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Battle of the Morannon
|Battle of the Morannon
|Conflict: Battle of the Morannon
|Date: 25 March T.A. 3019
|Place: Dagorlad
|Outcome: Decisive victory for Gondor and Rohan
Less than 6,000 from Gondor and Rohan, and Eagles
Unknown total strength, but vast numerical superiority to the forces of Gondor and Rohan; possibly 60-100,000. Forces consisting of Orcs, Trolls, the Nazgûl, Fell beasts, and Easterlings (men of Rhûn, Variags of Khand, etc.)
Unknown, but probably moderate
Destruction of nearly all orcs, trolls; the remaining Nazgûl destroyed; heavy Easterling and Haradrim losses (the rest were pardoned)
|War of the Ring
|Osgiliath (1) · Fords of Isen · Isengard · Hornburg · Osgiliath (2) · Dale · Siege of Gondor · Pelennor Fields · Black Gate · Dol Guldur · Bywater
The Battle of the Morannon, also known as the Battle of the Black Gate, was the last major battle against Sauron in the War of the Ring, fought at the Black Gate of Mordor on 25 March T.A. 3019.[1] The army of the West, 6,000 strong by now, led by Aragorn marched on the gate as a diversionary feint to distract Sauron's attention from Frodo and Sam, who were carrying the One Ring through Mordor. It was hoped that Sauron would think Aragorn had the Ring and was now trying to use it to overthrow Mordor.[2]
- See also: Last Debate
Initially, the Army of the West had been composed of 7,000 men, but many were stationed at various places along the way. A strong guard of archers were stationed at the Cross-roads, in case enemy troops came from the Morgul Pass or from the South. In addition, Aragorn dismissed the faint of heart, who would not go to the Dagorlad, ordering them to liberate Cair Andros on the river Anduin. This resulted in the departure of over 1000 men, leaving less than 6000 to continue on towards the Black Gate. Upon arrival, Aragorn arrayed his forces upon two Slag-hills with a mire of mud and stinking pools between his army and the Gate.
Before the battle began, Sauron sent one of his servants, the Black Númenórean called the Mouth of Sauron, to speak with the Captains of the West. He tried to trick Gandalf into believing Sauron held Frodo captive, displaying as evidence items that had belonged to Frodo and Sam (Sam's sword, an Elven cloak, and Frodo's mithril coat) The Mouth threatened that Frodo would be tortured if the West did not agree to Sauron's terms of surrender. The terms included: the disbanding of the armies of the west, an oath to never take up arms, the rebuilding of Isengard, and the turning over of all lands west. (It is clear that while Sauron knew there was a Hobbit in Mordor, he did not know why. He also probably did not know there were two.)
Gandalf, however, refused to be swayed, took the items from the Mouth of Sauron, and sent him away. Amazed and angered, the Mouth of Sauron rode back to the Black Gate, let it be opened, and the forces of Sauron marched out. At the same time, more of Sauron's forces that had been hidden in the hills around the Black Gate came forth, thus surrounding the Men of the West. Sauron's army outnumbered that of the West by at least ten to one.
The Battle
Against Aragorn's army was arrayed Sauron's hordes of Orcs, Trolls, and barbarian Mannish allies such as the Easterlings and Haradrim. An exact count is not given of the number of Sauron's forces, and though they numbered in the tens of thousands at least, the battle is said to not have been quite as large as the preceding Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
The slag pools near the hills proved a hindrance for many of Sauron's forces, but trolls easily passed through the pools and crashed into the hosts of the west. During the fighting, Pippin became buried under the body of a troll chieftain he had felled that had just wounded his comrade Beregond.
During the course of the battle, the eight remaining Nazgûl attacked the army of the West. The Eagles of the Misty Mountains, led by Gwaihir the Windlord, arrived and attacked the Ringwraiths.[3] At that moment, when all hope seemed lost, Frodo put on the One Ring and Sauron realized that Frodo was inside Mount Doom. The Nazgûl immediately left the battle to intercept Frodo. The hosts of Mordor, suddenly without direction, hesitated, and many knights charged. Gandalf ordered them to halt, for the hour of doom was about to come. Indeed, Gollum bit the Ring off Frodo's finger and then accidentally fell into the Crack of Doom, and Sauron's power was overthrown.[4]
The Nazgûl had been flying over Mount Doom just as it underwent a gigantic volcanic eruption, and they were all destroyed in the firestorm. Barad-dûr, the Black Gate, and the Towers of the Teeth collapsed to ruin. The Orcs and other creatures of Sauron were completely directionless with the Dark Lord's demise and were easily decimated by the army of the West. The Easterlings fought on stalwartly, though eventually many threw down their weapons and surrendered.[5]
Many surviving Orcs and Men retreated to the mountains or northward, where fighting against Sauron's remaining forces would continue for several weeks, notably at Dol Guldur in Mirkwood and at Erebor, but the power of the Dark Lord of Mordor was no more.[1]
Months later, the Battle of Bywater in the Shire against ruffians led by Saruman, and the subsequent killing of Saruman and Wormtongue on the very doorstep of Bag End, ended the War of the Ring.[6]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Great Years"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Last Debate"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Black Gate Opens"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "Mount Doom"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Field of Cormallen"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Scouring of the Shire"


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My darling wife,
I have written you since receipt of your
last letter but expect to have an opportunity of sending a letter
direct to Oxford by Mr Doyle and cannot let so good an opportunity
pass – I was at Major Falconer's quarters day before yesterday and
did not omit to speak a good word for Mr. D. – and Major
Falconer [promised] he would send him a furlough for thirty
days – I hope sincerely he will do it for I know he is very anxious
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to accomplish the [object] – I felt no hesitation in urging the case
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I do not despair of seeing home sometime this Spring – My
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Swin had remained here for everything is now to Maj Baylor )
and in addition to what work I have here to do, he has brought
his papers that accumulated whilst he was stationed at West Point,
Geo., for me to fix up –
Since I last wrote you we have been transferred to
Cheatham's Division – He has been authorised by the War Dept
to reorganized his old Division – The troops are well pleased
with the change and he is delighted – He visited our camps
yesterday evening and you never saw such enthusiasm – He
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Ric Forest/Special to the Reporter-Herald
Ric Forest/Special to the Reporter-Herald
Ric Forest/Special to the Reporter-Herald
RIST CANYON — As Loveland resident Ric Forest constructed Donna and Ira Baker's new home in the High Park fire area, both families rebuilt parts of their lives, together, with tears and smiles.
