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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Neil Chelo's job is to be able to tell good hedge fund managers from not-so-good ones.
An investment analyst, Chelo honed his skills under the tutelage of Harry Markopolos, the forensic fraud investigator widely credited with spotting Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme years before it imploded. And the most important lesson he learned is you have to ask lots of questions.
"I'm not a conference room type of guy," sniffed Chelo, director of research for Tacoma, Washington-based Benchmark Plus, a $1.8 billion so-called fund of hedge funds that invests money with 25 managers. "It's very easy for people to fake it for two hours in a conference room, but it's a lot more difficult if you are at their desk going through their portfolio."
Chelo, 39, typifies the new, harsher reality facing the $1.9 trillion hedge fund business. In the aftermath of the industry's generally terrible performance during the financial crisis, institutional investors such as pension funds, university endowments and non-profit groups are far more finicky about where they put their dollars.
These newly-empowered investors are increasingly demanding — and receiving — a cut in fees, as well as provisions that require managers to meet certain performance goals and provide greater flexibility to ditch a fund if it flounders. And like Chelo, they are also doing a lot more snooping around before writing a check.
Gone are the days when a trader could leave some Wall Street firm with a few of his buddies, snap his fingers and raise several hundred millions of dollars overnight. While new hedge funds are launching all the time, industry observers say more money is going to either established funds or upstarts led by traders with a well-known track record, like those coming off of Goldman Sachs proprietary trading desks.
"For the biggest funds there's no question the investor is ruling the roost," said Stephen Keller, managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch's prime brokerage.
Perhaps most startlingly, investor pushback is chipping away at the hedge fund industry's once ironclad fee structure. D.E. Shaw & Co, one of the world's largest hedge funds with about $19 billion in assets under management, recently lowered its fees in the wake of the firm's poor performance in 2010.
The fund founded by David Shaw, but now run by a six-person executive committee, is now charging its clients a 2.5 percent management fee, and skims off 25 percent of the investment profits. That's still higher than the industry standard "2 and 20" fee structure. But it's down from the 3 percent management fee and 30 percent incentive fee that D.E. Shaw previously had charged.
Kenneth Griffin, another hedge fund luminary whose Citadel investment funds took a beating during the financial crisis, is also mulling a fee cut to mollify his investors, say people familiar with the firm. Citadel declined to comment on the issue.
A number of small funds are doing the same. Indeed, investors say that in the wake of the financial crisis it is far easier to get hedge fund managers to talk about discounts because it's now become a regular part of the pre-investment negotiations.
A frequent target for investors is the management fee, which enables a hedge fund to rake in hundreds of millions a year for simply holding onto their client's money.
"There's no way there should be a 2 or 3 percent management fee for a firm that is managing over $1 billion — it's obscene in my opinion," said Michael van Biema, who runs van Biema Value Partners LLC, a value-focused fund of hedge funds in New York. "The fact that many people in this profession could not perform at all and are still flying around on private jets on a regular basis, we think is absurd."
He says he often looks for funds that charge management fees as low as 1.5 percent or 1 percent. He'd rather pay a higher incentive, or performance, fee in return for a manager willing to forgo much of his management fee. That way van Biema says he is simply paying for outsized performance and not for a manager to hold his money.
To get a feel for a manager van Biema will now negotiate deals that let him commit a little bit of money to a fund before deciding to take a bigger plunge. "Until you are actually an investor in one of these firms, you may not really understand everything about their operations and investment process," he said.
Last year, in an attempt to give investors even more leverage, the Greenwich Roundtable, a consortium of investment firms that controls some $4.5 trillion in assets, issued a 76-page document on best practices for hedge fund due diligence. The document is a how-to for grilling hedge fund managers about their investment processes.
But it's not just the fallout from the financial crisis that is letting investors get more of their way with hedge funds. The changing dynamic also reflects the fact that more public pension funds are directly investing in them.
Historically, many pension funds made indirect investments through funds of funds, but now more pension funds want to manage their own money and cut out the extra layer of fees.
In some respects, public pension funds are starting to go down a path long ago blazed by CALPERS, which was among the first to recognize how much hedge funds could boost investment returns. In the past few months, other public pension funds that have moved to cut out the middleman and changed their strategy to make direct investments in hedge funds include the $48 billion Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Trust, and the $8.7 billion Orange County Employees Retirement System.
"There's a learning process with any new asset class," said Timothy Walsh, director of the New Jersey State Treasury's division of investment, describing how pension funds typically began investing in hedge funds through funds of funds, but now are comfortable investing directly.
In 2004 and 2005, New Jersey's funds had started allocating to hedge funds through funds of funds, which were perceived to be safer, but today the state has 75 percent of its hedge fund allocation directly invested and only 25 percent through funds of funds.
But direct pension fund investing also means fewer hedge funds are getting in on the cut. Many pension funds will only invest directly in the biggest ones because they have restrictions on what fees they can pay and want to see more transparency from hedge funds. For managers that comply, pension funds offer some of the biggest checks out there.
"Ten years ago the industry was dominated by high net worth individuals, today it is dominated by institutions," said Don Steinbrugge, founder of Agecroft Partners, a third-party marketing firm for hedge funds.
In some respects, the biggest hedge funds "now look very similar to investment management firms," Steinbrugge said.
The shift to a more professional or institutional class of hedge fund investors is also having repercussions for the way managers run their firms. Historically, wealthy individuals tend to be stickier investors than pension funds, as they have more of a stomach for negative headlines and are seen as less likely to seek redemptions if a manager gets himself in the news for the wrong reasons.
A case in point is the recent closing of $3 billion hedge fund Level Global Investors. After its offices were raided in connection with the latest government probe into insider trading last year, it announced it would shut down by the end of this month as it was faced with an unworkable redemption scenario. About 75 percent of the fund's investors would have been eligible to leave on March 31, and 100 percent could have exited by June 30, the fund's founder David Ganek said in a letter to investors last month.
Pension fund investors — because they answer to taxpayers, beneficiaries and public officials — are also more demanding of transparency. That is driving the push for better terms from managers on redemptions and more information on how managers invest their money. All hedge fund investors now have more ability to vote with their feet, as fund managers are increasingly likely to provide yearly, semi-annual, quarterly, and even monthly, liquidity.
In fact, some worry that hedge fund managers have become too focused on monthly performance numbers to keep impatient investors from bolting from funds at the first sign of trouble. Funds, though, are now prepared for the worst case scenario. "Nobody launches a new fund today without clean up provisions," said Girish Reddy, who runs the $5.8 billion fund of hedge funds Prisma Capital in New York.
All of this has made it harder to start new hedge funds, which seemed to sprout by the minute during the financial boom. Today funds are often spending a year or more raising capital. Even with established funds, institutional investors may take up to six months of due diligence before committing money. Prime brokers that provide trade clearing services for hedge funds say they hear "horror stories" of fund managers who have been trying to secure their capital for over a year.
Also, the amount of money a hedge fund needs to get going is a lot more than it used to be.
"You need to be a couple hundred million in size to be able to effectively run now. It's hard to be smaller than that just because of the expenses that go on today," said Daniel Ward, investment manager for the $530 million Virginia Tech endowment.
And for established hedge funds, investors like Chelo are harder and harder to lure.
During a recent visit to a West Coast hedge fund that Benchmark was considering investing in, he found one of the fund's top portfolio managers woefully unprepared to explain why she was shorting, or betting on a decline in the price of several stocks.
Chelo said the trader and her team of analysts hadn't done sufficient research on the stocks for him to get comfortable with the notion of committing money to the hedge fund.
When Chelo walked out the door, he didn't look back.
Reporting by Emily Chasan; Editing by Matthew Goldstein, Jim Impoco and Claudia Parsons


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A trip through a few days worth of my Facebook posts shows that, with little effort, I can expose Proggies to ideas and facts they usually miss or ignore.
Of late, between paying work, family demands, and a touch of the blecchies (not the flu, thank goodness, but I wasn't feeling great), I've been posting on my real-me Facebook more than I've been blogging. Blogging requires paragraphs; Facebook requires sentences, a word here or there, or no comment at all to introduce an article.
My two goals on Facebook are to entertain people, so they keep coming back to my feed, and to place before them things that they won't normally see as they shuffle back and forth between The New York Times, The Washington Post, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and the usual mono-ideologues who make up their intellectual world. I try to do the latter in an entirely non-judgmental way, so that people will stop and think, rather than block and argue.
To give you a sense of my M.O., here's a sampling of things from my real-me Facebook feed over the last few days, many of which you'll probably recognize from Instapundit and other familiar sites:
I knew that Cape Town's imminent water shortage was its own fault because it failed to plan for drought, despite living where they regularly occur and despite a population much larger than the last time a drought rolled around. That was the same problem California had with its recent drought (and may continue to have, because last year's big rains, rather than heralding the end of drought seem to have been just a pause). What I didn't know was that it was South Africa's poisonous antipathy to Israel that prevented it from saving itself. Now, when I see Cape Towners lined up with little cans at communal fountains, I don't feel sorry for them, just as I really didn't feel sorry for Californians (myself included) stupid enough to live in a state that failed to prepare for inevitable dry periods.
Everybody loves MacDonald's — even Lefties. That's why, back in 1990, when the first MacDonald's opened in the former Soviet Union, 30,000 Russians lined up for the chance to eat there:
Emotional support pets on planes are too often a scam. I adore my dog, who makes me happy, and I'd definitely be a less panicked airplane passenger if I held him in my arms, but he's still not medically necessary, and most other so-called emotional support pets aren't either. The way people have abused the service pet exception to animals on planes is especially bad because it's making things so difficult for those people who genuinely need an animal at their side to help them navigate their world or to guard them against dangerous seizures and other serious ailments. And so I said on Facebook.
