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Exploring Hidden French Islands
When the French talk about the sea, it's usually as a melodramatic need—"J'ai besoin de la mer," "I need the sea"—never simply, "I like the beach." Normal levels of fetishization do not apply. You think the Italians like the water?Have you met my friend Françoise?
What exactly French people get from seaside destinations has less to do with lying dumbly under the sun and emptying their minds than it does with adopting a different way of being, insinuating themselves into the life of the locale and learning its habits. Not everyone refuses the torpid routine associated with greasy bronzing lotion, sandy sandwiches, and lighter-fluid rosé, but more do than the postcard suggests. In an ideal world, every person in France would have a bolt-hole in Paris, a pied-à-terre in a provincial capital like Lyon or Strasbourg, a chalet in the mountains, a mas in the Midi.... That's a lot of real estate, but think of the returns: Try on a different setting and you try on a different identity. More than any other European people, the French believe in the power of place—of topography, climate, and folkways—to reinvent and discover themselves.
France is rich in coastline, but not so rich in islands. Which is fine. Because they aren't famous (there's nothing that even comes close to Capri), French islands are relatively untouristed, guaranteeing a local experience. As a traveler you're inducted into the highly codified French way of life on the shore. Usually you have to do handstands for this kind of access. Cities and mountains and farm country are fine as far as they go. But none are as transformative as the sea. At least according to Françoise.
Île de Ré
Location: 115 miles north of Bordeaux
Distance from mainland: 1.9 miles
Surface: 33 square miles (number of times Île de Ré fits into Manhattan: 0.7)
Year-round population: 18,000
High-season population (excluding tourists): 38,000
Hotel beds: 41,395
Île de Ré is the only place I know in France where everything works, nothing tacky offends the eye, no one serving you is in a bad mood, and you can have a good meal without doing six months of research just by passing in front of a restaurant and walking in. (This is how I discovered the classy new L'Avant Port and a local shellfish, vanet, which is like a scallop only 10 times sweeter and 20 times smaller.) Île de Ré is the way you always dream France will be but never is. As a vacation experience it's completely undisappointing and entirely fulfilling. How many places can you say that about, in France or anywhere else?
On August 15, the busiest day of the summer and maybe the year, there's no trouble finding a parking place. Bicycles are the main means of locomotion, but rental shops never seem to run out of them. Clogging is a nonissue on the 62 miles of paved bike paths that wind through the oyster parks, potato fields, bird reserve, and salt pans where fleur de sel is harvested. Locals are nicer and more engaging than they have a right to be, given the strain put on their island by a toll bridge connecting it to the continent and a national press that every season dusts off the same hoary headlines: Ré: L'Anti-St.-Tropez, or the ridiculous linguistic mash Ré: Le Plus Fashion De Nos Îles Françaises.
The island's 10 low, whitewashed towns are handsomely groomed, but not too groomed, with hollyhocks pushing through the cobblestones. The only thing I would suggest is a warning label alerting people to the strong English presence (in high season there are four flights daily between Stansted and La Rochelle, on the mainland) and, in case they're allergic, to the strong preppy culture. That said, the island gets a very high quality of French preppy. Except for the men playing out some embarrassing sailor fantasy in striped Saint James tops and coordinating mandiggers, they're hardly annoying at all, as preppies go.
Without, I swear, even trying, I found myself on Ré last summer almost 10 years to the day since my first visit. (Where were you when Diana died?) Having romanticized the island past all recognition, I obviously could have had a disastrous trip. I know it's unreasonable, but whenever I return to a place I love and find it reduced, I take it personally. I go looking for the old hardware store that sold the diable potato cookers and collapse on the pavement in front of the sandwicherie that pushed it out. I want to see the same lace curtains in the same windows.
But my first thought on Ré this time was not how much less like itself it had become but how much more. The hardware store, Au Paradis du Bricoleur, was right where it had been, its vitrine filled with diables. The lodging situation, not wonderful in 1997, had also hugely improved. Le Corps de Garde/La Maison du Port (interconnecting parts of the same seven-room maison d'hôtes) and Hotel de Toiras now sit directly on the port in St.-Martin-de-Ré, the island's unofficial capital. Built as part of a shipyard in the 16th century, the Toiras is the kind of property that gives Relais & Châteaux a good name. It has the most polished service on Ré, plus 20 guest rooms that enshrine all my favorite Grand Siècle decorating values: boiseries, blue-and-white Chinese export porcelain, toile de Jouy.... The look is straight-up French bourgeois, which some people are crazy about. Of course, others find the lack of irony and visual punning strangling.
The atmosphere at Le Corps/La Maison is beachy, not buttoned, and beyond charming, with antique tea gowns draped here and there, the glassy-crunchy feel of sea grass underfoot, organdy bed hangings, and swoon-making views of the harbor, sea, or both. A former watchhouse, it dates from the late 1600's, when the great military engineer Vauban wrapped St.-Martin in a beautiful starlike configuration of stone ramparts designed to accommodate and protect every man (of which there were 16,000 in 1685) and animal on the island. For years Vauban's walls kept the English out; he didn't forecast Ryanair.
Île de Bendor
Location: 32 miles southeast of Marseilles
Distance from mainland: 656 feet
Surface: 15 acres (number of times Bendor fits into Manhattan: 981)
Year-round population: 4
High-season population (excluding tourists): 200
Hotel beds: 70
The story of Île de Bendor is the story of a man, Paul Ricard; a foggy drink without which the south of France wouldn't recognize itself; and a 19-room hotel, the curious and rather wacky Delos. With pocket change from the fortune he amassed making and marketing "the real pastis of Marseilles" under his own name, Ricard acquired Bendor in 1950 as a plaything, as a place to schmooze clients and entertain friends like Jacques Cousteau and Dalí. In the image of his populist aperitif, Ricard also conceived the island as a holiday spot for blue-collar Provençaux who felt out of place in the worldly towns of the Côte d'Azur and who, in any case, couldn't afford them. Even fig farmers deserve a vacation.
"If I'm passionate about [Bendor]," he wrote in his memoirs, "it's because it was an island. I believed that in building a world in miniature, I could do anything, that the only thing I need take into account was the quantity of land, sea, and sky."
A seven-minute boat ride delivers guests to Bendor from Bandol, an overstimulated beach town that makes Puerto Vallarta look like Newport, Rhode Island. Le Delos's only company on Bendor is the hotel's much less atmospheric annex, Le Palais; eight adorable maisonettes with private gardens that Le Delos manages, but brands separately; a second, defunct hotel that is a terrible eyesore; four restaurants; a diving school; an exhibit of Ricard ephemera that is one big missed opportunity (for that matter, there are no bottles of pastis in the guest rooms, which seems insane); a handful of eccentric shops, one specializing in handblown glass pacifiers; and an extraordinary museum Ricard founded as a "permanent encyclopedia" of wine and spirits. The collection includes 700 related books, 5,000 labels, 8,000 bottles with their contents (obscure Belle Époque liqueurs, a triple-anisette produced by the Vatican pharmacy) and over 1,200 menus from the 1860's to the 1960's (coronation dinners at London's Dorchester hotel, pre–World War I banquets at legendary Paris restaurants). The museum reopens this month with new exhibits on anis and the historic bars of Paris.
As a hotelier and an entrepreneur peddling alcohol, Ricard knew his constituency. He was one of them. They had the same cultural references: Pagnol, Fernandel, Tino Rossi. Le Delos is just the sort of hotel you'd dream up if your grandfather was a boulanger, your father was a wine merchant, you grew up in the Ste.-Marthe suburb of Marseilles, and then you became monstrously rich. "Good taste is my taste," the saying goes. Ricard was as entitled to it as anyone.
What is it about the Middle Ages (or is it the Renaissance Le Delos fantasizes?) that so appeals to self-made men?It's a look you don't have to love to find amusing. Ricard's great soft spot was for (newly minted) Spanish Baroque furniture, from barley-twist canopy beds to leather-topped tables trimmed with fringe and giant brass nailheads. His florid enthusiasms also ran to cherubs, satyrs, vivaciously colored wall tiles in Moorish motifs, and loopy wrought-iron chandeliers incorporating schooners. Door pulls were cast in the form of sea horses. Naturally. Everything was created on site. Ricard built on the island not just ateliers for his potters, glassblowers, and metalworkers, but also lodgings.
