and demobilizing escapism, and forms of collective or subjective delusion which perpetuate the status-quo. Yet on the other, the ability to imagine the world, social institutions and human (and non-human) relationships otherwise is vital to any radical project. Indeed, as numerous commentators and theorists point out, we can't do without the radical imagination, both on the level of our movements and on the level of our everyday lives.
This issue approaches imagination as a process by which we collectively map "what is," narrate it as the result of "what was," and speculate on what "might be." And while it is a terrain of political struggle it is not merely "ideology," a term haunted by its dubious political legacies. Rather imagination represents a more rich, agentful, complex and ongoing working-out of affinity, of the fundamentally political and always collective (though rarely autonomous) labour of reweaving the social world. This issue, then takes up the question of the radical imagination as horizons of socio-political possibility, dynamic and shared visions animating and animated by individuals and collectives in struggle which guide their movements toward and create new social worlds.
In a moment where the neoliberal doctrine of "the end of history" and the mantra "there is no alternative" stumble over massive financial crisis (over the chasm of even more profound social and ecological crises), what are the possibilities and perils of the radical imagination? What is this mysterious thing, so often spoken of or gestured towards but so seldom analyzed? What is the relation of radical imagination to radical practice? To radical thought and criticism? To radical forms of and experiments in affinity, solidarity and activism? How and where is the radical imagination manifest? Are there criteria by which we can evaluate acts and expressions of the radical imagination? (i.e. is it always a good thing? What makes it "radical"? When? Where? How?) In a moment when elites have turned to hollow invocations of hope, imagination, and possibility, how is the (radical) imagination being colonized by the cultural and everyday matrixes of power relations? By the media? By racism? By patriarchy? By colonialism? By capitalism? How can this colonization be fought? At a time when most of the Left seems all too eager to sacrifice it on the altar of a ubiquitous and tepid neo-Keynesianism, how can radical imagination be shared, taught, learned or written? Is radical imagination worth talking about at all?
At risk of demystifying a term whose mystique may be worth defending this themed issue asks contributors to grapple with the radical imagination by bringing the concept into dialogue with struggles (or their absences), past or present primarily though not exclusively in the global "North." More than just an itinerary of examples of radical imagination, this issue asks contributors to reflect critically on these examples towards a better understanding of what radical imagination might be.
We invite contributions which contribute to the discussion of "what is the radical imagination" by focusing on concrete sites of struggle, particularly (but not exclusively) in the global North. Of particular interest are:
- Indigenous and anti-colonial struggles
- Migrant and migrant workers' struggles
- New forms and spaces of affinity and autonomy, temporary or permanent
- New directions in peace, anti-war, anti-militarism and anti-Empire organizing
- New forms of labour organizing (Workers' centres, radical workers' networks, the IWW resurgence, etc.)
- New forms of feminist (anti-)globalization
- Emergent or resurgent anti-capitalist tendencies
- New anarchist(ic) initiatives
- New forms of Queer and trans- organizing
- Radical cultural, social or literary practices/interventions
The editors encourage and anticipate a wide variety of disciplinary, theoretical and methodological approaches and especially encourage contributions from those outside academe. In this vein, the editors look forward to receiving
- Essays of 8,000 words or less (to be forwarded for blind peer review – please remove all identifying marks and include a 150 word abstract)
- Interviews with activists, writers or others of between 1,000-8,000 words
- 750-1,500 word pungent interventions
- Creative and non-traditional offerings (please keep in mind the limits of Affinities' web-based format)
Contributors should consult the Affinities style guide at http://affinitiesjournal.org/index.php/affinities/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
The deadline for submissions is JANUARY 31, 2010.
Submissions can be made via the journal website at www.affinitiesjournal.org. Information on the submission process and formatting requirements is available on the site.
Please do not hesitate to direct inquires or pitch ideas to the issue editors at:
Alex Khasnabish: email@example.com and
Max Haiven: firstname.lastname@example.com
For more information about Affinities, visit http://affinitiesjournal.org/


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Forget standing in line for hours, hoping for a scribbled, barely legible autograph on a wrinkled piece of paper. Or jockeying for spots behind the dugout, on the off chance a signed ball or batting glove gets tossed your way.
When it comes to souvenirs from your favourite athlete, the retweet is where it's at these days.
Fans have turned Twitter into a digital version of the autograph session, asking — sometimes begging — stars from every sport for a shoutout. Oh, sure, some requests are designed to raise the profile of a charitable cause. But most fans are simply looking for a little love from their favourite athletes.
"(at)SHAQ the real superman, can i get a birthday retweet from the most dominant big man of all time?"
"It's my birthday and all I want is for (at)KingJames to tweet me !!
"(at)Donald_Driver80 I love you so much. I have a piece of your jersey, I want more. I want(need) an RT from you. See ya in a lambeau leap!!
"(at)serenawilliams please don't let me go 0-5 for (hash)serenafriday RT from my favourite female tennis player?"
"It's almost like capturing a photo of yourself with that person," said Chris Abraham, senior vice-president at Social Ally, a social media firm. "For a second there, you've breached their celebrity. They've actually allowed you to come over and take a camera shot of you two together, and you can share it with all your friends."
Now, a retweet might not sound all that thrilling. You can't frame it and hang it on a wall (though you could do a screen grab and print it out), and it can't be passed down to your kids and grandkids. You can't collect retweets in a book and show it off to your friends. And no one's going to pay six figures for a retweet, as someone once did for a baseball signed by Babe Ruth.
But that's the old-school way of thinking. An autograph is going to be seen by 15, maybe 20 people. Get a retweet from Shaquille O'Neal, and you're now the coolest thing ever with the 5 million-plus people who follow the Big Tweeter. To say nothing of the bragging rights you'll get when the folks who follow you see it.
"You can tweet that to your boys. Or if they're following you, they see it," said O'Neal, now an analyst for TNT. "You have 15 minutes of fame."
Sometimes you get even more than that.
A few weeks ago, New England Patriots wide receiver Chad Ochocinco, perhaps the most prolific athlete on Twitter, showed up on the doorstep of a follower who invited him to come over after Ochocinco tweeted that he was driving around Miami.
When Ochocinco posted photos of their meeting, the follower's timeline was flooded with so many messages he'd need until next month's NFL draft to respond to them all.
For the last three semesters, David Gerzof Richard has given his social media and marketing class at Emerson College the assignment of making contact with a Boston-area celebrity through social media. The class picked Ochocinco last semester and, not only did he respond, he took the entire class to dinner, spending more than three hours talking about social media and why he considers it important.
"Publicists and the agent are still very relevant (for athletes) to getting the main stories out there. But now there's this side door that people can go through, and they know that it's there. It's not hidden," Gerzof Richard said. "When you're a big fan of someone, being able to connect with them is a huge thing."
(And yes, Ochocinco picked up the tab.)
Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling was this semester's quest, and the class got a response almost immediately.
"We've connected with two out of the three. ... If they had to sit down and call the agent or publicist, I'm pretty sure our success rate would be zero," Gerzof Richard said. "I would never have imagined that the course that took me into academia would, in a million years, have me connecting with athletes. That's the wonderful thing about social media, it literally opens doors that people could never imagine."