Sharyl Attkisson, one of the last honest reporters, explained that the Nunes memo indicates that the FBI violated Woods Procedures. So that my friends don't have to exhaust themselves clicking over to the article, I explain that this means that the FBI isn't attesting to its own probity, or even the probity of the person who assembled a dossier. It needs to make a colorable showing that the person who first voiced the information — the anonymous source — is credible. I added that I was interested in learning more about those sources. Since then, of course, we've had intimations that the sources are Sidney Blumenthal and friends, people so devious and untrustworthy that only the Clintons could bear their presence. I haven't mentioned those last facts to my Proggie friends. [Read more…]

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It's a crying shame that our nation might be losing one of its greatest national treasures, but… that's the way things keep looking. Some may recall a little while ago that Craig gave us a virtual tour of the Olympia, having also mentioned her a little before. Then too, I see that Dimitri mentioned it as well, possibly being the first in the CW blogosphere to chime in on what may yet become a national shame (and adds some critical links to understanding how some on board had ties to the Civil War). These were some fine write-ups. Yet, if you haven't heard the news… it's high time to get in the know and start complaining… and hopefully being part of a solution. Here's a running list of news updates as to her fate.
As a former swabby, this just turns my stomach a thousand times worse than a winter's transit out of Hampton Roads on a rounded-hull submarine! Surely, at a minimum, the Navy can jump in and do something about this, just to stall things long enough to kick-in an appeal for help… and I'd dare say that there are more than a fair share of Navy vets, myself among them, who stand ready to chip-in even in these difficult times to make sure that an integral part of our history doesn't get torn from us. I keep thinking about that Navy recruiting poster with "Heritage" on it, and though the Constitution is the featured vessel, I can't help but think of the Olympia and wonder just how seriously we can look at such posters when we let one of our own go like this!
Related Articles
- Olympia, 2-war naval veteran, battles for survival (sfgate.com)
- Olympia, 2-war naval veteran, battles for survival (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- Date set for closing of USS Olympia (philly.com)


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Just in time for the holidays, Apple has restored the ability for a user to buy ("gift") an App Store app for another App Store user via an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The gifting feature, which was present for iOS 5 and below, never launched with iOS 6. Apple did not explain why, but it likely had to do with iOS 6 featuring a redesigned iOS App Store. To gift an app, a user needs to click the action sheet button and then click the gift button. Users can even specify when the application should be delivered (up to 90 days advance).
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Vitoria vētō´rēä [key], city (1990 est. pop. 209,506), capital of Álava prov., N Spain, in the Basque region. It is a manufacturing and administrative center producing furniture, motor vehicles, and refined sugar. It was probably founded in the 6th cent. by the Visigoths; in 1181 Sancho the Wise of Navarre named it Vitoria to commemorate a victory over the Moors. At Vitoria in 1813 Wellington won the decisive battle of the Peninsular War against the French under Joseph Bonaparte and Jourdan. The 12th-century church of San Miguel is noted for its woodwork.
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How to Organize Your Makeup, Hair, and Beauty Products 2011-04-18 03:05:45
How to Organize Your Beauty Products
It's hard to keep track of every lipstick, gloss, and eye shadow you own, especially if your beauty products aren't organized. That's why we enlisted the help of Beth Zeigler, founder of Bneato Professional Organizing, to give us some quick and easy tips to clean out and straighten up our bathroom cabinets and drawers. Check out her tips, and let us know what you think.


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In honor of Barbara Walters' upcoming last week on "The View," "Weekend Update" played a few of Baba Wawas' greatest "Saturday Night Live" sketches of all time.
After the montage of past clips, Walters herself appeared at the news desk to tell co-anchor Cecily Strong that the show has "reduced" her to a "cartoon character with a ridiculous voice."
She then told Strong, "I'm not like some fake anchor [like you]," to which the "SNL" star replied, "But you're a co-host on 'The View.'"
Walters also gave Strong tips about being a respected journalist, including, "The real money is in making them cry."
See Also:Hillary Clinton And Michelle Obama Jab Each Other In Mother's Day Message On 'SNL'NBC Had A Chance To Air 'The Walking Dead' And Totally Blew ItPeople Are Outraged After 'SNL' Writer's 'Number One Slave Draft Pick' Sketch
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Ghost Month, Mooncakes, and Mid-Autumn Festival
It was in 2011 when I first learned about Ghost Month, 鬼月. I was supposed to have some house repairs done, but was warned by a friend to defer it until after ghost month. I was surprised that ghost month was strictly observed at work. We were not allowed to do big events like groundbreakings, sales rallies, inaugurations, and blessings because at this time, ghosts and spirits are believed to roam the earth. This time was similar to All Souls' Day. Every milestone, big gathering, and major purchase were done after ghost month.
That same year, I received my first Moon Cake, 月饼. For those of you not familiar with this Chinese mid-autumn festival must-have, see photo above ▲. Lucky me got tons of moon cakes that year and years after that.Ü The act of giving moon cakes to family, friends, and colleagues is a practice that dates back ages ago. Moon Cakes symbolize togetherness and if you happen to get one ( or more ), it tells the recipient that your friendship is valued by the other person. Touching, isn't it? The giving of moon cakes is just one of the customs observed by the Chinese during the Mid-Autumn Festival. This festival is considered to be the second biggest Chinese event in a year — the first one being Chinese New Year. The Mid-Autumn Festival goes back to thousands of years ago when ancient Chinese worshiped the moon for bountiful harvest. On the day that the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated, the moon is also said to be its roundest. This usually falls a few weeks after the end of the Hungry Ghost Festival. [ Read more: The Story Behind Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节 ]
My First Dice Game
For the past years, I was always invited to go to a Moon Cake / Mid-Autumn Festival gathering, but I never went. This year, I did things differently. My Howe always looked forward to Moon Cake month because of the Dice Game. He always explained it to me, but I never really got a good grasp of how fun it was until this year.
Dice Game rules are simple: the game involves throwing 6 dice into a bowl and if you get any one of the lucky combinations, you get a prize. There are assigned prizes ( 6th place to 1st place ) to the best dice combos. The game goes on until all prizes are won. It could take a while, but it just radiates all these good vibes when you're playing. No one goes home empty-handed or that pretty-much is the idea but I guess it depends on how many prizes are up for grabs.
In this Mid-Autumn Festival party that we went to, P and I got a lot of the sixth prize(s) + a second prize where I got to bring home Chanel goodies. To make my first Dice Game even more memorable, we also won the first prize / the Zhong Guan, which I tell you was worth the wait. If you'll look at my IG photo below, the Zhong Guan's inside the Ang Pow ( red envelope ). While it did seem like forever, waiting for one of the best combinations to come out was definitely worth our while. I guess the odds were in our favor. Our table had 15 players including us and well, the lucky 4 Fours combination was fated to come out during one of our turns.Ü It felt like Thanksgiving and the vibe was just fun, fun, fun. Every person from our table brought something lovely home. All the prizes were very nice. I gotta give it to our host for being generous and for throwing such a marvelous Mid-Autumn Festival party.
Have you ever been to a Mid-Autumn Festival gathering and played the Dice Game? Is it something celebrated in your country? Zhōng qiū jié! 中秋快乐 Peace + ❥_Love + Good Vibes. RUSS.


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Don't get me wrong, the Tube is great when it works, it just seems to be in a permanent state of being-fixed (at almost, but not quite, the same rate at which it breaks) and it's just so amazingly expensive compared to every similar system in the world. I suppose it's the oldest and biggest, which can't be helped, and I think this Public-Private-Pissingmoneyaway thing is a really bad idea, but I also think Bob Crowe's frequent use of long-suffering London commuters as pawns in his political games really doesn't help matters.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand: bless...the couple of passers-by who helped me rescue a pigeon that had a plastic bag twisted around its neck the other day. Although it was probably an idolent, irresponsible pigeon that had it coming, but I'm just nice like that sometimes.
I said London Transport workers because they're all members of this really cool, elite, pagan anarchist group that none of you know about, and one day they're going to lead the revolution, and then you'll be sorry you said anything bad about them.
I did hear these two guys on a train talking about sacrificing goats in Battersea park at Christmas. One of them said it was because virgins were really hard to come by. It wasn't a London Transport train though, and they were clearly satanists.
Then they'll regret messing around with a samurai-like secret order of super-hard commuter-warriors who live and die by the the umbrella:
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Wordpress / Greensleeves / Clissold Pool User Group / those old biddies on the programme about motorway protestors last night / Penny Reel / Droid / the bloke I emailed about a record on ebay who replied really quick and sent me a great scan of the sleeve / anyone who has worked on shareware I use / people who smile at me in the mornings / Soul Jazz / my local takeaway delivery crew / 6 cans of red stripe for a fiver / people who leave great records in charity shops rather than sticking them on ebay / people who share knowledge about stuff but aren't patronising / Rootsman vs Buju Murphy / Mark Pawson / Rodigan / my postman / my mate dave who is doing a cowboy film set in hackney / woofah printers
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Martin D has blessed the Virus TI three times now.
I'll second Rob Hall - he on it at the moment.
And bless EnergyXT cos much as I love it it needs a bit of a blessing right now.
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After being sued for $200K, Julius Erving puts his trophy case up for auction
Times are tough for business owners both big and small in 2011, and Basketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving is no exception. The former Philadelphia 76ers legend is being sued for nearly a quarter of a million dollars after an investment in a golf club went belly-up.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has the breakdown:
Erving's company was given a $1 million line of credit in April 2009, which was due the following April, according to the lawsuit obtained by the AJC. Erving used a Gwinnett County home as collateral to secure the loan, the lawsuit states.
In August 2010, the line of credit was reduced to $750,000 and the maturity date extended to July 24, the bank stated in the suit. But, an outstanding balance of $205,277.84 has not been paid, despite a demand letter for payment sent Sept. 29.
