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Video: For God's sake turn in killers, priest pleads at garda funeral
THE priest at the funeral mass of murdered Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe has pleaded to anyone with information: "Please God, turn these people in."
Fr Michael Cusack told the congregation that it is "so true than evil exists", and said the killing is like "Satan laughing at us"."
"And if there is anyone who knows anything about that, if you have any semblance of goodness in you, for God's sake, turn these people in. If not, you're allowing Satan to ruin the lives of more and more people.
"He was a man of honour, who could do this?"
Fr Cusack said members of the force "dance" with Satan on a regular basis.
The priest also strongly criticised government cuts to the force and closure of garda stations.
Fr Michael Cusack said he came from a town in Co Galway where the station had closed and two elderly men had since had their "heads bashed in".
He made the comments in front of a congregation including the Taoiseach, Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore, Justice Minister Alan Shatter and almost the entire Cabinet.
"When it comes to reflecting to the garda presence throughout the whole country, I think it's a good time for there to be serious reflection by all in this country around the need for further policing," he added.
"I think we need to look into the eyes of [his wife] Caroline, look into the eyes of Adrian's parents and allow what is best within us - our humanity - to recognise what evil can do when it's allowed to flourish in a community. My parents are now living in a rural community in Galway that has no police service.
"It only ever had one guard but that one guard brought great security. Since he moved, two men in their 80s have had their heads bashed in, one left without hearing or taste for the rest of his life.
"I see it in the eyes of so many in that village that they go to bed at night in fear. Is that the way we need to treat our brothers and sisters in our care?"
The children of Dt Gda Adrian Donohoe have brought gifts remembering their father to the altar at his funeral service in Dundalk.
Det Gda Donohoe's tricolour draped coffin, with his garda hat on gloves placed on top of it, arrived at the Redemptorist church just after one o'clock, accompanied by almost 2,500 of his garda colleagues.
A number of gifts have been presented, including his GAA jerseys from St Pat's in Lordship and his native Cavan.
Fr Cusack, rector of St Joseph's Redemptorist Church, told the service no one could adequately put into words the pain suffered by his wife Caroline - herself a garda - and their two young children, Amy and Niall
His daughter Amy (7) brought the television remote "she always hid" from her Daddy, "and the mobile phone she always rang to say goodbye when he was on night duty", while son Niall (6) brought the football he used to play with with his father.
Streets around the church came to a standstill as up to 1,500 members of the public stood shoulder to shoulder with 2,500 uniformed gardai. Such was the overflow, it could not be accommodated in a massive outdoor marquee and parish hall that were opened up for the turnout.
President Michael D Higgins, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, several senior government ministers and Cardinal Sean Brady were among scores of dignitaries who came from throughout Ireland, on both sides of the border, to pay their respects.
Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan spoke towards the end of the funeral and reassured mourners that the killers will be found.
"No words can adequately express the great sense of loss and revulsion felt by the Donohoe family, the family of An Garda Siochana and indeed the wider public in learning about the cold blooded murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe last Friday night," he said.
"We, Adrian's colleagues, are committed to ensuring that we bring the perpetrators responsible for this callous crime to justice.
"Our resolve is strengthened by the overwhelming support from the President of Ireland, the Government and members of the public."
The Commissioner praised the public for the outpouring of solidarity seen right across the country with messages of sympathy and support being sent to police in stations in every county and online.
"To the local community in the Dundalk and Cooley peninsula, we are forever in your debt for the outstanding generosity you have shown to the Donohoe family and An Garda Siochana at this most difficult time," he said.
"Adrian, Detective Garda, husband, father, son, brother, colleague, community leader, GAA man, friend, we will never forget you."
Mr Donohoe, murdered as he escorted staff with cash from his local credit union, is the first police officer shot dead in Ireland for 17 years since garda Jerry McCabe was gunned down by an IRA gang in a post office raid.
Mr McCabe's wife Ann joined mourners in Dundalk today.
A reward of €50,000 has been offered for information that leads to the arrest and prosecution of the gang involved in Mr Donohoe's murder.
The money was put forward by the Irish League of Credit Unions, which represents credit unions in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Michael Cusack said Mr Donohoe was a loyal, honest, virtuous and faithful man who laid down his life for his community.
"The whole country is gutted by what has happened," he said.
Mr Cusack said the murdered detective was the perfect role model for everybody and the callous mowing down of his innocent life was a reminder that there was good and evil.
"So many people today no longer offer their services freely to the community but Adrian always did," he said.
The rector told Mr Donohoe's wife there were no words that could bring her husband and the father of her children back, but he hoped the support of her family, friends as well as colleagues in the Garda and the GAA would give her some comfort.
Detective Garda Joe Ryan, who was on duty with Mr Donohoe when he was killed, was among pall bearers who carried his Tricolour-draped coffin, with his Garda cap and gloves atop, into the church.
Uniformed colleagues formed a guard of honour as the cortege arrived to be met by the force's entire senior command, led by Commissioner Callinan.
Inside the hearse were wreaths which spelled out Dad, Brother and Son.
Along with his own family, the chief mourners included Mr Donohoe's parents Peggy and Hugh, his parents-in-law Bridie and Stephen, his sisters May and Anne and brothers Colm, Martin and Alan, as well as his brothers-in-law and sister-in-law.
Northern Ireland secretary of state Theresa Villiers, PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott, Northern Ireland Justice Minister David Ford were among the congregation.
In a moving eulogy, Mr Donohoe's brother Colm said he died doing the job he loved and was born to do.
"Adrian was incredibly highly regarded for the quality of his work, he was professional to the last and he died doing the job that he was born to do and the job that he loved," Mr Donohoe said.
"Whatever Adrian did, whether it was on the football pitch, as a husband, father, son or a guard, he did it to the best of his ability."
Mr Donohoe told the detective's widow that she was the love of his brother's life.
He said the whole Donohoe family would always be there for her and their children.
"To Caroline, I want to thank you. Thank you for making Adrian the happiest, proudest husband and dad," he said.
"It's plain to see from the love you had for each other, you both met the loves of your lives."
He added that the family took comfort that Adrian had packed so much into his short life.
"He lived to his fullest," he said.
Mr Donohoe also thanked his brother's friends, colleagues and the general public for their support over the last five days.
Mr Donohoe described his brother as both big in stature and big in heart.
He said he was "generous to a fault" and had so much to live for.
Mr Donohoe was buried with full honours at Lordship cemetery on the Cooley peninsula a short distance from his home and the Gaelic Athletic Association club were he trained youngsters.
Gardai have appealed to mourners who were at a wake and funeral last week in the village of Clogherhead in Co Louth for information on a stolen car used in the detective's murder.
The 08-D navy Volkswagen Passat was taken from a home in the village on January 22 and used in the attack on Friday night before being found burnt out beside a forest in south Armagh.
The police killers can expect to serve 40 years in jail if convicted.
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The Taiwanese military yesterday was once again rocked by reports that one of its own had engaged in espionage for China, a little more than a year after a high-profile spy, who is now serving a life sentence, was arrested.
The Chinese-language Next Magazine reported that an air force captain surnamed Chiang (蔣), who worked at a "regional operations control center"in northern Taiwan, was believed to have passed on intelligence to China.
The report also claimed that Chiang's uncle, who operates a business in China, had helped pass on the information obtained by Chiang, which reportedly included classified material on Taiwan's early warning radar system, as well as E-2T/E-2K Hawkeye surveillance aircraft.
The report said Chiang had provided China with information about the 10-1E "Strong Net" — the nation's air-defense command and control system.
Four regional operations control centers (ROCC), scattered across the nation, have been built in recent years to supplement the command-and-control functions of the Joint Air Operations Center on Toad Mountain (蟾蜍山) in southern Taipei, which is the principal operations body directing, controlling and executing air warning and air combat operations.
As part of the ongoing Anyu 4 program, Strong Net is in the process of being upgraded and expanded with the ROCCs, which will provide redundancy and survivability in the event of an attack. Two of the four ROCCs are believed to be located in Taipei, one on Toad Mountain and the other at the Taiwan Air Force General Headquarters in the northern part of the city.
The Taipei Times has since learned that Chiang did not work specifically at an ROCC, but did so at a site in northern Taipei that performs similar functions.
Ministry of National Defense spokesman David Lo (羅紹和) yesterday said that the suspect had been detained and turned over to military prosecutors for investigation, adding that measures had been taken to deal with the information leak to prevent it from having a serious impact on the nation's security.
"The situation is not as serious as described in the report," Lo said.
At the rank of captain, Chiang is unlikely to have had high enough a security clearance to access highly classified material.
