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The instructor pilot in the cockpit of the Asiana 777 that crashed in San Francisco on Saturday was acting as an instructor in a 777 for the first time, the NTSB said in a news conference on Tuesday. The captain at the controls, it was previously reported, was flying his first approach in the 777 into SFO. A third pilot was also in the cockpit, said NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman, and the fourth was in the cabin, at the time of the accident. All four pilots have been interviewed by NTSB investigators, and all were "very cooperative and very forthright with our team," said Hersman. As of Tuesday, 26 passengers remained in the hospital, including six listed in critical condition.
Hersman also said on Tuesday that initial crew interviews and reviews of flight data don't appear to show any problems with the 777 before the crash. She also responded, on CNN, to complaints from the Air Line Pilots Association about the release of information from the investigation. "We believe that it is always better to put out the correct information and factual information so that bad information is not able to propagate," she said. ALPA released another statement on Tuesday calling the NTSB's release of data "ill-advised." ALPA added that questions need to be raised about why the ILS was out of service at SFO, and what other navigation aids the crew may have had access to or may have been using. The NTSB has posted video of its news conferences as well as video from the accident scene at its YouTube page. ALPA's statements are posted at their website.
On Monday, the Air Line Pilots Association released a statement critical of the NTSB's handling of the Asiana crash investigation. "ALPA is stunned by the amount of detailed operational data from on-board recorders released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) this soon into the investigation," ALPA said. "The amount of data released publicly during the field portion of the accident investigation is unprecedented. It is imperative that safety investigators refrain from prematurely releasing the information from on-board recording devices. We have seen in the past that publicizing this data before all of it can be collected and analyzed leads to erroneous conclusions that can actually interfere with the investigative process."
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Piper and start-up fuel distributor Airworthy Autogas jointly tested the fuel company's 93 octane unleaded fuel on an Archer as part of the lead-up to Airworthy Autogas's launch later this year. Piper conducted a structured flight test regime using the fuel at its Vero Beach headquarters. Next comes a series of cross-country tests to determine the viability of the fuel. Piper CEO Simon Caldecott said the testing is part of Piper's effort to find alternative fuels that work in its aircraft. The tests were done on an Archer equipped with a Lycoming O-360 and Lycoming was part of the program. Piper did not discuss the test results so far.
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More Defense Against Malpractice Claims
A myriad of potential malpractice-producing situations confront lawyers on a daily basis, and there is no way to protect against all such situations. But there are sure-fire ways to organize and operate your practice to maximize your avoidance effort.
Rules and Statutes
It is impossible to overstate the necessity of maintaining a good working knowledge of the rules of professional conduct and of the statutes that govern the practice of law. If a lawyer wants to chart a safe course through the minefields that exist in the practice of law, a working knowledge of the rules of professional responsibility and the statutes governing the practice of law is critical.
Far too many lawyers have been told about these rules and statutes but have not taken the time to learn them. While strict adherence to those rules and statutes cannot always guarantee a lawyer will not be sued, departure from those rules will at a minimum lay the groundwork for such a claim.
Needless to say, an absence of knowledge precludes recognition of a potential problem. However, even armed with the knowledge and the ability to recognize an issue, the application of these strictures to a particular set of facts is frequently an equally daunting problem. Interpretations of the rules are not always simple. Rather than seek help in applying the rules to difficult factual scenarios, too many lawyers resort to self-help.
This is a major mistake, since there are many available resources to help lawyers interpret the rules, including many local and state bar association ethics hotlines and the ABA ETHICSearch resource. State entities charged with enforcing the rules are also generally amenable to offering guidance to lawyers who seek help concerning the proper interpretation of the rules. Knowledge of the rules, recognition of the issues, and research can save a lawyer a deductible on an insurance policy and continue the lawyer's insurability. If you haven't done so recently, it certainly won't hurt you to go back over these rules.
Be Candid with Clients
Malpractice claims frequently arise from uninformed clients whose frustration at their lack of contact with their lawyer is topped off by an unexpected and disappointing result. Clients who have been kept informed of and consulted where necessary about all developments have a feeling of participation and partnership with their lawyers that makes it difficult for many to focus blame solely upon the lawyer when the outcome is disappointing.
Do not create unreasonable expectations on the part of clients. One of the most difficult situations that confronts a lawyer is dealing with clients whose lofty expectations have been dampened by the results counsel's legal services have wrought. Unhappy clients are the fertilizer from which malpractice claims sprout. Remember, hyperbole can lead to hysteria, and dissatisfaction on the part of a client can lead to hurt for the lawyer.
Don't exaggerate the positive in an effort to curry favor with your new (or old) client. Such favor is rarely long-lived. Provide a balanced assessment of the merits of a client's cause after having obtained all of the facts necessary to make an informed decision. Let the client know if developments require a change in your assessment.
Be absolutely candid with a client. A lack of candor on the part of counsel to a client is grist from which malpractice claims are made. This is not to suggest that lawyers aren't candid. It's not always easy to explain to a client why a promised action was not taken. In this age of "spin," many lawyers tend to provide a more positive view of their actions in a case than the circumstances warrant. They may also tend to omit conveying important information. Once the true picture is developed, however, the client is less likely to become frustrated.
Remember, two plus two should equal four. Employ accepted methods of accounting in the operation of your office. As the body charged with enforcing your jurisdiction's particular rules of professional responsibility will attest, one of the most dangerous pitfalls for a lawyer is to set up and/or run a law office without a clue as to either the bookkeeping and financial procedures mandated by the rules of professional responsibility or accepted accounting procedures.
It is surprising how many lawyers who practice law do not adhere to proper bookkeeping procedures, much less the rules and statutes governing the handling of client funds. Improper handling of a client's funds, whether on purpose or inadvertently, will almost invariably lead to a claim. Either get an accountant or contact your local bar association, your bar counsel, or the ABA if there is the slightest question as to the proper procedures for handling client funds.
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The truth is, if you don't either refer matters that are beyond your competence to counsel who do have experience in the requisite field, or become affiliated with a lawyer who is competent in the field required, the pot at the end of the rainbow may not be filled with gold. Far too many malpractice claims arise from intrepid lawyers who handle matters beyond theircompetence.
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ARM has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In Provider.
Membership in the Eclipse Foundation enables ARM to work more closely with Eclipse, one of the largest open-source communities today, which focuses on providing an extensible development platform for building software. Major technology companies, startups, universities, research institutions and individuals contribute to Eclipse, promoting interoperability in development tools and significantly reducing the overall costs associated with software development. The Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) has grown in popularity among embedded systems designers in recent years, particularly as increased support for C and C++ development tools has become available.
ARM currently offers Eclipse IDE support as an option in the RealView® Development Suite 3.0 solution, enabling developers to use Eclipse as a project manager to create, build, debug and manage C and C++ projects for ARM® targets. With the RealView Eclipse Plug-in, developers can take advantage of a rich variety of Eclipse-based development tools, together with the best-in-class compilation and debug technology available through the RealView Development Suite solution.
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Bob Sala is the alias of Germany based writer and photographer Marvin Kleinemeier. For the last 12 years he has been writing and taking photos for several regional and online magazines. After hundreds of local newspaper articles and two and a half unpublished novels he has been trying to capture the feel of the 60s and 70s with his photography for the last two years.