Erving, better known by his nickname Dr. J, moved to the Atlanta area in 2008, about two years after purchasing the Heritage Golf Club, near the Gwinnett-DeKalb county line. The AJC reported in April 2010 that the golf club was in foreclosure.
That's just all sorts of unfortunate. Erving has taken in plenty of post-playing work since retiring from the NBA in 1987, including stints as an analyst on NBC and a gig with the Orlando Magic as an advisor. It's not clear what his role in the failed golf club was, but he's certainly on the hook here.
In what the AJC is calling an "unrelated" event, a litany of Dr. J's personal memorabilia has gone up for auction, through the SCP Auctions company. It's a pretty significant list of swag, available here:
Some of the marquis items from the collection include Dr. J's 1974 and 1976 New York Nets ABA World Championship ring; 1983 Philadelphia 76ers World Championship ring; 1996 NBA's 50 Greatest Players ring; MVP trophies from 1975-76 (ABA) and 1980-81 (NBA); 1977 and 1983 NBA All-Star game MVP trophies; 1979, 1981 and 1985 Eastern Conference All-Star game-worn uniforms, 1982-83 Philadelphia 76ers game-worn road uniform; and his final game-worn jersey from Game 5 of the 1987 Eastern Conference playoffs.
That's not just some of his memorabilia — that's all his memorabilia. Championship rings? MVP trophies? His jersey from his final game as a Sixer? It's a cool stash, but it's also more than a little depressing.


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Cornelius Scipio Asina Surrenders The Victory of Mylae Operations in Sicily Further Operations in Sicily The Battle of Ecnomus Preparations for Battle The Battle of Ecnomus The Siege of Aspis The Siege of Aspis Regulus in Africa Distress at Carthage Xanthippus of Sparta The Defeat of Regulus Roman Defeat Lessons from the Event Xanthippus Leaves Carthage The Roman Fleet Wrecked The Romans Build More Ships The Carthaginians Prosperous Roman Victory at Panormus Siege of Lilybaeum The Topography of Lilybaeum Treason in Lilybaeum A Fruitless Sortie Running the Blockade Hannibal the Rhodian The Rhodian is Captured The Roman Siege-Works Burnt The Roman Fleet Sails for Drepana The Roman Fleet Meets Resistance Naval Battle Off Drepana Roman Transports for the Camp Carthalo Attackes the Roman Transports Shipwreck of the Roman Fleet The Romans Take Mount Eryx Hamilcar Barcas' Seven Years in Hercte The Two Sides Evenly Matched Hamilcar Besieges the Romans at Eryx The Romans Once More Build a Fleet Battle of the Aegusian Islands The Battle of Aegusa End of the First Punic War The Longest and Harshest War in History Why Rome is No Longer a Naval Power The Sequel of the First Punic War Mischief Brewing Among the Mercenaries The Beginning of the Outbreak The Mercenaries Accept an Arbitration Mathōs and Spendius Gesco and His Staff Arrested Despair at Carthage Revolt in the Country The Carthaginians Prepare Failures of Hanno Hamilcar Barcas Becomes Commander in Chief Hamilcar Barcas Defeats Spendius Mathos Harasses Hamilcar Narávas Joins Hamilcar The Mutineers Resolve to Murder Gesco The Murder of Gesco Atrocities of the Mutineers Revolt of Hippo Zarytus and Utica Hippo and Utica Join the Rebels Hamilcar's Tactical Superiority Hamilcar Captures Spendius Mathōs Captures Hannibal Final Defeat of the Mutineers Aftereffects in Hippo, Utica , and Sardinia book 2 Recapitulation of Book 1 Situation in Illyria The Illyrians Relieve Medion Death of Agron of Illyria Queen Teuta's Pirates The Aetolians and Achaeans Support the Epirotes A Band of Gallic Mercenaries Queen Teuta and Rome Teuta Sends Out Another Fleet Illyrian Victories Corcyra Submits To the Romans Teuta Agrees to Pay Tribute to Rome Jealousy At Rome of Hasdrubal In Spain Cisalpine Gaul Grain Production in Cisalpine Gaul Rivers and Mountains in Northern Italy Gallic Settlements In the Valley of the Po Early Conflicts between Gauls and Romans Gallic Wars The Boii Attack the Romans and Lose War with Insubres and Boii and Gaesatae Several Gallic Tribes Join Forces The Roman Forces Forces Available to the Romans Defeat of the Romans Near Faesulae Aemilius Deters the Gauls Atilius Meets the Gauls The Gauls Defeated On Their Way Home A Peculiar and Surprising Battle Great Slaughter of the Gauls Aemilius Returns Victorious Victory Over the Insubres Tactics Against the Gauls Capture of Mediolanum and End of the War Character of the Gauls Hasdrubal Dies and Hannibal Succeeds Him Greece At This Time Origin of the Name "Achaean" The First Achaean League Unification of the Peloponnese The Second League Policy of the Achaean League Margos First Sole Strategus Death of Demetrius The Aetolians Envy the Achaeans Intrigues of the Aetolians The Cleomenic War Aratus Involves Megalopolis Message to Antigonus Doson from Aratus Antigonus Doson Will Help the League The Achaeans Must Appeal to Antigonus Antigonus Doson at the Isthmus Cleomenes Returns to Sparta after the Achaeans Take Argos Antigonus Doson Appointed Generalissimo Capture of Megalopolis The Credibility of Phylarchus The Treatment of Mantinea The Mantineans Turn Over their City to the Lacedaemonians Execution of Aristomachus Crimes of Aristomachus The Loyalty of the Megalopolitans The Wealth of Megalopolis Cleomenes Invades Argolis Cleomenes Invades Argos Battle of Sellasia The Two Armies Line Up Battle Begins Skill and Gallantry of Philopoemen Defeat of Cleomenes End of the Introductory Period Conclusion of Book 2 book 3 Summary of the Work Plan: Causes of Wars Plan: Events in Greece Extension of the First Plan of the Work The True Theory of Historical Causes Causes of the Second Punic War Fabius Pictor on the Cause of the Punic War The Credibility of Fabius Pictor First Cause of the Second Punic War Second Cause of the War Hannibal's Oath Statesmen Must Pay Attention to Motives Hannibal Succeeds to Command in Spain Hannibal Attacks the Vaccaei Hannibal Defies the Romans War in Illyria Hannibal Takes Saguntum Demetrius Fortifies Dimale Illyrian War Successfully Finished Rome's Reaction to the Fall of Saguntum Romans Demand Surrender of Hannibal Treaties between Rome and Carthage Division of Territory Treaties Between Rome and Carthage The Third Treaty Treaties Between Rome and Carthage The Fourth Treaty No Reasonable Pretext for Rome to Claim Sardinia The Roman Case For War Both Sides Are in the Wrong The Value of Such Discussions This History is Not Difficult to Understand Hannibal's Preparations Hannibal Contacts the Celts Hannibal Crosses the Pyrenees Geography of Hannibal's March Three Geographic Divisions of the World Unknown Areas in the North and the South The Length of Hannibal's March Gauls Attack the Military Colonies The Consuls Set Out to Iberia and Libya The Passage of the Rhone Hannibal's Troops Begin to Cross Hannibal Addresses His Men Skirmish between Reconnoitring Parties The Crossing of the Elephants Previous Histories of this March either False or Inconsistent Absurd Premises of Other Historians Scipio Is Too Late To Stop Hannibal Hannibal Harassed By the Natives The Gauls Attack the Baggage Train Treachery of the Gauls The White Rock The Descent Into Italy Snow Hannibal Reaches the Plains The Limits of History Necessity of Refuting Past Errors Recent Advances in Geography Hannibal Attacks the Taurini Approach of Scipio Gallic Prisoners Harangues of Hannibal and Scipio Scipio Crosses the Ticinus Cavalry Engagement on the Ticinus Scipio Crosses the Po The Gauls Join Hannibal Tiberius Sempronius Joins Scipio A Skirmish Near the Trebia Tiberius Sempronius Plans to Attack Hannibal Prepares An Ambush Preparations for Battle The Battle of the Trebia The Romans Retreat to Placentia Better Success in Spain Gnaeus Scipio in Spain Hannibal's Treatment of Roman Prisoners Hannibal Marches Southward Hannibal Goes Through the Marsh Flaminius in Hannibal's Way A General Must Know his Enemy's Character Flaminius Enticed Out Hannibal Takes a Position in the Valley The Disaster At the Thrasymene Lake Roman Reaction A Second Disaster in Etruria Quintus Fabius Maximus Hannibal Marches Through Iapygia Fabius Defers Battle Hannibal Enters Campania Fertility and Beauty of the Plains Near Capua Hannibal Selects Winter Quarters The Cattle With the Burning Fagots Fabius Returns to Rome Hasdrubal Equips a Fleet Naval Success of the Romans In Spain Spanish Hostages Given Up To the Scipios Treason of Abilyx The Boys are Restored to Their Native Cities Hannibal In Apulia Successes of Minucius The Romans Capture the Carthaginian Foragers Minucius Made Co-Dictator Minucius In Difficulties Cautious Fabius Saves the Day New Consuls Elected Hannibal Occupies Cannae Aemilius Paulus Harangues the Army Paulus's Speech Continued Skirmishes Before Cannae Hannibal Encourages his Troops The Armies Face To Face The Order of Battle Arms of the Libyans, Iberians, and Celts The Battle of Cannae The Slaughter At Cannae Superiority in Cavalry Wins Battles The Consequences of the Battle of Cannae book 4 Review of Achaean History Why Begin With This Period of History Dorimachus In the Peloponnese Dorimachus Leaves Messene The Revenge of Dorimachus Acts of Hostility Against Macedonia, Epirus , and Acarnania . Strength and Weakness of Aratus Character of Aratus Dorimachus Consents To Depart Aratus Dismisses the Achaean Troops Bad Strategy of Aratus The Achaeans Defeated Aratus Denounced For His Failure Aratus is Denounced and Defends Himself Lukewarmness of the Allies The Aetolians and Illyrians Invade Achaia Factions At Cynaetha Treason of the Cynaethans More