Lo said the high-profile arrest early last year of army general Lo Hsien-che (羅賢哲), who had been spying for China since 2004, had prompted the military to enhance its counterintelligence capabilities, which may have contributed to the early detection of Chiang's suspicious behavior.
Some of the information the general is believed to have passed to his Chinese handlers pertained to the nation's command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems, a main target of Chinese intelligence over the years.
Ko-suen "Bill" Moo (慕可舜), a Taiwanese businessman who was arrested by US federal agents in Miami in 2005 for attempting to ship sensitive military technology to China, and who was sent back to Taiwan last year, was reportedly involved in the Anyu 4 program when he worked as a contractor for defense firms in Taiwan.
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In 2000, Anne Carson's older brother Michael died unexpectedly in Copenhagen. It took two weeks for the news to reach Carson, a Canadian-born classicist and poet, because Michael's widow couldn't find her number in her husband's papers. Michael had run away from home in 1978, and he and Anne had spoken a half-dozen times in all the years since. After his death, she began to construct a notebook of memories, or, as she puts it, "an epitaph." It is a curious word—usually it refers to a commemorative inscription on a plaque or headstone, but Michael's ashes were scattered into the sea. The notebook itself is that headstone; now published as "Nox" (New Directions; $29.95), it has the squat gray aspect of a stone tablet. It is also a personal, and deeply moving, meditation on the contours of absence.
"Nox" is as much an artifact as a piece of writing. The contents arrive not between two covers but in a box about the size of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Inside is an accordion-style, full-color reproduction of the notebook, which incorporates pasted-in photographs, poems, collages, paintings, and a letter Michael once wrote home, along with fragments typed by Carson. The reproduction has been done painstakingly, and conjures up an almost tactile sense of the handmade original. A mourner is always searching for traces of the lost one, and traces of that scrapbook's physicality—bits of handwriting, stamps, stains—add testimonial force: this person existed.
Translation, the act of renaming, is clearly crucial to Carson's method of coming to grips with loss. The first page is a yellowing, blurred poem in Latin: Catullus' poem 101, an elegy for his brother, who also died on a distant shore. (To achieve the yellowing effect, Carson soaked her typescript of the poem overnight in tea.) Most of the left-hand pages that follow are given over to lexicographical entries, defining each word in the Catullus elegy. The right-hand pages meditate on the difficulty of elegizing a brother who had disappeared from Carson's life long before his death.
Despite the inclusion of personal details, "Nox" (Latin for "night") is as much an attempt to make sense of the human impulse to mourn as it is a story about a lost sibling. In poem 101, Catullus writes:
Many the peoples many the oceans I
I arrive at these poor, brother, burials
so I could give you the last gift owed to
and talk (why?) with mute ash.
Carson, whose quite faithful rendering this is, wants to memorialize the dead, but she also wonders why she does—why we feel the need, as Catullus says, to speak to silent ashes, to assemble trivial remnants of a lost presence. Nox is also the Roman goddess of night—perhaps the oldest of the Roman deities, the mother, by many accounts, of sleep, fate, and death—and in Carson's elegy Night becomes a kind of elusive character, with whom the mourner repeatedly attempts to engage. It's as if to look Night in the eye would be to understand the tangled relationship between character, fate, and memory.
Carson's first entry in "Nox" displays a characteristic combination of the lyric and the gnomic: "I wanted to fill my elegy with light of all kinds. But death makes us stingy. There is nothing more to be expended on that, we think, he's dead. Love cannot alter it. Words cannot add to it. No matter how I try to evoke the starry lad he was, it remains a plain, odd history." Elegy and history are akin, Carson notes, and she invokes Herodotus, the father of history, as her guide. Herodotus considered history "the strangest thing that humans do," she observes, in part because history can be at once "concrete and indecipherable." That's certainly true of her brother's.
Michael was a troubled boy. The family moved a lot, and he had difficulty making friends, always trying to hang out with older boys. (There is a photo of Michael, at ten, standing beneath a tree house; the three boys in it have pulled the ladder up after them.) He didn't do well in school; she did, and he took to calling her "professor" or "pinhead." Somewhere along the way, he began dealing drugs and he ran away to avoid going to jail, after staying with Carson a few days (and leaving cigarette butts everywhere, even in the frying pan, "sunny side up"). He travelled through Europe and India on a false passport, "seeking something," sending occasional postcards. He wrote once, to say that he had fallen in love with a woman named Anna who died suddenly; he married at least two other women. Carson includes a fragment of a letter by her mother asking Michael for an address where she might send a "box for Christmas."
The details are affecting, but she doles them out sparingly. "Nox" shifts between the analytic and the lyrical. Even the lexicography turns out to be surprisingly complex and moving (dictionaries hardly being tearjerkers, as a rule). The entries read like litanies—words you might utter as a stay against panic or darkness—and when you look closely you see that Carson has messed with the Latin examples, introducing the word "night," creating atmospheric little prose poems of the translated phrases. Here's what we get under the word aequora (aequor, aequoris, neuter noun):
[AEQUUS] a smooth or level surface, expanse, surface; a level stretch of ground, plain; inmensumne noctis aequor confecimus? have we made it across the vast plain of night? the surface of the sea especially as considered as calm and flat, a part of the sea, a sea; per aperta volans aequora soaring over the open sea; the waters of a river, lake, sea; tibi rident aequora ponti the waters of the sea laugh up at you.
Elsewhere we find illustrative phrases that pretend to explain a word but really speak of Carson's brother: "he lets in night at the eyes and the heart" or "made sadder by the brother's night than by the brother himself."
If all this orchestration sounds elaborate, even artificial, it's quintessential Carson. Her work has always been an exercise in reinvigorating the clichés of autobiography by refracting them through her vast knowledge of classical literature and her deadpan, self-undermining wit. ("I will do anything to avoid boredom. It is the task of a lifetime.") Carson understands personal experience as much through philosophy and spiritual writings as through the register of psychology and interiority. There is always some ritualized distance between author and reader. As a writer who trained as a classicist, she is accustomed to shuttling among stories and idioms; the classicist has to learn the concepts or attitudes that have been lost with the years, and that must, like a decayed bridge, be reconstructed before the ravine can be crossed.
Where Shakespeare built his great plays through the structure of a double plot—a main plot offset by a subplot—Carson builds her narrative lyrics by means of triangulation, or what she once called "a third angle of vision." (In her 2005 assemblage "Decreation," she writes, "Nonagons are not useful. / But a triangle is true!") Her autobiographical writing is always offset by some other story; one of her best-known works, "The Glass Essay," which appeared in 1995, is narrated by a woman who, devastated by the end of a relationship, goes home to see her mother, and reflects both on her ex-lover and on Emily Brontë's poems; her interest in Brontë's severity comes to bear on her understanding of her own heartbreak. She has been stripped down to an essential self that must now find some recovery through art.
The Carson method involves a kind of mashup of old and new; she proceeds through juxtaposition rather than metaphor-making. What you get is the over-all action of the mind rather than the high-shine lacquer of the apt image. Although she is referred to as a poet, she writes in prose at least as often as she does in verse. Still, only poetry seems capacious enough to encompass her cut-up, sui-generis style. She favors lines in which words that can double as nouns and adjectives bump against each other ("a solid unlit white sky"), or even meld into one word ("overtakelessness"), without the governing aid of punctuation, making reading into an act of translation, and restoring strangeness to language. She likes, too, to introduce narrative information flatly, almost as one might in a screenplay. "The Glass Essay" opens:
I can hear little clicks inside my dream.
Night drips its silver tap
down the back.
At 4 A.M. I wake. Thinking
of the man who
left in September.
It's the literary equivalent of the contemporary habit of exposing seams in garments.
She's drawn to themes of desire and privation (she titled her study of Paul Celan and the ancient Greek poet Simonides of Ceos "The Economy of the Unlost"), and the urge to get away from "self." T. S. Eliot said that poetry required "an escape from personality," and Carson seems to take that seriously, but with her it's a cleansing compulsion akin to an anorexic's or a saint's. "You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough," she wrote in "Plainwater" (1995), a peculiar assortment of essays, "short talks," and long poems with faux-scholarly introductions, the kind that might be written by someone steeped in Gertrude Stein and French theory. (The series "The Life of Towns" opens with the observation "Towns are the illusion that things hang together, my pear, your winter.")
She has written affectingly about Simone Weil dying from self-starvation and about Marguerite Porete, a French mystic who was burned at the stake in 1310 for the heresy of writing a book about divine love. "The poet is someone who feasts at the same table as other people.—But at a certain point he feels a lack," Carson has written. "He is provoked by a perception of absence within what others regard as a full and satisfactory present." In "Decreation," she asks, "When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty." In Carson's work, this poverty is figured as a form of unexpected wealth. To leave the self behind is to no longer be slave to its limitations; it is a form of power as well as transcendence. As she wrote in "Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions":
My personal poetry is a failure.
