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Donald Trump received a warm reception from veterans Thursday morning, as he touted his patriotic message to a packed room at the American Legion. According to WCPO in Cincinnati, Trump drew a larger crowd and more frequent, enthusiastic applause than Hillary Clinton did on Wednesday. Crowd seems to be slightly bigger today awaiting Donald Trump's speech at American Legion Convention. @WCPO pic.twitter.com/xDd4CRttq7 — paula christian (@PaulaChristian_) September 1, 2016 “We will stop apologizing for America, and we will start celebrating America,” Trump said. “We will be united by our common culture, values and principles – becoming one American nation.” One day after his visit to Mexico to meet Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and delivering a major speech in Phoenix on that re-drew his hard line on immigration, Trump arrived at the American Legion Convention in Cincinnati shortly after 9 a.m. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York and Sen. Jeff Sessions, who were with Trump in Phoenix, accompanied him to the Duke Energy Convention Center and Trump pointed them out to the crowd. Trump seemed to draw a slightly bigger crowd of some 3,000 veterans then came to hear Hillary Clinton’s speech on Wednesday. While the crowd was polite and clapped for both candidates, their applause for Trump seemed to come more frequently and with more enthusiasm. The bombastic billionaire took the opportunity to slam Clinton on a couple of fronts: her stance on Syrian refugees, and the email scandal. He said he would keep terrorists and extremists out of the country by changing immigration screening procedures. “That includes stopping the influx of Syrian refugees. My opponent wants a 550 percent increase. I, on the other hand, want to build a safe zone overseas – and use the money saved to invest in America,” Trump said. “We do not want to let anyone in our country who doesn’t support our values and is not capable of loving our people.” He also referred to the recent revelation that she used BleachBit: "In this future, we will have an honest government that includes an honest State Department. Not pay-for-play," Trump said to a round of applause. "She probably didn't mention that to you yesterday." "Government access and favors will no longer be for sale and important email records will no longer be deleted and digitally altered," Trump said. "Which is something they just found out two days ago. Bleached. Bleached — expensive process. Why? 33,000 emails bleached through a very expensive process. You ask yourself what's going on?" According to WCPO, Trump spent "at least 10 minutes on stage with American Legion leaders, shaking hands and taking photos" after his speech. Before he left, the crowd reportedly "gave him one final standing ovation." You can watch Clinton's speech at the American Legion (which drew much more subdued applause) here.

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Information about where and when you’ll be able to preorder Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox One X console is expected to arrive this weekend at Gamescom, but it seems that some details are leaking out early in the form of listings for a surprise version of the console: the Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition. The listings — which were live on the sites of at least two German retailers, one of which has since been removed — were first spotted by XboxDynasty.de. While we’ll have to wait for Microsoft to officially announce the special edition, it seems that the Project Scorpio-branded version will pay homage to the Xbox One X’s original code name by branding the Scorpio logo on the front of the controller and console. The hardware in the Project Scorpio Edition also seems to be getting a custom paint job: the controller with a bombed-out, all-black color scheme, and the console with a subtle stippled texture that the standard version seems to lack. While I unfortunately don’t speak German, the sales page at MediaMarkt seems to describe the Project Scorpio Edition as a limited time offering “for the biggest fans.” If correct, it would seem to echo the original Xbox One launch, which offered a similarly limited “Day One” edition of the console that also featured a unique controller.

