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Scipio Africanus the Elder, Latin Scipio Africanus Major, in full Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, (born 236 bce—died 183 bce, Liternum, Campania [now Patria, Italy]), Roman general noted for his victory over the Carthaginian leader Hannibal in the great Battle of Zama (202 bce), ending the Second Punic War. For his victory he won the surname Africanus (201 bce).
Family background
Publius Cornelius Scipio was born into one of the great patrician families in Rome; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had all been consuls in their day. In 218 bce Scipio's father, also named Publius Cornelius Scipio, held the consulship in one of the most critical years of Rome's history. While with him during an engagement on the Ticinus River, the young Scipio made his first appearance in history. According to the Roman historian Livy, the Roman force was outflanked by Numidian cavalry. Seeing his father wounded, the younger Scipio charged forward, an action that allowed Scipio père to escape with his guard of cavalry officers and his young son. This anecdote was also recounted by the historian Polybius on the authority of Scipio's friend Laelius, and it may well be true.
Nothing is known of Scipio's boyhood or the date of his marriage to Aemilia, daughter of Aemilius Paullus, consul of 216, who fell at Cannae. Scipio had two sons: Publius, who was debarred by ill health from a public career and who adopted the name Scipio Africanus the Younger, and Lucius, who became praetor in 174. Scipio's physical appearance is shown on some coins minted at Carthago Nova (now Cartagena, Spain)—which almost certainly bear his portrait—and also probably on a signet ring found near Naples.
Military career
According to Livy, Scipio served as a young military tribune at the disastrous Battle of Cannae in 216. He escaped after the defeat to Canusium (modern Canosa di Puglia, Italy), where some 4,000 survivors rallied; there he boldly thwarted a plot of some fainthearts to desert Rome. Then in 213 he returned to a civilian career by winning the position of curule ("higher") aedile; the story is told that when the tribunes objected to his candidature because he was under the legal age, he replied, "If all the Roman people want to make me aedile, I am old enough." Soon family and national disaster followed: his father and uncle were defeated and killed in Spain, where the Carthaginians swept forward to the Ebro River (211).
In 210 the Romans decided to send reinforcements to Spain, but it is said that no senior general would undertake the task and that young Scipio offered himself as a candidate; at any rate, the Roman people decided to invest him with a command there, although he was technically a privatus (not a magistrate). This grant of a military command outside Italy by the people to a man who had not been praetor or consul created an important constitutional precedent. Thus, Scipio was given the chance to avenge the deaths of his father and uncle in Spain, where he hoped not merely to hold the Carthaginian armies at bay and prevent their sending reinforcements to Hannibal in Italy but to resume his father's offensive policy, to turn back the tide of war, and to drive the enemy out of the Iberian Peninsula. Such a task must have seemed fantastic in 210, but Scipio had the confidence and ability; it was achieved in the next four years.
From his headquarters at Tarraco (Tarragona) in 209, Scipio suddenly launched a combined military and naval assault on the enemy's headquarters at Carthago Nova, knowing that all three enemy armies in Spain were at least 10 days distant from the city. Polybius relates that Scipio had heard from Spanish fishermen at Tarraco that the water level around Carthago Nova varied daily and that it was especially low in the afternoon. Helped by a lowering of the water in a lagoon, which exposed the northern wall, he successfully stormed the city. This possibly tidal phenomenon, attributed to the help of Neptune, was perhaps enhanced by an offshore wind; at any rate, it increased the troops' belief in their commander's divine support. In Carthago Nova he gained stores and supplies, Spanish hostages, the local silver mines, a splendid harbour, and a base for an advance farther south.
After training his army in new tactics, Scipio defeated the Carthaginian commander Hasdrubal Barca at Baecula (Bailen) in Baetica (208); whereas normally the two rear ranks of a Roman army closely supported the front line, Scipio in this battle, under a screen of light troops, divided his main forces, which fell upon the enemy's flanks. When Hasdrubal broke away, ultimately to join his brother Hannibal in Italy, Scipio wisely declined the impossible task of trying to stop him and decided rather to accomplish his mission in Spain—the defeat of the other two Carthaginian armies still there. This he brilliantly achieved in 206 at the Battle of Ilipa (Alcalá del Río, near Sevilla). Over several days of posturing and light skirmishing between the arrayed armies, Scipio lulled the Carthaginian commanders—Hasdrubal (son of Gisco) and Mago—into a sense of routine. On the day of the battle, Scipio dramatically altered that routine, arriving in full force at dawn and changing the order of his troops so that where he was strong the Carthaginians were weak. He used his Roman veterans to execute a series of audacious flanking maneuvers while his fickle Spanish allies held the enemy's main forces in place. The Carthaginian armies were destroyed, and Hasdrubal and Mago fled the field. Scipio then secured Gades (Cádiz), thus making Roman control of Spain complete.