The old man stepped down as head of his company in 1969 and died in 1997, but Bendor never left family hands. For years, relatives would take a momentary interest in the hotel, warehousing Ricard's beloved frippery, which they didn't really get, and hiring some designer you never heard of to keep the place "up-to-date." In this way Le Delos became a total hash. Finally, a real professional, Carolyn Quartermaine, was hired to dig through the layers of decorative intervention and make the hotel coherent. As a Londoner who lives part-time outside Nice, Quartermaine had both the distance and the sympathies to effect something interesting. It was a long slog, but she convinced Danièle Ricard that success lay in reviving, with more affection than irony, her father's vision.
"Lying on the beach in Bandol twenty years ago, I had no idea there was even an island here," says Quartermaine. "When I began working on Le Delos, everything had to be beige and brown. But in the end I got Paul Ricard's crazy colors back, plus all the furniture that had been put in storage."
Quartermaine did not redeploy the furniture as she found it. Of course. Thronelike armchairs are a lot less oppressive covered in vintage monogrammed bedsheets dyed pink. Curtains were sewn in the scribbly fabrics she designs: cottons printed with fragments of 17th-century calligraphy—"Marie D'Orléans, Duchesse De Nemours—chosen purely for their shape, not their meaning or associations. Didier Mahieu's drawings, sketched directly on the walls of sleeping alcoves, are a dead ringer for those of Marcel Vertés, the Hungarian artist who spiked his fashion illustration with mordant social observation.
The maisonettes are 111 steps and a world away from Le Delos. They're the work of Herbert Hufnagel, a German decorator in nearby Cassis. Poking around the island, he found some old iron gates with seagulls worked into the design, but except for repurposing the gates as headboards, Hufnagel seems to have done all his shopping at Urban Outfitters.
Both the maisonettes and Le Delos are something less—a lot less, actually—than full-service hotels. Spend too much time, i.e., more than one night, and you begin to notice that Bendor is being relaunched on a wing, a prayer, and not a lot of sous. But people on vacation in the south of France are known for being forgiving, especially those with a weakness for stained glass, allegorical mosaics involving birds and flowers, and epic bronzes of Diana the Huntress. The hotels have finally even welcomed back the iconic yellow ashtrays carrying the logo of a certain pastis. Bottles of Ricard in every room can't be far off.
Location: 101 miles west of Nantes
Distance from mainland: 9.3 miles
Surface: 32.4 square miles (number of times Belle-Île fits into Manhattan: 0.7)
Year-round population: 5,000
High-season population (excluding tourists): 15,000
Hotel beds: 20,000
The history of Belle-Île is inseparable from the history of water worship in France. The island saw its first real tourists in about 1850. Mystified by the new fashion for bathing in the ocean in Brittany, locals referred to the intruders uncomprehendingly (why would anyone actually choose to get wet?) as "foreigners." The earliest cabanas were designed to be quickly lifted away in the event of an invasion. The English had seized the island's citadel, also by Vauban, the century before, and the memory was still fresh.
Belle-Île is for those who find Île de Ré too "Marie-Chantal" (snobby), Bendor too limiting, and Ouessant too wild and isolated (read on). The island is monopolized by normal, regular French people of average means in the normal, regular business of being on holiday: riding bikes, picnicking, swimming (even though the water never averages more than 64 degrees), buying honey at the market, wearing out the plastic café furniture. I'm sure I should have been paying attention to other things, but stepping onto the wharf at the main port of Le Palais, a 20-minute ride on the fast boat from Quiberon on the mainland, I couldn't help noticing how the island rejects all the usual and corny tools of maritime seduction. With 5,000-year-old Celtic menhirs, a druidical forest, moors knotted with heather, and needlelike rock formations along the coast, Belle-Île is plenty picturesque. But it draws the line at pretty and cute. No gay blue-and-white tearooms with waitresses in sailor tops. You could never get away with marketing a place as sublimely ordinary, in the sense of it being natural, authentic, unselfconscious. But it's an interesting idea.
The good news is that the citadel, poised on a cliff edge 130 feet above the Atlantic, is now a surprising hotel, the mâchicoulis serving as terraces leading off many of the 65 guest rooms. Water views as promised by websites are almost always deficient; not these. Still, Belle-Île could do with more and better lodgings. The only alternative to La Citadelle Vauban is Château Bordénéo, an inland maison d'hôtes of good intentions and some allure. Among hotels, the big one to avoid is the offensively expensive Castel Clara. It has a huge thalassotherapy center, and you know what that means: taking breakfast with shuffling curists in graying terry bathrobes.
When train service was inaugurated between the Gare Montparnasse in Paris and Quiberon in 1882, the trip took 12 hours (as against 4 1/2 today). Belle-Île was a destination on the verge. Four years later, Flaubert published his bored impressions of the island and Monet arrived to paint. The book, and a joint show with Rodin in Paris of some of Monet's works, greatly increased awareness of Belle-Île. One or both must have influenced the choice of the island as a place for Colette to convalesce in 1894 after an illness brought on by her marriage to the monstrous Willy. (Sarah Bernhardt, who summered here for three decades, disembarked for the first time the same year.) All of 21, and poised to begin the first volume in the Claudine series, Colette sat on the beach in leg-of-mutton sleeves and a pussycat bow at a telling moment in Belle-Île's tourism evolution. The first real guide concerned solely with the island had come out three years before; the first postcards were four years off. Butter, the only souvenir, was about to be challenged by vases stuck with colorfast seaweed.
Having never laid eyes on the sea before, and impassioned as she was by the natural world, Colette was helped in her recovery by the thrilling discovery of new flora and fauna ("I'm swimming in waves of joy.") Belle-Île's sardine industry was at full throttle, and it is impossible that she, a future famous gourmande, left without sampling a dozen or three. Among today's tourists the most popular souvenir is a half-dozen cans of prized millimisée sardines (they're dated, like wine) from La Belle-Îloise boutique, on the Place de la République. Despite its name, the company is in Quiberon, the last fish cannery on the island having closed in 1975. The sardines are so good you can almost forgive the deception.
Île d'Ouessant
Location: 174 miles west of Mont-St.-Michel
Distance from mainland: 12.5 miles
Surface: 6 square miles (number of times Ouessant fits into Manhattan: 3.8)
Year-round population: 852
High-season population (excluding tourists): 3,000
Hotel beds: 950
Eighteen years isn't a lifetime, but they can seem like one when they're the pause between trips to a place as far-flung and mythical as Île d'Ouessant, the farthest from the continent of all the Breton islands. On my first, 1988 visit I was on a food odyssey in search of a homely stew of mutton, potatoes, and no wine. It was said to be cooked out-of-doors in a cast-iron pot by the heat of smoldering taouarc'h, Celtic for clods of dried heather or grass. After dozens, maybe hundreds, of faxes and phone calls, I found someone who knew someone who knocked on the door of someone who agreed to make me un ragoût dans le taouarc'h. Young food writers who have only ever known e-mail have no idea what a cakewalk they have.
I was writing a book about the domestic art of entertaining as practiced by French people of all stripes (chatelaines, paysans...). Ouessant, the unfrivolous president of its coopérative agricole, and his stout, wind-rocked house weren't the most obvious subject to build a chapter around, but what do you do when a stew gets under your skin?
So imagine my surprise when last August I saw taped to a window on the island a flier advertising the services of Mary Jo Dugal. For $18 a head, Mary Jo will prepare a ragoût, simmered untouched for four hours in clods, and deliver it to your hotel or the beach for a picnic supper.
Ouessant was learning to sell itself. With my dish. Tourism had obviously grown. But Ouessant has very little to sell beyond its dolorous beauty. Because there are so few trees, its residents once prayed to the Virgin Mary for shipwrecks, literally. Salvaging wood to make furniture, they ignored the murderous consequences of their prayers. This tradition of invention and recycling is enshrined in the stew, but also in the very idea of flogging it to vacationers. Islanders have a long history of looking around, identifying what little they see, and trying to make something out of it. Seaweed, another traditional fuel, is today commercialized as a comestible condiment and for use in beauty products. Seaweed is Ouessant's one, tiny industry.