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I have no idea where I stand in line to the throne. A friend once suggested I was 12,957th, but that seems rather high up the list for someone with my background, my Dad having been a council gardener. On the plus side, I think this means I am what Prince Harry calls a “normal” person. In an interview he’s given from a remote island off New Zealand, Harry says he would like to work with some of these normal people, presumably to give him a break from the ones who have titles. Most expectant parents look forward to a boy or a girl, but he belongs to a family where news of a birth is greeted with the words, “It’s a princess!” Apparently Harry would also like to try his hand at earning a “wage” – although he didn’t specify whether he meant “minimum”. London is expensive and he might find it hard to keep up a flat in Kensington Palace on £6.50 an hour. What amazes me is the unquestioning way “royal correspondents” respond to these inanities. Members of the royal family talk with faint regret about how hard it is for them to do ordinary things, as though they secretly long to be just like the rest of us. In reality, Harry’s aunt, Princess Anne, recently used a royal helicopter to pick her up from an engagement in London so she wouldn’t miss the first race at Cheltenham. As I once pointed out about Princess Diana, there’s nothing to stop any of these people ditching the title and getting a job. Oh, and I heartily recommend a railcard. It’s not helping, Sally I feel sorry for Sally Bercow. I’ve only met her once and she seemed nice enough, though perhaps lacking in a protective layer that most of us take for granted. Being married to the Speaker of the House of Commons has brought her a kind of fame that she seems increasingly unable to cope with, speaking to the press when every instinct should tell her to stop. She’s currently on crutches, recovering from a badly broken leg, but that hasn’t deterred her from posing for pictures and talking about the state of her marriage. The fact that she’s distraught after having an affair with her husband’s cousin, who has now returned to his wife, is all in the public domain. I can’t help wishing it wasn’t, not just for her sake but also because of the impact on her husband and children. Sometimes the people who most want to talk to the press are the least able to cope with the consequences, attracting scorn and derision when they are very evidently in need of help. Attention-seeking may be a way of dealing with pain, but it rarely works. My own green shoots All weekend, as I reeled from lack of sleep and disbelief at the election results, I had one small thing to comfort me. It’s actually not that small, about four metres by eight. I’m inordinately proud that I’ve managed to grow a lawn. That bare piece of earth outside the kitchen doors is now a lush green; I also have a fine crop of weeds, but I’m frankly amazed to see any grass at all. When I was a child, my parents moved house a lot and Dad was always scarifying a patch of earth and scattering grass seed. I still regard buying turf as a shoddy compromise, so you can imagine my horror when I discovered that Peter Jones is selling artificial lawns by the metre. We live in dark times, and I keep telling myself it’s healthier to grow a lawn than to curse the Tories. @polblonde

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Worker on front end loader hits, kills Florida deputy Skip to main content Milford Mirror Homepage Currently Reading Worker on front end loader hits, kills Florida deputy Subscribe Subscribe e-Edition Sign In Puzzles home Sign Up for Newsletters Print Archives Subscribe Submission Guidelines Submissions News Politics & Elections Town Government Community Education Police & Fire Connecticut Cannabis Opinion Business Obituaries Sports UConn High School Sports Living Food Home and Garden Entertainment Help Delivery Problems About Us Contact Us Privacy Notice Terms of Use Shopping Advertising Features Events Classifieds Recommended Milford's Porchfest to feature 102 bands, 72 locations Milford's Beth-El center tackles local food insecurity Milford police focus on pay, hours, equity to attract officers Mack truck dealership proposed for Milford's Old Gate Lane Milford elementary school remodel work underway Stratford restaurant owners bring Italian flavor to Milford Milford restaurant shut down by health department Official: Police ups presence at Milford schools this week Milford 5K to help get running water to African villages Milford chamber expands restaurant week to include nearby cities News Worker on front end loader hits, kills Florida deputy BY CURT ANDERSON and FREIDA FRISARO, Associated Press Sep. 23, 2022 Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 8:02 p.m. Facebook Twitter Email Comments This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 8 1of8Construction workers walk from the scene in the westbound lanes of I-275 near Gandy Boulevard on Friday, Sep 23, 2022, in St. Petersburg, Fla., where Deputy Michael Hartwick, 51, was hit and killed overnight. Michael Hartwick, a Florida sheriff's deputy working an overnight shift to provide safety at a construction zone was struck and killed by a worker operating a front end loader, officials said.(Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP)Douglas R. Clifford/APShow MoreShow Less 2of8Sheriff Bob Gualtieri speaks to reporters during a news conference at the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office headquarters on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in Largo, Michael Hartwick, a Florida sheriff's deputy working an overnight shift to provide safety at a construction zone was struck and killed by a worker operating a front end loader, officials said.(Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times via AP)Jefferee Woo/APShow MoreShow Less 3of8 4of8A front end loader remains at the scene where a forensic science investigator with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office investigates the scene on the westbound lanes of I-275 near Gandy Boulevard on Friday, Sep 23, 2022, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Michael Hartwick, a Florida sheriff's deputy working an overnight shift to provide safety at a construction zone was struck and killed by a worker operating a front end loader, officials said.(Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP)Douglas R. Clifford/APShow MoreShow Less 5of8Shannon McDonald, Pinellas County Schools Police communications center supervisor, middle, and Barbara Baugher, K-9 officer, share a moment together near a make-shift memorial for Deputy Michael Hartwick, at the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office headquarters on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in Largo, Fla. Hartwick, a Florida sheriff's deputy working an overnight shift to provide safety at a construction zone was struck and killed by a worker operating a front end loader, officials said.(Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times via AP)Jefferee Woo/APShow MoreShow Less 6of8 7of8Pinellas County sheriffs block off the interstate near I-275 and Roosevelt Blvd., where a manhunt continues on Friday, Sep 23, 2022, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Michael Hartwick, a Florida sheriff's deputy working an overnight shift to provide safety at a construction zone was struck and killed by a worker operating a front end loader, officials said.(Jefferee WooJefferee Woo/APShow MoreShow Less 8of8 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff's deputy working an overnight shift providing safety in a construction zone was accidentally struck and killed by a worker operating a front end loader who is in the U.S. illegally, officials said Friday. Pinellas County Sheriff's Deputy Michael Hartwick had started his shift shortly before the accident happened late Thursday on Interstate 275, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said at a pair of Friday news conferences. The initial name given by the worker, Victor Vazquez-Real, was false, Gualtieri said. His real name is Juan Ariel Molina-Salles, 32, who the sheriff said is a migrant from Honduras who arrived in March and was deported previously. “He shouldn't have been here. He shouldn't have been driving that thing,” Gualtieri said of the large road construction vehicle. “He shouldn't be working.” Molina-Salles fled from the job site on foot, allegedly with the help of a co-worker, but was eventually tracked down using bloodhounds, the sheriff said. The sheriff said Hartwick had blocked the two inside southbound lanes of the interstate and was standing on the road's shoulder when he was struck by the front end loader traveling at about 20 mph (32 kph). Hartwick died instantly. The construction worker continued driving for about one mile (1.6 kilometers) before stopping in a parking lot, the sheriff said. Gualtieri said the man then told another construction worker that he had killed a deputy. That worker took Molina-Salles' gear and hid it in a wooded area, according to the sheriff. The sheriff said Molina-Salles will be charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving death, which carries a minimum mandatory four-year prison sentence in the event of a conviction. The other construction worker is being charged with being an accessory after the fact. It was not immediately known whether Molina-Salles has a lawyer who can speak on his behalf. He had not yet been booked into jail early Friday afternoon. 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Gualtieri said he referred the matter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has jurisdiction over immigration issues. The office of Gov. Ron DeSantis released a statement saying the state was investigating to determine whether undocumented migrants have used fraudulent information to obtain employment with contractors working with the State of Florida. 