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Civil War series gave Lincoln break
I have several comments on Dr. Lonnie Blizzard�s "The Civil War comes to Eastern North Carolina" series (The Free Press, Dec. 10-15).
Although his presentation basically provides an accurate picture of actual events (mostly depicted from the Federal side), it makes no mention as to what legal right did the Lincoln regime have to invade the South.
Although the Lincoln regime redefined treason to be opposition to the central government as part of its attempt to justify invading the South, the Constitution still provides the only legitimate definition of treason. Article 3, Section 3, states: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or adhering to their enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." Note the term "United States" referred to what the Founding Fathers intended, a union of sovereign states.
Since Lincoln never admitted that the 11 Southern states that declared secession had really ever left the union, it was he (and his cohorts) who actually committed treason by raising an army (instead of Congress) and invading the South without a Congressional declaration of war.
The presentation contended that Federal General Foster deployed troops to protect private property. According to several sources (including John E. Williams Papers, Personal Collections and "The Civil War in North Carolina"), Foster�s troops destroyed private property and forced civilians out of their homes on numerous occasions, including at least one lady on her deathbed.
Lastly, the caption for the photo of the graveyard in the Dec. 11 installment stated it contained the final resting places of several "Civil War" veterans. I placed the VA markers and North Carolina Republic flags (original N.C. flag adopted in 1861) to honor the "Confederate" veterans interred in this cemetery.
Walter L. Adams Jr.
Heritage Defense Officer
Sons of Confederate Veterans
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Gun control clamor recalls Nazi�s rule
Let me say first that what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School was the work of a sick-minded man. The Bible speaks of these as demon-filled people. It wasn�t the guns� fault, and it wasn�t the mother�s fault for teaching her son to shoot. He, and he alone, made that decision!
I was looking on the Internet this past Christmas night for information to draw from. Are you aware that on Dec. 14, 2012, a man by the name of Min Yon gin stabbed 20 children on their way to school? This happened in China and was reported by the Chinese News Agency.
Are you also aware that Communist countries like China and Russia are urging President Obama to take away our guns? The U.S. media ignores stories like this, and stories of quick-minded gun owners who save lives.
Are you also aware that four out of nine United States Supreme Court Justices believe that only the government should have guns? The U.S. Constitution clearly states in the second half of the Second Amendment "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." We are dangerously close to repeating history.
Now the research that I dug up: According to a book written by Robert Proctor, Adolf Hitler was somewhat similar to today�s Democratic Party. The Nazi�s restricted tobacco ads, banned smoking in buildings, regulated tobacco farmers and sued tobacco companies. The Nazis also raised taxes on tobacco, and removed cigarette vending machines. Sound familiar? Research it yourself.
Other similarities include animal rights campaigns and persecution of the church. According to German and Austrian police records, Hitler was listed as a male prostitute from 1907 to 1914. One side-note: Hitler preferred Islam to Christianity. Remember, Osama Bin Laden thought a lot of Adolf Hitler! According to author Michael Burleigh, "the strongest opposition to the Nazi ideology and criminality came from conservative "men of God!" Remember, God views homosexuality as an abomination. The modern Democrats champion the cause.
The Nazi Weapons Act of 1938 that was approved March 18, 1938, had a lot of similar regulation that we face today. All citizens had to register their gun with the Nazis, citizens had to undergo a background check, ammunition that was legal was subject to control by government bureaucrats, and juveniles under 18 could not buy guns or ammunition! On Oct. 1, 1938, Jews were not allowed to buy, keep or carry a gun. If found, the government would take it and place the Jewish citizen in prison for up to five years.
In short, we live in a time where legislation is considered by a knee-jerk response without viewing or thinking about the future! Gun control was started by the Germans. And where it exists, it is illegal and a failure.
When you take away a citizen�s right to own a gun, the government can do as it pleases. The German Nazis were trying to kill the Jews. Blacks would have been next, followed by Christians.
Guns aren�t the problem; people are! There are those who say that we cling to our guns and our religion. To them I say, I certainly do!
Lennie E. Peterson
Veterans group has a gala ball planned
Ever been accused of being eccentric? I own up to it. It�s OK. God is perfect. I am not, and that is OK. I was venting to someone recently about how hard I was working to accomplish something, and people I was counting on weren�t showing up, and �my frustration was showing and she said, "Why, Debby; it�s not about you."
Her comment stopped me in my tracks, and inside I wanted to argue, that yes, I know, this work is a mission of God, and I feel responsible � but no, her words were liberating. I think of them often when I start to get frazzled; and remind myself, "Do my best and trust God to do the rest."
We at Veterans Challenge, are working to make this area a haven for military families, a welcoming place with community support, and Christian caring. We want those traveling distances for our events to experience that unity and spread the word, and look forward to attending other functions here.
One of the current projects we are excitedly working on, and could use help from your readers, is to honor active military, Guard, reservists and veterans with a Veterans Ball on Saturday night, Jan. 12. The tickets are just $5 and include food, dancing, prizes, gifts. There will be a cash bar, discounted photography and rooms for those who would like to stay the night or weekend. The Veterans Ball is being held at the elegant Grand Ballroom of Kinston�s Hampton Inn. We�ve sold tickets to guests in Havelock, Cary, Asheville, Black Mountain, Myrtle Beach � and would sure like to sell more to Lenoir County residents and those nearby.
I�ve had a couple people tell me they wouldn�t support the Veterand Ball because of the cash bar, and that�s all well and good as I know some people cannot be where alcohol is served and I respect that. However, some other people look for something to be judgmental about. If Jesus showed up visibly in the office right now, would I be ashamed of our fliers indicating a cash bar? If you won tickets to a desirable cruise would you refuse them because alcohol is served aboard?
Let�s all re-commit ourselves to appreciate the strengths of one another, be thankful, look for the favorable qualities, care, love, rejoice, sing, dance, uplift and encourage one another, eat, drink and be merry! And believe!
The Veterans Challenge motto is: "promoting the health & prosperity of veterans & the community." Help us do that. Those who would like to assist with our Veterans Ball should tell anyone who has ever served in the military about it, and that they can get tickets at the Veterans Challenge office, second door from DMV at Vernon Park Mall. Pick up, make copies of, make available or pass out our ball fliers, and/or email it to your contacts. If you received a Christmas present you don�t plan to use because it�s not the right for you, any kind of item can be added to our prize table. Send a tax deductible donation to our non-profit corporation. Call, text, email, or come by and offer to assist in some way. United we stand so all benefit.
Debby Guthrie
Veterans Challenge
Volunteers made city parade shine
The 2012 Kinston Christmas Parade was once again a successful event. There were many people in this community that helped make it a success.
We would like to acknowledge our sponsors for this year. They were Tands Inc./Bojangles; Hillco, Ltd; Stallings Plumbing, Heating, and Air Conditioning; Domestic Industries; Alsco; KNC; m3 Consulting & Services; Evans & Associates; Olympian Restaurant; Tokyo House; and Dr. William Brown, DDS.
In addition to this, We would like to acknowledge TACC-9/Adnet Productions; Pride of Kinston; and the Community Council for Arts, which hosted the popular "cookies with Santa" after the parade. Also, many thanks to our band and float judges this year.