I do not want to be a person.
I want to be unbearable.
Lover to lover, the greenness of love.
Something unbearable cannot be turned into metaphor (the word comes from the Greek "to bear across" or "to carry over"); it is larger than language, and not subject to the buffeting forces of Eros.
Her first book, "Eros the Bittersweet," was an idiosyncratic and ebullient academic study of the Greek notion—found in Sappho and Plato—of Eros as a form of "lack" that offers both pleasure and pain. The geometry of desire, which we usually take to be a two-way street (I love you; you love me), is actually a triangular circuitry of lover, beloved, and that which comes between them. "The lover wants what he does not have. . . . All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. . . . Who ever desires what is not gone? No one. The Greeks were clear on this."
In her subsequent books, most notably in "Plainwater," "Glass, Irony & God" (1995), "Autobiography of Red" (1998), and "The Beauty of the Husband" (2001), Carson developed her interest in sex, identity, and ecstatic transformation, in the form of lyric narratives that often seemed highly personal. In many of her strongest pieces, such as "Just for the Thrill: An Essay on the Differences Between Women and Men" (a series of prose fragments which appeared in "Plainwater"), her speakers appear to be preoccupied by the troubling proximity between what they experience as the annihilating transport of sex and the visionary transport of the sublime. "Just for the Thrill" describes a camping trip with an anthropologist who likes sex (but not marriage), and whom the narrator calls "the emperor of China"; it's a lushly written yet hard-edged meditation on loneliness and gender, containing powerful descriptive writing ("Rattling through the ghost cornfields of Indiana at 3:00 AM") as well as ironic philosophical questioning ("Camping is radical economy. We use the world for space, its light for fear") and smutty bedroom talk ("Make me your boy slut"). Her work has a starkness that can seem Greek, perhaps because its emotional hues are painted with such intense physicality—and, perhaps, because her imagination is so unusual. "Autobiography of Red," for example, chronicles the unhappy youth of Geryon, a young boy who "is also a winged red monster" (Geryon is best known as a monster Herakles killed in his tenth labor). Infatuated with Herakles, Geryon wonders (as many infatuated lovers do), What happens if you love the person who is going to destroy you? It's an old question, but in Carson's hands it becomes vibrant with physical drama:
Herakles lies like a piece of torn silk in the heat of the blue saying
Geryon please. The break in his voice
made Geryon think for some reason of going into a barn
first thing in the morning
when sunlight strikes a bale of raw hay still wet from the night.
Put your mouth on it Geryon please.
Geryon did. It tasted sweet enough. I am learning a lot in this year of my life, thought Geryon.
Carson's singular gift for resuscitating the ancient theme of desire is complicated by a postmodern habit of pastiche and fragmentation. "Autobiography of Red" includes fake interviews; elsewhere she refers intimately to both Artaud and Lenin. Detractors, and even some of her fans, wonder why she needs to junk up her crystalline narratives with so much formal detritus. And the question is a reasonable one: her lesser work can seem mired in the frills and furbelows of its own presentation. But in "Nox" the question doesn't arise. Carson has always been interested in pockets of experience that can't be approached directly but must be courted obliquely. This style is peculiarly suited to capturing grief, which is irrational, physiological, mutable—and, often, mute. As Iris Murdoch once wrote, "The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved." Because the dead person is absent and voiceless (the word nox both rhymes with the Latin word vox, or voice, and contains the English word "no"), the bereaved is always experiencing the lost through other things: books, ideas, language, memory. A sense of this is what Carson's memory book provides; its process of assemblage dramatizes the way the mind in mourning flits from pain at the specific loss to metaphysical questioning about what, exactly, constitutes a mortal life.
Grief is paradoxical: you know you must let go and yet letting go cannot happen immediately. The literature of mourning enacts that dilemma; its solace is mainly in the ritual of remembering the dead and then saying, There is no solace and also, This has been going on a long time. In "Nox," the impersonality of loss—the fact that it has been going on for so long—is evoked through its classical scaffolding. Carson tells of an ancient writer named Hekataios, who recounts the story of an Arabian phoenix that travelled to Egypt every five hundred years to bury its father:
The phoenix mourns by shaping, weighing, testing, hollowing, plugging and carrying towards the light. He seems to take a clear view of necessity. And in the shadows that flash over him as he makes his way from Arabia to Egypt maybe he comes to see the immensity of the mechanism in which he is caught, the immense fragility of his own flying—composed as it is of these ceaselessly passing shadows carried backward by the very motion that devours them, his motion, his asking.
Carson means for her accordion to capture that shadow play, these fugitive visions.
In the case of her brother, who had absented himself while still living, the visions are twice fugitive. To remember him, she has to remember, too, his silence, his flight from the law. She recalls the few times they talked. "What he needed from me I have no idea," she recalls. "When he telephoned me—out of the blue—about half a year after our mother died he had nothing to say. ("Mother is dead. Yes I guess she is. She had a lot of pain because of you. Yes I guess she did. . . . Are you happy? No. Oh no.") Even as she tries to describe Michael, she tries to convey what she calls "a certain fundamental opacity of human being, which likes to show the truth by allowing it to be seen hiding."
The photos, the fragments of letters, the scraps of translated language enable her to "show the truth by allowing it to be seen hiding." Michael hides in these images, and the point is that all the words and analytical exercise in the world can't rescue him—can't lower the tree-house ladder, can't recover "the starry lad he was." He is gone. "Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light," Carson writes. "The luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate."
"Nox" is a luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of an elegy, which is why it evokes so effectively the felt chaos and unreality of loss. Instead of imposing baroque form on the material, Carson lets Michael haunt the work, writing into its lacunae, through the eeriness of his handwriting, of the airmail stamps he used. Her method is less to try to solve the mystery of his life and death than to enact it, to dramatize the mourner's mind as it seeks to understand what happens to the vanished. "It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself," she writes. "Nox" is that asking: a questioning, unsentimental excursion into the meaning of not understanding.
When Herodotus was recounting a story he didn't fully believe, Carson notes, he wound up "with a remark like this: So much for what is said by the Egyptians." On the next page she has pasted a typed phrase on a slip of paper, which is folded over on itself so that we must strain to make out these sentences: "I have to say what is said. I don't have to believe it myself." It's a piercing summation of the mourner's secret position: I have to say this person is dead, but I don't have to believe it. ♦


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Each year, the Mopar Nationals brings together one of the largest collections of Mopar-only cars and trucks. Dubbed "The Year of the Challenger," 2008 was no different. Even with the threat of high gas prices and an economy that's not doing too hot, Mopar fanatics came out to National Trail Raceway's expansive grounds for this great event. The Mopar Muscle staff was surprised by this fact, fearing that participation would take a major hit.
One element of the event that did receive a major hit was the racers. It seemed there was less than half the amount that raced last year. This is depressing since it's what keeps fans in the bleachers and is the focal point of the even for most of us. Mopar Performance showcased their new 2008 Challenger Drag Package. Both late-model Challengers were powered by new Hemi's and unleashed impressive 11-second passes in factory trim. They were certainly some of the more popular cars around the pit area since it seemed fans were glued to them. Dodge also brought out the all-new Challenger R/T and discussed some of the differences between the R/T and SRT models.
The swap meet area and old cars up for sale seemed to be way up. Tech Editor, Dave Young, feels this was a direct result of the economy. Many people are trying to clean out their garage and make a few bucks. There were some great deals to be had, so it's always a good idea to take a peek in the area, even if you don't need anything for you project. On the opposite end of the event you find the car show. Participation was about equal to last year and, as always, some pristine examples of classic Mopars were on display. New to the show field were the 2008 SRT Challengers. If you hadn't seen one in person before the event, there's a good chance you were sick of them by the time Sunday came rolling around. We feel it's safe to say that if you want to be different, don't buy one in Hemi Orange! There were at least 10 painted orange with very little representatives for the other fine hues, such as silver.
All-in-all, the event was spectacular. The weather was hot, but no where near as hot as previous years. A cool breeze overtook most of the grounds area and helped to keep most spectators and pedal fans happy and comfortable. We hope next year will offer the same great atmosphere and fans will continue to support the event and sponsors.


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Millen, Georgia (CNN) -- John Charles Tarsney crossed the prisoner of war camp and spied an emaciated Union soldier to whom he had given a drink of water the evening before.
"He had died during the night and was little more than a dead skeleton," Tarsney later recalled.