After he was elected consul for 205, Scipio boldly determined to disregard Hannibal—already largely contained in southern Italy—and to strike instead at Africa. Once he had beaten down political opposition in the Senate, he crossed to Sicily with an army consisting partly of volunteers, some of whom had also survived the disaster of Cannae and sought to redeem themselves. While preparing his troops, he boldly snatched Locri Epizephyrii, in the toe of Italy, from Hannibal's grasp, though the subsequent misconduct of Pleminius, the man he left in command of the town, gave Scipio's political opponents cause to criticize him. In 204 he landed with perhaps 35,000 men in Africa, where he besieged Utica. Early in 203, with the help of Rome's new Numidian ally Masinissa, he burned the camps of Hasdrubal (son of Gisgo) and his Numidian ally Syphax. Then, sweeping down on the forces that the enemy was trying to muster at the Great Plains on the upper Bagradas (modern Sūq al Khamīs, on the Majardah in Tunisia), he smashed that army by a double flanking movement.
Battle of Zama
After Scipio's capture of Tunis, the Carthaginians sought peace terms, but Hannibal's subsequent return to Africa led to their renewing the war in 202. Hannibal was placed in command of an army of many raw recruits and 80 untrained elephants. Scipio advanced southwestward to join Masinissa, who was taking his invaluable cavalry to Scipio's support. Then Scipio turned eastward to face Hannibal at Zama, having secured the better watering holes and the best terrain. In the first phase of the battle, Scipio largely neutralized the feared Carthaginian war elephants by using skirmishers to draw them into corridors between the densely packed heavy infantry, thus minimizing their impact on the battle. The Battle of Zama also demonstrated that Rome held the advantage in cavalry (especially with the addition of Masinissa's Numidians) that Hannibal had previously exploited. Taking advantage of the confusion in the wake of the elephant charge, Scipio's cavalry fell on the Carthaginian horsemen, driving them from the field. At first, Scipio's outflanking tactics failed against the master from whom he had learned them, because Hannibal widened his lines and did not allow his first two ranks of soldiers to back up, instead pushing them forward and out to the sides, with his veterans at the rear. The issue was decided when the Roman and Numidian cavalry, having broken off pursuit of the Punic horsemen, fell on the rear of Hannibal's army. Roman victory was complete, and the long war ended; Scipio granted comparatively lenient terms to Carthage and to Hannibal personally. According to Polybius, this battle marked the first time a Roman could envision a global perspective of future empire. In honour of his victory, Scipio was named Africanus.
Late years
In 199 Scipio was censor and became princeps Senatus (the titular head of the Senate). He held this position until his death, the following two pairs of censors having confirmed him in the position. Though he vigorously supported a philhellenic policy, he argued during his second consulship (194) against a complete Roman evacuation of Greece after the ejection of Philip V of Macedonia, fearing that Antiochus III of Syria would invade it; his fear was premature but not unfounded. In 193 he served on an embassy to Africa and perhaps also to the East. After Antiochus advanced into Greece and was thrown out by a Roman army, Scipio's brother Lucius was given the command against him, with Publius serving as his legate (190); together the brothers crossed to Asia, but Publius was too ill to take a personal part in Lucius's victory over Antiochus at Magnesia (for which Lucius took the name Asiagenus).
Meantime, in Rome, Scipio's political opponents, led by the elder Cato, launched a series of attacks on the Scipios and their friends. Lucius's command was not prolonged; the generous peace terms that Africanus proposed for Antiochus were harshly modified; and the "trials of the Scipios" followed. On the trials the ancient evidence is confusing: in 187 an attack on Lucius for refusing to account for 500 talents received from Antiochus (as war indemnity or personal booty?) was parried, and in 184 Africanus himself may have been accused but not condemned. In any case, his influence was shaken, and he withdrew from Rome to Liternum in Campania, where he lived simply on a villa (country farm) of modest size, cultivating the fields with his own hands; Lucius Annaeus Seneca later contrasted the villa's small and cold bathroom with the luxurious baths of his own day. Scipio had not long to live, however; embittered and ill, he died in 184 or 183, in virtual self-imposed exile from his country and its capital. He is said to have ordered his burial at Liternum and not in the ungrateful city of Rome, where his family tomb lay outside, on the Appian Way.
The legend of Scipio
Such was Scipio's impact upon the Romans that even during his lifetime, legends began to cluster around him; he was regarded as favoured by Fortune or even divinely inspired. Many believed not only that he had received a promise of help from Neptune in a dream on the night before his assault on Carthago Nova but also that he had a close connection with Jupiter. He used to visit Jupiter's temple on the Capitol at night to commune with the god, and later the story circulated that he was even a son of the god, who supposedly had appeared in his mother's bed in the form of a snake.
Polybius thought that this popular view of Scipio was mistaken and argued that Scipio always acted only as the result of reasoned foresight and worked on men's superstitions in a calculating manner. But Polybius himself was a rationalist and probably underestimated a streak of religious confidence, if not mysticism, in Scipio's character that impressed so many of his contemporaries with its magnanimity and generosity. Thus, although Polybius had an intense admiration for Scipio, whom he called "almost the most famous man of all time," the existence of the legend, a unique phenomenon in Rome's history, may indicate that Polybius's portrait is too one-sided.
