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Seven Devils provides beach access and opportunities for beachcombing, picnicking and fishing.
At this access point, you can travel several miles up and down the open beach. Agates are often the beachcombing goal of visitors to this out-of-the-way spot.
Vital stats: There is no fee to use this park.
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Location: Sevin Devils is located on the South Coast, off U.S. Highway 101, 10 miles north of Bandon.
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Magdalene Barbara Heim Elsken was born July 18, 1919, at the St. Edward Infirmary in Fort Smith. She was soon adopted into the loving family of Emil and Frances Heim of Fort Smith. She attended St. Boniface Grade School and graduated from St. Scholastica Academy in May 1937. She married Rupert C. Elsken of Paris on Aug. 17, 1939, at St. Boniface Church. She was one of the members of the so-called "greatest generation," in that she lived through the Great Depression and then World War II. While her husband was called away to military duty, she stayed at home with a young family, keeping life for them as normal as possible. After the war, she became a stay-at-home mom. All her children received a Catholic education and were encouraged to attend and given the opportunity of college, if they wished. After the family grew up, she worked for a time at Von Hattens Bakery. In 1998, her husband Rupert passed away, and not too long after that she had to accept, reluctantly, moving into an assisted living community. She died Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012, in Fort Smith. She was 93. She was preceded in death by her husband, Rupert; her father and mother, Emil and Frances; her brother, Leo; and sister, Margaret.
She is survived by her children, Barbara and husband John Ballard of Disney, Okla., Jerome Elsken, Michael and wife Jo Anne Elsken and Jeffery and wife Linda Elsken of Fort Smith, Janice and husband Don Chism of Las Vegas and Kevin and wife Darla Elsken of Pittsburgh. She also has 10 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Thursday at Fentress Mortuary Chapel. Mass of Christian burial will be held at St. Boniface Catholic Church Friday at 10 a.m. She will be buried at Holy Cross Cemetery next to her husband, father and mother.
Pallbearers will be her grandchildren, Cara Sutcliff, Lynn Ballard, Mark Elsken, Catherine Elsken, Christopher Elsken, Jason Elsken, Peta Lacy, Leah Dwin, Ryan Chism and Quinton Elsken.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) likened defeating Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton to corporal punishment at an Iowa campaign stop Friday, The New York Times reports. An audience member had asked about who he would hold accountable for the Benghazi scandal, and Cruz responded by suggesting Clinton, then secretary of state, is covering up her role in the 2012 attack that killed four Americans.
"In my house, if my daughter Catherine, the 5-year-old, says something she knows to be false, she gets a spanking," Cruz said. "Well, in America, the voters have a way of administering a spanking."
A majority of Americans support spanking children. Matthew Dowd, a former strategist for President George W. Bush, sharply criticized Cruz for his joke, saying he "isn't a real man." Julie Kliegman
Cruz: "I hit my 5 year old daughter, and i am going to make a joke about it." unreal. that isn't a real man.
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Former child star Justin Bieber reportedly rejected an offer of $5 million to perform at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this month. The pitch came from GOP donors who presumably wanted to match the saturation of Hollywood stars at the Democratic National Convention the following week.
Though an event coordinator suggested Bieber's appearance would be "not political," TMZ reports that Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, a Hillary Clinton backer, believed it would be "100 percent political."
Though the offer would have been Bieber's largest single payday ever, perhaps it's a good thing the deal never materialized given the GOP's choice of Donald Trump for its presidential nominee. After all, Bieber is an immigrant from Canada, and if he can be taken as a representative figure, it really seems like "they're not sending their best," as Trump himself would say. Bonnie Kristian
A hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people caught fire and crashed into a pasture in Texas Saturday morning, federal officials told the Associated Press. The crash happened near a small city called Lockhart in Caldwell County south of Austin around 7:40 a.m. Central time. There were no survivors.
Terrible. TX authorities say - no survivors of a hot air balloon crash in #Lockhart. 16 people on board. #breaking pic.twitter.com/38S0B0YDyM
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The Texas Department of Public Safety initially announced multiple fatalities, and Caldwell County later confirmed all the passengers were killed. "Investigators are determining the number and the identities of victims at this time," said the local sheriff, Daniel Law. Agents of the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are headed to the site of the incident.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott released a statement Saturday morning extending his "deepest condolences" and asking his state to join in prayer for those who were lost.
This post has been updated throughout. Bonnie Kristian
About two years after Russia's much-disputed annexation of the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine, the Ukrainian parliament passed a "de-communization" law which changed a number of location and street names from their Soviet-era titles. The law included Crimea, even though many now regard it as de facto Russian territory.
But on Thursday, Google Maps decided to take Ukraine's side, switching out names of Russian origin for the traditionally Crimean labels. Inevitably, the Russians noticed — and they were pissed.
The staff of Google Maps "suffer from topographical cretinism," charged Dmitry Polonsky, deputy chair of the Russian Council of Crimean Ministers, while Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov of the Russian Unity Party accused Google of being "Russophobic." More seriously, Russian Communications Minister Nikolai Nikiforov suggested Moscow might "not allow [Google] to effectively conduct business" in his country if the names weren't switched back.
And the next day, they were — for the Ukrainian and Russian versions of Google Maps alike. Google confirmed the reversal to the press but did not offer any explanation. Bonnie Kristian
Researchers from Britain have taught an 11-year-old orangutan named Rocky at the Indianapolis Zoo to imitate human speech in a conversational context. This is the first time an ape has demonstrated such ability, and the scientists involved say Rocky's skills could offer important insight into the development of human language.
"This opens up the potential for us to learn more about the vocal capacities of early hominids that lived before the split between the orangutan and human lineages," said lead researcher Adriano Lameria. While it was previously assumed great apes could not intentionally modulate their sounds, Lameria said, this "research proves that orangutans have the potential capacity to control the action of their voices."
Watch a video of Rocky "talking" below, but don't expect Shakespeare: His vocabulary appears to be limited to one word, "hi," and it sounds more like "huh." Bonnie Kristian
Nearly 4,300 firefighters on central California's Big Sur coast continue to battle the Soberanes Wildfire, a raging blaze that has spread to cover about 50 square miles (or 32,000 acres).