But what's in it for the athletes? Why should they be bothered to do something as simple as a retweet, especially when retweeting even one person means they'll be inundated with requests from hundreds more?
First, because it is so simple. With as few as two clicks of a button, an athlete can make a fan for life. Maybe even change perception if he or she has a reputation for being selfish or aloof.
There's almost no downside, either. When athletes begin signing autographs after a game or a practice, it sparks a mad rush of fans waving photos, magazine covers or pieces of paper. That may not sound so bad, but see how comfortable you feel when a dozen or more people are making a run at you. And when the time comes for an athlete to move on, there's always a groan of disappointment — or worse — from the fans who got shut out.
With the retweet, there's none of that. Athletes can sit in the quiet of their own home or cars (not while driving, please) or locker room and thumb through their requests. And because of the constant nature of Twitter, no one expects an athlete will see each request, let alone have time to respond to every one.
"If I retweeted everyone who asked me 4 a retweet I would be doing 24 hours a day," golfer Ian Poulter tweeted last month.
O'Neal chuckled when asked if he keeps track of how many retweet requests he gets — "I've got 5 million followers" — but said when he's on Twitter, he usually spends about 10 minutes going through requests and tries to respond to 20 or 30 of them.
"Especially if they say something funny," he said.
"A lot of people think they can say anything. I just ignore that," O'Neal said when asked his criteria for giving a retweet. "Whoever's funny."
Rather than getting angry, fans who miss out simply keep trying. Because deep down, all fans believe that if they only had the chance to meet or connect with their favourite athletes, they'd become the best of friends, hanging out, watching games together.
The retweet furthers that illusion.
"You feel like you're connected to them," said Sree Sreenivasan, a professor of journalism at Columbia who studies social media and its impact. "But you don't really have this connection."
No, that would require your hero to actually follow you back.
"That's the ultimate test," Sreenivasan said. "Can you send a direct message?"
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I have been meaning to write something on policy based management for some time. Policy Based Management allows DBAs and administrators to apply policies or enforce rules on all the SQL Server 2008 instances they look after and ensure that a consistent approach is followed on all instances. It can be used by DBAs to enforce a 'standard' configuration across the SQL Server farm.
Where would you use it?Well, firstly only on SQL Server 2008 and beyond. It won't work on 2005 or 2000.
There are numerous uses, one that I would have used in a previous job had it been available in earlier versions would have been to enforce some sort of naming convention. For example, you want developers to stick to some sort of naming convention, you may want the name of all stored procedures to start 'USP_' which makes identifying developer written stored procedures very easy and straight forward. Naming conventions is big long argument possibly for another day and I don't want to go into a big long discussion about this here, so let's assume you have brand new SQL Server 2008 Server, it's going to be a development instance, and you want to make sure that your developers stick to a naming convention for Stored Procedures so how do you use policy based management to achieve this?
Taken from Book Online (BOL):
Policies are created and managed by using Management Studio. The process includes the following steps:
1. Select a Policy-Based Management facet that contains the properties to be configured.
2. Define a condition that specifies the state of a management facet.
3. Define a policy that contains the condition, additional conditions that filter the target sets, and the evaluation mode.
4. Check whether an instance of SQL Server is in compliance with the policy.
How do we do this ourselves?Connect to your SQL Server instance
Expand the management folder
and expand the policy management folder...and you will see three further sub folders: polices, conditions, and facets.
Expand the facet folder and look for a facet called "Stored Procedure". Right click and select <properties>. You should see a list of properties, we will be using the 'name' property. You can then close this window.
Right click the Stored Procedure facet and select <new condition> give it a meaningful name..."SPName"
The Stored Procedure Facet should be selected.
In the expressions box click to add a clause.
Enter the following information:
Field: @Name
Operator: LIKE
Value: 'USP_%'
After entering this information this your condition should be ready. Click <OK>
Using the stored procedure facet we have created a condition for the Name property which specifies that stored procedure names should start with 'USP_' we now need to create a policy to enforce this condition.
Right Click the <Policies> folder and select <New policy> and we get the Create New Policy window
Give your policy a meaningful name "SPName"
Select the check condition we just created.
Specify the target databases you want enforce the policy on.
Specify the Evaluation Mode. For this we want the policy to prevent Stored Procedures so we select "On Change: Prevent"
Click on the "Description Page" on the left hand side and enter some text in the "test to display" window something like "Sorry guys, you know the rules, nice names for the SPs please."
Click OK. This creates your policy. BUT you are not done there. If you go and try and create an SP that does not follow this policy do you think SQL Server will allow you? Well yes it will, the new policy is currently in a disabled state. I think this is like this because they want you to evaluate your policy before you enable them and you can right-click and run evaluate which shows you current objects which break this policy.
So I will enable the policy by right clicking and selecting <Properties> and the ticking the <Enabled> check box.
go away and a developer tries to create an SP called '[SELECT]' and he gets this
When we change the name to 'usp_select' it works just fine.
That just about wraps up my TSQL Tuesday post for this month, my good friend Justin Hostettler-Davies has recently been writing a series all about the new features of SQL Server 2008. You can find his blog and his posts here.


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It was called a "fortress in the clouds."
The 21st Regiment of the Second Division of the North Vietnamese Army had carved a stronghold into the steep slopes of Nui Chom, a mountain with rugged peaks covered by a towering jungle canopy that blocked the sky. There, the NVA had dug 250 machine-gun bunkers to defend a secret field hospital.
On Nov. 20, 1968, Michael J. Crescenz of Philadelphia walked into an ambush on Nui Chom. His squad was pinned down when he made a snap decision to grab an M60 machine gun and charge the bunkers. He took out three, killing six enemy soldiers who may have been dumbstruck in their last seconds to see a lone American running into their fusillade of bullets.
As he charged a fourth bunker, Crescenz, 19, was killed.
For his heroism, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. He is the only Philadelphian to receive the nation's highest military commendation during the Vietnam War.
Only in recent years has Crescenz's courageous feat begun to receive greater public notice. When his name comes up, however, only the basic details of his biography usually get cited: West Oak Lane boy with five brothers. Cardinal Dougherty High School graduate. Engaged when he died.
Memories have faded in the nearly 45 intervening years, but not for those closest to him.
William "Doc" Stafford served with Crescenz in Vietnam. He was the last person to see him alive on Nui Chom.
"I knew it that day that he was special," Stafford said. "His family knew it before. And now the world will know."
The Crescenz family lived in the 7400 block of Thouron Avenue and attended St. Athanasius Catholic Church.
Charles Jr., a World War II veteran, worked in the beer-distribution business. His wife, Mary, was a homemaker.
Together they raised six sons in their working-class corner of Northwest Philadelphia. The boys -- in order of birth Charles, Michael, Peter, Joseph, Stephen, and Christopher -- played stick ball, Wiffle Ball, half ball, wall ball, and step ball.
"You played out in the streets from sunup to sundown," said Joe Crescenz. "It was a great neighborhood. It was a great growing-up."
Mike Crescenz was tall and naturally strong.
"He always had this presence around him," said Ronald Burke, one of his closest friends. "I don't know if it was because of his height or his overall demeanor. Everybody looked up to Mike as a leader."