Aetolian Outrages Music in Arcadia Why the Ancient Arcadians Turned to Music Philip V. In the Peloponnese Differences of Opinion Among the Lacedaemonians the King Decides Not to Punish Sparta War Declared With the Aetolians Opening of the Social War Disingenuous Policy of the Spartans The Wars in Italy , Greece , and Asia Become Interlaced The Illyrians and Acarnanians Join The Acarnanians Enter the War Mistaken Policy of the Messenians The Messenians Too Much Inclined to Peace Troubles In Sparta Machatas Addresses the Spartan Public Restoration of Royalty In Sparta Machatas Proposes Foreign War to Quell Domestic Strife Universal War Byzantium The Black Sea The Black Sea Being Silted Up Flow of the Danube into the Black Sea Concentration of Salt The Site of Byzantium Contrast between Byzantium and Calchedon Disadvantages of Byzantium On Land Byzantium , The Gauls, And Rhodians The Byzantines Institute a Toll Achaeus and Prusias I. of Bithynia Complaints of Prusias The War between Rhodes and Byzantium Begins Byzantium , Rhodes , and Prusias Treaties Cavarus, Gallic King, Negotiates Peace War In Crete Polyrrhen and Lappa Join the Alliance Raid of Aetolians In the Peloponnese Philip Starts for Aetolia The Aetolians Repulsed At Aegira Euripidas Philip Advances Southward Philip Arrives in Epirus Scopas Destroys Dium Philip's Aetolian Campaign Philip Marches Toward Metropolis Philip Takes Paeanium Philip Recalled To Macedonia Philip Returns To the Peloponnese Euripidas Intends to Attack Sicyon Euripidas Deserts the Eleans Philip In Arcadia Philip Captures Psophis The People of Psophis Surrender The Wealth of Elis Peace the Only Unquestioned Blessing Capture of Thalamae Popularity of Philip In the Peloponnese Phillidas and the Aetolian Troops Arrive Continued Success of Philip Surrender of Typanae and Phigalia The People of Lepreum Evict the Garrisons Chilon's Fruitless Attempts In Sparta Intrigue of Apelles Against Aratus Philip Captures the Wall Aratus Defends Himself Apelles Repeats his Accusation to Aratus Before Philip Aratus is Cleared Further Intrigues of Apelles book 5 The Situation in the Summer of B. C. 218 Philip Decides to Fight at Sea Philip In Cephallenia Philip Besieges Palus Philip Invades Aetolia Aristophanes the Acarnanian Joins Forces with Philip A Rapid March To Thermus Thermus Plunder and Sacrilege At Thermus The Present Philip Compared to his Ancestors Philip's Crime and Blunder Philip Should Not Receive All the Blame The Return From Thermus Skirmish at Stratus Megaleas and Crinon Fined Arrival at Leucas Philip Comes to Corinth Philip Appears At Sparta Philip Marches Through Laconia Philip's Return Opposed Lycurgus Goes Out to Resist Position of Sparta and Disposition of Troops Defeat of Lycurgus Near Sparta Philip Proceeds to Tegea Leontius, Megaleas, and Ptolemy Rouse the Guard Leontius Calls In Apelles Execution of Leontius Death of Megaleas Disturbed State of Achaia Aratus Elected Strategus Return to Narrative of the War in Coele-Syria Dimidium Facti Qui Coepit Habet , Well Begun is Half Done Previous "Universal" Histories Not Really Universal Weakness of Ptolemy Philopator Cleomenes Asks for Help from Egypt Cleomenes In Alexandria Sosibius Plots Against Cleomenes Cleomenes Is Arrested Death of Cleomenes Origin of War in Coele-Syria The Royal Family of Syria Antiochus Encouraged to Attack Coele-Syria Revolt of Molon In Media Geography of Media Xenoetas Sent Against Molon Xenoetas Has Early Success Molon Withdraws Toward Media The Fall of Xenoetas Hermeias Overruled Death of Epigenes Antiochus Marches Through Mesopotamia Antiochus Advances Against Molon Disposition of Troops Defeat and Death of Molon Artabazanes Makes a Treaty with Antiochus Death of Hermeias Achaeus Attempts Treason Seleucia Description of Seleucia Capture of Seleucia Theodotus Proposes to Help Antiochus Invasion of Coele-Syria Preparations In Egypt Training of Soldiers Reform of the Egyptian Army Antiochus Puts his Troops in Winter Quarters Claims of Antiochus and Ptolemy Antiochus Attempts to Complete his Conquest Antiochus Forces the Pass of Porphyrion Antiochus Takes More Towns Continued Success of Antiochus Achaeus Sends Aid to Pednelissus Defeat of the Selgians Panic at Selge Achaeus At Selge Death of Logbasis Expedition of Attalus Attalus Conciliates the Gauls Forces Available to Antiochus and Ptolemy Antiochus Advances To Raphia Theodotus Attempts to Assassinate Ptolemy Dispositions For the Battle of Raphia Each King Exhorts His Army The Elephants in the Battle Victory of Ptolemy The Losses on Each Side A Year's Truce Between Antiochus and Ptolemy Earthquake At Rhodes Royal Gifts Generosity of Other Princes Lycurgus Returns to Sparta Lycurgus Cannot Take Messenia Condition of Megalopolis Aetolian Raids More Raids Agetas Leads the Aetolians Against Acarnania Philip Secures His Frontier Importance of Careful Measurement Capture of Thebes In Phthiotis Thebes Renamed Philippopolis Philip Hears of Thrasymene Philip and the Aetolians Discuss Peace Philip Goes to Naupactus The Cloud in the West The Peace is Ratified Greece At the End of the Social War Revolt in Egypt Philip's Preparations Philip Prepares to Invade Italy Philip Withdraws to Cephallenia The Gauls In Asia book 6 Preface: Political Constitutions chapter 2 Classification of Constitutions The Rotation of Polities The Origin of Constitutions Origin of Morality and Rule How Kingship Turns into Tyranny Degeneration of Constitutions How Democracy Arises and Degenerates Lycurgus The Roman Constitution The Consuls The Senate The People Division of Political Power At Rome The Senate Controlled by the People Powers of the Senate Interdependency Brings Strength On the Roman Army Allocation of Men to the Legions Fourfold Division of the Legionaries Arms of the Youngest Roman Soldiers Arms of the Other Soldiers Officers of Infantry and Cavalry Officers and Armour of the Cavalry The Roman Camp How the Camp is Constructed Division by Roads and Squares Placement of Triarii, Principes , and Hastati Placement of the Allies The Camp Market-Place Arrangements When There Are More Men Guard Duty and Other Assignments Daily Orders and Watchwords Night Watches The Tribunes' Court Military Punishments and Rewards Military Decorations The Army On the March Making Camp Roman Camps Designed for Facility and Familiarity The Roman Republic Compared with Others The Athenian Constitution The Cretan Constitution Compared to the Spartan Greed Among the Cretans What Makes a Constitution Good Institutions of Lycurgus The Defect in the Spartan Constitution Sparta Compared with Rome Carthage Compared with Rome The Causes of Roman Superiority Roman Funeral Rites The Glorious Memory of Brave Men Kept Alive Patriotism and Purity At Rome Religion Keeps the Roman Commonwealth Together Conclusion: Dangers Ahead for Rome Even Hannibal Acknowledges the Spirit of the Romans book 7 Capua and Petelia Hieronymus of Syracuse Hieronymus of Syracuse The Treaty with Carthage Hieronymus Decides For War Description of Leontini Fall of Heronymus Character of Hiero II Treaty Between Hannibal and King Philip V. of Macedon Messene and Philip V. in B. C. 215 Philip Dissuaded from Taking Messene Philip's Loss of Popularity Philip Begins to Become a Tyrant Aratus a Moderating Influence on Philip The War of Antiochus with Achaeus Antiochus Takes Sardis The Sack of Sardis Sardis Destroyed book 8 The Necessity of Caution in Dealing with an Enemy Immense Exertions of Rome Rome and Carthage Continue to Covet Sardinia and Sicily History of Universal Supremacy Must Be a Universal History Syracuse 's Defenses Siege of Syracuse Archimedes Other Inventions of Archimedes The Assault By Land Repulsed Philip Devastates Messene Criticism Of Theopompus Philip, Alexander, And the Diadochi Flawed Structure of Theopompus's History Aratus Poisoned Philip Takes Lissus in Illyria , B.C. 213 Philip V. In Illyria Bolis the Cretan Agrees to Rescue Achaeus Bolis Turns Traitor Antiochus Approves the Plan The Final Arrangements are Made Achaeus Takes Precautions Capture of Achaeus Antiochus In Armenia The Gallic King, Cauarus Antiochus the Great at Armosata The Hannibalian War — Tarentum A Bargain Made with Hannibal Tarentum Betrayed To Hannibal Gaius Livius Has a Party Hannibal Enters Tarentum Philemenus and his Retinue Get In Too Massacre of Romans In Tarentum The Tarentines Themselves Spared Hannibal Secures Tarentum Additional Fortifications The Tarantines Blockade the Romans Fall of Syracuse , B. C. 212 Beasts of Burden Used as a Defensive Wall book 9 Extract from the Preface Why Focus on Actions The Hannibalian War The Siege of Capua Hannibal Advances Upon Rome Rome Saved by Luck Hannibal In Sight of Rome Epaminondas and Hannibal Compared When Audacity is the Truest Safety The Spoils of Syracuse : Works of Art Taken To Rome Spain On the Art of Commanding Armies Scientific Strategy Generals Also Need to Know Science Mode of Calculating Time Example: Ulysses Failures Arising From Ignorance Cleomenes Tries to Take Megalopolis Example: Why Nicias Failed at Syracuse Need of Some Knowledge of Mathematics The Computation of the Size of Cities Estimate of Hannibal Examples of Actions Contrary to Principles Estimate of Hannibal Hannibal's Greed Hannibal Treats Different Cities in Different Ways Agrigentum Greece : Philip Reduces Thessaly Speech of Chlaeneas Impiety of Philip Conclusion of the Speech Lyciscus Replies To Chlaeneas Defence of Macedonian Policy Contrast Between Alexander and the Aetolians Services of Macedonians To Greece Sparta Should