The fire began last Friday and is mostly located in the drought-ridden Los Padres National Forest, but it has destroyed 57 homes and caused multiple parks to close. As of Saturday, the fire is just 15 percent contained as "high temperatures [and] rugged, steep terrain" make firefighters' work difficult.
Watch a time-lapse video of the Soberanes Wildfire's spread below. Bonnie Kristian
1 week time lapse of the #SoberanesFire - now larger than the city of San Francisco at 31,386 acres. pic.twitter.com/P9p7bLMel9
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Representatives of billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch continue to turn down meeting requests from major fundraisers of the Donald Trump campaign, even after Trump formally claimed the Republican nomination for president.
A pro-Trump cadre reportedly lobbied for a conversation between the brothers and their candidate on Friday, when all three happened to be in Colorado Springs at once, but the Kochs firmly declined. Their disinterest is not surprising, as an unnamed senior Koch official predicted in February that should the election come down to Trump vs. Hillary Clinton, the Kochs might well sit this one out.
Indeed, the brothers have been consistently critical of Trump's candidacy, with Charles in April calling Trump's Muslim registry proposal "reminiscent of Nazi Germany," "monstrous," and "frightening." He has also described choosing between Trump and Clinton as picking "cancer or a heart attack" and labeled Trump's principles "antithetical" to his own. Bonnie Kristian
Republican Donald Trump took a six-point national lead over Democrat Hillary Clinton in at least two polls, from CNN and The Los Angeles Times, immediately following his nomination at his party's convention in Cleveland last week. But that polling bump has since evaporated, as a new Reuters survey finds Clinton is now six points ahead after her own convention.
Meanwhile, a Real Clear Politics average of multiple recent polls puts Trump and Clinton in a dead heat — each claiming 44.3 percent national support — as of Friday. It likewise records the disappearance of Trump's brief lead, which marked only the second time he has ever pulled into first place throughout the whole election cycle per that calculation. See the history of their matchup below. Bonnie Kristian


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The holidays can be a time of fun and family. But for many, it can also be a time of added stress — good and bad! One of my favorite ways to stretch tight muscles and relieve stress is yoga. Speaking as a type-A, high-energy person, yoga is the perfect antidote to this stress-filled, anxiety-ridden, wound-up-tight-as-a-drum world we live in. For me, yoga is like personal therapy!


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The Council begins
Fifty years ago today the Second Vatican Council began with a solemn ceremony in St. Peters Basilica. It had rained through most of the night before, threatening to wash out the procession through the Square. But the skies cleared into the brilliant Roman blue and things could proceed as planned.Students at the North American College had begun the week on retreat, given by Bishop John Wright. But the retreat was interrupted so that we could attend the opening of the Council. St. Peters Square was cordoned off, and despite our best efforts we were unable to get to good sites from which to watch the procession. Then we noticed that bishops, when they approached a guard, were granted immediate entrance: Avanti, Monsignore! And we also noticed that when bishops were accompanied by priest-chaplains, all of them got in. So we waited until we saw a bishop come who had no chaplains with him, and two of us placed ourselves right behind him, and we were all admitted: Avanti, Monsignore! So it was from the steps of St. Peters that I watched the opening procession of 2,400 bishops across the piazza and into the basilica, a most impressive sight!The most important moment occurred inside, of course, when after the Solemn High Mass, Pope John XXIII delivered his opening speech in which he set out his vision of the Council. Some of the highlights:
1. The popes repudiation of the prophets of doom who can see nothing but prevarication and ruin in modern times, who think things are getting worse and worse, who speak as if the end of the world is at hand. He is here describing an attitude that has been called Catholic catastrophism, which was very common in many RC circles over the previous century and a half, when various revolutions diminished the control the Church had over vast areas of human life. Such people, he said, tend to idealize the past as if it were always favorable to the Church and to ignore the restrictions on the Churchs freedom that came along with the support of the temporal authorities. Pope John asked the Council to consider whether humanity might not be entering a new order of things, under divine providence.2. He said that the chief aim of the Council was the defense and presentation of the revealed deposit of faith. This would require that the Church never turn her eyes from the sacred heritage of truth which she has received from those who went before; and at the same time she must also look at the present times which have introduced new conditions and new forms of life, and have opened new avenues for the Catholic apostolate. Notice the two-fold task, to be undertaken simultaneously, that the Council at once be faithful to the heritage of truth and be alert to the contemporary world. I imagine the pope as saying that the Council has to do what a good preacher has to do: preach the Gospel and know your congregation! Our task, he says later, is not only to guard this precious treasure, as if we were concerned only with an antiquity; eagerly and without fear, we must devote ourselves to the task our age demands, pursuing the path which the Church has followed for twenty centuries.3. He did not want the Council simply to repeat what everyone already knew. He wanted a new and deeper comprehension of the faith and he wanted the ancient faith presented in a manner intelligible to contemporaries: The substance of the ancient doctrine of the deposit of faith is one thing, and the formulation in which it is clothed is another. And it is the latter that must be taken into great account, with patience if necessary, measuring everything by the forms and proportions of a teaching authority primarily pastoral in character." That the Council should be pastoral and not dogmatic was an extremely important guideline for the bishops to follow.4. He did not want the Council to issue a set of condemnations to combat errors, which, he said, often vanish as quickly as mist after sunrise. The Church had often been severe against errors in the past, and he acknowledged that there were errors to combat today. But at the present time, he said, the spouse of Christ prefers to use the medicine of mercy rather than the weapons of severity; and, she thinks she meets today's needs by explaining the validity of her doctrine more fully rather than by condemning.If one knows the kinds of texts that were prepared for the Council, particularly by the preparatory Theological Commission, it is obvious that by these four points Pope John was distancing himself from that material and giving the bishops the authority of his own voice should they also find those texts inadequate to the challenges facing the Church. And when bishops were to declare their dissatisfaction with the prepared material, they would often invoke Pope Johns description of the aims and methods of the Council.For these reasons I think Pope Johns opening speech was certainly the most important of all the papal speeches given at Vatican II, and I would even argue that it was the most important speech of the four sessions of the Council.