Tarsney, despairing of his own plight as a prisoner at Camp Lawton in Georgia, hatched a scheme.
He decided to trade identities with the lifeless man who was part of a group of ailing soldiers set to be exchanged for Confederate prisoners held up north.
Tarsney pinned his own name and regiment on the dead man's clothing and gave his silver watch to a sergeant to keep him quiet. He affected a limp and, after "near being caught," managed to walk out of the prison as John Frantz of the 54th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Tarsney boarded the train and soon gained his freedom -- later serving four terms as a congressman from Missouri. He recalled his experience more than 25 years later in an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Some may question Tarsney's actions, but such desperate schemes were common among the more than 410,000 men held captive during the American Civil War. Prisoners were subject to hunger, overcrowding, violence and disease -- conditions which claimed 56,000 lives from 1861 to 1865.
"I think (Tarsney) is honestly and bluntly recounting a moment when he faced an impossible choice for survival," says Eric Leonard, chief of interpretation and education at Andersonville National Historic Site, located on the grounds of the notorious Andersonville prison. Camp Lawton was built to help ease overcrowding and other problems at Andersonville.
Thousands of Civil War POWs clawed for life. When not dreaming of home and freedom, they were obsessed with food, sometimes consuming rats or boiling grass to ward off scurvy.
At several prisons, soldiers were humiliated by civilians who paid to gawk and deride them. Some gave up hope of being freed or exchanged. Others blamed their own government for their predicaments, believing officials cared little about rescuing them.
See paintings, maps and more of prison site
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the peak year of suffering in Civil War prisons. At Andersonville alone, nearly 13,000 men died over 14 months -- an average of more than 30 a day in that span. Overall, 30,000 Union and 26,000 Confederate soldiers died in captivity.
Remembrances over the next 16 months at Andersonville -- the only National Park System area to serve as a memorial to all POWs -- present a milepost to review the plight of POWs throughout American history. The park in Georgia is home to the National Prisoner of War Museum.
At the same time, archaeological digs and research at Camp Lawton, Camp Douglas in Chicago, Johnson's Island in Ohio and Camp Asylum in Columbia, South Carolina, are opportunities to bring fresh insight into the story of Civil War prison life.
The work at Lawton, which operated in 1864, fascinates historians.
With the exception of plowing by farmers 100 years ago and construction by the Civilian Conservation Corps, the 42-acre prison site about 80 miles northwest of Savannah was largely untouched until about four years ago.
"The preservation is so ideal," says Lance Greene, an assistant professor overseeing Georgia Southern University anthropology students doing excavations.
The area where prisoners lived is rich with artifacts.
Rick Kanaski, a regional archaeologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, says, "When you are looking at Lawton, we have an opportunity to delve into the daily details, daily life, from both the prisoner and Confederate guards' perspectives."
It's not difficult to imagine why Tarsney, severely wounded and captured at Gettysburg, so desperately maneuvered for his freedom.
He had endured the horrors of Andersonville before he was shipped to Lawton, where deadly cold and rain in the late autumn of 1864 picked off hundreds who had managed to survive the suffocating heat and squalor at Andersonville. His time at Lawton came during the waning months of the Confederacy.
Issued few items by their Lawton captors, soldiers used anything they could get their hands on: broken spoons to dig holes, railroad spikes for the construction of shelter and even an Argentine coin used because of the dearth of U.S. money.
"This site is part of this ongoing debate of prisoner treatment," says Greene, referring to Abu Ghraib, the site of a prisoner abuse scandal that took place during the Iraq war.
Since the end of the Civil War and the subsequent trial and execution of Andersonville's commandant, historians have argued over whether appalling conditions at Civil War prisons -- in the North and South -- were the result of insufficient resources and mismanagement or included something more intentional: retaliation and deliberate cruelty.
Deaths at Andersonville, by far the most populous Civil War prison, represented a staggering 29% of the prison population. But the death rate was only slightly lower at the North's prison in Elmira, New York, with a 24% death rate and 3,000 deaths, many due to illness.
The debate over what caused the misery continues today. One fact is inescapable: "We did this to ourselves," says Andersonville's Leonard.
The road to massive overcrowding
Motorists can drive around the grassy Andersonville site in middle Georgia in a few minutes. Long gone are the gaunt and dirty faces and the bare earth covered with makeshift tents and shelters.
A walk through the site, says Glenn Robins, a history professor at Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, is a primer on the travails of Civil War prisoners and the challenges facing their keepers.
"We try to get a sense of how you can get 33,000 people in that prison. We'll talk about the rations and the insufficiency."
Officials at the prison added 10 acres to the original 16.5-acre site, but the flood of POWs continued. Andersonville housed a total of 45,000 POWs over its lifespan.
Andersonville's Stockade Creek shows just how little water there was for soldiers to drink, bathe and use as a latrine. Nearly 5 acres of the fetid ground was saturated with effluent and human waste, increasing incidents of disease, including dysentery.
"You are sort of at a point where it is hopeless," says Robins. "You start wondering why more people did not die there. You talk about those who survived and how they did. Is it their mindset and value system, whether based in religious faith or trying to help a person who is sharing a hole in the ground with them? Or a belief in country?"
Historians caution against comparing Andersonville, also known as Camp Sumter, to other prisons.
"You cannot convey the horror of Andersonville through the written word," says Paul Springer, an author who has written about treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War forward. "Until you can bottle the stench ... you cannot tell the story."
When the Civil War began, there was virtually no such thing as a military prison system or a code of treatment for captives. Neither army expected the conflict to last as long as it did.
"The prison system of the South was less worthy of the name than that of the North," wrote William Hesseltine in "Civil War Prisons."
In the North, "the prisons came into being as a result of definite plans and were administered by officers experienced in military administration. In the South, on the other hand, the prison system was the result of a series of accidents. ... Prisons came into existence, without definite plans, to meet the exigencies of the moment."
POWs were often exchanged during the first two years, but that system largely broke down. There were disputes about the status of black soldiers captured by the South and the treatment of white officers who led them. As the prisons filled, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant declined in 1864 to resume negotiations on the exchange, realizing that he had numbers on his side.
POWs constantly hoped they would be freed from the oft-hellish conditions, only to have their hopes dashed. Cpl. Charles H. Knox, held at Camp Lawton, was concerned about his wife and small child back home in upstate New York. He wrote a November 14, 1864, letter to them that reads in part:
"Now hopeing the scene may soon change, for we all look for an exchange of most if not all of the Prisinors that are here -- God knows I hope so.. for I am tired of Cecesia (secession) I have been a Prisnor 6 months & 9 days & I think that will do for this time."
Knox wasn't paroled for another three and a half months, near the war's end.
'It would have been just survival'
Ilene Shuman, a junior at Georgia Southern University, stands near a partially excavated spot where a prison shelter, or "shebang" once stood along Main Street at Camp Lawton. During the prison's operation, the busy avenue featured a barbershop and a merchant who sold goods to the few POWs who had money.
Below her, Greene, her professor, uses a trowel near a pile of bricks believed to have been pilfered by prisoners from one of several ovens used to prepare food. There's also evidence of a fire built by prisoners to ward off the persistent cold.
"You get a sense of how people put their society together," says Shuman. "It would have been just survival, day to day. They were probably huddled together for warmth."
Open for only six weeks, Lawton was largely "lost" to history after it was hurriedly evacuated as federal forces approached Savannah, the prize of Maj. Gen. William Sherman's famous March to the Sea. About 10,000 men were held at Lawton during its brief existence. At least 750 died, and some estimates put the number at more than 1,000.
Would-be liberators were outraged to find unburied bodies in the camp. They set fire to large portions of the square 15-foot-high stockade wall. Nature and time later brought down the rest of the timbers.
The site straddles a federal fish hatchery and Magnolia Springs State Park, a few miles north of the small town of Millen. Prisoners congregated on what is now the hatchery area. In 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service erected a tall fence to ward off relic collectors.
Not far from Shuman, other students expose bricks that may be from one of the large ovens put in by Confederate troops. A third crew works along a section of the now-gone stockade wall.
Greene says crews have found the locations of three sides of the stockade and one corner. They also have excavated part of a Confederate officers' barracks. They want to find quarters for enlisted guards, which may make some comparisons to the prisoners' existence possible.
While Confederate commanders may have had ceramic plates and kitchenware, there are no such resources for prisoners, says Greene.
"They have very limited material. They are very savvy in reusing and modifying anything they can get their hands on."
The South tried to ease overcrowding and lessen sanitary problems at the prison, but it's not surprising that Confederate officers and guards would get better provisions, says Kanaski, the federal archaeologist.
