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This week's Classic Movie Night on Friday, July 7, at the historic Jefferson Theatre will be Top Gun, and the 1997 Italian drama Life Is Beautiful will be the next installment of the Foreign Film Series, also at the Jefferson, on Wednesday, July 12.
Stand-up comedian, talk show host, political commentator, sports commentator, actor and television and radio personality Dennis Miller will perform at the Grand Event Center inside the Golden Nugget in Lake Charles on Saturday, July 8, at 8 p.m. From Pittsburgh, Miller, now 63, joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1985 and later became the host of its Weekend Update segment. Miller then went on to host his own weeknight talk show, then Dennis Miller Live on HBO. From 2007-15, Miller hosted a daily talk radio program.
Follow a young girl and her fairy godmother into an equine dreamland and experience the majesty, splendor and amazement of the Gala of the Royal Horses on Friday, Aug. 11, at Ford Arena.
Brought to you by world-renowned riding master Rene Gasser, the stunning world of "Gala of the Royal Horses: Carousel of Dreams" immerses audiences in spectacular, tantalizing live performances from the most beautiful horses in the world as a young girl explores the magic of her dreams and works to find her purpose in life.
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COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College women's lacrosse team took on its fifth nationally-ranked Northeast-10 Conference foe in six outings on Friday, losing an 18-11 decision to No. 19 University of New Haven at Duffy Field. The Purple Knights are winless through 11 games, including nine NE10 contests, while the Chargers, whose ranking is according to the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA), improved to 8-5 and 5-4. New Haven qualified for the past four NCAA Tournaments.
With her team playing its second game in three days, senior Kealy Moyna (Yonkers, N.Y./The Ursuline School) posted a career-high seven points while matching her personal best with five goals. She took over third in program history in career assists (45), overtaking Kristen Palazzo '06 (44), while upping her goals total to 80 and passing Joleen Wise '00 (124) for 12th place in points (125).
First-year Kaitlyn Waystack (Topsfield, Mass./Masconomet Regional) potted her first career hat trick, junior Alex Vincent (Rush, N.Y./Our Lady of Mercy School for Young Women) totaled a goal and two assists, while senior Ashley Dineen (Somers, N.Y./Canterbury School) and first-year Olivia Krause (Bow, N.H./Bow) both tacked on one goal. Junior Annie Martin (Mattapoisett, Mass./Bishop Stang) controlled a team-best five draws and now has 70 for her career, passing Megan Rule '07 (66) for ninth in program history.
Saint Michael's, which held a 15-14 edge in ground balls while committing fewer turnovers (13) than the visitors (15), received two caused turnovers and two ground balls from senior Susie Ellicks (Acton, Mass./Acton-Boxboro Regional). Junior Kate Martin (Mattapoisett, Mass./Bishop Stang) and sophomore Lilly Hardy (Greenland, N.H./Portsmouth) both caused two turnovers and scooped a ground ball, while classmate Katrina Pietz (Brentwood, N.H./Exeter) notched a pair of ground balls while causing a turnover. First-year Victoria Putnam (East Falmouth, Mass./Saint Mark's School) had seven saves and two ground balls in 45:21 before classmate Alexis Bower (Elmira, N.Y./Horseheads) finished out the game with a pair of stops.
Senior Jessica Mazliah and sophomore Julia Jette both turned in three goals and four assists for New Haven, classmate Caroline Maher had four goals, and junior Mackenzie Reh totaled three goals and two assists. Sophomore Kendra Nolan posted a hat trick and eight draw controls, while classmate Raven Linton had 11 draw controls and five caused turnovers. Sophomore Erica Rinsky made six saves.
Neither team led by more than a goal until the final three minutes of the first half. Jette's opening goal was met by Moyna's pair before Jette and Mazliah scored 23 seconds apart to make it 3-2 by 21:16. Three of the next four goals came from Purple Knights, with Moyna's hat trick strike pushing the hosts in front, 5-4, with 8:53 to go. Beginning at 3:27, New Haven rattled off the game's next nine goals, with Jette notching a goal and three assists, and Mazliah and Reh both posting three points. Mazliah's goal made it 13-5 at 22:43 of the second half.
Saint Michael's held a 6-5 scoring edge down the stretch, netting three straight goals to edge within five, as Vincent, Dineen and Waystack tallied in a 4:05 span. Sophomore Kaelyn Oliver (Canton, Conn./Canton) dished to Vincent, and Moyna lent a hand on Waystack's marker. However, first-year Emily Holland and Mazliah scored 50 seconds apart near the midway point, and the Purple Knights never again trailed by fewer than six.
Saint Michael's hits the road for its next two games, beginning at Southern New Hampshire University next Tuesday at 4 p.m.


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Five members of SUSA FC were named to the WPSL's East Region Metropolitan All-Conference Team as part of the league's 2018 Best of the WPSL.
The five SUSA players are goalkeeper Cat Sheppard of Nesconset, a freshman at the University of New Hampshire; defender Rebecca Raber of Bayport, a graduate of Binghamton University; defender Alexa Svensson of Commack, a junior at Marist College; midfielder/forward Jenna Blank of Holbrook, a freshman at Towson University; and forward Kristin Desmond of East Northport, a graduate of Hofstra University.
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The latest honors from WPSL follow several postseason awards for SUSA following its inaugural season in the league. SUSA was named Franchise of the Year, SUSA head coach JR Balzarini was named Coach of the Year and SUSA's Rebecca Raber was named Defensive Player of the Year.
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Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce
Abstract. The Restoration of Charles II Stuart in 1660 was reckoned in post-revolutionary England both in terms of a long-awaited relief and an inevitable menace. The return of the exiled prince, whose father's disgraceful decapitation in the name of law eleven years earlier marked the end of the British monarchy, must have been looked forward to by those who expected rewards for their loyalty, inflexibility and royal affiliation in the turbulent times of the Interregnum. It must have been, however, feared by those who directly contributed to issuing the death warrant on the legally ruling king and to violating the irrefutable divine right of kings. Even though Charles II's mercy was widely known, hardly anyone expected that the restored monarch's inborn mildness would win over his well-grounded will to revenge his father's death and the collapse of the British monarchy. It seems that Charles II was not exceptionally vindictive and was eager to show mercy and oblivion understood as an act of amnesty to those who sided with Cromwell and Parliament but did not contribute directly to the executioner raising his axe over the royal neck. On the other hand, the country's unstable situation and the King's newly-built reputation required some firm-handed actions taken by the sovereign in order to prevent further rebellions or plots in the future, and to strengthen the position of the monarchy so shattered by the Civil War and the Interregnum.
Keywords: Restoration, Charles II, English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell, regicide.