Have Allied Herself with the Macedonians A Mightly Cloud is Coming From the West Contrast of the Aetolian Policy Sparta Must Be On Guard Against Attack from Rome Philip in Thessaly Investment of Echinus by Philip Asia and Egypt Nature of the Euphrates River Embassy from Rome to Ptolemy book 10 The Hannibalian War — The Recovery of Tarentum Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus in Spain , B.C. 210 -206. His Character Scipio's First Brilliant Success His Election To the Aedileship Publius and Lucius Become Aediles Speech of Publius Scipio to the Soldiers He Determines To Attack Carthagena Why New Carthage is a Desirable Target Laelius and Scipio Proceed to New Carthage Topography of Carthagena Scipio Briefs His Troops The Attack On Carthagena Begun Double Assault By The Romans Scipio Creates a Distraction Carthagena Captured and Looted How the Romans Distribute Booty Scipio's Treatment of the Prisoners Scipio's Treatment of Women The Money Scipio's Training Regimen Philopoemen of Megalopolis His Birth and Education Philopoemen's Reforms How to Drill a Large Company Philip's Increasing Deterioration Philip V Medea and the Palace at Ecbatana Antiochus the Great In Media Antiochus Moves into Hyrcania Fighting On Mount Labus Antiochus Reaches Tambrax Fall of M. Claudius Marcellus Hannibal's Greatness The Submission of the Edetani to Scipio General Defection to the Romans Difficulty of Making Good Use of a Victory Hasdrubal Comes to a Decision Hasdrubal and Scipio Prepare to Fight Scipio Attacks Hasdrubal Scipio Refuses the Title "King" Affairs in Greece : Philip V. Called In Against the Aetolians Reinforcements Sent to Various Cities Fire signals Methods of Signalling An Improved Method Improvements In Signalling Importance of Practice Antiochus Crosses the Arius Antiochus Engages the Bactrians book 11 Death of Hasdrubal Hasdrubal's Conduct in His Last Battle The Romans Celebrate a Victory A Plea For Union In Greece Dangers of the Treaty With Rome Philip In Aetolia Again Philip Vandalizes Thermus Faults of the Achaean Officers Philopoemen in the Peloponnese , B. C. 207 Philopoemen and Machanidas Arrangement of Forces at Mantinea Battle of Mantinea Efficiency of Mercenaries Machanidas Changes his Plan Defeat of the Lacedaemonians Philopoemen Seizes an Opportunity Army of Machanidas Put to Flight Fall of Machanidas The Hannibalian War Continued Scipio in Spain , After the Battle of the Metaurus Futile Attack by Mago Defeat of Hasdrubal Son of Gesco Scipio Outflanks the Enemy Carthaginians Driven From Spain Scipio Suppresses A Mutiny in Spain Scipio's Plan to Punish the Rebels Suppression of the Mutiny Scipio Harangues the Mutinous Troops Scipio's Speech Continued Execution of the Ringleaders Scipio Proposes to Fight Andobales Scipio Defeats Andobales Scipio's Return To Rome Antiochus Moves from Bactria Through Interior Asia book 12 Geography of Libya The Lotus Timaeus Wrong about Libya The Errors of Timaeus Aristotle's Account of Locri is Correct The Epizephyrian Locrians Timaeus and the Character of a Historian Timaeus Criticises Aristotle Timaeus's Statement of Method The Investigations of Timaeus Timaeus's Use of Chronological Records Timaeus On Divination Timaeus On Demochares and Agathocles No Place in History for Abusive Language Timaeus Blinded by Personal Malignity The Laws of Zaleucus A Criticism on Ephorus and Callisthenes The Battle of Issus Callisthenes Vague on Alexander's Movements Inaccuracies about Tactics Worst Misstatement of Callisthenes Further Absurdities Timaeus Exalts Timoleon To Excess Timoleon. Phalaris General Remarks on Timaeus as an Historian Sophistical Commonplaces An Historian Needs Practical Experience Mere Inquiry Is Insufficient book 13 The Aetolians Scopas Goes to Egypt Philip's Treacherous Conduct, B. C. 204 Philip Intrigues Against Rhodes Distrust between Philip and the Rhodians Nabis, Tyrant of Sparta, B.C. 207 -192 Nabis's Wife Nabis Finds a Pretext for War Antiochus in Arabia, B.C. 205 - 204 book 14 Preface Scipio Plans To Attack the Punic Camp Scipio Prepares to Attack Utica by Sea Syphax and Hasdrubal Are Deluded The Romans Burn the Enemy Camp Dreadful Scene In the Burning Camps Anda Surrenders to Rome Carthaginians Reinforced and Resolute Scipio Determines to Attack Scipio's Victory On the Great Plains Scipio Fears a Carthaginian Attack on the Fleet Women at Alexandria Ptolemy Philopator, B.C. 222 -205 book 15 Speech of Roman Envoys At Carthage Treacherous Attempt on the Lives of the Roman Envoys Last Year of the Second Punic War Scipio Sends the Envoys Home Both Sides Prepare For Battle Meeting of Hannibal and Scipio Conclusion of Hannibal's Speech Scipio's reply Dispositions For the Battle of Zama Scipio's Speech to his Men Hannibal's Preparations and Speech The Battle of Zama Begins Cowardice of the Carthaginians Victory of Scipio and Flight of Hannibal Hannibal Did All He Could Hannibal's Tactics Sound Scipio Unmoved by Carthaginian Laments Terms Made After the Battle of Zama Hannibal Persuades Carthage to Accept These Terms League Against Ptolemy Epiphanes Molpagoras of Cius Philip Rouses the Enmity of the Greeks The Rhodians Object to Philip's Treatment of Cius Philip at Thasos Egypt Ptolemy Epiphanes Succeeds To the Crown Another Murder Committed by Agathocles The Death of Agathocles and his Family Growing Hatred of Agathocles Moeragenes Escapes A Revolt Decided Upon By the Army A Mob Assembles The King Surrendered To the Soldiers The King Conducted to the Stadium The Massacre of Agathocles and Family Why Agathocles Died As He Did Agathocles Not a Good Example of Mutability of Fortune Agathocles Was Not An Important Person Antiochus book 16 Philip V. Wages War with Attalus, King of Pergamum, and the Rhodians. Great Sea-fight Off Chios Between Philip and the Allied Fleets of Attalus and Rhodes, B. C. 201 Incidents of the Sea-Fight The Sea-Battle Undecided Attalus Barely Escapes Capture Attalus Abandons his Ship but Escapes Losses in the Battle Philip Vainly Claims the Victory At Chios Death of Theophiliscus The Indecisive Battle of Chios Was Followed by Another Off Lade, in Which Philip Was Partly Successful Jam cum Rhodiis et Attalo navalibus certaminibus, neutro feliciter, vires expertus. Livy, 31, 14 . Philip's Operations in Caria, B.C. 201 Description of Iassus Affairs in Greece Digression on the Merits of the Historians Zeno and Antisthenes of Rhodes The Battle of Lade According to Zeno and Antisthenes Zeno's Account of the Attack on Messene Some of Zeno's Mistakes Due to Ignorance Zeno's Account of the Battle of Panium Zeno's Description Implausible Zeno Acknowledges His Error Egypt — Character of Tlepolemus Intrigues At Alexandria The War in Coele-Syria Scipio's Triumph War Between Rome and Philip V King Attalus At Athens Athens Votes for War Against Philip The Romans Warn Philip Not to Attack Greece Activity and Energy of Philip The Hellespont Compared with Gibraltar The Siege of Abydos The People of Abydos Resolve to Conquer or Die Courage of the Abydenians The Fall of Abydos The Abydenians Carry Out Their Resolution Rhodes Holds to its Friendship With Rome A Muster of Achaeans Against Nabis A Raid Upon Laconia Philip Tries to Rouse the Achaeans Against Rome Coele-Syria book 17 book 18 The War with Philip Congress of Nicaea Speech of Alexander Isius Philip's Response Philip Retorts On His Accusers Philip's Answer to the Rhodians and Attalus A Retort of Flamininus The Dispute Referred To the Senate They Agree to Send Envoys to the Roman Senate Pleadings Before the Senate The Greeks Ask for Help Against Philip Greece Assigned to Flamininus Wise Patriots or Traitors? Comparison with Philip II and Demosthenes The Fate of Traitors Attalus in Sicyon Attalus and the Boeotians Roman and Greek Palisading Flamininus and Philip Nearing Each Other Both Sides Advance on Scotusa The Macedonians Send for Help Skirmishes Before the Main Battle Flamininus Rouses His Troops The Battle of Cynoscephalae The Battle Philip's Defeat and Flight Philip Retreats, the Romans Plunder The Macedonian Phalanx A Well-Formed Phalanx is Irresistible Roman Soldiers in More Open Order Cumbrous Nature of the Phalanx How the Romans Fight Against a Phalanx Philip's Conduct After the Battle Flamininus and the Aetolians At Odds Comparative Incorruptibility of Romans Congress at Tempe Begins Debate In the Congress At Tempe Philip Comes to the Conference Peace Terms Agreed On Foolish Credulity Asia: King Attalus I Italy: Treaty with Philip Confirmed Greece: Murder of Brachylles Decree of the Senate on the Peace with Philip The Freedom of Greece Proclamation At the Isthmian Games The Commissioners Make Detailed Arrangements The Commissioners Carry Word Throughout Greece Asia: Roman Envoys To Antiochus Conference Between Roman Legates and Antiochus The King's Reply Antiochus Demands a Rhodian Court Egypt: Fall of Scopas Scopas and Dicaearchus Punished Anacleteria of Ptolemy Epiphanes book 19 Summary Based on Livy book 20 Greece: Antiochus and the Aetolians Meet The Boeotians Answer Antiochus Epirus and Elis Ask Antiochus for Help The Decline of Boeotia Continued Decline of Boeotia Disorganised State of Boeotia Fortune and Degeneracy of the Boeotians Submission of the Aetolian Officers The Aetolians Seek a Truce The Aetolians Do Not Confirm the Terms The Fate of Nicander Philopoemen's Disinterestedness book 21 Embassy from Sparta Embassy from Philip The Scipios In Greece The Athenians Intercede for the Aetolians Truce With the Aetolians Asia: Factions at Phocaea The Rhodian Firing