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So, after 50 years, has the Church remained primarily pastoral in her orthopraxy, or has she once again lurched back to a strict juridical enforcement of the faith?
Those prophets of doom are today's bishops. like Wuerl who, although they play lip service to V2, they are disparaging of it.
These first two comments certainly sound like the moans of latter-day "prophets of doom"!
"The Spirit of the Council' ? 'Spirit and Enfleshment of the Spirit" go together in a space/time universe, do they not? Do note the analysis and reflections of canon lawyer Mary McAleese (former president of Ireland) in her "Quo Vadis?:Collegiality in the Code of Canon Law" (The Columba Press, Dublin, 2012). Where are you going, Lord? , Peter asks. Why to Rome - to be crucified again. So helpful President McAleese.
JAK --Holy hope doesn't mean ignoring facts. After the Council seemed to open up the Church to greater exercise of collegiality by the bishops, that hope seems to have been squelched by JP II. No, the Church is not dead, but it's in bad shape. You do it no favor by ignoring the fact. I think Pope John would be quite disapointed in what has happened, or, rather, what has not happened.
Ann: I'd be interested in knowing which fact you think I'm ignoring in my comment above, and why, on the basis of that simple comment, you think I am ignoring it.
So we waited until we saw a bishop come who had no chaplains with him, and two of us placed ourselves right behind him, and we were all admittedWell! Doesn't that indicate a deplorable lack of proper respect for the rules?
JAK --When Pope John used the phrase "prophets of doom" he was being sarcastic . He meant that the pessimists' outlook on the Church was not justified by the facts within the Church. By using the phrase you seem to want to mean what John meant when he used it (isn't that why you used quote marks?), but I say you are not justified in using it as John did. The facts in the Church in John's day were actually positive, while today they are terribly negative. The Church is in dreadful shape, and to make fun of its critics by calling them prophets of doom with the sense Pope John gave it is hardly justified. Sure, the Holy Spirit can work miracles, but that is what it will take for the Barque of Peter too stop its journey downward. So far the miracles are not in evidence.
As Jimmy Mac has reminded us in past threads, beware of the guys running the engine room. The Barque of Peter is in bad --- and I mean, bad --- shape. Last time it was in homeport, I got off!!! The old barque needs to go in drydock.
Pope John was not being sarcastic in using the term "prophets of doom"; that is an accurate description of people he said could see nothing around them but prevarication and ruin, who were always saying, "Things are getting worse and worse," as if the end of the world were near. I was using it to apply to people who seem to see nothing but decline in the Church today. For a counter-description, you might read Rowan Williams' assessment of the Church today. He actually thinks there are some signs that Christ and his Spirit have not abandoned the Church, another recurrent theme of Pope John's.
Yesterday, it appears that the procession looked mostly green and white: green vestments, white episcopal miters. I am under the impression that fifty years ago the procession looked mostly red and golden. Is that right, or else, what color was it?
JAK --Yes, no doubt the complainers were terrible pessimists. But surely Pope John didn't think that they were real prophets. How could they be prophets when they were wrong? On the contrary. I conclude that his phrase wasn't intended literally, it was meant sarcastically. Larry and Bill M. above are being quite negative == but they are clearly justified in being so, unlike the "prophets of doom" Pope John spoke of. So there is no parallel between Larry and Bill and those doomsayers in 1962. The Church now IS in horrible shape. Calling critics names won't help.
Claire --Here is some footage of Pope John's entry into the Basilica at the beginning of the Council. http://conciliaria.com/2012/10/video-of-john-xxiii-entering-the-basilica... that the popes' entrances into St, Peter's are no longer so full of pomp. At least that has changed a bit for the better. (And don't some of those Fathers look positively sinister??? :-) I think you'd enjoy the Conciliaria blog.
Ann,When were you last present at the pope's entrance -- anywhere? The chair is gone, but the pomp is not. He is ushered into every celebration with more fainfare than you could imagine. It is ALL about HIM -- the Vicar of Christ on Earth.This is a scandal.And heretical. As is the business of addressing him as Holy Father, which is what Christians rightly and reverently call the First Person of the Holy Trinity. Just listen to the new English translation of the Roman Missal, which spills the beans.(I await the father-theologian minders of this blog to correct and chastise me.)
Mr. Mickens --Does the Pope's entourage still include those bearers of those huge sort of fans that tower over everything? (They always looked like they were made of feathers to me.) I don't even know what their symbolism was supposed to be. They looked more appropriate to the court of an eastern potentate.Did you look at the footage of the beginning of the Council? At the end a cleric kisses the foot of a statue garbed in the most ornate sorts of robes. Was the statue supposed to be St. Peter? It reminded me of the Isak Dinesen story of the pilgrim who goes to St. Peter's and kisses the foot of St. Peter's statue and catches leprosy or something. Yep, it's all highly unsavory.
Ann: The parallel consists in that the doom-sayers, then as now, see nothing but "prevarication and ruin," that is, nothing good going on, in part, I think, because they don't look for it but are obsessed with faults among hierarchs as if the activities of the latter are the only measure of whether the Church is alive or not. To repeat the suggestion, read Abp. Williams' speech to the Synod.And it surely shouldn't be necessary to say that just because one doesn't think it's all gloom and doom in the Church one must think that all is sweetness and light. Or are we perpetually doomed to this either-or silliness? Didn't you use to sigh over "Complexity! Complexity!" Why can't you see any when you look at the Church?As I said above, Pope John called those people "prophets of doom" because they were prophesying ruin. "Everything is getting worse and worse." (They remind me of my first pastor: "Oh, Father, I'm glad I won't live to see that happen.")
Ann: thanks. I think that it was black and white and has been partially colorized. I can't tell the color of the vestments, though.Robert: I'm sorry you still have to bear with the new missal. Since I started attending Mass in French a few months ago, I am distinctly happier and more upbeat about the church. Life as a Christian is much easier now that I am not subjected each week to the tension of praying in words from a bad text that was designed by an abusive process.
