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TI expands receiver and transmitter products based on WPC standard; plans to develop circuits that support Power Matters AllianceBARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 25, 2013 — (PRNewswire) — Expanding its effort to bring wireless power capabilities to the market, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced plans to develop multi-mode wireless power integrated circuits (ICs) for smartphones and other portable electronics.
TI will continue to develop new bqTESLA™ wireless power receiver and transmitter integrated circuits that comply with existing and future versions of the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) Qi standard. In addition, TI announced today it will create products that support both Qi and the Power Matters Alliance (PMA) wireless charging specification. The first multi-mode solutions are expected later this year.
"We are shipping wireless power circuits to most major handset makers. And those companies continue to develop phones that support WPC's Qi, which is currently the most mature and accessible design standard," said Sami Kiriaki, senior vice president of TI Power Management. "With A4WP and PMA entering the wireless power space, we naturally expect a need for multi-protocol solutions, and are prepared to address this need."
TI also recently announced it will develop products that support the Alliance for Wireless Power ( A4WP) magnetic resonance specification. A4WP is a group of electronics companies, including Samsung, Qualcomm and others, focused on advancing spatial freedom in wireless power.
TI is making wireless power a reality
Wireless power is an emerging technology that creates a better charging experience for consumers, just as Wi-Fi replaced the need to use an Ethernet cable for Internet connectivity. TI's advanced receiver and transmitter integrated circuits include the recently announced bq51050B single-chip wireless power receiver with integrated charger and the bq500410A 3-coil transmitter with spatial freedom. As the leading provider of power management ICs, including battery management and power supply technology, TI relies on its power design expertise to drive innovations in wireless charging. For samples and bqTESLA development kits, visit: www.ti.com/wirelesspower-pr.
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Since 2005, you can randomly turn your TV to Cartoon Network and there's a good chance you'll either catch an airing of the animated series Ben 10, or at least a commercial for the show's many spinoffs. Joel Silver has been trying for a while now to get the popular show adapted for cinemas, and now a writer has been hired to rewrite a script already written by someone else. That counts as progress, right?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, fresh talent Ryan Engle will be taking over writing movies for Silver Pictures' big-screen Ben 10, working off of a script from Albert Torres, who was brought on to the project a little over a year ago. Engle's name is gaining buzz as he's just finished working with Silver providing on-set script duties for Jaume Collet-Serra's thriller Non-Stop, as well as being signed on to write the adaptations of the classic giant monster video game Rampage and Jimmy Palmiotti's post-technological apocalypse comic book The New West. He first gained recognition for his Black List script On A Clear Day, which is still in development.
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Would you be interested to make the South African championship 1965?
9 races ( and 6 non championship races ):
they began with engines 1.5L L4
then they changed for engines up to 2.7L L4
If you want to test, install the mini mod as usual.
You will get 3 car folders :
SA: Part 1 65 championship
SA2: end of the 65 championship, after the 5th or 6th race
(actually they do not have all changed at the same time but the dates are not known)
SA3; 2 additional cars that allow with SA2 to repeat the 1966 championship
There are the talent files, you can race with the AI by adjusting the aggressiveness between 15 and 20%
for their speed, decrease of approximately 10% from SA to SA2
Tracks 65 :
East London , 70Kyalami , Killarney , Roy Hesketh
Tracks 66 :
same + Lourenço Marques and Kumalo ( Kumalo must be replaced by Tony Rust )
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 6, by Edward Gibbon, [1788], at sacred-texts.com
Character And Coronation Of Petrarch. - Restoration Of The Freedom And Government Of Rome By The Tribune Rienzi. - His Virtues And Vices, His Expulsion And Death. - Return Of The Popes From Avignon. - Great Schism Of The West. - Reunion Of The Latin Church. - Last Struggles Of Roman Liberty. - Statutes Of Rome. - Final Settlement Of The Ecclesiastical State.
In the apprehension of modern times, Petrarch 1 is the Italian songster of Laura and love. In the harmony of his Tuscan rhymes, Italy applauds, or rather adores, the father of her lyric poetry; and his verse, or at least his name, is repeated by the enthusiasm, or affectation, of amorous sensibility. Whatever may be the private taste of a stranger, his slight and superficial knowledge should humbly acquiesce in the judgment of a learned nation; yet I may hope or presume, that the Italians do not compare the tedious uniformity of sonnets and elegies with the sublime compositions of their epic muse, the original wildness of Dante, the regular beauties of Tasso, and the boundless variety of the incomparable Ariosto. The merits of the lover I am still less qualified to appreciate: nor am I deeply interested in a metaphysical passion for a nymph so shadowy, that her existence has been questioned; 2 for a matron so prolific, 3 that she was delivered of eleven legitimate children, 4 while her amorous swain sighed and sung at the fountain of Vaucluse. 5 But in the eyes of Petrarch, and those of his graver contemporaries, his love was a sin, and Italian verse a frivolous amusement. His Latin works of philosophy, poetry, and eloquence, established his serious reputation, which was soon diffused from Avignon over France and Italy: his friends and disciples were multiplied in every city; and if the ponderous volume of his writings 6 be now abandoned to a long repose, our gratitude must applaud the man, who by precept and example revived the spirit and study of the Augustan age. From his earliest youth, Petrarch aspired to the poetic crown. The academical honors of the three faculties had introduced a royal degree of master or doctor in the art of poetry; 7 and the title of poet- laureate, which custom, rather than vanity, perpetuates in the English court, 8 was first invented by the Caesars of Germany. In the musical games of antiquity, a prize was bestowed on the victor: 9 the belief that Virgil and Horace had been crowned in the Capitol inflamed the emulation of a Latin bard; 10 and the laurel 11 was endeared to the lover by a verbal resemblance with the name of his mistress. The value of either object was enhanced by the difficulties of the pursuit; and if the virtue or prudence of Laura was inexorable, 12 he enjoyed, and might boast of enjoying, the nymph of poetry. His vanity was not of the most delicate kind, since he applauds the success of his own labors; his name was popular; his friends were active; the open or secret opposition of envy and prejudice was surmounted by the dexterity of patient merit. In the thirty-sixth year of his age, he was solicited to accept the object of his wishes; and on the same day, in the solitude of Vaucluse, he received a similar and solemn invitation from the senate of Rome and the university of Paris. The learning of a theological school, and the ignorance of a lawless city, were alike unqualified to bestow the ideal though immortal wreath which genius may obtain from the free applause of the public and of posterity: but the candidate dismissed this troublesome reflection; and after some moments of complacency and suspense, preferred the summons of the metropolis of the world.