To the modern visitor, the island offers a small but exquisite menu of simple pleasures: walking, cycling, birding, glancing over garden walls to dote on the hydrangeas, eating. If these don't excite, the loss is yours, and you'll be happier on Belle-Île or Île de Ré. Personally, I found the smallness of the menu liberating. How luxurious to take a holiday and barely have anything to decide. If you cannot secure a reservation at Ti Jan Ar C'hafe, change your dates. It's the only hotel worth anything, though hotel is a big word for what is really just an eight-room guesthouse. Some French guidebook calls Ti Jan's decor Almodóvaresque. While that may be going a little far, it does have a few charismatic moments.
There are two categories of restaurants on Ouessant: Ti a Dreuz and Ty Korn, and Everything Else. The buckwheat crêpes at Ti a Dreuz attain a rare level of delicacy and refinement. Ty Korn serves the mother of all seafood platters. At Madame Orlac'h's nameless salon de thé you can have a cream tea as good as any in Wiltshire while listening to Schubert and reading ancient copies of Paris Match. Silk-shaded lamps and Staffordshire spaniels garnish the mantelpiece. And you thought Ouessant was uncivilized.
It's difficult to talk about Ouessant as an island of merchant seamen, which is how it was always described up to the middle of the last century, because the men's work often had them living and dying on the other side of the globe. The stable population was made up of their heroically capable wives and mothers, who hauled the granite to build houses, shoveled earth for mortar, laid roads, and collected taouarc'h. Mutton cooked in clods—which smoke but do not flame and lend the stew a funky animal dimension—was hit upon by women with no time for standing over the pot. In 1988, the 40-minute boat ride to Ouessant from Le Conquet was so violent I fell to my knees on arrival and was demonstrably sick before a welcoming committee of people I'd never met and who were waiting to take me to lunch. While my hosts tucked into ragoût, I lay prone in an unfamiliar guest room, the smell of burning taouarc'h outside the window making me yet sicker. Ouessantins insist their island is the beginning of the world, not the end. Either way, the dish fits.
Christopher Petkanas is a Travel + Leisure special correspondent.
Getting there
Île de Bendor
Île d'Ouessant
Île de Ré
Where To Stay
Château Bordénéo
Hôtel de Toiras
La Citadelle Vauban
Le Corps de Garde
Le Delos
Les Petites Villas
Ti Jan Ar C'hafe
Where To Eat
Au Bord d'un Zinc
L'Avant Port
Madame Orlac'h's
Mary's Jo Couture
Ti a Dreuz
Ty Korn
What To Do
Exposition Universelle des Vins et Spiritueux
La Belle-Îloise
Sunset at Le Palais port
Sunset at Le Palais port.
Cleaning squid at Le Palais port
Cleaning squid at Le Palais port, on Belle-Île-en-Mer.
En route to Belle-Île-en-Mer
En route to Belle-Île-en-Mer, off the northwest coast of France.
Au Bord d'un Zinc
The staff of Au Bord d'un Zinc, a restaurant on Île de Ré, show off the day's catch.
Le Corps de Garde
A view of Île de Ré from a guest room at Le Corps de Garde.
Ouessant seen from the water.
Biking in St.-Martin-de-Ré, the main town on Île de Ré.
A view of the island's St.-Martin port.
Île d'Ouessant
An Île d'Ouessant local.
Île de Bendor
The Mediterranean-style houses on Île de Bendor.


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The blasts targeted Muslim worshippers leaving the mosque in the religiously divided town of Malegaon in western India, the scene of previous clashes between Hindus and Muslims.
Political leaders appealed for calm as Muslims kept an overnight vigil on Shab-e-Barat, the Night of Blessing, when ancestors are remembered and prayers offered at their graves.
Sonia Gandhi, the president of the ruling Congress Party and Home Minister Shivraj Patil visited the site of the blasts and later saw some of the 277 injured in an area hospital.
The attacks came two months after seven bombs, believed to have targeted Hindus, ripped through train carriages in Mumbai killing 186. That attack was blamed on Islamic militants.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for Friday's bloodshed, when an estimated 2,500 people had gathered in a square outside the mosque.
Television networks showed emotional survivors demanding bombers be hanged whether "Hindu or Muslim."
Police declined to be drawn into a discussion about who was responsible.
"Investigations have started. As they progress, we will let you know," said state police chief P.S. Pasricha.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on citizens to remain calm.
"The prime minister has condemned these attacks on the lives of innocent citizens. He has appealed for peace and communal harmony," his office said in a statement.
The bombs, at least one of which was mounted on a bicycle, went off as the faithful left the Nurani Mosque after Friday prayers.
Television pictures showed men and boys trampling on bloodied bodies as they battled to escape through a tunnel leading from the walled mosque compound.
Bystanders hauled children to safety as survivors loaded bodies into sheets and onto hand carts.
Hospital staff were under pressure to finish post-mortems so they could bury the dead during Shab-e-Barat, a holy time for Islam, two weeks ahead of the fasting month of Ramadan.
Doctors said most of the injuries were from flying metal splinters packed into the bombs.
All of the dead were from blast injuries and not the stampede, said Malegaon chief health officer Bharat Wagh
"All of the deaths are attributed to blast injuries. Five are unidentified," he said.
Confusion remained over the number of the dead, with some police and state politicians putting the toll at 37.
Wagh said 31 died and 277 were injured.
"Not more than five to seven are seriously injured, but they are also stable now," he said.
Extra police were brought in to guard the graveyard yesterday. They were also posted on street corners after sporadic violence flared. Officers were stoned by an angry mob after the blasts.
In New Delhi, the national government alerted state administrations to prevent outbreaks of violence between Hindus and Muslims.
Four months ago anti-terrorist police seized explosives and guns in Malegaon, some 240km north of Mumbai, in a swoop on a suspected Islamic militant cell.
Eleven people died in Malegaon in 2001 during clashes between police and demonstrators protesting against air-strikes by the US in Afghanistan.
The town formerly was known as a wealthy textile center, but a slump in the industry has caused high unemployment.


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Shot backstage at Jean-Pierre Braganza SS15.
Ashiiiiiiish. Always one of my favorite shows to shoot and this season I got to do backstage which perked me right up (which on day 5 of fashion week, is saying a lot). I ran out to front of house and ended up crouching (the glamour of fashion) right next to two girls who were equally obsessed. As every look came out they were exclaiming YAS! YAAAAAAAS! in the style of yas gaga, which is a flawless review of the collection if you ask me. YAAAAAS ASHISH, YAS.
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The Aldrich Alert
A Publication of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
by Gary Aldrich - Volume 2, Issue 32
This article appeared on TownHall.com on Thursday, June 6, 2002.
Let me see if I understand this correctly. To find out why September 11, 2001 happened, we summon all the people who arrived to take important federal posts after January 20, 2001 even though we have much evidence that the terrorist attacks were being planned as early as 1995, and certain key intelligence agencies knew a great deal about it.
Do I have that about right?
And, even though we know the terrorists are just dying to stage another huge terrorist suicide attack on us one that will get them even more attention than the last time we make all the people responsible for our current national security sit in one room, in one building and then, we give out press releases to everyone and tell them the exact time and place where all these folks are going to be meeting, right?
And even though the current crop of national security experts and major players have kept this nation free of any terrorist attacks for eight straight months following 9-11, we tie them up for hours and hours getting ready for our stupid hearings, and then make them wait around in our marble halls and our hardwood seats until our sorry behinds arrive so many important things to do, you know?
We do this so we can berate and second-guess them and their agencies and make everyone believe that we didnt know a darn thing about what was happening to this nation for the eight years to President George W. Bush being sworn in.
Well, wheres Waldo wheres Louis Freeh? Most of the terrorists planning for 9-11 happened on his watch. Why isnt former FBI Director Louis Freeh being called to explain the sorry condition of the FBI the agency that Robert Mueller inherited just two weeks before our nation was so savagely attacked?
Wheres former FBI Director William Sessions? Judge Sessions was fired by President Bill Clinton in 1993, and when he was asked by journalist Christopher Ruddy why he was fired, Judge Sessions replied that it was because he objected to Clintons politicizing of the FBI. Could Judge Sessions tell us anything about FBI prohibitions against racial profiling?
Come to think of it, wheres Janet Reno in the current lineup? Didnt she run the Justice Department for eight years while the FBI atrophied and the INS and other agencies under her control got out of control? Perhaps she could drive her little red truck up here from Florida and lend some help in finding out why this terror has happened to us.
