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In his scathing indictment of the Bush administration's policies in the "war on terrorism," Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry twice made a telling point during the debate on national security matters, one that drove home the Bushies' incompetence with deadly accuracy. In detailing how many former military figures have endorsed his bid to become commander-in-chief, Kerry averred that "they know I would not take my eye off of the goal: Osama bin Laden. Unfortunately," he continued,
"He escaped in the mountains of Tora Bora. We had him surrounded. But we didn't use American forces, the best trained in the world, to go kill him. The president relied on Afghan warlords and he outsourced that job too. That's wrong."
Kerry made the same point a few minutes later, elaborating on it to lethal effect:
"Saddam Hussein didn't attack us. Osama bin Laden attacked us. Al Qaida attacked us. And when we had Osama bin Laden cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, 1,000 of his cohorts with him in those mountains. With the American military forces nearby and in the field, we didn't use the best trained troops in the world to go kill the world's number one criminal and terrorist.
"They outsourced the job to Afghan warlords, who only a week earlier had been on the other side fighting against us, neither of whom trusted each other.
"That's the enemy that attacked us. That's the enemy that was allowed to walk out of those mountains. That's the enemy that is now in 60 countries, with stronger recruits."
When I heard this, my ears pricked up: Kerry was taking a page from Michael Scheuer's recently published book, Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terrorism, which lamented the lost opportunity afforded us in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks to deliver a smashing blow to al-Qaeda:
"While the 11 September attack was a human-economic calamity, Washington's failure to have its military ready for a crippling next-day attack on al-Qaeda turned it into catastrophe. It cost America its best – perhaps only – chance to deliver what is called a 'decapitation' operation, one with a chance to kill at a stroke many al-Qaeda and Taleban leaders."
The author of Imperial Hubris bitterly and repeatedly drives this point home, throughout his wide-ranging and brilliant book: a book that, I would argue, is the single most important and perceptive volume on the subject of the "war on terrorism" yet published. In 263 pages of text, Scheuer, a currently serving CIA analyst writing as "Anonymous," takes apart the shibboleths promulgated by this administration as it fights a war in which the enemy is misperceived, underestimated, and – ultimately – enhanced by our actions.
The startling thesis of this book is stated in the first paragraph of the Introduction:
"As I complete this book, U.S., British, and other coalition forces are trying to govern apparently ungovernable postwar states in Afghanistan and Iraq, while simultaneously fighting growing Islamist insurgencies in each – a state of affairs our leaders call victory. In conducting these activities, and the conventional military campaigns preceding them, U.S. forces and policies are completing the radicalization of the Islamic world, something Osama bin Laden has been trying to do with substantial but incomplete success since the early 1990s. As a result, I think it fair to conclude that the United States of America remains bin Laden's only indispensable ally."
Scheuer's theme is that we have consistently underestimated and misidentified our enemy, the forces of radical Islamism represented by the figure of bin Laden, and are therefore dooming ourselves to defeat. We have portrayed OBL as a demented nihilist whose religious convictions are a cruel distortion of Islam held only by a lunatic fringe in the Muslim world. Scheuer shows that the exact opposite is the case. Far from being the Mad Terrorist that war propagandists and politically-motivated ideologues depict, the threat posed by OBL "lies in the coherence and consistency of his ideas, their precise articulation, and the acts of war he takes to implement them." Far from being the apocalyptic fanatic conjured in the Western imagination, OBL is a practical warrior, engaged in what he – and much of the Muslim world – sees as a defensive jihad, or holy war, against the incursions of the West and its Zionist ally. He, and they, don't hate us for our freedoms, or because we guarantee women the "right" to an abortion, or because Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was such a big hit, but because of our policies in the Middle East and elsewhere, which they see as a war aimed at the eradication of Islam. In this context, as Scheuer puts it:
"The military actions of al-Qaeda and its allies are acts of war, not terrorism; they are part of a defensive jihad sanctioned by the revealed word of God, as contained in the Koran, and the sayings and traditions of the Prophet Mohammed, the Sunnah. These attacks are meant to advance bin Laden's clear, focused, limited, and widely popular foreign policy goals."
Scheuer goes on to list instances in which American foreign policy has resulted in oppression, economic exploitation, and mass death for millions of Muslims from Morocco to Malaysia:
U.S. support for Israel that keeps Palestinians in the Israelis' thrall
U.S and other Western troops on the Arabian peninsula
U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan
U.S. support for Russia, India, and China against their Muslim militants
U.S. pressure on Arab energy producers to keep oil prices low
U.S. support for apostate, corrupt, and often tyrannical Muslim governments
Scheuer speaks in his own distinctive voice, perhaps exemplified by his chapter titles: the chapter entitled "An Unprepared and Ignorant Lunge to Defeat – the United States in Afghanistan" appears to have been of special interest to candidate Kerry, as it focuses on the complete disaster that our Afghan campaign represents, even as it is being touted by this administration as a great "victory."
We were not only unprepared to respond when the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked, but, when we did react, we did it half-heartedly, "out-sourcing" the task to local Afghan tribes, who gladly took our money and then looked the other way as OBL and the combined forces of al-Qaeda and the Taleban escaped.
The U.S. thought that money would be enough to buy them the head of bin Laden and other HVT's (High Value Targets), but, in universalizing their own mercenary mentality, the strategic geniuses in the Pentagon were sorely mistaken. Scheuer's description of the Afghans as "stubbornly contrary" is shot through with implicit admiration for their unwillingness to turn over any HVT's for the $100 million reward, "despite living in the planet's poorest state."
One big value in this book is its frequent referencing to al-Qaeda's internet postings, including the writings of OBL and his top theoreticians and strategists. For example, Scheuer cites a top aide to bin Laden, Abu-Ubayd al-Qurashi, who wrote after the climactic battle of Shahi Kowt:
"Anyone who follows the news from Afghanistan will see how the different factions are playing with the Americans in order to prolong the flow of dollars as much as possible, and are trying to strengthen their own interests without participating seriously in the American crusade."
