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by Clark Groome
When Ralph Waldo Emerson made his comment that "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," he clearly wasn't referring to the Philadelphia Flyers.
The Flyers, for only the second time in the last 18 seasons, failed to make the playoffs. While the season was maddening in its inconsistency, there are reasons, but not excuses, for it.
To review:
Before the NHL lockout last Sept. 15, General Manager Paul Holmgren made great effort to sign a couple of elite defensemen (Shea Weber and Ryan Suter) and winger Zach Parise. Holmgren's efforts failed.
While those negotiations were underway, future Hall of Fame-forward Jaromir Jagr and underappreciated defenseman Matt Carle signed with Dallas and Tampa Bay.
Jagr was a huge loss, having an amazing work ethic that set an example for the younger forwards. Carle brought speed to the Blue Line corps missing in the 2013 campaign.
After the lockout the season was shortened from 82 games to 48. While some of the Flyers players had played in Europe or on the team's AHL Phantoms, the players didn't have time to get into game shape or to get familiar with teammates new to the Flyers system.
While all 30 teams faced similar situations, the Flyers' played more games than any other team during the first month of the season.
All 48 games were played against teams in the Eastern Conference, thus each game had more weight than those played against Western Conference teams in a regular season. Once the Flyers got out of playoff contention, it was extremely hard to fight back when the teams above them were playing each other. No matter who won, the Flyers couldn't gain any ground.
On top of that, the locals faced a lot of injuries. most significantly defensemen Andrej Meszaros (37 games), Nicklas Grossmann (18), Braydon Coburn (15) and Bruno Gervais (8) and forwards Jody Shelley (36), Scott Hartnell (16), Zac Rinaldo (16), Danny Briere (15) and Max Talbot (10).
Goalie Ilya Bryzgalov started most of the games because team had no reliable backup until it traded for Columbus' Steve Mason on April 3, less than a month before the season ended. Bryzgalov was also the source of great quotes, many of which probably annoyed his teammates.
The most frustrating thing – to get back to Emerson – was the team's inconsistency. There were games when their play was so strong they could have beaten any team in the league. The next night that strong team didn't show up and it looked like they might succumb to a college team.
What needs to be done to get the Orange and Black back on track? Here are some suggestions:
• Sadly it's time for the Flyers to sever ties with fan-favorite and all around good guy Danny Briere. By using one of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement's two compliance buyouts (also called amnesty buyouts) the Flyers will save $6.5 million charged against the team's $64.3 million salary cap.
• Use the other amnesty buyout to unload the colorful and controversial Ilya Bryzgalov. While many people still think he hasn't lived up to his previous performance levels, his mediocre play doesn't justify the $5.667 million charged to the cap or the remaining seven years on his contract.
Apparently a lot of people think Bryz should stay. My guess is that they enjoy his quirkiness and his entertaining quotes. Those qualities, however, don't stop pucks or breed a healthy atmosphere in the locker room.
• With former rookie of the year Steve Mason's acquisition, the Flyers have a possible number one goaltender already in the fold. They should look for another potential number one who's living in someone's shadow: the LA Kings' Jonathan Bernier (who backs up the elite Jonathan Quick) is a name that is being bandied about. Two good, potentially number one goaltenders competing for the job without all the Bryzgalov drama makes sense to me.
• Re-sign Simon Gagne. He's a long-term Flyer who wants to play here. He says he'll take a discount to be re-signed. He's a sane and experienced veteran voice who still can play.
• Find the best defenseman possible and sign him. This may mean trading some of the younger guys like Matt Read or Sean Couturier. As tough as that would be, the defense is in dire straits. Pronger's absence (and he's not coming back) and Kimmo Timonen's age coupled with the injuries to Meszaros, Grossmann and Coburn demand a strong new D-man. The name most mentioned is Phoenix's 26-year-old Keith Yandle. Good choice, and it's likely he'll be available.
• Finally, and this may be a stretch, there are two future Hall of Famers who will be free agents when the season ends. One is long-time Calgary Flames captain Jarome Iginla who is now playing for Pittsburgh. The other is, you may have guessed, Jaromir Jagr. He's in the playoffs with Boston but has said he loved his time in Philadelphia last season and wanted to return. It would be a real plus to have one or both of these all-time greats in South Philly.
The summer ahead will be critical to the team's future. GM Paul Holmgren has a generally fine record. Owner Ed Snider has plenty of money. The Flyers have the reputation of being one of the best organizations in the NHL for which to play.
Maybe the team can prove Emerson wrong: Consistency really is the result of big minds making tough, daring decisions.


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allears wrote:kas :- track list and asking price on that Jacques Brel LP, please.
It is the J'Arrive album from 1968, original French edition with gatefold sleeve, with the tracks:
1 "J'arrive"
2 "Vesoul"
3 "L'Ostendaise"
4 "Je suis un soir d'été"
5 "Regarde bien petit"
6 "Comment tuer l'amant"
7 "L'Éclusier"
8 "Un enfant"
9 "La Bière"
But sorry, it is not for sale. "Comment tuer l'amant de sa femme quand on a été élevé comme moi dans la tradition" is one of my favourite song titles of all time: "How to Kill The Lover of One's Wife When One Has Been Given, Like Me, A Traditional (French) Upbringing"... The lyrics have all the understated venom of the title. He could write them with ease it seems. I still haven't forgiven Terry Jacks or whoever it was that came up with the idea of turning the black sarcasm of "Le Moribond" into the sobby, sugary melodrama of "Seasons in the Sun".
I remember seeing the Faust Tapes album a few times too and considering it, I recall some punk illuminaries hailed it at the time (John Lydon probably). I didn't venture though... I still have Can's Monster Movies somewhere, it sold for peanuts at a used records shop. Some findings I had to let go of and some I was foolish enough to sell. Most of them I have actively forgotten about, but the one I long for is the original EMI Pakistan LP "Meraj-E-Ghazal" by Asha Bhosle and Ghulam Ali. The one in that handsome blue gatefold cover. I know I have lamented it here before, but some scars you can't help but scratch.

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The Amur Tiger Adapted to Survive Harsh Cold Winters
- Their large size, the biggies cats in the world, allows them to conserve heat better than their smaller cousins living in Sumatra.
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Kieron Gillen Sends JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY Towards 'Exiled'
Journey Into
Mystery #635
cover.With Uncanny X-Men, writer Kieron Gillen has been at the forefront of Marvel's publishing line, writing the flagship title of the X-books during an especially high-profile period between "Regenesis" and Avengers vs. X-Men. But Gillen's "other" Marvel title, Journey Into Mystery, has quietly been attracting all sorts of praise for its joyfully layered approach to Kid Loki exploring some of the less-charted areas of the Marvel Universe.
As the current story arc, "The Terrorism Myth," unfolds, Journey Into Mystery is also headed to a May crossover with New Mutants. Gillen is collaborating on the story with the New Mutants team of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, and all five-parts are illustrated by Carmine Di Giandomenico. It's designed as an inversion of past New Mutants-meet-Asgardians stories, with Thor, Loki, Sif, The Warriors Three and more headed to San Francisco.
Newsarama talked with Gillen — whose "The Immaterial Girl," the third volume of his creator-owned series with Jamie McKelvie, Phonogram, was announced this past weekend at Image Expo — via email about "Exiled," working with the long-running DnA writing duo, recent Journey Into Mystery developments and where he sees the book headed. Plus, courtesy of Marvel, we're exclusively debuting several pages of interior art by Richard Elson from March's Journey Into Mystery #635.
Newsarama: Kieron, right now you're writing Uncanny X-Men — which in terms of positioning is effectively about as mainstream as a comic book can be — and Journey Into Mystery, which is certainly much more on the fringe of the Marvel Universe (even though you're crossing over soon with an X-book). As a writer, how gratifying do you find the duality of your current situation?Journey Into
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interior art.Kieron Gillen: You're right. I'm enjoying it a lot. I can pull on a tux and swan into the fanciest parties in town, and then throw off my jacket, pull on my leathers and hit the darkest corners in the underworld. I'm all about the duality of man, me.
I can stand anything but boredom. Having two such radically different books mean that I can explore completely different parts of storytelling. With Uncanny, I'm putting a radical spin on a core part of the Marvel Universe. With Journey Into Mystery, I'm building something close from scratch. A new wing in the great Marvel Palace. Or, at least, a sturdy outhouse.
Nrama: JIM has become the place to see many lesser-known Marvel characters, especially in the current "Terrorism Myth" arc, with Nightmare playing a central role and Daimon Hellstrom, whose name I frequently misspell (but I think I got right just now), also entering the picture. What have you enjoyed about using these characters?