As teens, Crescenz and Burke played together in a basketball league at Simons Recreation Center in West Oak Lane. During a game against rivals they had struggled to beat in the past, one of the opposing point guards fouled Burke hard, knocking him to the ground.
"It looked like a fight was going to ensue, and guess who stepped in, almost like a guardian angel," Burke said.
"He wasn't my big brother, but that day he was my big brother, and probably saved me from getting my head beat in," Burke said.
And they won the game.
Mike and his brother Charles were talented athletes. They played varsity baseball at Cardinal Dougherty.
"Charlie was more of a quiet sort of guy," Joe said. "He let his playing do his talking."
Mike "was more of a slam-bang, you know, power kind of person," Joe said. "Mike had a different type of athleticism, and his personality fit that."
Blessed with a movie-star smile, he also was popular with girls.
"That took him away from us other schmucks hanging out at the schoolyard," said James Engler, another close friend.
"He just seemed to have a confidence," Engler said. "He didn't doubt himself."
He also didn't back down in a fight.
One brawl stands out. At Simons Rec, Crescenz had a confrontation with two brothers, Engler said.
"I knew Mike was tougher than them, but I didn't think he could beat both of them up. And he did," Engler said.
It wasn't just Mike. Charles, who later became a New Jersey state trooper, also was a protector.
"They were there for you, you know. Something happened in the neighborhood, the older brothers were there. They had your back," Joe Crescenz said.
"Maybe Mom and Dad instilled that into them. I don't know."
Crescenz graduated from Cardinal Dougherty in 1966. He went to work for a company called L.B. Smith in Plymouth Meeting and began to learn welding.
Meanwhile, his brother Charles enlisted in the Marines and was shipped off to Vietnam.
In February 1968, Crescenz enlisted in the Army.
"He seemed anxious to do it," Burke said.
Attitudes had already begun to shift against war. When Mike signed up, the Tet Offensive was at its height. On Feb. 27 during the evening news, Walter Cronkite raised serious doubts about whether the United States could prevail in Vietnam.
If Crescenz had any regrets about his decision, he revealed none to his friends.
"He didn't show any trepidation or concerns about going to Vietnam," Engler said.
He got engaged to a girl named Christine.
"Mike wanted to get married before he shipped out," Joe Crescenz said.
His grandfather persuaded him to wait until he got home.
Crescenz arrived in Vietnam in September 1968 and was assigned as a rifleman to Alpha Company, Fourth Battalion, 31st Infantry, 196th Infantry Brigade, Americal Division.
During a preinduction medical exam, the 6-foot-tall Crescenz weighed 187 pounds. He bulked up after basic training at Fort Bragg, N.C., and Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga.
"I remember he was a big guy. He was 200 pounds plus, I think," said "Doc" Stafford, a platoon medic with Alpha Company.
"I remember he was engaged. He was so excited about that," Stafford said. "He was very family-oriented. He was proud to be from Philadelphia."
In a letter home that was summarized in a neighborhood newspaper after his death, Crescenz complained about President Lyndon B. Johnson's decision to halt bombing in North Vietnam just before the 1968 election.
Joe Crescenz recalled that his brother wrote about being physically exhausted from the grueling daily patrols. The letter has since been lost.
In mid-November, Crescenz's battalion was on the hunt for the North Vietnamese Army, which was suspected to be operating in and around Nui Chom near the village of Hiep Duc, southwest of Da Nang in the northern part of South Vietnam.
Robert L. "Sam" Wetzel, 82, now a retired lieutenant general and living in Georgia, led the search-and-destroy missions against the North Vietnamese.
Nui Chom -- nui being the Vietnamese word for mountain -- was more than 3,000 feet high. It was treacherous because of the terrain: thick jungle and precipitous slopes. In some places, the soldiers had to crawl hand over hand.
"It was inch by inch up this slippery mountain," said Wetzel, the battalion commander who at the time was a lieutenant colonel.
On Nov. 17, first contact was made by Delta Company on the left flank of what would be a three-pronged attack up Nui Chom. Alpha Company was ordered to join Delta.
The battle lasted six days, Wetzel said, and the U.S. forces in the end prevailed. The troops were aided by a bone-rattling barrage of artillery, mortars, air strikes, and even the Battleship New Jersey firing from the South China Sea.
In 1968, Sgt. George Hawkins wrote accounts of the battle soon afterward for two Americal Division publications, and he described the NVA base on Nui Chom as "their high-peaked fortress in the clouds."
A light rain fell on Nui Chom on the morning of Nov. 20.
"Monsoon clouds moved in, and the peaks of the mountains were shrouded in gray mist," Hawkins wrote.
Crescenz's squad walked point, the lead position. If anything bad was lurking ahead, his squad would face it first.
Each man was about three yards behind the man ahead, said Jack Bisbee, who served with Crescenz in the same squad. Bisbee recalled being eighth or ninth on the line. Crescenz was probably about 20 yards ahead, but Bisbee could not see him because of the dense jungle.
Then "all hell broke loose," Bisbee said.
Machine-gun fire erupted in front of the squad and from the left, Bisbee said.
At least two soldiers were hit. The squad was in danger of getting wiped out.
"The perfect ambush," Bisbee said.
Crescenz picked up an M60 machine gun and charged the length of a football field up the slope of the mountain.
The Medal of Honor recommendation signed by Wetzel describes what happened next:
He assaulted the first enemy bunker and succeeded in killing the two NVA firing from that position. He then assaulted the second bunker while dodging a hail of bullets. He entered the second bunker killing two more NVA. Courageously, PFC Crescenz still moved forward. Machine gun fire hit all around him as he resolutely continued up the hill, firing his M-60 machine gun. He succeeded in silencing the third bunker and killing two more of the enemy.
During the ambush, Stafford was called up to aid one of the wounded.
"I got down there. I treated the guy, and I was trying to bring him back. I couldn't get back," said Stafford, now 64 and living on Long Island.
"The fire intensified so much that there was no way I was going to get back. If I stood up I wasn't going to be around, so I stayed down," he said.
"I noticed close by there were bunkers, enemy bunkers there. I dragged the guy into the bunker so we were out of the line of fire pretty much," he said.
"I pulled him out again and tried to bring him back up and that's when Michael showed up," Stafford recalled. "Michael said, 'No problem,' he'll take care of it.
"He was cool, calm, and collected, that's for sure. "There was no fear in the voice. He wasn't wavering.
"I could hear him behind me. He had an M60 machine gun. He was shooting the machine gun. He stepped forward in front of me, and, as he did, they opened fire.
Five U.S. troops would die during the battle, Crescenz among them. But the count almost certainly could have been higher.
"He took a bullet that might've been mine," said Stafford. "He definitely saved my life."
About 7 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, there was a knock on the door at the Crescenz house on Thouron Avenue.
"My dad was upstairs shaving in the bathroom, getting ready for work," said Joe Crescenz, now 57 and living in Chester County.
His mother was making breakfast.
Joe, then 12, opened the door.
"Sir, can I help you?" he asked.
"Is this the Crescenz residence?" the visitor in the Army uniform inquired.
The man asked to speak to Joe's parents.
"Who the hell is bothering us at this time in the morning?" Joe's father, Charles, yelled from upstairs.