When in 1660 Charles II returned from his exile in France, many saw the Restoration of the House of Stuart as a chance to regain peace and order after the turbulent period of the Civil War and the Interregnum. For those who supported the King after his father had been beheaded and continued to fight against Cromwell's army, it was a sigh of relief and an obvious opportunity to be rewarded for their loyalty. Those who sided with the republicans and contributed to the overthrow and consequently the regicide must have felt unsure of their future and feared royal vengeance. The restored King's policy towards the rebels in the new political reality was hardly predictable and hard to be anticipated. Some believed that the new monarch would be much less lenient and merciful towards his and his father's enemies and would try to revenge those who triggered Charles I's 37
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disgraceful execution and the collapse of the House of Stuart in 1642. Charles II entered London on May 29th 1660 and, as Fraser says, this day "ushered in an age of anxiety as well as an age of rejoicing" (187).
The paper looks at Charles II's policy towards those who sided with the parliamentarians and
those who signed his father's death warrant. Its major aim is to look at selected events that took place at the Restoration in order to define the policy towards republicans that Charles II exercised upon his arrival in England, and to try to understand the criteria and reasons hidden behind the royal decisions to punish and to pardon.
Oblivion and mercy
When Charles II was restored to the throne, one of his supporters – the poet John Dryden – praised the great return in a panegyric called "Astrea Redux" (10), where he clearly hopes that the new reign will be marked by mercifulness rather than vindictiveness:
But you, whose Goodness your Descent doth show,
Your Heav'nly Parentage and Earthly too;
By that same mildness which your Fathers Crown
Before did ravish, shall secure your own.
Not ty'd to rules of policy, you find
Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind.
Thus, when th' Almighty would to Moses give
A sight of all he could behold and live;
A voice before his Entry did proclaim
Long-Suffring, Goodness, Mercy in his Name.
Your Pow'r to Justice doth submit your Cause,
Your Goodness only is above the Laws. (256-267)
The poet, who was a close observant of the turmoil of the Civil War, notes that Charles I's mildness was something that his son should take over in his dealings with the rebels. Moreover, he suggests that forgiveness will be more beneficial and advantageous to the King than the potential revenge.
Indeed, the King did not seem to be taking pleasure in punishing those who violated the divine right of kings by deposing and decapitating his father 11 years earlier. It was not only Dryden who pinpointed the King's mercifulness as his great merit. Historians also pay attention to Charles II's conciliatory approach towards those who rebelled: "In his determined mercy, King Charles in 1660 did show himself indeed a veritable olive-branch-bearing dove" (Fraser, 187). Fraser (187) also notes that the peaceful image of the King was based upon his will to follow two paths of his policy towards those engaged in the Civil War: reward and conciliation. His policy was to reward those royalists who suffered exile, imprisonment or physical wounds during the War and the Interregnum, and to reconcile with the Cromwellians. Hutton says that "the charitable view of Charles's reactions is that they reveal a remarkable moderation and self-restraint. The skeptical one is that he found it easy to forgive individual English republicans because he had no personal grudges against them" (141). Hutton gives an example of Charles's mercy when he followed the advice of the House of Commons, who suggested reprieving the republican general John Lambert and the politician Sir Henry Vane, who were exposed to death by the House of Lords (141). The King's forgiving attitude towards Lambert may seem exceptionally generous as, according to C.P. Hill, "among the Parliamentarian commanders only Fairfax and Cromwell were more gifted soldiers [than Lambert]" (167). If Lambert was the third most responsible person for ruining the House of Stuart, then why would the King have pardoned him? The answer might be quite complex. First of all, Lambert "was less disliked by the Royalists than most of the Parliamentarian leaders" (167) because he was not a Puritan. Secondly, he was out of London on the day of the King's execution, which might suggest that he did not fully support or accept the idea of the King's condemnation to death. In fact, he was not among those 59 regicides who signed the death warrant on King Charles I. Thirdly, "he opposed the proposals to make Cromwell king and the Protectorate hereditary, and this action … led to a breach and to his dismissal" (Hill, 168). Therefore, it is easy to understand the King's inclination to spare Lambert's life and to punish him only by sentencing him to life imprisonment. Vane's case is much more complicated. In spite of being an influential politician whose persuasive speeches spurred the collapse of the English monarchy, he "was no ardent supporter of the Army … and he played no part in the King's trial or in the events leading to it" (116). When the parliament passed the Indemnity and Oblivion Act in order to minimize the vengeance for the actions taken during the Interregnum, Vane was excluded from oblivion and treated as an exception, together with those who were directly involved in the King's death. Vane was imprisoned in 1660 in the Tower until parliament petitioned the King to grant mercy to the politician, which the monarch took advantage of and accepted. Vane himself, however, turned the tide against himself when during his trial at court he "chose to defend himself by vindicating parliamentary sover-eignty" (117) and undermined the King's de jure possession. This made the King realize that Vane was not only dangerous to the restored monarchy in his views but also unwilling to show repentance for his republican support during the Civil War. In such a case, the King could not allow his name to be shattered and accused of exercising excessive mercy to those who were not even eager to bend and apologize for their previous political siding. Charles could not do anything else but to go back on his word, and Vane was sentenced to death. Although he was supposed to be hanged, drawn and quartered, the King's inborn mildness let him muster up his last act of mercy towards Vain and grant him the gentleman's death of beheading. Hence, one might have the impression that Vane "was charged with treason against Charles II rather than against Charles I" (Fraser, 185). Samuel Pepys's account on Vane's execution is also quite telling as for the King's attitude towards the convict: "The King had given his body to his friends; and, therefore, he told them that he hoped they would be civil to his body when dead; and he desired they would let him die like a gentleman and a Christian, and not crowded and pressed as he was" (66).
Both historians and eyewitnesses seem to note and highlight the King's forgetful policy. In fact, ten years after the Restoration "he was accepting hospitality from Henry Cromwell, second son of the late Protector, at his home near Newmarket" (Fraser, 186). What is more, the King sought conciliation of the Cromwellians and resolved that "service during the Interregnum should be no disqualification" (190). This rule was, for instance, applied to Sir Matthew Hale and Edward Atkins. Hale and Atkins were renowned judges under the Protectorate and the Commonwealth who accepted the Parliamentarian regime. This, however, did not discourage the King from reappointing them to the their posts as he valued their integrity and even-handedness.
The most convincing argument for acknowledging Charles's merciful and mild character lies in his dealings with some of the regicides. Even though he had the power to revenge his father's death by executing all living signatories of the death warrant, he did not resolve to do so. Fraser's account of the King's policy towards the regicides shows Charles as a merciful monarch: "Of the forty-one surviving regicides, those who had signed the warrant and a few others closely associated with the King's death as well as the two (unidentified) executioners of Charles I, twelve died altogether. It was the King who prevented a further nineteen of their number" (185).