The ceremony of his coronation 13 was performed in the Capitol, by his friend and patron the supreme magistrate of the republic. Twelve patrician youths were arrayed in scarlet; six representatives of the most illustrious families, in green robes, with garlands of flowers, accompanied the procession; in the midst of the princes and nobles, the senator, count of Anguillara, a kinsman of the Colonna, assumed his throne; and at the voice of a herald Petrarch arose. After discoursing on a text of Virgil, and thrice repeating his vows for the prosperity of Rome, he knelt before the throne, and received from the senator a laurel crown, with a more precious declaration, "This is the reward of merit." The people shouted, "Long life to the Capitol and the poet!" A sonnet in praise of Rome was accepted as the effusion of genius and gratitude; and after the whole procession had visited the Vatican, the profane wreath was suspended before the shrine of St. Peter. In the act or diploma 14 which was presented to Petrarch, the title and prerogatives of poet-laureate are revived in the Capitol, after the lapse of thirteen hundred years; and he receives the perpetual privilege of wearing, at his choice, a crown of laurel, ivy, or myrtle, of assuming the poetic habit, and of teaching, disputing, interpreting, and composing, in all places whatsoever, and on all subjects of literature. The grant was ratified by the authority of the senate and people; and the character of citizen was the recompense of his affection for the Roman name. They did him honor, but they did him justice. In the familiar society of Cicero and Livy, he had imbibed the ideas of an ancient patriot; and his ardent fancy kindled every idea to a sentiment, and every sentiment to a passion. The aspect of the seven hills and their majestic ruins confirmed these lively impressions; and he loved a country by whose liberal spirit he had been crowned and adopted. The poverty and debasement of Rome excited the indignation and pity of her grateful son; he dissembled the faults of his fellow-citizens; applauded with partial fondness the last of their heroes and matrons; and in the remembrance of the past, in the hopes of the future, was pleased to forget the miseries of the present time. Rome was still the lawful mistress of the world: the pope and the emperor, the bishop and general, had abdicated their station by an inglorious retreat to the Rhone and the Danube; but if she could resume her virtue, the republic might again vindicate her liberty and dominion. Amidst the indulgence of enthusiasm and eloquence, 15 Petrarch, Italy, and Europe, were astonished by a revolution which realized for a moment his most splendid visions. The rise and fall of the tribune Rienzi will occupy the following pages: 16 the subject is interesting, the materials are rich, and the glance of a patriot bard 17 will sometimes vivify the copious, but simple, narrative of the Florentine, 18 and more especially of the Roman, historian. 19
In a quarter of the city which was inhabited only by mechanics and Jews, the marriage of an innkeeper and a washer woman produced the future deliverer of Rome. 20 !_0067 From such parents Nicholas Rienzi Gabrini could inherit neither dignity nor fortune; and the gift of a liberal education, which they painfully bestowed, was the cause of his glory and untimely end. The study of history and eloquence, the writings of Cicero, Seneca, Livy, Caesar, and Valerius Maximus, elevated above his equals and contemporaries the genius of the young plebeian: he perused with indefatigable diligence the manuscripts and marbles of antiquity; loved to dispense his knowledge in familiar language; and was often provoked to exclaim, "Where are now these Romans? their virtue, their justice, their power? why was I not born in those happy times?" 21 When the republic addressed to the throne of Avignon an embassy of the three orders, the spirit and eloquence of Rienzi recommended him to a place among the thirteen deputies of the commons. The orator had the honor of haranguing Pope Clement the Sixth, and the satisfaction of conversing with Petrarch, a congenial mind: but his aspiring hopes were chilled by disgrace and poverty and the patriot was reduced to a single garment and the charity of the hospital. *_0067 From this misery he was relieved by the sense of merit or the smile of favor; and the employment of apostolic notary afforded him a daily stipend of five gold florins, a more honorable and extensive connection, and the right of contrasting, both in words and actions, his own integrity with the vices of the state. The eloquence of Rienzi was prompt and persuasive: the multitude is always prone to envy and censure: he was stimulated by the loss of a brother and the impunity of the assassins; nor was it possible to excuse or exaggerate the public calamities. The blessings of peace and justice, for which civil society has been instituted, were banished from Rome: the jealous citizens, who might have endured every personal or pecuniary injury, were most deeply wounded in the dishonor of their wives and daughters: 22 they were equally oppressed by the arrogance of the nobles and the corruption of the magistrates; !!_0067 and the abuse of arms or of laws was the only circumstance that distinguished the lions from the dogs and serpents of the Capitol. These allegorical emblems were variously repeated in the pictures which Rienzi exhibited in the streets and churches; and while the spectators gazed with curious wonder, the bold and ready orator unfolded the meaning, applied the satire, inflamed their passions, and announced a distant hope of comfort and deliverance. The privileges of Rome, her eternal sovereignty over her princes and provinces, was the theme of his public and private discourse; and a monument of servitude became in his hands a title and incentive of liberty. The decree of the senate, which granted the most ample prerogatives to the emperor Vespasian, had been inscribed on a copper plate still extant in the choir of the church of St. John Lateran. 23 A numerous assembly of nobles and plebeians was invited to this political lecture, and a convenient theatre was erected for their reception. The notary appeared in a magnificent and mysterious habit, explained the inscription by a version and commentary, 24 and descanted with eloquence and zeal on the ancient glories of the senate and people, from whom all legal authority was derived. The supine ignorance of the nobles was incapable of discerning the serious tendency of such representations: they might sometimes chastise with words and blows the plebeian reformer; but he was often suffered in the Colonna palace to amuse the company with his threats and predictions; and the modern Brutus 25 was concealed under the mask of folly and the character of a buffoon. While they indulged their contempt, the restoration of the good estate, his favorite expression, was entertained among the people as a desirable, a possible, and at length as an approaching, event; and while all had the disposition to applaud, some had the courage to assist, their promised deliverer.
A prophecy, or rather a summons, affixed on the church door of St. George, was the first public evidence of his designs; a nocturnal assembly of a hundred citizens on Mount Aventine, the first step to their execution. After an oath of secrecy and aid, he represented to the conspirators the importance and facility of their enterprise; that the nobles, without union or resources, were strong only in the fear nobles, of their imaginary strength; that all power, as well as right, was in the hands of the people; that the revenues of the apostolical chamber might relieve the public distress; and that the pope himself would approve their victory over the common enemies of government and freedom. After securing a faithful band to protect his first declaration, he proclaimed through the city, by sound of trumpet, that on the evening of the following day, all persons should assemble without arms before the church of St. Angelo, to provide for the reestablishment of the good estate. The whole night was employed in the celebration of thirty masses of the Holy Ghost; and in the morning, Rienzi, bareheaded, but in complete armor, issued from the church, encompassed by the hundred conspirators. The pope's vicar, the simple bishop of Orvieto, who had been persuaded to sustain a part in this singular ceremony, marched on his right hand; and three great standards were borne aloft as the emblems of their design. In the first, the banner of liberty, Rome was seated on two lions, with a palm in one hand and a globe in the other; St. Paul, with a drawn sword, was delineated in the banner of justice; and in the third, St. Peter held the keys of concord and peace. Rienzi was encouraged by the presence and applause of an innumerable crowd, who understood little, and hoped much; and the procession slowly rolled forwards from the castle of St. Angelo to the Capitol. His triumph was disturbed by some secret emotions which he labored to suppress: he ascended without opposition, and with seeming confidence, the citadel of the republic; harangued the people from the balcony; and received the most flattering confirmation of his acts and laws. The nobles, as if destitute of arms and counsels, beheld in silent consternation this strange revolution; and the moment had been prudently chosen, when the most formidable, Stephen Colonna, was absent from the city. On the first rumor, he returned to his palace, affected to despise this plebeian tumult, and declared to the messenger of Rienzi, that at his leisure he would cast the madman from the windows of the Capitol. The great bell instantly rang an alarm, and so rapid was the tide, so urgent was the danger, that Colonna escaped with precipitation to the suburb of St. Laurence: from thence, after a moment's refreshment, he continued the same speedy career till he reached in safety his castle of Palestrina; lamenting his own imprudence, which had not trampled the spark of this mighty conflagration. A general and peremptory order was issued from the Capitol to all the nobles, that they should peaceably retire to their estates: they obeyed; and their departure secured the tranquillity of the free and obedient citizens of Rome.