He hopes that Confederate and other documentary records -- which have been tough to find -- will supplement the archaeological efforts. The August 26 episode of PBS' "Time Team America" will detail the mapping of the stockade and the search for items covered by sand and clay.
"You can get wowed by an individual artifact, but it may not make a lot of sense until more analysis (is done)," says Kanaski.
Consumed with thoughts of food
Greene and his students are looking for food remnants to gain insight into the diets of captives, guards and the estimated 500 slaves who built Camp Lawton.
Even today, while a prisoner may dream of home and freedom, waking hours are consumed with thoughts of food.
"I spent 6, 8, 10 hours a day thinking about what meal I was going to cook when I got home," says Michael Berryman, who was captured by Iraqi troops during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
A traveling Andersonville exhibit, entitled "Victory From Within: The American Prisoner of War Experience," includes comments from Berryman and others about prison life.
John K. Derden, in his book, "The World's Largest Prison: The Story of Camp Lawton," quotes a Union prisoner as saying he and his ravenous comrades ate the heads of butchered cattle and boiled bones for any form of nutrition. They also ate grease that would rise to the surface.
Adelbert Knight of Belfast, Maine, each day noted the food he received at Andersonville, Lawton and other prisons in the South. Cornbread and bacon, beef and molasses were common fare.
Sometimes, he documented other notable occurrences:
"June 22: wether fine all day. the first fair day here this month. Rat. one pint of mush & Bacon 2 oz. one man died of our mess this evening with a Soar throat."
On July 11, 1864, Knight noted the execution of six Union soldiers who had terrorized, robbed and killed fellow inmates at Andersonville.
His great-grandson, Larry Knight, of Hudson, New Hampshire, says he marvels at his ancestor's resilience, especially through illness that included scurvy and diarrhea.
"He had a very strong will to live," says Knight.
Adelbert later farmed and did carpentry work before dying in 1913 at age 72.
Sgt. David Kennedy, an Ohio cavalryman held at Andersonville, provided a powerful image of the horrors of the camp and its collection of shattered humanity: "It takes 7 of its ocupiants to make a Shadow."
John Brunsan, a POW at Elmira, wrote to his sister: "For breakfast I get one-third of a pound of bread and a small piece of meat; for supper the same quantity of bread and not any meat, but a small plate of warm water called soup."
An estimated two-thirds of soldier deaths during the Civil War were the result of disease, in part because of limited medical knowledge in the mid-19th century. Antibiotics did not yet exist.
More artifacts uncovered at Camp Lawton
Dora Costa, a UCLA economics professor, studied the life histories of 41,000 white and black Union soldiers. She found that men who entered prison camps with friends and comrades were more likely to survive, especially those with similar ethnicity.
"What we find is, basically, it did help to have men who were like you in there. From the same company or men to whom you are closely tied," says Costa.
Being tall was a negative for a captured soldier because it meant you needed more than the customary ration.
"Those with (certain) skills might be put to work," thereby receiving more rations, says Costa, co-author of "Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War."
Those skills might include bookkeeping, accounting and carpentry, she says.
Retaliation against the other side
If war is hell, a phrase credited to Gen. Sherman, then war also means demonizing the enemy and expressing outrage over the other side's treatment of POWs.
William Hesseltine made the case for "war psychosis" in his seminal book on Civil War prisons. Overcrowding and "poverty" in the South were responsible for the suffering of Union soldiers, he wrote.
Reports of soldiers suffering at Lawton, Andersonville and other Southern prisons "created the belief the prisoners were ill-treated through a deliberate purpose; the inevitable hatred engendered by the war made such a belief readily credible. The result of this psychosis was that prisoners in the Northern prisons were forced to suffer in retaliation for the alleged Southern cruelty."
The Confederacy believed "as firmly as did the citizens of the United States that their soldiers in prison were the victims of barbarous treatment," Hesseltine argued.
Michael P. Gray, associate professor of history at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, says Confederates held at Elmira in New York believed a surgeon was deliberately killing some of their comrades. It may have been more neglect than murder, Gray says.
Hunger and malnutrition were prevalent, too, in the North, where some historians say there was retribution for treatment -- real or perceived -- of Yankees held in Southern prisons.
President Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton cut rations for Northern prisons, says Gray, author of "The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison."
Gray and others contend that the extreme thriftiness of William Hoffman, commissary general of Union prisons, contributed to inadequate conditions.
Despite their ordeal, there were ways for prisoners to ward off persistent victimization and boost morale.
POWs at Elmira, desperate for extra rations and supplies, made rings, jewelry and other items that were sold by others outside the prison walls, says Gray.
Camp Lawton's POWs held a mock presidential election in November 1864, choosing Lincoln over George B. McClellan, a former Union general.
At Andersonville, prisoner Dorence Atwater kept a copy of the voluminous death registry, ensuring that nearly all of the 13,000 dead would receive headstones. He kept the list a secret from Confederate surgeons with whom he worked as a parolee.
On July 4, 1864, a group of prisoners briefly displayed the U.S. flag.
"The crowd goes wild," says Andersonville's Leonard. "Then it disappears because they do not want it taken away from them."
Complexity of assigning blame
Springer, the author, is also an associate professor of comparative military studies at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. He points out that today, as during the Civil War, the military necessarily puts its best soldiers at the front.
Those who staffed Civil War camps often were invalids, home guards or unfit for other service.
"Because they are not veterans, they don't have that empathy for the guy on the other side of the line," says Springer, author of "America's Captives: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror."
The U.S. military generally has treated POWS more humanely than has its enemies, Springer says.
More recently, the U.S. Army has "outsourced" the care of some POWs, Springer says. South Korea provided guards during the Korean War; the Saudis did the same in the first Gulf War.
That particular arrangement did not occur in the Iraq war, when Army reservists infamously abused prisoners at the Abu Ghraib facility. Springer terms them a "handful of bad apples."
Prison site brings together descendants of guard, captor
Springer references the prosecution of Andersonville's commandant, Maj. Henry Wirz, as an example of the complexity of assigning blame.
Wirz was convicted of murder and conspiracy charges and executed. Some POWs testified he personally shot some of their comrades, although the veracity of some testimony is debated today.
The officer was a "scapegoat in a lot of ways," says Springer, because he was incapable of stopping the massive flow of prisoners from Virginia and elsewhere. The professor suggests Wirz probably was more guilty of barbarous indifference than conspiracy.
"Places like Andersonville remind us that humans have a remarkable capacity for cruelty, indifference and immunity to the suffering of others."
Having your buddy's back
Andersonville National Historic Site is sponsoring several sesquicentennial events, including living history weekends in October and in March 2015, followed by a memorial candle illumination on September 18-19, 2015, coinciding with National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
A funeral to remember the nearly 13,000 Union soldiers who died there will be held that same weekend at the national cemetery.
"This service will be the funeral they never received," the site says.
Historians point out that mortality rates at most prisons were much lower than at Elmira and Andersonville. And there were attempts to improve conditions.
Some 150 years ago, civilians and generals grappled with a crisis over the care of POWs, Leonard says.
"I view military prisons as the overlooked campaign of 1864; prisons, their management and questions of exchange are taking up a massive part of the bureaucratic part of the war."
In the end, most Civil War POWs survived. Their stories are of resilience and loyalty to comrades who endured a crushing loss of freedom.
There has been a transformation of the public's perception of POWs, says Leonard. Whereas those captured during the Civil War were sometimes seen as less than honorable, Americans held during the Vietnam War and the Iran hostage crisis became symbols of resolve and strength.
On Memorial Day in 1994, former vice presidential candidate and Vice Adm. James Stockdale spoke at Andersonville about his POW experience during the Vietnam War and pressures his generation faced -- including enemy attempts at using prisoners as propaganda tools.
Regardless of their sacrifice and suffering, American POWs share common virtues, Stockdale said at the time.
"Being loyal to our fellow American prison mate, making sacrifices in his behalf if he is down; if tempted, being strong to resist; if missing the mark, having the courage to try again; and so living that you can stand unashamed and unafraid before your prison mates, your loved ones, and the Almighty."
Civil War prison site brings together descendants of captive, guard
Artifacts unearthed at site of Civil War prison in Georgia


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Uma Thurman was already a teen model when she made her film debut in 1987's Kiss Daddy Goodnight. At first an ingenue in films like Dangerous Liasons (1988), she developed into a brainy, somewhat cynical leading lady whose wide-set eyes and sharp chin gave her an exotic beauty. She kept busy in the movies throughout the '90s, notably as a dangerous temptress in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994, with Ving Rhames and John Travolta) and as the villainess Poison Ivy in Batman and Robin (1997, with George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger). Sometimes a leading lady and sometimes a bit player, she also appeared in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown (1999, starring Sean Penn), the Tarantino action flicks Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003, with Lucy Liu) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), the futuristic thriller Paycheck (2003, based on a story by Philip K. Dick), the comedy My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), the rom-com The Accidental Husband (2008) and the drama Bel Ami (2012, with Robert Pattinson).