Significance and influence
A man of wide sympathies, cultured and magnanimous, Scipio easily won the friendship of such men as Philip V, king of Macedonia, and the native princes of Spain and Africa while he secured the devotion of his own troops. Though he was essentially a man of good planning and practical action, he may also have been something of a mystic in whom contemporary legend, at any rate, saw a favourite of Jupiter as well as a spiritual descendant of Alexander the Great. Scipio was one of the greatest soldiers of the ancient world; by his tactical reforms and strategic insight, he created a new army that defeated even Hannibal and asserted Rome's supremacy in Spain, Africa, and the Hellenistic East. He had a great appreciation of Greek culture and enjoyed relaxing in the congenial atmosphere of the Greek cities of Sicily, conduct that provoked the anger of old-fashioned Romans such as Cato. Indeed, he was outstanding among those Roman nobles of the day who welcomed the civilizing influences of Greek culture that were beginning to permeate Roman society. His Greek sympathies led him to champion Rome's mission in the world as protector of Greek culture; he preferred to establish Roman protection rather than direct conquest and annexation. For 10 years (210–201) he commanded a devoted army at the people's wish. His position might seem almost kingly; he had been hailed as king by Spanish tribes, and he may have been the first Roman general to be acclaimed as imperator (emperor) by his troops. But, though he was convinced of his own powers, he offered no challenge to the dominance of the Roman nobility ensconced in the Senate except by normal political methods (in which he showed no outstanding ability). Reaction against his generous foreign policy—with possible clemency to Hannibal after Zama—and against his encouragement of Greek culture in Roman life led to his downfall amid personal and political rivalries. His career, however, had shown that Rome's destiny was to be a Mediterranean, not merely an Italian, power.
Scipio's influence outlived the Roman world. Great interest was shown in his life during the early Renaissance, and it helped the early humanists to build a bridge between the classical world and Christendom. He became an idealized perfect hero who was seen to have served the ends of Providence. Petrarch glorified him in a Latin epic, the Africa, which secured his own coronation as poet laureate in 1341 on the Capitol, where, some 1,500 years earlier, the historical Scipio used to commune in the temple of Jupiter.Howard Hayes Scullard Patrick Hunt The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica


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I don't usually rant about non-bicycling stuff, but this kind of thing really bakes my noodle. What is up with otherwise intelligent people who have no command of their native language?
I know I'm not perfect. I've let a few misspellings, mis-punctuations, run-ons and other grammar blunders slip through the cracks. If I find them on my initial proofread of the post, I'll go back and fix them. Even still, I'm certain there are a few problems here on my own blog.
The occasional linguistic offense is forgivable. I don't mind those.
I'm talking about people who don't understand certain basic rules of the American English language. "Apostrophe S", for example, is to be used to show possession or as a contraction of "is" or "has" added to a word. This isn't rocket, science, folks! Here are some examples of how to use 's in a sentence. The car's paint glistens in the sun. There's an alligator in our swimming pool!
How can one use 's incorrectly? Let me count the ways! Usually, it's a problem of using 's for pluralization. "There are 15 car's in the parking lot." "My wife has pretty eye's." Or in the case of the monthly e-mail at work, I got a list of "July Birthday's" today.
Mis-use of it's and its also drives me nuts. Although "The cat cleans its fur while laying in the sun." (correct) sounds like a possessive, you have to use "its" in this case. "It's" is reserved only for times when you can say "it is" or "it has" in the sentence.
Along the same line as "its", there's the entire topic of homonyms. "Your welcome." "I am to tired." "My kids finally finished there homework." I see stuff like this every day. These monstrosities cause gnashing of teeth and clenching of fists whenever I see them.
Keep in mind that I forgive the occasional typo. I see these errors on signs in businesses, though. I don't think I could ever bring myself to become a patron of a business that can't take enough pride in their own language to get things right.
This is stuff I probably learned in first or second grade. It was bludgeoned into my mind every year thereafter until I graduated from high school. If anyone wonders why I seemed bored in school, it's because for the sake of the many, they had to teach and re-teach us everything we'd ever learned since kindergarten. Somehow, people make it out into the wild lacking comprehension of these simple rules after a decade or more of reinforcement.
If all of the offenders were under-educated, it would be one thing. I'm seeing managers, secretaries, and some of the brightest technical people I know that are just as guilty, though.
I just don't get it. This concludes today's English lesson.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Language rant
I don't usually rant about non-bicycling stuff, but this kind of thing really bakes my noodle. What is up with otherwise intelligent people who have no command of their native language?
5 comments:
- Dan said...
I'm with you!
One of my pet peeves is the incorrect cause and effect mistake.
"If you'd like to have a snack, there are cupcakes on the counter."
What if I don't want a snack? Are the cupcakes still there?
If I can't make up my mind, are they in some unknown state like Schrodinger's cat?
Drives me crazy!
- June 29, 2007 6:34 AM
- Jamie said...
Oh, you've opened a can of worms here.
The gaffe that rankles me the most is the removal of "to be" from sentences.