JAK --The relationship between the critics and the state of the Church as whole was far from the same as that between the critics now and the state of the Church now. The Church in 1962, though creaking with much outmoded stuff, included great signs of hope for reform (e.g., of the liturgy and lay action as in Catholic Action movements). At that time there was no sex scandal. Dozens and dozens of bishops had not been guilty of the sort of coverups so many bishops were later found to be guildty of. True, some of those old bishops probably did the same sort of enabling, but it doesn't seem to have been so widespread, and it is certain that there was (not yet anyway) a scandal about it. In other words, at the time of Vatican II the Catholic bishops still had an earned status in society. But since the scandal they have lost it. Sure, some of them are trying to right matters, but not nearly hard enough.This is not to deny that there has always been good done in large segments of the Church. But it is hemorraghing membership. That surely is a tragic sign of the state of the Church now. Stop being a Pollyanna!
Ann: On another thread, someone named Ann Olivier wrote: "As I was taught, Christ lives in us, and when we act out of true charity we reveal Him. So all of saints and all the not so saintly who also sometimes do good all reveal different aspects of Jesus life." Which I thought was a very good comment, the sort of thing that needs to be taken into account when assessing the present state of the Church rather than being obsessed simply with what hierarchs are or are not doing. But, then, I have a far more concrete notion of the Church than many people. I try to remain aware, for example, that 99.9% of the Church are lay people and that whether the Church is alive or moribund actually depends on whether they are or are not "revealing different aspects of Jesus' life." I think that many of them are "acting out of true charity," and, although I know you will find this difficult to believe, there are even some vowed religious, some deacons, some priests, some bishops, and even (Be still my heart!) a pope who "sometimes do good." It is not Pollyannish to ask that they and their lives be taken into account before indulging in prophecies of doom.
The Church in 1962 [...]. At that time there was no sex scandal. Dozens and dozens of bishops had not been guilty of the sort of coverups so many bishops were later found to be guilty of. True, some of those old bishops probably did the same sort of enabling, but it doesnt seem to have been so widespreadAnn, call me a cynic, but I don't believe that for a minute. Coverups happened as a matter of course. People did not talk about clerical misbehavior, just like they did not talk about incest in families or other shameful things, and the people in a position of power were more able to prevent leaks about their crimes, and it is possible that the well-being of children was less of a priority. Sex was more of a taboo, but since when have social taboos stopped pedophiles? If anything, my guess would be that there was more sexual abuse (and coverups) in the past, not less. What is new now is that respect for status no longer mutes disgust for abuse, and that information flows much more freely. Both of those changes are for the better. Exposing crime is good, and it is something for which the church can be grateful to modern times. Regarding clerical sexual abuse and coverups, I am convinced that the church is now in much better shape than, say, in 1962.
Claire --The John Jay report about the scandal didn't establish whether or not such crimes were as common before the 60's -- too many variables that can't be measured now. But even if such crimes and cover-ups were as common, the faithful didn't *know* they were, so the hierarchy retained the good opinion of the people in the pews. But that has changed. Yes, most bishops seem to be trying to set things right, but some of us think that they still don't understand how their own hierarchical culture was a large part of the problem, so they have not really changed that culture enough. For instance, it still seems to be an iron-clad rule among them that they are not supposed to criticize each others' judgements in public. For instance, even when Cardinal Rigali was acting at a snail's pace to correct the Philadelphia cess pool, not one bishop complained pubicly about the fact in order to try to pressure him to change. (My own bishop was the only American one who even mentioned Philadelphia as a problem by name -- and he didn't mention the Cardinal Rigali's name.) This comes across as silent approval of those who are still dragging their feet.
Ann, it seems to me that one problem may be the following.What do priests do? They help turn people towards Christ. How? By saying or doing the right thing at the right time, when people are open and ready to take it in. But the sexual abuse scandal damages the reputation not only of the abusers but also of the entire priesthood. All the news articles in the media cause priests to be viewed with suspicion, and people are on their guard; hostile, even. It makes the priests' job almost impossible. So what's a bishop to do? Most of them, one hopes, have learned that abusers must be put out of the way of doing harm. But, to avoid further damage to the reputation of the clergy, they try to deal with them as quietly as possible. They believe that it is for the best. Now. I have mentioned that I was involved in an incident of inappropriate behavior by a priest. What did I do then? I filed a report, not with the police, but only with his hierarchical superior (who promptly sent him into retirement.) Why did I not inform the police? Partly because in France we don't like to go to the police for mere misdemeanors, but also because I knew a couple of people who had been evangelized by that priest: formerly lapsed Catholics who returned to the church specifically because of him. I did not want to spread the bad news and cause them to rethink their return. Perhaps that was foolish on my part, and I should have been more trusting, but I was afraid of the consequences of speaking up. Given that the man was safely away in a retirement home, why stir things up? When looking at such situations from the outside, it's easy to say that one ought to speak up. But when I'm the one who has to decide whether to speak up, the responsibility makes me pause. Without a clear reason to go to the police, I was reluctant to do so. So I didn't. So why should a bishop speak up to publicly criticize another bishop? It is quite possible that they act behind the scenes: talk to them to put pressure on them, write to the nuncio or to Rome. But what good is done by their speaking up and feeding the media more news related to the sexual abuse scandal? How does that have a moral value? Without a clear reason to speak up publicly, they are reluctant to do so. So they don't. Then there is your own role. You've mentioned that you taught some seminarians who later turned out to commit sexual abuse of youth. Had your radar been up, had you watched them closely, had you been attuned to those problems, perhaps you could have noticed that something was off. Perhaps you should have, instead of being oblivious. I don't know. But it would make it difficult for you to cast blame on the silent priests who were around abusers and who claim that they did not see anything. Don't get me wrong: I am a big advocate of transparency. But should I have gone to the police? Should a bishop tell the mainstream media that Bp Finn must resign? Should you have watched your seminarians more closely and reported any and all dubious behavior? It's not such a slam dunk, and the apparent inaction does not necessarily mean that I, or they, or you, buy into the hierarchical culture. Now I will hold my breath, hit "submit", and see if a storm of criticism hits me back.