Apparatus The Aetolian Truce Announced Antiochus At Pergamum Antiochus Proposes Peace Prusias Refuses To Help Antiochus Pirates Antiochus Sends an Envoy To Discuss Peace Antiochus Tries To Negotiate Scipio Scorns Antiochus's Secret Proposal Zeuxis and Antipater Sent to Negotiate Peace The Roman Terms To Antiochus Eumenes Persuaded to Speak King Eumenes In the Senate Eumenes Has Always Been a Friend to Rome Conclusion of Eumenes' Speech The Rhodians Address the Senate Conclusion of the Rhodians' Speech The Decision of the Senate The Aetolian War Fulvius Aims to Fight at Ambracia Siege of Ambracia Smoking Out the Enemy Athens, Rhodes, and Athamania Intercede End of the Aetolian War The Treaty With the Aetolians Terms of the Treaty The War with the Gauls of Asia MoagĕTes of Cibyra Pacification of Pamphylia Conquest of Pisidia The Gauls of Asia A Gallic Woman Takes Vengeance Attempted Treachery By the Gauls Cephallenia Philopoemen Combines What is Right and What is Expedient chapter 42 Settlement of Asia The Roman Commissioners Arrive at Ephesus Treaty With Antiochus The Romans Burn Antiochus's Ships at Patara Ariarathes Declared a Friend of Rome The Commissioners In Asia book 22 Contents Sparta and the League The Murderers of Brachylles Quarrel Between Lycians and Rhodians Egypt Under Ptolemy Epiphanes After the Death of Aristomenes ( 18, 53, 54 ) Seeds of the Third Macedonian War Origin of the Last Macedonian War The Senate Investigates Philip A Meeting of the Achaean League Parliament Apollonidas and Cassander Urge Rejection of Eumenes' Gifts Offers of Eumenes and Seleucus Declined Caecilius In the Achaean Assembly Philopoemen on Archon Caecilius Reports and Ambassadors Respond Another Commission For Greece Philip and the Massacre At Maroneia Philip Hopes to Defer War With Rome Disputes in Crete Apollonias, Widow of Attalus Ostiagon Tries to Become King of All the Gauls Aristonicus book 23 Demetrius Before the Senate Demetrius in the Senate Philip's Jealousy Roused The Spartan Ambassadors Deinocrates of Messene Ambassadors from the Spartan Exiles Philip and Perseus are Jealous of Demetrius Death of Demetrius The Senate Refuses to Help Either Messene or Achaia Philip's Desperate Measures Philip Addresses his Sons The Fall of Philopoemen Character of Hannibal Character of P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus Submission of the Messenians Lycortas Defeats Messene Arguments For and Against Admitting Sparta Sparta Included In the League book 24 The Spartan Exiles Refused Treaty Between the Achaeans and the Messenians Mount Haemus in Thrace Troubles in Crete Attalus Goes to Rome Murder of Apollonides At Sparta Chaeron the Spartan Demagogue Pharnaces Invades Cappadocia Eumenes and Pharnaces Callicrates Sent to Rome Callicrates Turns Traitor Rome and the Achaean League Comparison Between Philopoemen and Aristaenus Aristaenus's Attitude to Rome Philopoemen's Policy book 25 Destruction of Celtiberian Cities The Accession of Perseus First Acts of Perseus as King Character and First Measures of Perseus Lycians Revolt Again The Dardanian Envoys Complain about Perseus book 26 Antiochus Epiphanes book 27 Affairs In Boeotia: The War with Perseus Romans and Perseus Try to Secure Greece Rhodes Prepares to Assist Rome Perseus Sends a Statement to the Greeks Perseus Sends Alexander to Boeotia The Boeotians and Rhodians War With Perseus Begun Perseus Summons a Council Moral Effect of Perseus's Successes The Unthinking Multitude Invention of the Cestros Character of Cotys Indecisive Result of the First Campaign Dispute at Rhodes Charops of Epirus Plot to Kidnap a Roman Consul Pharnaces, King of Pontus Attalus Wants his Brother's Honours Restored Antiochus Protests Ptolemy's War Plans The Need of Promptness and Persistence book 28 Antiochus and Ptolemy Appeal to Rome Embassy from Rhodes Pressure Put On Achaia and Aetolia Discussion of the Aetolian Congress Lycortas Advises Neutrality Council of the Achaeans A Speech of Polybius Perseus Sends Pleuratus to Genthius Unwise Parsimony of Perseus Perseus Blames Hippias for the Failure Heracleum Captured by the Testudo Achaean Aid To Rome Declined Marcius Declines Assistance from the Achaeans Treachery of the Cydonians The Cydonians Ask Help from Eumenes Dissensions In Crete and Rhodes Antiochus Invades Egypt Antiochus IV. Epiphanes Envoys Sent to Antiochus Antiochus Epiphanes In Egypt Eulaeus Convinces Ptolemy to Give Up the Kingdom Antiochus Leaves Alexandria Envoys from Rhodes to Antiochus book 29 Speech of L. Aemilius Paullus Gaius Popilius Laenas Sent to Alexandria Genthius Forms an Alliance with Perseus Genthius Joins Perseus Difficulty of Explaining the Intrigues of Perseus and Eumenes Reasons to Suspect Intrigue between Eumenes and Perseus Eumenes Intrigues With Perseus Struggle between Eumenes and Perseus The Avarice of Perseus Rhodes Decides to Seek Peace Turbulent Assembly at Rhodes Of Proportion In History Character of Genthius Scipio Nasica and Fabius Maximus Volunteer to Outflank the Macedonians A Cretan Deserter Brings Intelligence to Perseus Battle of Pydna Perseus Loses His Resolve Ambitious Youth The Senate Makes an Example of the Rhodian Ambassadors Perseus an Example of the Impermanence of Fortune Uncertainties of Fortune Further Problems for Eumenes The Ptolemies Ask Help From Achaia The Achaeans Agree to Help the Ptolemies Antiochus Forced To Leave Egypt Antiochus Renews the War Popilius Makes Antiochus Stop the War book 30 Attalus Comes to Rome Stratius Sent to Attalus Attalus At Rome Rhodian Ambassadors Argue Against War The Rhodians Try To Excuse Themselves Greek States and the War With Perseus Examples of Three Classes of Statesmen Shameless Conduct of the Supporters of Perseus Polyaratus of Rhodes Statue-bases for Perseus Used by Aemilius The Greek Prisoners In Italy Epirus Also In Turmoil The Romanising Party Takes Command Throughout Greece Noisy Scene In A Roman Theatre How to Hold Good Games Aemilius in Epirus Reaction of the Egyptian Kings Cotys, King of the Odrysae Prusias and Eumenes Eumenes Prevented from Visiting Rome The Athenians and Rhodians Death of Theaetetus of Rhodes Public Hatred of Callicrates and His Faction Delight at Peraea book 31 War in Crete Gauls in Asia Granted Autonomy Grand Festival At Daphne The King's Behavior at the Festival Roman Envoys Come to Antioch Complaints Against Eumenes The Achaean Prisoners Detained Envoys from Achaia in the Senate The Senate Suspicious of Eumenes and Antiochus Sulpicius Gallus Investigates Eumenes Death of Antiochus Epiphanes Demetrius son of Seleucus Ariarathes of Cappadocia Ambassadors from Ariarathes to Rome Rhodes Asks Rome for Calynda Rhodes Assists Calynda The Two Ptolemies The Murder of Octavius Demetrius Appeals Again to the Senate Demetrius Plans To Leave Rome Demetrius Plans His Escape Demetrius Escapes No One Notices Demetrius's Absence Decadence at Rome The Rhodians Lapse in Dignity The Two Ptolemies Ptolemy Physcon Invades Cyrene Gnaeus Merula Comes to Rome book 32 The Senate Breaks its Alliance with Ptolemy Philometor Massanissa Harasses the Carthaginians Prusias Accuses Eumenes Demetrius and Ariarathes Ambassadors from Ariarathes Isocrates Comes to Rome as Ambassador Isocrates the Grammarian Legacy of L. Aemilius Paulus Scipio the Younger and Polybius Polybius Responds to Scipio's Speech Character of the Younger Scipio Scipio's Generosity to his Mother Scipio's Liberality Scipio's Manliness Scipio's Courage Scipio's Success Due to his Character Athens, Delos, Dalmatia, And Aetolia Issa Complains of Raids by the Dalmations Death of Lyciscus Tyranny of Charops in Epirus Charops of Epirus Character of Eumenes War With the Dalmatians Ariarathes Arrives in Rome Orophernes, Attalus, And Prusias The Senate Receives Ambassadors from Epirus Prusias Destroys the Nicephorium Prusias and Attalus book 33 War Against Attalus Prevented Release of Achaeans Refused Character of Aristocrates Suicide of Archias The Prienians Refuse to Give Orophernes' Funds to Ariarathes Marseilles Complains about the Ligurians The Ligurians, Ptolemies, And Prusias The Senate Appoints Commissioners to Stop the War The Ligurians Resist Roman Intervention Ligurian War Roman Commissioners Visit Attalus and Prusias Roman Envoys Make Peace Between Prusias and Attalus Another Embassy from Achaia War Between Rhodes and Crete Crete and Rhodes Ask the Achaeans for Help Unreasonable Actions of the Rhodians Alexander Balas Demetrius's Intemperance The Multitude Will Act on its Feelings Geographical Fragments Introduction Fishing Near Scylla Fishing for Swordfish Pytheas Implausibility of Pytheas's Geography Distances In the Mediterranean Gaul and Spain Portugal and Spain Geography of Celtiberia The Alps Islands Off the Italian Coast The Via Egnatia Eratosthenes a Better Authority than Artemidorus State of Alexandria book 35 The "Fiery War" The Celtiberian Wars The Senate's Instructions to Marcellus Scipio Volunteers For Spain Scipio's Spanish Campaign Cato's Wit book 36 The Third Punic War The Romans Find a Justification for War War With Carthage Resolved Upon Meaning of Surrender Speech of Mago Brettius The Roman Army In Africa Panic at the Envoys' Report Character of Hamilcar Phameas book 37 Views In Greece of Roman Policy Pseudo-Philip Polybius Goes to Lilybaeum to Negotiate Polybius's Self-References Statues Replaced Attalus, Nicomedes, And Prusias Character of Prusias II Museium in Macedonia Depopulation of Greece Death of Massanissa book 38 Character of Hasdrubal Misery In Carthage Consummation of the Misfortunes of Greece Previous Disasters Unjust Misfortune Distinguished from Self-Inflicted Loss Rome and the Achaean League New Commissioners Sent to Achaia The Commissioners Arrive in Achaia Foolish Policy In Achaia Riotous Scene at Corinth Violent Policy of Critolaus book 39 Variety Is Pleasing Digressions in History Scipio Intends to Fight Fall of Carthage Diaeus Succeeds Critolaus Character of Pytheas Diaeus Becomes Strategus Confusion and Terror in Greece Diaeus Rejects Metellus's Offers Safety In Swift Ruin Fall of Corinth Destruction of Art in Corinth Respect for Philopoemen Roman Settlement of Greece Polybius Supports the Constitution Mummius in Greece Ptolemy Philometor Conclusion of the History Shorter Fragments A: Fragments whose reference is known B: Fragments of uncertain reference