Gillen: All the best people misspell "Daimon". Since everyone also gets my name wrong, it's one of the easy ins into the character. But really? The Marvel Universe's metaphysical cosmology is an incredibly complicated place. One of the desires in JIM was trying to sew it all into a tapestry. How do all these pantheons, demons and magicians interact?Journey Into
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interior art.Specifically with these two, with Nightmare I get to play my murderously creative Oedipal games and stab knives into the womb that bore JIM, and with Hellstrom, I get to answer the question "what if Jim Morrison was an exorcist?"
Nrama: A little further into the future is "Exiled," Journey Into Mystery's crossover with New Mutants coming in May. For the story, you're collaborating with Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. How has that process been? The UK comic book scene seems fairly close-knit, for as much as I can tell sitting here in Los Angeles — were you acquainted at all with the duo before working on the story?
Gillen: Acquainted, but only in the loose convention bar sense. Actually, one of the joys of the crossover has been getting a chance to get to know them better. I've dug their work for years, and I was especially interested to see how they, as a long-term co-writing team, actually did it.
The process was basically sitting in a coffee shop in New York, and panicking until we came up with a story we liked, and then trying to convince editors it was a good idea. We're splitting writing duties 50/50, with the plotting completely by us both. The first issue has 10 pages by me and 10 pages by them. I write the JIM issues and they write the New Mutant ones, but we both give a pass on the finished version, so I don't have Dani saying things like "Jolly good show, verily and stuff" and they don't have Thor quoting from Warhammer novels.Journey Into
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interior art.Nrama: You've gotten to work with the <>New Mutants characters here and there, in an issue a while back, and in places like the Regenesis one-shot, but are there any characters from that book that you were particularly excited about getting your hands on in "Exiled"? And since it's a story involving mutant characters, does it play into what you're doing in Uncanny X-Men at all, even if in very subtle ways?
Gillen: One of the best things about "Exiled" is exactly how much it's its own thing. It grows entirely from New Mutants and Journey Into Mystery, and all the natural connective tissue stretching all the way back to the original Asgard/NM crossovers. If you're a fan of either book, "Exiled" will be meaningful to you. And if you're interested in trying out two of Marvel's better reviewed books, this is an ideal showcase for what makes both of them pretty damn special.
Man, that answer sounded serious and sincere. That's totally out of character. I'm trying to be fun and flippant, and failing totally.To answer your question: It's good getting my hands back on Dani. Journey Into
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interior art.Nrama: One thing that came up repeatedly during the "Exiled" press call earlier this month was the word "fun," in terms of the tone of the story and Journey Into Mystery in general. When writing, how much is that a conscious effort, and how much is just a natural extension of the characters and situations?
Gillen: You know me, Albert. There's nothing I don't do which isn't ludicrously overthought, and that extends to its whimsicality. It's funny. JIM's as theory-heavy a book as I've ever written, but the fact that it's surface is so fluffily adorable means that it doesn't switch people off entirely.
"Exiled" is a story which has a certain rompiness — but like JIM, the reason why it hits a little harder is the underlying darkness. JIM's a book about a cute kid who's pretty damn adorable... but everyone believes he's going to grow up to become evil. Including the reader. That adds an underlying sadness to everything.
There's a little of that in "Exiled." It's bloody funny, and a black farce at times — but it's all wrapped around one of the darkest secrets I've buried in the whole of JIM."Exiled" promotional art by
Stephanie Hans.Nrama: Speaking of major events, the Avengers movie is now just about two months away and of course features an adult, villainous Loki in a prominent role. Though not always the case — Jean Grey has been dead for a few X-Men movies now, and I sincerely doubt Gwen Stacy is coming back in time for the new Spider-Man film — there has been, historically, often been effort made to at least superficially move things in the comics closer to things in the movies. Yet it looks like Kid Loki is here to stay for the near-ish future. How much of a relief is it to not have to bring things more in line with the live-action version of the character?
Gillen: I didn't even read this question before answering the previous one. It's entirely the point. One of the best things about JIM is that it's a book where the weight and momentum of culture and continuity actually works in its favor. If JIM's story — a young reincarnation of an evil god tries to not grow up to be the monster he once was — was told in almost any other place, the expectation would be that he'd succeed. Because that's the sort of story our culture likes to tell. However, because of the weight of the Marvel Universe, we create masses of doubt in the reader's mind. And the doubt means that it's both more tense and uncertain.
But, bless Marvel, they've never been anything but supportive about where I'm taking the story. So I haven't had to worry about it.Journey Into
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cover.Nrama: You mentioned a couple of months back in an interview over at CBR that you see Journey Into Mystery as a finite story — about 30 issues, provided sales hold up to allow that. Has that always been your plan for the book, or is that more how the story has evolved over the past year?
Gillen: I've always known the majority of the final issue. I've always known what the final image will be. I've always known where it was going. The only question was what the exact route to it would be. JIM isn't the sort of book that runs off flowcharts. It's about the god of chaos and mischief. It required a more raconteur-esque structure, allowing elliptical storytelling, playfulness and profitable detours. So when I started, I didn't know whether it would be 15 issues or 50 issues. I just knew where they'd lead.
I have it all planned to the conclusion now. It's going to to appropriately JIM, in its brutality and whimsicallity. There will be laughter, cheers and tears before it's all over.Keep reading Newsarama for an "Exiled" interview later this week with New Mutants writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning! Got a comment? There's lots of conversation on Newsarama's FACEBOOK and TWITTER!


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Welcome to the Virtualization Mega thread.
Post 1 Overview of (major) options.
Post 2 How to's on the Ubuntu Forums.
- If anyone wishes to maintain some of these, please PM me
Post 3 Tips - Networking.
Post 4 Tips - USB Devices.
Post 5 Tips - File Sharing between hosts and guests.
Post 6 Tips - Boot Physical Partitions.
Post 7 Tips - Remote management / Web Interface.
Post 8 Tips - Guest Enhancements.
Post 9 Tips - Manage Guests from the Command Line.
It is difficult to find a good (unbiased) review of virtualization options and I will do my best to give my impressions of each option.
I do not mean to come across as a big fan of Wikipedia, but in trying to provide an introduction and attempt to provide a more neutral overview it seems a good place to start.
Non-wikipedia: Here is a nice overview
And of course Wikipedia :
Reminder: The Ubuntu wiki is community maintained. If you see a page that needs clarification or updating please consider contributing to the wiki.
Open source options
- OpenVZ.
- VirtualBox (OSE).
- Xen.
Closed source options
- Citrix XenServer.
- Parallels (comercial version of OpenVZ).
- VirtualBox (PUEL).
- VMWare (Player and Server).
Performance : Fastest to slowest
This is my personal subjective list and I offer it as, without any benchmarks or pretense of non-bias (I have no personal experience with Xen):
OpenVZ > KVM > VirtualBox = VMware Server 1.0.x > VMWare Server 2.0 > Qemu + Kqemu > Qemu
Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU
Ubuntu wiki: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...UnderQemuHowTo
Home page : http://bellard.org/qemu/about.html
Forums : http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/index.php
Gui front ends : Yes.
Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-...irtual_Machine
Ubuntu wiki: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM
Home Page : http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki
Forums : http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/KvmForum
Gui front end: Yes.
OpenVZ (Parallels)
Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVZ
Ubuntu wiki : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenVZ
Home page : http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page
User Guide : http://download.openvz.org/doc/OpenVZ-Users-Guide.pdf
Parallels : http://www.parallels.com/
Forums : http://forum.openvz.org/
Gui front ends : No
Comments: OpenVZ is supported in Ubuntu 8.04 (Gutsy) but is not yet in the Intrepid repos.
Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen
Ubuntu wiki : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen
Home page : http://www.xen.org/
Citrix : http://citrix.com/lang/English/home.asp
Forums : http://www.nabble.com/Xen-f935.html
Gui front ends : Yes.
Comments: It appears Xen will no longer be maintained server side (Dom0 / Host) in Ubuntu. Client side (DomU / Guest) is supported. See the "how-to" post for a link to how-to-forge (which by report works on 8.10).
Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox
Ubuntu wiki : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox
Home page : http://www.virtualbox.org/
Forums : http://forums.virtualbox.org/
Gui front ends : Yes.
Comments: OSE has some limitations. See VirtualBox Editions
Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware
Ubuntu wiki : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware
Home page : http://www.vmware.com/
Forums : http://www.vmwareforum.org/YaBB.pl
Gui front ends : Yes.
Comments : I know it is closed source, but IMO VMWare server offers some nice features (64 bit guests, bridging to wireless cards, easier networking).