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Breaking Bad #515: "Granite State"
I understand last night's Emmy Awards telecast included some sort of Breaking Bad-related interpretive dance. All I can say is, if you were watching the Emmys instead of Breaking Bad, it serves you right. (I also heard that BB finally won the Emmy for best drama series. Well, duh.)
Here's a Twitter joke that both made me laugh and filled me with now-familiar dread:
Tonight on Breaking Bad: raw footage of your most painful childhood memory.
— Sean Thomason (@TheThomason) September 22, 2013
Not quite. But close. Let's discuss the details after the jump....
I expected to pick up with Walt en route to his new life in New Hampshire in this episode, but who knew we'd be running into Saul on the run as well? I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise -- obviously, if Walt's been exposed, Saul is in big trouble as well. But Saul has always seemed so invincible -- so cheerfully amoral and therefore unaffected by the moral undertow that has been dragging Walt and Jesse and all the rest to darker and darker places. I remember commenting at the beginning of season 5A how unsettling it was to see Saul looking shaken. (My exact words: "I forgot to mention how striking, and troubling, it is to see Saul so rattled. It makes Walt's hubris seem even more dangerous. When Saul starts telling you you're doing something dumb, you listen! Remember what happened with Ted!") I haven't gotten used to it yet. Even his comb-over is out of place! Bob Odenkirk's performance is perfect, as usual, still finding ways to inject some comedy into the grimness without sacrificing the overall tone. The way he grimaced just as the shutter clicked for his driver's-license photo was wonderful. (I don't know what to think about the planned spin-off Better Call Saul, but my gut response to more of Odenkirk in this role is Yes, please.)
Similiarly, Saul walking out on Walt, as he did in this episode, seems like a very bad omen. The mighty Heisenberg is on his knees; he can't even get through a threat without a coughing fit. And yet Walt continues to refuse sound advice from disinterested but highly competent professional criminals who can see the writing on the wall: see also Ehrmantraut, Mike, and now the vacuum-repair-shop guy.
One of the things that sets this show apart is how well the writers handle exposition and other chores. (That also means it's important as well as rewarding to pay close attention, which makes it all the more bizarre that AMC keeps trying to convince viewers to check out their two-screen-experience baloney.) So, for example, in this episode they skipped ahead to Walt's two-month visit from his caretaker, clueing us in to the time jump with the details of their conversation -- Walt had obviously given the vacuum guy a shopping list, for example, one that included glasses and newspapers -- where a lesser script would just have Walt say, "I've been living in this cabin for two months now!" Their conversation included a lot of information, like how Skyler has been living since Walt left, but still felt natural and dramatic: Walt's experience receiving that information is as important for us to take in as the information itself. He made millions to support his family, and now she's leaving the baby with a neighbor so she can work as a taxi dispatcher? Ouch.
I did not expect to return to the little matter of Gray Matter, and if Walt had stayed put in his woodland cabin, we never would have. But there were Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz on Charlie Rose, triggering one last flare-up of Walt's fatal flaw: his pride. Way back in season one, that pride prevented him from accepting the Schwartzes' generous offer to pay for Walt's medical treatment. Accepting that offer would have ended the story. What we're seeing in these last episodes are the very ugly consequences of Walt's having decided that the story should go on. I thought of that season-one fork in the road when, after watching that interview, Walt decided not to give himself up after all -- and I also remembered the moment when Walt, drunk and resentful, goaded Hank to keep looking for Heisenberg because he couldn't stand to see the late Gale Boetticher get all the credit.
Alan Sepinwall has some good insights along those lines, and also about Jesse's plight. These final episodes continue to feel like a punishment, though I don't mean that as a criticism. The murder of Andrea was not "satisfying," in the sense of something I wanted to see, a loose end I wanted them to tie up. It was awful. But it makes sense, too.
I couldn't help thinking of Jesse when we saw Walt self-administering chemo -- shooting up in an effort to save himself rather than destroy himself. Not only does it seem very unlikely that Walt will be redeemed as Peter Nixon hopes; I'm beginning to regret that Jesse made it out of that depression-and-addiction experience alive. It's no fun to watch him suffer (and suffer, and suffer), and it doesn't seem like there's any way out. Not for him, anyway. For us: just one more episode! Any last predictions to make?
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I'll be begin by thanking you, Mollie, for these weekly posts about BB. They've become a regular part of my Monday morning-work avoidance strategies that I'll miss after BB is gone. (Thank goodness dotCommonweal still remains otherwise....)
I sort of hope Walt won't fire a shot next week, that his dream of vengeance or his narcissistic need for recognition collapses in on itself. His final defeat seems mostly likely to me as though it will (and, should) come at his own hands, through his own weakness, from his cancer. Certainly I thought last night that he seemed far sicker in NH than he appeared in the flashforwards when we saw him back in ABQ. Can a man who needs Ensure to put on weight handle such a powerful weapon?
A grace from what happened with Andrea is that, perhaps, the show can end on Jesse's reunion with Brock--a reaffirmation of family after so much has been done to break family in Jesse's and Walt's worlds. Next week's episode title, "Felina," not only anagrammizes "Finale" but refers also to a little cat. Who has 9 lives? Who will land on his feet? Maybe only Jesse deserves to. Maybe he will become the father that the biblical allusion in his name suggests.
I'm embarrassed to have been surrprised to see Gretchen and Elliott back, that it snuck up on me. Much as you say about how they handle exposition, I've always admired the spare way that the writers gave us just enough backstory to help us infer why Walt's life was the way it was when we met him. His pique had ruined him once already in his life. Whatever happened years before with the Schwartzes has hung silently and loomingly over the action of the whole show. Of course we come back to it!
Final thought--I fear for the Saul Goodman spinoff. TV so rarely goes back to the well...well, well. But the creators in an interview have said they have an unusual premise to 'subvert expectations.' Maybe it's like a memory play. Saul and Kuby have opened a Cinnabon outside Omaha. Saul gives legal advice to customers, and they reminisce about old times. No--actually, that sounds terrible too. I guess I just can't see it.
I loved what Alan Sepinwall said about the "Granite State" title. Few TV shows have titles as fraught w meaning as Breaking Bad- another reason I'll miss it.