Thurman married her Gattaca (1997) co-star Ethan Hawke in 1998. Their daughter Maya was born later the same year, and their son Levon was born in 2002. Thurman and Hawke divorced in 2004… Uma Thurman also had a daughter with boyfriend Arpad "Arki" Busson on 15 July 2012. Later that year, a spokesperson for Thurman told People magazine that the baby's name was "Rosalind Arusha Arkadina Altalune Florence Thurman-Busson, better known to family and friends as Luna." Busson also has two sons with a former girlfriend, model Elle MacPherson… Uma Thurman has served as a spokesmodel for Lancome, the French cosmetics company… Her father, Robert Thurman, is a noted expert on Tibetan Buddhism.
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Important Quotations
- Quote #1
- ch. 1, p. 2 (based on Scribner paperback edition 2004; your page # may not correspond)
- [Narrator describes Jay Gatsby.]
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.… [Gatsby had] an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.
- In the introduction to the story, narrator Nick Carraway describes Gatsby as he, retrospectively, perceives him. Immediately, Fitzgerald establishes Gatsby as an exceptionally romantic hero and a hopeful dreamer. The narrator tips his hand and reveals his favoritism for Gatsby. This quote is important because it not only establishes the essence of the Gatsby character but it also foreshadows the very nature of the story and its primary themes: idealism, aspiration, and loss.
- Quote #2
- ch. 2, pp. 23-24
- [Establishes the domain of the working poor.]
This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of ash-gray men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.… [And the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg] brood on over the solemn dumping ground.
- In this dramatic description, Fitzgerald sets the scene for the world of the working poor, where George and Myrtle Wilson live. The "valley of ashes" provides a sharp, poetic contrast to the cool, lush estates of East Egg. What would normally be signs of life—wheat fields and gardens—are merely forms in a smoldering, colorless landscape. Importantly, this scene immediately follows a genteel luncheon at the Buchanan mansion. Sea breezes are replaced by "rising smoke," extensive green lawns by "grotesque gardens."
- This scene also establishes the class conflict that permeates the book, and is a foreboding allusion to the death that occurs here. We become aware for the first time of the symbolic eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, who watches over this "solemn dumping ground" as a God-like witness to the despair and hopelessness that emanates from the place.
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- ch. 3, p. 50
- [In the midst of his own party, Gatsby is alone.]
When the Jazz History of the World was over, girls where putting their heads on men's shoulders … swooning backward playfully into men's arms … but no one swooned backward on Gatsby, and no French bob touched Gatsby's shoulder, and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby's head for one link.
- This passage serves to capture a sense of Gatsby's parties, as well as his place in them. Fitzgerald references a "sensational" piece of music of the day, describes the playful, affectionate nature of the guests, and casually notes the hairstyle that practically defined the "flapper." In the middle of this scene, a scene that Gatsby himself created...
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Random global chat in CE today. Seems to be an american IT guy out of work, willing to work from home to anywhere and can't get a job. Complaining he has to dumb down his resume and work for less. Everyone tells him he's over or under qualified, and he worries lying that your work history paid less is just as bad as lying it paid more. Feels trapped because everyone is hiring people from India. :/
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A Heavenly ViewTherefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. —2 Corinthians 4:16–17
In his final words to the elders of the church at Ephesus, Paul essentially laid down the principles that really mattered to him and said the desire of his heart was to finish his race with joy (see Acts 19:24). It was an emotional good-bye, and Paul left, sailing on to Caesarea. When he arrived there he stayed with the evangelist Philip, where he encountered the prophet Agabus. Agabus tied his own hands and feet with Paul's belt and warned him, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles' " (Acts 21:11). In other words, "Don't go. Danger is waiting."
Paul responded and said, "What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus" (verse 13).
Now, what kind of a statement is that? That is the statement of a man who has been to heaven (see 2 Corinthians 12:2). Paul left this earth, went into the presence of God, and was called back to the earth again. That is why Paul was able to say that he had "a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better" (Philippians 1:23).
If you had been to heaven, it would change everything about you. It would change the way you see everything and the way you respond to everything. And certainly, it would change the way you view death.
I don't think that Paul had a death wish, but I do think he recognized that what was waiting for him on the other side was far better than what he was experiencing. The same can be true for you and me. This is a great teaching by Pastor Greg Laurie. What a great way to start my day!!! I hope that you are all blessed by it and I hope you all have a Simply Heavenly day!!! God bless you!!!


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OpenShift Enterprise provides enterprise users with access to a cloud-based application platform to build applications and have them run in a cloud architecture. It automates much of the provisioning and systems management of the application platform stack in a way that supports the IT operations team when it comes to rolling out new application services.
Also for programmers, OpenShift Enterprise provides an on-demand and elastic fully configured application development, testing, and hosting environment for application developers so that they can focus on coding these new application services.
OpenShift Enterprise is built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, and OpenShift Origin, the basis for Red Hat's existing online OpenShift PaaS service that has been available in a free beta since May 2011. With the inclusion of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6, OpenShift Enterprise becomes the only Java EE 6-certified on-premise PaaS available to enterprises today.
"Developers are now able to choose among leading application development languages and tools for the job, and IT operations leaders can choose to deliver these application stacks to their enterprise on their choice of clouds in compliance with their security, governance, and compliance requirements. This offering stands to revolutionize how enterprises use PaaS platforms," said Ashesh Badani, general manager for the cloud business unit and OpenShift at Red Hat.


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Kevin Pietersen's return to the England set-up is likely to be given a final stamp of authority by the ECB with the upgrading of his four-month central contract to a full, year-long one.
Pietersen, who was dropped from the squad during the Test series against South Africa after a breakdown in relations with the dressing room, was given a short-term contract at the beginning of October, after England's exit from the World Twenty20. That would run up until the end of January but Andy Flower, England's team manager, indicated that Pietersen's "reintegration" had gone smoothly and a new contract, covering home and away series against New Zealand and the Ashes, will be a formality.
"The contract won't be a problem," Flower said. "Kevin has been excellent in every way. We don't all always get on with people all of the time - any of us in any walk of life - and everyone has made an effort to make it work."
The temporary arrangement allowed Pietersen to be selected for England's tour of India, where they secured a first Test series win since 1985. Pietersen made a crucial century in the series-levelling win in Mumbai and ended as England's second-highest run-scorer, and Flower was keen to praise his efforts. "It's been really good fun and he should be very proud of the way he's operated out here, both as an individual and as a player," he said.
Pietersen, along with the majority of England's Test squad, has returned home after being rested for the two-match T20 series with India, which begins on Thursday. He will be part of the ODI squad flying back out to India in January and is set to play his first one-day match in almost a year, since scoring back-to-back hundreds in England's 4-0 whitewash of Pakistan in the UAE.
Just a few months later, Pietersen announced his surprise retirement from limited-overs international cricket, setting off a chain of events that culminated in his exclusion from the England set-up but Flower insisted the issues had been fully resolved.
"We did move on from it as soon as we had our meetings and everyone made a commitment to do so," Flower said of the behind-the-scenes process to smooth Pietersen's return to the squad. "I want to continue that, moving forward. We want to learn from the past, but we don't want to keep on revisiting it."
While Pietersen has been included for the five ODIs against India, James Anderson and Jonathan Trott have been rested, in line with England's move towards a more flexible selection policy. Pietersen's temporary retirement was in part down to a feeling that too much was being demanded of England cricketers and the message appears to have been heeded, and even extended to the management. The ODI series will be Ashley Giles' first in charge of the limited-overs sides, with Flower taking a more back-seat role.
"We want to make this new coaching structure work for English cricket like we did the three captains," Flower said. "It's not gimmickry; we want to make the most efficient use of our resources and our personnel. I think we're lucky to have a coach of Ashley Giles' quality taking over and we want some of his ideas and energy to assist in taking our limited-overs sides up a notch or two. We believe he can do that."


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They seem to be a little inconsistent about how they want their company to be known; According to their website, the corporate name is Sierra Cinemas, Inc. and the website is sierracinemas.com. Their home page, though, is headed Sierra Theaters, but I do not think the chain name should be changed.
Sorry I don't see it that way, down at the bottom "Sierra Theaters Copyright 2010".
But, not a big deal.