The Bakers moved back home for the holidays, six months after the devastating fire pushed them out and turned their home and belongings to ashes. They were the first to pull a building permit and the first to finish their rebuild.
While Forest has built more than a hundred homes, this is his first in two years since surviving pancreatic cancer.
"This represents a new start for them and a new start for me," Forest said. The most devastating fire in Larimer County history sparked June 9, forcing hundreds from their homes for up to three weeks and destroying 259 houses.
Forest was evacuated from his Redstone Canyon home, but his did not burn.
The day after he was able to return, when the smoke from the High Park Fire was still swirling, he received a call from Donna Baker looking for a local builder to start her process of returning home. Once the work began, the rebuild took only 5 months — two months ahead of schedule which allowed them to move in before Christmas.
"It wasn't about the speed of it," Baker said. "We worked steady until we got there … His tragedy and our tragedy is why we are there now. We both had this drive to more forward."
The Bakers were the first to receive a building permit after the fire, but 28 others have followed suit. The 29 permits to replace homes in the burned area represents 15 percent of the 259 homes lost, according to Larimer County.
Right after the High Park fire, another fire destroyed 25 homes outside Estes Park. So far, 8 residents have permits to rebuild in that area, representing 44 percent of the homes lost, according to Larimer County.
Forest said Larimer County streamlined the building and permitting process, which allowed the project to finish ahead of schedule.
The Bakers, he said, were granted the $1,000 fee waiver that the commissioners approved for those whose insurance would not cover the entire cost. So far, 61 have been granted.
Donna and Ira Baker had insurance, but not enough. Donna said they used the rebuild money and the payments for their contents to construct a new home.
Before beginning the home, Forest visited the burned out site.
The devastation he witnessed drove home the gravity of loss; he saw a tear seep from Donna's eye and soak into the blackened earth.
"I have to admit, my eyes watered up too, and I could not help but give her a lasting hug as I understood now, understood what had happened to them," he wrote earlier this week as he struggled to put his feelings onto paper.
"Their home had been built by family. It was not just 'a home,' but the absolute centerpiece of their life with family. And it was gone along with just about everything they owned."
Ira Baker had lived in the house since his father built it when Ira was just 5 years old. All of his and Donna's parents are buried in the cemetery out back. In fact, they were burying Donna's mom as the smoke came over the ridge June 9, the day they were evacuated.
Despite all they devoured, the flames spared the trees, the grass and even the handmade sunflower arch of the cemetery.
The family history, the memories, the good times and the land where their parents rest made it essential for the Bakers to return home as quickly as possible, Donna said.
They were determined to come back, and Forest was determined to help them, and along the way, return to work after a two-year hiatus as he battled cancer.
They now have a 1,480-square foot home built with a steel roof and defensible space all around the building, and Forest has five more building jobs lined up, two in the fire area.
And while they do not have many Christmas decorations left, the Bakers have a wreath next to their door and a tree. They are home for the holidays.
Pamela Dickman can be reached at 669-5050, ext. 526, or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter: @pamelalittlebee.


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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A test of the accuracy of directions given by map apps found Apple Maps is three times more likely to get someone lost than Google Maps, a U.S. company says.
Crowdsourcing company CrowdFlower analyzed directions to 1,000 businesses in the United States and 100 in Britain given by Apple Maps, Google Maps and Microsoft's Bing browser, the Chicago Tribune reported Thursday.
CrowdFlower, which has headquarters in San Francisco, went to the website of each business to find its listed address, then entered the company name and its city as search terms in each mapping service
CrowdFlower said it scored the applications on two things: Did the mapping service give a result and was the result accurate?
Google led the way in the first score in United States, finding 89 percent of the businesses. Bing followed with 79 percent and Apple Maps with 74 percent.
Results in Britain were roughly the same, CrowdFlower said.
And when it came to giving actual directions to businesses, Apple Maps was much more likely to get a user lost than Google, it said.
Apple Maps scored a 3.4 percent error rate in the United States while Google Maps had a 1.1 percent rate and Bing a 1.3 percent rate.
But in Britain, Apple's major error rate skyrockets to 30 percent while the two other mapping services stayed below 5 percent.
"There's a decent chance Apple Maps will send you in the wrong direction," CrowdFlower said, adding "you're three times as likely to be sent on a wild goose chase with Apple Maps."
"Apple Maps in the United States is bad enough to be noticeable," it said. "You probably won't throw away your iPhone, although you may miss a dinner reservation."


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"We need to create an awareness for art in the society, at large. Then and only then, our funding problem may be solved," opined dean of art school.
I recognised the location of this week's outreach program office from the artwork hanging from a tree. Barring a few chairs and kit bags, not a soul was to be seen at the site when I reached there.