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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2, by Edward Gibbon, [1781], at sacred-texts.com
The introduction of Barbarians into the Roman armies became every day more universal, more necessary, and more fatal. The most daring of the Scythians, of the Goths, and of the Germans, who delighted in war, and who found it more profitable to defend than to ravage the provinces, were enrolled, not only in the auxiliaries of their respective nations, but in the legions themselves, and among the most distinguished of the Palatine troops. As they freely mingled with the subjects of the empire, they gradually learned to despise their manners, and to imitate their arts. They abjured the implicit reverence which the pride of Rome had exacted from their ignorance, while they acquired the knowledge and possession of those advantages by which alone she supported her declining greatness. The Barbarian soldiers, who displayed any military talents, were advanced, without exception, to the most important commands; and the names of the tribunes, of the counts and dukes, and of the generals themselves, betray a foreign origin, which they no longer condescended to disguise. They were often intrusted with the conduct of a war against their countrymen; and though most of them preferred the ties of allegiance to those of blood, they did not always avoid the guilt, or at least the suspicion, of holding a treasonable correspondence with the enemy, of inviting his invasion, or of sparing his retreat. The camps and the palace of the son of Constantine were governed by the powerful faction of the Franks, who preserved the strictest connection with each other, and with their country, and who resented every personal affront as a national indignity. 140 When the tyrant Caligula was suspected of an intention to invest a very extraordinary candidate with the consular robes, the sacrilegious profanation would have scarcely excited less astonishment, if, instead of a horse, the noblest chieftain of Germany or Britain had been the object of his choice. The revolution of three centuries had produced so remarkable a change in the prejudices of the people, that, with the public approbation, Constantine showed his successors the example of bestowing the honors of the consulship on the Barbarians, who, by their merit and services, had deserved to be ranked among the first of the Romans. 141 But as these hardy veterans, who had been educated in the ignorance or contempt of the laws, were incapable of exercising any civil offices, the powers of the human mind were contracted by the irreconcilable separation of talents as well as of professions. The accomplished citizens of the Greek and Roman republics, whose characters could adapt themselves to the bar, the senate, the camp, or the schools, had learned to write, to speak, and to act with the same spirit, and with equal abilities.
IV. Besides the magistrates and generals, who at a distance from the court diffused their delegated authority over the provinces and armies, the emperor conferred the rank of Illustrious on seven of his more immediate servants, to whose fidelity he intrusted his safety, or his counsels, or his treasures. 1. The private apartments of the palace were governed by a favorite eunuch, who, in the language of that age, was styled the proepositus, or praefect of the sacred bed-chamber. His duty was to attend the emperor in his hours of state, or in those of amusement, and to perform about his person all those menial services, which can only derive their splendor from the influence of royalty. Under a prince who deserved to reign, the great chamberlain (for such we may call him) was a useful and humble domestic; but an artful domestic, who improves every occasion of unguarded confidence, will insensibly acquire over a feeble mind that ascendant which harsh wisdom and uncomplying virtue can seldom obtain. The degenerate grandsons of Theodosius, who were invisible to their subjects, and contemptible to their enemies, exalted the praefects of their bed- chamber above the heads of all the ministers of the palace; 142 and even his deputy, the first of the splendid train of slaves who waited in the presence, was thought worthy to rank before the respectable proconsuls of Greece or Asia. The jurisdiction of the chamberlain was acknowledged by the counts, or superintendents, who regulated the two important provinces of the magnificence of the wardrobe, and of the luxury of the Imperial table. 143 2. The principal administration of public affairs was committed to the diligence and abilities of the master of the offices. 144 He was the supreme magistrate of the palace, inspected the discipline of the civil and military schools, and received appeals from all parts of the empire, in the causes which related to that numerous army of privileged persons, who, as the servants of the court, had obtained for themselves and families a right to decline the authority of the ordinary judges. The correspondence between the prince and his subjects was managed by the four scrinia, or offices of this minister of state. The first was appropriated to memorials, the second to epistles, the third to petitions, and the fourth to papers and orders of a miscellaneous kind. Each of these was directed by an inferior master of respectable dignity, and the whole business was despatched by a hundred and forty-eight secretaries, chosen for the most part from the profession of the law, on account of the variety of abstracts of reports and references which frequently occurred in the exercise of their several functions. From a condescension, which in former ages would have been esteemed unworthy the Roman majesty, a particular secretary was allowed for the Greek language; and interpreters were appointed to receive the ambassadors of the Barbarians; but the department of foreign affairs, which constitutes so essential a part of modern policy, seldom diverted the attention of the master of the offices. His mind was more seriously engaged by the general direction of the posts and arsenals of the empire. There were thirty-four cities, fifteen in the East, and nineteen in the West, in which regular companies of workmen were perpetually employed in fabricating defensive armor, offensive weapons of all sorts, and military engines, which were deposited in the arsenals, and occasionally delivered for the service of the troops. 3. In the course of nine centuries, the office of quaestor had experienced a very singular revolution. In the infancy of Rome, two inferior magistrates were annually elected by the people, to relieve the consuls from the invidious management of the public treasure; 145 a similar assistant was granted to every proconsul, and to every praetor, who exercised a military or provincial command; with the extent of conquest, the two quaestors were gradually multiplied to the number of four, of eight, of twenty, and, for a short time, perhaps, of forty; 146 and the noblest citizens ambitiously solicited an office which gave them a seat in the senate, and a just hope of obtaining the honors of the republic. Whilst Augustus affected to maintain the freedom of election, he consented to accept the annual privilege of recommending, or rather indeed of nominating, a certain proportion of candidates; and it was his custom to select one of these distinguished youths, to read his orations or epistles in the assemblies of the senate. 147 The practice of Augustus was imitated by succeeding princes; the occasional commission was established as a permanent office; and the favored quaestor, assuming a new and more illustrious character, alone survived the suppression of his ancient and useless colleagues. 148 As the orations which he composed in the name of the emperor, 149 acquired the force, and, at length, the form, of absolute edicts, he was considered as the representative of the legislative power, the oracle of the council, and the original source of the civil jurisprudence. He was sometimes invited to take his seat in the supreme judicature of the Imperial consistory, with the Praetorian praefects, and the master of the offices; and he was frequently requested to resolve the doubts of inferior judges: but as he was not oppressed with a variety of subordinate business, his leisure and talents were employed to cultivate that dignified style of eloquence, which, in the corruption of taste and language, still preserves the majesty of the Roman laws. 150 In some respects, the office of the Imperial quaestor may be compared with that of a modern chancellor; but the use of a great seal, which seems to have been adopted by the illiterate barbarians, was never introduced to attest the public acts of the emperors. 4. The extraordinary title of count of the sacred largesses was bestowed on the treasurer-general of the revenue, with the intention perhaps of inculcating, that every payment flowed from the voluntary bounty of the monarch. To conceive the almost infinite detail of the annual and daily expense of the civil and military administration in every part of a great empire, would exceed the powers of the most vigorous imagination. The actual account employed several hundred persons, distributed into eleven different offices, which were artfully contrived to examine and control their respective operations. The multitude of these agents had a natural tendency to increase; and it was more than once thought expedient to dismiss to their native homes the useless supernumeraries, who, deserting their honest labors, had pressed with too much eagerness into the lucrative profession of the finances. 151 Twenty-nine provincial receivers, of whom eighteen were honored with the title of count, corresponded with the treasurer; and he extended his jurisdiction over the mines from whence the precious metals were extracted, over the mints, in which they were converted into the current coin, and over the public treasuries of the most important cities, where they were deposited for the service of the state. The foreign trade of the empire was regulated by this minister, who directed likewise all the linen and woollen manufactures, in which the successive operations of spinning, weaving, and dyeing were executed, chiefly by women of a servile condition, for the use of the palace and army. Twenty-six of these institutions are enumerated in the West, where the arts had been more recently introduced, and a still larger proportion may be allowed for the industrious provinces of the East. 152 5. Besides the public revenue, which an absolute monarch might levy and expend according to his pleasure, the emperors, in the capacity of opulent citizens, possessed a very extensive property, which was administered by the count or treasurer of the private estate. Some part had perhaps been the ancient demesnes of kings and republics; some accessions might be derived from the families which were successively invested with the purple; but the most considerable portion flowed from the impure source of confiscations and forfeitures. The Imperial estates were scattered through the provinces, from Mauritania to Britain; but the rich and fertile soil of Cappadocia tempted the monarch to acquire in that country his fairest possessions, 153 and either Constantine or his successors embraced the occasion of justifying avarice by religious zeal. They suppressed the rich temple of Comana, where the high priest of the goddess of war supported the dignity of a sovereign prince; and they applied to their private use the consecrated lands, which were inhabited by six thousand subjects or slaves of the deity and her ministers. 154 But these were not the valuable inhabitants: the plains that stretch from the foot of Mount Argaeus to the banks of the Sarus, bred a generous race of horses, renowned above all others in the ancient world for their majestic shape and incomparable swiftness. These sacred animals, destined for the service of the palace and the Imperial games, were protected by the laws from the profanation of a vulgar master. 155 The demesnes of Cappadocia were important enough to require the inspection of a count; 156 officers of an inferior rank were stationed in the other parts of the empire; and the deputies of the private, as well as those of the public, treasurer were maintained in the exercise of their independent functions, and encouraged to control the authority of the provincial magistrates. 157 6, 7. The chosen bands of cavalry and infantry, which guarded the person of the emperor, were under the immediate command of the two counts of the domestics. The whole number consisted of three thousand five hundred men, divided into seven schools, or troops, of five hundred each; and in the East, this honorable service was almost entirely appropriated to the Armenians. Whenever, on public ceremonies, they were drawn up in the courts and porticos of the palace, their lofty stature, silent order, and splendid arms of silver and gold, displayed a martial pomp not unworthy of the Roman majesty. 158 From the seven schools two companies of horse and foot were selected, of the protectors, whose advantageous station was the hope and reward of the most deserving soldiers. They mounted guard in the interior apartments, and were occasionally despatched into the provinces, to execute with celerity and vigor the orders of their master. 159 The counts of the domestics had succeeded to the office of the Praetorian praefects; like the praefects, they aspired from the service of the palace to the command of armies.