U.S. Senators are calling George Tenet to the stand to explain some serious shortcomings at the CIA but wait! Wheres James Woolsey, the former CIA Director who has made no secret of his disgust for the Clinton administration? Wasnt it Woolsey who could not buy a meeting with President Clinton? Funny, isnt it? Monica Lewinsky could get appointments, but the CIA Director could not. What did Monica have that CIA Director Woolsey did not have? I know a beret!
And wheres former CIA Director John M. Deutch, the one who Clinton had to pardon because he was accused of mishandling secrets on his CIA laptop that he left unsecured at home while the maids dusted his furniture. By any chance, did the maid wear a headscarf?
Under the leadership if you can call it that of Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta, the FAA, a dysfunctional joke, was so far gone that whistleblowers who recognized the dangerous practices of the agency stood in line to reveal what they knew. Is Mineta going to be publicly questioned, or would the U.S. Senate consider that racial profiling?
Finally, where are the U.S. Senators on the witness list for this weeks hearings? How many senators were warned by career professionals who became whistleblowers that national security was in a state of disaster including the White House, where it really counts!
The FBI and CIA told Clintons National Security Counsel all about the coming storm. What were they doing about it? Perhaps they were too busy feting Irish terrorist Gerry Adams in the White House, or planning photo ops for Hillary in New York with Mrs. Arafat, or advising President Clinton on the pluses and minuses of pardoning Puerto Rican terrorists you know, the ones who killed some of New Yorks finest our beloved First Responders?
President George W. Bush pledged to bring a new attitude to Washington, D.C. He told us that the years of politics of personal destruction had ended. That was a great campaign slogan, but somebody forgot to tell the Congress. Even now they are gathering the compliant together, all in one place, at one time, for a proper Washington-style slaughter of the innocent, while Clinton, Deutch, Reno, Freeh and so many others who slept-walked through their assignments carry on with their new lives.
Im sure if any one of these individuals were called in for questioning we would have a better chance finding out why this devastation was brought upon us, but what the U.S. Senate is doing right now is a truly dangerous waste of our time.
We might as well call in the folks who witnessed low-flying planes on 9-11. Their evidence would probably be as enlightening as testimony from an FBI Director who took office two weeks before thousands were killed by terrorists known to the federal government since 1993.
Coincidently, thats the year Bill Clinton was sworn in.


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How to Make Pumpkin Pie
Thanksgiving dinner isn't complete without pumpkin pie. If you are on a budget, this might be the only desert you offer your Thanksgiving guests. The lightly spiced pumpkin pie presented here goes beautifully with many holiday meals.
Basic pie crust
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 2 hours chilling time
Yield: 2 piecrusts, enough for one 9-inch deep-dish double-crust pie
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
10 tablespoons (1 stick plus 2 tablespoons) chilled unsalted butter, cut into large pieces
3 ounces (hefty 1/2 cup) chilled shortening
3 to 4 tablespoons ice water
Measure the flour and salt into a mixing bowl and place in the freezer for 15 minutes.
Cut the butter and shortening into tablespoon-sized pieces and scatter over the dry ingredients. Cut the butter and shortening into the dry ingredients using a pastry blender or two butter knives until the fats are the size of flat raisins. Do not overwork or you'll end up with a mealy crust.
Sprinkle the water over the flour mixture. Toss with two forks or your fingertips until the dough begins to come together.
Scrape the dough onto a tabletop and knead briefly, just to bring the crust together into a ball. Divide into two pieces and press into flat disks. Wrap both in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least two hours, preferably overnight. This rest in the refrigerator is necessary to relax the protein, or gluten, in the dough.
To roll out the dough, lightly flour your work surface and rolling pin. Begin to apply pressure, starting at the center of the dough and rolling towards the top of the circle. Then pick up your pin, place it in the center of the dough, and roll towards the bottom. Do the same for the sides and all the in-between angles. Check to see that the dough remains free from sticking to the work surface by spinning in quarter turns. Keep rolling until the desired size and thickness is reached. A 1/4-inch thickness is standard, if no other thickness is specified.
Spray a 9-inch glass deep-dish pie plate with pan coating.
Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface and fit it into the pie plate, making a high crimped edge. Freeze for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 375 degrees and make the filling.
It adds 15 minutes to your preparation time, but chilling the flour first goes a long way towards helping your crust come out the best it can be. Keeping the mixture cold while mixing is the name of the game and this is a good way to get the job done.
Per serving: Calories 363 (From fat 225); Total fat 25g (Saturated 12g); Cholesterol 39mg; Sodium 75mg; Carbohydrates 30g (Dietary Fiber 1g); Protein 4g.
While your dough is chilling, you can start mixing the filling ingredients.
Filling and baking
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes; 2 1/2 hours chilling time
Yield: 8 servings
1-1/2 cups pumpkin puree
3/4 cup lightly packed light brown sugar
3 large eggs
1 1/4 cups evaporated milk
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon salt
Pinch cloves
Place your piecrust on a parchment-lined baking pan, line the crust with foil, add pie weights, and prebake for 15 minutes. Remove the foil and weights and bake for 5 minutes more. Remove the crust from the oven and leave the door open for about 3 minutes to quickly reduce the oven temperature. Reset the oven to 350 degrees.
Place all ingredients for the filling in a food processor fitted with a metal blade or blender and process for at least 2 minutes, until blended and very smooth. The mixture may be refrigerated in an airtight container up to 2 days.
Pour the filling into the crust and bake for about 50 minutes. The filling will be set, but should still be a little soft and wiggly in the center. It will firm up tremendously upon cooling.
Cool on a wire rack for at least 30 minutes before serving. The pie can be made a day ahead, but it's best made the day you plan to serve it.
If you try to cook your own pumpkin puree, it will be much more watery and much less smooth than the canned. Stick with the canned. Just make sure it's pure pumpkin and not pumpkin pie filling, which has spices and sugar and other ingredients that you don't need.
Per serving: Calories 355 (From fat 153); Total fat 17g (Saturated 8g); Cholesterol 112mg; Sodium 186mg; Carbohydrates 43g (Dietary Fiber 3g); Protein 8g.


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Today marks the first in a series entitled A San Francisco Treat. Throughout the month of October, we'll be giving readers gear for the Annual Meeting. Each day will be a different trivia question, so check back in daily for your chance to win. To answer the trivia question, you will need to leave your answer as a comment here on this blog. The first person to answer the question correctly will win an item of Annual Meeting gear. There will be one prize-winner each day. Once you win, you will be ineligible to win again during this blog series.
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DANVILLE, Ky.—Holding junior Larry Thomas, the league's leading scorer, to a season-low seven points, third-seeded Oglethorpe upset second-seeded Birmingham-Southern 72-70 in the semifinal round of the Southern Athletic Association Men's Basketball Championship, Saturday evening at Centre College in Danville, Ky.
The Panthers fall to 17-10, while the Stormy Petrels move to 21-6.
After BSC stormed out to an 8-2 lead to open the game, OU came back to tie it up 8-8 and the rest of the half was close, with BSC leading most of the time but never by more than five. The Panthers led 34-32 at the half.
BSC led for the first 13 minutes of the second half until a three-pointer by Connor Smith at the 7-minute mark put the Petrels up 53-52. The teams traded points the rest of the way, until Oglethorpe was able to pull out to a 69-64 lead with 56 seconds left in the game. After a BSC time out, senior Griffin Schamp made a layup to cut it to 69-66, and the Panthers sent Jordan Kinney to the free throw line, where he hit one of two to put OU up 70-66. BSC grabbed the defensive rebound, and Schamp made another layup to cut it to 70-68 with 21 seconds remaining. Another time out allowed BSC to set up its defense, and Thomas grabbed a steal and was fouled. He hit both free throws, tying things up 70-70 with 15 seconds left to play. The Petrels drove and scored on a mid-range jumper by Tyler Courson, leaving only two seconds on the clock. BSC called another time out, but was unable to get a shot off before time expired.