"Who will come and donate money, if you spread awareness using such a complex work?" was my first reaction, "if I an art teacher needs an explanation, what to expect of uninitiated?"
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This is an effort to write aflash fiction effort with the Friday fictioneers, 9th Nov, 2018, using picture prompt provided by host Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Other stories can be found here.
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Whether you use the term "sneaker wave" could depend entirely on your point of view.
People intimately familiar with the ocean"s movements — like lifeguards, surfers or oceanographers — might simply call them "set waves," or in the words of lifeguard supervisor Eric Abma of California State Parks in Monterey, "waves that are larger than others."
But if you"re pummeled by a sudden wave while carelessly strolling along the beach, the term "sneaker wave" might strike a chord.
That"s what happened two years ago, when spectators of the Mavericks International big-wave surf competition in Half Moon Bay were caught off-guard as a set of large waves suddenly came ashore, injuring 12 people.
This year, viewing of Sunday"s competition will be restricted to the safety of jumbo screens displayed down the street from the beach.
The large surf prediction that triggered a green light for this weekend"s contest is also an indicator of prime sneaker waves, which occur every year along the Central Coast and north into Oregon and Washington.
The sudden waves can strike with a force strong enough to knock unsuspecting beachgoers, novice fishermen or tide pool seekers unconscious, and then retreat quickly back into the sea, sometimes dragging people along rocks before they have a chance to swim back to shore.
The waves have killed three people in the San Francisco Bay Area within the past month, including a man and his 9-year-old son who were swept off the rocks while fishing in the Marin Headlands. No one from Monterey County has been taken by a wave this year.
Yet while the larger-than-usual waves seem to come out of nowhere, their formation is a regular part of ocean dynamics, said Curt Storlazzi, an oceanographer and expert on coastal ocean dynamics at the U.S. Geological Survey in Santa Cruz. The waves are the result of wave trains from different storms coming together, he said.
"When you have waves of different frequencies, and when both of their crests line up, the waves are bigger than normal," Storlazzi said. These are set waves. On the other hand, he said, when the waves are out of sync with each other, the two will cancel each other out instead, forming a lull.
While surfers live for set waves, beachgoers could find them a threat instead.
"When people get swept off of rocks on the coastlines, it"s usually these set waves," Storlazzi said.
In winter, storms from the northern Pacific Ocean — as far away as Siberia — send large swells to California"s shores. If the swells happen to meet up with those from a storm in Hawaii, for example, the combination can make for strong surf conditions here, said Storlazzi, with two five-foot swells combining to generate a powerful 10-foot wave.
In summer, large waves triggered by winter storms in the Southern Hemisphere can also lead to large waves here.
But knowledging about the source of large waves won"t protect people from being struck by one. Rather, conditions on the beach are the most important things to watch out for, said lifeguard Abma.
"My suggestion is that people do their homework before going to the beach," Abma said.
He warned that steep beaches like Monastery Beach or Carmel River State Beach make for particularly dangerous conditions.
"When waves break offshore, they lose a lot of their energy slowly," Abma said. "But when they hit a steep beach they lose all of their energy at once, and they just explode onto shore."
To make matters worse, Abma said, the steep conditions also cause the waves to retreat quickly, which can make getting back out of the water a tricky proposition.
"At Monastery, people have coined the term "Monastery crawl," because crawling up the beach is much easier than actually walking," Abma said.
But the easiest option by far, Abma said, is to avoid getting close to the water at steep beaches altogether.
"We don"t recommend swimming or even really going near the water at those beaches," Abma said.
"When you get to the beach, take a look at the signage. Monastery beach has some very specific signs recommending not going near the water."
Abma cautioned, however, that a gently sloping beach doesn"t guarantee safe water conditions either, pointing out that swimmers still have rip currents to contend with.
"On a typical beach, a person will be in the water, get stuck in a rip current and not realize it," said Abma. "They"ll swim against the current and not be able to get back to shore."
Abma stressed that learning how to get out of a rip current — by swimming to the side — is an essential skill for ocean swimmers.
For those who aren"t swimming (or don"t intend to swim), the best course of action is to avoid standing on steep beaches, rocks that jut out into the water or sea cliffs that push up against the surf.
From a safe distance, sneakers are just large waves, after all.
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SideKick was once the be all and end all when it came to being a teen and talking with your mates. The world has moved on though, so can a re-invented T-Mobile Sidekick 4G bring back some of that kick?
Designed by Samsung, and featuring Android 2.2 instead of the original custom operating system by Danger (they were bought by Microsoft), the new model keeps the ideology of the original models, but jazzes it up massively for those idolising Hannah Montana rather than Paris Hilton.
Now in two colour schemes - pink (magenta) and black and black and white - the Sidekick is available on T-Mobile in the US only at the moment, but promises to be fast and cool.
Central to the design is 3.5-inch touchscreen display and the "pop-tilt" hinge that reveals the five-row QWERTY keyboard.
It's the keyboard that's always been the key "want" about this device and from our brief hands on at CTIA 2011 we are pleased to say it didn't disappoint.
Elsewhere you'll get four dedicated shortcut keys, which can be programmed, though mainly now feel redundant because of the touchscreen offering on the smartphone.
For those that care, the Sidekick 4G is powered by Android 2.2 (Froyo) and a speedy 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird processor (the same as the Samsung Galaxy S), while you'll also get a 3-megapixel camera around back and a lesser camera forward facing, so you can smile at yourself or do video calling.
There's also a glowing, flashing LED light on the device so you can see if you've got a message without flipping open the case every 2 minutes, for those "she might have called to say yes and I missed it" moments.
Power on the phone and at first it's hard to see Android. The Samsung team here has given us an iconic bold software interface that's all at a tilt - presumably because that's cool.