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In recent years, as the academic job market continues to tighten, more and more anthropologists are finding jobs as practicing anthropologists and applying their skills and knowledge in positions outside of academic settings. This shift has important implications for anthropology curricula and student preparation for the changing job market. This Session Summit, organized by Keri Brondo, Wendy Bartlo, and Mary Odell Butler, brings together leading practitioners of anthropology from a variety of subfields representing AAA sections, faculty from applied and public anthropology departments, and current anthropology students to reflect on strategies to improve the linkages between anthropology departments and non-academic work opportunities.
Drawing on the conference theme of "traces, tidemarks, and legacies," participants in this session will share some of the lessons and best practices associated with student training in vibrant applied anthropology programs. What skills do anthropology graduates need to succeed in positions beyond the university? What changes in the curriculum would be useful for such students? What strategies can faculty and community members adopt that would enable successful internships, class research projects, and post-graduate employment? How might anthropology programs evolve to face the changing job market? And how do new anthropologists gain access to that job market?
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NEW YORK — Recently crowned NCAA champions, the Akron Zips will now stock a few MLS teams with high-class talent. The league today unveiled a list of 9 players who will form part of the Generation adidas class of 2011, with nearly half of the signings coming from Akron.
The list is heavy on attacking talent, headlined by Darlington Nagbe, who led the high-scoring Zips with 13 assists in 2010 and is the early favorite to become the No. 1 selection in next month's SuperDraft (January 13). Although the expansion Vancouver Whitecaps hold the first pick, the playmaker has MLS clubs angling to trade up the draft order to acquire him.
Three forwards join Nagbe in the SuperDraft, including US Under-20 international striker Omar Salgado, who signed an MLS contract after leaving Chivas Guadalajara's youth team in the summer. Will Bruin (18 goals for Indiana) and Corey Hertzog (20 goals for Penn State) are the other high-scoring collegiate forwards who will be joining MLS clubs at the SuperDraft.
[inline_node:324460]The two defenders in this year's Generation adidas class are US Under-20 teammates Kofi Sarkodie and Zarek Valentin, both of the University of Akron. The one goalkeeper on the list, Zac Macmath, backstopped College Cup quarterfinalists Maryland.
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Is Matt Duchene's contract hampering the Ryan O'Reilly negotiations?
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I throw out the above question essentially as a way of talking to myself. Because, of late, an information blackout of sorts has taken hold with regard to Ryan O'Reilly's contract status with the Avalanche.
His agent, Mark Guy, isn't talking right now. The Avs, per custom, aren't saying much. That's OK, it's only July. I'm not beating down the door of either trying to find out every last little thing regarding contract talks.
That said, the fact of the matter is: O'Reilly is the only regular Avalanche player unsigned for next season. While everyone else has come to terms, The Factor hasn't, which is odd in a way. He's such an unselfish player and person – and I'm not at all saying he isn't still just because he hasn't signed. But of all the players that I might have guessed would be the last to sign, O'Reilly wouldn't have been too high on the list.
Here's a question: Did Matt Duchene's two-year, $7 million contract hurt O'Reilly's leverage at all? After all, he and Duchene came into the league the same year, and Duchene put up a lot more points in those first two years than O'Reilly. O'Reilly had the better third year, for sure, but now that a marketplace has been set on the Avs for a player of O'Reilly's "comparables", has it made things tougher for what he and his agent might have desired on a new deal?
Fay did tell me last month that O'Reilly's situation could last into July or August, and that it wouldn't be a big deal if that were the case. So I'm going to keep that as my overall feeling on the situation. It's still only July, training camp is a long way off and I can't fathom O'Reilly and the team not coming to an agreement before then – whenever that is.
But still, Duchene arguably took a pretty good hometown discount last month, in money and term. Yeah, he had a tough third season, but he was hurt a lot, had his usual consortium of wingers and had two real good first years. He could have gotten more I think, but wanted to get his deal out of the way and focus on hockey only. You have to wonder if his decision had/will have a ripple effect with O'Reilly.


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Relay For Life will have an information booth
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Luminarias will be available for $10.
This year the Relay For Life in Logan County will take place July
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Trying to keep your outdoor pet warm overnight has proven to be a major fire risk for some pet owners in the past few weeks. Monday, a home on Summerhaven Drive in Greenville marked the third fire in the last month in eastern carolina caused by a lamp used to provide heat for an outdoor dog or cats.
Thanksgiving night, a home on Avalon Lane in Greenville caught fire. A neighbor we spoke with says the man who lives there keeps a 60-watt bulb plugged in with an extension cord on his porch, where he also keeps his 3 cats.
November 10th in Deep Run in Lenoir County, a heat lamp fell over onto a dog-bed in a doghouse, causing that home to catch fire. Greenville Fire-Rescue has some advice for pet owners to stop the trend.
"Anything that's going to generate heat needs 3 feet of clearance around it, so it can't catch anything on fire that is combustible: bedding, drapes," said Greenville Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief Shannon Terry.
Fortunately, we're told there were no injuries in any of the three fires.
Firefighters say a dog house heat lamp started a fire that burned a fence and the outside of a duplex Monday morning.
Greenville Fire/Rescue got the call to Summer Haven Drive shortly after 6:00 a.m.
An assistant fire marshal determined that the heat lamp in the dog house was too close to combustibles.
No one was home at the time, and firefighters managed to extinguish the fire in the attic before it could spread to the other unit.
Firefighters were able to remove the family pet from harm as well.
The fire department reminds everyone to keep anything that can catch fire at least three feet away from heating equipment.
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One local neighborhood was jammed with fire trucks and ambulances early Monday, responding to a fire.
Greenville Fire-Rescue crews were called to the home at 1989 Summerhaven Dr. just after 6 a.m. Summerhaven is just off Fire Tower Rd., near the intersection with Corey Rd.
Officials say a fire was reported on a fence that was moving towards a home. Neighbors told WITN's Carly Swain they could see the flames from a few houses away.
No injuries were reported.
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Modern geology needs "sudden" narratives for mountain building—more in line with the legends of mountains appearing on what had been, before a time of "commotion," a plain. (See, for example, pp. 419-425 in Flare Star by Dwardu Cardona.) --- Strata would not accumulate in horizontal beds and then be folded and eroded into mountains over millions of years. Instead, strata would be deposited or formed in place as we see them over centuries or decades—or maybe days. In an Electric Universe, the process could be analogous to electrostatic painting. It could be a scaled-up version of sand dune formation: the role of electricity in constructing dunes is only beginning to be investigated. --- It would be good to find some maverick geologist who can run an electric current through a pile of sand and turn it into granite and basalt, especially without melting it. It would be good to find an artist whose creative eye can visualize ridges of mountains deposited like sand dunes from a global hurricane of dust and debris. It would be good to find a plasma physicist who can describe electric currents snaking over and through the Earth during episodes of planetary instability.