Schamp led BSC with 19 points in his final appearance as a Panther, shooting 6-10 from the field and 7-8 at the free throw line. Senior Jason Holland and freshman Ian Thom led with four rebounds each. Sophomore Ross Welch also added 10 points on 4-8 shooting. Thomas, who was averaging nearly 20 points a game this season, was held to seven points, going 2-9 from the field and 1-5 from three-point range.
The Petrels shot over 51 percent from the field and exactly 50 percent (9-18) from three-point range, while the Panthers hit 43.6 percent from the field and only 22.7 percent (5-22) from long range, the second-lowest three-point percentage of the season. OU also out-rebounded BSC 32-22, which was the Panthers' second-lowest rebounding total of the season. The Panthers held the advantage in turnovers, though, committing only nine to OU's 19.


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Cabinet okays draft exempting print media from taxes
Cabinet okays draft exempting print media from taxes
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Afghanistan Cabinet has endorsed a draft law exempting periodic and non-periodic print media from paying taxes to the government, an official said on Monday.
Habib Zadaran, taxpayers' in-charge at the Ministry of Finance (MoF), said that their ministry's proposed law had recently been approved by the Council of Ministers.
"The MoF suggested some draft amendments in the Income Tax Act about tax on print media that has also been mentioned in the Mass Media Law. The amendments draft after its approval by the Cabinet will soon land in the National Assembly."
Article 53rd of the Law on Mass Media says, "Income tax is obtained from mass media and other organizations mentioned in the Article 28th of this law. But periodical and non-periodical print media are exempted from this provision."
However, this article of the law has not been implemented so far. Currently media outlets, despite giving 20 percent income tax, also pay taxes on contracts, purchase of office appliances, rents and salaries of employees.
Zadaran said based on the MoF's amendment draft, which has been approved by the Cabinet, all print media outlets were excluded from all taxes, except the tax on employees' salaries.
The amendment draft will go into effect after it is approved by the National Assembly and signed by the President.
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February 4, 2013
Master Planning Forum is today (February 4) at 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. in the Conference Center Ballroom (WD).
Retirewise financial planning seminars from MetLife begin Tuesday, February 5. Additional dates are February 12, 19 and 26 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in WD 409. Register by going online to metlifeplansmart.com and entering CSCC or by calling (866)801-3547.
First Wednesday town-hall meeting with Dr. Harrison is February 6, at 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. in the Conference Center Ballroom (WD).
Great Performances at the Lincoln start March 5
Columbus State's music and theater programs will perform various works in a special series at the Lincoln Theatre, starting March 5 with the Columbus State Concert Band, under the direction of Thomas Lloyd and the Columbus State Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Rick Brunetto.
Both bands will offer a special concert made up of the work of woman composers, in honor of Women's History Month in March. The band and jazz concert will be from 8:00 – 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5 in the Lincoln Theatre, 769 E. Long St.
On Monday, March 25, Chorus Columbus State, under the direction of Gordon Franklin, will present a concert featuring spirituals and jazz songs, also from 8:00 – 9:30 p.m. at the Lincoln.
In April, award-winning director Frank Barnhart will take Theatre Columbus State to the Lincoln to perform Six Degrees of Separation, an examination of the threads of chance that link one person to another. The play will run Wednesday through Saturday, April 24 – 27, from 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. A special matinee will be performed on Thursday, April 25 at 3:00 p.m.
The Series will wrap up on Monday, April 29 with Emma Easton's Gospel Vocal Ensemble performing a Historic Flashback of Great Gospel Choirs, from 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
All concerts and plays are free and open to the public.
Heater joins Columbus State as new Vice President of Human Resources
Deborah Heater
Deborah Heater, an Ohio native with extensive experience in K-12 and higher education, has joined Columbus State as Vice President of Human Resources. In her role, she will oversee our more than 2,000 full and part-time staff and faculty members.
Heater is a performance management professional with experience reviewing organizational effectiveness and instituting systemic improvements in educational settings. Her most recent position was with the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash, where she served as Director of Human Resources and Organizational Development.
She previously served as the Chief Officer of Human Resources for the 5,000-employee Cincinnati Public Schools system. Heater also spent seven years as Investigator of Office Municipal Investigations and Contract Compliance with the City of Cincinnati. She earned her BA in English literature from the University of Cincinnati and her J.D. from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University.
Heater says she is "committed to a HR service delivery model designed to partner with our constituents in alignment with the college's strategic goals. We will represent the best interest of our stakeholders while operating within legal compliance requirements, college policies, and best practices."
Bocchino is new director of Advising Services
Greg Bocchino
Greg Bocchino, Ed.D. has been hired as Columbus State's new Director of Advising Services. He has worked in academic advising, career counseling, and student development for the past 19 years, most recently as Director of Advising and Student Services at the University of Kentucky.
Dr. Bocchino earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in school counseling from the State University of New York, and an Ed.D. in counseling and human development from the University of Rochester.
Dr. Bochinno has also taught undergraduate and graduate career counseling and student success courses. He is most proud of his work on a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Pathway to Success Community College Partnership program which enhanced opportunities for community college students to transfer to Cornell University and other top four-year institutions.
Dr. Bocchino has also worked closely with college students examining their personal values and priorities, and has developed creative activities to assist students in gaining a better understanding of personal motivation and how it impacts decision making. He has presented his work at numerous national conferences.
Cougar Geeks donate computers to TRiO
Columbus State's Cougar Geeks, who are students in the PC Tech II class, recently donated 17 computers and keyboards to the TRiO/Student Support Services program. The Cougar Geeks refurbish old PC equipment and donate it to deserving students and organizations. Student Support Services serves 160 low-income and first-generation students at Columbus State. The Cougar Geeks are always in need of your unwanted computer equipment and all donations are tax deductible, so if you have something to donate, contact Debra Dyer for more information!
OBOR Chancellor Petro retires
Jim Petro
Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro concluded more than 30 years of public service Feb. 1, retiring after serving nearly two years as Chancellor. Petro was appointed by Governor John Kasich in March 2011 to lead the University System of Ohio, one of the largest systems of public higher education in the nation.
Petro began his tenure as Chancellor with a goal of increasing completion rates among Ohio's students, and promoted ways that students could earn an associate degree, bachelor's degree or certificate of completion in less time and for less money.
Petro earned a law degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1973 and a bachelor's degree in history from Denison University in 1970. He also received honorary doctorates from The University of Toledo and Denison University.
Employee development opportunities available for February
Employee professional development opportunities for February are available at the training registration site http://web.cscc.edu/is/employeetraining/courses.asp. Seating is limited.
Put Your Strengths To Work: Tuesday, February 5, 12:30 – 4:30 p.m. Gain a deeper understanding of the strengths-based philosophy as you continue along your journey of self-awareness and personal growth. In addition, you will learn six proven strategies that help leverage your own unique strengths as well as the strengths of others on your team. Prerequisite: Win With Your Strengths.
Career Pathing: Tuesday, February 12, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Career Pathing is a process used by an employee to chart a career course within an organization for his/her career development. Join us for an interactive session on self-assessments, exploring opportunities and creating an action plan for your career path!
Hostmanship: The Art of Serving Others: Friday, February 15, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Hostmanship in the art of making people feel welcome. In this introduction to Hostmanship, we will discuss its foundation and principles as well as its application for personal and professional growth.
Career Decision-Making Using the MBTI: Monday, February 25, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. When selecting, transitioning, or growing your career, understanding personality type can help explain why some careers feel like a good fit and others are a challenge. Your MBTI results can help you understand past careers and select a future career that best suits your personality.
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They say that inside all intelligent beings lies a feral, wild animal. It is often referred to as one's instincts, intuition, or gut, and that is precisely what it is; a feral being, devote of intelligent thought or emotion; a raging beast. Many warriors have felt the stirring of this creature during the heart of battle, but few are willing to tap into its power. Few are willing to relinquish what they perceive as control and allow themselves to fall deeper under the sway of the hunter. They end up dead.
Those who heed the pride's call, however, often find themselves with a fighting style unlike any other; a mad raking of blades, brutal kicks and punches, and even bites and gnashes when enraged enough. Such individuals make perfect students for the masters of the Tiger Claw discipline. Becoming an adept of the Tiger Claw requires that the individual embrace the natural world in a way few are willing to accept; one must become the tiger to fight like it, after all. Those that are willing to walk this road often find themselves with a terrible bloodlust and a stirring inner beast; and few such adepts would even ask it to sleep again.