If only our own Office of Management and Budget were as ruthless in their appraisal of this larcenous scheme! The Afghans took our money, and then did precisely what they intended to do all along. They took our aid and weapons in the battle against the Russians, who pursued the very same strategy we are employing – installing a "secular" regime with ideological pretensions of being "democratic," aided by a small, Westernized, secular elite and an uneasy coalition of racial-religious minority groups. The result in our own case is doomed to be identical to that which befell the Russians and their Afghan sock puppets: utter defeat.
Once al-Qaeda's leading cadre were allowed to escape, they were carried on the wind like dandelion seeds, dispersed throughout Afghanistan, and then into Pakistan, Central Asia, and beyond, implanting themselves far and wide. The seeds of a worldwide insurgency – nurtured by the arrogance and hubris of American foreign policy – have sprung up in Iraq – a "gift" to al-Qaeda, as Scheuer puts it – in Bosnia, in Spain, in Africa, and throughout the Middle East and the Caucasus. Al-Qaeda, far from being down and almost out, as the Bush administration would like us to believe, is "Not Down, Not Out" as Scheuer puts it in one of his chapter titles. This is due, he says, to "Al Qaeda's Resiliency, Expansion, and Momentum" – in short, we are dealing with a formidable enemy, which is widely misunderstood and willfully so, by all too many in the West.
The belief that al-Qaeda is fighting a defensive war against a Western incursion is at the core of bin Laden's widespread support throughout the Muslim world, and this is underscored by Scheuer, who points out that the insurgencies OBL and his cohorts support are, without exception, fighting to regain Muslim territory, not conquer new lands. OBL and his followers aren't nihilists attacking "civilization itself," as the more self-righteous commentators habitually put it: in Muslim eyes, they are a simply acting in self-defense.
Imperial Hubris is studded with analytical gems, phrased in colorful prose: it sparkles with wit, as well as wisdom, but all in the service of a serious and even solemn task: to provide a radical corrective to the hypocritical cant and political "spin" that has distorted and undermined any meaningful effort to defeat al-Qaeda and the very real threat posed by the emerging global insurgency it represents. We are blinded, says Scheuer, not just by partisan politics but also by a radical inability to see beyond our own cultural parameters:
"The way we see and interpret people and events outside North America is heavily clouded by arrogance and self-centeredness amounting to what I called 'imperial arrogance' in Through Our Enemies' Eyes. This is not a genetic flaw in Americans that has been present since the Pilgrims splashed ashore at Plymouth Rock, but rather a way of thinking America's elites have acquired since the end of World War II. It is a process of interpreting the world so it makes sense to us, a process yielding a world in which few events seem alien because we Americanize their components."
We have created, in bin Laden, "the enemy we want, not the one we face," and our insistence on misunderstanding him, or his appeal, will have fatal consequences – which are just beginning to be felt on the battlefield in Iraq, and whatever future battlefields the War Party has all mapped out for us.
We must shed our comforting illusions, Scheuer avers, and face the reality of the threat posed by bin Laden and his followers worldwide. Unless we recognize what they are, and what motivates them, we cannot undertake any meaningful and successful action to defeat them.
Reading Scheuer's wonderful book, one begins to realize how much this mantra of "they hate us for what we are" – instead of what we do – is really a form of appeasement because it disarms us in advance, and confirms the radical Islamist critique of American policy as an eternal war waged on Islam by the "Crusaders and the Jews," as bin Laden says. We are doing bin Laden's work for him, in Iraq – "the hoped for but never expected gift" – and, since the day the World Trade towers fell, throughout the world. Iraq is the "gift" bin Laden received from Washington that "will haunt, hurt, and hound Americans for years to come."
On the question of Israel, Scheuer bravely confronts the "third rail" of American foreign policy, descrying the policy of unconditional support to that country as an albatross of unbearable weight tied 'round our necks, one that could well drag us down into a relentless war against a billion-plus Muslims. Yet all discussion, he notes, of this inexplicable policy, which hurts our national interests, is forbidden:
"Almost every such speaker is immediately branded anti-Semitic and consigned to the netherworld of American politics, as if concerns about U.S. national security are prima facie void if they involve any questioning of the U.S.-Israel status quo."
The Kerry people may lift his critique of the Afghan war, but were surely horrified by Scheuer's bitterly ironic paean of admiration for
"Israel's diplomats, politicians, intelligence services, U.S.-citizen spies, and the retired senior U.S. officials and wealthy Jewish-American organizations who lobby an always amenable Congress on Israel's behalf."
He sarcastically hails the Israelis and their American supporters who "have succeeded in lacing tight the ropes binding the American Gulliver to the tiny Jewish state and its policies," perceptively noting that this conflation of American and Israeli interests been so successful that, "for many Americans," Israeli nationalism "has become deeply entwined with American nationalism" – to which I would add, only in certain quarters.
Given the veracity of the news that U.S. law enforcement has discovered a cabal of spies for Israel who burrowed their way into the Pentagon's policymaking wing, that crack about "citizen-spies" certainly was eerily prescient.
One hopes, however, that Imperial Hubris is not prescient in other ways, such as the author's prediction that – given the status quo policies maintained by our government, which give wide credence to bin Laden's propaganda efforts – we are doomed to fight a savage war in which "killing in large numbers is not enough to defeat our Muslim foes." Scheuer has been widely misinterpreted as advocating a savage war of attrition, including the "razing of infrastructure," as he puts it, but it is clear from the text that the author means only to give us fair warning:
"This sort of bloody-mindedness is neither admirable nor desirable, but it will remain America's only option so long as she stands by her failed policies toward the Muslim world."
The idea that we are going to "drain the swamp" of Arab resentment by imposing "democracy" at gunpoint is a typically self-serving example of Western narcissism, which presumes to know what is best for everyone on earth. Locked into our role as "a hectoring, white-faced, pistol-packing, Wilsonian schoolmarm," as Scheuer puts it, we are a bulwark of Central Asian and Middle Eastern dictatorships (e.g., Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia, et al.), Concerned only with maintaining cheap oil and Israel's regional hegemony, we are fueling the worldwide insurgency – not a mere terrorist conspiracy – that poses a deadly danger to us all.