The parade committee consists of individuals throughout Kinston who are committed to put this annual event together even when the temperatures reach triple digits in the summer months. A big thank you to the following committee members: Martha Bishop, co-chair, TACC-9; Debra Oliver, Pride of Kinston; Major Ronnie Ingram, Kinston Public Safety; Tim Knobeloch, Parks and Recreation Department; Lucy Marston, Visitors & Information Center; Jessika Morgan, The Free Press; and Sandy Landis, Community Council for the Arts. Also, thanks to Jenny Inabinet, Galen Treble, and others who helped coordinate the line-up at Grainger Stadium. Thank you to the Public Safety Department for all its help, also.
We would like to announce the winners of the floats in the categories of Most Creative, Best Theme and Best Overall.
Most Creative: First Place � Troop 41 from Gordon Street Christian Church; Second Place � RADD Inc.; Third Place � Greene Lamp/Head Start.
Best Theme: First Place � Lenoir County Health Department; Second Place � Kinston First Pentecostal Holiness Church; Third Place � Holy Spirit Catholic Church.
Best Overall � Caswell Developmental Center. Congratulations to all the winners!
The winners in the band competition are:
Middle School: First Place � Woodington Middle School; Second Place � E.B. Frink Middle School.
High School: First Place � Kinston High School; Second Place � North Lenoir High School. Congratulations to all the bands. All of you were great!
We hope that everyone has a wonderful holiday season. May 2013 bring lots of joy, peace, and happiness. See you in Downtown Kinston for next year�s parade!
Martha Bishop
Lea Jeffress,
Parade Co-Chairs


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By Michelle Rafferty
The announcement of another zombie tv show, exhibits our intensifying zombie love, but why do we dig this monster so much? He's everywhere: in our novels, on television, and even the stage, but why? I decided to investigate and narrowed it down to the following:
1.) Monsters are now highbrow.
Steve Asma, author of On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our Worst Fears, told me over e-mail:
High culture aficionados have always looked down their noses at the genre – in part because kids (who generally have no taste whatsoever) are so enviably thrilled by monster stories. And also, truth be told, there have been so many bad monster stories, movies, and television shows, that intellectual and critical dismissal is almost justifiable.
Good monster stories, however, are proliferating of late. Zombie stories, for example, have taken on a whole new level of sophistication – and not just because they're suddenly cropping up in Jane Austen novels. Good monster stories are only partly about exotic and frightening creatures. Successful monster stories are, of course, about us. They explore aspects of the human condition that cannot be seen or examined straight on, but must be glimpsed obliquely. Lust, fear, rage, vulnerability, craving, alienation, regret; these are the emotional territories that monster stories can explore beautifully.
2.) Zombies are less scary than our own families.
Soho Press just announced it will publish J. Ross Angelella's Zombie, the story of a 14-year-old boy who deals with all-boys Catholic school and father issues through both women's magazines and zombie movies.
I asked Justin Hargett, Director of Publicity at Soho Press, why this book is so special. He said:
In the end – this has always been true of good fiction that deals with monsters – it's got to be about the human characters, as well as offering some window onto society. In the case of Zombie, the kid's obsession with Zombie movies offers him life lessons and strategies for coping with his family situation, which can be confusing and alienating to a kid.
3.) Zombies make good prime-time after school specials.
On a special Sunday Glee, Coach Beiste and Mr. Schuester cooked up a scheme to bring together McKinley's divided football team right before their championship game: Zombie camp! After hours of lurch training and zombie make-up sessions the football players really did begin to understand what glee is all about. Brittany put it best:
Zombie camp was funner than I expected. And the glee club together with the football team, it's like a double rainbow. A zombie double rainbow.
A slushie run-in with the hockey team nearly ended the glee/jock alliance, but the football players come through for the Thriller/Heads Will Roll mash-up half time performance. And then. The team won the big game by staying in zombie costume and growling "brraaaaaaiiiinssss" at the opposing team.
It makes sense the zombie was behind this momentary peace at McKinley High. According to Asma's On Monsters, zombies classify as liminal (from the Latin word limen meaning "threshold") because they are neither living or dead. They are difficult to define (like other "monsters" in history including hermaphrodites, the Minotaur, and Frankenstein's creature), but Asma argues, so are we all:
Of course, the extraordinary and the ordinary are often just different by degree rather than kind. So the extent to which everyone is a little hard to categorize is the extent to which we are all liminal.
I imagine a sage Puck voice-over: Everyone, even the Puckster, is kind of weird. Who better than the monster to help us embrace that fact?


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PITTSBURGH (AP) Charlie Batch paused last week when he was asked if he could make the same throws he did a decade ago.
``No!'' the soon-to-be 38-year-old Steelers backup quarterback said before bursting into laughter.
Turns out, he was right.
Passes fluttering in the late fall wind, Batch tossed three interceptions - two in the fourth quarter - in Sunday's comically bad 20-14 loss to the Cleveland Browns. Pittsburgh turned it over eight times, committed nine penalties and scored two measly touchdowns against a team it had beaten in 16 of the last 17 meetings.
``I put the game on my shoulders to try and go down and put my team in the end zone and I wasn't able to do that,'' Batch said.
The loss is hardly on Batch's shoulders - not when the Steelers (6-5) fumbled the ball away five times - but with the Browns daring Batch to beat them with his arm by stacking the line of scrimmage to shut down the running game, Batch's ineffectiveness showcased just how ramshackle the Steelers can look without injured starter Ben Roethlisberger under center.
It's uncertain if Roethlisberger's sprained right (throwing) shoulder will be ready to go next Sunday at rival Baltimore (9-2). What is certain? The Steelers - arguably the hottest team in the league after a road victory over the New York Giants three weeks ago - have run out of any wiggle room if they want to make the playoffs.
The Steelers are tied with Cincinnati for the AFC's second wild card spot with five weeks remaining in the regular season. Pittsburgh's remaining schedule includes a trip to Dallas and visits from San Diego and the Bengals in addition to Sunday's journey to Baltimore, where the Steelers have won just twice in their last nine visits.
``It leaves us in a little bit of a hole,'' linebacker James Harrison said.
One that could be particularly difficult to crawl out of if Roethlisberger doesn't return soon. The Steelers have scored just two offensive touchdowns in the 10-plus quarters since he went down in the third quarter of a 16-13 overtime win against the Chiefs on Nov. 12.
Batch and fellow backup Byron Leftwich - out indefinitely with fractured ribs - have been rusty and the three-pronged rushing attack has gone nowhere. Coach Mike Tomlin insists there's no need to pick a feature back among Rashard Mendenhall, Isaac Redman and Jonathan Dwyer, saying he has confidence in all three.
That confidence is all but gone after the trio managed 15 carries for 22 yards and three fumbles against the Browns.
``The running backs, we didn't do well, and we put (Batch) in bad situations,'' Dwyer said. ``We put our defense in bad situations. The running game was supposed to help Charlie out. We let him down.''