The perpetual intercourse between the court and the provinces was facilitated by the construction of roads and the institution of posts. But these beneficial establishments were accidentally connected with a pernicious and intolerable abuse. Two or three hundred agents or messengers were employed, under the jurisdiction of the master of the offices, to announce the names of the annual consuls, and the edicts or victories of the emperors. They insensibly assumed the license of reporting whatever they could observe of the conduct either of magistrates or of private citizens; and were soon considered as the eyes of the monarch, 160 and the scourge of the people. Under the warm influence of a feeble reign, they multiplied to the incredible number of ten thousand, disdained the mild though frequent admonitions of the laws, and exercised in the profitable management of the posts a rapacious and insolent oppression. These official spies, who regularly corresponded with the palace, were encouraged by favor and reward, anxiously to watch the progress of every treasonable design, from the faint and latent symptoms of disaffection, to the actual preparation of an open revolt. Their careless or criminal violation of truth and justice was covered by the consecrated mask of zeal; and they might securely aim their poisoned arrows at the breast either of the guilty or the innocent, who had provoked their resentment, or refused to purchase their silence. A faithful subject, of Syria perhaps, or of Britain, was exposed to the danger, or at least to the dread, of being dragged in chains to the court of Milan or Constantinople, to defend his life and fortune against the malicious charge of these privileged informers. The ordinary administration was conducted by those methods which extreme necessity can alone palliate; and the defects of evidence were diligently supplied by the use of torture. 161
The deceitful and dangerous experiment of the criminal quaestion, as it is emphatically styled, was admitted, rather than approved, in the jurisprudence of the Romans. They applied this sanguinary mode of examination only to servile bodies, whose sufferings were seldom weighed by those haughty republicans in the scale of justice or humanity; but they would never consent to violate the sacred person of a citizen, till they possessed the clearest evidence of his guilt. 162 The annals of tyranny, from the reign of Tiberius to that of Domitian, circumstantially relate the executions of many innocent victims; but, as long as the faintest remembrance was kept alive of the national freedom and honor, the last hours of a Roman were secured from the danger of ignominions torture. 163 The conduct of the provincial magistrates was not, however, regulated by the practice of the city, or the strict maxims of the civilians. They found the use of torture established not only among the slaves of oriental despotism, but among the Macedonians, who obeyed a limited monarch; among the Rhodians, who flourished by the liberty of commerce; and even among the sage Athenians, who had asserted and adorned the dignity of human kind. 164 The acquiescence of the provincials encouraged their governors to acquire, or perhaps to usurp, a discretionary power of employing the rack, to extort from vagrants or plebeian criminals the confession of their guilt, till they insensibly proceeded to confound the distinction of rank, and to disregard the privileges of Roman citizens. The apprehensions of the subjects urged them to solicit, and the interest of the sovereign engaged him to grant, a variety of special exemptions, which tacitly allowed, and even authorized, the general use of torture. They protected all persons of illustrious or honorable rank, bishops and their presbyters, professors of the liberal arts, soldiers and their families, municipal officers, and their posterity to the third generation, and all children under the age of puberty. 165 But a fatal maxim was introduced into the new jurisprudence of the empire, that in the case of treason, which included every offence that the subtlety of lawyers could derive from a hostile intention towards the prince or republic, 166 all privileges were suspended, and all conditions were reduced to the same ignominious level. As the safety of the emperor was avowedly preferred to every consideration of justice or humanity, the dignity of age and the tenderness of youth were alike exposed to the most cruel tortures; and the terrors of a malicious information, which might select them as the accomplices, or even as the witnesses, perhaps, of an imaginary crime, perpetually hung over the heads of the principal citizens of the Roman world. 167
These evils, however terrible they may appear, were confined to the smaller number of Roman subjects, whose dangerous situation was in some degree compensated by the enjoyment of those advantages, either of nature or of fortune, which exposed them to the jealousy of the monarch. The obscure millions of a great empire have much less to dread from the cruelty than from the avarice of their masters, and their humble happiness is principally affected by the grievance of excessive taxes, which, gently pressing on the wealthy, descend with accelerated weight on the meaner and more indigent classes of society. An ingenious philosopher 168 has calculated the universal measure of the public impositions by the degrees of freedom and servitude; and ventures to assert, that, according to an invariable law of nature, it must always increase with the former, and diminish in a just proportion to the latter. But this reflection, which would tend to alleviate the miseries of despotism, is contradicted at least by the history of the Roman empire; which accuses the same princes of despoiling the senate of its authority, and the provinces of their wealth. Without abolishing all the various customs and duties on merchandises, which are imperceptibly discharged by the apparent choice of the purchaser, the policy of Constantine and his successors preferred a simple and direct mode of taxation, more congenial to the spirit of an arbitrary government. 169
140 Malarichus - adhibitis Francis quorum ea tempestate in palatio multitudo florebat, erectius jam loquebatur tumultuabaturque. Ammian. l. xv. c. 5.
141 Barbaros omnium primus, ad usque fasces auxerat et trabeas consulares. Ammian. l. xx. c. 10. Eusebius (in Vit. Constantin. l. iv c.7) and Aurelius Victor seem to confirm the truth of this assertion yet in the thirty-two consular Fasti of the reign of Constantine cannot discover the name of a single Barbarian. I should therefore interpret the liberality of that prince as relative to the ornaments rather than to the office, of the consulship.
142 Cod. Theod. l. vi. tit. 8.
143 By a very singular metaphor, borrowed from the military character of the first emperors, the steward of their household was styled the count of their camp, (comes castrensis.) Cassiodorus very seriously represents to him, that his own fame, and that of the empire, must depend on the opinion which foreign ambassadors may conceive of the plenty and magnificence of the royal table. (Variar. l. vi. epistol. 9.)
144 Gutherius (de Officiis Domus Augustae, l. ii. c. 20, l. iii.) has very accurately explained the functions of the master of the offices, and the constitution of the subordinate scrinia. But he vainly attempts, on the most doubtful authority, to deduce from the time of the Antonines, or even of Nero, the origin of a magistrate who cannot be found in history before the reign of Constantine.
145 Tacitus (Annal. xi. 22) says, that the first quaestors were elected by the people, sixty-four years after the foundation of the republic; but he is of opinion, that they had, long before that period, been annually appointed by the consuls, and even by the kings. But this obscure point of antiquity is contested by other writers.
146 Tacitus (Annal. xi. 22) seems to consider twenty as the highest number of quaestors; and Dion (l. xliii. p 374) insinuates, that if the dictator Caesar once created forty, it was only to facilitate the payment of an immense debt of gratitude. Yet the augmentation which he made of praetors subsisted under the succeeding reigns.
147 Sueton. in August. c. 65, and Torrent. ad loc. Dion. Cas. p. 755.
148 The youth and inexperience of the quaestors, who entered on that important office in their twenty-fifth year, (Lips. Excurs. ad Tacit. l. iii. D.,) engaged Augustus to remove them from the management of the treasury; and though they were restored by Claudius, they seem to have been finally dismissed by Nero. (Tacit Annal. xiii. 29. Sueton. in Aug. c. 36, in Claud. c. 24. Dion, p. 696, 961, &c. Plin. Epistol. x. 20, et alibi.) In the provinces of the Imperial division, the place of the quaestors was more ably supplied by the procurators, (Dion Cas. p. 707. Tacit. in Vit. Agricol. c. 15;) or, as they were afterwards called, rationales. (Hist. August. p. 130.) But in the provinces of the senate we may still discover a series of quaestors till the reign of Marcus Antoninus. (See the Inscriptions of Gruter, the Epistles of Pliny, and a decisive fact in the Augustan History, p. 64.) From Ulpian we may learn, (Pandect. l. i. tit. 13,) that under the government of the house of Severus, their provincial administration was abolished; and in the subsequent troubles, the annual or triennial elections of quaestors must have naturally ceased.