For instance: "My bike needs fixed."
Is it really so hard to put in those two little words?
- June 29, 2007 7:03 AM
- Warren T said...
You're post's our grate,
- June 29, 2007 8:57 AM
- Apertome said...
I'm glad you wrote this rant, it's sorely needed. Another apostrophe misuse that drives me crazy is when people write CD's or DVD's. They are not possessive.
Oh, and don't even get me started on "me and Bob."
- June 29, 2007 9:02 AM
- IndustryOutsider said...
Agreed. But you forgot those miscreants that use of in place of have.
As in, "I should of told them all off". Sure, you can pronounce it as a contraction, but you still need to spell it properly.
Gnashing of teeth over.
- June 29, 2007 6:12 PM
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I'm just back from Windsurfing Magazine's "Board Tests Live" in Hatteras where I got to try a good sampling of mid-size freeride boards (see my comments on some of them on
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). I'm trying to choose one for myself in the 110L kind of range, and looking for help from others since I didn't get to sail the boards in quite the range of conditions I want my new board to cover, and certainly didn't get to sail every board I might be interested in. Hope some of you folks might have some input to help with my decision.
A couple of my faves from the test....
Quatro Freeride 110
= fast & comfy!
RRD FireMove 110
= jibes like a dream!
(follow these links to see my specific test comments on these boards)
Some others on my short-list that I haven't sailed....
Fanatic Hawk 110
(the 100 was at the test, but I never did get to sail it)
Tabou Rocket 105
or perhaps 115 (I sailed
the 125
and liked it)
First and foremost, I'm looking for something with exceptional range that does well in heavy chop. Specifically....
1. Covers overpowered 5.2 to marginally powered 7.0 conditions.
2. Planes up quickly and stays upwind well when marginally powered.
3. Handles speed over nasty voodoo chop conditions comfortably.
Beyond that, I'd love it if it jibes pretty easily. And would like if it's fairly fast. But the above 3 items are top priorities, along with comfort. I tend to favor a more outboard stance to really drive off the fin in most conditions, and really prefer boards with a nice domed deck shape especially under the rear (outboard) straps that support this stance comfortably with the heel over the rail of the board.
This board is to fill the gap between my Quatro Freestylewave 85 and my Kona One (after I sell my Bic
Thanks for any input!
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Grayson, I agree with your choices. I sailed the Quatro last Friday morning in 25 mph with a 5.0, and it was comfy and fast. I thought it kept speed going into jibes really well.
I sailed the RRD FireMove the rest of the day with a 7.0, and had a blast. Don't know how it would handle voodoo chop, though, but probably much better than you'd think by just looking at the shape.
I did get to ride the Hawk 100, which also was an absolute blast. You may want to consider a Fanatic FreeWave 105 - I tried the 95 last fall, and it's on top of my list of boards I'd like to buy.
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What about the Cross III 114? Did you get to ride that? I'll PM you some guidelines as to how to keep the peace apre board tests....
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Hey, thanks for the input! I did sail the
Exocet Cross III 114
last week, but found it pretty unremarkable. Perhaps it suits a more "over the board" sailing style, as suggested by the smaller fin (29cm compared to ~38cm on most freeride boards in this size class). It's interesting because I was really looking forward to trying some Exocet boards based on what I'd heard/read about the comfy cushioning under the heel, but found it to be useless in my preferred sailing stance with my heels wrapped over the rail of the board. The cushioned area ends up right under the arch of my foot where it's useless!
In general, I'm thinking I'll probably steer clear of the FSW type boards for my 110L (ish) ride. They seem to be under-finned for me, and more biased toward an "over the board" type of stance. I am aware that a bigger fin might be a bit of a liability in overpowered conditions where it'll be scarier to go fast and stay at or below a beam reach. But more fin better suits my preferred sailing style, and is a huge plus on the lighter end of the wind spectrum. YMMV.
BTW, yes I'm aware I could put a different fin on. But I generally think that the fin a board comes with is of the type it was designed to best work with. If you're looking for a truck, you don't buy a car and put truck tires on it, right?
I'm currently leaning toward the Quatro, but would love to hear about the Hawk 110, or any direct experience with the FireMove 110 in powered-up heavy chop, or any other suggestions I might consider.
Oh, and I'm also still keeping an ear open for closeout deals on last years boards, so if anybody is aware of something along these lines for a wicked deal I'd love it if you ping me.
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:02 pm
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Hi grayson,
I recently went through a similar selection process and ended up somewhere slightly different when I determined that requirements 1. and 2. were the most important for me.
Once I determined that upwind and underpowered conditions were the most important and that if requirement 3. was adequately met, then I settled on wide boards.
This ended me in the Tabou's freeride and slalom boards, along with RRD freerides.
I went with a Tabou Manta, and boy that thing is fast. I basically cruise over the holes with no worry. Wind dies down, no problem, uphaul and lazy waterstart friendly.
I sold my Fanatic Hawk immediately, once I noticed the carefree ride of the slalom. I miss the liveliness of the Fanatic, but the wind requirements were not met last year for that board, at least for me and I simply hated many sessions .