Injuries to right tackle Mike Adams and left guard Willie Colon didn't help matters, though the patchwork line had been one of the team's most pleasant surprises. Pittsburgh had a back top 100 yards three times during a four-game winning streak that helped the Steelers rebound from a 2-3 start, finding success with whomever they put out there.
Now, whomever they put out there can't hold onto the ball.
``We are going to play people that can secure the football, but after everybody does it, obviously there aren't very many choices left,'' Tomlin said.
And his team has no choice but to shore things up - quickly - if it wants to play into January, though at this point Pittsburgh would settle for playing something resembling ``Steeler football.''
``I think everybody should have a resolve about themselves to play better and to get better at their craft,'' tight end Heath Miller said. ``I think sometimes it's harder to do when you win a few games; you play well, it's easy to overlook some things. I don't see how we can overlook what we need to do to get better at this point.''
The defense included, even if it did everything it could to keep the Steelers in it. Cleveland's two touchdown drives totaled just 41 yards in length thanks to turnovers that gave the Browns excellent field position.
Pittsburgh sacked Brandon Weeden four times, returned an interception for a score and held Cleveland to just 238 yards.
Still, it wasn't enough to prevent the Steelers from enduring their first two-game losing streak in three years.
``We have to make plays,'' nose tackle Casey Hampton said. ``You can sit here and say `We turned the ball over this many times,' but we get opportunities to get turnovers we have to do that too and give our team the short field sometimes. You can't put it all on one side of the ball. It's everybody. Everybody could have done a little bit more to win.''
NOTES: The Steelers activated rookie LG David DeCastro from the injured reserve/return list. DeCastro, the team's first-round pick in the draft, hasn't played since injuring his right knee in a preseason win over Buffalo in August ... The team placed RT Marcus Gilbert on injured reserve. Gilbert missed the last six games with ligament damage in his right ankle ... The Steelers also released WR David Gilreath and promoted OL John Malecki to the active roster.
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The post-holiday lull in activities has passed and it�s back to a busy schedule of activities in the area.
The post-holiday lull in activities has passed and it�s back to a busy schedule of activities in the area.
This week features something of interest most every day, including a busy Sunday afternoon with a noted Civil War historian and a scholar talking about drone warfare in separate New Bern lectures.
Selected Friday nights are now major art evenings in downtown New Bern, with the monthly ARTcrawl and the ArtWalk every other month.
Both are on the second Friday of the month and are featured this week.
It is an after-hours self-walking tour of galleries, shops, restaurants and public settings such as Bear Plaza.
The activities begin at 5 p.m.
Two local stage shows open this week, courtesy of Ratio and Civic theaters.
Ratio opens �Clybourne Park� on Friday, with more shows on Saturday and Sunday, along with Jan. 11, 17, 18 and 19.
Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Cullman Performance Hall in the North Carolina History Center, along with a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee.
Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for students, available on the web: ratiotheatre.org or at the Ratio box office, 901 Pollock St.
New Bern Civic Theatre opens its 2014 season Friday with the comedy �The Underpants,� a PG-13 rated comedy directed by Jordan Daughety and produced by Karen Pierson.
Show dates are Friday, Saturday, Jan. 17 and 18 at 7:30 p.m., along with 2 p.m. matinees on Sunday and Jan. 19.
Tickets are $17 in advance, $19 at the door and $10 for students and active duty military.
Call the box office at 633-0567 or on the web: newberncivictheatre.org
Civic information is also at facebook.com/newberncivictheatre.org
Here is a sampling of other top events this week:
Pulitzer prize-nominated poet Peter Makuck will read from his poetry and short stories in New Bern on Tuesday. He will be at the New Bern-Craven County Public Library at 4 p.m. He then will read as the featured poet at the First Tuesday Poetry Open Mike at 7 p.m. at the Trent River Coffee Company. Both events are free.
The George Street Senior Center offers T�ai Chi for Arthritis and Balance classes beginning Wednesday.
Classes are free to those over age 60 each Wednesday at 1 p.m. and Friday at 2 p.m. There is a small charge to those ages 50 to 59. The Arthritis Foundation and Harvard Medical School have endorsed this gentle form of T�ai Chi as beneficial in strengthening muscles and enhancing balance, while shifting the body and mind into deeper levels of relaxation. Call Kimberly Grissom at 638-1790.
The Pamlico Public Library has Junior Anime, a chance to immerse in Japanese culture, at 3 p.m. on Thursday.
Knitting, from basics to intermediate techniques and advanced patterns, is offered Friday at 10 a.m.
At 3 p.m., the Teen Library Council meets to decorate the library, decide on new YA books and other activities.
A family movie is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Saturday. Bring your own lunch.
ARTcrawl has its monthly second-Friday exhibit downtown of artists, live performers and demonstrators.
It is produced through the Community Artist Will.
ARTcrawl also includes members from Bohemian Artists of New Bern.
About 25 venues and artists are featured, according to the CAW web site.
For a map, on the web: communityartistwill.com
A Friday 5 p.m. ArtWalk reception will open a one-man show by New Bern artist Chris Wagner, whose watercolors exhibit remains on display through February at the Bank of the Arts, home of the Craven Arts Council.
According to the ArtWalk guide, these are the other participants:
A new downtown venue makes its debut at Cheshire Moon Gallery, 323B Middle St. Call 557-9783 for information.
The Accidental Artist on Craven Street offers free studio time from 5 to 8 p.m. Call 634-3411.
The Next Chapter Bookstore on South Front Street has �Chasing the Light of the Carolinas,� photography by Gary Hollar.
The Tryon Palace Museum Store at the N.C. History Center on South Front Street has a book signing by Karen Dodd, author of �Deadbeat at the Palace.� It also features the sculpture garden, with works by Paris Alexander, Jonathan Bowling, Jim Gallucci and Hanna Jubran.
Fine Art at Baxters on Pollock Street features �Quiet Places,� realist paintings by Coni Minneci, with a 5 p.m. reception.
Carolina Creations on Pollock Street kicks off the eighth annual Valentine Card Show, featuring Craven County Schools� student art.
Bear Hands Art Factory, at its new location at 1208 Pollock St., hosts a session to create for the Empty Bowls fundraiser, which comes up next month. There is a $10 studio fee, and potters are available to assist.
Other participating ArtWalk venues include Morgan�s Tavern & Grill on Craven Street; Caroline McGath Newborn Photography, The Chelsea and The Four C�s on Middle Street; and Mitchell Hardware on Craven Street.
The Down East FolkArts Society will present Dana and Susan Robinson in two coastal concerts this weekend.
They bring their Appalachian tunes to Trent River Coffee Company on Friday and the following night at Clawson�s Restaurant in Beaufort.
The doors open at 7 p.m. and the performance is an hour later.
Tickets are $15 general admission, with $12 tickets for active duty military and society members. Full-time students are admitted for $8.
The Twin Rivers Camellia Club will host �Camellia Blooms on Display� Saturday at the New Bern Farmers Market.
The blooms and arrangements from the club members� gardens will be available 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Club members will be available to answer questions. Call 638-5250 for information.
The Blackbeard exhibit of artifacts from his ship Queen Anne�s Revenge is ongoing at the N.C. History Center.