In everything I do, I am extremely fixated on design. And since my personal interests lie mainly in the culture of the 1960s and 70s, the classic design of the original X100 was immediately very appealing to me. For the last to years I have been using a X-T1 with my trusty XF35mm 1.4, about 90% of my photos was shot with this setup. While shooting I always try to setup a very intimate surrounding. The Fujifilm X cameras just seamlessly fit into the whole concept that I created with the alias "Bob Sala". "Vintage, sexy, cool" is something I hear people say about my photography. Same goes for my Fujifilm X cameras


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Enjoying the Tour de France lately.... I recently painted Victor Hugo's once residence on my website , you might be interested, always love your work, kind regards , Jacinta Montgomery.ReplyDelete
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This is a fabulous post! merci! I love how the groceries everywhere look better than the ones at home. Thanks for the nice perspective & great photos . So sad about your last Macaron. It is a good thing you like dogs so much,or he would be in the dog house. Have a fun and safe trip! Fan From Rural Oregon USAReplyDeleteReplies
the macaron was stale anyway...I was using it to paint from..I had a bunch more anyway but Karen did manage to get it back for me!Delete
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I do like it that even supermarkets in regional France reflect local produce/ specialities of the region. That's something you don't see in Britain, where your fresh veggies in supermarkets are more likely to have been flown in from Peru or Kenya.ReplyDelete
Biff certainly has good taste!
Biff has me up in stitches, such delicacy in handling a macaron! :-)ReplyDelete
I thoroughly enjoyed browsing another French supermarket with you, simply terrific, and I love that they embrace slow, local food.
... I love to supermarket shop in France and England ... I'm not sure why the products fascinate me. Thanks for the peek, it sounds like you have had a great time. Onward to Paris ... best, Karen in CTReplyDelete
C'est vrai - supermarkets in foreign countries supply endless fascination, and many a sweet discoveries. Amuse-toi, Carolg!ReplyDelete
I would so be with you in the supermarkets and small grocers etc..I just wrote about French Cookies:)Funny sometimes things coincide..ReplyDelete
We have Le Tour De France on every day too:)
Oh and here I thought I was the only person who genuinely enjoyed going to foreign super markets! The ones in Ireland are lovely and quaint and there's actually only one or two brands of some things. Really makes life easier in the decision making department. I mean, how many types of mayonnaise does one need?ReplyDelete
Lovely post!
(OK, and I just ordered that magazine. You keep suggesting these gorgeous books and publications, Carol, and I'm going to go broke!)ReplyDeleteReplies
You won't be disappointed.Delete
Karen gave me some copies to read on the train -very practical and great fun.
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1st I was near Tours in the Loire ValleeDelete
Then in Poitou-Charantes, rural western central France.
Read Karen Wheeler's Tout Sweet series and you'll get an immediate feel for the place and perhaps a desire to visit!
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Biff gave Bear a really good nuzzle after stealing him out of my bagDelete
Too funny!
Ah that Biff! He has what is known as a soft mouth - he doesn't crunch down hard on what he's carrying...it makes him eminently suited to be a hunter's dog - he won't smash the birds when he retrieves them. That you were able to pry his jaws open means he is incredibly cooperative: I have had both kinds of Airedales - cooperative like Ozzie (in fact he would actually drop ANY prize if told to do so) and Uncooperative like Drizzle, whose jaws could not be pied open by 3 strong people if he had a treat he prized. But I started out to rave about the grocery stores! Why is it that foreign food labels hold such romance?ReplyDelete
I had been feeling deprived with our crass American boxes and labeling until I saw a European blogger's book project, where she proudly showed her great "find", a Land-o-Lakes butter box! I now try to look with new eyes at my pantry.
I've also always liked taking a tour of the supermarkets in other countries. This definitely gives you a close up view of the current culture, and also yields some delicious sampling.ReplyDelete
Like you Carol, I also am always interested in seeing what the package designs are like, too.
Hey...long lasting thunderstorm passed its way through NYC today, in the late afternoon. Lots of thunder, lightning, and rain, but the promise of hail proved to be false.
So now it's a bit cooler, but oh, so much more humid. Even so, I am enjoying tonight's strawberries and cream along with iced coffee, as I have this catch up with your travels.
More fraises on Thursday for you FrancesDelete
I'm with you on French supermarkets and packaging - just love them...though I love the street markets too! JanineReplyDelete
Oi? Quanta coisa bonita e gostosa! Um bom fim de semana! Beijos!ReplyDelete
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Daer Anonymous,Delete
as noted in the sidebar Disclaimer:
I don't profess to use perfect French nor do I bother with accents.
Please forgive
Blogger is glitchy enough without pushing it to the limit when posting.
Love looking at the supermarkets and have completely obsessed about the le cardmelier lime plaid jar with lime top and is that.....a pink spoon on the side,ReplyDeleteReplies
Exactly Judi!Delete
The French would like you to dig into the jar of caramel instantly and supply a spoon just for that!
Just wanted to say that we loved your blog today!ReplyDelete
You captured the francophile's dream perfectly!
Every time we arrive in France, we are so excited to get to the supermarket!
And great to see another avid Living France reader :)


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Celeb/art/fashion photographer Tyler Shields takes some beautiful photographs. He also undermines his own work with douchey statements like "Something so honest about a woman crying." Yesterday, he posted some photos from a shoot with 20-year-old actress Emma Roberts and her pal Juno Temple crying unicorn and vampire tears, respectively. (I think it looks more like a unicorn money shot, but whatever you say, guy.) Are these photos the stuff of high art, or do they belong with all the other "True Blood" homages on Myspace, or wherever kids post embarrassing pictures of themselves nowadays? You be the judge.[ITPGallery]


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Liev Schreiber skipped the Hollywood premiere of Wolverine the other night because his son Sasha was sick in New York. Sasha was briefly hospitalised but is clearly feeling much better, enjoying time on dad's shoulders yesterday during a walk through Soho. He is cute!
Allow me now to segue not so gracefully to the subject of Liev's, um, tight pants the other night in Arizona. Click here to revisit. Have received many messages since then commenting on the …lack of airspace for his package. I agree. I mean, you could put a piece of paper on top and trace his lineage, you know?
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`Media Cubes and Rabbit Summary'
DJ Greaves, A Blackwell, University of Cambridge.
Autohan and Event Projects
In AutoHan we are building a user interface architecture for the home network. We believe that infra-red is an important medium for the home and that people will continue to use remote controllers of increasing sophistication. Some controllers will stay put in a room and others will be carried around and worn. Some contollers will continue to be provided with consumer goods but others will much more general purpose.
We wish to use this new generation of controllers both for real-time control of the network and for programmming the home to set its future actions and behaviour. A major semantic issue with the controllers of today is that they must be pointed at the object under control. In this work, we want to point at things not immediately to hand, such as the heating boiler, and also more abstract things, such as the a radio programme on a given channel at a future date. We also want to combine controllers together or point them at each other to achieve advanced operations in a natural way.
One of the programming languages we want to generate from the controllers is Iota and another is Cambridge Event Langugage (CEL). As mentioned, we also wish to continue to use the controllers for real-time control of the environment, as we do today.
The Rabbit Wand is one example of a new generation controller. The Media Cubes provide something to point at to iconify the abstract entities and then go further, when we combine cubes to form a programming language.
Rabbit Wand
The Rabbit Wand is an IR controller with a microphone input and both narrow and wide infra-red beams. If the narrow beam is like a visable laser pointer, very accurate pointing is possible. We might envisage a consumer device with a number of little targets that can be pointed at when it is occasionally necessary to do some fine control function.
The contoller can be used to point at devices and the speech input function processes demonstrative adjectives for correlation with the devices being pointed at.
A motion sensor or solid-state gyro could be included cheaply in the rabbit.
Rabbit Network Achitecture
The Rabbit probably does not do speech recognition itself, but instead puts the voice over a DECT-style link to a network receiver node. The receiver node relays the audio over the home network to a server running the speech recognition function and other software. We are working on this other sotfware.
Media Cubes
These cubes may be placed next to each other in various configurations to write programs and implement real time home control. They can also be pointed at by an IR wand.