"The choice," writes Scheuer, is "between keeping current policies, which will produce an escalating expenditure of American treasure and blood, or devising new policies, which may, over time, reduce the expenditure of both."
We must choose between unconditional support for Israel and "an unending war with Islam." We must choose between the advice of John Quincy Adams, who warned that America must not "go abroad in search of monsters to destroy," and "the sordid legacy of Woodrow Wilson's internationalism, which soaked the twentieth century in as much or more blood as any other 'ism.'"
In Imperial Hubris no sacred cow goes unslaughtered, and, for that reason alone it is worth a read. It is also filled with instances in which the present administration basically blew it, especially in Afghanistan, which explains the interest of Kerry and his minions, who seem to have made some use of it in last week's debate. But the Kerry people are unlikely to take to Scheuer's basic prescription, which is that we had better damn well stay out of the affairs of other nations unless we are prepared to deal with the consequences of meddling in that which we neither understand nor appreciate. Scheuer's view of the Israeli lobby, in particular, is far too politically incorrect for the Kerry-ites to ever embrace.
In summing up the spirit and theme of this fascinating and very valuable book – which offers, among other things, a portrait of OBL that rings truer than any I have read elsewhere – I would call your attention to one of the author's more endearing subtitles, a section called "Thought Police Be Damned: Nothing is Too Dangerous to Talk About."
Now that's my kinda guy! In talking about these previously forbidden subjects, Scheuer – who has been effectively silenced by the national security bureaucracy – has done us all a very great service.
No one who has opinions on the subject of al-Qaeda, the Afghan war, the Iraq disaster, or the so-called "war on terrorism" can possibly be taken seriously until and unless they have read Imperial Hubris from cover to cover. Buy this book, read it, and recommend it to your friends.


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A rusted 5-foot-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been discovered near the World Trade Center wedged between a luxury apartment building and a mosque site that once prompted virulent national debate about Islam and free speech.
The twisted metal part, jammed in an 18-inch-wide sliver of open space between the buildings, has cables and levers on it and is about 17 inches wide and 4 feet long, New York Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Friday.
"It's a manifestation of a horrific terrorist act a block and a half away from where we stand," he said. "So, sure, it brings back terrible memories to anyone who was here or who was involved in that event."
Kelly edged down the narrow passageway to look at the object Friday evening, noting there is also a piece of rope intertwined with the part in what looks like a broken pulley that may have come down from the roof of the site of the planned Islamic community center, at 51 Park Place.
The piece of equipment was discovered Wednesday by surveyors inspecting the lower Manhattan site of a planned Islamic community center on behalf of the building's owner, police said.
An inspector was on the roof and noticed the debris and then called 911. Police secured the scene, documenting it with photos.
It includes a clearly visible Boeing Co. identification number, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said.
"The odds of this being wedged between there is amazing," Browne said, adding it was not surprising that it went undiscovered for more than a decade given the location. "It had to have fallen just the right way to make it into that space."
Other World Trade Center wreckage had been discovered at the buildings and around the area in years past.
Police detectives and National Transportation Safety Board investigators will determine whether the equipment is from the American Airlines plane or the United Airlines plane that slammed into the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001, destroying the towers and killing nearly 3,000 people.
When plans for the Islamic center, about three blocks from ground zero, were made public in 2010, opponents said they didn't want a mosque so close to where Islamic extremists attacked. They argued the site was "sacred" because landing gear from one of the hijacked Boeing 767 jets had punctured the roof of the building on Sept. 11.
During street protests, they clashed with supporters of the center, who said it would promote harmony between Muslims and followers of other faiths.
The building includes a Muslim prayer space that has been open for three years. After protests died down, the center hosted its first exhibit last year. The space remains under renovation.
Donna Marsh O'Connor, who lost her daughter Vanessa Lang Langer in the attacks and is a member of September 11th Families for a Peaceful Tomorrow, called the landing gear discovery "bizarre."
O'Connor is a supporter of the Islamic center and said the fact that the plane fragment was found there "makes me think that this was the right place for a center that was going to heal the divide."
In a statement, Sharif El-Gamal, the president of Soho Properties, which owns 51 Park Place, said workers called the city and the police as soon as they discovered the landing gear. He said the company is cooperating with the city and the police to make sure the piece of equipment "is removed with care as quickly and effectively as possible."
The medical examiner's office will complete a health and safety evaluation to determine whether to sift the soil around the buildings for possible human remains, police said.
Patricia Riley, whose sister Lorraine Riley was killed in the Sept. 11 attacks, called the landing gear discovery "very strange."
"Twelve years later we are still finding remnants of the attack on our country," she said. "… For years to come we'll continue to find things that we didn't see before. Hopefully, they'll serve as a reminder that we have to stay vigilant."
Outside the Islamic center building, known as Park51, a police officer stood next to the door on Friday and a police barricade was set up to contain the many journalists who had gathered to try to see the piece of the plane.
The landing gear could not be seen from the sidewalk so commuters rushed by and looked quizzically at the gathering.
Among the bystanders was one immersed in the legacy of the attacks: Van Vanable, heading home from his job as an ironworker building the new 1 World Trade Center.
"Amazing," he said of the find. "There's still pieces to the puzzle."
The Park51 space, a former Burlington Coat factory, is a five-story, mildly run-down building. Renovations are expected to take years and would add an auditorium, a pool, a restaurant and culinary school, a child care facility and artist studios.
The piece of plane is wedged in an alley space between that building and 50 Murray St., a luxury loft rental building.
Associated Press writers Tom Hays, Jennifer Peltz, Colleen Long and Karen Matthews in New York and David B. Caruso in Boston contributed to this report.