Since Coyote and Crissy underperformed last year, I think Slalom and wide freerides is possibly the way to go for a weekend warrior.
I did test it on Coyote chop last tuesday in 28 knots, and as expected requirement 3 was not met, but I did get sailing time in. So for me, mission accomplished.
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Did you get a chance to sail the Starboard Futura 111? From what I understand, it offers performance characteristics close to a slalom board, and that appears to be what you're looking for.
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swchandler wrote:
Did you get a chance to sail the Starboard Futura 111? From what I understand, it offers performance characteristics close to a slalom board, and that appears to be what you're looking for.
Nope, there was no Futura at the test. There was a Carve 111, which I rode, and is on my list of considerations, but I didn't have the "wow" reaction when sailing it that I did with some other boards. I just took a closer look at the Futura on Starboard's website, and it certainly looks intriguing. It just made the list.
Yet another board to consider.
My biggest concern with this kind of board is the performance in nasty chop, which is a big issue where I sail most. I just wonder if the width is going to be a major liability in that respect. Oh the dilemma of having so many stellar boards to choose from.
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:03 pm
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I have a Futura 111 - it's about 2 years old.
i would never sail it with a 5.2..., but then i would probably never sail any of the other boards you have listed with a 5.2
i don't think of it as a good board for chop - i rarely use it with anything other than a 7.5, and the water is generally pretty flat, with maybe some swells. It is not so comfortable in powered up 6.5 choppy conditions - even with a smaller fin than the stock fin.
i was recently in cabarete, and i sailed the starboard kodes quite a lot - mostly the 94, but also a 102 or 103. i thought they handled chop very well - for their size.
not sure if starboard has fixed the footstrap insert spacing on their new boards, but it is a big problem on my 111 when i have to wear booties.
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:53 pm
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grayson wrote:
swchandler wrote:
Did you get a chance to sail the Starboard Futura 111? From what I understand, it offers performance characteristics close to a slalom board, and that appears to be what you're looking for.
Nope, there was no Futura at the test. There was a Carve 111, which I rode, and is on my list of considerations, but I didn't have the "wow" reaction when sailing it that I did with some other boards.
I have had the carve for a very long time. It is great workmanship and a solid board. It does everything good, and is good in chop, but it is not an early planer or a fast board.
In your test what was the best board for handling chop and what design characteristics gave it that ability?
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Posts: 3264
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:28 pm
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I gues the webmaster has to take another look at the Cross III 114. Spec. is supposed to say 38 cm fin. A goof.
Did you sail it lit up, or barely powered? I found the fin to be kinda large. But that's because I sailed the Cross III 104 with various fins and found the stock fin at 29 cm to be as good as larger ones for that particular board.
Some boards were specialists, others old school, still others modern do every thing boards. What suits some in flat water is bad for others. My favorites for flat water depended on wind and water conditions. Too many to pick one or even 2 in certain size classes.
The ones I found unremarkable in the test others liked lots. Guess we all have our own set of likes and dislikes....
SB sent the Carve 111 and the iSonic 117, and Ultra Sonic 147 a nearly formula wide light wind board. No Futuras. I like their offerings far better than the Futura line. Again, personal likes and dislikes will vary widely on forums like these.
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Gay Porn Star Vito Gallo Jailed After Assaulting Michael Lucas
They've made the mainstream press, y'all!
28-year-old gay porn star Richard Caswell, who performs under the name Vito Gallo was thrown in jail under charges of trespassing after he barged into Michael Lucas's studio in New York City and attacked the porn mogul.
Apparently Caswell, who is a former Navy sailor and is a Lucas Entertainment exclusive performer, was upset that he isn't getting more work from the studio.
Although he's not charged with assault,
video footageappears to show the tall porn actor push and strike Lucas in the neck and shoulder as the skin flick titan tries to call cops.
"He just stormed into our offices and started beating people up," claimed Lucas. "Several people locked themselves into the editing suite. You had to see his eyes the veins bulging on his forehead. It was scary."
For his part, Michael Lucas doesn't appear to be holding a grudge and he's apparently baffled by Caswell's complaints:
"We were using him all the time," said Lucas. "He's very popular, he's very good looking and he's one of my top four performers. We'd love him to return if he goes through very serious anger management and see a shrink."
Something tells us Mr. Caswell/Gallo will be back.
FYI, this is Caswell leaving court on Monday. He sure does clean up nicely!
(Editor's Note: We hate it when our former cover guys get into trouble!)
I'll bet there are two sides to this story. We'll see if the other side has a few words to share. I have met "Vito"/Richard a few times and he doesn't seem like a roid rage type at all. And Lucas can be very manipulative - he's the one that used threats to intimidate the NY Gay/Lesbian Center to not let any pro-Palestinian Rights groups speak there.
During my time in porn, I've dealt with Michael Lucas. So I know how full of sh*t he is FIRSTHAND. There are many other stories on my blog to back it up as well. So you'll get no argument from me about how Michael Lucas deserves every bit of that attack. And he is, like most porn directors, an abusive PIMP. Hence the ONLY reason he'll take back Richard Caswell (a.k.a. Vito Gallo). It's because to Michael Lucas, Vito Gallo is just another cash cow.