More high-sea adventure is planned from 8 to 10 a.m. on Saturday with �Pancakes and Pirates.�
It is scheduled for Mattocks Hall in the history center on South Front Street. Join the infamous pirate, Blackbeard, for his favorite meal � pancakes.
Other activities include sea shanties, chatting with pirates and building your own treasure chest.
Admission is $10 for adults and youth age 11 and up. Children age 10 and under eat for free, courtesy of Bob and Carol Mattocks.
Then, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the theme continues with �Pirates in the Palace.�
The afternoon will be filled with crafts and lessons from pirates. A treasure map will lead visitors over the Palace grounds in search of Blackbeard�s booty.
The Eastern North Carolina Bluegrass Association has its monthly show Saturday night at Lenoir Community College in the Waller Auditorium in Kinston.
The show begins at 7 p.m., with Carolina Grass. They are followed by an 8 p.m. open mic session and Damascus Ridge at 8:30 p.m.
Admission is $7 at the door. Children age 12 and under are admitted free. The doors open at 6 p.m.
Civil War historian Ed Bearss again appears in New Bern on Sunday for his eighth annual presentation � �Lincoln and His Generals, Their Relationships and Issues.�
Bearss provides insight into this subject in his unique manner at 2 p.m. at Christ Church Ministry Center on Middle Street in New Bern.
Visitors are asked for a donation of $10, with all proceeds going to support the New Bern Battlefield Park.
Bearss is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of World War II, a military historian, an author known for his work on the American Civil War and World War II eras, and a popular tour guide of historic battlefields.
He served as Chief Historian of the National Park Service from 1981 to 1994 and is now Chief Historian Emeritus.
To reserve a seat or to get additional information, call the New Bern Historical Society at 638-8558.
The lecture is presented by the New Bern Civil War Round Table and the New Bern Historical Society.
John Kaag, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, is the guest speaker for the 2 p.m. Rothermel Foundation lecture Sunday at First Presbyterian Church in New Bern.
His talk is titled �The Ethics of Drone Warfare.�
On the web: rothermelfoundation.org
Charlie Hall can be reached at 252-635-5667 or email@example.com


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The Warning Track averages about 14 feet in width and runs the entire perimeter of the baseball field. On a non-game day, the Warning Track may be set with limited seating and/or staging for your conference, graduation, concert or bar/bat mitzvah.
Exact capacities for each configuration depend upon overall setup requirements for each individual event. Capacities are subject to change without notice.


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Jan. 2, 2009
NORTH SMITHFIELD, R.I. - Big second halves from a pair of players helped Bryant top Yale Friday afternoon. Peter Lambert scored 13 of his 16 points in the final 20 minutes, and Nick Pontes had all 15 of his points in the second stanza to lead Bryant to a 69-58 victory at the Chace Athletic Center. Ross Morin scored 17 points to pace the Bulldogs.
Yale played an excellent first half, shooting 52.2 percent from the field, while holding Bryant to 31.6 percent. The Bulldogs led 11-2 after six minutes, and built the lead to 16, 31-15, on Morin's layup with 2:53 remaining.
The second half, though, was a different story. Bryant opened the half with an 18-3 run, capped by a Chris Birrell three-pointer that tied the score at 37-37 with 13:50 left. Birrell's three-pointer nearly five minutes later gave Bryant the lead for good, 44-41.
Birrell made three treys in the game and finished with 14 points, seven rebounds, five assists and three steals in 35 minutes. Barry Latham also added 14 points and five assists.
Morin was 6 of 11 from the field to lead the Bulldogs. He is averaging 18.0 points in his last three games. Travis Pinick added 13 points, nine rebounds and three assists. Porter Braswell scored eight points and Alex Zampier and Garrett Fiddler had seven apiece. Michael Sands pulled down eight rebounds in 22 minutes off the bench.
The Bulldogs, who were playing their third game in the last six days, outrebounded Bryant 39-28.
Yale is right back in action on Saturday, hosting MIT at 2 p.m. at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. It will be the first home game for the Bulldogs since a Dec. 3 win over Holy Cross.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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By John Goralski
Sports Writer
In the final week of the season, Hall-Southington completed the season sweep of last year's division III champion, but Coach Brian Cannon isn't ready to discuss this year's brackets.
The Warrior-Knights lost a tight battle against Conard in the regular season finale. One game earlier, they edged Newington-Berlin for the second time this season, but it was the fourth-straight loss to Bolton-Coventry-Rockville that has captured Cannon's attention.
Cannon's crew will have one more chance at their nemesis in the conference championship this weekend before they'll turn their attention to the postseason brackets.
"We don't play well against them," said Cannon. "We don't match up well against them, and we seem to have trouble getting motivated when we play them. Now, here's another chance."
For a short span in the second period, the Warrior-Knights were actually tied against Bolton, 1-1. Dave Valentukonis opened the period with the game-tying goal, but Bolton rallied for the next five scores to capture a 6-1 decision.
"I will give them credit. I don't think they're nearly as talented or deep as us, but they out-work us," said the coach. "It's just one of those bad chemistry things. For whatever reason, and we can't put our fingers on it, we just don't match up."
That wasn't the case the following day as the team built a 2-0 lead over Newington with goals by Owen Kantor and Brian Mahon. Newington managed to trim the lead to one goal, but Hall-Southington held on for a 2-1 victory over the defending state champs.
Justin Rose, Trey Lerner, and Jarod florian earned assists. Jeff Moore made 24 saves, and Hall-Southington earned their 12th win of the season.
Cannon was even pleased with a 3-0 loss to Conard in Saturday's finale. Hall-Southington won the first meeting of the cross-town rival in early February, but Conard evened the record in the rematch. Still, the division II Chieftains struggled against Cannon's crew.
"They had one legit goal in the first period, but they had two flukey goals," said the coach. "History tells us that this is the natural order of things, but we played a decent game. We just didn't put away our chances, and that's basically what happened."
With two wins and a loss in the final week, Hall-Southington enters the postseason with a 12-6-1 record. First, they'll face Bolton in the conference finals. Then, they'll turn their attention to a possible first round matchup with Masuk, a team that battled the locals to a tie in early February.
"We're basically guaranteed two games right now," said the coach. "I'd like to see us win on Saturday, but we have to go out and do it. It's a matter of showing up and being ready to go."
As of Tuesday, Saturday's start has not been posted. Information will be available by Saturday on the CCC website at www.centralconnecticutconference.org.


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The return of the 5.0
This project came about due to a couple of buddies of mine. Joe is in the Army and was deployed in the middle east last year. Shaun is big into supporting our troops, and while Joe was away he sent him a pretty sweet care package.
Shaun is also a Ford guy through and through, and as soon as it was possible to order a '11 'Stang, he put his paperwork in. As a token of thanks for the care package, Joe commissioned me to do a sculpture of the Mustang for Shaun.
I was helping another friend, Matt, do a photo shoot of the car in Detroit, so we all met down there and Joe gave Shaun the sculpture. It was pretty cool, Shaun was definitely stoked!