Our first media cubes are cubic and have one button. This is deliberately very different from an IR contoller. We expect our final controllers to be somewhere in between the two, preserving the power and tactile nature of current IR controllers while supporting the adjaceny facilties of cubes.
The Media Cubes pictured here are early prototypes. Each cube has a bidirectional infra-red link to the IR basestation (also pictured), and can be pointed at with the Rabbit Wand or other IR controller. The face of each cube has an induction coil, which allows it to detect adjaceny with other cubes. These coils should be covered over with graphic sheets that indicate the function of each face of each cube, but these sheets are missing in the photo.
Having induction coils, batteries and IR tranceivers on each cube is not seen as a long-term technology solution. These prototypes are just to experiment with the cube language and concept. In the long run, cubes are intended to be much cheaper than today's infra-red controllers. We also envisage virtual cubes which can be manipulated on a display device and that home programming information can be displayed with cubes.
Simple Example of Cube Use
If we point the television IR controller at the TV and press `1' it turns on the TV on BBC-1. If instead we point the same controller at the `time' cube and set the little display on the time cube to some time tomorrow, then pressing the `1' button on the IR controller defines a one-time program to turn on the TV on BBC-1 at that time tomorrow.
If we point the controller at the `when' cube and place another cube which has been associated with receiving DTMF messages by telephone on the correct side of the `when' cube, then we can generate a program to turn on the TV on channel 1 when we dial in with a given code.
ConclusionThe cubes may be thought of as infra-red remote controllers with one or two buttons. They are at the extreme other end of the spectrum from our current infra-red controllers that bristle with buttons. We shall soon have made some more combi-cubes that have more controls on them yet which can still be combined with each other. Watch this space.


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Huntley primed for another big night
Huntley boys track coach Jim Rolando has said his team's success this season has boiled down to teamwork.
That theory is backed up by the Red Raiders winning both the McHenry County and Fox Valley Conference titles.
Huntley looks to add to its string of success Friday at its own Class 3A sectional, where berths in next weekend's state finals in Charleston will be on the line.
At the sectional level the top two place finishers in each individual and relay event plus any individual or relay satisfying the minimum state-qualifying standard in each event will advance.
"We have a pretty solid base of seniors and a handful of freshmen have stepped up at the varsity level," said Huntley senior Trevor Obecny. "There are a lot of guys we can count on. We have an all-around solid team with distance, sprints, jumps and throws. We're a very well-balanced team."
Obecny, who will do track next year at Northwest Missouri State, will compete in the 800 as well as the 3,200 and 1,600 relays, making for a busy evening. Obecny was part of Huntley's 1,600 FVC championship relay team and took second in the 800.
"It's a killer trio," he said with a laugh. "I've been running that stuff since freshman year so I got used to it. The training we do helps you get used to it. It's really not that bad."
Fellow senior Justin Herbert is coming off a conference-championship win in the discus and a second-place showing in the shot put. He's already over the state-qualifying mark in the discus and is very close in the shot put (5 inches).
"I did a lot of training in the off-season," he said. "I did a lot of powerlifting over the winter. My shot put has gone up 8 ½ feet since last season and my discus has improved by 17 feet from last year."
Herbert increased his bench press from 285 pounds to 325. He's squatting about 500 and deadlifting 580 pounds. He added strength alone hasn't gotten the job done.
"There is tons of technique involved," he said. "When I wasn't lifting I was going over steps and drills wanting to get ready for the season. I knew if I wasn't pulling anything off this year it would be tough to throw in college. Putting the numbers up I have lately has made it a lot easier."
Herbert, who will throw at Western Illinois University next season, said team chemistry and coaching also have helped in crafting this Red Raiders' story.
"It's been a crazy year," he said. "We're all really close friends not just on the track, but outside of track. Everybody's bond has helped a lot. Teammates will come over between their events and cheer each other on. We feed off that and we push each other. And any of the sports I have played I've never been with coaches who cared so much about players and the health of players like our coaches do. The coaches are there when you need anything. They are like a second family."
Obecny knows Huntley must prove itself at the sectional.
"We're pretty pumped," he said. "We know the sectional is very competitive. Our goal is to compete well and get good PRs."
The Huntley sectional field also includes Jacobs, Cary-Grove and Crystal Lake South among the 16 teams.
Bartlett and Connor Rachford are part of the Class 3A Hoffman Estates sectional along with Dundee-Crown, Elgin, Larkin, South Elgin and Streamwood. Bartlett coach Eric Kramer said Upstate Eight Conference 100 dash champion Aaron Everson will not compete at the sectional (rules violation).
Rachford will run the 800 and be part of the 3,200 and 1,600 relays. He's gone as low as 1:57 in the 800 this year (1:57.24 is state qualifying). Rachford did not run the 800 at conference and instead did the 1,600.
"I took a mental break from the 800 so I could come back and pound it for sectionals," he said. "You have to be mentally tough in the 800 the entire way. You can't be afraid to push at the right time. There is no time to lay back. Once someone gets away from you, it's hard to catch them."
Rachford is looking forward to meeting up with Marmion standout Kevin Grahovec again. Rachford won the Illinois Prep Top Times indoor 800 state title in 1:58.66, while Grahovec was right there at the line at 1:58.67.
"This will be the first time we've raced since then," Rachford said. "It will be interesting."
Burlington Central will compete in the Class 2A Sterling sectional. Central's Ryan Olsen will be plenty busy competing in the 100 and 400, as well as the 400 and 1,600 relays.
"This is easier than conference because I had to run the 200 and that had prelims and finals," Olsen said. "I like being busy. I feel like when I'm busy I get warmed up easier and I'm ready to run my races."
Olsen, who noted his best event is the 400, was plenty active with off-season training, specifically mixed martial arts regimens.
"I wasn't doing anything (time-wise) as a freshman or a sophomore," he said. "Coach told me I was just a nice kid on the team (laughs). I was that kid. Junior year I kind of came out of nowhere and I credit that to having a strong off-season with hockey. I played on two teams and got a lot bigger and faster. The MMA training has helped me stay in shape and helped with preseason conditioning and it's fun. You know you will get a workout. It's a pretty unique thing to do. People don't realize how much work is involved in just jumping rope for 20 minutes straight. Something like that is all calf and lower muscles."
Olsen, part of last year's Central state runner-up 1,600 relay team, has gone as low as 49.5 in the 400. State-qualifying is 50.84 in Class 2A.
"I would like to get that down to 49.1 or in the 48s," he said.
Sophomore teammate Lucas Ege is slated to do the 110 and 300 hurdles and the 1,600 relay. He said he may not do the 110s due to a hamstring issue.
He has his eye on the frosh-soph school record of 39.8 in the 300s. "I think I can get that," he said. "Everything is starting to come together. With the 300 hurdles you have to have enough stamina to get through it. Everybody seems to die off in the last stretch. You have to have energy at the end."
Ege runs the 1,600 relay with Olsen, Alex Johnson and Kyle Neubauer.
"We're less than a second off state time," Ege said. "We've improved a lot. I think we can get it if everyone is healthy."
Hampshire also is in the field at Sterling. St. Edward, Elgin Academy, Westminster Christian and Harvest Christian will compete in the Class 1A Seneca sectional Friday.


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KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A 20-year-old man is in jail in southwest Missouri on Friday on charges he planned a mass shooting at a theater during the showing Sunday of the new movie "Twilight."
Blaec Lammers told police in Bolivar, Missouri, that he bought two assault rifles and 400 rounds of ammunition with the intent of carrying out a shooting that would be similar to one that killed 12 people and wounded 58 during a Batman movie premier in Aurora, Colorado, last July.