The issuance of the Indemnity and Oblivion Act in 1660 confirmed the resolutions of the Declaration of Breda. The Act promised amnesty and pardon to Cromwellians excluding fifty individuals, of whom thirteen were executed. If one remembers that there were fifty-nine signatories of the death warrant on King Charles I, eleven commissioners who did not sign it, but were involved in the process, twelve officers at the court trying Charles I, and eleven other associates, then thirteen executions seems to be a symbolic punishment. When only the fifty-nine regicides are taken into account, only eight of them were executed (or died awaiting execution), whereas nineteen were given life sentences. Six out of the nineteen (Peter Temple, Henry Smith, Augustine Garland, Gil-bert Millington, Robert Lilburne, Robert Tichborne) were first sentenced to death, but this was later commuted to life imprisonment.
Charles II, in historians' and eyewitnesses' views, was "never a personally vindictive man" (Fraser, 185) and in his policy towards the rebels he did not turn out to be like the mythological Or-estes, who revenged his father Agamemnon by killing his murderers (185).
Vengeance and remembrance
In 1661, when Charles II was crowned, John Dryden, now appointed the Poet Laureate, once more referred to the King's policy towards the republicans in the panegyric "To His Sacred Majesty" (13):
Among our crimes oblivion may be set,
But 'tis our Kings perfection to forget. (87-88)
Here, Dryden seems to imply that although it is the Kings' right to forget and forgive, excessive mercy and oblivion might be dangerous and even perceived as a crime against the country. In fact, the King did not need to rely on the poet's advice to know that mercy and forgiveness should have limits, otherwise the royal grandeur and authority might be considerably diminished or jeopar-dized. Therefore, Charles's "temperamental disinclination to vengeance was not at all the same thing as an inclination to forget the past" (Fraser, 186).
Charles II, as a newly restored monarch, whose primary role was to restore peace and order in the mayhem of post-revolutionary England, could not afford to forgive all his and his father's enemies and forget all their sins. The violation of the divine rights of kings was, in fact, a violation of the fundamental principles which the country was built upon. Moreover, the fact that such an unthinkable and unprecedented coup de etat did happen in 1649 meant it might happen again in the future. Revolutions are generally not very frequent, but when they do occur they usually make people realize that the overthrow of a monarch or, at least, quick and sudden political turbulence is possible and might be used as a tool to warn a disobedient king again. Therefore, Charles II's mercy and oblivion had to be limited to an extent allowing the people to appreciate the King's great mercifulness towards his father's executors, but, on the other hand, notice his firmness, strength, and authority which would scare off potential revolutionists.
Fraser claims (186) that an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty was present at the King's court:
"Revolution and its possible consequences, was one spectre which stalked the corridors of the King's palace from the inception of his reign to its end. . But at no point was the presence of such a threatening ghost felt more acutely than in the early 1660s. " There was a general readiness and alertness to prevent criticism and dissatisfaction of those who had not yet got accustomed to the restored monarchy from turning into another rebellion and consequently a revolution:
Thus one finds the implicit fear of another revolution expressed continuously and in all sorts of different ways in the early years of the reign. There were significant details such as the preference for Windsor Castle as ta royal fortress . . because it was properly garrisoned. There were broader policies, such as the concentration on forming a proper body of guards to surround the monarch .. A general jumpiness animated surveys of the careers of those with regicide connections. (Fraser, 186)
Such an overwhelming atmosphere of distrustfulness and invigilation did not al ow the exercise of excessive mercy and risk being perceived as weak, thus an easy obstacle to be got rid of. In order to make the King appear powerful and yet forgiving but remembering, the dealings with the key regicides had taken a much rougher path. The punishment for Oliver Cromwel , Henry Ireton, and John Bradshaw were aimed to manifest the King's sturdiness and to send a clear message to all those who conspired and plotted against the restored monarchy. The posthumous executions of the three leaders were to demonstrate that Charles II's mercy was limited and did not apply to those who directly violated the divine right of kings. It was supposed to reiterate the fact that the
King's memory of his late father was still vivid. As there is no question of doubt as for Cromwel , who was believed to have orchestrated the regicide, the choice of Ireton and Bradshaw needs to be reflected upon.
Ireton commanded the left wing at the momentous battle of Naseby in 1645, where he "fought like a lion" (Hill, 141). He is frequently reported to have been brave, competent and to have had a considerable influence "on the slower and far less clear mind of Cromwell" (142). In 1647 he was the major architect of the Heads of the Proposals – the settlement offered to Charles I. When the proposals were consecutively being rejected by the King, it was Ireton who willingly advocated the idea of bringing Charles I to trial. What is most justifying about the choice of Ireton to be posthumously executed was his personal engagement in writing the Remonstrance of Army – a statement about the regicide, his active part in the King's trial, his signature on the death warrant, and most importantly the fact that he was the son-in-law to Cromwell himself.
Bradshaw's fault seems to be even more evident. He became a prosecutor on behalf of Parliament at the time of the Civil War, and was "a competent and reasonable choice, if not a notably distinguished one, for membership of the commission set up by the Rump [Parliament] to try the King" (166). His role as President of the High Court of Justice for the trial of King Charles I was widely reverberating. Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, who witnessed the trial, described Bradshaw as the one who administered the office "with all the pride, impudence, and superciliousness imaginable" (Clarendon, 327).
Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw embodied audacity and tenacity in trying and, as a result, executing Charles I. Therefore, having all three perpetrators dead (Cromwell died in 1658, Ireton in 1651, and Bradshaw in 1659), the newly restored King could not let them rest in peace and ordered their posthumous executions. To make them even more symbolic and hence meaningful, the executions were scheduled on 30th January 1661, exactly twelve years after the infamous regicide had taken place. All three signatories of the late King's death warrant were disinterred, hanged at Tyburn and decapitated. Their bodies were thrown into a pit and their heads were placed on spikes and displayed at the end of Westminster Hall facing the direction of the place where Charles I had been executed.