We didn't have long with the device, but we did get to check out the new Group Text and Cloud Text messaging system.
"Sidekick's Group Text feature lets customers create, name, manage and participate in reply-all group text conversations, enabling them to lead their network in conversation and social planning," says Samsung. What that translates to in real life is BBM for a bunch of friends all on the same conversation.
Cloud Text provides the option to text with friends or groups across platforms, whether from the comfort of their PC's large screen and keyboard, or from their new Sidekick 4G.
You'll also get DriveSmart from T-Mobile, an app that automatic tells incoming call and messages that you're driving and will respond when it's safe. Yep we know what you're thinking - but in America texting while driving is still a massive car crash.
The new Sidekick is going to be available later this "spring".
Will it come to the UK? It has the smarts to do so, just a case of waiting to see if it does.
We will keep you posted.


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I've long reported that LipGloss allegedly has a booty call tucked away in Toronto. He was recently in Australia promoting his new film and local gossips there say he was super flirty with a few local actresses (thanks Amy!). Now Lippy has arrived in Paris on yet another stop for 17 Again… is there a French liaison waiting in the wings?
Many of my colleagues insist that in person you get it. Lainey, they say, once you've interviewed him, you will know. He is charming and intense and stares at you with these blue eyes and no one can resist.
Because to me, Zac Efron is like the male Victoria Beckham. Long ass flight from LA to Paris, here he is at the airport, and he looks perfect. Not a hair out of place. Which means he locked himself in the washroom obsessively fixing himself before landing. This is supposed to be attractive? Also, check out the poster from 17 Again. This is supposed to be attractive? Sigh. I am old.
Anyway, back to Zac's rumoured indiscretions…
Again, if he's hittin' it everywhere, what then is the purpose of Vanessa Hudgens?
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The beginning of the 2012 women's soccer campaign began on Thursday evening with the Lady Tornado taking on the Young Harris Mountains at the Frances Wood Wilson Soccer Field. Led by Haley Holderfield's two goals, Young Harris scored three times during a 6:02 stretch in the second half and defeated the King Lady Tornado soccer team 3-0 in both teams' season opening match.
Post-game audio (.mp3) - Simon Duffy
The Lady Tornado kept pace with Young Harris on the attack, nearly matching the Mountain Lions' 19 shots with their 17 strikes. Junior midfielder Jamie Grigsby (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) led King with four shot attempts. Senior captain Heidi Steger (Chattanooga, Tenn.) had two shots on goal for King as did freshman Keely Easterling (Bristol, Tenn.) in her first match as a member of the Lady Tornado.
Sophomore goalkeeper Amanda Huffaker (Knoxville, Tenn.) saved seven of 10 shots she faced for the Lady Tornado.
Freshman keeper Taylor Erickson stopped all eight shots she faced for the Mountain Lions.
Young Harris scored three goals in just over a six-minute span early in the second half to aid in their victory. Haley Holderfield scored the Mountain Lions' first goal at 53:20 after streaking down the right side of the field and knocking the ball into the far corner. Whitney Thomas was credited with the assist, marking the first time she hit the score column in the match.
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Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri are the co-authors of Empire and Multitude.
Michael Hardt (born 1960) is an American political philosopher and literary theorist and political philosopher, professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University.
Antonio Negri (born 1933) is an Italian Libertarian Marxist sociologist and political philosopher. Negri was accused of being the mastermind behind the far-left terrorist group The Red Brigades 1978 kidnapping of Aldo Moro, though the court was unable to conclusively tie Negri to the organization. Negri fled to France to escape prosecution, only to enter into a plea bargain in which his thirty year prison sentence was reduced to thirteen years. During this time Negri wrote prolifically with many of his important works being written while he was incarcerated.
- Page numbers refer to the first Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2001, ISBN 0-674-00671-2.
- Empire is emerging today as the center that supports the globalization of productive networks and casts its widely inclusive net to try to envelop all power relations within its world order — and yet at the same time it deploys a powerful police function against the new barbarians and the rebellious slaves who threaten its order.
- (20)
- We are by no means opposed to the globalization of relationships as such—in fact, as we said, the strongest forces of Leftist internationalism have effectively led this process. The enemy, rather, is a specific regime of global relations that we call Empire.
- (45–46)
- The legacy of modernity is a legacy of fratricidal wars, devastating "development," cruel "civilization," and previously unimagined violence. Erich Auerbach once wrote that tragedy is the only genre that can properly claim realism in Western literature, and perhaps this is true precisely because of the tragedy Western modernity has imposed on the world.
- (46)
- Philosophy is not the owl of Minerva that takes flight after history has been realized in order to celebrate its happy ending; rather, philosophy is subjective proposition, desire, and praxis that are applied to the event.
- (49)
- [The] fact of being within capital and sustaining capital is what defines the proletariat as a class.
- (53)
- The multitude is the real productive force of our social world, whereas Empire is a mere apparatus of capture that lives only off the vitality of the multitude — as Marx would say, a vampire regime of accumulated dead labor that survives only by sucking off the blood of the living.
- (62)
- Reality and history, however, are not dialectical, and no idealist rhetorical gymnastics can make them conform to the dialect.
- (131)
- It is a commonplace of the classical literature on Empire, from Polybius to Montesquieu and Gibbon, that Empire is from its inception decadent and corrupt.
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- The refusal of work and authority, or really the refusal of voluntary servitude, is the beginning of liberatory politics.
- (204)
- [No] effective blueprint [of a political alternative to Empire] will ever arise from a theoretical articulation such as ours.
- (206)
- Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.
- (210)
- A specter haunts the world and it is the specter of migration.