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Book By China Syndrome Writer,
Paints a Vivid Portrait of Futility and Failure
As politicians proclaim their support for an ever-escalating "War on Drugs," the first popularly written book exposing the futility of this losing war is being praised across the political spectrum. Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out, [Random House, 240 pages, $23.95; Publication date June 15, 1998] dramatically reveals the violence, corruption and chaos that characterize America's longest-running war. Author Mike Gray was a prominent journalist, screenwriter, author, producer and documentarian, whose best known work includes the film The China Syndrome, which he wrote, and the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, for which he has served as a writer and producer. In an era when politicans vie to offer ever more draconian penalties to prove they are "tough on drugs" -- and when a marijuana conviction can result in a longer prison sentence than murder -- Gray dared to point out that our current policies are an abject failure, despite the world's highest incarceration rates and the expenditure of more than $300 billion in the last fifteen years alone. He eloquently argued for the return of a medical rather than a law enforcement model of drug control. Drug Crazy was praised in advance of publication from across the political spectrum: By two Nobel Prize winners (economist Milton Friedman and physicist Henry Kendall); by former Attorney General Elliott Richardson and former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders; by liberal journalist Daniel Schorr and conservative journalist William F. Buckley; and by other prominent academics, scientists, public policy experts, criminologists and social commentators. While many political and sociological treatises have been written on drug policy and reform, Drug Crazy broke new ground by vividly and dramatically recreating eight decades of ongoing and escalating drug warfare, including:
Finally, Drug Crazy points toward possible solutions to the quagmire of our failed drug wars, based on the successful European model of a medically-based system of regulated narcotics prescriptions. Gray contended that the success of such programs in Britain, Holland and elsewhere have been suppressed -- and supporters of such programs methodically maligned -- by "Drug War" advocates in the United States. Special thanks to the Common Sense for Drug Policy


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concentrate on the paper chase, Join the elite
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If you rollin benz, Then they rollin too
If you livin phat, Then they ballin too
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Cars, Big houses, And shopping sprees
While most of us see the penitentiary
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Lauren grew up in Monroe, CT, where her mother and father owned a drugstore. She is a graduate of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where she majored in psychology. She also has what she calls her "half-Masters" in English from Western Connecticut State University (five courses down, another five to go…someday!). Throughout college, she worked semester breaks as a doughnut salesperson, a job that she swears gave her white lung disease from all the powdered sugar she breathed. Upon graduation, she began work at the venerable independent bookseller, now sadly defunct as such, Klein's of Westport. There, she bought and sold for the better part of 11 years. In November 1994, Lauren left the bookstore to finally take a chance on herself as a writer. Success did not happen over night. Between 1994 and May 2002 – when Red Dress Ink called with an offer to buy THE THIN PINK LINE – Lauren worked as a book reviewer, a freelance editor and writer, and a window washer, making her arguably the only woman in the world who has ever both hosted a book signing party and washed the windows of the late best-selling novelist Robert Ludlum. Since Red Dress Ink's call in 2002, Lauren has been kept very busy with writing more novels and checking her Amazon ranking on a daily basis. She still lives in Danbury, with her husband and daughter, where she has lived since 1991. In addition to writing, Lauren's daughter keeps her busy, accounting for the rest of her time. Lauren's favorite color is green. Lauren's favorite non-cat animals are penguins. Lauren wants you to know that, however you are pronouncing her last name, you are probably pronouncing it wrong.
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Tax cuts, investment, the strong dollar and the twin deficits. For economists, Reaganomics is a very unique economic experiment. Looking at the GDP and the stock market in 1980s, it seems that Reaganomics was successful, but it is not well understood what exactly drove the economy. This article aims to explain why Reaganomics failed in the first few years and led to the later success, and what the cause was.
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Megan Mayhew Bergman's story, "Every Vein a Tooth," appeared in Gulf Coast 22.2 and her debut collection, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, was published by Scribner in March.. The collection is filled with stories about women whose lives are so intertwined with nature and animals that to tell the story of the wildness of the natural world is to tell the story of the characters' inner worlds. The writing is haunting but intermittently hilarious, as the tough-voiced heroines confront their vulnerabilities in some absurd circumstances: while begging an African parrot to talk at a roadside zoo, while helping a violent inmate put down a hurt calf, or while laid out on a veterinarian's exam table, scared and awed.
Megan hails from North Carolina, but is now a teacher and writer living on a farm in rural Vermont with her veterinarian husband ("the Dogtor"), two young daughters, and several animals. Peek in on her life at her blog at www.mayhewbergman.com, where you'll find such things as a picture of her spaniel spooning a kitten, as well as Megan's book tour musings. She took some time out of her hectic life (between giving a reading at Book Court in Brooklyn and jetting back to Vermont to take her kids to the Sugar Shack for some maple cotton candy) to answer some of our questions.
—Aja Gabel
Aja Gabel: It seems that writers sometimes go through a long process to figure out what their "thing" is—that is, what concerns tie their work together, what their obsessions are. You certainly seem to write about animals and the wild and also about the way the gruesome laws of nature act on our daily lives in beautiful and tragic ways. Can you describe your process of figuring out what you wanted to write stories about? Was there an "ah-ha" moment along the way or a particular story that anchored this collection for you?
Megan Mayhew Bergman: If I look back at my academic career, the first time I sat up straight in my seat and stopped drawing trees in my notebook was during an Anthropology of Gender class. My professor spoke so convincingly on the biological and sociological basis for our behavior as men and women, and on the "self"—that – that cchatty apparatus that is a mutation, a biological accident— – and causes us so much trouble (a la the Wildean notion that "we are each our own devil"). One day my professor abruptly announced that altruism didn't really exist, that people only did good things for other people because it made them feel good, or gave them an advantage in society. I was biting my nails the entire class. I still sit up at night wondering about that, turning the idea over and over in my brain. (It's one reason I can't wait to read E.O. Wilson's new book, The Social Conquest of Earth.)
I guess what I'm getting at here is that I started to look at people differently, like the animals we really are. I love that complexity, the idea of being caught off guard by your own primal nature. I knew I wanted to explore it with my work.
The earliest story that made it into the collection is "The Cow That Milked Herself." I wrote the first page of that story and had a feeling that it was right in a way other stories hadn't been right before.