The key skill of the Tiger Claw discipline is Acrobatics, as quick reflexes and cunning dodges are the way of natural; the very order of the wilderness. Tiger Claw adepts utilize every muscle in their body to its full potential when fighting, knowing that the slightest restraint could ultimately end in death. Adepts of the Tiger Claw discipline use bladed slashing weapons with no exception, as they allow the adepts to emulate the mighty beasts of the world, and the weapons associated with the Tiger Claw discipline are: greataxe, handaxe, kama, kukri, and natural attack (claw).
Becoming a Tiger Claw Adept
Few 'civilized folk' are willing to dive as deep into their own animal instincts as Tiger Claw adepts are, so as such the practice of the Tiger Claw discipline is not particularly wide spread. Those that seek the course are usually one with natural already, and as such all Tiger Claw maneuvers are listed as Barbarian and Ranger maneuvers. However, any other martial adept who seeks the power of nature untamed is able to become an adept of the Tiger Claw discipline. For any class other than a Barbarian or a Ranger to gain access to the Tiger Claw discipline, they must first meet the following prerequisites:
- Weapon Proficiency: The martial adept must have Weapon Proficiency with at least one of the Tiger Claw discipline's Associated Weapons (see above).
- Skills: The martial adept must have a 1 rank in the Acrobatics skill, the Tiger Claw discipline's key skill.
- Ability Score: The martial adept must have a Dexterity score of 14 or greater.
- Feat: The martial adept must have any one of the following feats: Improved Unarmed Strike, Two-Weapon Fighting, Weapon Finesse, or Weapon Focus (axe, natural attack, or sword).
- Special: The Tiger Claw adepts value people with a healthy bloodlust and never turn down experienced killers. A character with the Killer trait can treat it as a feat for the purpose of meeting the feat requirement of the Tiger Claw discipline's prerequisites.
Special Rule – Tearing Claws
Tiger Claw adepts specialize in ripping and tearing the flesh of their opponents with their weapons and many of the Tiger Claw discipline's techniques allow the adept to make use of this style by incorporating a flurry of attacks into their technique. Whenever the Tiger Claw adept initiates a maneuver with the [Rend] descriptor, if they successfully hit a creature with both their primary and secondary weapon at least one time, the adept deals an additional 1d6 points of rending damage per level of the initiated maneuver. The Tiger Claw adept need not hit with all of their attacks; as long as least one attack from the primary hand and one attack from the secondary hand hit, this special rule takes effect. Rending damage can only be dealt to a creature once per turn, though if you spilt enough attacks between multiple creatures, you can use this special rule against multiple targets in a single turn. Rending damage is considered precision damage, and creatures immune to precision damage are immune to the additional damage dealt by this special rule.
In addition, rending damage can only be dealt if the Tiger Claw adept is wielding a slashing weapon or they are unarmed in both their primary and secondary hands. These slashing weapons allow the Tiger Claw adept to emulate the animal their discipline is named after, and in a pinch the adept is more than willing to literally tear their enemy apart. If the Tiger Claw adept deals rending damage from another source (such as a racial ability or another martial maneuver), those sources of damage stack with this special rule for determining how much rending damage is dealt.
List of Tiger Claw Maneuvers
1st Level Maneuvers
- Blood in the Water - (Stance): +1 to attacks and damage; increases when you critically hit.
- Hunter's Sense - (Stance): Gain scent and track.
- Rage of the Wilds - (Boost): Gain raging bonuses for 1 round.
- Sudden Leap - (Boost): Make a Jump check as a swift action.
- Vengeful Mutilation - (Counter): Counterattack with two weapons.
- Wolf Fang Strike - (Strike): Attack with two weapons.
2nd Level Maneuvers
- Claw at the Moon - (Strike): Make Jump check, deal +2d6 damage.
- Rabid Wolf Strike - (Strike): +4 to attack, deal +2d6 damage; -4 AC for 1 round.
- Rivers of Blood - (Boost): Successful rend causes target to bleed.
3rd Level Maneuvers
- Flesh Ripper - (Strike): Foe takes -4 to attacks and AC; make a secondary attack if primary attack hits.
- Hunger for Blood – (Boost): Target bleeds equal to half the damage you deal.
- Leaping Wolf Stance - (Stance): +10 on Jump checks, always considered a running jump.
- Taste of Blood – (Boost): Gain temporary hit points when you inflict the bleed condition.
- Violent Persistence – (Boost): Reroll a failed attack roll with a -2 penalty.
- Wolverine Stance - (Stance): Use any weapons while grappled.
4th Level Maneuvers
- Death from Above – (Strike): Deals +4d6 damage and move into a new, adjacent square.
- Fountain of Blood – (Boost): Coup de graces a fallen creature and causes shaken in all observers.
- Tiger's Ambush – (Sublime Power): Cause next attack to have an increased chance to critically hit.
- Soaring Raptor Strike - (Strike): Acrobatics check causes an attack to deal +6d6 damage; +4 to confirm critical hits.
5th Level Maneuvers
- Blood Frenzy – (Stance): -4 to AC, +4 to attack and damage rolls; successful attacks heal you.
- Dancing Mongoose – (Boost): Make one additional attack per weapon; affects both primary and secondary weapons.
- Pouncing Charge – (Strike): Make a full attack with rending damage as part of a charge.
- Prey on the Weak – (Stance): Taking hit point damage provokes attacks of opportunity from you.
- Nowhere to Run – (Strike): Use Acrobatics as a grapple; automatically pins subject.
6th Level Maneuvers
- Deep Wounds – (Boost): All rending damage you deal is maximized.
- Rabid Bear Strike – (Strike): +4 to attack with +10d6 additional damage; -4 to AC for 1 round.
- Wolf Climbs the Mountain – (Strike): Deals +5d6 damage; gain over by hiding in target's space.
7th Level Maneuvers
- Hamstring Strike – (Strike): Deals 1d8 Dexterity damage; foe's speed takes -10 penalty.
- Mutilating Hemorrhage – (Strike): Successful attack deals 5d6 points of damage and cripples the target.
- Shattering Tiger Strike – (Strike): Jump over foe and deal +10d6 damage; stuns target.
8th Level Maneuvers
- Raging Mongoose – (Boost): Make two additional attacks per weapon; affects both primary and secondary weapons.
- Tiger's Death Craze – (Stance): You can make additional attacks as part of your Tiger Claw maneuvers.
- Windmill Flesh Rip – (Boost): Your next Tiger Claw strike maneuver hits all available creatures in range.
- Wolf's Pack Tactics – (Stance): Free 5ft step with every successful attack.
9th Level Maneuvers
- Feral Deathblow – (Strike): Devastating attack makes up to four attacks, each with +1d6/initiator level.


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TAH Summer Program Version of Primary Source Activity: Truman and the Atomic Bomb
- Download the letter from Secretary of War Stimpson to Truman
- Download excerpts from Truman's Potsdam Diary
- Download copies of the August 6, 1945, White House press release
- Download copies of the interview with Truman.
1. Overview
For over 60 years, historians have debated President Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. In this exercise teachers will examine a letter to Truman by Secretary of War Stimpson, diary entries written by Truman, an interview, and a White House press release that cast light on Truman's decision. Teachers will use these primary sources to address the following questions: Why did President Truman decide to use atomic bombs on Japan? How did Truman reach this decision?
2. Source Analysis
- a. Distribute copies of the letter from Secretary of War Stimpson to Truman, excerpts from Truman's Potsdam Diary, copies of the August 6, 1945, White House press release and copies of the interview with Truman.
- b. Ask teachers to work in pairs to analyze the primary sources, writing down observations and questions.
3. Group Discussion
Write three columns on the board: Notice, Questions and Historical Background. Use the following questions to guide the discussion:
- What did you notice about each document? What surprised you? What questions do you want to ask about the documents, the context or the historical background?
- What do you know about the Manhattan Project, the development of the atomic bomb, and the historical period that led up to the atomic strikes on Japan? How much did Truman know about the Manhattan Project before he became president? What was Truman's mindset about Japan and the Soviet Union during the Potsdam Conference and how did this affect his decision to approve use of the atomic bombs?
4. Historical Background
Present this historical background to enhance the group's knowledge of the time period.