You can go here to check out the pics from that shoot, Matt does some ridiculous work, and the car is SICK:
And here is the sculpture, more pics are here as well http://www.flickr.com/photos/browndo...624097985398/:


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The criminal justice system has evolved greatly in recent years. No longer can applicants with minimal job skills expect to be hired. Today's successful candidates must understand and demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of the profession and pass measurable performance standards. Students in the Bluegrass Community and Technical College program receive this advanced instruction as part of their required coursework.
The Criminal Justice (CRJ) degree curriculum offers students a strong academic program which includes courses relating to human behavior, government, communications, theories in policing, corrections, and issues and ethical considerations pertaining to practitioners within the criminal justice system.
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The Criminal Justice Degree has four tracks: Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Corrections, and Security and Loss Prevention. These tracks require additional CRJ courses as follows: Law Enforcement Track (Introduction to Law Enforcement), Corrections Track (Introduction to Corrections) and Security and Loss Prevention (Principles of Asset Protection).
We also offer Certificates in the areas of Criminal Justice Core, Corrections, Law Enforcement, and Security and Loss Prevention. Each certificate requires 15 hours of course work. These certificates are great for those students who may already be employed in the field and are looking to enhance their knowledge for promotion etc, but don't want to commit to an entire degree program.
BCTC's Criminal Justice program prepares its graduates for entry level positions in policing, corrections, and related occupations within the criminal justice system. With experience, Criminal Justice graduates may also advance into administrative or supervisory positions in policing, corrections, security and loss prevention, or other components of the criminal justice system.
The field of criminal justice offers a wide range of specialties and areas of emphasis that all share with one common objective -- to assure the safety of people and property. Many professionals within the criminal justice field are servants to the public, providing safety, information, and rehabilitation services to others. The world continues to unite though global connections and the use of technology within government and law enforcement systems. As this communication increases, so will the opportunities for graduates of the Criminal Justice Program at Bluegrass Community and Technical College.
Currently, background checks are not required for students in the Criminal Justice program. However, students should understand that certain factors, such as felony convictions, substance abuse, and excessive traffic related offenses, may disqualify applicants from employment in the criminal justice field. Students seeking employment in criminal justice should research the requirements and disqualifies of their desired areas or agencies of employment.


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Portuguese literature
Portuguese literature, the body of writing in the Portuguese language produced by the peoples of Portugal, which includes the Madeira Islands and the Azores.
The literature of Portugal is distinguished by a wealth and variety of lyric poetry, which has characterized it from the beginning of its language, after the Roman occupation; by its wealth of historical writing documenting Portugal's rulers, conquests, and expansion; by the moral and allegorical Renaissance drama of Gil Vicente; by Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads), the 16th-century national epic of Luís de Camões; by the 19th-century realist novels of José Maria de Eça de Queirós; by Fernando Pessoa's poetry and prose of the 20th century; by a substantial number of women writers; and by a resurgence in poetry and the novel in the 1970s, which culminated in José Saramago's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
Portuguese literature, which until the 19th century lay largely unstudied and unknown outside of Portugal, has a distinct individuality and is an expression of a clearly defined national temperament and language. Yet from its beginning it has been exposed to many different linguistic and national influences. The first book published in Portugal was in Hebrew; the influence on the medieval Portuguese lyric of the Mozarabic kharjah and the muwashshaḥ, written in both Arabic and Hebrew, is still a matter of dispute. Provençal practices dominated troubadours' performances. Castilian literature provided models for court poetry and theatre until Francisco de Sá de Miranda brought Renaissance forms from Italy in 1526. The closeness of Portugal's contacts with Spain, reinforced by dynastic marriages that often gave the court at Lisbon a predominantly Spanish atmosphere, explains why for two centuries and more after 1450 nearly every Portuguese writer of note spoke and wrote both Portuguese and Castilian. Some Portuguese writers' works, such as those by Vicente, Jorge de Montemayor, and Francisco Manuel de Melo, are numbered among the classics of Spanish letters. French literary and aesthetic standards dominated the 18th century and continued into the 19th, when the Romantic movement brought to Portugal English and, to a lesser degree, German influence that persisted for more than a century. After his death Pessoa was discovered and enthroned as the quintessential figure of European Modernist literature; his writings, in both English and Portuguese, as well as those of Saramago, reaffirmed the internationalism of Portuguese literature in the 20th century.
This article focuses on Portuguese literature produced within the boundaries of modern-day Portugal. Portuguese is also the language of Brazil and five African countries—Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe. The literatures of these countries are treated separately under Brazilian literature and African literature.
Writings of the early period
Although no literary documents belonging to the 12th century (the first century of Portugal's history as a nation) have survived, there is evidence of the existence of an indigenous popular oral poetry in sung verse during the preceding centuries. A composition attributed to Alfonso X, a 13th-century king of Castile and Leon, is the earliest extant parallelistic song—a brief, repetitive lyrical poem marked by a wistful sadness that runs throughout Portuguese literature. Of the many later poems that survive, most belong to the major categories of cantigas de amor ("songs of love"; a male voice singing of problems of love), cantigas de amigo ("songs of the lover"; a male poet singing in a female voice to express a wide range of predicaments of love), and cantigas de escárnio e maldizer ("songs of mockery and vilification"). This body of lyrics shows the vitality of a school of poetry in Galician-Portuguese, an early dialect spoken in Galicia and the north of Portugal. Lyrics of this school were inspired by the sophisticated Provençal songs of the troubadours as well as anchored in the oral verse forms of popular tradition. This poetry reached its peak of creativity about 1240–80 under the patronage and with the direct participation of Alfonso X, although his father had begun to receive musicians and performers (trovadores and jograis) before this period. Under Alfonso X, the centre of this literary activity shifted from Galicia and the north of Portugal to Toledo (now in Spain), where it remained until his death. He was also the composer of the great majority of its texts.
In Portugal this poetic movement coincided with the reign (1248–79) of Afonso III. Dinis, his son, had a deep interest in literature and was considered the best poet of his age in the Iberian Peninsula. As king, Dinis founded in 1290 his country's first university, at Lisbon. He encouraged translation into Portuguese of outstanding works from Castilian, Latin, and Arabic, and the musicians in his court enjoyed the most highly cultivated practice of this national poetics. In all, about 2,000 poems by some 200 poets of this period were preserved in three great cancioneiros ("songbooks"): the Cancioneiro da Ajuda, the Cancioneiro da Vaticana, and the Cancioneiro Colocci-Brancuti (now known as the Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional). The first contains compositions that predate the death of Alfonso X in 1284; it was probably compiled in the late 13th century. The latter two cancioneiros include material from the 13th and 14th centuries; they are 14th-century copies that were made in Italy, probably from a 14th-century original. Modern editions resulted from the work of the 19th-century philologists and medievalists Carolina Michaelis de Vasconcelos, J.J. Nunes, and Teófilo Braga.