AG: You're a former southerner now living on a farm in the far north. A lot of your stories are populated with distinctly southern, hardscrabble women. How has your shifting geography affected how and what you write? Do you consider yourself a southern writer?
MMB: I think the southern tradition is phenomenal, and I hope my work shows traces of it. Place is important to my work, but I've realized lately that my work is more concerned with proximity to nature, or rural life, and less about north or south.
Most of the collection was written while I was still living in the south, and it would be hard to replace the storytelling traditions I've absorbed, or diminish the impact that Flannery O'Connor's work had on me as an early writer. Can we revisit this question in a few years?
AG: Richard Bausch said something recently about how we don't ever really learn to write, but instead we only learn to write the thing in front of us, and that what we are learning in the bigger picture is how to put together a writer's life made up of discipline and good habits. Do you have good habits? Did you have to train yourself or did it come easily? What does ""the writing life"" look like for you as a mother to two young children and a caretaker of so many animals?
MMB: I have some good habits, and some bad ones too.
My good habits: I don't really watch television. I read a lot. I teach, which makes me think about what makes good work. I run, which helps me work out plot points and combat nerves about a first book. I parent, which is radically humbling and physical and informs my characterizations. I always have a short story in progress. I try not to read rejection letters twice.
My bad habits: I read my Good Reads reviews. I don't protect my writing time. I don't sleep enough, and then I try to cram a day's worth of work into an hour or two and can't find clarity or creativity.
My writing life is nonexistent some days. But on a good day, I run out the front door with my computer when the sitter comes. I settle into my office, which is a total shithole in an old veterinary clinic across the driveway from my house. I move the spiders, ignore the coffee ring stains, and work for a few hours. I love losing myself in my work, and I can only do that with at least three hours to myself. Sadly, this rarely happens lately. I need to reclaim writing time.
AG: Can you talk a little bit about the story that appeared in Gulf Coast, "Every Vein a Tooth?"? It's a haunting story, fragmented and existing in a kind of dreamt world where the wry dreamer keeps looking away from the painful thing. It reminded me a lot of Amy Hempel stories, actually. Is she an influence? What was the inspiration or seed for that story?
MMB: Amy was definitely an influence. She was one of my teachers at Bennington, and my thesis advisor, and of course I wanted to please her as a teacher. (Can I tell you how incredible it is to get Amy Hempel's edits back in the mail? I used to rush out of my door at the mail man, practically pulling envelopes from his hands.) What inspires me even more than Amy's writing is her work with dogs, her commitment to living a life outside of writing.
The seed for "Every Vein a Tooth"…well…I think it was a caption on a photograph of a leaf at a nursing home. Or it's the phrasing my mind settled on as we drove away after visiting my husband's grandmother. I liked the double meaning of vein and tooth, the accidental menace.
When I was growing up, I idolized a woman whose animal rescue habits ended up driving her husband away. I think she's lurking in this story. I'm always fascinated by choices, especially if they aren't good for a character. There is such great complexity in the beliefs we hold, the people we value, and the actual decisions we make.
AG: As the publishing world begins to depend more and more on online networking and word-of-mouth through places like Twitter and Facebook, how are you navigating it? How are you striking a balance between being involved in the online conversation and being appropriately unplugged from technology?
MMB: I was initially really uncomfortable with Facebook, Twitter, and blogging, but I decided that if I was going to give becoming a writer my best shot, I was going ALL IN.
But I'm not really all in. I'm about 75% in. I disappear for weeks at a time, fall into the parenting abyss.
I feel that I only have a matter of time before my daughters start ignoring me in favor of technology. That means I have to model good "present" behavior— – how to talk to one another, how to be present outside. Nothing infuriates me more than when I see parents ignoring their kids in favor of a phone. I totally catch myself doing it, but I think it's horrible. So what I'm saying is that I shame myself into mindfulness about technology, and I strive to be more mindful.
Writers should keep a little mystery, right?
AG: Guilty pleasure?
MMB: Wham!'s "Careless Whispers." Salted dark chocolate caramels that my neighbor makes. Lemon ginger shortbread cookies that my other neighbor makes. Amaretto on the rocks.
AG: What are you reading and loving now?
MMB: I just finished Lauren Groff's Arcadia. I'm a superfan of hers. Her sentences amaze and inspire me.
Aja Gabel is a writer living and teaching in Houston, TX. Her fiction can be found in the New England Review, the Southeast Review, Bat City Review, and elsewhere. She is currently in the PhD program in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston, and is a Fiction Editor at Gulf Coast.


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We are a family that has always valued and encouraged creativity.
My late once husband was a gifted playwright and director. I continue to write and publish poetry. (I just had two accepted for publication by the Orchard Street Press.) Our daughter is a published novelist who has branched out into designing publications as well. Our son, who was recently diagnosed as autistic, is a talented writer and photographer; he uses social media as his venue.
This is a film that my late once husband shot with an 8mm camera. B!X was recently contacted by someone who is working on a Netflix documentary on "The Toys That Made Us" to ask about using some clips, but that didn't happen.
Since we all latched onto the original Star Trek television series with great enthusiasm, it's not surprising that b!X's bedroom walls became the Star Trek bridge (drawn with magic marker); a blue-painted foam board and a picture of the universe became the view screen.
There really weren't any cosplay outfits available yet, so I painted the Star Trek logo on 4-year old b!X's shirt (we called him "Kit" back then) so that he could play Captain Kirk, armed with laser gun and tricorder. The special effects are totally primitive, but the kids had fun making it and watching it.
As my kids were growing up, I would take a day off from work and let them play hooky from school every time a new Star Trek movie came out so that we could all go to the first showing. That tradition continues with my grandson, as we all go together to see all of the Star Wars, Avengers, and just about every sci-fi/fantasy movie that comes out.
My grandson has inherited those genes big time, and he and his mom are participating in Mastermind Adventures "Camp Half-Blood." Melissa is Artemis and Lex is some character from Star Wars. They will both be in costume.