"I said, 'Dad, it's somebody from the Army.'
"You could hear the frying pan drop on the kitchen floor."
Crescenz's death was duly noted in local newspapers, but there were no details.
His brother Charles, who served in Vietnam as a Marine, was quoted at the time in The Inquirer: "I kept hoping he would be as fortunate as I was."
It was a bitterly cold December day when Crescenz was buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Cheltenham.
As soldiers fired volleys in a final salute, wind-driven flurries swirled around huddled groups of mourners.
Afterward, his parents "kept the family moving forward as best they could. We didn't dwell on it," Joe said.
His family had no idea what he did on Nui Chom.
For the Army, Crescenz was unfinished business, and men in uniform would return to Thouron Avenue.
Once it was to present his parents with their son's Bronze Star, the first indication Michael had done something extraordinary.
Then, on a Friday evening in early 1970, there was another knock on the door from another man in uniform. Joe's father ordered his children upstairs, but Joe could still hear.
"I couldn't believe my ears. And it still didn't sink in until Mom and Dad explained more the next day. That this gentleman was asking my parents' presence, to come to the White House to have the Medal of Honor bestowed on our brother Michael for his actions in Vietnam over a year and a half earlier."
On April 7, 1970, President Richard M. Nixon presented the Medal of Honor to Crescenz's parents. His brothers Charles and Peter also attended the ceremony, as did Wetzel, his battalion commander.
Nixon presented 21 Medals of Honor that day, all posthumously.
"They wouldn't be the men that they were if they didn't come from good families," Nixon told the assembled. "We know that. Their mothers, their fathers, those who grew up with them -- something came from that family that helped them be the men that they were, that gave them that extra something which enabled them to do something far beyond the call of duty."
The award did not surprise Ron Burke.
"The citation stating how he reacted, how quickly he reacted. That, to me, was Mike Crescenz," Burke said. "And obviously he paid the ultimate price for our country. And the family lost a great son and a brother. And we all lost a good friend that day. But the end result is, that was Michael."
Engler, Crescenz's other childhood friend, had the same reaction.
"I just thought, that's not out of character for Mike," said Engler, now 64 and living in Bucks County. "When it did come time to overcome challenges like that, he was fearless sometimes."
Some of Crescenz's fellow soldiers did not learn about the Medal of Honor until years later. Bisbee said three decades passed before he heard the news at a veterans' reunion.
Knowing now what happened, Bisbee believes Crescenz saved his life.
"Mike is an absolute hero," said Bisbee, now 66 and living in Nebraska. "I had opportunities to charge bunkers. I never did."
Today, veterans returning from wars are welcomed home and celebrated. Troops returning home during the Vietnam era faced a decidedly different reception.
"Back in 1968, '69, and '70, that was a hard time for a soldier to come home from anywhere," said Burke, now 64, who served along the DMZ in South Korea and now lives in Camden County.
Crescenz was buried in Cheltenham because his parents wanted him close by. After they died -- their father at age 66 in 1988 and their mother at age 68 in 1992 -- Crescenz's brothers decided that his body should be moved to Arlington National Cemetery.
Frank Tacey, a Vietnam veteran from Philadelphia who now lives in Florida, had never heard of Crescenz until the 2008 reinterment was covered in the news. Tacey then came up with the idea to rename the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center in his honor. Tacey approached Joe Crescenz, who agreed to support the effort.
"I think his story should be told," Tacey said.
In February, Rep. Chaka Fattah and Sens. Pat Toomey and Bob Casey introduced legislation to name the center after Crescenz, who was promoted to corporal after his death. The bills are pending in Congress.
Burke said renaming the center was fitting.
"It is something to say, 'Hey, this is somebody good and decent who did something great for his country,' " Burke said.
"Sometimes you've got keep the story alive."
2,403 Army Medals
of Honor have been awarded since its introduction during the U.S. Civil War.
160 were awarded to Army soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War.


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Throughout history there were always a few who warned us.
Often they were ignored. Mostly the message was repressed by those in power to keep the truth hidden.
In 1910, George R. Kirkpatrick published the book "War - What For?"
I don't think it ever became required reading in our schools.
Excerpts and Illustrations:
Justice soothes.
Justice heals the wounds and sores in the social body.
Justice strikes down all robbery—illegal and legal.
Justice calms.
Injustice stings.
Injustice burns, irritates—kills sociability and creates conflict.
Injustice prevents brotherhood.
Injustice is unsocial—anti-social—and is thus a social sore.
Injustice, organized injustice, is the soul of all class-labor forms of society.
The purpose of all class-labor forms of society is robbery.
The robbed resist—sometimes.
The robbers are ready for resistance—always.
In all class-labor forms of society the ruling class always have:
FlRST, AN ARMED GUARD—READY :
ready to serve as tusk and fist of the robber ruling class,
ready to suppress protesting chattel-slaves,
ready to suppress protesting serfs,
ready to suppress protesting wage-earners,
ready to defend the class-labor system,
ready to extend the class-labor system,
ready to defy and defeat and hold down and kick the robbed working class.Second, an unarmed guard—composed of prideless purchasable human things, social chameleons, moral eunuchs, political flunkies—intellectual prostitutes—
Ready :
ready to make laws in the interest of the ruling class,ready to interpret laws in the interest of the ruling class,
ready to execute laws in the interest of the ruling class,
ready to cunningly cajole and beguile the toil-cursed working class,
ready to cunningly teach meekness, humility and contentment—to the working class,
ready to cunningly teach servility and obedience—to the working class,
ready with grand words to cunningly dupe and chloroform—the working class,
ready to bellow about "Law and Order" when the un-employed call loudly for work or bread and when hungry strikers open their lips in self-defense,
ready "for Jesus' sake" (and a salary) to glorify war and scream to the "God of Battles" (also the "God of Peace") for victory;
ready to baptize wholesale murderand flatter the blood-stained conquerors;
ready to whine and mumble over the shell-torn corpses of the victims and hypocritically sniffle and mouth consolatory congratulations to the war-cursed widows and orphans—
ready thus to mock their own ruined victims—for a price; ready to preach—to the workers—that they must fight like hell to "get a home in heaven."Many of my brothers—my betrayed younger brothers—are soldiers : they have been seduced to serve as Armed Guard. They have been deceived. And they are abused. Many of them are even driven insane.
Imagine J. P. Morgan, rifle in hand, doing picket duty on a dark, sleet-drizzling night. Imagine J. Ogden Armour, George Gould and Thomas F. Eyan with heavy shovels dig-ging trenches, stopping at noon to eat some salt pork, em-balmed beef and stale crackers. Imagine Eeggie Vanderbilt as a freighter hurrying rations to the front and taking care of six mud-covered horses at night. Imagine the strong younger John D. Eockefeller on the firing line with his breast exposed to the hellish rain of lead from a Gatling gun.
Yes, indeed,—just imagine a whole regiment of big bankers and manufacturers dressed in khaki, breakfasting on beans and bacon, then rushing sword in hand to storm a cannon-bristled fort belching fire and lead and steel into their smooth, smug faces—for fifty cents a day.