Where Portuguese courtly verse was traditionally concerned with love, religion, and the sea, the ballads known collectively as the romanceiro mixed those themes with adventure, war, and chivalry. Few of these ballads can be dated earlier than the 15th century; they belong to a tradition of anonymous poetry kept alive by oral transmission, by which they were spread across Europe and North Africa after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal in the late 15th century. The romanceiro experienced a late artificial flowering from known poets in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Religious writings, brief annals of the early kings, moral tales, and books of descent formed the earliest Portuguese prose texts. The 14th-century Livro de linhagens ("Book of Genealogy") of Pedro Afonso, count of Barcelos, constituted a landmark by going beyond genealogy to history and legend. The work contains short epic narratives, romances, and tales of adventure and fantasy. He was also responsible for the compilation in 1344 of the Crónica geral de Espanha ("General Chronicle of Spain"), of interest, within the peninsular tradition of the chronicle genre, for its original versions of well-known legends, such as that of Afonso Henriques, who (as Afonso I) was the first king of Portugal. Portuguese prose narrative also developed in the chivalric romance, for which Amadís de Gaula (14th century; Amadís of Gaul)—thought to have been written originally in Portuguese or Castilian—was a prototype.
The early popularity of subject matter based on Celtic tradition is attested in the five songs based on Breton lays with which the Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional opens. The ideals of chivalry and the spirit of sentimental adventure associated with the knights of the Round Table strongly appealed to the Portuguese imagination: História dos Cavaleiros da Távola Redonda ("History of the Knights of the Round Table") and the Demanda do Santo Graal ("Search for the Holy Grail"), adapted from the French, are the chief relics of the considerable writing in this genre.
The 15th and 16th centuries
Historical chronicles and poetry
After the marriage in 1387 of King John (João) I, founder of the new dynasty of Aviz, and his English queen, Philippa, the Portuguese court became once again a literary centre. The king himself wrote a treatise on hunting. His son Edward (Duarte) collected a rich library of the ancients and of medieval poems and histories and composed a moral treatise, Leal conselheiro (1437/38; "Loyal Counselor"), which revealed a conscious stylist. But the historical chronicle distinguished the age, with credit to Edward, who in 1434, as king, created the office of cronista mor do reino, or "chief chronicler of the realm," to which he appointed Fernão Lopes. Attributed to Lopes are the Crónicas de 5 reis de Portugal ("Chronicles of Five Kings of Portugal") and the Crónica dos sete primeiros reis de Portugal ("Chronicle of the First Seven Kings of Portugal"); he wrote the texts that are today grouped under these titles sometime between his appointment and his death (c. 1460), but they were not rediscovered and published until the 20th century. Before they were found, only the chronicles of Pedro I, Fernando I, and John I were known. By combining vividness of style with serious documentation, Lopes showed himself to be the finest writer of medieval Portuguese prose and one of Europe's first modern historians.
His successor in office, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, continued the chronicle on a lower level of artistry. His chief works are the Crónica da tomada de Ceuta (completed 1450; "Chronicle of the Conquest of Ceuta"; translated into English in part as Conquests & Discoveries of Henry the Navigator) and the Crónica do descobrimento e da conquista de Guinê (completed 1453; The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea).
Poetry was cultivated in the mid-15th century, but the dominant influence came now from Castile, after the disappearance of the popular poetry of the troubadours. Pedro the Constable (the son of Pedro, 1st duke of Coimbra) initiated the fashion of writing in Castilian. As one of the first to adopt the new Castilian trend toward allegory and the cult of Classical antiquity derived from Italy, his influence on his compatriots was doubly important. His own poems were inspired by deep feeling and much reflection on life, and he was one of almost 200 poets represented in an anthology of poetry, the Cancioneiro geral (1516; "General Songbook") compiled by the chronicler Garcia de Resende, which included nearly 1,000 poems in Portuguese and Castilian from the preceding three-quarters of a century. Love was among the main subjects of these often satirical and epigrammatic poems.
Gil Vicente and the drama
The emergence of the modern Portuguese play may be traced in the works of the court dramatist Gil Vicente. The author of comedies, tragicomedies, farces, allegories, and religious plays, he wrote mostly in Portuguese and also in Castilian, even using multiple languages in his plays, which were typically presented in a Lisbon court overseen by a Castilian queen. The Barcas (1517–19; Eng. trans. The Boat Plays)—a group of autos, or religious plays (see auto sacramental)—revealed his dramatic power, his fondness for comic relief, and his deft use of popular figures and language. The phenomenon of a potential national theatre, however, died with its founder and did not find a successor; Vicente's real influence was felt instead in Spain. The Inquisition, introduced into Portugal in 1536, early declared war on the popular theatre on the charge of gross humour.
The Renaissance in Portugal
Portugal had maintained close cultural relations with Italy through the 15th century, and it was directly through Italy—and indirectly through Spain—that the Renaissance reached Portugal. In the 16th century many famous humanists took up residence in Portugal. In 1532 the historian and humanist João de Barros published the Rópica pnefma ("Spiritual Merchandise"), the most important philosophical dialogue of the time in Portugal.
In 1547 King John (João) III reformed the University of Coimbra, and distinguished Portuguese teachers returned from abroad to assist the king in this task. At home Portugal produced scholars of note, including André de Resende, author of De antiquitatibus Lusitaniae (1593; "Of the Antiquities of Portugal"), and the painter and architect Francisco de Hollanda, who in 1548 wrote Diálogos da pintura antiga ("Dialogues on Ancient Painting"; Eng. trans. Four Dialogues on Painting).
The Italianate school of poetry and drama
The return in 1526 of the poet Francisco de Sá de Miranda after a six-year stay in Italy initiated a literary reform of far-reaching effect. As his contemporary Garcilaso de la Vega did for Spain, Sá de Miranda introduced the new poetic forms of the sonnet, canzone, ode, and epistle to Portugal, and he gave fresh vigour to the national verse forms, mainly through his satires. His chief disciple, António Ferreira, a convinced Classicist, wrote sonnets superior in form and style.
Other poets continued this erudite school, which triumphed with Luís de Camões, author of the epic poem Os Lusíadas (1572; The Lusiads) and a large body of lyric poetry, which included verse in the older popular forms. In Camões a profound Classical education combined with perfect mastery of poetic technique and a lifetime of varied experience to produce in sonnets, eclogues, odes, elegies, and canções (songs) the greatest poetry of the Portuguese language. Particularly prominent in his lyric poetry, first collected and published posthumously in 1595, are Petrarchan love themes placed in the context of a Mannerist disconnect between the individual and the world and between reason and reality. Camões, who spent 17 years in Portuguese Asia and probably wrote most of The Lusiads there, based his epic on Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India. In the poem, da Gama recites the history of Portugal by way of an extensive interior discourse. (The name Lusiads is derived from Lusitania, the name of an ancient Roman province that incorporated present-day Portugal.) The poem's 10 cantos are a philosophical enactment of human, political, historical, and providential episodes, all of which question human nature, judgment, experience, and destiny. It is the Classical gods who, in the end, determine the fate of those taking part in da Gama's voyage and of their quest for the unknown.