The executions were reported by eye-witnesses who must have perceived the event as exceptionally significant. Samuel Pepys does not mention any other punishments for the regicides as frequently as he does in case of these three. On 30th January 1661, Pepys reports: "then to my Lady Batten's; where my wife and she are lately come again from being abroad, and seeing of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw hanged and buried at Tyburn" (43). Six days later Pepys returns to the subject, writing: "my wife and I by water to Westminster. Into the Hall and there saw my Lord Treasurer … go up to the Treasury Office and take possessions thereof; and also saw the heads of Cromwell, Bradshaw, and Ireton, set up upon the further end of the Hall" (44). Even though Pepys's report seems to be a little laconic, it is still crucial that the diarist considered the event to be worth mentioning, and exposed the three names twice in his diary while enumerating the other chores and duties of his routine, everyday life. John Evelyn offers a much more lively and descriptive account of the executions:
This day (o the stupendious & inscrutable Judgements of God) were the Carkasses of that arch-rebell Cromwell, Bradshaw the Judge who condemned his Majestie & Ireton, sonn in law to the Usurper, dragged out of their superbe Tombs (in Westminster among the Kings), to Tyburne, & hanged on the Gallows there from 9 in the morning til 6 at night, & and then buried under that fatal & ignominious Monument, in a deepe pitt: Thousands of people (who had seene them in all their pride & pompous insults) being spectators: looke back at November 22: 1658 be astnosh'd – And (fear) God & honor the King, but meddle not with them who are given to change. (Evelyn, 380)
What seems important in Evelyn's report is the symbolic relocation of the three regicides' bodies from the "superb Tombs" to the "ignominious monument in a deep pit." The chronicler reminds his readers of Cromwell's funeral on 22nd 1658 and warns not to "meddle with" Gods and Kings' divine rights. Evelyn highlights the most probable reason why Charles II resolved to have the bodies exhumed and publicly defamed. It was not pure and uninhibited vengeance that drove the King in disturbing the dead Cromwellians but to make the memory of his father endless and durable. The three heads now spiked and gazing at those visiting Westminster Hall were to make sure that nobody forgot the regicide, the revolution and the Protectorate and all their burdensome aftermaths. They also served to discourage those who considered another dethronement and those who missed the Republic.
The list of those who were to be posthumously executed included yet another name – Thomas Pride. He was one of those officers who were outstandingly hostile to the House of Commons in 1647. He carried out the "Purge" in 1648, "which immortalized his name" (Hill, 145), and, most importantly, he signed the death warrant on King Charles I. He died in 1658 and was also ear-marked to share the fate of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw, but his execution was not carried out.
Although it is difficult to guess the reason for his posthumous reprieve, it may lie in the fact that it was Pride who instigated "the officer's petition to which finally determined Cromwell not to take the Crown" (145).
Apart from the symbolic but still spectacular posthumous executions of the principal leaders of the regicide, there was a list consisting of those who were sentenced for life and those who were indeed quite cruelly lost. Adrian Scrope, Gregory Clement, and Thomas Harrison were all hanged, drawn, and quartered. Both Scrope and Clement were executed because they were among the judges who tried the King and signed the death warrant. Harrison, however, lost his life because apart from being one of the fifty-nine commissioners, he posed some real danger to the newly
restored monarchy. He was one of the most skilful and eminent Cromwellian generals actively participating in the battles of Marston Moore, Naseby, and Preston, and it was he who "guarded Charles on his last journey to London" (Hill, 171). What must have worried Charles II, however, was that Harrison was a leader of a nonconformist dissenting group called the Fifth Monarchists (or Fifth Monarchy Men), who believed that "the vision of Daniel was about to be fulfilled, when the saints of the Most High would possess the kingdom for ever and ever" (171). As Cromwell's Protectorate set up in 1653 constituted the contradiction of Harrison's visions, he "lost his commission, declined to serve the Protectorate, and was twice imprisoned in Oliver's later years" (171).
Even though, he must have posed a threat to the newly restored King for a number of reasons, he still believed in Daniel's prophecy and was awaiting the year 1666, which he believed had some relationship with the biblical Number of the Beast. If, according to the prophecy, the year 1666 was to put an end to the earthly rule of human beings and replace it with the Second Coming of the messiah, then the King might have suspected that Harrison would plot against him and the monarchy to facilitate the fulfilment of the prophecy he promoted and advocated so strongly. Such suspicions were well-grounded as Harrison decided not to flee England even when he knew that his fate had already been sealed. Therefore, the King's decision to hang, draw, and quarter Harrison had a more preventive than revengeful background.
What best defines and determines the King's dealings with his father's enemies after the Restoration in 1660 is his attitude towards Thomas Fairfax. Once the commander-in-chief in the Civil War and the most influential officer in revolutionary England, who indeed greatly contributed to the King's disposal, he refused to sign the death warrant and hence was given a royal pardon and kept his titles. Moreover, it was he who "was sent to invite Charles II to return, he welcomed the Restoration – although characteristical y, he was deeply angered by the disinterment and gibbeting of Cromwel 's corpse" (Hil , 133). It seems, then, that it was not the sheer participation or leadership in the military actions of the Civil War that was the criterion whether to punish or to reprieve, but the ability or disability to rehabilitate and to redeem one's sins committed against the monarchy.
It might also seem plausible that Charles II, as a prudent politician, had orchestrated to implement the "divide and rule" strategy in his policy to gain, maintain and reinforce his authority.
Therefore, he resolved to punish selected Cromwellians and to spare the others in order to prevent the republicans from linking up, and to spur rivalries and foment discord among those who had sided with Cromwell a few years earlier. Moreover, despite his mild character, Charles could not afford to acquit those who had tried his father and hence directly violated the divine rights of kings that the Stuarts had been advocating so firmly. Therefore, the restored King had to face a difficult challenge by keeping the balance between conciliation with the Cromwellians and punishing the chief ringleaders and perpetrators of the temporary fall of the House of Stuart in order to highlight his own firmness and prevent future revolutions.
The quoted verses from Dryden's "To His Sacred Majesty" reiterate the King's "perfection to forget." This pampering tone of the Poet Laureate serves to highlight Charles's merciful approach to some of his enemies and to foreground his greatness as a monarch who brings back peace, order and justice to a country tormented by revolution. In the following lines Dryden makes it clear that peace is the ultimate purpose of the King's policy towards the republicans, and this may be achieved only if the monarch proves to be forgiving:
Virtues unknown to these rough Northern climes
From milder heav'ns you bring, without their crimes:
Your calmnesse does no after storms provide,
Nor seeming patience mortal anger hide. (89–92)
As in the earlier poem "Astrea Redux," Dryden claims that the King's "mildness, calmness, and patience" are "the royal virtues necessary for domestic tranquillity" (Garrison 1975, 171). Although Dryden's praise may be read as advice to Charles for the future, the King seemed to have already been aware that peace was what the people of Britain longed for after years of political instability. In order to achieve it, the newly-crowned monarch had to find an equilibrium between forgetting and remembering, between forgiving and punishing.
Fraser's description of the King's return to England in an age of anxiety and rejoicing synthesizes the above argument: "Yet with these twin provisions of watchfulness against the repetition of revolution and concern for justice to his father's memory, Charles II arrived in a healing mood" (187).