I'm the only one who has not been very creatively inspired lately; this is the first post I've written in a while. And I did create a little mini "Gnome Garden" in a spot near the driveway.
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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Karen Strand didn't think she'd get in trouble for having a small container of medical marijuana when she went hiking in Olympic National Park this summer.
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President Barack Obama, she remembered, had said the federal government had "bigger fish to fry" than people who follow state marijuana laws, and Washington state had just legalized pot.
But a ranger pulled her over on a remote gravel road, and Strand wound up as one of at least 27,700 people cited for having pot on federal land since 2009, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal court data. The number of citations is small compared to the hundreds of millions of visitors to national parks, forests and monuments each year.
But it nevertheless illustrates one of the many issues Washington, Colorado and other states face in complying with last month's Justice Department memo that requires them to address eight federal law enforcement priorities if they want to regulate marijuana. Among those priorities is keeping marijuana use and possession off federal property.
State officials have no plans to license pot gardens or stores on federal land, but beyond that, they say, it's not clear what they can do to discourage backpackers or campers from bringing a few joints into Rocky Mountain or Mount Rainier National Park.
"It's not one of the big topics we've talked a lot about," said Jaime Smith, a spokeswoman for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.
Other concerns on the DOJ's list include keeping marijuana away from kids and cartels, preventing drugged driving and pot-related gun violence, and keeping unregulated marijuana grows from spoiling federal land.
Thousands of people receive tickets every year charging them with having pot on U.S. property — a federal misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months in jail and a $5,000 fine. The charges typically don't result in jail time, but often do require at least one court appearance. They are frequently negotiated down to an infraction, akin to a traffic ticket, and a fine of up to a few hundred dollars.
Through the first seven months of this year, at least 146 people had been cited in Washington for having pot on federal land, which makes up nearly one-third of the state. At least 135 had been cited in Colorado. Washington's figure is slightly below the same period for the past few years, while Colorado's is roughly on track.
The number of people cited nationally has dropped, from 6,282 in 2009 to 5,772 in 2012, and is on pace to hit about 5,300 this year, according to data from the U.S. Courts Central Violations Bureau. The citations were issued at national parks, seashores, forests, military bases and monuments. There were even 10 tickets issued at the Pentagon.
Officials say the actual numbers are likely greater: Park rangers and other federal agents sometimes simply write on the ticket that the offender had a controlled substance, without specifying the drug.
Defendants say being prosecuted for having tiny amounts of pot on U.S. land — especially in Washington, Colorado and states with medical marijuana laws — belies the administration's assertions that going after people who comply with state marijuana laws is not a priority. The DOJ first announced that position in a 2009 memo, though the fine print also made clear that pot isn't welcome on federal property.
Strand, 36, was pulled over for having a broken taillight, and the ranger reported that he could smell fresh pot. She was ticketed for having 2 grams — far less than the ounce, or 28 grams, allowed by Washington's recreational pot law, or the 24 ounces allowed by the state's medical marijuana law.
"It is exceptionally confusing," she said.
One morning last week, Strand sat in a small, crowded room at the federal courthouse in Tacoma for her initial appearance on charges of marijuana possession and drug paraphernalia — a pipe.
Near her sat her husband as well as several other people caught with weed on federal land, including a 21-year-old man who was accused of having 0.1 grams during a traffic stop on a highway that skirts Mount Rainier National Park.
"I just thought it was legal now," Jonah Hunt said. "I didn't know I was on federal land."
Barbara Sievers, the assistant U.S. attorney handling the cases, informed the defendants their charges would not be dismissed.
"Regardless of whatever happened in the state, it's federal law, and it's federal property," she said.
Former school teacher Melanie Cease, of Seattle, said a park ranger approached her one day in June at a secluded campsite in Olympic National Park. He came to make sure her dog was on a leash, but then saw an empty pipe on the picnic table.
With his hand on his gun, she said, the ranger demanded she turn over whatever pot she had. Cease, 48, was cited for having a "trace amount," according to the ranger's report.
"I've never been arrested in my life, and now I'm being threatened with six months in jail and a $5,000 fine for using my medicine?" she said. "It was my understanding the government was not going to mess with individual patients."
Strand and Cease both pleaded not guilty, and their cases were set for trial in October.
Strand and her husband, Thomas, said they remain troubled by what they said felt like harassment from the park ranger. He repeatedly placed his hand on his gun when speaking to them, they said.
"It's a beautiful place up there," Thomas Strand said. "And I don't know if I'll ever go back."
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Last week at //Build, Microsoft announced some exciting new technology called the Bot Framework. It allows developers to create intelligent bots to interact with users in a natural way. The possibilities of these new types of technologies get tremendously larger when coupled with Azure Services.
In just one weekend I was able to make a bot that leveraged workflows (Logic Apps), APIs (Web Apps), security (Azure AD), on-premise systems (Hybrid Connections), and Machine Learning (luis.ai) to create a bot that improved my work productivity. The power and variety of Azure offerings was the only reason I was able to build such a system in such a short amount of time.
The amount of cutting-edge technology that Azure puts at your fingertips is incredible. Tasks like building a web server or integration workflow that used to take weeks can now be accomplished in seconds. Bundling Azure services allows developers to create solutions that, even a few months ago, would have seemed out of reach given years. Here was the scenario I built a bot for over a weekend thanks to the power of Bot Framework and Azure:
I spend much of my day in Visual Studio Team Services. I'm often checking the status of bugs, managing the product backlog, or creating new items. I built a bot powered by Azure that allows me to do all of this through natural speech – like "Can you search bugs for serialization issues?" Whenever an action or query needs to be executed, I trigger a Logic App workflow to handle the logic and integrate through a custom API App to the Team Foundation Server. I wanted to make sure the solution was secure, so added Azure Active Directory authentication to the bot and apps. Azure Machine Learning powers the speech intelligence.