- (213)
About Empire[edit]
- Empire is a very stimulating account of globalisation, but it is hopelessly wrong on two central issues. The state has not withered away. Strong states still exist—USA, China, Germany, etc—but the difference with the past is that there is now only one Empire and this is not the nebulous entity imagined by Cultural Studies, but a real, living organism and it has a name; the United States of America.
- Tariq Ali, How Bush Used 9/11 to Remap the World. CounterPunch, 8 July 2002.
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire[edit]
- Page numbers refer to the first British edition, Hamish Hamilton, 2005, ISBN 0-241-14240-7.
- The possibility of democracy on a global scale is emerging today for the very first time.
- (xi)
- When the general population no longer constitutes the armed forces, when the army is no longer the people in arms, then empires fall. Today all armies are again tending to become mercenary armies.
- (49)
- All wars today tend to be netwars.
- (55)
- The political program of nation building in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq is one central example of the productive project of biopower and war. Nothing could be more postmodernist and antiessentialist than this notion of nation building.
- It is not easy for any of us to stop measuring the world against the standard of Europe, but the concept of the multitude requires it of us. It is a challenge. Embrace it.
- Perhaps some day soon we will have arrived at the point when we can look back with irony at the barbaric old times when in order to be free we had to keep our own brothers and sisters slaves or to be equal we were constrained to inhuman sacrifices of freedom.
- The so-called communism of capital, that is, its drive toward an ever more extensive socialization of labor, points ambiguously toward the communism of the multitude.
The following page numbers refer to the Penguin publication, 2005.
- It is no coincidence that the ABM Treaty was signed midway between the delinking of the U.S. dollar from the gold standard in 1971 and the first oil crisis in 1973. These were the years not only of monetary and economic crises but also of both the beginning of the destruction of the welfare state and the shift of the hegemony of economic production from the factory to more social and immaterial sectors. One might think of these various transformations as different faces of one common phenomenon, one grand social transformation. (39)
- postmodern warfare thus has many of the characteristics of what economists call post-Fordist production: it is based on both mobility and flexibility; it intergrates intelligence, information, and immaterial labor; it raises power up by extending militarization to the limits of outer space, across the surfaces of the earth, and to the depths of the oceans.
- (40)
- We have to construct the figure of a new David, the multitude as champion of asymmetrical combat, immaterial workers who became a new kind of combatants, cosmopolitan bricoleurs of resistance and cooperation.
- (50)
(a bricoleur is someone who constructs by piecing things together ad hoc, something like a handyman.)
- Even when labor is subjugated by capital it always necessarily maintains its own autonomy, and this ever more clearly true today with respect to the new immaterial, cooperative and collaborative forms of labor. This relationship is not isolated to the economic terrain but, as we will argue later, spills over into the biopolitical terrain of society as a hole, including military conflicts. In any case, we should recognize here that even in asymmetrical conflicts victory in terms of complete domination is not possible. All that can be achieved is a provisional and limited maintenance of control and order that must constantly be policed and preserved. Counterinsurgency is a full-time job.
- (54)
- The contemporary scene of labor and production, we will explain, is being transformed under the hegemony of immaterial labor, that is, labor that produces immaterial products, suchs as information, knoledges, ideas, images, relationships, and affects. This does not mean that there is no more industrial working class whose calloused hands toil with machines or that there ae no more agricultural workers who till the soil. It does not even mean that the numbers of such workers have decreased globally. In fact, workers involved primarily in immaterial production are a small minority of the gloval whole. What it means, rather, is that the qualities and characteristics of immaterial production are tending to transform the other forms of labor and indeed society as a whole. Some of these new characteristics are decidedly unwelcome. When our ideas and affects, or emotions, are put to work, for insance, and when they thus become subject in a way to the command of the boss, we often experience new and intense forms of violation or alienation. Furthermore, the contractual and material conditions of immaterial labor that tend to spread to the entire labor market are making the position of labor in general more precarious. The is one tendency, for example, in various forms of immaterial labor to blur the distinction between work time and nonwork time, extending the working day indefinietly to fill all of life, and another tendency for immaterial labor to function without stable long-term contracts, and thus to adopt the precarious position of becoming flexible (to accomplish several tasks) and mobile (to move continually among locations). [...] The production of ideas, knowledges, and affects, for example, does not merely create means by which society is formed and maintained; such immaterial labor also directly produces social relationships. [...] immaterial labor tends to take the social form of network based on communication.
- (65-66)
- Beginning in the 1970s, however, the techniques and organizational form of industrial production shifted toward smaller and more mobile labor units and more flexible structures of production, a shift often labeled as a move from Fordist to post-Fordist production.
- (82)
- [on zapatistas] The goal has never been to defeat the state and claim sovereign authority but rather to change the world without taking power.
- (85)
- The groups are not unified under any single authority but rather relate to each other in a network structure. Social forums, affinity groups, and other forms of democratic decision-making are the basis of the movements, and they manage to act together based on what they have in common. … These globalization protest movements are obviously limited in many regards. First of all, although their vision and desire is global in scope, they have thus far only involved significant numbers in North America and Europe. Second, so long, as they remain merely protests movements, traveling from one summit meeting to the next, they will be incapable of becoming a foundational struggle and of articulating an alternative to social relations. These limitations may only be temporary obstacles, and the movements may discover ways to overcome them.
- (86-87)
- Today we have arrived at a point when the three principles [of modern resistance: 1. measure of efficacy, 2. the form of political and military organization correspond to the current forms of economic and social production, 3. democracy and freedom] coincide. The distributed network structure provides the model for an absolutely democratic organization that corresponds to the dominant forms of economic and social production and is also the most powerful weapon against the ruling power structure.