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1. Southeast Asia includes which nation?
(Points : 3)
South Korea
2. What are the two major landforms of Southeast Asia?
(Points : 3)
deserts and islands
archipelagos and a peninsula
plains and plateaus
river valleys and tall mountains
3. Which is a climate found in Southeast Asia?
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tropical wet
marine west coast
humid continental
4. Which is an accurate statement about U.S. involvement in Vietnam?
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President Eisenhower avoided all involvement in Vietnam because of her military experience
President Johnson opposed passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
President Nixon announced a Vietnamization plan for withdrawal of U.S. troops.
President Carter brought world leaders together to resolve conflicts in Vietnam.
5. Why was the United States opposed to Ho Chi Minh's leadership of North Vietnam?
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He was not a democratically elected leader.
He had supported the Japanese in World War II.
He wanted too much financial and military support from the United States.
He was a communist and was backed by the Soviet Union.
6. Whom did the United States support as the leader of the anticommunist government of South Vietnam?
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Mao Zedong
Ho Chi Minh
Alexander Dubcek
7. When was South Vietnam reunited with North Vietnam as a single communist nation?
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as soon as the French agreed not to make any claims for territory
soon after U.S. troops departed
Vietnam united as a democracy shortly after U.S. troops left.
once they received approval from a majority of the nations in the U.N. General Assembly
8. Which is the best caption for this political cartoon?
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The Soviet Union, led by Brezhnev, investigates the Prague Spring reforms.
Soviet leader Brezhnev douses the spirit of freedom born during the Czech Prague Spring.
The Soviet Union hides from neighboring countries the flame of political freedom found in Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union, led by Brezhnev, is protecting the brief flame of political freedom found in Czechoslovakia.
9. Which describes a result of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia?
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The reforms of the Prague Spring became official policy.
The manifesto titled "The Two Thousands Words" was published.
The right to free speech was guaranteed after the invasion.
Dubcek was expelled from the KSC and demoted.
10. Which is the best description Salvador Allende?
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dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic
democratically-elected Marxist ruler of Chile
leader of the Cuban revolution
successor of Juan Bosch
11. Which best describes life for the average person living in a communist bloc country in the 1970s?
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many consumer goods; lack of personal freedoms; plentiful food and clothes
long lines to buy food; plentiful consumer goods; many personal freedoms
few consumer goods; freedom of speech and press; plentiful food
lack of personal freedoms; few consumer goods; long lines to buy food; ration cards
12. What does U.S. involvement in the Dominican Republic and Chile in the 1960s and 1970s indicate about U.S. foreign policy?
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The major goal was to fight communism.
Protectionism was part of that policy.
The CIA could be called on to maintain free elections.
Trade and the military were of equal importance.
13. What term is used to describe the effort to ease tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1970s?
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coup d'etat
Helsinki Accords
Warsaw Pact
14. Which was an effort by the two superpowers to slow the arms race?
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Helsinki Accords
Warsaw Pact
SALT treaties
15. Which is a major natural resource in Latin America?
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iron ore
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Which Latin American countries are indicated by letters A and D
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Chile and Ecuador
Argentina and Brazil
Peru and Mexico
Paraguay and Uruguay
17. Which landform, found in Latin America, is threatened by logging, ranching, and mining?
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Atacama desert
Sierra Madre Oriental
Amazon rain forest


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MLB, New Era introduce new line of caps
The first thing you'll notice is the players returning to the fields.
The second thing you'll notice is the new caps they are wearing.
The first thing you'll notice is the players returning to the fields.
The second thing you'll notice is the new caps they are wearing.
Major League Baseball and New Era on Monday introduced a revolutionary line of Diamond Era 59FIFTY caps that will be worn by your favorite players throughout Spring Training and during all batting practice sessions in 2013. The caps are available for pre-order at the MLB.com Shop and will ship starting Feb. 22, in time for the first Spring Training games in Arizona and Florida.
Style and functionality take a big leap forward with the new generation of caps. You'll see some fresh designs, including many popular logos and color combinations worn for the first time on an official on-field cap. They range from Mr. Met to the A's elephant to a single maple leaf for Toronto. Players will experience improved technology, including better moisture management and sun protection with these more lightweight lids.
"New Era continues to raise the bar in performance headwear and we are excited to introduce the Diamond Era Collection as our most innovative product offering yet," said Todd Sokolowski Sr., director of on-field product for New Era, the official cap of MLB. "We've already received great feedback and we're all eager to share the collection with baseball fans everywhere."
"Many of these new caps feature popular designs that will be appearing on an on-field cap for the first time ever, so we expect them to be well-received by fans," said MLB director of licensing Ryan Samuelson. "The caps will also be more popular among players due to the advanced technology and increased moisture wicking."