When the whole Gretchen thing came on TV my first reaction was disappointment that they were spending even a minute of the penultimate episode on something that hasn't been on viewers' radar screens for several seasons. But these writers do keep you guessing, don't they? The Twitterverse can predict all week long what we are going to see, but I bet no one predicted the return of Gray Matter as a crucial part of wrapping things up. Hope the twist it provides next week will be satisfying; I'm sure it will be unexpected.
I was also very disappointed Lydia got any screen time whatsoever- time that we could have spent with Hewell. (sp?) Is he still in that hotel room?
There is a very Stanley Fish "Surprised by Sin" element to these final episodes that I have found incredibly uncomfortable (if also incredibly satisfying). Here we were, rooting for Walt all this time, wanting him to beat the bad guys-- and all the while, right in front of our eyes, he had become the devil.
The horrible inevitability of these last episodes-- of course Hank can't survive, of course Andrea can't survive, of course Jesse can't miraculously escape-- is indicting us all for having been on the side of the bad guy all this time. We all broke bad.
(and here I thought I could never thought I'd use my English degree jargon on a TV show.)
We were actually trying to manage our disappointment that we (presumably) wouldn't be hearing more about Gray Matter over here, and then bam, there it was. (Well, I noticed Jessica Hecht's name in the opening credits, so actually that was the point when I said "Hey wow they're bringing back Gretchen after all" -- but I was thinking flashback.) Remember that we learned at some point in season 5A -- "Buyout," #506, thank you internet -- that Walt's REAL motivation is getting what he thinks he's owed after being (in his view) cheated out of the fame and fortune Gray Matter would have provided. He took a buyout, the circumstances of which are still unclear, and he's been stewing over it ever since. (I didn't mention it in that writeup, but my colleague Jim did in the comments.) Since that episode I've been hoping to learn what Walt DID to get himself thrown out. The implication seemed to be that it was something pretty awful -- that, as this take puts it, the "big secret" of Breaking Bad is that "Walter White was always a bad guy." I was -- am? -- hoping for all the details.
IS Huell out of captivity yet? We can only wonder.
Huell was in a DEA safehouse being watched by agents who Hank hadn't clued in to his investigation. Once the rest of the DEA became aware of the case, they probably began to interogate Huell, which is probably what lead Saul to run away a few days after Walt. He could normally use privilege to shield himself, but Huell could provide evidence that he was a criminal lawyer, as Jesse put it so long ago.
I was very happy that Grey Matter was part of what triggered Walt's return. Many people have focused on the mention of blue meth being on the market and reaching Europe, which told him that he was replaceable and that Jesse (the most likely person to replace him) was still alive. I think the public dismissal of his contribution to Grey Matter was more relevant. From the beginning of the series, his festering resentment of being pushed out of Grey Matter has been a core motivation that trumped even his desire to provide for his family.
Ross Douthat compares the iniquities of Jesse and Walt. He raises the question: Why should anyone root for Jesse over Walt? Or should one? (Answer in 200 words or less.)
Walt goes all out full Heisenberg on Todd and his uncle's gang. Gets the money secured and suggests to Jesse that he flee but take the money and support his family and Brock. Jesse can get the redemption that I think he deserves. Walt, for his part, will use turn himself in and use the ricin on himself.
I root for Jesse because Jesse needed a strong father figure in his life and Walt provided that. And, I think, Walt did love Jesse although he directed him in ways that were self serving (watching his girlfriend overdose, orchestrating the break up between Brock's mother and Jesse). Of course the first relationship of Jesse's wasn't exactly wholesome or good for him but the second one was positive. Walt was a mentor for him in many ways and Jesse needs to select the good parts and discard the negative.
At Walt's age, it is not just about securing money, it is about legacy and carrying on. At that age, many men feel the need to teach the younger generations important life lessons and to mentor younger people. Walt cannot do that with his own son so that leaves Jesse.
For its part, the show leaves us with a legacy of mature art; complicated characters as all of us our in our own lives. A mixture of sin and grace. The vehicles of grace are sometimes themselves not clean.
In Greek tragedy the tragic hero is never redeemed -- he can't be because he chooses to act according to an intrinsic flaw or some mistaken judgment, and having chosen badly he necessarily fails. Eventually he does see his mistake, but it is too late. But in the Christian view of life, Christ's redemption of all people and the grace He makes available to all can ultimately save even the worst of humans if not for this life then for the next one. But there must be grace of some sort to make the individual understand his failure, and he must choose to receive the grace which makes repentance possible.
As Christians we recognize that Walt is a moral monster, yet there are parts of him that are decent and we hope that in the end he will be saved somehow. But how? He's not a religious man. What sort of goodness is there in his life at this point that is itself innocent enough to somehow inspire him to reverse course? His children are the only innocents in his life. Will they, or at least Holly (who still loves him) somehow force him to confront the fact that his own choices have turned him into a monster, and will he somehow see that he must repent?
But maybe this is not a Christian tragedy but a Greek one. Sigh.
I found myself thinking that the best outcome for Jesse wouldn't be survival, but a noble death. After Andrea's murder I find it hard to imagine any future life for Jesse that wouldn't be one of misery and self-torment. Of course, the writers of BB have an amazing way of twisting the plot so that what I've thought must happen ends up not needing to happen at all.


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WordReference translates acullá as "yonder." Is this a word that was only used in the past, or is it still used in modern Spanish today? If so, what regions does it appear in and how is it used?
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As others have said, this is not a commonly spoken word, but is found mostly in poetry and writing, perhaps especially used in folk and children tales. I would use "acá y acullá" as the equivalent of "hither and yon".
As an aside, The RAE defines "acullá" as
So "l(ocative?) adverb. To the opposite part of the speaker. Used opposite to adverbs that demonstrate closeness, such as "aquí" or "acá", and less frequently to those of farness, such as "allí" or "allá", of which it can be an intensifier.
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Spanish has six demonstrative adverbs. In order from nearest to farthest, they are aquí, acá, ahí, allí, allá, acullá. English has just three: here, there, yonder. That's why it translated it as yonder, as they are both the farthest from the speaker (incidentally, being from the [US] South, I use yonder in regular speech and so while allí sits on a grey area between my English there/yonder, allá and acullá would always be yonder for me).