But such voluntary obedience evaporates with the first transports of zeal; and Rienzi felt the importance of justifying his usurpation by a regular form and a legal title. At his own choice, the Roman people would have displayed their attachment and authority, by lavishing on his head the names of senator or consul, of king or emperor: he preferred the ancient and modest appellation of tribune; *_0068 the protection of the commons was the essence of that sacred office; and they were ignorant, that it had never been invested with any share in the legislative or executive powers of the republic. In this character, and with the consent of the Roman, the tribune enacted the most salutary laws for the restoration and maintenance of the good estate. By the first he fulfils the wish of honesty and inexperience, that no civil suit should be protracted beyond the term of fifteen days. The danger of frequent perjury might justify the pronouncing against a false accuser the same penalty which his evidence would have inflicted: the disorders of the times might compel the legislator to punish every homicide with death, and every injury with equal retaliation. But the execution of justice was hopeless till he had previously abolished the tyranny of the nobles. It was formally provided, that none, except the supreme magistrate, should possess or command the gates, bridges, or towers of the state; that no private garrisons should be introduced into the towns or castles of the Roman territory; that none should bear arms, or presume to fortify their houses in the city or country; that the barons should be responsible for the safety of the highways, and the free passage of provisions; and that the protection of malefactors and robbers should be expiated by a fine of a thousand marks of silver. But these regulations would have been impotent and nugatory, had not the licentious nobles been awed by the sword of the civil power. A sudden alarm from the bell of the Capitol could still summon to the standard above twenty thousand volunteers: the support of the tribune and the laws required a more regular and permanent force. In each harbor of the coast a vessel was stationed for the assurance of commerce; a standing militia of three hundred and sixty horse and thirteen hundred foot was levied, clothed, and paid in the thirteen quarters of the city: and the spirit of a commonwealth may be traced in the grateful allowance of one hundred florins, or pounds, to the heirs of every soldier who lost his life in the service of his country. For the maintenance of the public defence, for the establishment of granaries, for the relief of widows, orphans, and indigent convents, Rienzi applied, without fear of sacrilege, the revenues of the apostolic chamber: the three branches of hearth-money, the salt-duty, and the customs, were each of the annual produce of one hundred thousand florins; 26 and scandalous were the abuses, if in four or five months the amount of the salt-duty could be trebled by his judicious economy. After thus restoring the forces and finances of the republic, the tribune recalled the nobles from their solitary independence; required their personal appearance in the Capitol; and imposed an oath of allegiance to the new government, and of submission to the laws of the good estate. Apprehensive for their safety, but still more apprehensive of the danger of a refusal, the princes and barons returned to their houses at Rome in the garb of simple and peaceful citizens: the Colonna and Ursini, the Savelli and Frangipani, were confounded before the tribunal of a plebeian, of the vile buffoon whom they had so often derided, and their disgrace was aggravated by the indignation which they vainly struggled to disguise. The same oath was successively pronounced by the several orders of society, the clergy and gentlemen, the judges and notaries, the merchants and artisans, and the gradual descent was marked by the increase of sincerity and zeal. They swore to live and die with the republic and the church, whose interest was artfully united by the nominal association of the bishop of Orvieto, the pope's vicar, to the office of tribune. It was the boast of Rienzi, that he had delivered the throne and patrimony of St. Peter from a rebellious aristocracy; and Clement the Sixth, who rejoiced in its fall, affected to believe the professions, to applaud the merits, and to confirm the title, of his trusty servant. The speech, perhaps the mind, of the tribune, was inspired with a lively regard for the purity of the faith: he insinuated his claim to a supernatural mission from the Holy Ghost; enforced by a heavy forfeiture the annual duty of confession and communion; and strictly guarded the spiritual as well as temporal welfare of his faithful people. 27
1 The Memoires sur la Vie de Francois Petrarque, (Amsterdam, 1764, 1767, 3 vols. in 4to.,) form a copious, original, and entertaining work, a labor of love, composed from the accurate study of Petrarch and his contemporaries; but the hero is too often lost in the general history of the age, and the author too often languishes in the affectation of politeness and gallantry. In the preface to his first volume, he enumerates and weighs twenty Italian biographers, who have professedly treated of the same subject.
2 The allegorical interpretation prevailed in the xvth century; but the wise commentators were not agreed whether they should understand by Laura, religion, or virtue, or the blessed virgin, or - see the prefaces to the first and second volume.
3 Laure de Noves, born about the year 1307, was married in January 1325, to Hugues de Sade, a noble citizen of Avignon, whose jealousy was not the effect of love, since he married a second wife within seven months of her death, which happened the 6th of April, 1348, precisely one-and-twenty years after Petrarch had seen and loved her.
4 Corpus crebris partubus exhaustum: from one of these is issued, in the tenth degree, the abbe de Sade, the fond and grateful biographer of Petrarch; and this domestic motive most probably suggested the idea of his work, and urged him to inquire into every circumstance that could affect the history and character of his grandmother, (see particularly tom. i. p. 122 - 133, notes, p. 7 - 58, tom. ii. p. 455 - 495 not. p. 76 - 82.)
5 Vaucluse, so familiar to our English travellers, is described from the writings of Petrarch, and the local knowledge of his biographer, (Memoires, tom. i. p. 340 - 359.) It was, in truth, the retreat of a hermit; and the moderns are much mistaken, if they place Laura and a happy lover in the grotto.
6 Of 1250 pages, in a close print, at Basil in the xvith century, but without the date of the year. The abbe de Sade calls aloud for a new edition of Petrarch's Latin works; but I much doubt whether it would redound to the profit of the bookseller, or the amusement of the public.
7 Consult Selden's Titles of Honor, in his works, (vol. iii. p. 457 - 466.) A hundred years before Petrarch, St. Francis received the visit of a poet, qui ab imperatore fuerat coronatus et exinde rex versuum dictus.
8 From Augustus to Louis, the muse has too often been false and venal: but I much doubt whether any age or court can produce a similar establishment of a stipendiary poet, who in every reign, and at all events, is bound to furnish twice a year a measure of praise and verse, such as may be sung in the chapel, and, I believe, in the presence, of the sovereign. I speak the more freely, as the best time for abolishing this ridiculous custom is while the prince is a man of virtue and the poet a man of genius.
9 Isocrates (in Panegyrico, tom. i. p. 116, 117, edit. Battie, Cantab. 1729) claims for his native Athens the glory of first instituting and recommending. The example of the Panathenaea was imitated at Delphi; but the Olympic games were ignorant of a musical crown, till it was extorted by the vain tyranny of Nero, (Sueton. in Nerone, c. 23; Philostrat. apud Casaubon ad locum; Dion Cassius, or Xiphilin, l. lxiii. p. 1032, 1041. Potter's Greek Antiquities, vol. i. p. 445, 450.)
10 The Capitoline games (certamen quinquenale, musicum, equestre, gymnicum) were instituted by Domitian (Sueton. c. 4) in the year of Christ 86, (Censorin. de Die Natali, c. 18, p. 100, edit. Havercamp.) and were not abolished in the ivth century, (Ausonius de Professoribus Burdegal. V.) If the crown were given to superior merit, the exclusion of Statius (Capitolia nostrae inficiata lyrae, Sylv. l. iii. v. 31) may do honor to the games of the Capitol; but the Latin poets who lived before Domitian were crowned only in the public opinion.