- Truman
Truman took office as president upon the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) on April 12, 1945. At that time, Truman had no knowledge of the Manhattan Project and the development of the atomic bomb; he was never been briefed on the project by FDR. Truman was fully briefed on the Manhattan Project at the end of April 1945 by Secretary of War Henry Stimpson. In preparation for Truman's meeting with Churchill and Stalin at Potsdam, Truman appointed a high level group of officials called the Interim Committee to advise him on all issues related to the atomic bomb.
- The Potsdam Conference
In the early years of the war in the Pacific, FDR encouraged Stalin to declare war on Japan. He hoped that this would require Japanese troop commitment in Manchuria, leaving fewer Japanese troops to defend the home islands from an Allied invasion. By the spring of 1945, Soviet actions in Eastern Europe led the Truman administration to rethink its position about Soviet participation in the war against Japan. During the Potsdam Conference, Truman was informed of the successful test of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Truman told Stalin, without elaboration, that the U.S. had a new significant weapon that he intended to use against Japan. Stalin told Truman at the conference that the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan in August. The Potsdam Declaration issued by the allied powers on July 26, 1945, threatened Japan with "prompt and utter destruction" if it did not surrender unconditionally. The declaration did not address the status of the Japanese emperor in a post-war Japan, perhaps the most critical issue to the Japanese leadership.
- The Atomic Bombs
As Truman was en route home from Potsdam, he authorized the use of two atomic bombs on four potential Japanese targets - Hiroshima, Kokura, Nigata and Nagasaki - and transferred operational control over the weapons to the U.S. military. The targets were chosen, at the recommendation of the Interim Committee, because they were significant military targets surrounded by homes and other buildings that would be susceptible to damage so that the Japanese leadership could easily evaluate the devastating power of the atomic bomb.
- U.S. Public Opinion
Most Americans believed that Japan got what it deserved. The memory of Pearl Harbor had not faded. At the end of 1945, Fortune magazine published a survey showing that fewer than 20% of the American public had any moral reservations about the use of the atomic bombs, and more than 50% believed that the use of atomic weapons against Japan had been appropriate. An additional 23% of Americans indicated that they were sorry that the war ended before more atomic bombs could be used.
5. Conclusions
Who was the intended audience for each of the documents you analyzed? How did the intended audience shape the language and the message of that particular document? Are these messages consistent or do they indicate that the Truman administration had several competing ideas with respect to the bombs?
6. Classroom Applications
- Do you think that this activity would work with your students?
- How might you make changes to this activity to meet the needs of ESL and Special Education students?
Extended version
- This primary source activity is also available in a extended version. Please click here to download the PDF-file


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NMS Intensives: Social Media & Mobilizing Your FansThe music business is currently saturated with aspiring artists and "rising stars", so how can one of them push through the rest and get noticed?
Now more than ever, artists need a way to stand out. Like the weasel, they need to POP! The music business is currently saturated with aspiring artists and potentially rising stars, so how can one of them push through the rest and get noticed? Some of the New Music Seminar Intensives held in June attempted to help artists tackle that Gordian Knot.
CEO of Discmakers & CD Baby, Tony van Veen, shared with attendees the "9 Strategies To Maximize Artist Revenues in the Age of Facebook and Spotify."
Step 1: Be where the people are. Well of course, if you don't play gigs or put yourself out in the social media world, no one will know about you!
Step 2: Build your own list. These are people who will be buying your music, so get their information and offer them incentives.
Step 3: Retain mindshare. DO NOT let your audience forget about you; be compelling, and communicate often.
Step 4: Sell yourself. Think of your fans as customers and make them see your worth.
Step 5: Focus on iTunes. The fans are on iTunes, which means the artist must take advantage.
Step 6: Build deep product catalog. One thing that can go on this catalogue is merchandise; more products to sell = more revenue.
Step 7: Embrace "free." In the words of Tony van Veen, "Your enemy is not piracy, your enemy is anonymity."
Step 8: Tell customers what to do. If no one is aware of what to do, how will they do it? And the thing is, if you tell people to go on your website, or buy your CD, some will actually do it. Who knew?
Step 9: Offer specials and incentives. Which person on the planet doesn't love a good deal? Make a compelling offer, and don't be afraid to try new things. I think that just about covers all the bases for maximizing artist revenues in the modern world. No one's saying it'll be quick and easy, but patience is a virtue my friends.
Ourstage.com CEO Ben Campbell expressed his words of wisdom in a segment called: "Empower Your Tribe: How to Mobilize Your Fans for Opportunity and Exposure." I think it's safe to say that an artist is nothing without his/her fans. Fans are to artists as engines are to cars. Campbell explained that it is imperative for an artist to be fully committed to the journey ahead before taking any further steps. Once committed, start mobilizing your fans.
Start by building a devoted tribe who cares about you, and create and share custom content with them. Play gigs, make connections, and share you activity on social media sites. Social media has been a recurring theme in this year's NMS, and it's value really cannot be stressed enough. Understanding and properly implementing social media and online tools can bring an artist from the Earth's core to Orion's Belt. Just like Tony van Veen, Campbell preached the importance of engaging with and giving incentives to your fans. Give them a call to action to come to a show or visit a website. The most important point that Campbell stressed was to "totally share yourself;" you have to live it.
Campbell concluded by informing the audience about the 2012 launch of the new OurStage Pro Artist platform, where artists who get fans to stream music through ourstage.com will get a share of the company's revenue. In addition, large brands who partner with OurStage will invest in artists and allow them to showcase in their brand promotions. If you're interested in getting yourself in the public eye, this is worth checking out. And who knows, maybe you'll be the next big thing.
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WORCESTER, Mass. – With a strong outing by the Beacons pitching staff baseball (8-5) notched their second win of the week as they handed Worcester State University (4-13) a 9-2 loss Thursday afternoon at Rockwood Park.
Combined the three Beacons pitchers recorded 10 strikeouts respectively and only walked batters. Getting the start in Thursday's non-conference game was Will Barrack (Lancaster, Va.), who went the first four innings. From there it was Ryan Augustine (Burlington, Conn.) who went the next four frames on his way to earning his first win of the season. Patrick Austin (Torrington, Conn.) closed out the win in the ninth with two strikeouts while only surrendering one hit.
At the dish it was multi-hit day for Collin Keefer (Charlotte, N.C.), Mark McCormack (Shelton, Conn.), and Jamill Moquette (Boston, Mass.). Moquette who continues to swing one of the hottest bats in all of Division III baseball, recorded three RBI on his team-leading fourth double of the season.
For Keefer and McCormack they also recorded two hits on the afternoon, with Keefer notching his first triple and McCormack his first double of the season. The two also combined for five runs scored, with Keefer driving in a pair of runs as well.
After two scoreless innings, the Beacons got on the scoreboard in the top of the third following a bases clearing double from Moquette that put UMass up 3-0 on the scoreboard. Touching home plate on the extra base hit was Jack DeBiase (Prospect, Conn.), Keefer and McCormack.
In the fourth the Beacons took advantage of two errors by Worcester State which allowed two runs to cross home plate. That along with an RBI single from McCormack extended the Beacons lead to six.
Worcester State's only runs of the afternoon would come in the bottom half of the fourth on an RBI double. Following a scoreless fifth, McCormack made it a five-run ball game on his RBI double to right center. Worcester State would walk in UMass' eighth run of the night, and Luke Fischetti (Liverpool, N.Y.) would cap off the victory with an RBI double in the ninth secure the seven-run victory.
Baseball returns to action tomorrow when they travel to St. Joseph College (ME) for a 3 p.m. non-conference game, which was rescheduled from earlier this week.


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Angelina Jolie came out in strong support of her old pal Ewan McGregor by hosting a London screening Sunday night of JA Bayona's tsunami drama The Impossible.
The film, which premiered in Toronto, is already a record-setting box office hit in Spain and gets its UK premiere this week via eOne.
At an intimate Soho Hotel screening attended by the likes of Mike Figgis and Peter Capaldi, Jolie welcomed guests and gushed with praise for the film.
"We all remember the tsunami and we all remember watching it on TV, and it seemed so far away and so unbelievable that this could happen and hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives, and yet for all the stories that we read, I think for so many people it still felt so far away.
"What the filmmakers have done is they have made it – through this one family's story – personal. And we feel like we are in it and we travel through it, and it changes us. That is quite an extraordinary thing," she said.