In the drama Sá de Miranda and his followers substituted prose for verse. Taking the ancient Roman dramatist Terence as their model, they produced not Portuguese characters but Romano-Italian types in a short-lived form of revived Classical comedy. Sá de Miranda, avowedly to combat the school of Vicente, wrote two plays set in Italy: Os estrangeiros (c. 1527; "The Foreigners"), his first prose comedy, and Os vilhalpandos (c. 1528). Ferreira, a greater dramatist, likewise attempted both tragedy based on Classical models and popular comedy derived from Roman models. O Cioso, Italian even to its characters' names, came nearer to being a comedy of character, but his fame rests chiefly on A Castro (written c. 1558; Eng. trans. The Tragedy of Ines de Castro), which treated one of the most moving tragic themes to enter European literature—the execution of Inês de Castro, the 14th-century mistress of King Peter (Pedro) I—by reference to the ancient Greek dramatists Sophocles and Euripides. The theme went on to become a mainstay in European theatre through the present day. From the comic playwright Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcelos came another kind of comedy with Comédia Eufrosina (published 1555), written under the influence of the Spanish dialogue novel La Celestina (1499). This and his other plays, Comédia Ulissipo (published 1618) and Comédia Aulegrafia (published 1619), resembled La Celestina in form and contained a treasury of popular lore and wise and witty sayings introduced with a moral purpose.
The literature of discovery and conquest
Discovery and conquest in Africa, Asia, and the Americas inspired historians as well as poets, who left vivid records and expressions of Portuguese voyages and empire. In the three "Decades" of his Décadas da Ásia (1552–63; "Decades of Asia"), Barros told in vigorous language the overseas deeds of his compatriots. His first "Decade" undoubtedly influenced Camões, and together, one by his prose and the other by his verse, these two authors established Portuguese as a written language, even while it was at the same time expanding as it came into contact with numerous other languages, from Swahili to Japanese, to which it also contributed vocabulary. The Decades of Asia, continued after Barros's death by the more critical and inclusive Diogo do Couto, ranks as the noblest historical monument of the 16th century.
In Soldado prático (written before 1578, published in 1790; "Experienced Soldier") Couto, who lived most of his life in the Indian city of Goa, added acute observations on the causes of Portuguese decadence in the East. Ten years of investigation in India underlay the História do descobrimento e conquista da Índia pelos Portugueses (1551–61; "History of the Discovery and Conquest of India by the Portuguese") of the chronicler and notary Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, a work that ranks close to those of Barros and Couto.
From this spate of writing on expansion overseas, attention returned, by way of chronicles of the monarchs who presided over the creation of Portugal's empire, to the history of Portugal itself. Damião de Góis, diplomat, humanist, and intimate friend of the scholar Desiderius Erasmus, possessed an encyclopaedic mind and was one of the most critical spirits of the age. His Chronica do felicíssimo rei Dom Emanuel (1566–67; "Chronicle of the Most Happy King Dom Emanuel") was most valuable where the author's own experience came into play.
Travel accounts abounded, and their authors were often the first Europeans to visit the lands they described. Among the more noteworthy was História da vida do padre Francisco Xavier (1600; "History of the Life of Father Francis Xavier") by João de Lucena. Important both as history and as human documents were the cartas ("letters") written by Jesuits in India, China, and Japan. The anonymous Descobrimento da Florida (1577; "Discovery of Florida") and Gabriel Soares de Sousa's Tratado descritivo do Brasil em 1587 (1587; "Descriptive Treatise on Brazil in 1587") were reminders that Portugal was also present and active in the New World. The most celebrated, translated, and republished travel adventure–cum–novel of the age is the Peregrinação (1614; "Peregrination"; Eng. trans. The Travels of Mendes Pinto), often criticized for its exoticism and suspected exaggeration, which the adventurer Fernão Mendes Pinto composed after returning to Portugal from a lifetime spent in Asia. Although published in 1735–36, História trágico-marítima (Eng. trans. in part as The Tragic History of the Sea) vividly relates the experience of travel during the preceding centuries; it is a compilation of published narratives—stories told by survivors or based on their accounts—that describe some of the notable disasters that befell Portuguese ships in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
The novel and other prose
The poet Bernardim Ribeiro, whose five eclogues introduced pastoral poetry to Portugal, was equally an innovator in prose with his pastoral novel Hystoria de menina e moça (1554; "Story of My Childhood and Adolescence"), a tale of rustic love and melancholy with chivalric elements. It adopted themes and emotions previously found only in poetry. From it Jorge de Montemayor, a musician and poet, drew some part of his inspiration for Los siete libros de la Diana (c. 1559; "The Seven Books of the Diana"; Eng. trans. The Diana), which started a fashion subscribed to by the Spanish writers Miguel de Cervantes and Lope de Vega, among others, and represented one of the outstanding Portuguese contributions to the development of the novel as a genre. Barros's chivalric novel Crónica do imperador Clarimundo (1520; "Chronicle of the Emperor Clarimundo") recounts the adventures of a fictitious progenitor of the king of Portugal.
Among Portuguese moralists and theologians writing during the 16th century are several masterly prose stylists: Samuel Usque with his Consolaçam às tribulaçõens de Israel (1553; "Consolation for the Tribulations of Israel"), a pastoral dialogue on the sufferings of the Jewish people; Heitor Pinto with his Imagem da vida Cristã (part I 1563, part II 1572; "Image of the Christian Life"); Amador Arrais with his 10 Diálogos (1589; "Dialogues") on religious and other topics; and Tomé de Jesus with his mystic and devotional treatise Trabalhos de Jesus (1602–09; "Deeds of Jesus"). The work of scientists included that of a cosmographer and mathematician, Pedro Nunes, and of a botanist, Garcia da Orta, whose Colóquios dos simples e drogas (1563; Colloquies on the Simples & Drugs of India) was the first Portuguese book to be printed in the East (at Goa). Of major linguistic importance were the many grammars, lexicons, and dictionaries published in Asia, including a Portuguese-Latin-Japanese glossary published in Nagasaki in 1604. An Indo-Portuguese dialect functioned as a lingua franca throughout Asia from the 16th century. It was first documented and studied by traveling linguists in the late 19th century.


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Friday, August 24, 2012
Defending himself against the perception that he has no significant foreign policy experience, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan has drawn fresh attention to one of the most controversial acts of the past decade: the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq before U.N. weapons inspections were completed. Ryan now points to his vote for war as a token of his readiness to serve in the White House, but he is on the wrong side of both history and public opinion.
The Wisconsin congressman may come to regret his flippant response to Carl Cameron last Saturday, when the Fox News reporter asked how he would respond to critics who question his weak national security resume.
"I've been in Congress for a number of years," he said. "That's more experience than Barack Obama had when he came into office." Perhaps he should have stopped there, but instead blundered on, "I voted to send people to war."
Does Ryan believe that voting for war constitutes foreign policy experience? If so, it is a kind of experience that reflects very poorly on him. Even he must realize that the underlying premise of the war, Saddam Hussein's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction, quickly proved to be nothing more than a Bush administration hoax, along with the secondary claim that Saddam's regime had some connection with the 9/11 attacks.
After casting his party-line vote for a ruinous war because he accepted a faked argument, Ryan never spoke up against its continuation. He ratified every troop escalation and every supplemental appropriation.