Brother, when you are ordered to the front just glance around and notice the noisily patriotic gentlemen who keep to the rear—at home where it is safe and delightfully quiet. These patriots in the rear will sweetly say, "See you later!"
If you ever get back from the war, they will see you when they flatteringly give you a "welcome home." Mark you: When war breaks out these "best people" do not say, "Come on, boys, come on—follow us." Hardly. It is "Go on, boys, go ahead, go right on. We will be with you." That is, they will be with you as far as the railway station, and after that these "prominent people" will give the "brave boys" absent treatment.
Brothers, my American brothers, brothers of all the world, —if you have minds exercise them—for your own class; if you have pride, show it—for your class; if you have loyalty, prove it—for your class ; if you have power, use it—use it in self-defense—for your class; if you can climb, why, climb, united with your class altogether—climb out of hell, the hell of capitalism.
Divided, your masters despise you.
United, your masters dread you.Society is, and always will be—as free as the majority have sense enough and pride enough to make it ; or as tyrannical as the majority are meek enough to permit it to be.
Get together, brothers, and get up off your knees.
Refuse to go to hell—the hell of war.
Refuse to stay in hell—the hell of capitalist industry.
Unite ! For peace and freedom—unite!
Form, toilers, form!
A solid front on the battlefield—of industry.
A solid front on the battlefield—of polities.
Light a lamp in your neighbor's brain.
Strike a fire in your neighbor's heart.
Evolutionize him.
Brothers, will you be tricked to the trenches, march in the mud, murder your class and bleed yourselves for such as these ? Will you stand at "attention" for these international leeches ? What about loyalty to your own class ?
And the working class are thinking to-day more than ever before. And, thinking, they begin to see that hand-clapping, fife-playing, drum-beating and buncombe from a prostituted orator are neither freedom nor justice, nor even the sign of such; but are, rather, just what Mark Twain called them* —a "bastard patriotism."
The motive of the young men who voluntarily join the army or the militia is possibly, in many cases, a good motive. Perhaps they do not see the tricks of the string-pullers behind the scenes, the powerful motives of the industrial masters be-hind the curtains.
Like hungry wolves hotly eager in sight of prey, like clouds of vultures swooping confidently over a field strewn with a vile feast—thus the capitalist nations are gathering together their drums, their rifles, cannon, dynamite,. lyddite, embalmed beef, hospitals, soldiers, marines, battleships, and boat-de-stroyers, preparing to assemble for bloody struggles.
There is talk of peace—but preparation for war.
What for?
Simply to secure more opportunity to make more profits for more money-hungry cowards, who will loll at home—safe —while the brave boys" do the fighting.
There is talk of peace—and preparation for war.
What for?
Refuse, brothers, refuse. Be proud. Refuse to let your flesh rot and your bones bleach at the bottom of the ocean in the interest of these international leeches.
Lift up your meek faces, you tricked toilers of the world. The war trenches are yawning for your lives—a gulf in which the hopes, the happiness, the blood and the tears of your class will be swallowed.
When you understand, brothers, you will defend yourselves.
The day is dawning when the working class will not only shrewdly refuse to be tricked to the trenches, but will also proudly seize all the powers of government in defense of the working class. The working class must defend the working class. The state, the school, the press, the lecture platform, and even part of the church, all these powerful institutions, are at present used to fasten and hold the burdens of toil and the curse of war on the backs of the brutalized and despised working-class producers and the working-class destroyers.
It is our move, brothers. Have we sense enough for self-defense?
pension. When her loved ones were slaughtered her joys were slain.
This woman must indeed protect herself; and she can protect herself, somewhat,—if she will.
She can do this : She can teach her child to hate—to hate war.
Boy, kill one human being, and you will be called a murderer—despised and hanged. But kill a thousand human beings in war—and you become "great"! Deluded women smile upon you, little children gape at you, preachers praise you, politicians pet you, orators glorify you, capitalists grin at you, universities honor you, and the Government medals and pensions you;—but lonely, war-orphaned children and war-robbed widows, these despise you exactly in proportion as they understand you.
Remember, boy, the soldier's sword reaches through the slaughtered father to others—reaches the hearts of helpless women and helpless children.
Which would you rather be, boy, a dead and useless slaughterer of men, or a live and useful man of peace?— a dead butcher or a live brother?
"Leading citizens" actually lead. They are the capitalists. Industrially and politically the capitalists have the world by the throat. They force their ambitions, their purposes, and their policies upon both the preacher and the wage-earner.
Their purpose is : profits, more profits and still more profits.
Their policy is: more markets and more territory—for more profits, at all hazard, in absolute defiance of Confucius, in defiance of Buddha, in defiance of Christ, in shameless defiance of the saeredness of human blood. They will, if need be,—that is, if business, commercial exigencies, require it—they will order the high-salaried generals to wash the earth with the blood of the socially despised working class, while safe in their palatial homes these "leading citizens" will masquerade as patriots, and on the "holy Sabbath day" they will virtually force their salaried pastors to pray and shout for blood-dripping victory.
This is the industrial rulers' history.And the preacher must therefore salute the cash-register and baptize the cannon—or lose his job just like any other hired man who fails to please his economic master.
This is the industrial rulers' present politics.
This is the industrial rulers' future program.
"Business is business," — that is "the law and the gospel" of capitalism.
The workers should learn from history and keep distinctly in mind this great lesson : With noble individual exceptions the ministry, the religious leaders, have in times past defended chattel slavery with its unspeakable horrors for the working class ; and have defended serfdom with its hell for the working class; and have ignobly defended all Christian national and international wars of modern capitalism praying on both sides to the "God of battles" for "glorious victory" regardless of the blood spurting from a million wounds in the torn breast of the working class.
The path of human progress in modern times is steep and slippery with the carcasses and blood of the socially despised working men—and the Church has not defied the cash-register idolater and demanded peace.
Brotherhood and peace—divinely high thought!
But, alas ! the thought is too high for low-browed strenuosity of the tough-rider type; the thought is too large and fine for the poor brain of a bull-dog or a human bully or a socially blunted holy man or any other breed of stunted runts.
The strutting, thin-brained rooster in the farmyard crows, "Hurrah for this our very own dunghill, the finest filth pile on earth." Thus this spurred and feathered patriot virtuously cultivates his vanity by boisterously challenging "the enemy" in the neighboring farmyards.
"Hurrah for our tribe," screams the savage—patriotically.
"Hurrah for our village of Squeedunk," yells the local human shrimp. More patriotism.
"Hurrah for our great city!" squeals the boastfully "metropolitan" small man sweltering in unspeakable corruptions.
"Hurrah for the nation—right or wrong!" yelps the patriotic national mongrel.
And thus these socially puny creatures, these social runts, stand ready, as it were, to "patriotically" throw carbolic acid at their national and international neighbors.
"Hurrah for Mankind, hurrah for Life!" finely calls the socially developed man, the Increasing International Man.
On the Political Field the capitalist class divide the working class into two or more groups and have them
politically antagonize themselves, have all the workers all the time politically sting and defeat one another—that is,—have them cancel the political power of the working class.
Thus the confused working class are easily defeated politically—which makes it far easier to rob them industrially.
We must learn this: Everywhere, always and under all circumstances the working class must stand together in the use of all forms of power we have in defense of our class.