- (88)
- recent researchers in artificial intelligence and computational methods use the term swarm intelligence to name collective and distributed techniques of problem solving without centralized control or provision of a global model. … the intelligence of the swarm is based fundamentally on communication. … the member of the multitude do not have to become the same or renounce their creativity in order to communicate and cooperate with each other. They remain different in terms of race, sex, sexuality and so forth. We need to understand, then, is the collective intelligence that can emerge from the communication and cooperation of such varied multiplicity.
- (91-92)
- we will argue that the dominant form of contemporary production, which exerts its hegemony over the others, creates "immaterial goods" such as ideas, knowledge, forms of communication, and relationships. … what is produced in this case is not just material goods but actual social relationships and forms of life. We will call this kind of production "biopolitical" to highlight how general its products are and how directly it engages social life in its entirety.
- (94)
- Multitude is a class concept. … Class is determined by class struggle. There are, of course, in infinite number of ways that humans can be grouped into classes - hair color, blood type, and so forth - but the classes that matter are those defined by the lines of collective struggle. Race is just as much a political concept as economic class is in this regard. … Class is a political concept, in short, in that a class is and can only be a collectivity that struggles in common.
- (104)
- The task of a theory of class is to identify the existing conditions for potential collective struggle and express them as a political proposition.
- (104)
- A multitude is irreducible multiplicity; the singular social differences that constitute the multitude must always be expressed and can never be flattened into sameness, unity, identity, or indifference. … the compact identities of factory workers in the dominant countries have been undermined with the rise of short-term contracts and forced mobility of new forms of work; how migration has challenged traditional notions of national identity; how family identity has changed and so forth. **(105)
- the question to ask, in other, is not "What is the multitude?" but rather "What can the multitude become?" … common condition, of course, does not mean sameness or unity, but it does require that no differences of nature or kind divide the multitude.
- (105-106)
- multitude is an open and expansive project
- (107)
- in any economic system there are numerous different forms of labor that exist side by side, but there is always one figure of labor that exerts hegemony over the others. This hegemonic figure serves as a vortex that gradually transforms other figures to adopt its central qualities.
- (107)
- conventional terms such as service work, intellectual labor, and cognitive labor all refer to aspects of immaterial labor, but none of them captures its generality. As an initial approach, one can concieve immaterial labor in two principle forms. The first for refers to labor, that is primarily intellectual or linguistic such as problem solving, symbolic and analytical tasks, and linguistic expressions. This kind of immaterial labor produces ideas, symbols, codes, texts, linguistic figures, images and other such products. We call the other principle form of immaterial labor "affective labor". Affective labor, then, is labor that produces or manipulates affects such as a feeling of ease, well-being, satisfaction, excitement, or passion.
- (108)
- Immaterial labor has become hegemonic in qualitative terms and has imposed a tendency on other forms of labor and society itself. Immaterial labor, in other words, is today in the same position that industrial labor was 150 years ago, when it accounted for only a small fraction of global production and was concentrated in a small part of the world but nonetheless exerted hegemony over all other forms of production. Just as in that phase all forms of labor and society itself had to industrialize, today, labor and society have to informationalize, become intelligent, become communicative, become affective. (109)
- affective labor is biopolitical production in that it directly produces social relationships and forms of life. … When affective production becomes part of waged labor it can be experienced as extremely alienating: I am selling my ability to make human relationships, something extremely intimate, at the command of the client and the boss.
- (110-111)
- the hegemony of immaterial labor does, though, tend to change the conditions of work. Consider, for example, the transformation of the working day in the immaterial paradigm, that is the increasingly indefinite division between work time and leisure time. In the industrial paradigm workers produced almost exclusively during the hours in the factory. When production is aimed at solving a problem, however, or creating and idea or a relationship, work time tends to expand to entire time of life. And idea or image comes to you not only in the office but also in the shower or in your dreams.
- (111-112)
- Some economists also use the terms Fordism and pos-Fordism to mark the shift from an economy characterized by the stable-long-term employment typical of factory workers to one marked by flexible, mobile, and precarious labor relations: flexible because workers have to adapt to different tasks, mobile because workers have to move frequently between jobs, and precarious because no contracts guarantee stable, long-term employment. Whereas economic modernization, which developed Fordist labor relations, centered on the conomies of scale and larga systems of production and exchange, economic postmodernization, with its post-Fordist labor relations, develops smaller-scale, flexible systems.
- (112)
- in general, the hegemony of immaterial labor tends to transform the organization of production from the linear relationships of assembly line to the innumerable and indeterminate relationships of distributed networks.
- (113)
- this is not to say, we repeat, that the conditions of labor and production are becoming the same throughout the world or throughout the different sectors ot the economy. The claim is rather is that many singular instances of labor processes, productive conditions, local situations, and lived experiences coexist with a "becoming common", at a different level of abstraction, of the forms of labor and the general relations of production and exchange - and that there is no contradiction between this singularity and commonality.
- (114)
- In the same way that the figure of the peasant tends to disappear, so too does the figure of the industrial worker, the service industry worker and all other separate categories.
- (125)
- The contradictory conceptual couple, identity and difference, is not the adequate framework for understanding the organization of the multitude. Instead we are a multiplicity of singular forms of life and at the same time share a common global existence. The anthropology of the multitude is an anthropology of singularity and commonality.
- (127)
- We share bodies with two eyes, ten fingers, ten toes; we share life on this earth; we share capitalist regimes of production and exploitation; we share common dreams of a better future.
- (128)
- All of those who are "without" - without employment, without residence, without housing - are really excluded only in part.