- Dryden, John. 1959. The Poems of John Dryden. London: Oxford University Press.
- Evelyn, John. 2006. The Diary of John Evelyn. London: Everyman's Library.
- Fraser, Antonia. 2002. King Charles II. London: Phoenix Press.
- Garrison, James. D. 1975. Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
- Hill, C.P. 1988. Who's Who in Stuart Britain. London: Shepheard-Walwyn.
- Hutton, Ronald. 1989. Charles II Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon. 2009. The History of Rebellion. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Pepys, Samuel. 2003. The Diary of Samuel Pepys. New York: The Modern Library.


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In the summer of 2009, after three seasons at Bayern München, Lukas Podolski returned to Köln, the city where he is prince and to the club where he is revered. Fast forward four years and the Billygoats are now welcoming back another of their stars from the past; Patrick Helmes signed on a free transfer from Wolfsburg back to his hometown and childhood club, the club where he made a name for himself and where he was once regarded as one of Germany's most promising footballers.
Not big enough
Helmes signed for Köln in 1997 from Sportfreunde Siegen at the age of 13 but, after just three years, Helmes was deemed not physically strong enough and too small and returned to Siegen. In 2003 he made the first team and was playing in the Regionalliga West, becoming top scorer of the league in 2004/2005 and lifting his club to the second position, earning promotion to the 2. Bundesliga. The following season, Siegen finished rock bottom of Germany's second division but Helmes was not there to see it; that summer, he re-signed for Köln for 200,000€.
After a learning curve in his first season where Köln got relegated, Helmes was an important part of the team in his second season back in the 2. Bundesliga, scoring 14 goals in 20 matches and being called up for Germany's U21 team. However, Helmes endured a broken leg after five matches of the new season, in which he had scored 7 goals and Köln were sitting at the top of the table. He was out for four months and his absence weighed heavily on Köln's promotion chances.
When he returned in February, Köln had slipped down to 8th and ended up finishing the season a lowly 9th, with Helmes adding another 7 goals in 14 matches. His goalscoring prowess did not go unnoticed and he was duly called up by Joachim Löw to the German squad and made his debut in a 6-0 thumping of San Marino in June 2007. Things got better for Helmes and Köln as, with a fully-fit Helmes, Köln earned promotion the following year. In January, though, they were dealt a bitter blow when Helmes announced that he would be moving to Bayer Leverkusen the following season. Having briefly been named captain of the side by Christoph Daum despite his announcement, Helmes contributed with 17 goals and Köln finished 3rd and won promotion.
The long and painful road back to Cologne
Having moved on a free transfer, Helmes' transition to Leverkusen was incredibly smooth; he played all Bundesliga matches and scored 21 goals, plus another 3 in 6 in the DFB Pokal, where Leverkusen lost the final to Werder Bremen. This, however, was as good as it got for him. In the summer of 2009, he tore his cruciate ligaments and was out for 5 whole months. With Stefan Kießling and Eren Derdiyok preferred by Jupp Heynckes, Helmes fell down the pecking order. The following season he wasn't able to regain his place in the starting lineup. Trouble with Heynckes lead to a 5m€ transfer to Wolfsburg in January 2011. Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Steve McClaren signed Helmes but was sacked in March, with Felix Magath replacing him. Magath. Helmes never got on well with the taskmaster and in November 2011 Magath demoted Helmes to the U23 team due to poor performances. The Köln native wasn't called up again until late February, but Helmes bounced back from his personal demotion and scored 10 goals in the last 10 matches, lifting Wolfsbureg from 13th to 8th.
Having finished the season on a high, disaster struck again in summer; Helmes tore his cruciates once again, this time he was sidelined for 6 months. After he was fit again, he played sporadically for the first team and the reserve team, scoring goals in the Regionalliga Nord but not in the Bundesliga. He was out of favour again, this time with Dieter Hecking, behind Ivica Olic and Bas Dost in the pecking order. Without a single call-up for the first-team this season, Helmes once again sought a move, and this time it was back home – for the third time.
"An acceptable risk for all parties"
Without a future at Wolfsburg, Helmes' options seemed limited but, on transfer deadline day, he sealed a move back to Köln, who again, as they were seven years ago, are trying to get back into the Bundesliga. Admittedly, Helmes is now 29 and not 22 With two serious cruciate ligament injuries in his past and a series of niggling additional injuries the former Billygoat may hardly be considered the player he once was. However, at Köln he will feel right at home and will play without the pressure of the Bundesliga, a stage where he thrived many years ago. At this stage in his career, he is not vying for a place in the national team (who he hasn't played for since August 2010) or trophies or anything like that; all he needs is regular football. If he can stay injury-free, chances are his class will show in the division and Köln will benefit from it.
Signing for Köln isn't a step down; I'm back home – Patrick Helmes
In an interview with Bild, Helmes stated that this was "no step down" because he was "back at home", and that feeling was the main reason he's come back, because that's the feeling he'll need to "get back to the top". Helmes is also aware that some fans still haven't forgiven him for leaving to nearby Leverkusen, but his reasons for that are because he wanted to stay close to home and remain in Germany.
Of course though, injuries are obviously a topic that has come up with this transfer. Köln Sporting Director Jörg Schmadtke answered these questions by saying that "(signing Helmes) is an acceptable risk for all parties". Helmes will sign a three-year contract which will also give him the peace of mind that he won't feel that he's on trial. Trust is something he has lacked in most of the managers he's had since Christoph Daum and it will help him in confidence, a confidence destroyed by injuries. Helmes' goalscoring talents could provide Köln the edge needed to become a first-division side again. After scoring twice in his first match back, a friendly against Wuppertaler SV (9-1), the striker has hit the ground running. Whether he's ready for next week's visit to Energie Cottbus is still too early to say but there's no doubt he'll take part in the following home match against Kaiserslautern, ironically the same club he faced in his last match for Köln five years ago.
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We may be new to the California Central Coast, but Santa Cruz Natural Mattress is not new to creating healthy and superbly comfortable mattresses. Family owned and operated, Santa Cruz Natural Mattress exclusively manufactures chemical-free 100% natural latex mattresses designed to provide a superior alternative to both traditional spring mattress as well as trendy petro-chemical based memory foam mattresses.