Unlike the American people, who turned decisively against the war years ago, and have condemned it by large majorities as a waste of blood and treasure, he apparently still believes it was a swell idea. Concerned as he supposedly is about excessive federal spending, Ryan believes that the Iraq misadventure was worth $3 trillion it has cost so far (and presumably the lost and destroyed lives of Americans and Iraqis, all the dead, wounded, orphaned and traumatized, as well).
Except among the neoconservative advisers cocooned in the Romney campaign, such enthusiasm for the war is a very peculiar and distinctly minority perspective. Over the past few years, polls have shown between one-third and one-fifth of voters agreeing that the war was "worth the cost." Roughly two-thirds to three-fourths of the electorate rejects that assessment and supports President Obama's withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. That lopsided margin is fair warning for any politician who stakes his reputation on the Iraq War.
What Ryan cites as his chief qualification to serve as commander in chief is a series of votes that represent the most fateful, expensive, inexcusable error in recent American history. For him to cite that vote to draw a contrast with President Obama, who got the Iraq issue right, is startling. It reveals something that Americans need to know before he gets any closer to executive power.
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Any good mixologist will tell you: The thing that makes a great cocktail stand apart from a good one is proportion. Yes, having quality product always helps, sometimes a lot. However, a strong case can be made that the true skill of a bartender/cocktail creator is in getting the ratio just right, turning average booze into a mouthwatering beverage. When Rose and I sit down to craft a new cocktail or to recreate something we had out at one of our favorite bars, we spend most of our time fussing over how much or this or that should be in the drink. It can often take us three, four or five tries to get it right. It's hard work, really, but someone has to do it. And always remember, dear reader, that we do it for you... all for you!
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The Lamb's Club
3/4 ounce gin
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Combine ingredients into a mixing glass over ice, stir and serve with an (optional) lemon twist.
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Following the above mantra that proportions are more important than ingredients, I intentionally left out the brands of gin and vermouth that I used from this recipe. I really believe that most any will do well for this. Just make sure that your vermouths are fresh and your gin doesn't come in a plastic handle.
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1st Bake avec Baguette a l'Ancienne recipe
After having a successful first try at my first of two recipes I will bake for a year, my sourdough boule, I gave DonD's recipe for Baguettes a l'Ancienne my best. I will say a good baguette is not as simple as it may seem, and I feel this recipe will take more time to become proficient.
The method to my madness...
Flour Mixture
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- 30g Arrowhead Mills Whole Grain Rye
- 300g Cold Water (38F)
- 50g Cold Water (40F)
- 10g Pink Himaylan Salt
- 2g Instant Yeast
- Mix flour and cold water into a doughy blob. Temp of dough after mixing 63.7F. Place in fridge for 12hr at 42.2F.
- Pull flour mix out of fridge and mix in 50g of cold water and yeast. This was um...difficult at first. Between freezing my fingers and fighting the slimy mixture I finally brought it together, about 10 min.
- Then add the salt and knead until distributed evenly, using Bertinet's method.
- Let the dough rest for 15 min, then began 1st of 4 S&F's at 30 min apart and then 2 S&F at 45 min apart.
- Place dough in oiled bowl, in to a plastic bag it went and then in to the fridge (44.2F) for 24hr.
- Pull out of the fridge, gently divide into three 270g pieces and gently preshape into a fat log. I used Ciril Hitz's method for prehaping and shaping. Cover with plastic and let rest for 1hr.
- Preheat oven to 490F. I gently degased and shaped then proofed en couche for 45 min seam side up.
- Misted sides of the oven, transferred baguettes to baguette pan, scored and placed in oven with 2/3 cup of boiling water. Immediately turned oven down to 460F. Bake for 10 min then remove pan with lava rocks and reduce to 430F for 10 min. Then turned off oven and opened the door and let the baguettes sit for 5 min. Allowed to cool for 30 min.
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Crumb was no where near what I wanted or comparable to DonD's wonderful baguettes, but then again I have only just begun. Maybe no degas the next time and some work on shaping and scoring wouldn't hurt.
Crust color was a little light. Any tips?
What is the purpose of the rye in the recipe? The inside was nice and soft with a thin crunchy crust but I thought the taste was a bit off. In all honesty a may have forgotten the salt but I can't remember, mise en place right? So, the no salt could have been the culprit, not totally sure I forgot it though. Anyways I'm open to suggestion, critques or comments. Thanks!


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In those days, many of the people on the cover of Wired were cyberpunk novelists. Today, that's so atypical of the magazine that finding images to support the assertion is a project in and of itself. They're out there on the Web, but they're hard to find. Google only keeps alive information that our culture is actively remembering on a day-to-day basis.
Possibly my favorite piece in Wired ever was a short story by Neal Stephenson called Hack The Spew.
When was the last time you saw a short story dominate the cover of a magazine?
Wired was better than people today remember it being.
Today, in the current issue of Wired - which features a TV comedian with no technological background at all on its cover - there's a short opinion piece called Unmasked By Facebook which paraphrases Hack The Spew. The paraphrase is unwitting, and nearly witless as well.
I miss the old Wired. I miss the old sci-fi as well. In general it seems to me that the community which once spent its money and time on great sci-fi novels now spends its money and time building incredible sci-fi widgets. At a recent combined gathering of several geek get-togethers in Los Angeles - Geek Dinner and Dorkbot at Machine Project - I met people who were building all kinds of cool, weird shit. (And I was only there for the first hour!) One of the people I met told me about a guy he knew who had built a bona fide laser gun. It used UV light in some manner, so the actual laser beam was invisible to the human eye, but it could be used to melt holes in concrete walls near-instantaneously from significant distances. He said that if you think about it, a laser is ultimately pretty steampunk technology.
I had no idea what he meant by that observation, but it sounded really cool. I think, if I had understood what he was talking about, I would have really gained something from the observation - something not just technological, but cultural as well. But I really don't know what he meant. A good sci-fi writer could have given me the perspective to understand it, but it seems as if the good sci-fi writers have all retired or gotten boring. So I'm at a loss as to what to do with this information. However, I can tell you for a fact that the fascist elements in this country seizing power illegally and planning for martial law are going to find a handmade invisible laser up their ass if they're ever seizing power illegally from me.
Obviously this kind of confrontational attitude could have some negative pratical repercussions. On the other hand, if you think about it, and if you actually read the links, you might realize, there's fertile ground there for some incredible sci-fi. That's the real reason I miss the old Wired. Not just nostalgia - I think that the overall decline in cyberpunk means a loss for everyone.
It's actually really valuable for a society to be able to ask questions like that - "What if Blackwater really starts imposing martial law - and what if geeks shoot back with handmade UV lasers?" - just to see what the answers might be. In today's political climate, especially just a year or two ago, I think people were afraid to even voice these thoughts in public - which is in itself kind of scary - but it's a really valuable thing to do, because ultimately, science fiction is how a culture thinks ahead. People who don't think ahead don't make good decisions. The same is probably true for societies. If you look at how the Republicans consistently denied global warming, and the crazy weather we're having these days, especially the storms killing people and demolishing cities all over the South, you might start to think, maybe it's a good thing when societies think ahead.


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