The new cap, which is part of an overall spring rollout of new MLB Authentic gear, incorporates new NE TECH performance technology. Made with a new state-of-the art performance diamond print fabric, the Diamond Era 59FIFTY is lighter for increased breathability. It also features SOLAREA, 50+ UV protection that helps deflect the sun's rays, in keeping with MLB's "Play Sun Smart" effort to protect players exposed to the sun, and COOLERA technology that wicks away sweat to keep players comfortable and dry.
In addition to all Cactus and Grapefruit League games and season-long BP sessions, these caps will see a bit of official game time as well. Select teams, during designated games throughout the season, will wear the Diamond Era 59FIFTY in place of the traditional on-field cap.
The New York Knickerbockers adopted the first official uniform on April 24, 1849, and the first baseball caps were chip (or straw) hats. A few years later, the club switched to a cap made of merino (a soft, fine wool) that featured the two main characteristics of the modern-day baseball cap: a crown and a bill (or visor).
In 2007, MLB and New Era introduced the first major transformation in more than a half century, as wool gave way to caps that provided moisture management and were dark under the visors to help shield the sun. It was part of an initiative by Commissioner Bud Selig to provide greater "performance wear" for the athletes, and indeed such changes have abounded for other aspects of the modern uniform.
Click through the Shop's selection to see all of the new designs. Cincinnati fans, for example, will see a moustachioed Mr. Redleg, who has made an occasional appearance in uniforms throughout the history of the oldest existing MLB franchise. Braves pitchers and catchers will report Tuesday to their camp at ESPN's Wide World of Sports complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and they will be wearing new caps that are solid navy with a red script "A" on the front.
"We had a variety of choices that we looked at, some more thoroughly than others. But at the end, we liked this one," Braves president John Schuerholz said. "When we made our decisions, we tried to contemplate. We tried to be creative. We tried to carry on the theme of our organization, and we think this script A does that. It is part of the continuum of the uniform look we have. We've never had one that looks like this during Spring Training."
Mark Newman is enterprise editor of MLB.com. Read and join other baseball fans on his MLB.com community blog. MLB.com reporter Mark Bowman contributed to this story.


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My mother, Ida Stevens Clemens, along with my three sisters Fern, Jean and Betty, joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1948.
But, mom did.
When two missionaries from the Church knocked on her door, she listened to their brief message and invited them in. Having not been raised in a particular religion, she was intrigued by what they had to say. She writes in her journal:
"So now I have grown older now and have started to go too church by my self and with neighbors to the church nowon as the Jesus only church. And there where I met my husband to be I was 16 year old when I met him we all went to church at the same place he was baptized at one time in the Jesus only church before we were married."
Over a period of time, they returned and taught a series of "discussions", which eventually led to her commitment to be baptized with her girls. She gave up smoking her Camel unfiltered cigarettes. It was during this time that she and my sisters had many dreams that brought comfort to them as they made this decision. They recorded those dreams, and I have transcribed them. But, they are much too personal to let others read them.
They were baptized in the Guyandotte River in Logan, West Virginia. Sister Betty nearly floated away, but they grabbed her by the hair of her head.
Dad was not pleased.
The missionaries had become a bit pushy with him, and he wasn't real sure he liked it. So, like many others in this area of the country, they began to look northward. Dad had three stipulations for any area he would bring his family to:
1. A better job for him.
2. Better education for his three girls.
3. No Mormon church in the area!
On New Year's Day, 1950, they made it as far as Portsmouth, Ohio in a raging blizzard. Dad had an aunt living there, and they waited out the blizzard.
Mansfield, Ohio would become their home. All three of dad's conditions were met.
But, just four months later, Mormon missionaries were assigned to the Mansfield area. They tracted out my mom and sisters, and a small branch was formed.
Dad was befriended by others in this small LDS community. He was a heavy smoker. But, slowly he was beginning to realize that he needed this religion in his life. One day, while helping to put a roof on a church member's home and smoking away, a man teasingly asked him, "Clem, when are you going to give up those cigarettes?"
He looked at him and said, "The one you see me smoking here is the last one you'll ever see me smoke." He threw the butt over the edge and never smoked again.
Dad worked second shift, and Mom would have a pot of coffee waiting on him when he got home at about 11:30 pm. He would drink the whole thing. Mom told him that it was going to kill him, for she could feel the pounding of his heart through the mattress.
Dad was baptized in 1951, and was a faithful member all of his life. He was baptized in the YMCA swimming pool. The following week, they asked them not to meet there again, for the lint from their baptismal suits was clogging up the drains.
I came along in 1955, and dad baptized me when I turned 8 years old.
Mom's decision to go against the wishes of her husband was not a popular one. When dad joined, it was even less popular, for many in his family disowned him. But, her initial decision affected thousands, for thus began her quest for her family's history. Dad would soon join her in that quest.
And, their love of genealogy passed right on down to me.


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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Wordless Wednesday
2 comments:
- Dr. Bill (William L.) Smith said...
Wonderful photo! Thanks for sharing!
Welcome to the Geneabloggers family. Hope you find the association fruitful; I sure do. I have found it most stimulating, especially some of the Daily Themes.