Police announced Lammers' arrest on Friday. He was arrested Thursday and charged in state court with making a terrorist threat, armed criminal action and first degree assault, records show. He is being held on $500,000 bond.
Lammers' mother alerted police on Thursday that her son and bought weapons similar to those suspect James Holmes allegedly used in the Aurora shooting, Bolivar police detective Dustin Ross said in a sworn statement to the court.
On Thursday, Lammers, who is from Bolivar, told Ross that he bought the guns early this week for hunting, but then he began talking about recent shootings in the news, Ross said.
"Blaec Lammers stated that he had a lot in common with the people that have been involved in those shootings," Ross said. "Blaec Lammers stated that he was quiet, kind of a loner, had recently purchased firearms and didn't tell anybody about it and had homicidal thoughts."
Lammers said "he was going to shoot people at the movie theater" on Sunday and had bought a ticket for Twilight, according to Ross. Lammers said he was concerned he would run out of ammunition so he also planned to go to a Wal-Mart in Bolivar, shoot people at random and steal ammunition.
Lammers told police he went practice shooting with the guns on Tuesday because he had never shot a gun before and wanted to make sure he knew how they functioned.
The theater in Bolivar is a fourplex on the edge of downtown in the community of about 10,300 people, said Bolivar police Sergeant Shawn Curtis. Lammers did not resist arrest, Curtis said.
"We were happy with the outcome and with the work of our officers," Curtis said.
(Reporting by Kevin Murphy; Editing by Mary Wisniewski and Jackie Frank)


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Woody's Worth Increases with Cassandra's Dream
- Christian Hamaker Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
- 2008 22 Jan
DVD Release Date: May 27, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 2007 (limited)
Rating: PG-13 (for thematic elements, some sexual material and brief violence)
Genre: Murder Mystery
Run Time: 108 min.
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor, Tom Wilkinson, John Benfield, Clare Higgins, Hayley Atwell, Sally Hawkins
London has been good to Woody Allen. Cassandra's Dream, the third film in Allen's London-based trilogy, rivals his earlier moral drama, Match Point, while exceeding that film's technical craft and giving Colin Farrell the role of his career.
Brothers Ian (Ewan McGregor) and Terry (Colin Farrell) are both frustrated dreamers. Ian works for his father (John Benfield) at the family's restaurant, but has no desire to take over the operation. Instead, he tells a new romantic interest, Angela (Hayley Atwell), that he's invested in a couple of hotels planned for Los Angeles. With the help of his well connected Uncle Howard (Tom Wilkinson), Ian hopes to move from London to a new life in L.A., where Angela, an actress, can pursue her career.
Terry, a mechanic with perpetually dirty fingernails, has a weakness for the dog track and the poker table. His high-stakes wins are followed by inevitable losses, and he soon finds himself deeply in debt, with loan sharks looming.
The tendency of the two brothers to live beyond their means is demonstrated by their shared purchase of a boat, "Cassandra's Dream," at the beginning of the film. The boat will also provide the setting for the film's dark conclusion.
To finance their future, the brothers turn to their uncle, who has come to visit, but they are surprised when the uncle confides that he has his own desperate situation: Someone is planning to testify against him for shady business practices, and the testimony is sure to put Howard away for years. There's only one solution: The associate needs to be killed.
Howard has been the family's benefactor for years, sending cash to his sister (the brothers' mother), who gripes about her husband's struggles to provide for their family. The brothers, who had expected Howard's largesse, now find the tables turned. They owe him, Howard insists. He needs them for once. Will they follow through?
No, they won't. Their consciences won't allow it. But after further reflection, Ian sees no other avenue to achieving his dreams, or to settling Terry's debts. The shift in attitudes is notable. Ian is the more responsible of the two brothers, always bailing out his sibling and helping sustain the family business, while Terry is a ne'er do well on the path to destruction. Yet it is Terry, faced with no easy options to relieve his situation, who can't abide the thought of murder, while Ian persuades him that there's no other choice. The two men decide to carry out the murder, but with unforeseen ramifications.
Farrell, who has been hyped as a glamorous bad boy in films such as Miami Vice, Alexander, and The New World, has never come close to equaling what he does here. His character's decisions are often foolish, but ultimately he's tender-hearted, reluctant to follow through with the killing of Howard's nemesis, and descending into emotional turmoil afterward. McGregor is also fine as the increasingly petulant Ian, insistent that Terry keep his mouth shut about their shared crime. When Terry shows no signs of sharing in Ian's hardening of heart, Ian and Howard are forced to consider compounding their sin to silence Terry.
The film plays as a drama, although some in the audience at the screening I attended laughed as Howard pushed his extreme solution on the brothers. Allen himself has suggested that Cassandra's Dream mixes elements of comedy with serious drama, without specifying where the comedy comes in. I'm not convinced that we're supposed to laugh at any of Cassandra's Dream, although many audience members surely share Allen's well documented nihilistic worldview. Therefore, Wilkinson's desperation may strike some viewers as amusing.
How one judges the merits of Cassandra's Dream depends in part on what one thinks of the tone of the story. If there's comedy in it, do the jokes fall flat? Are the jokes so nihilistic that they aren't amusing? Is the movie a straight drama? Certainly the tone of the story is serious, and the actions the characters take have mortal consequences. The idea that someone threatened by someone else might decide to have that threat removed is not unheard of in real life. And although movies have sometimes used this premise to comic ends, Cassandra's Dream feels much closer to tragedy than it ever does to comedy.
The book of Proverbs tells us, "He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy" (28:13). In the New Testament we read, "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account" (Heb. 4:13).
Terry's words, after he's committed the film's central sin, show the truth of God's revelation. "What if there's a God?" he asks Ian. "We're crossing the line. We broke God's law. … I want this off my neck. … I want the slate wiped clean." But Ian has other ideas.
Terry can't find a way to wipe the slate clean, and Cassandra's Dream offers no ultimate hope for Terry to see his sin atoned for. However, Terry's need to confess his sins is biblical and admirable. Likewise, Cassandra's Dream is an admirable film with biblical themes, and it reveals a director and screenwriter still grappling with Judeo-Christian notions of morality. He's had some high-profile moral failings, but Woody Allen's latest films shows that God's not finished with him yet.
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- Language/Profanity: Lord's name taken in vain; profanity; a man says two attractive people have a "duty to reproduce"; discussion about whether an actress would sleep with someone to get a part.
- Drugs/Alcohol: Lots of drinking; abuse of prescription drugs; smoking.
- Sex/Nudity: A woman in bed talks to man with a towel around his waist after they've had sex; an actress in a play lies in bed, coming on to a man; some kissing; the actress is said to be nude in the play and to engage in kinky sex, although these things are not shown; two people are shown having sex under the sheets; a man's live-in girlfriend hopes to get pregnant by him.
- Violence: A man is shot offscreen; another murder is planned but not carried out; a brawl has fatal consequences.


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The general presidential election is still months away, but President Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney are already hammering each other with attack ads.
Obama's most recent ads criticize Romney's time as a so-called "corporate raider," while Romney has released several ads seizing upon the president's statement that the "private sector is doing fine."
Negative campaigning is hardly new, but at the rate this year's campaign is going some say this could be one of the most negative races in recent history.
"I think it's very likely to be the most negative race since the advent of television," says John Geer, a political scientist at Vanderbilt University.
Geer tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz that there are several factors that could influence that negativity, including huge superPAC donations and the increasing polarization of the political parties. A third factor, he says, is the candidates themselves.
"Both candidates [have] some flaws," he says, "and those flaws will provide grist for the respective attack mills."
The Positivity Of Negativity
Poll after poll shows Americans don't like negative campaigning, but Geer says, people do want to know is whether a candidate has raised taxes or flip-flopped on an issue. He says one study found negative ads — by a margin of 60 percent — tend to be more accurate and truthful than positive ones.