She praised Sergio Sanchez's script for its "brilliance and elegance" and added "it is also masterfully directed by JA Bayona, there will be many scenes when you're watching that you'll be thinking, how did they do that!?…it's beyond comprehension."
Jolie called Naomi Watts' performance "extraordinary and beautiful" and then told the film's young star Tom Holland — a 2012 Screen Star of Tomorrow — "I am a huge fan of yours and I hope I get the chance one day to work alongside you. You are just amazing." (The lad smartly responded, "the feeling's mutual".)
But she saved her strongest praise for McGregor.
"Ewan I've known you for years, you're one of my favourite actors and I've always loved watching you. But I watched this and I didn't recognise you.
"It's strange to say it's one of the best performances of the year - it really doesn't give it credit, because it doesn't feel like a performance. It comes from such an honest place, it was so deeply emotional, you rarely see this kind of emotion from a man on screen…As an actor I'm in awe."
Jolie closed her remarks by saying: "The true testament of any film is what you walk away with, and with this film you walk away with more empathy, with a greater sense of connection to your fellow man, and you want to run home and hug your kids and tell them you love them. There is no greater message."


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Blu & Exile's Below the Heavens makes me miss 2007. No special reason—it wasn't that great a year, really—but it was a super-intelligent, emotionally honest album that just wedged itself exactly in that year for me. Weirdly, Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them, which was recorded in 2009, and released this last December, puts me in that same place. It's a good place.
Blu's made other music in the past few years, but it wasn't really as put together as that first album. But Give Me My Flowers has that same relaxed, whip-smart flow of consciousness about the same stuff—being broke, love, identity—that made Blu so relatable. "She Said It's OK" is my favorite off the album, probably because of the simple piano-laced beat that sounds so much like one of my favorite albums ever, except new, and not on playcount 500.


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Feb 24, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – Some of the nation's emergency departments are noting increases in flu-like illness cases that appear to be pandemic H1N1, and colleges are reporting the first increase in flu-like illness since the end of November, but it's not clear if these are early signs of a third pandemic flu wave.
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) said today in a Twitter post that some of its members were anecdotally reporting a new wave of pandemic H1N1 patients coming to emergency departments and asked if other physicians were seeing similar patterns.
Carl Schultz, MD, professor of emergency medicine at the University of California at Irvine, told CIDRAP News that the increase in the number of influenza-like illnesses appears to be real, but he cautioned that many of the cases have not been confirmed as the pandemic H1N1 strain, because many departments stopped specifically testing for it because of low flu activity. Schultz chairs ACEP's disaster preparedness and response committee.
Schultz cautioned that the apparent increase in flu activity could be an aberration, and he added that there have been no official reports of increases in hospitalizations and deaths from flu-like illnesses. Though he said the uptick in flu-like illnesses could be from seasonal flu, the likelihood may be less, because seasonal flu usually starts in November and peaks in January and February.
"To see something rising this late would be unusual," Schultz said, adding that the pandemic H1N1 virus has not observed typical flu season patterns. He said physicians are waiting to see if the pattern they're seeing is just a blip or if it turns out to be a real spike in pandemic H1N1 activity.
Tom Skinner, a spokesman for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that the CDC has nothing to report on any increase in flu activity, but he said it is keeping watch of flu-like illness trends across the nation.
Meanwhile, the American College Health Association (ACHA) today reported in its latest surveillance summary of influenza-like illnesses a 52% rise in cases, reflecting the first increase since the end of November. For the week ending Feb 19, the attack rate at schools was 4.1 cases per 10,000 students. The ACHA said some colleges in the southeast and Midwest have reported slight increases in disease activity.
Schultz said that the rise in college flu-like illnesses isn't particularly alarming, because activity had dropped to such a low level that a 52% increase is not sizeable.
So far this week no states have reported an increase in flu activity. A spokesman for the Washington State Department of Health said today that pandemic H1N1 cases have slowed but not disappeared, the Associated Press (AP) reported today. Five more people were hospitalized for H1N1 infections over the past week, but no new deaths have been reported.
Minnesota health officials today reported that flu activity remained low, with one school reporting an influenza-like illness outbreak, no new deaths, and no outbreaks at long-term care facilities.
The CDC is still urging all groups, especially those at high risk for complications such as pregnant women and those with underlying health conditions, to get vaccinated against pandemic H1N1 flu, especially now that vaccine supplies are plentiful. The CDC is also reminding parents of children younger than 10 who have already received one dose of the vaccine that the youngsters need a second dose for optimal protection.
See also:
Feb 24 ACHA influenza-like illness surveillance report
ACEP Twitter feed
Feb 24 Minnesota Department of Health flu activity update


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At the beginning of the New Year, Changanjie Church in Jiaohe City, Jilin Province gave church donation to brothers and sisters in Yingjiang and Longchuan County, Dehong Dai & Jingpo ethnic autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province, and hoped to help them out with the money.
The elderly in Hulunbuir Lusi Nursing Home had a joint birthday party for the first time.
- National TSPM Chairman Rev. Xu Xiaohong Shows up at an International Symposium in Singapore2019-10-10
- The Second Joint Meeting of CCC&TSPM's Standing Committee Held in Shanghai2019-09-30
- Celebrations of the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the PRC Held by CCC&TSPM2019-09-26
- Trainings for Bilingual Preachers in Ethnic Minority Areas End in Shanghai2019-09-23
- Trainings for Bilingual Preachers from Ethnic Minority Areas Kick off in Shanghai2019-09-03
- Rev. Shen Xuebin Receives Delegation from the United Methodist Church in the USA2019-11-02
- Friends of the Churches in China Visits CCC&TSPM2019-10-23
- Rev. Kan Baoping Receives a Delegation from CTBI2019-10-10
- Inter-Religious Organization, Singapore Visit CCC&TSPM2019-09-23
- UBS Delegation Visits CCC&TSPM2019-09-23
- Seven Newly-Ordained Church Members Enter Priesthood in Shandong2019-10-23
- Churches across the Country Celebrate Chongyang Festival2019-10-18
- Nationwide Celebrations of the National Day2019-10-18
- Thanksgiving Dedication Service of Xianshuigu Church Hosted by Tianjin CC&TSPM2019-10-11
- Shanghai CC&TSPM Organizes Activities for Celebrating Anniversaries 2019-09-23
- Amity Helps Rebuild Primary School in Guizhou2019-04-23
- Amity Signs Memorandum of Understanding with UNHCR2019-04-22
- Amity Foundation Delivers Blizzard Relief and Rescue in Qinghai2019-04-22
- Top Political Advisor Extends Spring Festival Greetings to Religious Personages, Believers2019-02-02
- The 7th National Joint Meeting of Religious Communities Held in Beijing2018-12-21
- NUTS Holds "Walking on Green Pastures" Welcome Party2019-11-02
- 2019 Autumn Retreat Held in Zhejiang Theological Seminary2019-10-11
- Seminaries Hold Activities Starting a New Semester2019-09-23
- 2019 Entrance Exam of Northeast Theological Seminary 2019-07-04
- 2019 Seminary Graduation Season underway2019-07-03
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Hongde Church
Built in 1928, Hongde Church is located on No. 59 Duolun Road, Shanghai. It was jointly subsidized by Northern Presbyterian Church and Chinese Christians. The name of the church was given in memory of George F. Fitch (1845-1923), a renowned missionary in the church and one of the leaders of American Presbyterian mission Press.
Mu'en Church
Mu'en Church is located in No. 316, Middle Xizang Lu Road, Shanghai. It was originally known as Moore Memorial Church, with its forebody being Trinity Church, which was built in 1874 by Missionary Lambuth of the Methodist Episcopal Church near Zhengjia Wooden Bridge at Shanghai's French concession (near Middle Fujian Road and East Yanan Road).
Guangdong Union Theological Seminary
The predecessor of Guangdong Union Theological Seminary is Canton Union Theological College, which was founded in 1914 and run jointly by eight mission societies and three denominational conventions, and later four other mission societies joined in. It once became a college of Lingnan University named 'Union Theological College of Lingnan University'. It was closed in 1960 and re-established in 1986 named 'Guangdong Union Theological Seminary' in order to show respect for the history and its pur