Having distinctly in mind, then, these important preliminaries,—and especially the fact that whatever we do in self-defense we must do as a class handed together, let us consider still further the source—the fountain-head—of the trouble called the class struggle, one form of which is commonly called war.
All great military leaders in all wars—in all struggles — in all time have always used the two following tactics:
First: Divide the enemy, if possible, and have them crush one another; or,
Second: If circumstances hinder the first tactics, then divide the enemy and crush them one part at a time.And the captains of industry, the capitalists, right now employ these tactics with success. They themselves band together, but they divide and rule the working class.
War — war broadly considered — the class struggle, throughout the history of civilized society is no more and no less than the natural aggressive robbery by a part of society provided with an opportunity to rob and the natural resistance of the class that is robbed.
War, the war, is aggression and resistance—robbery and resistance—plunder and protest :
(1) The aggressive industrial robbery by one class, andNot only in the history of civilized peoples everywhere for thousands of years, but also in our own present-day capitalist society everywhere, we see this natural aggression and natural resistance.
(2) The resistance to industrial robbery by the other
The result to-day—as in the past—is struggle, war, class war—between the parasites and the producers.
The war is the class war.
The conclusion cannot be dodged: Peace is impossible—UNDER CAPITALISM.
In spite of all the sincere and insincere hopes and prayers for peace there will always be, under capitalism, legalized wholesale plundering of the workers by the capitalist employers—a form of aggressive social parasitism by the employers and vigorous resistance by the workers in proportion to their realization of the robbery;—and consequently there will be wage struggles, wage reductions, compulsory underconsumption, "over-production," unemployment, bread lines, soup kitchens, rent riots, evictions, "demand-work" marches, strikes, picketing, "scabbing," boycotting, lockouts, injunc-tions, "bull-pens," blacklisting, insterstate kidnapping; and also anti-picket thugs, policemen, Pinkertons, deputy sheriffs, constabulary, cossacks, militiamen and the "regulars" shooting down underpaid, underfed workers; everywhere the belittled lives and the spilt blood of the working class.
And there will be increasing opposition to free assemblage, opposition to free speech, opposition to free press—in order to silence discussion and stop the spread of knowledge of what is fundamentally wrong.
Now what shall we do about it?
It is as plain as "a, b, c."
War and all the forms of the class struggle are excessive social inflammation.*
(a) Injustice violently inflames society.Society must be organized with justice in its structure.
(b) Social parasitism is monstrously unjust.
(c) Social parasitism therefore inflames society—and
should be destroyed.
(a) Any form of society that produces and protects a
class of social parasites will always inflame society, and should
therefore be destroyed.
(b) Capitalism produces and protects a class of social
parasites, and thus inflames society.
(c) Capitalism must therefore be destroyed.
We must search for justice—for a new social structure.
We must construct a form of society that will "make it easier to do right and more difficult to do wrong/'
Shall we be non-resistant?
No, emphatically, no.
Non-resistance is not natural (especially for the class con-scious workers) —for workers who understand their interests as a class; and non-resistance is not reasonable, is not safe, and is not possible. Non-resistance would mean defeat and degradation for the working class—forever.
Then is peace a childish dream and is war to be an end-less wrangle and blood-spilling nightmare—for the working class ?
No—not necessarily.
We must resist.
But we should not resist first and only by physical force.
The working class must think—or they will have to struggle and bleed and weep and wait forever,—wait and
whimper like babies in the woods for "some one" or some "good people" to come and "save" them.
The workers must think till they find a form of social organization in which the fundamental cause of war, that is, class robbery, will have no opportunity, and will therefore cease to exist.
We must destroy capitalism and close the class struggle.
In all the variations of the struggles or wars of capitalism the working class are hired, flattered, fooled, or forced to do all the actual fighting.
This must cease—as soon as possible—as a preliminary.
This will cease^-when the conscious workers successfully explain capitalism and war to the confused and deluded workers. War will cease when we have explained the national and international conspiracy of the capitalist class.
War will cease when we rouse the workers of the world by explaining.
By explaining we inform.
By informing we increase intelligence.
By increasing intelligence we increase self-respect and the passion for a greater life and for the freedom necessary for a greater life.
Explain—inside and outside the ranks—everywhere—in shop, mill, mine and on the farm.
Explain till emperors and presidents dread their own conscripted and "volunteer" armies.
Explain till murder for board and clothes and $ a onth looks vile.
Explain till young working-class men inside and outside the ranks see the light.
Explain till an advertisement for human butchers and military fists becomes utterly disgusting to the working class.
Explain till our class becomes class conscious—till it sees itself, sees its class interest and its class power.
Explain till our class can not be fooled, hired, flattered or forced to butcher or be butchered.
Explain till our class, like the capitalist class, understand the political method of class defense.
Explain till millions of the roused workers of all political parties clasp hands at the ballot box in a political party of their own class for the defiant self-defense of their own class.
Explain, till our class clearly sees and proudly declares that we must destroy the capitalist class-labor form of so-ciety and reconstruct society on a plan of rational mutualism.*
The working class must, then, legally, do whatever is necessary to protect themselves from the strangling clutches of the capitalist class.
And here is what is necessary:
The working class must themselves become organized political auhority, must seize the powers of government—and thus secure legal control of sovereign political power which carries with it the legal right to control, or revise, or abolish, or reorganize industrial institutions; must thus secure the legal right (and power) to construct and inaugurate that industrial form of society which will destroy capitalism with its organized, legalized opportunity for class robbery, and which will, at the same time, substitute organized, legalized opportunity for every member of society to make a living without being robbed, opportunity to live without wasting and vulgarizing his life in a struggle against his fellow men.
One more word here:
Brothers, beware!
With pride and defiance hold up your heads—and think.
Prepare to say: "WE REFUSE."
Beware. Another war is brewing.
"Another war is necessary!"
—your betrayers will presently tell you.
True! From the capitalist's point of view another war will, indeed, presently be necessary; another war becomes more and more imperatively necessary—and for a new and increasing reason.
The much plundered working people are beginning to think.
Thought is revolutionary. A thought is a file, a keen saw, with which a soul may escape from the gloomy dungeon of prejudice.
Thought is intellectual nitro-glyeerine for blasting the flinty mountains of prejudice. Thought utterly destroys mental rubbish.
Thought kills what ought to die.
Thinking slaves promptly become defiant and dare to do for freedom.
Thought kills—kills slavery.


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This is something totally random, but as much hasn't been posted in Medieval Life lately, I thought I'd mention something I recently came across. J.R.R. Tolkien is one of my most beloved authors. Another author P.G. Wodehouse (who perhaps has less, but yet something, to do with castles) is also a favorite of mine. I was reading a footnote in Unfinished Tales yesterday and came across the following explanation of the word "wose" which is used in a story.
The note says that wose is a modernization of the Anglo-Saxon word, wása, which was actually only ever found in the compound, wudu-wása which meant "wild man of the woods." This word survived long in English and was eventually corrupted into the word, wood-house. Although the footnote didn't go any further, I couldn't help but speculate that this might also have been the origin of the author's name, Wodehouse. But I can't be sure.