"They want to know the downsides of candidates," Geer says. "We spend a lot of time worrying about the exaggeration or the misrepresentation on the negative side, but the same thing [happens] on the positive side."
Geer, who wrote the book In Defense of Negativity, says democracy requires negativity. When one group is trying to take control of the seat of power held by another group, criticism, and therefore negativity, is how they communicate to the public that those in power need to be replaced, he says.
"There is no democratic country in the world that doesn't have negativity in it," he says, "because it's ... a foundational aspect of the system."
Recent research from the Wesleyan Media Project shows that this presidential campaign has already been very negative, and Geer says it will be interesting to see how it plays out as the November election approaches.
"Obama does not have a lot to run on ... and Romney has some aspects of his record that he has to explain," he says.
One thing that has changed over the last decade or so is the news media's fascination with negative ads, Geer says. The power of some negative ads comes not from the ad itself but from the news coverage that follows.
Rise Of The Negative TV Spot
One of the TV ads that began that media fascination, Geer says, is the now infamous "Willie Horton ad." The ad ran during the 1988 presidential election between Republican George H.W. Bush and Democrat Michael Dukakis, a race often considered one of the nastiest elections in the modern era.
The ad, released by a Bush political action committee, features a Massachusetts prisoner named Willie Horton who committed a brutal assault and rape while on a weekend prison furlough. Dukakis was governor of Massachusetts at the time. He had defended against earlier attack ads, but Dukakis says this one was so negative and racially charged that he and his team decided the best response was to ignore it.
That decision might have cost him the presidency.
"I thought people were tired of a lot of the polarization that was taking place ... and basically just said, 'We're not going to respond to those attacks,' " Dukakis tells Raz. "It was a terrible mistake."
Dukakis, who now teaches at Northeastern University and UCLA, says that by the time he realized his mistake it was too late to repair all of the damage it had done. He says he found out the hard way that negative campaigning, if left unanswered, can really work.
"You can't do what I did ... [because] if you do that, you're going to be hurt and you're going to be hurt badly," he says.
Now that outside groups can spend unlimited amounts of money on ads, the 2012 election could make 1988 look pretty tame. Dukakis says there's no doubt this campaign is going to get very nasty, but he says there's no reason for it.
"I'm not suggesting we wouldn't have some negative campaigning without Citizens United," he says, "but I think that it was a terrible thing for the American political system."
Negative Ads Here To Stay
No matter the year, negative campaigns are part of America's DNA. During the 1828 presidential race between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, Jackson was accused of cock-fighting and cannibalism; his wife was called a prostitute.
"We seem to think ... everything is getting worse, but if people had any historical memory they'd see that this is relatively mild," says New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich.
Rich, who wrote about negative ads this week, says that 2012 is not a departure from history. Romney ran negative ads early and often in the heated Republican primary and now in the general election. He tells Raz that the Obama campaign has shown it can do the same, citing ads attacking Romney's time at Bain Capital.
"The Obama campaign is schooled in this and presumably will act upon their expertise, as will the Romney campaign," he says.
Rich agrees that conversations wrought by negative campaigning are ultimately bad for American political discourse, but he says we can't pretend that they're not happening. The campaigns are going to have to participate in those conversations to sell their respective candidates.
The larger point, Rich says, is that the country will survive it all no matter how negative it gets.
"We can always feel that everything is going bad at any given moment," he says, "but the truth is we have to have a little bit of a longer view and realize that this is what waxes and wanes in American politics."
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz.
We're going to head to State College, Pennsylvania, in just few moments to get the latest on the Jerry Sandusky conviction, but first to our cover story today.
And to get started, we called up John Geer. He teaches political science at Vanderbilt University. And he wrote a book a few years ago called "In Defense of Negativity." And that book explains why John Geer believes negative campaigning actually works. So we asked him what he thinks about the coming Obama-Romney showdown.
JOHN GEER: Well, I think it's very likely to be the most negative race at least since the advent of television. You have all the money, especially with the superPACs, and that certainly is one ingredient. The second is you have the polarization of the political parties. The gap has grown further over the last four years. And finally, you have both candidates with some flaws, and those flaws will provide grist for the respective attack mills.
RAZ: And it's already beginning.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Running for governor, Mitt Romney campaigned as a job creator.
MITT ROMNEY: I know how jobs are created.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: But as a corporate raider, he shipped jobs to China and Mexico.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: But after a record 40 straight months of unemployment, over 8 percent, President Obama insists...
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: The private sector's doing fine.
RAZ: Now one of the things John Geer and most people who've studied presidential campaigns more or less agree on is this: that the nastiest, bloodiest most negative election in the modern era happened in 1988, George H.W. Bush versus Michael Dukakis.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: As a candidate, Michael Dukakis called Boston Harbor an open sewer.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: But Bush's administration cut funds to clean up Boston Harbor.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #4: Michael Dukakis has opposed virtually every defense system we developed.
RAZ: And Dukakis initially tried to attack the attack ads.
MICHAEL DUKAKIS: Never seen anything like it in 25 years of public life, George Bush's negative TV ads.
RAZ: And by late September 1988, the Bush team ran a now-famous ad about a prisoner named Willie Horton who committed a terrible crime while on a weekend prison furlough.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #5: Horton fled, kidnapped a young couple, stabbing the man and repeatedly raping his girlfriend. Weekend prison passes. Dukakis on crime.
RAZ: This spot was so blistering, it was so negative and so racially charged that Dukakis says he and his team decided the best response was to ignore it. And that decision may have cost him the presidency.
DUKAKIS: And if you ask me now why I made that decision, I'm not sure I can tell you. I mean, I thought people were tired of a lot of the polarization that was taking place, even under the Reagan administration, and just basically said, hey, we're not going to respond to those attacks. And it was a terrible mistake, because by the time I woke up to the fact that a lot of damage had been done, it was almost too late to repair it.
RAZ: Do you think negative campaigning actually works then?
DUKAKIS: There's no question it works. And unanswered, it really works. But you can't do what I did, which is to simply say, hey, I'm not going to pay any attention to it. I'm not going to respond in any way to the attack campaign. If you do that, you're going to be hurt and you're going to be hurt badly.
RAZ: And this year, it could make 1988 look pretty tame with the two parties more polarized than ever and with outside groups able to spend unlimited amounts of money on ads, thanks to the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United. Could this election be the most negative ever?
DUKAKIS: Well, I don't think there's any question it's going to be a difficult, nasty, very, very rough campaign. And there's no reason for it. I'm not suggesting that we wouldn't have some negative campaigning in this campaign without Citizens United, but I think that was a terrible thing for the American political system.
RAZ: That's former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. He now teaches at Northeastern and UCLA.
But no matter what year - 1988, 2008, even 1908 - negative campaigns have been the rule rather than the exception.
FRANK RICH: Compare this year to something like the John Quincy Adams-Andrew Jackson campaign of the 1820s...
RAZ: This is Frank Rich. He's a writer at large for New York magazine.
RICH: ...when attack ads accused Jackson of cockfighting, cannibalism, accused his mother of being a prostitute, his wife being a bigamist. We seem to think the world is always, you know, going to hell in a handbasket and everything's getting worse, but actually - people had an historical memory, they'd see that this is relatively mild, what we have now.
RAZ: Frank Rich believes that 2012 will not be a departure from history. And in his latest column for the magazine, he argues that victory for either candidate will be achieved by going negative.
RICH: I think the Obama campaign is already proving that it's ready to go negative early and often. The first official ad of the general campaign, the Bain ad, attacking Romney...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #6: Bain Capital walked away with a lot of money that they made off of this plant. We view Mitt Romney as a job destroyer.