149 Cum patris nomine et epistolas ipse dictaret, et edicta conscrib eret, orationesque in senatu recitaret, etiam quaestoris vice. Sueton, in Tit. c. 6. The office must have acquired new dignity, which was occasionally executed by the heir apparent of the empire. Trajan intrusted the same care to Hadrian, his quaestor and cousin. See Dodwell, Praelection. Cambden, x. xi. p. 362-394.
150 Terris edicta daturus; Supplicibus responsa. - Oracula regis Eloquio crevere tuo; nec dignius unquam Majestas meminit sese Romana locutam.
Claudian in Consulat. Mall. Theodor. 33. See likewise Symmachus (Epistol. i. 17) and Cassiodorus. (Variar. iv. 5.)
151 Cod. Theod. l. vi. tit. 30. Cod. Justinian. l. xii. tit. 24.
152 In the departments of the two counts of the treasury, the eastern part of the Notitia happens to be very defective. It may be observed, that we had a treasury chest in London, and a gyneceum or manufacture at Winchester. But Britain was not thought worthy either of a mint or of an arsenal. Gaul alone possessed three of the former, and eight of the latter.
153 Cod. Theod. l. vi. tit. xxx. leg. 2, and Godefroy ad loc.
154 Strabon. Geograph. l. xxii. p. 809, [edit. Casaub.] The other temple of Comana, in Pontus, was a colony from that of Cappadocia, l. xii. p. 835. The President Des Brosses (see his Saluste, tom. ii. p. 21, [edit. Causub.]) conjectures that the deity adored in both Comanas was Beltis, the Venus of the east, the goddess of generation; a very different being indeed from the goddess of war.
155 Cod. Theod. l. x. tit. vi. de Grege Dominico. Godefroy has collected every circumstance of antiquity relative to the Cappadocian horses. One of the finest breeds, the Palmatian, was the forfeiture of a rebel, whose estate lay about sixteen miles from Tyana, near the great road between Constantinople and Antioch.
156 Justinian (Novell. 30) subjected the province of the count of Cappadocia to the immediate authority of the favorite eunuch, who presided over the sacred bed-chamber.
157 Cod. Theod. l. vi. tit. xxx. leg. 4, &c.
158 Pancirolus, p. 102, 136. The appearance of these military domestics is described in the Latin poem of Corippus, de Laudibus Justin. l. iii. 157-179. p. 419, 420 of the Appendix Hist. Byzantin. Rom. 177.
159 Ammianus Marcellinus, who served so many years, obtained only the rank of a protector. The first ten among these honorable soldiers were Clarissimi.
160 Xenophon, Cyropaed. l. viii. Brisson, de Regno Persico, l. i No 190, p. 264. The emperors adopted with pleasure this Persian metaphor.
161 For the Agentes in Rebus, see Ammian. l. xv. c. 3, l. xvi. c. 5, l. xxii. c. 7, with the curious annotations of Valesius. Cod. Theod. l. vi. tit. xxvii. xxviii. xxix. Among the passages collected in the Commentary of Godefroy, the most remarkable is one from Libanius, in his discourse concerning the death of Julian.
162 The Pandects (l. xlviii. tit. xviii.) contain the sentiments of the most celebrated civilians on the subject of torture. They strictly confine it to slaves; and Ulpian himself is ready to acknowledge that Res est fragilis, et periculosa, et quae veritatem fallat.
163 In the conspiracy of Piso against Nero, Epicharis (libertina mulier) was the only person tortured; the rest were intacti tormentis. It would be superfluous to add a weaker, and it would be difficult to find a stronger, example. Tacit. Annal. xv. 57.
164 Dicendum . . . de Institutis Atheniensium, Rhodiorum, doctissimorum hominum, apud quos etiam (id quod acerbissimum est) liberi, civesque torquentur. Cicero, Partit. Orat. c. 34. We may learn from the trial of Philotas the practice of the Macedonians. (Diodor. Sicul. l. xvii. p. 604. Q. Curt. l. vi. c. 11.
165 Heineccius (Element. Jur. Civil. part vii. p. 81) has collected these exemptions into one view.
166 This definition of the sage Ulpian (Pandect. l. xlviii. tit. iv.) seems to have been adapted to the court of Caracalla, rather than to that of Alexander Severus. See the Codes of Theodosius and ad leg. Juliam majestatis.
167 Arcadius Charisius is the oldest lawyer quoted to justify the universal practice of torture in all cases of treason; but this maxim of tyranny, which is admitted by Ammianus with the most respectful terror, is enforced by several laws of the successors of Constantine. See Cod. Theod. l. ix. tit. xxxv. majestatis crimine omnibus aequa est conditio.
168 Montesquieu, Esprit des Loix, l. xii. c. 13.
169 Mr. Hume (Essays, vol. i. p. 389) has seen this importance with some degree of perplexity.


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Standing woman (Persephone ?) with pomegranate
Greece, 480-470 BC
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
... as seen by helaine blumenfeld
My first visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum contributed in no small way to a major turning point in my career: my decision to abandon academia in favour of sculpture. By this stage I had become increasingly disenchanted with language as a way to communicate meaning; it only ever partially conveyed the visionary dream I wanted to describe.
But the Cycladic sculptures which I encountered on that day - dating as far back as 2,500 BC - seemed to me to evoke humanity and individuality in a way that surpassed language. They are figurative, but the figure is simplified - only the 'essence' remains. More incredibly still, an individual persona emerges, communicated only with one or two facial features and slight formal variations.
These stark, reductive forms convinced me that sculpture was the path I should follow. This feeling was reinforced when I entered a room with cases of terracotta sculptures. I still remember being drawn to a haunting image of the Goddess Persephone from 480-470 BC. The beauty, the pathos, the intensity were communicated silently through the gesture, the bent head, the details of her dress, her right hand grasping a pomegranate.
Throughout my years as a sculptor I have found myself moving between the paradigms offered by the Cycladic and Classical pieces, at times seeking simplicity, at others enrichment through detail.
Seeing these works in the Fitzwilliam again and again, over 30 years, I am constantly reminded that art can blaze a trail through uncharted territory. Without any words it can translate the subconscious realm of the soul by inventing new languages capable of capturing a vision which eludes verbal description.
Helaine Blumenfeld VPRBS (b. 1942)
Born in New York City in 1942, Helaine Blumenfeld was educated at the University of Michigan and Columbia University, New York, where she completed a PhD in Philosophy in 1964. Increasingly aware of the limits of her subject of study and ever more interested in the exploration and expression of ideas in space, she went to study sculpture with Ossip Zadkine in Paris. In 1966, Blumenfeld showed a group of polished bronzes at the Palais Palfy in Vienna. In 1973, Blumenfeld exhibited at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge. In 1985, the Alex Rosenberg Gallery in New York showed her sculpture in dialogue with Henry Moore, and, in 1992, the Galerie am Lindenplatz in Lichtenstein exhibited her with Alexander Archipenko and Constantin Brancusi. In 2007, she had a major show at Het Depot in Holland, and, in 2008, the Royal British Society of Sculptors held an exhibition in her honour.
A member of the Visual Arts Panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain between 1981 and 1988, Blumenfeld was elected a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 1993 and has served the society as Vice-President since 2004. In 2007, she was the first woman to be awarded the 'International Sculpture Prize: Pietrasanta and Versilia in the World'.
Blumenfeld has created over 65 large scale sculptures in bronze, granite, marble and steel in Europe and the United States for private and public clients, including the British Petroleum headquarters in London, the Lincoln Center in New York and the Cass Sculpture Foundation at Goodwood. In Cambridge, her sculpture can be viewed on the corner of Brookland's Avenue and Hills Road (Chauvinist, 1990), at Vision Park, Histon (Shadow Figures, 1991), and at Clare Hall (Flame, 2004) and Newnham College (Esprit, 2004).
Helaine Blumenfeld lives and works in Cambridge and Pietrasanta in Tuscany.
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Recent traffic accidents in New Brunswick involving vehicles towing trailers should be a wake-up call to those not outfitting their RVs with the necessary safety equipment, says an industry official.
Dave Dobson, past president of the Atlantic Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association and the general manager of RV World in Mangerville, New Brunswick, said two recent accidents involving trailers probably could have been prevented had the vehicles been outfitted with a weight-distribution system, according to the Frederickton, New Brunswick, Daily Gleaner.
A weight-distribution system takes the weight off a trailer and distributes it evenly across a tow vehicle.