Not only does Azure make this scenario possible, I can now decouple this complex problem into individual pieces that are best at performing each action. If I notice my language detection is failing to detect certain intents, I can log into luis.ai to re-train the model without having to touch or redeploy any production code. If I decide later to increase the number of items returned by a workflow, or if my Team Foundation Server moves, I can simply open the Logic App and modify the parameters in my workflow. Not to mention, I can use the pieces I built in other scenarios (for example I have another Logic App that will file a bug when I place mail in a certain folder that can easily leverage pieces I built for this scenario).
Check out these instructions if you're interested in building your own bot, creating a node.js or C# web app. Machine learning integration is built into the SDK. Once built, you can easily "one-click publish" the bot app into Azure so it can be connected to through a number of different clients (find details on getting started here). Finally, I prefer to use Logic Apps as a callable endpoint to decouple the workflow from the bot, and return any results I need from a number of different services and integrations like SQL, Blob, Twitter, and more. Finally, to secure your bot, you can require users first authenticate against Azure Active Directory. I've posted my completed solution to my GitHub.
After a weekend of hacking, I was able to create my own secure, scalable, intelligent bot.
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Under the Code of Recommended Practice for Local Authorities on Data Transparency, councils are encouraged to publish all corporate purchase card transactions. We already publish details of all our relevant expenditure of more than £500 within our Payments to Suppliers page, and will continue to do so. However, in the spirit of the Code, the Council started publishing all purchase card transactions, regardless of value, from the April 2014 card statement. The information will be published monthly. As with our payments to suppliers, we aim to be as transparent as we can, but in some cases we will need to respect information that could be seen as commercially sensitive or where the payment relates to vulnerable young people or adults. In these cases information is withheld as it is personal data. For further information about personal data, please see birmingham.gov.uk/foi. If you require further information about any of the payments, please contact email@example.com setting out the details of the payment and what additional information you require. Such request will be handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and the Council aims to be able to provide a response to your query within 20 working days


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I was able to make so many fun things from it such as:
A potting table,
A beverage cart,
A footstool,
Benches and stepstools,
Coffee tables,
Message Centers,
Sofa tables,
and toolboxes.
I used it to back old shelves and windows,
and a scrappy mirror!
I still have some bits and pieces so you are bound to see a little more. And a final favorite link from the past year--I adored how Shizzle Design took this chest and added legs to it--made it a completely different and fresh piece. Oh, and red is always so right!
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Buckhorn brake is a perennial plant; the large, scaly rootstock is covered with matted fibers and often rises like a trunk up to a foot out of the ground. The pale green, bipinnate fronds have brown stalks and are ovate in outline; the oblong-elliptic pinnules are finely toothed. Sterile fronds are leafy only: fertile ones are topped by a tripinnate panicle of fertile pinnae which turn brownish in maturity and bear green spores. The fruiting axis bears black hairs. Fruiting time is from April to June.
Another variety: Cinnamon-colored fern or Cinnamon fern (O. cinnamomea) is a native North American fern which grows from Newfoundland to Minnesota and Florida, and west to New Mexico, from Mexico into South America, and also in Asia. Its pinnate sterile fronds, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate in outline, grow on the outside, reaching 2-5 feet in height. The bipinnate fertile fronds, 1-3 feet high, grow in the center, their pinnae contracted and bearing cinnamon-brown spore cases. This fern can be used like buckhorn brake, although it is said to be less effective. It can be boiled in milk to produce mucilage which is helpful for diarrhea.
Grows in meadows and other moist areas, mostly in Europe, Great Britain, and Africa; a variety without hairs on the fruiting parts of the fronds grows in eastern North America.
Mucilaginous, tonic
The mucilaginous extract from the rhizomes have in the past been a part of the druggists' supply, but is now of doubtful value.
A decoction useful for coughs, jaundice if taken early, a tonic for convalescents. The mucilage makes a good ointment for sprains, bruises, and wounds; mixed with brandy it was once popular as a rub for backache.
Collect rootstock in late spring or late summer, and dry carefully.
Infusion or decoction: use 1 heaping tsp. cut-up rootstock with 1 cup water; for infusion, steep for 30 minutes. Take 1 tbsp. per hour, or as required. To get a more gelatinous consistency, use more of the rootstock.
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Enclosure maps were drawn up by surveyors, appointed by enclosure commissioners,
to show the approved re-allotment of the open and common fields, and waste.
The maps depict, in detail, a post-enclosure plan of the parish with the
lines of the new boundary hedges or fences, drains, and roads. Occasionally
the boundaries of the former open fields and commons are also shown.
[ A list of surveyors known to have worked on the Berkshire parliamentary
enclosures is available here ]
No. Pre-nineteenth century enclosure awards are less likely to be accompanied by a map; instead the location of the enclosed areas is described in great detail in the award. Included in this project are eighteen awards, dating between 1736 and 1800, that do not have an accompanying map. However, by the end of the eighteenth century it was usual for every award to include an enclosure map.
Unlike tithe maps, there was no standard format for enclosure maps. They were drawn up over a long period of time using a variety of local practices and conventions: for instance you will find that scales vary, and that north is not always at the top of the map. They also come in a variety of shapes and sizes: some are rolled, some folded, and some are flat; some are very large and cumbersome (the enclosure map for Cholsey measures 3.5m x 1.7m), and some are quite small (the enclosure map for Lyford in West Hanney only measures 43 x 48 cm); some are drawn on parchment, and some on paper backed with linen. They are all hand-drawn and many are coloured.
No. Even in the case of parliamentary enclosures, some awards were prepared without a map [see above]. Some parishes were enclosed by private agreement rather than Parliamentary Act, and such agreements rarely had an accompanying map.
The map only shows the area enclosed occasionally this might be the whole parish, but more often it is only part of the parish, and sometimes the enclosed lands are dispersed around the parish.
The inclusion of buildings on enclosure maps is usually incidental; the maps were drawn up to show the enclosure of the open and common fields, not the location of buildings. If buildings are shown they will appear only in block plan. The non-depiction of a building does not necessarily mean that no building existed on the site, but on the other hand the depiction of a building only proves that there was a building on the site, not that it is your building.