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2013 Season
A second team all-Big Sky Conference selection after going 16-13 in dual singles play, including 14-8 at No. 2 and 2-5 at No. 1…won both his singles matches at the Big Sky Tournament in straight sets…won each of his final five singles matches of the season…went 7-5 in singles play against conference opposition…posted a team-best 19-5 doubles record (all at No. 1)…that included a 9-1 mark against league opposition…posted a 13-4 record in doubles with teammate Marek Marksoo…at one point during the season, the tandem of Malko and Marksoo were ranked as the 80th best doubles team in the nation by the ITA, just the fourth doubles team in school history to earn a national ranking…was a finalist for the Sacramento State Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
2012 Season
A first team all-Big Sky Conference selection…played every match as the team's No. 1 singles player…posted an 11-13 record in singles play, including a 7-1 mark against Big Sky opponents…won eight of his final 10 singles matches of the regular season, including straight set wins in both the Big Sky Tournament semifinal and championship matches…all but one of his singles victories came in straight sets…went 7-1 at No. 3 doubles with teammate Roy Brandys…that included a six-game winning streak with Brandys to end the season…overall, Malko was 9-10 in doubles play, including 0-4 at No. 1, 1-3 at No. 2, and 8-3 at No. 3…Malko and Brandys won both their doubles matches in the Big Sky Tournament.
2011 Season
Posted an 8-12 singles record, and a 9-14 doubles mark during the spring…missed four matches with a sprained ankle…in singles play, he went 1-3 at No. 3, 5-6 at No. 4, 1-3 at No. 5 and 1-0 at No. 6…defeated USC's Peter Lucassen, 6-4, 6-4, in the season opener, and won six of his first 10 singles matches of the season…in doubles play, he went 2-4 at No. 1 and 7-10 at No. 2…played with multiple partners during the season, including Javier Millan, Marko Starcevic and Jason Smith…finished the season playing with Smith and the tandem went 6-5, including 1-0 at No. 1 and 5-5 at No. 2…went 7-6 in his final 13 doubles matches of the season.
Prior to Sacramento State
Played the 2010 season for South Carolina State in Orangeburg, S.C…was a second team all-Mid Eastern Athletic Conference selection after helping the team to a MEAC title and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament…played at the Nos. 3, 4 and 5 spots of the Bulldog lineup.
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Technology—at least in theory—is improving our productivity, efficiency, and communication. The one thing it's not doing is making us happier. We are experiencing historically high levels of depression and dissatisfaction. But it doesn't have to be that way. Technology can drive—not diminish—human happiness. In this talk, Amy discusses the ways technology is impacting us and things we can do to mediate it.


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DETROIT – Subaru of America is recalling up to 47,419 cars and crossover vehicles in the United States equipped with remote starters because the engines could start on their own.
The recall affects some Legacy and Outback cars from model years 2010 through 2013, Impreza sedans from 2012 and 2013, and XV Crosstrek crossover vehicles from 2013, according to documents filed with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
If the remote starter key fob is dropped, it may start the engine without the ignition button on the fob being pressed, according to NHTSA documents. The engine may start and run for up to 15 minutes, and may continue to start and stop until the fob battery is depleted or until the vehicle runs out of gas.
If the vehicle is parked in an enclosed area, such as a garage, there is a risk of asphyxiation from a build-up of carbon monoxide, according to NHTSA documents.
A spokesman for Subaru, a unit of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd , said no accidents or injuries had been reported in connection with the issue. There was no mention of accidents or injuries in the NHTSA filing.
The affected cars all have automatic or continuously variable transmissions, according to NHTSA documents.
Subaru will notify owners and dealers and replace the remote starter fob at no charge, according to NHTSA documents. The recall is expected to begin by the end of April.
The recall affects only vehicles in which Subaru of America remote starter accessory kits have been installed, not original-equipment keyless entry fobs integrated on the vehicle key, according to NHTSA documents.
The defect does not pose a risk while driving because a remote starter system is deactivated after a vehicle is started with a key, according to NHTSA documents.


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The United States remains deeply concerned by the gross human rights abuses and violations detailed in a recent United Nations Human Rights report on Venezuela.
The United States stands with refugees and the international community to support refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced persons worldwide.
Socialism has taken a heavy toll on the people of Venezuela, and it is time for Nicolas Maduro to go, said Vice President Pence.
Mine Awareness Day provides an opportunity for the world to reflect on both the progress made and the challenges that remain in clearing landmines and unexploded ordnance.
During his travels in South America, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis called the ongoing tragedy in Venezuela a "human-imposed condition."
Due to extreme hardships brought about by the Maduro regime, many Venezuelans are fleeing the country.
Maduro has used a drone attack as a pretext to crack down on Venezuela's opposition by unleashing the regime's secret police.
On a recent visit to Brazil, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis empasized the shared values of the "hemisphere's two largest democracies."
The Nicaraguan government of Daniel Ortega is virtually "waging war on the Catholic Church," said Vice President Pence.
The White House strongly condemned "the ongoing violence in Nicaragua and human rights abuses committed by the Daniel Ortega regime in response to protests."
The United States is in the midst of its most severe drug epidemic since the 1980s.
The United States has imposed sanctions on three Nicaraguan individuals with connections to the government who are involved in serious human rights abuses and corruption.
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When the election returns came in, Democratic candidates who found themselves in tight races and needed a crackerjack lawyer for the recount knew to call Billy McDermott.
If it was a primary, they were often too late, finding Mr. McDermott already locked up in advance by their opponents, just in case.
A lawyer who worked on scores of contested elections and was a fixture in politics for four decades, William A. McDermott, Jr., 67, died Wednesday night after being struck while crossing South Boston's Day Boulevard at L Street, investigators said.
An L Street Brownie, Mr. McDermott worked out at the bathhouse gym Wednesday, then headed up the street to Mirisola's for his usual dinner — penne and meatballs, washed down with root beer — before realizing that he had left his wallet at the gym. He was killed running back to retrieve it, said Jeremiah P. Sullivan Jr., his law partner.
Mr. McDermott was struck by a 2012 Range Rover driven by a 33-year-old South Boston man who stayed at the scene and called 911, said a spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney's office. The driver showed no signs of intoxication and has not been charged, but the accident is under investigation.
Virtually unknown to the electorate, Mr. McDermott was beloved among Democratic politicians and activists across the state, a familiar figure citing parliamentary procedure as a convention volunteer or lining up behind clients seeking a seat on a city council or at the State House.
The suddenness of his death roared like "a thunderclap that came out of nowhere," said Steven Grossman, the state treasurer and former Democratic National Committee chairman. "In an election battle [if] you knew you were going to get into a recount situation, you needed Bill McDermott on your team."
Ruddy faced and warm hearted, he was the sort of lawyer whose suits, when he wore them, were rumpled and who sometimes forgot to send clients a bill. But he was airtight in his knowledge of election law and dogged on behalf of those he represented, serving as an adviser and friend to US Representative Stephen Lynch, who called him "an original" character and his own "consigliere."
"He's such a good and decent man," said Lynch, who flew back from Washington after his wife phoned him about the accident. "It's just left a huge hole in our lives."