11 Petrarch and the senators of Rome were ignorant that the laurel was not the Capitoline, but the Delphic crown, (Plin. Hist. Natur p. 39. Hist. Critique de la Republique des Lettres, tom. i. p. 150 - 220.) The victors in the Capitol were crowned with a garland of oak eaves, (Martial, l. iv. epigram 54.)
12 The pious grandson of Laura has labored, and not without success, to vindicate her immaculate chastity against the censures of the grave and the sneers of the profane, (tom. ii. notes, p. 76 - 82.)
13 The whole process of Petrarch's coronation is accurately described by the abbe de Sade, (tom. i. p. 425 - 435, tom. ii. p. 1 - 6, notes, p. 1 - 13,) from his own writings, and the Roman diary of Ludovico, Monaldeschi, without mixing in this authentic narrative the more recent fables of Sannuccio Delbene.
14 The original act is printed among the Pieces Justificatives in the Memoires sur Petrarque, tom. iii. p. 50 - 53.
15 To find the proofs of his enthusiasm for Rome, I need only request that the reader would open, by chance, either Petrarch, or his French biographer. The latter has described the poet's first visit to Rome, (tom. i. p. 323 - 335.) But in the place of much idle rhetoric and morality, Petrarch might have amused the present and future age with an original account of the city and his coronation.
16 It has been treated by the pen of a Jesuit, the P. de Cerceau whose posthumous work (Conjuration de Nicolas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, Tyran de Rome, en 1347) was published at Paris, 1748, in 12mo. I am indebted to him for some facts and documents in John Hocsemius, canon of Liege, a contemporary historian, (Fabricius Bibliot. Lat. Med. Aevi, tom. iii. p. 273, tom. iv. p. 85.)
17 The abbe de Sade, who so freely expatiates on the history of the xivth century, might treat, as his proper subject, a revolution in which the heart of Petrarch was so deeply engaged, (Memoires, tom. ii. p. 50, 51, 320 - 417, notes, p. 70 - 76, tom. iii. p. 221 - 243, 366 - 375.) Not an idea or a fact in the writings of Petrarch has probably escaped him.
18 Giovanni Villani, l. xii. c. 89, 104, in Muratori, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, tom. xiii. p. 969, 970, 981 - 983.
19 In his third volume of Italian antiquities, (p. 249 - 548,) Muratori has inserted the Fragmenta Historiae Romanae ab Anno 1327 usque ad Annum 1354, in the original dialect of Rome or Naples in the xivth century, and a Latin version for the benefit of strangers. It contains the most particular and authentic life of Cola (Nicholas) di Rienzi; which had been printed at Bracciano, 1627, in 4to., under the name of Tomaso Fortifiocca, who is only mentioned in this work as having been punished by the tribune for forgery. Human nature is scarcely capable of such sublime or stupid impartiality: but whosoever in the author of these Fragments, he wrote on the spot and at the time, and paints, without design or art, the manners of Rome and the character of the tribune.
Note: Since the publication of my first edition of Gibbon, some new and very remarkable documents have been brought to light in a life of Nicolas Rienzi, - Cola di Rienzo und seine Zeit, - by Dr. Felix Papencordt. The most important of these documents are letters from Rienzi to Charles the Fourth, emperor and king of Bohemia, and to the archbishop of Praque; they enter into the whole history of his adventurous career during its first period, and throw a strong light upon his extraordinary character. These documents were first discovered and made use of, to a certain extent, by Pelzel, the historian of Bohemia. The originals have disappeared, but a copy made by Pelzel for his own use is now in the library of Count Thun at Teschen. There seems no doubt of their authenticity. Dr. Papencordt has printed the whole in his i:Urkunden, with the exception of one long theological paper. - M. 1845.
20 The first and splendid period of Rienzi, his tribunitian government, is contained in the xviiith chapter of the Fragments, (p. 399 - 479,) which, in the new division, forms the iid book of the history in xxxviii. smaller chapters or sections.
!_0067 But see in Dr. Papencordt's work, and in Rienzi's own words, his claim to be a bastard son of the emperor Henry the Seventh, whose intrigue with his mother Rienzi relates with a sort of proud shamelessness. Compare account by the editor of Dr. Papencordt's work in Quarterly Review vol. lxix. - M. 1845.
21 The reader may be pleased with a specimen of the original idiom: Fo da soa juventutine nutricato di latte de eloquentia, bono gramatico, megliore rettuorico, autorista bravo. Deh como et quanto era veloce leitore! moito usava Tito Livio, Seneca, et Tullio, et Balerio Massimo, moito li dilettava le magnificentie di Julio Cesare raccontare. Tutta la die se speculava negl' intagli di marmo lequali iaccio intorno Roma. Non era altri che esso, che sapesse lejere li antichi pataffii. Tutte scritture antiche vulgarizzava; quesse fiure di marmo justamente interpretava. On come spesso diceva, "Dove suono quelli buoni Romani? dove ene loro somma justitia? poleramme trovare in tempo che quessi fiuriano!"
*_0067 Sir J. Hobhouse published (in his Illustrations of Childe Harold) Rienzi's joyful letter to the people of Rome on the apparently favorable termination of this mission. - M. 1845.
22 Petrarch compares the jealousy of the Romans with the easy temper of the husbands of Avignon, (Memoires, tom. i. p. 330.)
!!_0067 All this Rienzi, writing at a later period to the archbishop of Prague, attributed to the criminal abandonment of his flock by the supreme pontiff. See Urkunde apud Papencordt, p. xliv. Quarterly Review, p. 255. - M. 1845.
23 The fragments of the Lex regia may be found in the Inscriptions of Gruter, tom. i. p. 242, and at the end of the Tacitus of Ernesti, with some learned notes of the editor, tom. ii.
24 I cannot overlook a stupendous and laughable blunder of Rienzi. The Lex regia empowers Vespasian to enlarge the Pomoerium, a word familiar to every antiquary. It was not so to the tribune; he confounds it with pomarium, an orchard, translates lo Jardino de Roma cioene Italia, and is copied by the less excusable ignorance of the Latin translator (p. 406) and the French historian, (p. 33.) Even the learning of Muratori has slumbered over the passage.
25 Priori (Bruto) tamen similior, juvenis uterque, longe ingenic quam cujus simulationem induerat, ut sub hoc obtentu liberator ille P R. aperiretur tempore suo .... Ille regibus, hic tyrannis contemptus, (Opp (Opp. p. 536.)
Note: Fatcor attamen quod - nunc fatuum. nunc hystrionem, nunc gravem nunc simplicem, nunc astutum, nunc fervidum, nunc timidum simulato rem, et dissimulatorem ad hunc caritativum finem, quem dixi, constitusepius memet ipsum. Writing to an archbishop, (of Prague,) Rienzi alleges scriptural examples. Saltator coram archa David et insanus apparuit coram Rege; blanda, astuta, et tecta Judith astitit Holoferni; et astate Jacob meruit benedici, Urkunde xlix. - M. 1845.
*_0068 Et ego, Deo semper auctore, ipsa die pristina (leg. prima) Tribunatus, quae quidem dignitas a tempore deflorati Imperii, et per annos Vo et ultra sub tyrannica occupatione vacavit, ipsos omnes potentes indifferenter Deum at justitiam odientes, a mea, ymo a Dei facie fugiendo vehementi Spiritu dissipavi, et nullo effuso cruore trementes expuli, sine ictu remanents Romane terre facie renovata. Libellus Tribuni ad Caesarem, p. xxxiv - M. 1845.