Without one, a trailer's weight can lift the front wheels of a tow vehicle off the ground and increase the likelihood of an accident.
"One of the accidents, without knowing much about it, I would say it might have been a weight-distribution issue, and the other one was definitely a weight issue, where the customer was towing it without weight distribution equipment," he said.
"These accidents are a reminder, and I actually wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it sometimes, but once the vehicles leave our yard, we don't know what happens after that."
Weight-distribution systems are considered an extra with most RVs, Dobson said, but he always reminds customers at his store of their importance and requires customers who don't outfit their RVs with one to sign waivers.
He said if it were up to him the equipment would be required by law.
"We have had a number of discussions with the motor vehicle department in regard to what the needs may be for towing, and I certainly wouldn't be against regulations," he said.
Derek Dobson, vice president of the association and the owner of Leisure Time Sales in Rothesay, New Brunswick, agreed.
He said a few hundred dollars for a safety hitch is almost always a wise investment.
"What I usually tell people is that you can go with the minimal amount of hitching and drive safely with that nine times out of 10, but it is that one time out of 10 that your additional hitching will come in very handy," he said.
"That time will pay for it tenfold."
While hitches and other weight-distribution equipment can prevent some accidents, they aren't always the answer, said Gary Clark, general manager of Patterson Sales in Miramichi, New Brunswick.
He said in his experience most accidents involving RVs are caused because drivers aren't aware that their trailers or RVs are too heavy for their vehicles.
He said in light of recent accidents, motorists should check their vehicles manual to see the maximum weight they can safely tow.
"There are different weights for every vehicle and that is the main thing," Clark said. "You have to pay attention to the weight your vehicle is OK to haul and then get the proper hitch for the amount of weight you will be hauling."


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Sentencing, Prison & Probation
Being sentenced by a court – an overview
If you're found guilty of a crime, you will be given a sentence by a court. This could be a discharge, fine, community sentence or time in prison. Find out about different types of sentences, why some crimes don't go to court and how to appeal against a sentence.
What a sentence is
A sentence is the punishment a court thinks is necessary based on the crime you have been found guilty of. A judge (or magistrate) decides the sentence.
How sentences are worked out
A judge (or magistrate) will look at several things when deciding a sentence, including:
- the type of crime and how serious it is
- if you have a criminal record
- your personal circumstances – for example, if you have a mental health condition
- if and when you admit your guilt
Types of sentences
There are four main types of sentence. These are:
- discharges
- court fines
- community sentences
- prison sentences
You may be ordered to do other things as part of, or in place of these sentences.
If a court decides you are guilty, but decides not to punish you further, you are given a 'discharge'. Discharges may be given for minor crimes – for example, being drunk and disorderly in public.
A court may give a discharge if it decides the experience of going to court is enough of a punishment.
There are two types of discharge:
- an absolute discharge – no more action is taken by the court
- a conditional discharge – no more action is taken unless you commit another crime within a set period of time
Court fines
Many people convicted of a crime are fined. You could be fined for:
- a driving or road traffic offence – for example, speeding
- minor offences of theft or criminal damage
- not having a TV license
Community sentences
Instead of being fined or sent to prison you could get a community sentence. Community sentences place 'requirements' on you – things you must do, or not do in the community.
Requirements can include:
- doing unpaid work
- getting treatment for an addiction (for example drugs)
- stopping you from going to a specific place or area
Prison sentences
You could get a prison sentence if your crime is so serious that a prison sentence is the only suitable type of punishment.
Court orders
A judge (or magistrate) can add a further court order to your sentence – for example, a compensation order. A compensation order could include, for example, you have to pay your victim for the damage you did to their property.
Types of prison sentence
There are different types of prison sentences depending on how serious the crime committed is. Some are for a fixed length of time and others include a minimum amount of time before a person has any chance of release. Find out about the different types of sentences.
Court fines
Fines are given by courts for a range of 'low-level' crimes. The fine amount will depend on the offence and how much an offender is able to pay. Find out what fines a court can give and what happens if a fine is not paid.
Why court fines are given
As the majority of cases heard by courts are for low level offences – like speeding – fines are the most common criminal sentence given.
Fines are given to punish an offender financially by limiting the amount of money they have to spend.
Probation – what it is
Instead of sending you to (or making you stay in) prison, a court may put you 'on probation'. You may have to do things like unpaid work and also keep in regular touch with an offender manager. Find out what's involved while on probation.
How probation works
While on probation, you have to follow a set of rules as part of your court sentence. For example, a court may order you to have regular meetings with an 'offender manager'.
Offender managers supervise (manage) people on probation. They do this by helping the people they supervise to:
- identify problems in their life and get over them
- keep to the rules set as part of their sentence
- stay out of trouble
This could mean helping them to:
- complete an education or training course
- get treatment for any addictions – like drugs or alcohol
- get help with any problems with behaviour
Other rules can include things like having to complete a course to improve skills.
What happens if you break the terms of your probation?
If you are on probation you must follow strict rules – like attending regular meetings with an offender manager. If you break any rules, you may have to return to court or be sent back to prison. Find out what happens if you break the terms of your probation.
Types of rules you must follow while on probation
If you have a community sentence, or are released from prison under license or parole, there are rules you must follow.
These could include having to:
- go on a course to help you stop committing crime
- get treatment for an addiction you may have – like drugs
- stay in your home between certain hours
Prison life – an overview
When someone goes to prison they have to follow many rules and procedures – but they also have certain rights. Find out more about what prison life is like, what prisoners can expect while they are there and what happens if rules are broken.
What happens when someone arrives at prison?
When someone's convicted and sent to prison by a court, they're first sent to a prison near the court where they were convicted.
When they arrive, checks take place to make sure they have everything they need and to highlight any problems, like a medical condition.
Deciding which prison someone is kept in
The prisoner is assessed at the first prison they arrive at. This assessment leads to a decision about which type of prison they serve their sentence at.
Prisoners' rights
All prisoners have certain rights. These include:
- the right to food and water
- protection from bullying and racial harassment
- being able to get in contact with a solicitor
- healthcare – including support for prisoners with a mental health condition
What a prisoner can keep in their prison cell
Each prison has its own rules about what a prisoner can keep in their cell. They may be able to keep things such as:
- newspapers, books and magazines
- a stereo, or something to play music on, and earphones
- writing and drawing materials
Prison staff can search a cell at any time, without warning. They can punish a prisoner if any banned items are found – for example, illegal drugs or alcohol.


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Leadership Symposium
The Krause Center for Leadership and Ethics, in support of The Citadel Vision, is the college organization focused on enhancing leadership development and ethical growth at The Citadel. Originally funded by a generous endowment from Bill Krause (Citadel Class of 1963) and his wife, Gay, the Krause Center is a multifaceted office that serves as a resource for institutional and regional outreach activities while promoting leadership and ethics on campus.
Established initially as a college-wide initiative in July of 2003, the Krause Center has continued to grow in its efforts to strengthen The Citadel's programs and activities to prepare graduates to become principled leaders. Supporting The Citadel's core values, the Krause Center promotes the ethical growth and leadership development of students while serving as a model for peer institutions.
For the past several years, the Krause Center has been successful in establishing and reshaping a number of activities, training processes, and integration efforts across the campus to support the leader development and ethical growth of the Corps. The first Principled Leadership Symposium was held in 2008. It has become a signature event for the Krause Center.
The Principled Leadership Symposium hosts approximately 70 college student delegates from regional institutions of higher learning, senior military colleges, and the federal service academies. Participants are exposed to "The Citadel Experience" while interacting with many top cadets on campus. The goal of the symposium is to explore principled leadership across a range of vocations and professional organizations. Participants hear world-class speakers, engage in focused roundtable sessions, and attend diverse forums where prominent leaders from military, sports, academic, political, corporate, and other arenas share their experiences. Extracurricular highlights include the opportunity to participate in the Corps Day birthday dinner and observe the South Carolina Corps of Cadets parade.
Please visit the event webpage for more details about this year's symposium.


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A Fort Carson soldier was sentenced to 10 years of confinement and a dishonorable discharge Tuesday after pleading guilty to engaging in sexual acts with a 13-year-old girl.
Spc. Richard A. Sheltra, a 23-year-old M1 armor crewman with the 4th Infantry Division's 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, plead guilty Monday to four charges during his court marital on post. Those charges include having sex with the victim, then 13, and engaging in sexual acts with her on multiple occasions, as well as sending images of his penis to her.
"I know what I did was wrong. I know I need to be punished," Sheltra said Tuesday to a seven-member panel of soldiers during a statement he made in the sentencing portion of his trial. "We cared about each other very much. I'd even say I was in love with her."
The victim was a willing participant and initiated many of the sexual acts, which occurred last year, he contended.