Yes, I noted that copyright item too, Bob, but take a look at the tab on their website marked "Contact us": http://www.sierracinemas.com/contactus.asp And, even there, where they have a URL that reads
"sierratheaters.com," if you click on it, it pulls up as "sierracinemas.com". I don't know why there is this inconsistency; but I agree it really is not that big a deal as long as the links work. My guess is that they were incorporated as Sierra Cinemas, Inc.– which basically referenced their first theater – but as they chain began to grow they may have started using "Sierra Theaters" to indicate that they have expanded, and that information for all three of their current theaters can be found on the same website.
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Stand at the south end of High Street. To the right, the dust is kicking up from the carts travelling the road to Ascott and Leighton Buzzard. To the left, the Dove Inn1.
The Dove Inn looks pretty quiet this afternoon. There's the Pollard boys, hard at work in the blacksmith's shop next door. William's been looking a mite peaky lately, he's stopped to take a rest2. Hold on, there's Ernest across the road waving at me. Better go see what he wants...
Well I never! He's got some more of those post-cards in, photographs of our little village with his name on the back and all - "Cleaver, Wing, Bucks". He thinks the hoity toity set that come to Ascott for the hunting will be keen to buy 'em. That lot are only interested in horses if you ask me, the posh kind, not the good honest carthorses on some of the postcards.
One of the pictures was taken right about where I'm standing now, outside his post office looking up the road. Mrs Cleaver was in the doorway of the post office, and the other neighbours had quite the set-out by the Queen's Head. Have to admit, I came rushing over too when I heard that photographer chap from Leighton was here - but you won't catch me in the photographs! All very interesting it was though. Particularly when Mrs Lovell3 gave him what-for for blocking the road!
Speaking of the Queen's Head, perhaps I'll stop in for a quick pint with Henry.
That's odd, he's not there. Up the road at the Cock Inn4 maybe?
Right, had a quick chat and a wee bit to wet my whistle. I don't think Henry's missus will be pleased though, he's had more than a wee bit!
At the Cross5, so nearly home now. Ernest had another new post-card in, some of the little 'uns dandling about in the road with Wantage House behind. James Adams did well enough, him a carpenter and now managing the estate for Lady Wantage and living in the big House to prove it. You can't quite see our cottage on the postcard though - just as well, or my Mary6 would be wanting one. And who's she going to send it to anyway, I ask you!
This blog post is an entry in A Festival of Postcards blog carnival for "Main Street" June 2009
1 - did I mention it's 1901? It's another century or so before the Dove stopped serving.
2 - William Pollard died in March 1902 at age 24, six months after his only surviving child was born - luckily for me...
3 - Mrs Julia Lovell was one of the village carriers.
4 - yes, that makes three pubs along the 400m total length of High Street.
5 - the intersection of High Street and Vicarage Lane
6 - play along at home with the 1901 census and guess which Wing resident might be walking home!
Monday, June 15, 2009
A walk home along High Street, Wing, Buckinghamshire
Stand at the south end of High Street. To the right, the dust is kicking up from the carts travelling the road to Ascott and Leighton Buzzard. To the left, the Dove Inn1.
Posted by Alex Coles at 6:57 pm
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9 comments:
- Evelyn Yvonne Theriault said...
Good morning, Alex.
I want to thank you for your beautifully written post for the 2nd Edition of A Festival of Postcards.
Your post will be the featured article for this edition which will be posted in about 8 hours.
Evelyn in Montreal
- 26/6/09 3:38 am
- Alex said...
Thank you very much Evelyn - I'm honoured to be chosen :)
I have posted a followup entry about the back of one of the postcards here.
- 26/6/09 5:48 pm
- Purple Heather said...
There's a nice postcard of Handpost, Wing on eBay at the moment (but it's a bit pricey)
- 7/7/09 7:24 am
- Alex said...
Thanks Purple Heather. Yes, it is a bit pricey.....if postcards came labelled with the names of the small children posing nicely in them I wouldn't be able to resist!
- 7/7/09 4:38 pm
- Purple Heather said...
Do you have a date for the postcard of The Cross?
We live just off the postcard and it's interesting to see how the area used to look (and to confirm that even back then our cottage had a clay tile roof.
I agree that postcards would be even more valuable if there are names to the faces. My ancestors moved from Wing before this photo would have been taken but they had cousins who still lived in the area.
- 9/7/09 7:32 pm
- Alex said...
I don't have a date for the Cross postcard but believe it's c.1900. My BAKER family lived "on the Cross" in the 1891 census.
- 10/7/09 5:08 pm
- Judith Richards Shubert said...
What a wonderful post, Alex! I enjoy your writing. This is a great submission to the Festival of Postcards.
- 11/7/09 3:11 am
- Brett Payne said...
Interesting postcard photographs, Alex, and a great story thank you. Looking forward to future photograhic contributions! Regards and best wishes from Tauranga
- 3/8/09 9:10 am
- Alex said...
Thanks for stopping by, Judith and Brett. I'll be trying to contribute to some more of the genealogical blog carnivals where I can find an angle that suits the focus of this blog - it's a good opportunity to put together something a little out of the ordinary!
- 3/8/09 5:51 pm


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Prior to this, in an attempt grow their political ambitions the family had refurbished and reinvented the house and gardens over a period of 150 years. Dukedom was finally bestowed upon them in 1822 – that of Buckingham and Chandos.
The original house was designed as the principle temple in the landscaped gardens, which reveal forty-two smaller monuments – an architectural ode to Greek and Roman Classicism at its finest and created by the finest sculptors and architects of the 18th century. There's the Temple of British Worthies, the Corinthian Arch, and Fane of Pastoral Poetry, to mention a few — each more exquisite than the one before.
There are simply no words to describe how it feels to see Stowe for the first time. It is undoubtedly the most glorious estate I have ever been to. And to think it was almost demolished in 1923… had it not been for the creation of Stowe School. The very first headmaster, JF Roxburgh, was convinced that every pupil who attended this fine school (past Stoics such as David Niven and Richard Branson) would "know beauty when he sees it all his life."
It was a privilege to stay there and I feel positively envious that my nephew has Stowe to wake up to every morning — the animated sounds of boys and girls breathing life into the corridors once more. Personally, I would be quite content just polishing the vast front steps…
|Stowe School
|Detail from stained glass window in the chapel
|Queen Elizabeth I (from The Temple of British Worthies)
|Detail of fireplace/mantel in the Library
|Ceiling - Blue Room
|Marble busts in the Library
|Detail of a tomb in the Chapel - so poignant
|Temple of British Worthies
|Thomas Gresham (Temple of British Worthies)
|Gothic Temple (and someone was living there - swoon)
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Damyean Dotson scored 17 points and Arsalan Kazemi added 11 points and 17 rebounds to help 12th-seeded Oregon extend a run that began in the Pac-12 tournament by beating fifth-seeded Oklahoma 68-55 in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Thursday.
Dominic Artis scored 13 points and helped frustrate Oklahoma State star freshman Marcus Smart on the defensive end to give the Ducks (27-8) their first tournament win in six years.
Oregon advanced to play fourth-seeded St Louis (27-6) on Saturday for a spot in the Midwest regional in Indianapolis next week. The Billikens beat New Mexico State 64-44.
Smart came into the game with the hype of a top NBA prospect but was held to 14 points on 5 for 13 shooting for the Cowboys (24-9).
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La Esquina is a New York favorite serving authentic Mexican cuisine at its three distinct spaces in Soho: the taqueria, brasserie and café. This past summer, the late-night downtown hotspot expanded to Brooklyn with Café de La Esquina at Wythe Diner in Williamsburg. And the culinary mastermind behind our favorite south of the border dishes? It's executive chef Akhtar Nawab, a Kentucky native, originally from India. We talked to Akhtar about how his diverse background has actually inspired his work at the Mexican joint, his go-to late-night eatery, and his hidden talent. Meet Akhtar!
What is the most fun part about working in the La Esquina world?
I would say the most fun is meeting new people.
Any differences in the menus between the original La Esquina and the new one in Brooklyn?
Brooklyn is a little more creative in some ways compared to Soho. We have a much larger kitchen there, so I have more room to experiment with new dishes. For instance, now we have a pork belly al pastor taquito, albondigas rellenos with a pasilla chile and raisin molo rojo. Fun stuff.
You have a varied culinary background and you yourself are of East Indian descent and were raised in Kentucky—how does your background impact what you are doing with Mexican cuisine?
It's true! I am Indian, grew up in Kentucky, and am cooking Mexican food! Growing up on my mom's cooking was a great influence to me. She is such a terrific cook.