26 In one MS. I read (l. ii. c. 4, p. 409) perfumante quatro solli, in another, quatro florini, an important variety, since the florin was worth ten Roman solidi, (Muratori, dissert. xxviii.) The former reading would give us a population of 25,000, the latter of 250,000 families; and I much fear, that the former is more consistent with the decay of Rome and her territory.
27 Hocsemius, p. 498, apud du Cerceau, Hist. de Rienzi, p. 194. The fifteen tribunitian laws may be found in the Roman historian (whom for brevity I shall name) Fortifiocca, l. ii. c. 4


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Monday, April 7, 2008
Moonkin Raiding Professions
As with most of my posts, I am looking at this only from a raiding min/max perspective. I really have no clue as to which profession will make you the most money. I also don't care about all of the BoE items or services a profession produces. You can easily have an alt or a guildie make them for you. What I do care about are the items and services that this profession can give me that I can't get without having the profession on my main.
Just to clarify, I am not suggesting that all moonkin go out and drop one or both of their current professions and level up new ones. You will notice that I still have Herbilism on Graylo even though it provides me very few benifits that I can't get another way. The fact of the matter is I don't want to buy herbs to supply my alchemy. If I had an alt with Herbalism I would drop it, but I don't so I keep it for now. These are just some things to think about if you are trying to get the most out of your moonkin or any toon you have.
Gathering Professions: Herbalism, Skinning, Mining
There are only two reasons to pick up these professions; 1. Make Gold, 2. Supply a crafting profession. There is really no reason to have these professons on your main if you can get an alt to do them for you or if you don't mind buying the mats off the AH. They do provide one or two profession only benifits but they are not earth shattering and don't really need to be discussed.
Alchemy has come a long way recently, but there are only two reasons to consider it as a raiding profession for a moonkin. The first is the [Mad Alchemist Potion]. It is very cheap, but returns less mana then the Super Mana Potion, and the random buffs won't apply in most raid situations. The best reason to consider Alchemy for one of your professions are the Upgraded Alchemist's Stones. The [Sorcerer's Alchemist Stone] is one of the best damage trinkets in the game and is the best mana regen trinket in the game if you pot on cooldown. This trinket alone has halted all thoughts of me dropping Alchemy on Graylo. It is a little expensive to make, but it will serve you well from Kara to the Sunwell.
Engineering got some love in patch 2.1 with the addition of the craftable BoP goggles. I don't have an engineer but I did consider switching after 2.1 came out because the goggles are awesome. To make things even better blizzard made the goggles upgradeable in patch 2.4. The pattern needed to do so drops in the Sunwell but they are BoE. The new 2.4 goggles are better than almost every other head in the game, combine that with the fact that ever raid leader likes to have an engineer in raid for repair bots, taking up engineering isn't a bad choice.
Jewelcrafting offers a couple of BoP advantages for your main. The first are BoP unique equip gems like [Don Julio's Heart] and [Blood of Amber]. The upgrades here aren't huge but they are transferable when you upgrade your gear. Jewelcrafting also offers several BoP Trinkets and necks. The best of which is [Pendant of Sunfire]. This pattern is also a BoE sunwell trash drop so expect it to be expensive.
Tailoring is an amazing profession for cloth wearers. Some of the crafted gear available from the trainers is equivalent to T5. For moonkin, it is a very nice profession, but not quite as amazing. The reason you may want to pick up Tailoring is for the craftable gear. The [Spellstrike Set] is BoE, but you have to be a tailor to get the set bonus. the [Spellfire Set] is nice also but it does very little for your nature spells. There are also some very nice BoP pattern drops in T5 and T6 content, however you will out grow a lot of these pieces if you advance to higher level raiding.
Enchanting is a very expensive profession to level but is a favorite among high end raiders for one reason, ring enchants. For a moonkin this means an extra 24 spell damage that is not available otherwise. Plus, it doesn't matter how many times you upgrade your rings because you can always enchant the new one. This is a favored profession of many high-end raiding casters spicifically because of the ring enchants.
This is another profession that has improved dramatically since TBC came out. The [Windhawk Set] is the most obvious reason to consider taking up Leatherworking. This set has received several buffs since the expantion and is finally to a place that I consider it worth while. If you have checked out my gear guide you already know that I consider this to be the best pre-kara gear available. You will eventually replace most of these pieces with badge gear, but this will allow you to focus your badges on other slots. The second reason you should consider Leatherworking is the Drums. For a spec that at times has difficulty asserting its raid viability, these are a god send. With them you are able to expand your parties DPS. These are so good that Nihilum has actually had many of its members (including Mages and Warlocks) switch to Leatherworking so that they can have a rolling 80 haste buff. If I was rolling a new raiding moonkin today, this would be one of my professions without a doubt.
There is really no point for a moonkin to be a blacksmith. There are a couple of BoE epic caster weapons that they can cast, but you can always buy them or farm the mats for someone else.
Two Questions:
Choosing professions for your raiding moonkin really comes down to three questions in my opinion.
1. Am I looking to maximize my moonkin's raiding performance? If the answer is no, then there is really no point in going on. Pick the two professions that best fulfill your goals. For example, Mining and Jewelcrafting are not necessarily the best professions for a warlock, but I have them on mine because I want to be able to prospect my own gems.
2. How far do I expect to raid before the expansion? Do I expect to replace my craftable gear? Tailoring is a very nice profession, but most of the craftable items will be replaces if you raid the highest level of content. In which case transferable buffs like the ring enchants and drums become much more desireable. This is what the high end raiding guilds do. However, it will cost you a lot of gold unless you have alts to support your mains professions.
Guild Update:
Attendance has been lagging a little bit. I can't tell if people can't show up at our raid time or if they assume we will be a little late and show up a little late. Our raid time is 7:30 but we can't seem to get a full raid until about 8:00 for some reason. On top of that we lost our main tank on tuesday. At first I thought it was an April Fools Joke, but it wasn't. He had grown bored with the game and didn't enjoy it anymore. I understand his reasoning and which him the best of luck. From a guild stand point we are ok. He was our most consistant tank but he always had to leave around 10 pm, and we usually had a tank or two that we had to ask to sit. It sucks, to lose such a good tank but I don't think it will hold us back.
Tuesday night we downed Hydross and Lurker. It doesn't sound bad but it kind of sucks. With both fights we had several wipes that shouldn't have happened. Plus we got started late and didn't have a lot of healers online. Wednesday I wasn't in raid, but they downed VR and Solarion. Thursday we planned on doing Al'ar. The fire mages respeced frost and everything. Unfortunately we only had 3 tanks show up on time. While it is doable with only 3 tanks its not really the way you want to try a boss for the first time. So we headed over to SSC hoping to clear it to Vashj. Leo when very bad. We had a number of wipes for a number of reasons. Some of it was people not being focused and doing stupid stuff like not waiting for tanks to pick up the boss. Other times it was inopportune DCs of main healers and the Warlock tank. We did eventually get him down with about 30 mins left in the raid time. So we desided to try and get FLK down quickly. That ended up going very well despite it being the first attempt for several key people in the raid. We got him down and salvaged the night.
Toon Update:
Graylo - When I am not raiding I am doing Dailies for the SSO. My server started phase three yesterday and I hit revered with the SSO. I also got over 210 badges total on him so that I can by the 2.3 head and chest and the 2.4 ring as soon as the SSO badge loot becomes available. I know that I can already get the 2.3 stuff but I would lose a lot of hit if I switch it out now. The ring makes up for most of that so I am waiting. Hopefully I will be able to get a lot of the dailies done this week so that I can hit Exalted over the weekend and get my trinket.