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The magical underground caves of Rombauer Vineyards will be the site of today's Vintner's Luncheon. Hosted by second-generation family member KR Rombauer, the event will begin with a stroll through Rombauer's picturesque hillside garden, which features over 100 species of plants and whimsical works of art from the collection of Koerner Rombauer. Wine glasses in hand, guests will meander through Rombauer's network of caves where the winery's aromatic barreled-down vintages are stored. There they will be treated to a feast prepared by Calistoga Inn & Restaurant, featuring seasonal and farm-fresh foods paired with Rombauer's critically-acclaimed wines. Selections will include wines from Rombauer's Classic, Single Vineyard and Proprietor Selection Reserve portfolios as well as library wines. This is a rare opportunity to experience Rombauer Vineyards' legendary hospitality and to share in the winery's Joy of Wine.
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The swing carousel does not only bring back a lot of memories but it also became the perfect motive for the Instagrammer @lindaberlin. The blue sky with the swinging chairs gets me always in a good mood! And you really want to take a ride on the carousel now right?
What is so special about this place?
It is really trashy and a lot of people don't get my fascination about it. But at the same time you remember it and find yourself back in your childhood.
How and when did you take the photo?
In motion, in August 2013! It took me half an hour to achieve the perfect image composition. Luckily the sky played its part.
What comes to your mind when you are looking at this photo?
Adrenaline and of course beeing 200m above the ground.
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Mary E. McCoy
PhD (Northwestern University)
Outreach and Communications, Center for Southeast Asian Studies; Faculty Associate, Department of Communication Arts
(608) 263-1755
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Office Hours: Friday 3-5pm and by appointment
Dr. Mary E. McCoy oversees outreach and communications for UW-Madison's Center for Southeast Asian Studies and is the author of Scandal and Democracy: Media Politics in Indonesia (Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2019). She also teaches courses on rhetoric, politics, media, and culture in UW-Madison's Department of Communication Arts. Her primary research focus is on media and democratization, with particular emphasis on Indonesia and worldwide democratic revolutions, social movements, religious intolerance, legacies of authoritarianism, rhetorical genres, and freedom of speech.
Ph.D. Northwestern University, Communication Studies, 2005
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Southeast Asian Studies, 1995
B.A. Oberlin College, 1990
CA 310: The Discourse of Dictators, Demagogues, and Extremists
CA 470: Contemporary Political Discourse — The Rhetoric of Modern Democratic Revolutions
CA 610: Freedom of Speech in Global Perspective
CA 472: Rhetoric & Technology
Scandal and Democracy: Media Politics in Indonesia (Cornell University Press, forthcoming March 2019).
"Blasphemy, Intolerance and Democracy in Indonesia," in Vidhu Verma, ed., Religion, Secularism and Democracy in Southeast Asia (Oxford University Press – forthcoming).
Book Review, Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia, by Doreen Lee, The Journal of Asian Studies (August 2018).
"Purifying Islam in an Emerging Democracy: Metaphor and the Rise of Religious Intolerance in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia," Rhetoric & Public Affairs, vol. 16 issue 2 August 8, 2013, pp. 275-315.
"Free Speech," Encyclopedia of Global Studies (Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2012), 14 pp. ms.
Ph.D. Dissertation, "The Media in Democratic Transitions: Institutionalizing Uncertainty in Post-Suharto Indonesia" (Northwestern University, Communication Studies, 2005), 592 pp.
"News Repair and Institutional Authority in the Age of the Internet," Journal of Communication, Vol. 51, no. 1 (March 2001), pp. 164-193.
Book Review, LOSING CONTROL: Freedom of the Press in Asia, edited by Louise Williams and Roland Rich, Canberra, Australia: Asia Pacific Press, 2000.
Moderator, "Women's Rights" panel, SEASSI/SASLI/CESSI/APTLII Joint Conference 2018, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 30, 2018.
"Teaching about Genocide and the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar," presented for Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies Conference, Concourse Hotel, Madison, March 12, 2018.
Moderator, "Press Censorship Across Cultures" panel, Cultures in Conflict Conference: Navigating Cultural Difference in International Human Rights Reporting, University of Wisconsin-Madison, February 9, 2018.
"Rampaging Elephants and Burning Babies: Iconic Images from the Edge of the World," presented for panel: "Is This Genocide?: Rohingya Panel," hosted by Atheists, Humanists, & Agnostics and the Muslim Student Association, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 14, 2017.
"The Power of Scandal and Uncertainty in a New Democracy," Center for Southeast Asian Studies Spring 2017 Lecture Series, Northern Illinois University, April 21, 2017.
"Understanding Colonial Borders: The Troubled Legacy of British Imperialism in Burma/Myanmar," presentation for the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies Conference, Concourse Hotel, Madison, March 19, 2017.
Chair and discussant, "Climate of Fear: Thailand Over the Last Ten Years," Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute roundtable on Passakorn Pramunwong's documentary, ประชาธิปไทย (Paradoxocracy, 2013), University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 29, 2016.
Moderator and discussant, East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAIN) screening of Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary, The Look of Silence, Madison Central Library, Madison Wisconsin, November 14, 2015.
"Form as Resistance in the Global Migration of Genre," presented for panel: "Global Media and International Communication," National Communication Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, November 19, 2015.
"Teaching Media Literacy in Global Context," presentation for the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies Conference, Concourse Hotel, Madison, March 16, 2015.
"Media and Democratic Consolidation: Scandal, Transparency, and Institutionalized Uncertainty in Post-Suharto Indonesia," presented for panel: "New Media in Asian Politics," Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 29, 2014. (Panel named winner of the F. Hilary Conroy Award.)
League of Women Voters Great Decisions Lecture Series, Manitowoc Public Library, Manitowoc, WI, March 5, 2012, "Indonesia in the New Millennium." Invited lecture.
Co-chair and presenter, "Religious Identifications/Purifications/Excisions: Pornography and Minorities in a Muslim Democracy," presented for panel: "Religion, Globalization, and the Reframing of Human Rights Rhetoric," Rhetoric Society of America 15th Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, May 25, 2012.
Chair and presenter, "Purifying Islam in an Emerging Democracy: The Resurgence of Corporatism and Islamic Community in Indonesia," presented for panel: "Contested Patriotisms: Capturing the State Through Pride and Intolerance," National Communication Association 97th Annual Convention, New Orleans, November 11, 2011.
"The Resurgence of Corporatism and Islamic Community in Indonesia," presented for seminar: "Digital Humanities and the History of Rhetoric," Communication and Social Justice in an Age of Globalization Workshop, Rhetoric Society of America 4th Biennial Institute, Boulder, 20-26 June 2011.
"New Media and Popular Mobilization: Two Cases from Post-Authoritarian Indonesia," presented for panel: "A Status Update: Reconceptualizing Political Participation in New Media Contexts," National Communication Association 96th Annual Convention, San Francisco, November 14-17, 2010.
"Indonesia: The Triumph of Transparency," Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lecture Series, April 16, 2010,
"When Scandals Get Legs: Baligate, Buloggate, and All the Gates," Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lecture Series, December 8, 2006.