After losing his virginity at age 21, Sheltra, a self-described misfit, said he wanted to explore his sexuality and ended up making bad decisions, such as ignoring a no-contact order from his first lieutenant.
"I was engulfed in a world I liked because I was accepted by someone . who genuinely wanted to be with me," said Sheltra, adding that he and the victim shared an interest in music and enjoyed talking about what they'd do in the event of a "zombie apocalypse."
Sheltra met the victim when she was 12. In early 2012, the victim was raped by a civilian. Sheltra began hanging out with her afterward in an effort to lift her spirits, he said.
Their relationship turned sexual several weeks after Sheltra attended the victim's 13th birthday party, he said.
Sheltra had asked the panel for a dishonorable discharge -- the Army's most severe -- in lieu of a long period of confinement. His defense team had asked for four years of confinement plus the dishonorable discharge.
Sheltra faced up to 125 years and 6 months in prison.
Government lawyers had asked the panel to sentence Sheltra to at least 17 years of confinement and a dishonorable discharge.
"It's not the most aggravating case," Maj. Jonathan Lambert, a lawyer with the prosecution, told the panel. "What it is, is the case of a soldier, someone years removed from high school, taking advantage of a girl years removed from elementary school."
Though Sheltra said he cared about the victim, a forensic investigation of his computer found that he had a folder titled "lil slut" on his computer with naked pictures of her, Lambert said.
"Does Spc. Sheltra love the victim, or is he just trying to use her?" Lambert told the panel. "The strong prey on the weak, and that's exactly what Spc. Sheltra did."
Sheltra's defense argued that he was not solely responsible for the emotional damage done to the victim over the past couple of years.
The victim's civilian rapist is responsible too, as is Pfc. David Burke, a Fort Carson soldier convicted June 21 of similar charges against the victim and sentenced to six years of confinement, the defense argued.
An additional soldier is being investigated on allegations of similar misconduct against the victim, post officials said Tuesday.


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Highbridge Park
The Daily Plant : Monday, May 12, 2014
Parks Cuts The Ribbon On Improvements To Highbridge Recreation Center
On Monday, May 5, NYC Parks First Deputy Commissioner Liam Kavanagh joined Congress Member Charles Rangel, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, Community Board 12 District Manager Ebenezer Smith, and Joel Towers, Executive Dean of Parsons The New School for Design, to cut the ribbon on the newly restored Highbridge Recreation Center in Northern Manhattan. The Highbridge Recreation Center, located on Amsterdam Avenue and West 173rd Street, underwent extensive renovations during the past three years, and NYC Parks and community partner organizations celebrated the center's re-opening with a day of free sports, fitness and educational activities for children and adults of all ages.
In 2010, NYC Parks began a three-phase project in partnership with Parsons The New School for Design to reconstruct and upgrade parts of the Highbridge Recreation Center and Pool. The facility was built in 1936 as one of 11 city pools constructed through President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) and commissioned by then Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. The first phase, completed in 2011, was the "Splash House." This outdoor pavilion was the first step in transforming Highbridge Recreation Center from a 9-month afterschool facility to a year-round recreational facility for Washington Heights residents of all ages by constructing new, exterior changing and locker areas for the outdoor pool. Prior to the Splash House construction, the recreation center's North and South wings served as lockers and changing areas for hundreds of thousands of outdoor pool patrons in the summer.
The final two phases enclosed the atrium of the facility, connecting the North and South wings and providing the Recreation Center with a new, modern front-desk and lobby space. This work was completed through the Design Workshop; a studio that connects graduate architecture students and professors from Parsons The New School for Design with community-based projects to provide pro-bono architectural design and build services for organizations throughout the country.
Parsons The New School for Design, raised significant private funding from Dan Tishman for instructors and tools, and obtained a major gift from Douglas Durst, to pay for materials. Students raised funds on Kickstarter as well as in-kind contributions, trade discounts, and other cash gifts. Together with the Parsons' contribution, private funds amounted to almost $1 million.
NYC Parks contributed more than $165,000 for upgrades throughout the interior of the facility. These renovations include a new fitness room with 17 pieces of cardio and strength equipment; 30 new lockers; 8 new PCs in the Computer Resource Center; new tile and rubberized flooring; new gymnasium wall padding; new interior doors; improvements to the HVAC system; a refurbished dance room floor; and lighting upgrades.
City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez provided $500,000 toward the project; funding the glass storefront that encloses the lobby, electrical fixtures and restroom improvements. The new glass storefront allows for natural light in the lobby and a view of the historic High Bridge Water Tower.
Over the past decade, more than $98 million in investments have been made as part of NYC Parks' efforts to revitalize the 130-acre Highbridge Park. New and restored playgrounds, the city's first mountain biking course, a world class skate park and now, a year-round recreation center, will serve the residents of Upper Manhattan. With the upcoming re-opening of the historic High Bridge, these expanded recreational amenities will also become better accessible to Bronx residents across the Harlem River.
Since 1910, NYC Parks has provided the most affordable and extensive network of recreational services throughout the five boroughs. NYC Parks Recreation Centers offer various programs in facilities with amenities including cardio and strength rooms, basketball courts, indoor pools, dance studios, art studios, computer resource centers, game rooms and libraries. Membership at NYC Parks Recreation Centers costs $100-$150/year for Adults (aged 25-61), $25/year for Seniors (aged 62 and over), $25/year for Young Adults (aged 18 to 24), and is free for youth under age 18.
For more information on Recreation Center membership, please visit http://www.nyc.gov/parks/membership.
"Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves."
Dorothy Parker
(1893 - 1967)
Directions to Highbridge Park
- Highbridge Recreation Center Celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Of Service
- Second Saturdays Trailwork Party + Bike Share at Highbridge Bike Park
- Family Wellness Day
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Sophomore (2011-12)
Finished 18th at the NCAA championships ... Competed at the Garret Open in the saber competition taking 21st out of 44 entrants … Went 2-5 at the 2012 Ivy League championship in New Haven, Conn., … Took gold at the NCAA Northeastern Regional event held at Boston College.
Freshman (2010-11):
Named second team All-Ivy League ... Placed fifth at the Penn State Garret Open in his first collegiate competition (Nov. 14) ... Went 6-3 at MIT Eric Sollee Invitational (Feb. 6) ... Owned a 10-5 overall record and finished in a tie for fourth place at the Ivy League Championship (Feb. 12-13) ... Finished fourth at the Northeast Regionals (March 13).
Before Harvard:
Four-year letterwinner and three year captain at Harvard-Westlake … Member of the 2009-10 U.S. Junior National team … Bronze Medalist at 2010 Junior World Championship in Baku, Azerbaijan … Bronze at 2010 Junior World Cup in Budapest, Hungary ... Bronze at 2009 Junior World Cup in Montreal, Canada … Bronze at 2010 Division I North America Cup D … Gold at 2009 Junior North America Cup B … Received MVP honors all four years of high school … AP Scholar ... Plays the banjo.


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Volunteer Opportunities
Have you ever had to wait while a loved one has surgery? Then you know how comforting it is to have a volunteer keep you company in the waiting room. Have you ever gotten lost on your way to treatment or another area of the hospital? Then you know what a relief it is to see the friendly face of a volunteer who took the time to take you where you were going. Have you ever been hospitalized? Then you know how uplifting it is when a volunteer comes by with magazines, flowers or just a hello.
Every day, everywhere in the hospital, volunteers add to the caring environment at Northwest Hospital, helping patients and their families at a stressful and sometimes frightening time in their lives. By volunteering your time, you help give back to your community and make Northwest Hospital a friendlier, more welcoming place to everyone who steps foot on our campus. Download the Volunteer Application to apply.
Volunteer Eligibility
People of all ages (15 years or older) are encouraged to volunteer at Northwest Hospital & Medical Center. We ask that volunteers be willing to work 3-4 hours per week for a minimum of four months. While most volunteers work Monday – Friday between 8 am and 5 pm, some volunteers choose to work evenings and sometimes weekends.
Volunteer Interviews
Volunteering at Northwest Hospital & Medical Center requires a good match between a person's interests and talents and the work available to volunteers at the hospital. While a match is usually a simple process, occasionally it is not possible. The interview helps the prospective volunteer learn about specific volunteer opportunities available at Northwest Hospital.
Volunteer Training
All new volunteers must attend a volunteer orientation. This will help familiarize new volunteers with the policies and procedures that govern volunteers at Northwest Hospital & Medical Center. In addition, volunteers receive specialized training within their specific departments. Volunteers also receive ongoing support from other staff members.
Volunteer Opportunities
More than 150 active volunteers of all ages perform a wide variety of tasks at the hospital. For example, volunteers work in the hospital's gift shop, bring the library cart to patients' rooms, escort discharged patients and provide information and comfort to families of surgery or inpatients. In fact, volunteers can be found in more than 25 hospital departments.