Graypal - It was a pretty big weekend for Graypal. I ran kara with him on Friday night. Between him and graypal I got 32 badges from kara that night. He got a couple of good pieces of gear, they are [Talisman of Nightbane] and [Soul-Collar of the Incarnate]. I almost got the [Nathrezim Mindblade] but was barely out rolled for it. He is also up to 24 badges. I can't deside if I want to get the wand once I get another badge or if I want to save up for the spell damage trinket. I also did all of the SSO dailies with him which I find to be a real pain. For obvious reason Graypal doesn't survive near as well as Graylo in the feeding frenze that is the SSO dailies. Having to tag things so quickly with SW Death as caused be to pull more mobs than expected multiple times. I don't have a good reason to get him to exalted yet other than the Neck, but I do want to get him to Honored so that I can get the rep mace. The other goal I have for him right now is to farm up 15 primal fires so that I can get the [Belt of Blasting]. The guild is getting enough Nether Vortexs now for alts. I have 2 primal fires that I can spare but thirteen more could take a little while.
Grayfel - I had planned to do more with Grayfel this weekend but I ended up spending most of it on my 70's. I was able to level him to 36 and free up a bit of rested XP. Hopefully I will work on him more this weekend, but I've said that before haven't I.
7 comments:
- Ursine said...
So I currently (at 60) have engineering (waiting for 62 so i can wear my gogs) and enchanting.
I am considering dropping enchanting for leather working, but am hesitant.
Think it makes the difference to get the drums now (really the only thing worth while pre-70)? Windhawk looks real nice as a fresh 70...
- April 14, 2008 at 6:38 PM
- Cdin said...
Thanks for checking out my blog.
I can understand why you are hesitant. Switching professions is a big deal that can't be fixed if you deside you have made the wrong choice.
As I said in my post if you keep Enchanting you are primarily doing it for the +24 Spell Damage. If you pick up Leatherworking your are doing it for the drums and Windhawk set. The choice depends on a couple of things.
1. Do you have an alt to supply you with leather? If not then it is going to be very expensive to level it from the AH. I am cheap so this is a deal breaker for me. If you do have a skinning alt or some way to get a lot of leather very cheaply then having two crafting professions is a great idea.
2. How much money and work have you put into leveling Enchanting. Some people will disagree with my reasoning, but I can't drop a profession that I already put a lot of work into. Its why I have hung onto Alchemy for so long.
If you do deside to make the switch the primary reason would be the Windhawk Set. It has some very nice items for low level raiders and more casual players. If you expect to get to higher level raiding then you will replace it in high T5 content or low T6 content.
The drums will have some benifit while leveling and an extra buff is always welcome. However, you won't feel the same benifit that the elite raiding guilds feel unless you start raiding the highest level of content. Nihilum had all of its players switch to leatherworking for the Drums of Battle. They do this so they can stack 4 leatherworkers into every group and get a rolling 2 minute 80 haste buff. Haste is very dependent on your mana pool and spell damage. If both are not high then haste isn't worth it. The other drums however would provide some benifit.
IF it was upto me, I would probably switch to Leatherworking if I had a way of getting cheap leather. I think the benifits of Leatherworking outweigh the lost of Enchanting.
- April 15, 2008 at 12:06 PM
- Ursine said...
Thanks for the tips. I have only about 260 enchanting skill, basically just disenchanted my gear along the way up and used it to throw enchants on my own current gear. No lost jackpot by dropping it.
I am working up a skinner alt, but I play the AH game with my banker alt and don't mind dropping a couple hundred gold to level up leatherworking.
Hope you don't mind, but I linked your pre-kara gear guides on my blog. Thanks again.
- April 15, 2008 at 2:41 PM
- Cdin said...
No problem. Your more than welcome to link my blog. Thanks for reading.
- April 16, 2008 at 7:59 AM
- Mike said...
I've been having a real hard time trying to decide what professions to have for my druid. I mostly will be resto, but i would like a boomkin set as well. (maybe feral if i get real bored.) I was thinking engineering cause i could use the boots, plus i would have goggles in every form. Also i thought i would be pvping alot, and i feel like i could always keep the goggles while get resil pieces everywhere else.
But Leatherworking does seem to have its perks with drums/windhawk, but i dont think i would be using that for pvp much.
Also, i wanna have in mind what will still be good when WOTLK comes out. What do u think will have the better upgrades with max in WOTLK?
- July 28, 2008 at 1:34 PM
- Cdin said...
Thanks for checking out my blog.
If your looking for divircity then Engeneering is probably your best choice currently. As you said you can craft some great gear for all of yoru spec, and it also has some great trinkets for PvP from what I'm told.
If you plan on being resto most of the time Leatherworking is probalby not for you. The crafted gear is not that great for resto, and the drums have less use for healers.
One you didn't list but I think is a good option is Alchemy. The trinkets are very nice for both moonkin and Resto's.
As far as WotLK goes it is really hard to tell what will be best. I don't think any of the crafted gear is available yet and the few things that have been revield are far from gaurenteed. However here are a couple of thoughts.
1. Leather working gets a bit of a nerf because the you will only beable to get a drum buff once every 2 minutes. This will prevent guilds from rolling the buff continously through an incounter.
2. Alchemy has gotten a bit of a buff. Alchemal Blood means that Pots, Flasks, and elixers will affect you more then none alchemists. People in the beta are saying the buff is 20% - 25%.
- August 1, 2008 at 3:11 PM
- Aeiedil said...
I spotted this post when searching for information in case I had missed anything and couldn't help noticing it is a bit out of date and I've written up some updated profession advice following the changes leading up to 3.2 :) Check it out over at http://www.strayegg.com/showme/Moonkin%20profession%20choices
- Aeiedil, strayegg.com
- November 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM


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|Nahant is located on the Massachusetts coast,
north of Boston
Nahant, Massachusetts is a small island off the coast of Essex County. You can reach it by a mile long causeway from Lynn, Massachusetts, at the traffic circle on Lynn Shore Drive. I was at the Nahant Historical Society last week with my godparents, searching for some GOVE ancestors at the Greenlawn Cemetery and meeting some distant Gove cousins who had a copy of the 1922 Gove Genealogy Book by W. H. Gove. Armed with lots of information about the lineage we had to research, we set off to the Nahant Historical Society.
Before you set off to the Nahant Historical Society, be sure to check the website (listed below) for hours and times. And street parking is not allowed in the area of the Nahant Community Center, where the Historical Society is on the first floor. There is a small parking lot, so keep your fingers crossed!
The Nahant Historical Society has some great exhibits, including one installed in 2004 that won the prestigious "Certificate of Commendation" from the American Association of State and Local History. This exhibit is called "Nahant on the Rocks" and it tells the story of how Nahant grew from an island where Lynn residents grazed livestock to a celebrated summer colony for wealthy Bostonians. My godfather liked this exhibit very much, and there were several artifacts from the Gove family there, including his great grandfather's sign for his fish market and a wooden lobster trap built by a cousin.
|My godfather photographing
tombstones at the Greenlawn cemetery, Nahant, Mass.