RICH: What was fascinating to me is that there was nothing really new about that ad. It wasn't a particularly startling ad. 1994, in the campaign with Teddy Kennedy for the Senate, Ted Kennedy ran very similar ads about Bain.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: Taking away their dignity...
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #3: Basically cut our throats.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #7: I'd like for him to show me where these 10,000 jobs that he's created are.
RICH: And by the way, Kennedy won by 17 points in a landslide in that Senate race in Massachusetts. And also, there was nothing really in Obama's anti-Bain, anti-Romney ad that was as vicious or as factually inaccurate as what Gingrich did when he tried to bring Romney down over Bain in the primaries.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #8: Mitt Romney became CEO of Bain Capital the day the company was formed. His mission: to reap massive rewards for himself and his investors.
RICH: This is the American culture. If the goal is victory, I'm afraid we can all poo-poo it, we can all complain about it and wish that all of civic discourse was the way it is on, say, NPR, but this is just a part of it. And I would point out to those who have complained about Obama's negative ads already, saying, you know, whatever happened to hope and change, Obama ran a lot of negative ads in 2008. I'm sure many people remember particularly the one, McCain couldn't remember the number of houses he owned.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #9: Well, it's seven. Seven houses. And here's one house America can't afford to let John McCain move into.
RICH: So the Obama campaign is schooled in this. And presumably, they're going to act upon their expertise as will the Romney campaign.
RAZ: Frank, I know you talk about how America can't be, you know, like a PBS roundtable, that's it's a lot more hardnosed than that. But I wonder whether you're wrong about that and whether there is a danger in emphasizing things like Romney's so-called secretive faith or Obama's - the attempts to suggest he was raised in Kenya. I mean, those are arguably bad for America if those conversations become louder and more amplified, don't you think?
RICH: Yes. Of course, those conversations are bad for America, but we can't pretend they're not happening. And therefore, the two campaigns are going to have to participate in them to sell their respective candidates. On the other hand, the country has survived it all. You know, we can always feel that everything's going bad at any given moment, but the truth is we have to take a little bit of a longer view and realize this is part of what waxes and wanes in American politics.
RAZ: New York magazine's Frank Rich. The political scientist John Geer, who we heard from earlier, he thinks negative campaigning isn't just effective, but that it's actually good for American democracy.
GEER: Well, I think it is a good thing. It's at least underappreciated. Democracy requires negativity. Because when you have two parties that are competing - one's in power, one's out of power - the group out of power has to criticize those in power because they have to tell the American public why they should be replaced, and that requires criticism.
So from the broad, small-d democratic point of view, there is no democratic country in the world that doesn't have negativity in it because it's kind of a foundational aspect of such a system.
RAZ: John, poll after poll shows that most Americans do not like negative ads. They don't like those kinds of campaigns. So why do politicians keep mounting them?
GEER: Well, first of all, if you ask the public - and I've been doing some recent research on this. If you ask the public do they like negative ads, they say no. But if you ask the public do you want to know if one of the candidates flip-flopped, if one of the candidates has raised taxes, do you want to know these kinds of things, they answer yes. That is, they want to know the downsides of candidates.
We spend a lot of time worrying about the exaggeration or the misrepresentation on the negative side, but the same thing goes on on the positive side. I mean, Mitt Romney is claiming that he balanced four budgets in a row as governor of Massachusetts. That is correct. But it's also true that if you or I were governor, we, too, would have balanced the budget because it's mandated by the state constitution. So we forget to fill in the other side of the equation, but that's natural to campaigns.
RAZ: I mean, it may be true technically, but often taken out of context, right? So if you're a member of Congress and you vote for a bill with tons and tons of amendments attached to it and one of those amendments might be, you know, funding for a teahouse in northern Alaska, you could be accused of waste and fraud and abuse and all those things.
GEER: Well, that's right. It could be taken out of context. But don't forget that a negative ad is just one part of the conversation. So let's say I air a negative ad against you and I make a claim about this frivolous spending on your part, you can respond to that. And I think that's all to the good, because if they become president, they're going to wake up every morning to a new round of attacks and they have to be ready to sit behind the big desk if that's what they want.
RAZ: Looking at this election now as it's starting to shape up, do you have any sense of how negative it has been so far and where it's headed?
GEER: Well, there are some data from the Wesleyan Media Project that suggests it's already been very, very negative and we're not even into July yet. And it's probably going to get more and more attack-oriented partly because, you know, Obama does not have a lot to run on, to be honest, and Romney has some, you know, aspects of his record that he has to explain.
It'd be really fascinating to see how it all plays out because the superPACs, yes, they're separate from the candidates and they have all these legal separations, but it doesn't have the same feel as like the 527 groups, which sponsored the Swift Boat ad in 2004, which were much more separate from the candidates.
The interesting thing about that ad is that that ad aired in 1 percent of the country, yet by end of September of 2004, 80 percent approximately of the American public had heard of the term "Swift boat." What that tells you is that the power of that ad came not from the airing but from the news media's coverage of it. So to me, the single biggest change in this country is not the rise of negative ads, it's the news media's fascination with negative ads.
It really began in '88 with the Bush-Dukakis campaign, has continued forward, and actually, I think, changed the incentives of consultants because now they know that if they air a negative ad, it might get extra attention.
RAZ: That's John Geer. He teaches at Vanderbilt University. And despite the fact that polls consistently show voters don't like negative campaigning, well, John Geer did a study that found negative ads, by a margin of 60 percent, tend to be more accurate and truthful than positive ones. Brace yourself. It's going to be a long, bloody campaign season. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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WILLIAMSBURG, March 1, 1770.
Last Sunday morning died: Mrs. MARGARET HORNSBY, the spouse of Mr. THOMAS HORNSBY, of this city, merchant. Her illness was short; but her life (not in number of years, but in the discharge of every religious and moral duty) may be truly said to have been long. To the most exemplary piety she joined the most extensive charity, wherever she found an object deserving it. Her death is sincerely regretted by all who had the happiness of her acquaintance, and her loss will be severely felt by the poor. Her remains were accompanied to the grave on Tuesday last by all the principal inhabitants of this city.
Virginia Gazette (Rind) March 1, 1770
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The tombstone of Thomas and Margaret Hornsby in the Bruton Parish churchyard reads, "Here lies in hopes of a Blessed Resurrection the Remains of Mr. Thomas Hornsby who was for many years a Merchant in this City He was Born in Lincolnshire in England, January 17, 1702 and died May 27, 1772 the Remains of Mrs. Margaret Hornsby Wife of Mr. Thomas Hornsby who died February 2 . . .1770 Aged 66 Years"
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Professor Foner Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Receives Distinguished Career Award
Nancy Foner was elected president of the Eastern Sociological Society. She will serve as president-elect in 2013-14 and president in 2014-2015.
'Social Action and Interaction in the Digital Age,' a Hunter Sociology seminar series, to begin in early October. See http://digitalagesociology.wordpress.com/ for details.
Margaret Chin, associate professor of sociology, was featured in a recent episode of the JustPublics@365 podcast series. See more at: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/News/GC-News/Detail?id=21512#sthash.0WCOyAPG.dpuf
Nancy Foner quoted in The Times of London on Controversial New Book, The Triple Package, by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld on January 7, 2014. http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/artsci/repository/files/Tiger%20Mother%20Amy%20Chua.pdf
Nancy Foner was quoted extensively in a February 3, 2014 Time magazine story on The Triple Package, a book by Amy Chua and Jeb Rubenfeld on ethnic group success in the US. http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/artsci/repository/files/Nancy%20Foner%20-%20Time%20A
Distinguished Professor Nancy Foner recently published two books: One Out of Three: New York in the Twenty-First Century (Columbia University Press, 2013) and New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the New Urban Landscape (NYU Press, 2014)
Howard Lune co-edited (with Edward Queen of Emory University) a symposium on How Values Shape and Are Shaped by Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations in the October, 2013 issue of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
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The series was created by Jill Soloway, formerly a writer on "Six Feet Under" and "United States of Tara," and co-stars Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Landecker and Jay Duplass as Tambor's character's three self-involved (and frequently self-destructive) children, and Judith Light as his ex-wife. Though it is not strictly autobiographical, "Transparent" was


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Confessions of an Uncertain Columnist
My mixed feelings about the war in Afghanistan.