Can't speak for other countries, but you will hear acullá ocasionally in the north of Spain (Asturias, especially).
It's a word only found in books and cartoons.
Her's an example in "Alice in Wonderland":


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Here, the private key of a sender is used to encrypt with AES… is that correct?
This is a rough implementation of what I think I've understood:
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At the beginning of Vayishlach, Yaakov divides his possessions into two camps. Chizkuni, seemingly bothered by Rashi's question about the gender of "המחנה האחת", explains that it means (not "the one [FEMININE] camp" but) "the camp of the one [FEMININE]": Yaakov divided his camp into the camp of Lea and the camp of Rachel. Not that his wives themselves were divided — we see that all his wives were together — but, rather, targum Yonasan says, "למוהבות לאה ולמוהבות רחל", the two camps were "the gifts of Lea and the gifts of Rachel". I suppose this refers to whatever gifts they got from their family when they married or when they left with Yaakov, or other possessions of their own. (If anyone knows of a sourced explanation for what Yonasan means, though, I'd appreciate it.) My question is: Yaakov himself had amassed a good deal of property, and he had it with him, too. Which of the two camps did his own property go into, and, more critically, why is the division described as being between the wives' property? And if, as @Menachem suggests in a comment, there were three camps (one of Lea's property, one of Rachel's and one of the family), then why does the Tora say there were but two?
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Rashi (Bereshit 31:33), says:
So perhaps the same thing applies here and Yaakov's stuff is included with Rachel's stuff.


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Definition: Radiation in this case does not refer to electromagnetic radiation. It refers to any kind of emission of energy, even energy that does not interact with regular matter.
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How much SWAP would you give a CentOS install on a dual Quad Core XEON with 16GB of RAM that is going to be running a php website with a mysql backend - medium/heavy load?
Not more than a gig or two -- you want a little bit of swap available, just in case and because it helps things work a bit better, but if you ever get to the point where you're heavily swapping, the machine is going to be useless -- and in a real catastrophic situation, you're actually better off with a smaller swap space, because then you'll trigger the OOM killer sooner rather than later.
I apologize for the very long answer. I've been wanting to put this stuff somewhere accessible for a while!
TLDR; Theoretically speaking, the answer would be "probably no less than the total amount of resident memory all your applications want to use"
I'll try to explain if you stay with me..
A bit about virtual memory
I feel there is a common misconception these days about what the value of swap is and what its purpose is for. It is often considered that swap is meant as a 'reserve bank' for memory when your running low on memory. Yes, this is partly true, but the kernel doesnt want to use your swap as a reserve bank. Additionally the kernel never wants to invoke the disk to get the data you are after!
In application space, theres a number of things the kernel will be keeping in memory.
For the purpose of memory management, memory allocation is backed in some form or another by a supporting device.
File backed memory is memory which has come from a file and on a typical O/S makes up the vast majority of memory allocation on the system. It includes files such as shared libraries which have been loaded, files read from disk and stored in the page cache and files mmaped from disk (in fact, the kernel makes no distinction of pages between files in the page cache and files mmapped as its essentially the same thing).
The great thing about this memory from the kernels standpoint is its disposable, that is it should be possible to dump these pages if you need the memory for something else and this is exactly what the page cache does if memory suddenly is a requirement.
Anonymously backed memory is a different matter. Memory from this region is anonymous because, well there is no file on disk which actually contains this data. This is normally made up of the application stack, the heap, anything in tmpfs and mmapped data which is private and has been modified (since it cant sync this stuff back to disk). Since theres just no valid file on the filesystem to write these pages back to if they change, anonymously backed memory is backed by the swap media.
Now, the kernel knows that when memory is scarce, its far far cheaper to ditch file backed memory the anonymously mapped memory, thats because anonymous data has a much higher chance of being "dirty" than file backed data, in fact by default the kernel rates anonymously backed memory as being 80 times more valuable than file backed memory and this is actually what the swappiness modifier does on linux (see this post here if you want to know what exactly the swappiness parameter is altering).
The worst case scenario
The worst case scenario when it comes to a server going out of control and OOMing is based off of the fact that it spends far too much time handling I/O requests than honouring memory allocation requests. There are two conditions which can invoke this criteria.
The first one, is the commonly thought of problem. That is, since so much of the memory lives inside of swap, one needs to swap anonymous memory out of RAM, put it back into swap, then take something from swap and put it into real RAM. This operation is very expensive, slowing down the machine to the point where it can become an unrecoverable situation (as more stuff is queueing for page demands than what can be served from I/O).
The second one is less considered but just as important. If you allocate almost all your memory to real application data - you wont last long. Nearly every application relies on reading files from the filesystem to operate, this could be because some instructions live in a shared library or because you need to read /etc/resolv.conf for a library call, or any other purpose. Its entirely plausible to halt an operating system - yet have enough memory to fit all your applications, but since your queueing so much I/O requests up nothing has a chance to complete properly.
What the kernel wants to do with your swap
The kernel wants to use your swap to get rid of pages that are wasting memory so it can use that memory for something else.
Basically, in normal operation, the kernel loves to aggressively fill up page cache with data read from disk, this means it wont read the disk for the same data. This is good design and can massively reduce I/O. Now, it might be that you have some application sat in memory that sleeps for 3 days, wakes up, does a bunch of work then sleeps another 3 days.
What the kernel would like to do with this data is swap it out to make space for filesystem activity instead, since you have a much higher chance of actually using these pages more often than the pages you use for your application. Swapping, in this sense might be a 16kb transaction to your swap media which you should hardly feel, but in return you freed up 16kb of memory that could be used to store four files worth of data.
What the kernel doesnt want to use swap for
The kernel definitely doesnt want to use your swap to allocate more anonymous memory by swapping out some other anonymous memory, this is the situation people worry about the most and rightly so.
However, I should point out that if you have allocated so much memory that the kernel has no choice but to do this, this is a configuration problem of the system administrators, not the kernel itself -- its just trying to do the best by the options you've given it!
If you have a huge amount of swap do you increase the chance you use it?