The best part of our visit was all the time we spent together in the library. The Hodges Reference Room is a very large reading room with many shelves of good local history, biographies of summer residents, town information and a genealogy section. I found a copy of The Polands from Essex County, by Chester Harrison Poland, 1981, and the librarian made photocopies of many pertinent pages for me (only 10 cents a page, a bargain compared to 25 cents at NEHGS and $5 a page at the New Castle, NH Historical Society!). My godfather found a bookcase full of the old Nahant town reports, and in one he found references to his grandfather's service as the town treasurer, along with a short biography. There were books on Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, too, and the same Gove grandfather had been Lodge's personal secretary while he summered in Nahant. Again, the librarian cheerfully made copies. We found a few more books, and made many more copies before leaving.
This was the second time my godfather had visited the Nahant Historical Society. Both times the staff warmly received him and was able to tell him much information on his families genealogy, including the places in the cemetery where he would find the Gove burials, and they also knew all the Gove descendants still living in town. Nahant is a small community, but the staff at the Historical Society is extremely knowledgeable and friendly! The museum and library are free, but voluntary donations are accepted.
While you are in town, take the time to check out the views from the coast, or from the beaches around the island and on the causeway. Nahant is a beautiful place to visit, even if you don't have ancestors from there!
The Nahant Historical Society website http://www.nahanthistory.org/
The town of Nahant website http://www.nahant.org/default.shtml
Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo


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It will be a dizzying week atop the Chargers power structure, and the possibilities only keep getting more intriguing.
The first order of business for team president Dean Spanos is whether to retain General Manager A.J. Smith.
Spanos is expected to reveal his decision on whether to keep Smith by the middle of next week. It is believed, based on numerous conversations with league sources over the past month, that head coach Norv Turner will be fired regardless of who is the general manager.
Further, should Smith be fired in San Diego, he is expected to have opportunity elsewhere.
Peaks and valleys in Smithville
Their own season spoiled, Chargers now spoilers
Spanos sees it's time to sharpen the ax
People familiar with Rams owner Stan Kroenke's plans said Monday that Kroenke is waiting for Spanos to make a move on Smith. If Smith is available, league and agent sources strongly indicated that Smith will be hired as Rams' general manager and bring along Jon Gruden as head coach.
Sources said Gruden has decided to return to coaching in 2012 and that his current employer, ESPN, is already preparing for his departure.
Spokesmen for ESPN and the Rams declined comment on Monday night.
Smith also declined comment when asked both about his future employment or his association with Gruden.
Sources who spoke Monday did so on the condition they not be identified. Those sources in a position to know Smith's possible plans would not or could not say what he would do for a head coach if still in San Diego.
League sources have said for weeks that Kroenke plans to clean house after the season, firing both head coach Steve Spagnuolo and General Manager Billy Devaney. League sources also said this week that it is all but certain that Spagnuolo will join Andy Reid's staff in Philadelphia as the Eagles' defensive coordinator. Devaney, who was the Chargers Director of Player Personnel from 1990-2000, will not be a candidate in San Diego.
It is well-known in league circles that the relationship between Smith and Gruden is a solid one. The friendship began in the late 1990s when Gruden was head coach of the Oakland Raiders and was introduced to Smith by Smith's closest friend, Bruce Allen, then the Raiders' senior executive.
League and agent sources said recently that Smith has expressed his ongoing faith in Turner. However, Smith has also repeatedly said that five years is a "good test" for finding out the direction a head coach can take a team.
Turner is 48-31 in five seasons as head coach, but after back-to-back seasons resulting in the Chargers missing the playoffs, it is possible Smith could decide he has to move in another direction. Moreover, he could be led in that direction by Spanos.
Even more certain than Turner's fate is that of defensive coordinator Greg Manusky. Sources have long indicated the team views his hiring as a "mistake," and the lack of answers in Detroit on Saturday sealed Manusky's fate.
Turner, for his part, is aware of the likelihood of his being let go. Yet he vowed Monday to go about business as usual even as the Chargers' season finale at Oakland has no real ramifications.
"I think that's a good way of putting it," Turner said when asked about approaching this week as he normally would. "I think that's what we've tried to do as a coaching staff. I've got great respect for the coaches on our staff and the way they've worked at what they do and the way they've worked to prepare this team to go play. Obviously, there's speculation, uncertainty. But the only thing we can control is obviously getting these guys ready to play, and we're going to do that this week.
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Each night we build GHC on each slave, in various different ways, run the test suite and performance benchmarks, and mail the results to the
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Seeing build results
The build results are uploaded to http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/
Can you offer a build slave?
We're always keen to add more build slaves to the setup. If a platform is represented in the nightly builds, it's we can identify and fix problems specific to that platform much more quickly. If you'd like to join the fun, please let us know at cvs-ghc@….
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The GHC Builder is written in Haskell as a pair of Cabal packages (one for the clients/slaves, and one for the server).
Install OpenSSL
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Hastings will sever ties with an embattled police officer in one year under an agreement that keeps him in a desk job until then.
Veteran officer Rene Doffing, whose past troubles include allegations of negligently hitting a suspect with his squad car and, more recently, of stealing a corkscrew from a Hastings restaurant, has agreed to stay in his current non-enforcement assignment with the police department until an early retirement set for Jan. 12, 2014.
Doffing, 49, has been on non-uniform paid administrative assignment since early January 2011, when allegations surfaced that he took the corkscrew from a bar area of a Green Mill restaurant. A jury acquitted him in July of a misdemeanor theft charge.
He did not return a call for comment Wednesday.
Doffing, who was hired as a Hastings patrol officer in 1994, will be able to draw his 20-year union pension upon the retirement date, Police Chief Paul Schnell said.
Doffing is in line to make an additional $8,118 this year in sick pay, under terms of the agreement. It was negotiated among the city, Doffing and his union, Law Enforcement Labor Services. It was approved this week by the city council.
Assuming he fully accrues sick pay and does not use any between now and his retirement, Doffing would receive the full sick leave balance payout of $16,236, instead of the usual 50 percent outlined in the union contract.
Schnell said in a memo prepared for the city council that the agreement is partly a "business decision" that city officials have to weigh along with what otherwise could be legal expenses resulting from labor grievances filed by Doffing.
Doffing has been disciplined by the police department 10 times over his 19-year career, according to a Dec. 14 disciplinary letter to the officer, with penalties ranging from a letter of reprimand for an "anger outburst" in 2001 to a 30-day suspension for hitting the fleeing suspect in 2007.
Doffing was disciplined in his first year on the job, when he was suspended for five days for making threats to a juvenile.
Doffing was fired because of the car-ramming episode, but he took the case to arbitration and got his job back in 2009. A year later, Olmsted County prosecutors dropped felony charges against him in the incident.
In November 2011, Doffing was accused of taking the corkscrew while off duty and attending a police officers union meeting. That month, he was given a letter of reprimand by the city after admitting to sleeping on the job while waiting for squad cars to be worked on at Hastings Ford. The city was alerted after someone snapped a photo of him.
A month later, Doffing was charged in Dakota County District Court with misdemeanor failing to stop for a school bus stop-arm and passing a bus stop-arm with a child outside, a gross misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. Doffing was on duty and driving his personal car on his way home for a lunch break, according to a Hastings police memo.
A settlement hearing is scheduled for February in the matter, Schnell said.
Last month, Doffing agreed to an 11-1/2-day unpaid work suspension for the theft allegation and four more days for the alleged stop-arm violation.
In the disciplinary letter to Doffing, Schnell called out the officer's judgment and said his conduct represented "a general lack of regard for your role as a police officer serving this city."
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Spectre is yet another exquisite icing to the renowned double agent's tale. The grandeur of James Bond returns with Sam Mendes's enthralling direction.
"To liars and killers. To liars and killers everywhere."