Columnists are supposed to have firm views and express them with steadfast certainty. Since I write a column called "War Stories," the least a reader might expect from me is a clear opinion on whether the United States should escalate or pull out of the war in Afghanistan.
Recently, a friend told me that he couldn't quite figure out where I stood on the issue. I replied that I couldn't quite figure it out, either.
My columns, I confess, have hedged, hemmed, and hawed around the question. When I've proposed or endorsed a specific strategy, I've carefully noted that it's an approach the president should take if he decides to deepen U.S. involvement in the war. Sometimes, I've ended the piece with a caveat or a pointed question that suggests deeper involvement might not be such a good idea. Yet I've stopped short of taking a stance on whether he should or shouldn't send more troops or whether doing so is or isn't a good idea.
That's because, when it comes to this war, I am the one thing that a columnist probably shouldn't be—ambivalent. I've studied all the pros and cons. There are valid arguments to justify each side of the issue, and there are still more valid arguments to slap each side down. And if the basic decision were left up to me, I'm not sure what I would do.
As with confronting most messes in life, the initial impulse is to flee. But if we simply pulled out, it's a near-certain bet that the Taliban would march into Kabul, and most other Afghan towns they'd care to, in a matter of weeks. True, the Taliban are not the same as al-Qaida, but there's little doubt that they would provide sanctuary and alliance (as they did after the Soviets were ousted), and this would strengthen al-Qaida in its struggle against Pakistan, the United States, and others.
One might dispute the significance of this, at least for its direct danger to the United States. Al-Qaida, after all, can plan attacks on U.S. territory from other sanctuaries, even from apartments in Western cities. But it's naive to claim that leaving Afghanistan would have no broader effect.
Another problem with withdrawing is that it would signal, correctly or not, a huge victory for anti-American forces generally. If we left Afghanistan to the Taliban (and, by extension, al-Qaida), especially after such a prolonged commitment (at least rhetorically), what other embattled people would trust the United States (or the other putative allies in this war) to come in and protect them from insurgents? None, and they could hardly be blamed.
I am uncomfortable making this case for two reasons. First, it's reminiscent of the bankrupt rationales, involving "credibility" and the "domino theory," for staying in Vietnam long after that war was widely viewed as a horrible mistake. But Afghanistan is different. The Taliban are not the Viet Cong, and Osama Bin Laden is not Ho Chi Minh; there is no case, this time, that the enemy has a just claim to power. And the stakes are much higher: Communists ruling South Vietnam was never a serious threat to our security; al-Qaida controlling a huge swath of South Asia is.
The second reason I'm uncomfortable about even saying this is that the argument can, and almost certainly will, be used to justify staying in Afghanistan if it turns out that this war is futile, too. It's easy to hear the generals saying, a year from now, "Three more brigades should do the trick, Mr. President" and "If we pull out now, Mr. President, our credibility will be severely compromised."
But this part of the argument is moot, since, for better or for worse, no higher-ups in the Obama administration have advocated a total pullout. Withdrawal is a tempting option only to the extent that all others seem, at best, only slightly less miserable.
Holding at the current level of troops, with perhaps some slight rejiggering, is another tempting option, but it's also the clearest recipe for war without end. The constant refrain one hears from soldiers and commanders in the field—confirmed by any journalist who spends much time with them—is that they're strained by the shortage of resources. No matter what strategy President Barack Obama decides on—chasing terrorists, protecting population centers, or some combination of the two—there aren't enough troops now to pursue it with much chance of success.
The existing troops can probably hold the Taliban at bay and keep Afghanistan from falling apart, but little more than that. The war then becomes a contest of endurance, and we're not likely to win. (Yes, lots of American troops stayed in West Germany and South Korea for several decades—some remain there still—but they were deterring wars, not fighting and dying in one.)
As for fighting from afar: With a mix of special-operations forces and airstrikes, it's appealing in the abstract, but it neglects the mundane realities of warfare—that you need good intelligence to know who and where the bad guys are, and that to get good intelligence you need troops on the ground, and more than a handful of commandos, to cultivate and earn the local people's trust.
The proposal made a few months ago by Sen. Carl Levin, Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, to focus more on training than on fighting—and to send no more U.S. troops until the Afghan army has grown substantially—makes sense. Earlier this year, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that enlarging the Afghan army was the key to success (and to America's exit). In March, when Obama ordered another 21,000 troops to Afghanistan, Gates assigned 4,000 of them—the 4th brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division, a highly decorated combat unit—specifically to train Afghan soldiers.
However, in this war, "training" is done on the job—not so much by drilling and exercising the Afghan soldiers on bases (though there is some of that) but rather by leading, observing, and fighting alongside them out in the field. In other words, the line between "support troops" and "combat troops," ambiguous to begin with, is fuzzier still here. And at least in the short run (for the next few years), it's unlikely that enough Afghans can be trained quickly enough or thoroughly enough to secure the country on their own.
So we come to the option that President Obama is reportedly going to take, to some degree, in some fashion, in his speech Tuesday night (though press leaks of this sort haven't always been accurate): to send tens of thousands more troops—maybe not the 40,000 extra that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, wants, but some number not much smaller.
The key question here is not so much how many more troops Obama sends but, rather, what he decides they should do (and we don't yet know his decision on that point, either). Still, some questions can be raised in advance.
If he decides on a counterinsurgency strategy (which emphasizes protecting the population more than chasing terrorists), the Army field manual's calculations suggest that something like 400,000 troops would be needed—and, even under the most optimistic assumptions, there's no way that U.S., NATO, and Afghan armies combined will amass anywhere near that many forces anytime soon, if ever.
This is why much of the strategy will likely involve cultivating Pashtun tribal leaders to fight the Taliban and prodding relatively moderate Taliban groups to turn against the more militant ones—in short, buying key people off, whether through persuasion, money, weapons, ammunition, logistical support, or the supply of basic services.
Gen. David Petraeus, the head of U.S. Central Command, has long been saying that success in Afghanistan has to involve, to some extent, striking a deal with enemies. "This is how you end these kinds of conflicts," he said in a speech at the Heritage Foundation in October 2008. There is, he added, "no alternative to reconciliation."
Petraeus is very agile at this sort of enterprise, as he demonstrated in 2003 in Mosul as commander of the 101st Airborne Division, and in 2007, with the "Sunni Awakening," as commander of all U.S. forces in Iraq.
But two concerns arise when mulling the transfer of these notions to Afghanistan. First, Petraeus had something to offer the Iraqi Sunnis. In Mosul, he handed out jobs (for as long as the money lasted, which, alas, wasn't long). In the Awakening, he provided military alliance after the tribal leaders (who initiated the contact) recognized that al-Qaida terrorists posed a greater threat than did the U.S. occupiers. He and McChrystal are now trying to reprise these sorts of deals in Afghanistan, but it's unclear whether they can offer much that's compelling to insurgent or fence-sitting Pashtuns.
Second, as smart as those two generals (and many of their advisers) are, how much do they really know about Afghan tribal politics, which (as they do know) are far more complex than Iraq's ethnic fissures and whose leaders are known to switch sides, and switch back again, at whim or the slightest provocation? (On this latter point, see the opening chapters of Dexter Filkins' 2008 book The Forever War.)