Many of the flavors indigenous to Mexican cuisine came easily to me. While some elements are wildly different, there are many similarities in technique and flavor. A good example is the selection of Guisados we are serving in Brooklyn. We present them in Tiffin boxes, which are kind of an Indian lunchbox of sorts. It represents the rustic type of dish I created them to be, kind of a "make-your-own-taco" setup. The pistachio mole served with roasted snapper has the same kind of depth you taste in some Indian sauces. Really earthy and spicy!
What dish are you loving the most on the current La Esquina menu?
In Soho, we are serving a Nantucket bay scallop ceviche with a green apple salsa verde and butternut squash escabeche. I think the dish turned out really well and the flavors are great for winter.
If I weren't a chef, I would be __________.
I would be a professional bass guitar player in a band covering Rush songs or a roadie for the upcoming tour. Truly, though, a musician.
What is something our viewers and readers would be surprised to learn about you?
Being Indian and a chef from Kentucky cooking Mexican isn't enough!? I have a gorgeous 5-year-old little girl, Ela. I'm bananas about her. I have been playing bass guitar for 16 years and I used to go to India for 3 months at a time for 15 years.
What are your favorite late-night bites?
Always New York Noodle Town. Ever since I have lived in NYC, for me, it's the best place to go late night. Ginger scallion lo mein, roast pork, salt and pepper shrimp. More sodium in one day than anyone needs for a month, but great.
What is the most unique dining experience you've ever had?
I stayed on a farm in Sicily for a couple of weeks. One day, I was able to make the ricotta with the farmer right after milking the sheep. We ate it right out of the basket with either sea salt or honey.
What is your favorite thing between two buns?
Tough… a fried oyster po boy or a Chicago-style Vienna Beef hot dog (with celery salt)
Do you have a favorite charity or a charity you support?
My favorite is the One for One program created by Toms shoes.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp may sell its Chinese TV assembly plant to Lenovo Group as the cash-strapped Japanese TV maker looks to sell assets to bolster its finances, sources said.
Sharp is in talks with Lenovo about selling the LCD TV assembly plant in Nanking and also about tying up with the Chinese company in its other subsidiaries there, two industry sources familiar with the discussion told Reuters.
Sharp said in a statement to the Tokyo Stock Exchange that it had not announced any talks. The talks were first reported in the Nikkei business daily in Japan.
The maker of Aquos TVs in November said it may not be able to survive on its own after it doubled its full-year net loss to $5.6 billion. To repay short-term commercial paper loans and stave off failure in October it won a $4.4 billion bailout from its banks.
Sharp had been in talks to sell its Chinese TV plant to Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision industry along with an assembly plant in Mexico. Hon Hai, which is also in talks to buy a stake in Sharp and earlier bought a share in the Japanese company's advanced LCD panel plant in Sakai western Japan, may now buy only the North American facility.
Sharp mortgaged its domestic factories and offices to secure emergency financing from lenders including Mizuho Financial Group and Mitsubishi Financial Group, limiting its ability to raise cash from asset sales.
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With a second round of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the "P5+1" powers just weeks away, analysts inside the Islamic Republic say Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has lent upcoming nuclear negotiations unprecedented legitimacy.
For Mr. Khamenei, who traditionally maintains a quiet, albeit fundamental, role behind the scenes of Iran's foreign policies, an open involvement in current nuclear talks conveys a message that Iran's negotiators have his explicit approval.
This means their final commitments won't be protested by lawmakers back in Tehran, as they were after the country's 2009 nuclear negotiations. But it also means Iran's supreme leader, long known to harbor a deep distrust of US intentions, will expect the country's negotiators to take a hard-line on final nuclear agreements, according to domestic analysts.
"The Leader's [open] involvement in the whole process is a major shift because until now, he had never done it," says a Tehran-based analyst, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak with the media. "This means Iran's negotiators will have a lot more leeway in the compromises they make, and that whatever they commit to will stick."
"So Iran will negotiate," the analyst adds. "But he's taking the lead in foreign policy because he thinks [President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad was too compromising in the past."
On Wednesday, a chief adviser to Iran's supreme leader told local media that Tehran's "minimum expectation" for the May 23 talks in Baghdad is the lifting of sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel's blunt comments mark the first time a senior political figure has specifically stated Iran's expectations since nuclear talks were rekindled in April.
In October 2009, Iran's nuclear negotiators reached an agreement with the "P5+1" to ship its low-enriched uranium out of the country in exchange for higher-refined fuel ready for use in a medical research reactor. But discussions ground to a halt after Iran asked for changes in the initial agreement. Since then, Washington has used harsh economic sanctions against Iran's financial system as a key component in its strategy to force Tehran to the bargaining table – a strategy for which it has amassed broad international support.
To date, the measures have reduced Tehran's oil sales and hindered Iranian banks from accessing most oil revenues held in accounts overseas. In January, the European Union formally agreed to an oil embargo starting July 1. The Iranian economy – already struggling with recession due to the global financial crisis and the free-spending economic policies of Mr. Ahmadinejad's government – has thus suffered an especially harsh blow from the implementation of US and European financial sanctions against it.
A tough compromise?
If the survival of the Islamic Republic is at stake, then Mr. Khamenei – who has final say in all matters of state – is widely expected to endorse compromise. But the public's knowledge of the supreme leader's involvement in the talks means Iran's negotiators will have to take a tough stance on what those compromises ultimately are.
Inside many government circles, the coming talks are viewed as a moment of truth for the country's Islamic regime. They're being compared to a domestically controversial decision in 1988 by Khamenei's predecessor – the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini – to drink the so-called "poison" of accepting a UN Security Council resolution ending Iran's eight-year war with Iraq.
"When Ayatollah Khomeini decided to end the [Iran-Iraq] war, he drank the 'poison,'" says a senior government official, speaking from Tehran on condition of anonymity. "For the sake of the system, the regime will maybe decide again to drink the 'poison,'" the official says.
At the same time, analysts counter that Iran's ruling elite remains highly wary that the US and Europe will aim to achieve fundamental changes beyond the nuclear dossier. If demands from the "P5+1" powers – the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany – go beyond the nuclear issue to encompass policies considered intrinsic to Tehran's regional security interests, Khamenei will not support them, in the view of the Tehran-based analyst.
"Khamenei believes the issue at hand isn't, fundamentally, the nuclear dossier," says the analyst. "He thinks that even if Iran agreed to the nuclear dossier, the West would then start pressuring Iran on its support for Syria," says the Tehran-based analyst.
Tehran's support for the Lebanon-based Shiite militant group Hezbollah could be another target.
Iran, US both optimistic about May 23 talks
While Iran has insisted it will never give up its nuclear program – which it says is for peaceful purposes – Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, told reporters Sunday the Islamic Republic hopes to move "several steps forward" at the May 23 nuclear talks between Tehran and the P5+1 in Baghdad.
"In Istanbul, we reached the beginning of the end regarding the nuclear subject," Mr. Jalili said, according to a report by Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency. "If we took one step forward in Istanbul, then surely ... we will move several steps forward in Baghdad."
In Washington, analysts remain cautiously optimistic about the extent of any nuclear compromises Iranian negotiators will finally agree to make. They say Iran's governing regime will remain ideologically opposed to the United States, and will want compromises the "P5+1" may not want to give.
"There are indications Iran could be preparing its elite and the population for some sort of deal. But the Iranian side will also be looking for some of the sanctions to be rolled back, and that could be more difficult," says Alireza Nader, a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation in Virginia.
"There are a lot of steps to be taken, and the process could really face hurdles along each of those steps. Looking at the Baghdad negotiations, I don't think you should expect a 'final solution,'" Mr. Nader says.


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INDIANAPOLIS – The Georgia College men's tennis squad (11-8) has been tabbed the No. 4-seed in the NCAA Southeast Regional, as announced by the NCAA Tuesday evening.
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The possibility of "Kill Bill 3" is undoubtedly tantalizing, and Daryl Hannah insists she could be in on the action.
"Think about it. There's always been a tradition of blind Samurais and you never actually saw her expire in the other film," Hannah told Film 24 while doing press for her new film, "A Closed Book."
When last we saw Hannah's character Elle "California Mountain Snake" Driver she was flopping around eyeless on the floor of Budd "Sidewinder's" trailer out in the desert, with a black mamba slithering across the floor. But she's right - we never actually saw her die.
Tarantino has been dropping hits about a third installment for a while and rumor has it that the film is coming in 2014.
"He always meant it as a trilogy," Hannah reminded Film 24.
Will a blind Elle seek her own revenge against Beatrix and Bill's daughter, B.B.? Who knows? But we're gonna watch it.