It's official. Sam Mendes is the only person who does immaculate refined justice to Bond. It is so great to see him handle such colossal projects. Three years ago, he had done a similar job of primping and preening the Bond who was jackhammered into the debris of Solace. With the right kind of posture, demeanour and mien, he had in his mind for a Bond of our dreams, Mendes' protagonist soared to an unimaginable level. So he created Bond, a man with the right words, the right class and the right air.
The depth in his eyes when he seeks love, the fearless fluent proclamations he bears on his lips when he faces his enemies, his unique flamboyant flair, and the way he walks adjusting his cuffs. Ooh! So filled with pizzazz! Daniel Craig hits a home run with every minute detail that's asked of him to master a Bond of style. He will stand tall as one of the best Bonds to have ever walked on the big screen.
Writers of Spectre do a fair job of revisiting the forgotten by punching in faces from the past to shake up an already stirred Bond. However, it is hard to shake him up. This is Bond we are talking about. Craig looks more focused, fearless and more relentless than ever in Spectre movie.
Spectre is one of the most realistic movies to have ever been made in the Bond saga. Even whilst Bond shoots pawns of Blofeld, he does so by sitting, crouching and aiming before taking the shot. He takes into account the distance factor, which seems quite plausible when you compare it to past Bond movies. He has a story to unfurl which moves at quite an interesting pace. (I don't know why some found it lengthy!)
Christoph Waltz is brilliant as Blofeld too. His villainy is soothing, calm never leaving its walls of perversion. He has a badass voice that he carries superbly throughout his ephemeral act.
We have a side plot led by Andrew Scott which runs parallel to the story. Sam Mendes tries really hard to juggle both stories and endeavours to hold them in the same basket, but barely manages to succeed at that. Somehow I feel, the director could have done a better job weaving it more brilliantly.
There are extremely beautiful bits in the movie that come to my mind when I think of it. Like the one where Bond wakes up to the silencing commotion of a mouse. He points the gun at it and says,
"Who are you working for?"
I think watching Bond sandwiched between M and Swann was brilliantly shot. It was quite poetic if you really look at it. At one side, there were "saving-the-world-shoes" to fill, whilst at the other end there was freedom and the love of his life gawking at him with hopeful eyes. Right at the middle, the author of his pain asked him to shoot him. As Swann had said before life gives you choices. Bond was faced with a choice to kill and not to kill, and of course, to choose a side. To Blofeld's beseeching command to kill him, he empties his barrel and says,
"I would if I had bullets."
and starts walking towards Swann. He chooses "to stop." What a beautiful way to go!
One of the most daring acts of Bond in the flick is when he rams and tries to scooch a plane amidst a narrow path surrounded by trees. He stops at nothing whilst chasing. So he has proven in the beginning chase scene of Casino Royale. Another one of course, walking into the lion's den eventually, which was both bold and stupid at the same time. But hey, we are talking Bond here!
The beginning of the flick is outrageously rad too. The cameras that walk alongside Bond as he strolls through Mexican streets, to a hotel room, then scales beside him till he reaches his target, every bit of it has been gorgeously captured. Action is top-notch as well. Watch out for the Bautista train duel. Perfetto!
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Another thing that you would notice is its score. So bloody brilliant! Thomas Newman makes the music so beautiful and badass that it's hard not to notice it. Before deciding to watch Spectre, mark this on your checklist: Choose a theatre you love for its sound. Right from the Mexican beats, to Sam Smith's marvelous song, to soothing violins, everything downright impeccable!
Sam Mendes frames exceptional panorama as he ranges down beautiful landscapes all across the globe. The photography and the cinematography can't be overlooked here. Simply outstanding!
This movie is a perfect Craig-Bond tribute. Go bid your adieus! (Only if this is Daniel Craig's last movie)
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Article II of the Constitution says the President "shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union." The original idea was that the President, given his job, would have all sorts of specialized knowledge about the proper functioning of the government and would therefore be an excellent person to "recommend" legislation that Congress might take up. The language in the Constitution almost makes it sound as if the State of the Union was supposed to be little more than a particularly important committee hearing. (From Jefferson to Taft, it was submitted in writing.)
Today, the event is essentially a tool of legislative strategy. It's no longer just an occasion for the President to present the details of his agenda to Congress and the public, though every President does do that. The real purpose now is for the President to take advantage of the unusual opportunity of having his political opponents before him as a captive audience. While the President can't actually make Congress vote for any of his proposals, on this one night he can make every congressman and senator squirm as they are forced to decide, in public, whether to applaud for each of his ideas.
Forcing members of the other party to applaud against their will is an old tradition, but Barack Obama has really made it the highlight of the whole show. He of course knows that, while the staging of the evening emphasizes the President towering over the Congress, there is a very real chance that almost nothing he proposes—replacement of the automatic budget cuts in the sequester, climate-change legislation, a higher minimum wage, immigration reform, gun control—will ever reach his desk.
The reasons are familiar. The House is controlled by Republicans, who typically operate under the so-called Hastert rule, which holds that no legislation will move to the House floor unless it commands the support of a majority of Republicans (rather than just a majority of the House). In the Senate, where Democrats have a majority of essentially fifty-five votes, the extraordinary use of the filibuster by Republicans in recent years means that all significant legislation requires sixty votes to move.
This odd situation—common in America in recent years, when we have had divided government, though unheard of in most other democratic systems—means that success for Obama very much depends on finding creative ways to force Republican leaders to let the will of Congress express itself absent these parliamentary choke points. Since much of Obama's agenda enjoys majority support, the trick for him is in forcing Republicans to act on it.
The last few weeks actually suggest that the White House has reason to be optimistic. In January, two Obama-backed bills—one raising taxes and one funding relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy—passed the House in violation of the Hastert rule (that is, without a majority of Republicans). A third bill, which delayed a potentially catastrophic fight over the debt ceiling, also became law. The dynamic that led to passage of all three pieces of legislation was the same: the Republicans held a politically untenable position on a major issue and were forced to retreat from it after a White House campaign that embarrassed them.
That's the template for passing Obama's agenda in 2013, and that was the point of his speech Tuesday night.
The most dramatic example of Obama trying to shame Republicans was when he told the story of a teenager who was recently shot and killed:
In the two months since Newtown, more than a thousand birthdays, graduations, anniversaries have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun—more than a thousand.
One of those we lost was a young girl named Hadiya Pendleton. She was fifteen years old. She loved Fig Newtons and lip gloss. She was a majorette. She was so good to her friends they all thought they were her best friend. Just three weeks ago, she was here, in Washington, with her classmates, performing for her country at my inauguration. And a week later, she was shot and killed in a Chicago park after school, just a mile away from my house.
Hadiya's parents, Nate and Cleo, are in this chamber tonight, along with more than two dozen Americans whose lives have been torn apart by gun violence.
The Republicans in the chamber joined the Democrats in rising and applauding Hadiya's family members, who were sitting with the First Lady. And as they rose to their feet, clapping, Obama hit them with the emotional peroration of the speech:
They deserve a vote. They deserve a vote. Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence—they deserve a simple vote. They deserve a simple vote.
That phrase may serve as the rallying cry for 2013. Obama's legislative strategy in his first two years, when Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress, was mostly about trying to convince a few Republicans to support his agenda. The next two years, when Republicans controlled the House and Obama was politically weaker, were mostly spent trying to negotiate halfway compromises with John Boehner. If last night was any indication, the two years to come will be far more confrontational.
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