No! If you have 1G of ram and 4G of swap, theres not a 80% chance your data gets swapped! The kernel wants to use the swap only when pages in memory can be better served doing something else!
Is it advantageous to not use swap at all
I would never do this. Swapping allows the O/S to get rid of memory you need to have but is never in use. If you have no swap, your just swallowing up memory you'll never get back, for which you might see a significant performance improvement by allowing say, the page cache to have it instead.
Whats the best swap to have
Theoretically speaking, find out how much resident memory +20% for safeties like re-entrant library calls that have to allocate memory from heap - then set your swap to that amount. This would (theoretically anyway) permit the operating system to swap all anonymous memory out if it had to to make way for something more useful.
If I get the kernel opportunity to swap out everything thats dangerous right?
Remember, the kernel isnt wanting to swap to make way for more anonymous memory allocation here, it will only ever swap out pages not in use to favour something else that will make better use of the space instead.
If your swapping anon memory out only to allocate from more anonymous memory, your doing something wrong and need more RAM or to retune your application stack anyway.
How much RAM would you need
You need to permit enough RAM to run all your applications of course, but you should probably allow an extra 2G of RAM for pagecache to fill up -- maybe more. Page cache makes your computer much much faster and your disks last longer. If your thinking of running a webserver, having even more for pagecache is a good idea due to the sheer amount of static content you can retrieve and reuse from pagecache that would get served out (if your webserver throughput is 5mb/s, you really dont want to be retrieving that 5mb/s content you generating from your disk after all!).
What to do if you really dont trust linux to swap properly
If your really concerned you can allocate more memory than you have:
Whats the best way to tune my memory for my application
The vendor recommends a different configuration..
Listen to that instead. Some applications are written in such a way that they deliberately invoke the kernel to have their pages active over all others. This is a nasty trick to be honest but it breaks the kernels ability to seamlessly manage memory when it happens. If your vendor is giving you specifics then they likely fall into this category and listen to what they say instead.
In summary
The kernel usually does a very good job of managing virtual memory properly. Its almost always the case that your application is allocating more memory than you could possibly hope to work with and thats what is causing an OOM.
Swap used to be used as 'spare memory', but its not its primary purpose anymore, so dont think of using it like that. Instead, appreciate that your kernel probably knows best what it wants to use your memory for. Give it space to make those decisions and you'll benefit from an overall performance improvement.
From document "Oracle 10g Server on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5 Deployment Recommendations".
So for 16GB you should have no more than 4GB of swap.
PS. Also it's worth to note that invoked
Current CentOS Swap recommendations use the formula:
So for 16G, the amount of swap should be 18G.
See http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-swapspace.html
From what I recall from linux documentation: If your ram is greater than 2gb then you do swap = (ramSize + 2). If it's less then you do swap = (ramSize*2)
I found this document for you, it should help you to make that decision, here it is: What is Swap Space?, but neither of above answers are correct
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WATERBURY — The first time Ansonia High sensation Arkeel Newsome touched the ball Wednesday night was less than productive, and he knew it.
Newsome bobbled a punt by Woodland's Jason Rodrigues, but recovered the ball just in time.
That blemish was the only one for Newesome on the night. He scored five touchdowns, four on runs, to lead the undefeated Chargers to a 48-7 victory to capture their third straight Naugatuck Valley League football championship at Municipal Stadium's Ray Snyder Sr. Field
"Arkeel Newsome is the best running back in the state," said Woodland quarterback Tanner Kingsley. "He's been the best for the past couple of years."
Newsome said the Chargers were determined to win this game on defense by containing the Hawks' potent offense, which is engineered by quarterback Tanner Kingsley.
"We knew that we had to have a good game on defense," said Newsome. "We had to be mentally focused, and we were. We were really excited and pumped up for this game."
On the first two defensive series, the Chargers (11-0) forced two consecutive punts and allowed just six offensive plays by the Hawks.
"That really hurt us," said Woodland coach Tim Shea. "You can't go three- and-out (twice) to start the game."
Newsome, who rushed for touchdowns of 24 and 28 yards in the first quarter following the Hawks' first two punts, finished with 249 yards rushing. He also had TD runs of 7 and 67 yards in the second half and caught a 29-yard TD from Jai'Quan McKnight on a slant pattern.
"We worked a lot on ball security in practice," said Newsome, referring to three fumbles and six turnovers in a recent 21-20 win over Seymour. "We had to do a better job of that. After that first (muffed) punt, I knew that I had to make up for it. We had the momentum from the start and we definitely kept it."
The turning point came when Newsome's backup, sophomore Tajik Bagley, sprinted for a 62-yard TD with 9:50 left in the second quarter. Witold Gul's PAT kick made it 21-0.
"That was a big spark for us," said Ansonia coach Tom Brockett. "Tajik's going to be a special player."
Bagley didn't flinch when his number was called in such a big game.
"I appreciate the opportunity given to me and tried to take advantage of it," said Bagley.
So did Ansonia sophomore wide receiver Tyler Bailey, who caught a 38-yard touchdown pass from McKnight in the second half.
Team captain Antone Mack wasn't surprised by the impact made by Bagley and Bailey.
"We may have new people contributing this season, but we know what they are capable of doing and they are living up to the expectations we have of them," said Mack.
Defensively, McKnight, Gul and Bagley all intercepted Kingsley passes.
"Ansonia simply outplayed us at every position," said Kingsley, who had 10 completions in 29 attempts for 76 yards.
"We didn't capitalize on our opportunities that we had and we had too many turnovers (four)," added Kingsley.
"My hat's off to Ansonia," added Shea.
Sean McAllen scored on a 13-yard run in the third quarter for Woodland's score. The Hawks also had a 77-yard TD catch by Joe Poeta late in the second quarter negated by a penalty.
Ansonia captured its 39th straight win and sixth NVL crown in eight seasons. The Chargers are now 10 shy of Cheshire's all-time mark of 49 consecutive wins set from 1992-96.
"We really appreciate defending our NVL title," said Ansonia senior fullback-linebacker Saiheed Sanders. "We think back to all of the wind sprints and weightlifting sessions that we did, and this makes all of the hard work we have put in worthwhile."
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