- (129)
- The poor are thought to be dangerous, either morally dangerous because they are unproductive social parasites - thieves, prostitutes, drug addicts, and the like - or potentially dangerous because they are disorganized, unpredictable, and tendentially reactionary. In fact the term lumpenproletariat (or rad proletariat) has functioned for times to demonize the poor as a whole. … The industrial reserve army is a constant threat hanging over the heads of the existing working class because, first of all, its misery serves as a terrifying example to workers of what could happen to them, and, second, the excess supply of labor it represents lowers the costs of labor and undermines workers' power against employers (by serving potentially as strike breakers, for example).
- (130)
- what is called the flexibility of the labor market means that no job is secure. There is no longer a clear division but rather a large gray area in which all workers hover precariously between employment and unemployment. Second there is no "reserve" in the sense that no labor power is outside the process of social production. The poor, the unemployed, and the underemployed in our societies are in fact active in social production even when they do not have a waged position. (131)
- In the contemporary economy, however, and with the labor relations of post-Fordism, mobility increasingly defines the labor market as a whole, and all categories are tending toward the condition of mobility and cultural mixture common to the migrant. **133
- Fleeing from a life of constant insecurity and forced mobility is good preparation for dealing with and resisting the typical forms of exploitation of immaterial labor.
- 133
- In fact, the old Marxist distinctions between productive and unproductive labor, as well as that between productive and reproductive labor, which were always dubious, should now be completely thrown out.
- 135
- The old form of trade union, which was born in the nineteenth century and aimed primarily at negotiating wages for a specific trade is no longer sufficient. First of all, as we have been arguing, the old trade unions are not able to represent the unemployed, the poor, or even the mobile and flexible post-Fordist workers with short term contracts, all of whom participate actively in social production and increase social wealth. Second, the old unions are divided according to the various products and tasks defined in the heyday of industrial production - a miners' union, a pipefitters' union, a machinists' union and so forth. Today, insofar as the conditions and the relations of labor are becoming common, these traditional divisions (or even newly defined divisions) no longer make sense and serve only as an obstacle. Finally the old unions have become purely economic, not political, organization.
- (136)
- Contemporary capitalist production is characterized by a series of passages that name different faces of the same shift: from the hegemony of industrial labor to that of immaterial labor, from Fordism to post-Fordism, and from the modern to the postmodern.
- [Michel Foucault] argues, prison resembles the factory, which resembles the school, which resembles the barracks, which resembles the hospital and so forth. They all share a common form that Foucault links to the disciplinary paradigm. Today, by contrast, we see network everywhere we look.
- (142)
- The regular rhythms of factory production and its clear divisions of work time and nonwork time tend to decline in the realm of immaterial labor. Think how at the high end of labor market companies like Microsoft try to make the office more like home, offering free meals and exercise programs to keep employees in the office as many of their waking hours as possible. At the low end of the labor market workers have to juggle several job to make ends meet. Such practices always existed, but today, with the passage from Fordism to post-Fordism, the increased flexibility and mobility imposed on workers, and the decline of the stable, long-term employment typical of factory work, this tends to become the norm. At both the high end and low ends or labor market the new paradigm undermines the division between work time and the time of life.
- (145)
- Material production - the production, for example, or cars, televisions, clothing, and food - creates the means of social life. … Immaterial production, by contrast, including the production of ideas, knowledges, communication, cooperation, and affective relations, tends to create not the means of social life but social life itself.
- (146)
- The capitalist call workers to the factory, for example, directing them to collaborate and communicate in production and giving them the means to do so. In the paradigm of immaterial production, in contrast, labor itself tends to produce the means of interaction, communication, and cooperation for production directly. Affective labor always directly constructs a relationship. (147)
- A second part of criticisms [of our concept, Multitude], which relate closely to the first, focus on the economic conception of the multitude. … "You are really against the workers!" … Industrial labor has been displaced from its hegemonic position over other forms of labor by immaterial labor, which now tends to transform all sectors of production and society itself in line with its qualities. Industrial workers remain important, then, but within the context of this new paradigm. Here arises, then, but within the second criticism of this pair, that our argument of hegemony of immaterial labor replaces the old vanguard of industrial workers with a new vanguard of immaterial workers - Microsoft programmers leading us on the shining path. "You are just postmodern Leninist in sheep's clothing!" they cry. No, the hegemonic position of a form of production in the economy should not imply any political hegemony. Our argument about the hegemony of immaterial labor and the becoming common of all forms of labor is aimed instead at establishing that contemporary conditions tending to form a general communication and collaboration of labor that can be the basis of the multitude.
- (223)
- Every identity, such (third) critics say, even the multitude, must be defined by its remained, those outside of it, call them exluded, the abject, or the subaltern. … There can certainly be points or nodes outside a network but none are necessarily outside. Its boundaries are indefinite and open. … None is necessarily exluded but theis inclusion is not guaranteed: the expansion of the common is a practical, political manner. (226)
- Our claim is that a common political project is possible. This possibility of course will have to be verified and realized in practice. … We are capable of democracy. The challange is to organize it politically.
- (226)
- Just sit back and listen to some of the clamorous grievances against the contemporary global system. Our list does not pretend to be comprehensive, and the partiality of its selections will undoubtedly reveal our own blindnesses, but it should nonetheless give a sense of the range and depth of today's grievances.
- (270)
Quotes about Hardt and Negri[edit]
Marxism ... has supplied many aspiring bureaucrats and true dictators with a reservoir of pre-made phrases with which to justify their power. And it has supplied just as many social democrats with a smoke-screen with which to please anyone who is satisfied that capitulation in practice is connected to radicality in style. The important thing was and is to assume the attitude of one who knows what he/she is talking about with scientific precision.