Chair and presenter, "Framing Pandemonium: Changes in Broadcast News Post-Suharto," for panel: "Changes in Media in Post-Suharto Indonesia," Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Association for Asian Studies, Madison, WI, October 21, 2006.
"Breaking the Big Story: Controlling the Narrative Arc of Scandal," presented for panel: "Summer School & Regional Conference on Investigative Journalism," Centre for Investigative Journalism, City University of London, July 22, 2006.
"Scandal in the Making of a Modern Democracy: The Case of Indonesia," Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lecture Series, September 23, 2005.
Discussant, "Legacies of Authoritarianism: Interrogating Reconciliation," Gaston Z. Ortigas Institute, Ateneo de Manila University, Legacies of Authoritarianism Research Circle, August 16, 2001.
"The Press, the Crowd, and Democratization: Insights from the Philippine Case," Midwest Graduate Conference, Madison, WI, April 27-29, 2001.
"The Media's Role in Rebuilding Democracy: Institutionalizing Uncertainty in Indonesia," Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 20, 2001.
Organizer and presenter, "Vestiges of Authoritarian Rule: The Executive and the Philippine Press," for panel: "Incomplete Transitions – Democratization and the Press in Southeast Asia," Association for Asian Studies, National Conference, Chicago, IL, March 22-25, 2001.
International Conference Coordinator and Discussant for Indonesia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Legacies of Authoritarianism Research Circle, Cape Town, South Africa, May 21-26, 2000.
"Dark Alliance: News Repair and Institutional Authority in the Age of the Internet," presented for panel: "Concepts in the Sociology of Journalism," International Communication Association, Jerusalem, Israel, July 21, 1998.
Panel chair and respondent, "The Television Industry Around the World," International Communication Association, Jerusalem, Israel, July 21, 1998.
Principal investigator, "Independent Evaluation of the Internews Media Program in Indonesia," U.S. Agency for International Development (U.S. AID), Office of Transition Initiatives & U.S. AID/Indonesia Office of Community and Civic Participation, Jakarta, June 2000, 73 pp.
Research grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Summer 2009
National Recognition of Excellence, Secondary Teaching, Educational Testing Service, November 18, 2006
Alumnae Fellow, Northwestern University, 1999-2000
Dissertation Year Fellowship, Northwestern University, 1999-2000
Dissertation Research Fellowship, Institute for the Study of World Politics, 1998-99
Research grant, Institute for the Study of World Politics, 1998-1999
Research grant, US-Indonesia Society, 1998-99
Research grant, Ford Foundation Award, Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS), Northwestern University, 1998-99
U.S. Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Consortium for the Teaching of Indonesian (COTI), Summer 1996
Research grant, U.S.-Indonesia Society, 1996
University Fellow, Northwestern University, 1995-96
Graduate Fellowship, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995-96 [declined]
U.S. Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, 1995-96, Summer 1994, 1993-94
Danforth Oberlin-in-London Scholar, 1989


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It's like another sign of spring: the rush of proposals from developers to obtain federal tax credits to help finance affordable apartments.
The latest comes from Gorman & Co., which is behind two other recent proposals that have surfaced on Milwaukee's north side, and in Oconomowoc.
This one is for another north side site, at W. Atkinson Ave. and N. 16th St. Gorman, in conjunction with the nearby St. Mark AME Church, wants to build between 50 and 60 apartments.
The apartments, with one to three bedrooms, would be on the upper levels of the four-story building, according to plans filed with the Department of City Development. The ground level would be used for the church's community center. The development would include 40 to 50 underground parking spaces, as well as surface parking.
The proposal needs zoning approval. The city Plan Commission will conduct a public hearing at its Monday meeting, which begins at 1:30 p.m., at 809 N. Broadway.
Gorman, based in Oregon, Wis., and other developers apply for federal affordable housing tax credits. It's a competition, which means not all developers get the credits they're seeking. The credits in Wisconsin are doled out annually by the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, which has a March 26 deadline for applications.
A developer sells the credits to raise equity financing for the project, which allows the developer to obtain a construction loan.
In return for the credits, a developer must provide apartments to people earning no more than 60% of the area's median income. For a two-person household in Milwaukee, such as a single parent and child, that maximum income is $32,520, with the limits increasing as the household size increases.
Gorman also is seeking credits for two other area projects: 64 apartments and 14 rental homes at the former Jackie Robinson Middle School, 3245 N. 37th St.., and 61 apartments at the former Oconomowoc Middle School building.


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Bellator 206 RESULTS AND HIGHLIGHTS
Gegard Mousasi def. Rory MacDonald in the second round at TKO (3:23)
The papier's best match, which Bellator had ever played, fell, as some expected. Introducing what it looks like when you are against the elite middleweight and the former multiple champion in a semi-hard game, you put a "bunny" in the welter. The Mousassas, a Canadian fighter, literally poured himself like a knife with butter. In any case, it was worth the effort. Rory, however, remains the welterweight champion.
Gegard Mousasi made Rory MacDonald look like he was nothing tonight complete domination with a TKO win in Round 2 Mousasi successfully defended his Bellator Middleweight Championship # Bellator206 pic.twitter.com/2I8wQWxj8s
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Rampage Jackson def. Wanderlei Silva in 2nd round at TKO (4:32)
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For years Major League Soccer has protected its financial records with a ruthlessness that is both admirable and somewhat worrying. Outsiders can only speculate as to whether the league's financial health is good or not, and to whether teams actually adhere to salary cap. Much positive press was generated this past year as MLS owners passed the "Designated Player Rule" aka the Beckham Rule which allowed teams to circumvent the salary cap to sign one international superstar. Obviously team such as the LA Galaxy and Chicago Fire (both owned by Phil Anschutz) made splashy signings, but is this really any different than MLS practices from the leagues first few seasons? The answer is in my humble opinion is no. For years certain franchise like the LA Galaxy were allowed to sign players in violation of the salary cap while other franchises such as DC United were told by the league to dump salary and players because they were over the cap.
When MLS began play in 1996 several recognizable international superstars dawned the pitch. Roberto Donadoni, Walter Zenga and Carlos Valderrama among others made salaries reported to be above that of the overall salary cap itself. In 2000, MLS went on spree of signing players who were active Europe, including Lothar Matthaeus, Khodobad Azizi, Miklos Molnar, and Hristo Stoitchkov. That same year the league made what was a disastrous signing of Luis Hernandez for a reported transfer fee of $5 million from the Mexican League. Around the same time the league made failed courtships to the likes of George Weah, Claudio Cannigia and Davor Suker. There is no way any of those players were taking a mere $6,000 a week in wages.