Usually, each enclosure plot has its own number. This number appears on
the map and in the award. Sometimes the acreage of the plot, in acres (a.),
rods (r.) and perches (p.), is also given on the map. The plot or allotment
numbers refer to the award, where details of the allottee, acreage, and
location of each plot is given. Sometimes there is also a schedule at the
end of the award where this information is given in tabulated form.
[ Lists of the allotment or plot numbers made in each enclosure award can
be found in the Awards Index Search results ]
Enclosure maps often provide the first accurate mapping of an area, and
in some cases the first map. If you are interested in the history of a
particular parish or area then it may be worth looking at the map to see
if any incidental information has been included.
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on specific subjects is available here ]
At least two copies of each map and award were made: one was to be held in the parish chest, and the other enrolled at the Quarter Sessions. Sometimes a third copy was also made for the local landowner. In most cases these copies are now with the County Archive where they can be found in the parish collections, Quarter Sessions papers, or the estate and family papers.
The survival of background papers is sporadic. If any do survive they may include commissioners minutes, correspondence and papers, claims, surveyors working maps, surveys and terriers, and will usually be found in the estate and family collections of the archive. Details of any surviving papers will be found in the database under Related Material.
A full set of all Acts of Parliament is held by the House of Lords Record Office; an online catalogue of these Acts is available at the Access to Archives website [ http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk/ ]. Copies of some local Acts may also be found at the Royal Berkshire Archives.
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What does an enclosure map look like? >>
Is there a map for every parish? >>
Why doesn't the map cover the whole parish? >>
Why isn't my house shown on the map? >>
What do the numbers on the enclosure plots refer to? >>
What else will the map tell me?>>
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Opposing Helpmate
From: Anonymous
Dear Rabbi,
My wife and I both studied in ba'al teshuva institutions. We both learned that as a married couple, the husband should be responsible for making Torah-related decisions and the wife should be responsible for making decisions pertaining to the household, which are no less important. However, my wife keeps questioning whether what I say is right, and constantly wants me to ask a Rabbi. I feel that I don't infringe on her sphere, and she shouldn't infringe on mine. So I insist that she accept my opinion on these matters, which I think she should respect. Could you please help me explain this to her?
Dear Anonymous,
This question should really be directed to, and answered by, a rabbi who knows you both, knows your situation, and whose opinion is also accepted by you both. So I can only address it in a general way which I hope will be helpful not only for you, but for others as well.
The fact that you are asking this question to a rabbi is a good thing – it shows that despite your reluctance to consider your wife's position, you're at least asking what troubles you. That should enlighten you as to her need to feel a rabbi is consulted regarding what troubles her.
You see, what you write that you both learned in your respective institutions is only generally and partially correct.
First, marriage is a joint venture in which all decisions affect both people and therefore neither has a monopoly over any sphere. Rather, they are to work in unison such that the specialization of each does not preclude his or her involvement in the sphere of the other.
Second, it's not that each is necessarily responsible for making the decisions in the relevant sphere, but rather responsible that correct decisions be made. As in all areas, this often entails consulting an expert.
What gives the husband more of a say in the "Torah sphere" is that men have more of a requirement to study Torah, and therefore generally have more familiarity with it. And since women are generally more knowledgeable and experienced in matters relating to running a household, they are given more of a say in that sphere. Accordingly, neither one's say is arbitrary, but based on an assumption of knowledge. But if either questions the opinion of the other, he or she is certainly entitled to consult an expert.
In the case of a husband whose opinion in Torah-related matters is being questioned by his wife, he or they should consult their rabbi. The husband should not feel offended or threatened, but rather be willing to ask what the Torah says. Either way, it's to his advantage. If what he said was correct, he gains respect from his wife. If it was not, the fact that he was sensitive to his wife's concerns and humbly sought Torah guidance is also appreciated and respected by his wife.
Of course, if a wife is constantly, unjustifiably questioning her husband, or alternatively, rightly questioning but in a demeaning manner, she has to work on improving herself, and that's a different discussion. But in most cases, her "opposition" should not be viewed as harmful, but rather as a fulfillment of the verse referring to one's wife as a "helpmate opposite him".


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These tracks show the results of the ChIP-Seq analyses of the Suppressor of hairless [Su(H)] protein. The regions that are enriched in the protein were identified by MACS2 and Peakzilla. The log likelihood ratio evidence tracks were produced by MACS2. The Irreproducible Discovery Rate (IDR) peak calls were produced by the idr program using a global IDR threshold of 0.05.
The ChIP-Seq datasets were obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus database at NCBI under the accession number GSE59726.
Ozdemir A, Ma L, White KP, Stathopoulos A. Su(H)-mediated repression positions gene boundaries along the dorsal-ventral axis of Drosophila embryos. Dev Cell. 2014 Oct 13;31(1):100-13.
Bardet AF, Steinmann J, Bafna S, Knoblich JA, Zeitlinger J, Stark A. Identification of transcription factor binding sites from ChIP-seq data at high resolution. Bioinformatics. 2013 Nov 1;29(21):2705-13.
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Four souls. Each have a path, a path, completely unrelated to the other. Their paths have never crossed, their paths shouldn't have crossed, but they have. Each had problems, each still have problems, they must face these problems and more, in order to reverse a problem which may jeopardize the fate of the world.
This, is the story. The story of the "Broken Saints".
This series is all AU. It follows Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series but there's a twist. Leia Cullen is the youngest member of the family, a blind vampire saved by Carlisle and Edward in 1995.
Canon couples, all, with a chance for some extra romance later in the series. A special thanks to Delicious Dreamer for my series banner!! :)
Any and all stories that concentrate on a romantic pairing between Bella & Emmett.
Bella h bella
For all the Bella/Jasper fics that make us fuzzy or turn us on! Anything from G to NC - 17 can be put in here, as long as it's not All - Human.
A series of one-shots. Moments in the life of the Cullen family.
What if there was a fight in Breaking Dawn?
How would it have played out?
Would the Cullen's or Volturi have won?
Would Renesmee and Jacob have survived and gotten away or would they have died?
Read to see my ending for Breaking Dawn
*Will come up with a better summary later on*
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