Antonio Negri's texts play the same role today.
- Chrissus and Odotheus, Barbarians: The Disordered Insurgence (Black Powder Press: 2003)


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January 10, 2012: Three teenagers were shot dead in an ambush in Philadelphia, CBS reported at the time. The 30-year-old suspect opened fire on four teens in a car, killing three and injuring one.
February 21, 2012: Jeong Soo Paek burst into a spa his family owned in Norcross, near Atlanta, Ga. He killed four relatives before turning the gun on himself, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported at the time. Police speculated that financial problems motivated the shooting.
February 27, 2012: A 17-year-old student, T.J. Lane, confessed to going into his Chardon, Ohio high school cafeteria and shooting students at random. Three students died and two were hospitalized, The New York Times reported. Lane said he stole the gun from a relative who had obtained it legally.
March 30, 2012: A gunman drove by and opened fire on a crowd of mourners outside a funeral home in Miami, Fla. Two people died and 12 more were injured, the Miami Herald reported. The mourners were gathered for the funeral of 21-year-old Marvin Andre, who also died in a shooting.
April 2, 2012: One L. Goh opened fire at Oikos University in Oakland, California. He killed seven people and injured at least three more. Goh was a former student at the school and was said to be angry that he was expelled for poor behaviour, CNN reported.
April 6, 2012: Five African-American men were gunned down in separate incidents in Tulsa, Oklahoma, ABC reported. Police arrested Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, and said that the murders were motivated by racism. Three men died and two were seriously injured.
May 29, 2012: Ian Stawicki went to a cafe in Seattle's University district, shooting and killing four people, ABC reported at the time. He then fled to a parking lot and shot another woman before killing himself. He wasn't thought to have known his victims.
July 20, 2012: James Holmes, 24, allegedly broke into a midnight premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colo., killing 12 people and injuring roughly 60 more. Later, police revealed that Holmes, a doctoral student in neuroscience, spent $20,000 on ammunition and weapons.
August 5, 2012: Seven people died after gunfire broke out at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The gunman, identified by police as Wade Michael Page, also died in the shooting. He was a white supremacist and the shootings were said to be racially motivated.
August 13, 2012: Three people including a police officer were killed in shootings near the campus of Texas A&M University. The alleged shooter, Thomas Caffell, was said to be obsessed with video games and was having financial problems.
August 24, 2012: Jeffrey Johnson shot a former coworker and injured nine more people before being shot and killed by police. The shooting occurred near New York's Empire State Building during rush hour.
August 28, 2012: Robert Gladden Jr., 15, allegedly brought a gun to Baltimore's Perry Hall High School and shot a fellow student, resulting in a critical injury. The boy's mum said he had been bullied.
August 31, 2012: Ex-Marine Terrell Tyler, 22, opened fire at the Old Bridge, New Jersey supermarket where he worked. He killed two of his coworkers before shooting himself in the head.
September 28, 2012: Andrew Engeldinge walked into his former office, Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis, and "carefully selected" coworkers to execute. He fatally shot five people before turning the gun on himself.
October 21, 2012: Radcliffe Haughton, 45, bought a handgun and drove to a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, spa where his estranged wife was working. He killed three people, including his wife, before shooting himself.
November 6, 2012: Lawrence Jones, 42, opened fire at Valley Protein, the Fresno, California meat-processing plant where he worked. He killed two people and himself. Two more were seriously injured.
December 12, 2012: Jacob Tyler Roberts, 22, allegedly stole a rifle from a family friend and went into a Clackamas, Oregon shopping mall with "several fully-loaded magazines" of ammunition. He killed two bystanders before shooting himself.
December 14, 2012: A gunman opened fire at a Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. At least 27 people died, including 20 children, according to reports. That story is still developing.
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The result of special partnership between Wusthof and Chef'sChoice, this electric three-stage sharpener is designed to maintain the unique edge angle of Wusthof's Precision Edge Technology (PEtec) blades. The cutting discs sharpen, hone and strop your Wusthof blades to keep each knife performing like new.
- Specially designed to maintain the edge of Wusthof's Precision Edge Technology (PEtec) non-serrated blades.
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- Once a year, remove accumulated metal dust from the clean-out cover located on the underside of the sharpener. Remove the cover and wipe with a paper towel or toothbrush.
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Rated 1 out of 5 by John1138 from Terrible!! Ruined my knife! I have a nice set of Wusthof Knives and purchased this sharpener since Wusthof put their name on it. Followed the instructions and it put long scratches on both sides of my chef knife.Date published: 2018-11-18Rated 5 out of 5 by 1021 from sharp and to the point The Wusthof Electric Sharpener worked well. I sharpened all of my knives and they have held their blade for the month since they were sharpened. I did post a note for the rest of the users that the knives had been sharpened. Of course they were more dangerous dull than sharp. Yes, I would recommend the Wusthof Sharpener for anyone with good knives and the joy of cooking.Date published: 2015-05-19Rated 5 out of 5 by Lonnie from Oops, cut my finger I have had my Wusthof set for about 4 years. I have always used the honing steel but did notice the blades were getting dull. I was going to have them sharpened but saw this product and thought I could do it myself. The knives are now just as sharp as when i made my original purchase and I can keep them that way since I own the sharpener. Great product and easyDate published: 2013-10-29Rated 5 out of 5 by paulrdallas from Best knife sharpener! OMG! I am so amazed at how well this product works. Yes, it's pricey, but I wish I would have bought this rather wasting my time and money on other handheld sharpeners. Its very simple to use, just follow the directions.Date published: 2012-11-20
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