May you keep sharing your ancestor stories!
Dr. Bill ;-)
Author of "Back to the Homeplace"
and "13 Ways to Tell Your Ancestor Stories"
- April 23, 2011 at 6:25 PM
- TCasteel said...
Love the picture. Cows,even when just standing there, have an interesting look / personality - at least to me :-)
Theresa (Tangled Trees)
- April 25, 2011 at 9:15 PM
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New Mexico State University's Cooperative Extension Service will host the 2013 Western Pecan Growers Association Conference and Trade Show Sunday through Tuesday, March 3-5, at Hotel Encanto, 705 S. Telshor Blvd. in Las Cruces. This will mark the 47th year the organization, which represents growers in California, Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas, has sponsored the event. NMSU is a co-sponsor.
According to Olivia Carver, the association's deputy director, last year's event attracted about 500 people from the region, elsewhere in the U.S., and even from other countries.
The trade show component kicks off Sunday at noon and goes until 5 p.m., then runs in tandem with the educational program on subsequent days. It will feature about 70 vendors.
"The vendors will address a wide spectrum of pecan production, harvest and marketing, including plant nutrition, fertilizers and agricultural chemicals; various types of equipment; nursery trees; well drilling; and crop insurance," Carver said.
The popular annual Pecan Food Fantasy contest will also take place on Sunday.
Richard Heerema, NMSU pecan specialist, is the organizer of the conference's educational program, which takes place Monday and Tuesday. The program includes 15 presentations by researchers from NMSU, other universities and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as well as representatives from Farm Bureau and the pecan industry.
Topics range from pecan load management, soil health, nutrition, canopy and water management, pests and disease, and herbicide injury, to more business and technical issues like taxes, international markets and competition, and smart-phone apps for producers.
The final session will be a grower's panel on pressurized irrigation systems.
In addition to the educational program, trade show and baking contest, the program includes a Sunday welcome reception from 4-6 p.m. at the Azul Bar in the Hotel Encanto, as well as a Monday social hour at 6 p.m., immediately followed by the 7 p.m. banquet and awards ceremony.
Continuing Education Credits will be offered by Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to attendees.
Presentations from several previous conferences are archived at http://aces.nmsu.edu/ces/pecans/pecan-management.html.
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A Python ate a person who was drunk and lying beside the liquor shop. News from Attapady, Kerala. pic.twitter.com/2vRqCEaabn
— VIKRAMAN NAIR (@mvnair212) November 27, 2013
Note to self: Do not get drunk and pass out outside in India. I have been incredibly drunk in my checkered past, and I have done some things I am not proud of, including passing out cold in some strange places for lengthy amounts of time. However, I am sure that I would wake up from my drunken slumber if a python was trying to eat me, and I think I would be able to escape his deadly coils. That's just because I am self confident. Pythons are constrictors, so it is likely that the snake came across the passed out man and could tell that he was still alive, since pythons can sense heat. The snake then constricted the man, and began to suffocate him while he was passed out, so if the man woke up and realized what was going on it was already too late. Rest in peace, drunk guy, at least your senses were dulled with alcohol when you met your untimely inebriated end.
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Researchers at Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) have created a smartphone app that combines news coverage with social content in an effort to increase community engagement.
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The app uses an algorithm to find the most common keywords from a story, then finds tweets with the same words to link to the article.
"I think that what's clever about (Local News Chatter) is that the content it needs is already there," said Jack Carroll, distinguished professor of IST who directs the Center for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) at Penn State. "It really integrates stakeholders in a news story in a way that doesn't normally occur."
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PERTH, Australia (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the nation's first female leader and a staunch republican, on Monday backed moves to end 300 years of discrimination against royal daughters becoming heirs to the British throne.
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron wants to end rules dating back to the 17th century which ban heirs to the throne from marrying Roman Catholics and gives sons priority as heir to the throne even if they have an older sister.
Cameron will seek support for the changes from 16 Commonwealth nations, including Australia, which share Queen Elizabeth as their monarch, when they meet at a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth this week.
"You would expect me, as the first female prime minister of our nation, to say I believe women are equal to men in all regards," Gillard told reporters in Perth ahead of the Commonwealth meetings.
"I do support a change to the act of succession, which would enable the person who succeeds to the throne to be the oldest child, irrespective of gender."
Current succession rules dating back to 1688 and 1700 were designed to lock in a Protestant monarchy and force anyone in line to the throne to relinquish their claim to the throne if they married a Catholic.
Queen Elizabeth became the British monarch at the age of 25 when her father King George VI died in 1952. Now 85, she is the second longest serving British monarch and is currently on her 16th visit to Australia, where she will open a Commonwealth leaders summit on Friday.
There is support across Australia's political spectrum for changes to royal succession rules.
Australia is a constitutional monarchy, with a governor-general who represents the Queen as head of state and acts as commander-in-chief of the military. However, about a third of Australians want to severe ties with Britain and become a republic.
Reporting by James Grubel, Editing by Michael Perry and Jonathan Thatcher