In 2004 the league signed former World Cup winner Yourri Djorkaeff who unlike so many of the aforementioned players actually came to MLS planning to compete rather than sit back and collect a paycheck while taking an extended holiday. The next year Landon Donovan returned to Major League Soccer after a failed stint in Germany and was reportedly paid close to a million dollars a year, which would make it mathematically impossible for LA to fit him along with 17 other senior roster players under the salary cap.
What the Beckham rule seems to be is simply codifying what has been an unofficial MLS policy for years. If a player abroad shows any interest in playing in the United States, Major League Soccer will attempt to sign him. But what the rule has done is create a splash in Europe and South America by publicizing what it has for so long denied: that it will pay top dollar for the rare player it believes will increase attendance and television ratings. Personally, I believe this is the right policy but am still at a loss to explain why MLS denied what its existence for over ten years.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Is The Beckham Rule a Farce?
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Very good points. I 100% agree. Do you think Donadoni who was still active on the Italian National Team took a mere $6,000 a week to sign with a new league. Hell no!
- April 22, 2007 2:13 PM
Your premise is sound but as always you have to attack AEG's teams and praise the last place DC United. Even when you make good points you are super biased.
- April 22, 2007 2:56 PM
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Narcissists are often described as a bit full of themselves, self-centered, and not too concerned about the effects they have on other people. This can be quite damaging to interpersonal relationships, social bonding, and social behavior. Researchers at the University of Surrey and the University of Southampton wanted to investigate whether a narcissist could feel empathy, and also whether previously non-empathetic people could change their behavior. Their findings suggested that narcissists — under the right conditions — do have the ability to empathize with other people's needs. The study result is encouraging. If relatively antisocial members of society can be empathetic, it could improve their chances for long-term relationships.
Read the entire article here: Can a Narcissist Feel Empathy?


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At the core of MAPPING's approach is mobilization of and dialogue with a wide spectrum of ICT-related stakeholders and social actors. Efforts to this end commenced in May during the Extraordinary General Assembly. MAPPING's dialogue with stakeholders intensifies this September as the partners organize a series of events in their respective countries and in Belgium. These events take the form of coordinated and comparative consultations of stakeholders, by means of Focus Group discussions.
This exercise will revolve around the three main, interrelated, problem areas considered in the project: those of Internet Governance, Privacy and Intellectual Property Rights. Based on all the Focus Group results a report will then be compiled – one of the many documents that will later inform the process when creating MAPPING project results including the Action Plan and workable policy guidelines.


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When you become a writer, you play with the degree of "seriousness."
- Do I take myself seriously?
- Or, do I take my work seriously?
I hear people complain, "Why (the fuck) is he/she so (fucking) serious?" Those folks, as I observe, tend to hang out with people who are chill and lay-back.
But before I pour my love for intense people, let me first talk about two shades of "intensity."
- Are you intense because you want to make it so bad just to prove to the world that you have what it takes? *I stay away from them. I just don't like the smell oozing out of their body. Whatever they do, you know their BIG plans from miles away.
- Or, are you intense because you have a story burning inside that you have to get it out and share with others? *Darling, shall we grab coffee sometime?
When self-help books praise (serious) people who are born with or stuck by a calling, I would give it a grain of salt.
- First off, by now you should know you ain't no Steve Jobs.
- Second, let's define "calling." Let me give it a spin: God sheds light on you and exclaims with tears in his eyes, "My Child, I have a mission that only you on Planet Earth can do. Now go make me proud."
- Third, it's too (fucking) passive. It is as if you wait outside in the rainstorm praying to get struck by lightning when there is no tree around to add to the odds.
Truth is, nobody can give you that thing called calling, clearly not those self-help books. They rub it into your soft spot to promote sales.
- If you want to be a singer, sing.
- If you want to be a painter, paint.
- If you want to be somebody, go be it.
You see, the point is not in the noun. The key is in the action — that verb. Nobody gets to define you for you, you define 'you' by doing* what you think is best for you.
*Sadly, most people decide sitting is for the best. Then they become couch potatoes and die of heart failure, literally or figurately.
I love that phrase — force of nature. I love serious people who are like that. I'm fortunate to have friended a few and see them in action.
- Wherever they go, they bring weather, they bring phenomena.
- Religious or not, they never sit on their asses waiting to be called upon by God Almighty.
- They call upon their own lazy bones and get the shit done.
That's what they DO — day in and day out.
So stop being sedentary and kid yourself that you should just focus on dreaming. Be violent! Be vocal! Announce to the world (including your archenemies, well, especially them) about your batshit crazy plans. Scare yourself the shitless.
— Then what? Then I'm afraid, darling, you now have to go do it.
— What about hmm… Plan B?
— Let me see, kill yourself.
But mind you, your dead body still has to take the blow when people pay cheap homage to you at your own beige funeral. Your archenemy would laugh at the top of her lungs, "I knew she is, strike that, she was a chicken."
Okay, maybe that's a little too heavy. Point is, once you start doing, one day you'll be livin' your dream.
I have friends who are also not from LA complaining how much they abhor the city, how dirty the streets are, how rude the people drive. I would ask, "Have you tried looking up?" "What do you mean?" "From where I come from (that is, China), the sky this blue happens every once in a blue moon." Then they smile.
There is not a single day that I don't feel like the luckiest person alive. Life is never easy, especially when we are still mapping out our future at a relatively mouldable age. But because I'm living here doing what I do, I am already grateful. All this is what I've been dreaming of consciously and unconsciously since I was a ten-year-old tootsie. That young thing who knew nothing about geography scribbled on her notebook that by 25, she would be in Meiguo, the Beautiful Country, aka. the United States.
I didn't move and live in LA until September 2015 as a twenty-seven-year-old, but I was indeed 25 the first time I toured the East Coast in January 2014 before quitting my job and applying for the program. Technically speaking, that ten-year-old was right after all.
- Don't dismiss seriousness and call it 'nerdy.'
- Don't give your inactivity, your procrastination another lofty* excuse that "I am looking for my calling."
*Lofty: I am suspicious of anything "lofty." It sounds condescending. Instead, look for things you do that give you goosebumps, that put you in the zone, aka. the Flow* as eloquently explained by Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
*Flow: also known as the zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. via Wikipedia.
One more thing.
What is art?
- Art is intimate. You can't know your art if you put it on a pedestal.
- Your art is a mirror of yourself. It's a process of understanding yourself.
- Art is an act of doing. It's work-in-progress.
- Art is hard labor. Roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty like a construction worker.
Now, do you feel the thrill, darling?
Seriousness is the ultimate sexy.
Yours truly,