The United States has never fought this kind of war before (unless you count the Philippines, which lasted 40 years and involved a level of brutality that would never be countenanced today). We haven't been fighting this kind of war even in Afghanistan. (As the saying goes, we haven't been fighting for eight years but, rather, for one year, eight years in a row.) Starting to do so now, as even some of the advocates of escalation admit, is a large gamble with short odds.
So here's what it comes down to: This option might be a good idea if it worked, but the chances of its working are slim (though not zero); all the other options seem to be bad ideas, but they might cost less money and get fewer American soldiers killed (though not necessarily).
Which road is less unappetizing? I don't know. That's why I'm ambivalent.
My guess is that President Obama held so many meetings with his national-security advisers on this topic—nine, plus a 10th on Sunday night to get their orders and talking points straight—because he wanted to break through his own ambivalences; because he needed to come up with a reason (not just a rationalization) for doing whatever it is that he's decided to do, some assurance that it really does make sense, that it has a chance of working, so he can defend it to Congress, the nation, and the world with conviction. Let's hope he found something. A columnist can be ambivalent; a president can't be.


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By Ryan Dahlman
Bindloss Beef Club was looking pretty good Saturday in Medicine Hat.
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David Anderson M.P. Cypress Hills-Grasslands has once again been appointed Parliamentary Secretary for the Canadian Wheat Board and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources.
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The fate of the Canadian Wheat Board is hanging in the balance while farmers wait for the Harper government to get back to work in Ottawa.
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Southern Alberta
There's a desk against the north wall on the second floor of the Lethbridge Herald that, after decades of use, now sits vacant.
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The earnings of 20,000 Albertans will rise September 1 when the province increases minimum wage and introduces a new wage for liquor servers.
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Re-aligning the leadership structure of Alberta Health Services (AHS) to give more decision-making powers to the five zones in the province is seen as a positive move by the chairpersons of health advisory councils in southern Alberta.


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I'm a self-taught programmer (start my CS degree when I go to uni next year). So far I've only completed small games such as pong, snake, etc. I've also created small gui programs which allow the user to interact with specific algorithms. However, I've never created something of substantial size that I couldn't just draw up a basic flow of the program and code the implementation.
I want to work on a project which is a bit more robust and complex. I'm planning on making a distributed IRC client using the asio library. I am planning on having a command line interface and be somewhat extensible.
My question is how should I go about planning it and how specific should I be?
Should I use something like UML?
Though I would eventually like to use the program for personal use, my main goal is learning how to plan, start, and finish a complex project. I plan on using a git repository to manage the code and to write documentation for it, to make it more like a realistic project.
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BGISD Contract Extension has been awarded for 2012-2013.
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Date: Monday, August 20th, 2012
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The Center's Program coordinator, Robin Hume, will continue to work for the Bowling Green Independent School District (BGISD) during the 2012-2013 school year. Robin will serve as a resource for the elementary science teachers in the district. Several trips to a local stream are being planned for the district's fourth grade students for this Fall. Robin will also work as a liaison between General Motors (GM) and BGISD to facilitate school projects at GM's new Outdoor Wildlife Habitat Area. With the new Common Core State Standards for Science being released in December of this year, Robin and a team of BGISD elementary science teachers will collaborate to find or create new science lesson plans, activities and labs wihich directly connect to the new standards.
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Networking :: Belkin USB Notebook card not recognised
I'm trying to resurect my old laptop (Unika, PII 233 MHz, 64 Mb RAM, 3 Gb HD) with DSL 4.4.10. This unit has no USB port, but I NEED USB access. So I have that Belkin USB 2.0 Notebook card (pcmcia card as far as I know) which works just great on my other laptop (under Xubuntu), but is not recognized by DSL on my old laptop. It's not a pcmcia problem, as I can put in a Wireless card, and be connected to the net through it.
Any known problem with that PCMCIA card (Belkin USB) ? Any missing module/driver ?
Any help would be appreciated, as this prevents me from using DSL and that old laptop.
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Historical Map Collections
Historic Map Works has a great collection of antique maps, most of which can be viewed via a Google Maps interface.
The historic maps are overlaid on Google Maps. An opacity slider allows the user to adjust the transparency, so that the historical map can be compared to the modern map view underneath.
Also See
David Rumsey Map Collection - huge collection of historical maps.
HyperCities - collection of worldwide historical maps
Maps of Edinburgh, 1765-1945
Historiekaart - Historical Dutch maps from 1829 to 1949
Utrecht van Boven
Amersfoort 750 op de Kaart
Atlas of Historic New Mexico Maps
Historical Maps of Tokyo
Historical Maps of Paris
Henry Hudson 400 - US historical maps
PhilaPlace - Philadelphia
Retromap - historical maps of Moscow
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What floored me the most in the moments following the Phillies' exit from postseason baseball was the sheer amount of issues this franchise now faces. This winter already promised to be a busy one with several free agents hitting the market, but the early defeat only raised more questions.
There could be massive philosophical shifts in how the team operates. What those could entail, we do not know. General manager Ruben Amaro Jr. has yet to offer his postscript to a disappointing season. (He is expected to do so sometime this week.)
In the meantime, what would you consider to be the most important move for the Phillies this offseason?
Here are some of the pressing options (presented in no particular order) with the theoretical arguments for why each move should happen:
- Re-sign Jimmy Rollins: He's the heart and soul of the franchise. He's still an above-average shortstop. He's the best option the Phillies have there.
- Re-sign Ryan Madson: A staff of aces is worthless without a trusted closer. He proved he can pitch in the ninth inning. He's a homegrown guy with plenty of good years left.
- Exercise Roy Oswalt's option: The pitching is what carried this team. No one can be sure what Joe Blanton offers. Oswalt is expensive at $16 million, but that's the cost of doing business.
- Lock up Cole Hamels: It's time to make sure the youngest of the aces doesn't go anywhere. A long-term deal now prevents a nasty arbitration case. And he's only starting to enter his prime.
- Upgrade third base: Placido Polanco is owed $6.5 million in 2012, but is he an everyday player still? Third base is a power position and the Phillies need more production there. By the end, Polanco was a black hole.
- Overhaul the entire bench: The Phillies have the oldest team in baseball and getting younger is easier said than done. So improve the depth behind the aging starters. Spend a chunk of money on reserves.
- None of the above: I have the secret plan that will make them all fall.
Tell us in the comments section.
(NOTE: I don't agree with everything written above. It's simply the possible argument to make in favor of said move.)
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Dear Ms. Sweeney:
I am writing to strongly protest the current Todd and Marty storyline on One Life to Live. It's in effect the long delayed second chapter of a story that began in 1993, when Todd was the leader of three college students who gang raped Marty. The two chapters couldn't be more shockingly different in intent.
The 1993 chapter, though brutal, was told with intelligence and sensitivity, shedding light on the humanity and compassion gained through this tragic crime. It deservedly won numerous Daytime Emmys. The current chapter — in which an "amnesiac" Marty was kept in captivity again by Todd for five months, fell in "love" with him and begged him to have sex with her (which he did) — lacks any such redeeming insight. Instead, it is simply revolting.
Starting with the hackneyed soap opera device of amnesia, the current writing team seeks to exploit the audience rather than enlighten it. The current story extends ancient rape myths ("I raped her because she wanted it"). The story's aim is far from social issue education. Rather, it is the [Read more…]


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Thanks for a great program. Just one problem though:
Sometimes the PVR feature does not record a programme. For example it never records "Just A Minute" broadcast on Radio 4. Most programmes record fine. I added this programme in exactly the same way as all the others. Looking at the PVR web page it does not even attempt to record "Just A Minute".