Benefits of Volunteering
It is the intangible benefits that keep volunteers coming back — the satisfaction of helping sick or injured neighbors, social interaction with others and maintaining and learning new skills, to name a few. Other benefits include a discount on meals and a free beverage in the hospital cafeteria before or after your shift.
Getting Started
To schedule an interview to become a volunteer, call the Volunteer Office at 206.668.1822 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. You will be asked to complete a Volunteer Application and a request form for a Washington State Patrol Criminal Background Check. You may also be asked to attend a second interview with a prospective department supervisor. Once an acceptable match is made, the new volunteer is scheduled to attend training.
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Reactions to ST 21
14 comments:
- Adam Golaski said...
Adam Golaski's stories don't make any sense!
- 1 April 2012 at 03:33:00 GMT
- valdemar said...
That's exactly the sort of thing I didn't have in mind.
- 1 April 2012 at 06:25:00 GMT
- James Everington said...
I thought it was a top-notch issue. There genuinely wasn't a story in I didn't like, and a good number I thought were right there in the 'great' column.
I'd already read stuff by Iain Rowan and Adam Golaski before so was expecting to very much like there contributions; what was nice was to find other equally good stories by authors new to me.
I'll be putting a review on my blog at some point.
- 2 April 2012 at 18:11:00 GMT
- James Everington said...
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- 2 April 2012 at 18:11:00 GMT
- valdemar said...
Thanks, James, that's nice of you.
- 2 April 2012 at 19:36:00 GMT
- Adam Golaski said...
Let me make a two comments that aren't (intentionally) inane, with the hope of starting a dialogue.
Steve Duffy's story stood out to me because of the uniqueness of the narrator's voice. The supernatural element is her Cassandra-esque curse (to know the future but to be unable to change it). On its own, that would be of little interest to me, but in the case of Duffy's narrator--a woman whose economic and political status strips her of any power--it's a fine metaphor.
I thot it worth noting that two of the other stories in ST21 ("On the Edge of the Map" and "Virpus") hinge on functions of the Internet and the way it can isolate people (thus making them into potential victims).
- 3 April 2012 at 02:19:00 GMT
- James Everington said...
One thing that stood out to me, and made it such an interesting read, was that whilst all the tales were indeed of the supernatural, only maybe half seemed to me 'horror' - as in written to scare.
Not that that isn't a fine reason to write a story, but some of those in ST21 seemed to me more elegiac, surreal or have some social commentary behind them rather than being horror (or as well as, maybe).
I'm sure people who read the mag have moved beyond the lazy shorthand of supernatural = scary, but still it was nice to see such a fine refutation of such simple thinking.
- 3 April 2012 at 19:48:00 GMT
- James Everington said...
I've put a review up on my blog too, if anyone cares. I normally don't review magazines because there's always at least a few stories I don't care for. But that wasn't the case here, which is genuinely impressive.
- 4 April 2012 at 17:17:00 GMT
- valdemar said...
Thanks, James, that's much appreciated. ST doesn't get a lot of reviews, but it's gradually building a reputation as a decent mag.
- 4 April 2012 at 22:18:00 GMT
I vote for sam Dawson's "The Last Fight" as best story from this issue. I found it heads above the rest, which all were good tales. Personally, I have a preference for stories with a complete, well defined plot. i recognize that this is no longer often in fasion.
- 8 April 2012 at 16:14:00 GMT
- valdemar said...
Thanks, Brian - vote noted.
- 8 April 2012 at 18:56:00 GMT
- Michael Kelly said...
Great issue, David! I thoroughly enjoyed all the tales, but, if were forced to choose, would have to single out Iain Rowan's as my favourite. Well done, everyone.
- 10 April 2012 at 02:23:00 GMT
- valdemar said...
Thanks, everyone. Good to have some comments that aren't offering 'nude celebs', which is what the spam filter finds on a daily basis.
- 10 April 2012 at 07:33:00 GMT
- Sam said...
Thanks for that comment, Brian. Good of you to say so.
I will cast my vote for AGA.
- 10 April 2012 at 11:32:00 GMT


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BALTIMORE – UMBC softball launched three home runs in a 6-1 victory against Hampton in the final game of the 10th annual UMBC Dawg Pound Invitational at the UMBC Softball Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The Retrievers' head coach Joe French earned his 800th career coaching victory with the win.
The Retrievers took three-of-four on the weekend to improve to 17-6 on the year, French's second best start to a season during his tenure with the Retrievers, behind only the 2006 season. Hampton falls to 9-12.
UMBC jumped out in front 1-0 in the bottom of the first with a two-out solo home run to left center from junior Taylor Hall (Cosby, Va./Cosby). The round tripper was the 19th of her career, moving her into a tie for ninth with Stevie Shore ('06) on UMBC's career home run list.
The Retrievers posted back-to-back singles from Hall and senior Chelsea Bertoglio (Laguna Hills, Calif./Laguna Hills/Saddleback College) in the bottom of the fourth inning. Freshman Jaclyn Buckley (Voorhees, N.J./Eastern Camden Regional) launched her second home run of the season with two outs to extend UMBC's advantage to 4-0.
The Retrievers used their third long ball of the day to add two more runs to their advantage in the bottom of the fifth. Freshman Kelly Lane (Albany, N.Y./Colonie Central) led off the inning with a single and pinch hitter Megan Sauble (Glen Burnie, Md./CCBC-Catonsville) drilled her second blast of the year over the fence in right center.
Hampton posted three hits in the first six innings of the contest, but were able to string together three hits and a fielder's choice in the final frame to score its only run of the contest against starting pitcher Jessica Holte (Ashland, Va./Atlee). Holtee struck out a season-best seven batters en route to her 11th victory of the season, becoming the fastest Retriever in program history to reach 11 collegiate victories. She is now tied for seventh with Melanie Scharf ('94) on UMBC's freshman wins list.
The black and gold score six runs on seven hits versus Hampton's pitcher Jecholia Pratt.
The Retrievers return to action on Friday, March 21 for the first day of the UMBC Spring Classic at the UMBC Softball Stadium.
Dawg Bites
-Head coach Joe French has been a head coach in softball, women's basketball and tennis during his 24 year career. French continues his quest for his 600th victory at the helm of UMBC, he currently sits at 588.


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Shelfy loses another one
A few weeks ago I hinted that Jessica Biel was being considered for Lois Lane in the new Superman. It all started when she somehow made the shortlist for a part in The Dark Knight Rises. As we all know, the role eventually went to Anne Hathaway. Multiple sources confirm to me however that they liked Biel enough to keep her in mind for something else…
And she did indeed have a good shot at it. Until I guess Amy Adams came along and killed off her chances. Adams has officially been confirmed as Lois Lane after director Zack Snyder (whose new film Sucker Punch underwhelmed at the box office this weekend) revealed that: "There was a big, giant search for Lois. For us it was a big thing and obviously a really important role. We did a lot of auditioning but we had this meeting with Amy Adams and after that I just felt she was perfect for it."
Poor Shelfy.
She keeps getting so close. And then someone better, and arguably more interesting, comes along and, well, highlights her shortcomings. That's the problem with Jessica Biel. She's DULL. She's even duller than Amy Adams which, I mean, that's dull, right?
Frankly, I don't particularly love the choice of Adams either. I'm done with Adams in the spunky wide-eyed roles. Now that I've met the other option, I'd much rather see her taking a bitch down by the back of her head. Adams as Lane seems like too obvious of a decision. And I'm not sure I buy her chemistry with Henry Cavill either.
But this is about Jessica Biel. And doesn't it make sense now that we heard last week about her flirting with Gerard Butler on the set of their new movie? That was a strategically timed leak, non? Knowing that we'd find out she'd lost out on another one soon, she gave us a temporary distraction. And being allegedly desired by Spittle the Bachelor doesn't hurt either.
She is nothing though if not tenacious. And now that the Superman opportunity has closed, she's already looking ahead to something else: Total Recall.
They're remaking it with Colin Farrell. Two female roles are available: one to play Sharon Stone's part – the fake bitch wife who betrays the main dude (Kate Bosworth has apparently been asked to read which…hilarious) – and a hot asskicker of a woman who helps our hero and they end up falling in love. According to Deadline Biel is going for the latter against Eva Mendes, Paula Patton, and Eva Green. You know, I actually like her odds against those three, especially if there's some physicality involved.
But can Biel step up to Farrell? You have to believe that a man that charismatic would find something in HER as his match. This is her challenge. You know she's all over it though. You know she's all over making gossip with Colin Farrell. And if he pulls his signature move on her and asks her to have his baby, she'd probably do it too.
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