The Namib desert also reveals thousands of square kilometers that are covered by hardened ridges that are covered by a thin veneer of sand. Instead of being dunes, per se, they are actually solidified stone that look as if a violent wind blew across molten magma, setting the ripples in place. --- One place where such hardened waves are found is Antarctica. Stone ripples are there, but even more anomalous snow dunes can also be seen. In 1997, the Canadian Radarsat satellite photographed gigantic megadunes 100 kilometers long, with separations of two kilometers between crests. --- ...
Antarctica is the world's driest desert and the ice packs on at less than a half inch per year, so if wind and minute ice crystals are causing the snow dunes to form, no one can see it happening. Indeed, a comparison of images from the 1960s with more recent radar scans demonstrates that they have not changed shape or moved out of position for nearly 40 years.
The lack of movement and the hardness of the dunes (and the ripples) suggests that they were solidified and have remained in place since they were initially formed. In other words, they were glassified and fused together into immobile structures while retaining the appearance of loosely piled sand. Cathode sputtering and subsequent electrical deposition of the finely divided material onto oppositely charged regions across the surface could explain the ersatz dunes. --- There is also the fractal-like reduction in scale when considering ripples and dunes. Even small dune "tendrils" have smaller ripples. Dune crests like those in Rabe crater can be 200 meters high, while the tendrils are no more than ten centimeters but with the same morphology. What aeolian process can account for this progressive fractal reduction in scale? In electrical terms this is no anomaly since plasma discharges are scalar across many orders of magnitude.
Lloyd wrote:* Many or most Velikovsky followers don't agree with a lot of his material. Your description of hurricane-force winds and floods forming mountain ranges and rigid dune fields is no longer given much credit any longer, because electrical forces seem to be largely responsible.
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If news that Arrested Development was going to get 10 brand new episodes didn't make you want to celebrate by doing the chicken dance, how about this: Netflix is expanding its order of episodes for Season 4. Now there'll be anywhere from 12-15 new Arrested Development episodes as opposed to 10. HOORAY!
Deadline reports that series creator Mitch Hurwitz shot more footage than initially planned and approached Netflix to add more episodes. Netflix gave Hurwitz a go and Season 4 will now include a total of 12-15 episodes (which will all premiere at once like other Netflix shows). Even with the added new episodes, the full season is still expected to have a spring release date on Netflix. Netflix said:
"We are thrilled with the direction of the show, with the footage we have seen and with the relationship between Mitch, Imagine, 20th and Netflix. At this time, we are not confirming or announcing the final episode count but we are sure fans will be thrilled when we do."
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Retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman, Ind-Conn., hasn't been invited to either the Republican or the Democratic national conventions.
Lieberman still has clout -- he was the floor manager of the cybersecurity bill in the Senate, The Hill reported.
But when Democrats and Republicans gather in Charlotte, N.C., and Tampa, Fla., Lieberman apparently will be on the outside looking in. This is the man who was Al Gore's running mate in 2000 and was chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council.
Some Democrats flat-out think it's flat-out wrong to exclude Lieberman, who caucuses with the party.
"Even though he's no longer a member of the Democratic Party, he caucuses with the Senate Democrats and provides a vote for their majority. It would be a good thing to invite him," Tad Devine, a Democratic strategist who was a senior adviser to Gore's campaign, told The Hill. "He doesn't have to be invited to give a speech. He doesn't have to have Clinton's time slot."
Lieberman told The Hill he hasn't received an invitation to the GOP convention either, even though he gave a high-profile address at the party's 2008 get-together.
"This is one of the benefits of being an independent -- you don't have to go to either convention," he said.
Other prominent independents will likewise skip the conventions.
Sen. Bernie Sanders. Ind-Vt., a liberal who caucuses with Democrats, does not plan to attend the Democratic convention, a spokesman said.
Angus King, an independent and front-runner to succeed retiring Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, hasn't received an invitation to either convention, a campaign spokeswoman said.
Come to the party
U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., invited freshman Republican Rep. Richard Hanna of New York to switch parties recently after Hanna commented that the House GOP leadership was becoming "incapable of governing."
Hanna complemented his Democratic friends in Congress in an interview with The Syracuse Post-Standard editorial board, saying Democrats were a "much more congenial" bunch and Republicans are "angry."
"If all people do is go down there and join a team, and the team is invested in winning and you have something that looks very similar to the shirts and the skins, there's not a lot of value there," he said.
House Republicans, he said, were becoming "incapable of governing" by habitually deferring to "extremes."
McDermott tweeted that he agrees with Hanna, The Hill reported.
"Does this count as bipartisan?" McDermott asked, then extended an invitation for Hanna to switch parties.
Experience preferred, not required
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has been repeatedly saying America needs a leader with strong business chops.
But history shows private-sector successes tend to tank when it comes to running the country, Vanity Fair said.
Among those considered the greatest leaders of the country, Abraham Lincoln had so many unpaid bills during his stint as storekeeper in New Salem, Ill., that he referred to the obligations as his "national debt."
Harry Truman was still trying to pay off his creditors 15 years after his store in Kansas City shuttered and was strapped for money until well into his tenure as a U.S. senator.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who led the nation through the Depression and World War II, never really worked even if he did spend time as a Wall Street lawyer, historians have argued.
Yes, successful businessmen did become president and gained notoriety, Vanity Fair said. Among them, Warren G. Harding, a newspaper publisher and editor; Herbert Hoover, a multi-millionaire mining engineer, investor, and consultant; and Jimmy Carter, a Georgia peanut farmer and warehouse owner.
Vanity Fair offers several theories about why business acumen may not translate into a successful presidency. It notes, for one, the basic goals of business aren't necessarily in sync with those of national office.
All of the most successful presidents have faced adversity and overcome it, Vanity Fair said.
So maybe "conquering adversity" could be considered a presidential qualification, the article said, since the job requires the ability to multitask, exhibit grace under pressure and deal with clever personalities who work on Capitol Hill.
Super knowledge about super PACs largely absent
About 75 percent of Americans say they've either heard only a little or nothing at all about the so-called super PACs, outside organizations pumping tons of money into the 2012 presidential campaign, a Pew Center Research Center-Washington Post poll indicated.
The Post said only four in 10 respondents, when prompted with four choices about what a super PAC actually was, selected the correct answer that it was "a group able to accept unlimited political donations."
Forty-six percent had no opinion or didn't know what a super PAC was, results indicated. Nine percent said it was the informal name for the congressional panel tasked with reducing the deficit -- that would be supercommittee. And 4 percent defined super PACs as the government cleanup of hazardous waste sites. That term is superfund.
When asked an open-ended question about the effect of greater outside spending on the election, 48 percent expressed no opinion, while 27 percent said the effect would be neutral and 24 percent said it would be negative, Pew said. Two percent said the result of more outside political spending was positive.
Fifty-one percent of those polled said super PACs didn't help one candidate any more than the other.
Results are based on a national telephone survey of 1,010 adults July 26-29. The margin of error is 3.5 percentage points.
DNC taps San Antonio mayor for first day's keynote speaker
Rising star San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro will deliver the keynote address on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention -- the first Latino to get that assignment.
Castro has some heady company on Sept. 4: first lady Michelle Obama.
Former President Bill Clinton and Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren are slated for Sept. 5, followed by and Vice President Joseph Biden and President Barack Obama on Sept. 6.
Roll Call said the announcement of Castro's prominent role at the convention provides more evidence that the mayor and his twin brother, Texas state Rep. Joaquin Castro, are considered rising stars in the Democratic Party.
Joaquin Castro, who is running to replace retiring Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, D-Texas, is likely headed to Congress next year.


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German Apple-Pear Puff Pancakes
This recipe for Apple-Pear Puff Pancakes will certainly impress your guests — and their palates. These light and airy pancakes are a cross between an omelet and a soufflé, so feel free to serve them for breakfast or dessert.
German Apple-Pear Puff Pancakes
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 18–20 minutes
Yield: 8 servings
Nonstick cooking spray
1 medium apple, cored and thinly sliced
1 medium ripe pear, cored and thinly sliced
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup whole-wheat flour
1 cup lowfat milk
6 eggs or 2 whole eggs and 6 egg whites
1/4 cup melted margarine
Maple syrup or light pancake syrup (optional)
Preheat your oven to 400°F. Spritz two 12-cup, nonstick muffin tins with cooking spray.
Coat a large nonstick skillet with cooking spray and cook the apple and pear slices until softened, about 4 to 6 minutes. Stir in the brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg and continue to heat until flavors blend, about 2 more minutes. Remove from heat.
Blend together the flours, milk, eggs, and margarine with an electric blender until smooth.
Pour the mixture from Step 3 into the muffin tins, filling about 3/4 of each muffin cup. Bake 15 minutes or until puffy and golden.
Remove the pancakes from the muffin tins while they're still hot. Top with the warm apple-pear mixture. Drizzle with maple syrup or light pancake syrup, if desired, and serve immediately.
Per serving: Calories 201 (From Fat 90); Fat 10g (Saturated 3g); Cholesterol 160mg; Sodium 271mg; Carbohydrate 21g (Dietary Fiber 2g); Protein 8g; Potassium 177mg.
This recipe works best with regular margarine or butter, not light margarine, which has a higher moisture content.
For a dramatic rise (puff), substitute bread flour for the all-purpose and whole-wheat flour. The more traditional large German pancake is made in a cast-iron skillet.
Vary It! Substitute fresh or unsweetened frozen peaches for the apples and pears.


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Weekend Showcase 3.18
Another week has passed, and another opportunity to review the best new music of the past 7 days. The Weekend Showcase 3.18 edition features 51 songs by artists representing ten (10) countries. They include: Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the United States, and Wales. The playlist and tracklisting, as usual, follows the list of articles from […]Read more ›