Over the past month, Mr. McDermott helped coordinate the signature drive to qualify Lynch for the ballot in the special election to replace former senator John F. Kerry, but he had played a varied role in the 30 years since the two met.
Mr. McDermott helped Lynch and his wife gain custody of their niece 11 years ago after Lynch's brother-in-law died, and he was constantly giving Lynch articles and books to read, huffing from the next treadmill at L Street bathhouse.
"He would urge me to go back and read the Greek classics just one more time, like I hadn't suffered enough," Lynch recalled Thursday.
A quintessentially Boston Irish character, Mr. McDermott was the oldest of three children raised in a Savin Hill three-decker. His grandfather was a court clerk and onetime legislator, his father a City Hall lawyer.
At 14, he marched in President John F. Kennedy's inaugural parade with the Boston Latin School band, playing the trumpet. In his 20s, he worked his way through Suffolk Law School at night while managing one of Mayor Kevin White's Little City Halls, a project meant to bring government services to neighborhoods.
He frequented Doyle's and the Eire Pub, drawn by the conversation and the game on television. A man of habit, "he might not have a beer, but he'd always have a hot dog," said Stephen Graham, a Dorchester friend who advised the Mashpee Wampanoag on casino plans and hired him to write their tribal constitution about a decade ago.
Fascinated by the intersection of law and politics, Mr. McDermott was known for a devotion to his craft and clients exceeded only by his love of Boston College hockey and his family. He had three granddaughters and a fourth expected any day now.
"Everybody was just so happy, waiting for the new baby," said his brother, John of West Roxbury, who last saw Billy Tuesday night at the BC hockey game. "And then to get knocked over the next day — it's so hard to even wrap your hands around it."
In addition, Mr. McDermott leaves a son, Liam of Medway; a daughter, Deirdre of Dorchester; and a sister, Helen of Waltham. He had been married to Cathleen Meade. A Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Margaret Church in Dorchester.
When Grossman was running for treasurer in 2010, he needed a guide to the famously insular world of South Boston's St. Patrick's Day political roast. Mr. McDermott was the obvious choice.
"He was the rock star," Grossman said, recalling Mr. McDermott greeting security guards, elevator operators, and neighborhood activists by name, always receiving an embrace. But when he asked again the next year, Mr. McDermott declined, not because he was squiring another politician but because he had made a commitment to one of his grandchildren.
Liam McDermott said that when his father spent time with the grandchildren, "I don't know if there was more joy in his eyes or the children's eyes."
Mr. McDermott ran for state representative at 23, finishing eighth in a primary before committing himself to background work. Seeking candidates who shared his drive, he briefly campaigned for Joseph Timilty for mayor in 1971, until Timilty rolled out of bed late for a meet-and-greet at Savin Hill's MBTA stop, missing most commuters.
"Billy said, 'That's it; I'm done with you,' so he went to work for Kevin White," John McDermott recalled.
That decision would shape his next four decades, leading to a job in the White mayoral administration and, later, the city's Election Commission.
"He was quiet, soft-spoken,'' said Secretary of State William F. Galvin. "But like most good lawyers he tried to know the answer to the question before he asked it."
Sullivan, who drove his law partner to the gym before the accident, said Mr. McDermott got a message en route that made his day.
Lynch needed 10,000 signatures to qualify for the Democratic primary ballot. "He learned they had 24,757 signatures," Sullivan said.
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Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi tells Scotland's Metal Hammer magazine that his band's July 4 gig at the Barclaycard British Summer Time Festival in London's Hyde Park may be its last.
"It could be the last ever Sabbath show. I don't want it to be, but there's nothing really planned touring-wise after that show. To be honest, I don't want to be touring to this extent much longer because it makes me feel so bad," Iommi said.
The 66-year-old Iommi has battled lymphoma the last couple years. He completed his treatments in March and will see his doctors in July after the band's current tour. He'll undergo test at that time to see if further treatment will be required.
Other acts performing at the Barclaycard music fest include Tom Jones, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, and Motorhead.
A black and white 1962 Rickenbacker 425 six-string electric guitar played by George Harrison on The Beatles iconic October 1963 recording of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "This Boy" has been sold for $657,000 at an auction in New York City by Julien's Auctions.
Harrison was the first Beatle to travel to America in September 1963, when he visited his sister, Louise, in Illinois. He bought the guitar in Mount Vernon, Ill., during that visit.
Other items sold during the auction of rock music memorabilia included a doodle drawn by John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their 1969 anti-Vietnam War bed-in in Montreal that fetched $187,000 and a Hoffner bass rented by Paul McCartney during the mid-60's that sold for $125,000.
Sir Paul hits the U.S. for two dozen concert beginning on June 14 beginning in Lubbock, Texas. He plays 56,000-seat Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Aug. 10 and wraps the tour with a historic show on Aug. 14 at 73,000-seat Candlestick Park in San Francisco, site of The Beatles final concert on Aug. 29, 1966.
Frankie Valli, who turned 80 earlier this month, isn't slowing down, nor is his popularity diminishing. Valli has been named headliner at the big "Capitol 4th" concert and fireworks spectacular at Washington D.C.'s National Mall on July 4.
The show draws hundreds of thousands of picnicking concertgoers each year and is broadcast live annually on PBS. In a recent interview with the Associated Press, Valli, who is making a fortune as producer of the Broadway musical, "Jersey Boys" that is based on his group, The Four Seasons, said he has no plans to retire.
Valli and The Four Seasons were elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 and to the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999. During the 60's, they notched four No. 1 singles, including three of their first four 45s, "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry" and "Walk Like a Man." During that decade, they hit the Top 10 14 times.
Also performing will be The National Symphony Orchestra under the direction pops conductor Jack Everly, The Choral Arts Society of Washington, The U.S. Army Herald Trumpets and the U.S. Army Ceremonial Band.
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U.S. gas prices of around US$5 per million British thermal units could prompt the world's largest economy to step up use of coal, after years of cutting back on its consumption in favour of cleaner-burning gas, the West's energy agency said on Monday.
The United States' shale revolution has driven up domestic gas production and led to a drop in gas prices.
The production increase has led to plans to export the fuel, with Wood Mackenzie predicting exports of 50 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by 2020.
Such exports are widely expected to boost U.S. domestic gas prices, but it is still unclear how much they will rise.
"Our analysis shows if U.S. gas prices come to around $5 mmBtu – it is about $4.30 per mmBtu now – we may well see coal come back," Fatih Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency, told reporters at an industry conference.
Only regulatory intervention to bar a switch back to coal could prevent greater coal use if gas prices rise to $5 per mmBtu, Birol said.
"If it is left only to economics, around $5 we may see a (coal) comeback, which would definitely be a development which would catch many people by surprise," Birol said.
U.S. natural gas futures were trading at about $4.20 per mmBtu on Monday.
U.S. coal exports reached record levels in 2012 as producers exported their coal instead of selling it at home.
The surge in U.S. exports has, in turn, pressured Asian coal prices. It was one of the factors leading to a drop of around 30 percent in Australian coal prices from a record high of $130 per tonne in 2011 to under $90 per tonne.
Rising U.S. shale oil production will help meet most of the world's new oil demand in the next five years, the IEA, which advises the United States and 27 other developed nations, has said. (Reporting by Rebekah Kebede; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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