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Last night the Caps returned from a season-long five-game road trip to face their rivals from New York, looking for just one thing: a single standings point. That was all that stood between them and guaranteeing their top spot in the standings. They got that and more, picking up a hard-fought win over a depleted but still Henrik Lundqvist-backed Rangers team – and in doing so, locked up both the Division and the League title, for a second-straight season. The celebration after the game was as it has been after most games this season; some smiles, some hugs and high fives, but mostly business as usual. On to the next game. This team has bigger goals than what they accomplished last night, and everyone knows it. And yet as always, it’s important to take just a moment to appreciate what we’ve been privileged enough to witness this season – because it’s not something every fan sees, and it is still worth celebrating. “It is a symbol of excellence, a symbol of excellence for the regular season, a symbol of excellence for a team that has been consistent and takes pride in winning” – Barry Trotz, 4/5/17 The fact that the Caps have made a habit of putting together strong regular seasons, only to falter in the playoffs, could cause even the most optimistic fan to brush something like this aside as if it’s meaningless. So could the fact that Presidents’ Trophy winners have “only” won the Cup a little over a quarter of the time since the NHL began awarding it about three decades ago (even though a one-in-four chance is still pretty high compared to the odds for the other 15 teams competing). And yes, the “raise another banner!” jokes from non-Caps fans can get really old really quickly. Like, really quickly. But you don’t get jokes made about banner-raising unless you do it on a regular basis, and the Caps have done just that. They have been an incredibly good team, fairly consistently, over the last decade. In the last ten years they’ve captured seven Division titles (a timeline that overlaps with the arrival of Nicklas Backstrom in DC, hardly a coincidence), finished first in the Conference four times and have now won the Presidents’ Trophy three times (including back-to-back seasons). For some perspective, only two other franchises have won the Presidents’ Trophy three times since its inception back in 1985-86: the Detroit Red Wings (1994-95, 1995-96, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2005-06, 2007-08) and the New York Rangers (1991-92, 1993-94, 2014-15). With #Caps on verge of clinching Presidents' Trophy, here's what Karl Alzner had to say about winning it earlier this season: pic.twitter.com/5SrczC086T — Stephen Whyno (@SWhyno) April 6, 2017 They’ve been even better over the past two seasons. Since the 2015-16 season, the Caps have won 13 more games than any other team, racking up 236 points and scoring 506 goals (second to only Pittsburgh’s 507) while giving up just 365 goals – fewest in the League. Braden Holtby has emerged as one of the NHL’s best goalies, Nicklas Backstrom has finally begun to achieve some level of League-wide respect and recognition (albeit still not enough), and Alex Ovechkin continues to be one of the most dominant goal-scorers in the history of the game. It shouldn’t need to be said, but let’s go ahead and do so anyway: obviously this is not the only trophy the Caps want to win this year, nor should it be. But let’s not pretend it’s irrelevant (or even more insanely, “cursed”) just because it’s not the Stanley Cup. There is no free ticket, no sure thing and no easy path to the Cup. It is the hardest trophy to win in all of sports, and the best team does not always win it. That’s just the way it goes. But that doesn’t mean that being the best team over an 82-game season is nothing – in fact it’s an incredible accomplishment. Perhaps some fans feel the only way they can be happy as a fan is to see their team win the Cup, but that seems like a pretty depressing way to enjoy something that, ultimately, is meant as entertainment. The journey should be part of the fun, even if it ends in heartbreak. So enjoy it. Enjoy this moment, the day after the Caps accomplished something great, file it away and get ready for the postseason. Kuznetsov on Prez Trophy: "If some guys going to say they don’t care, they're lying. It’s always nice to win something." — Isabelle Khurshudyan (@ikhurshudyan) April 6, 2017 Because whether or not they win the Cup this year will come down to much more than pure skill, more than simply being a very good team. Luck, health, and the right match-ups all will play a role in determining whether this year culminates in a parade or another summer of unfinished business. The Caps have put themselves in a great position to win it all – now they just have to put the pieces together and hope the puck bounces their way in the coming weeks. The captain, as always, said it best:

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Mark Zuckerberg is known to start each year by setting aggressive personal goals for himself. This year, he announced he was going to build an artificial intelligence (AI) that would help him control things around his smart home, like turning on the lights, starting home appliances, and playing music on various speakers. He named the system “Jarvis” after the digital butler from Iron Man—but after spending a full year of tweaking it, the AI is still being dogged by many of the same problems as the AI that’s out there today. Today, Zuckerberg posted a long note on Facebook about the results of his year-long AI project, and went into detail about many of its shortcomings. The outcome of his project, while still an incredible feat of programming, sounds just as dumb as the other smart homes out there. It can basically only run a handful of commands—and it’s not for a lack of Zuck trying to do more. Advertisement The failures of Jarvis stem from the fact that there is a shortage of common standards and APIs that enable different brands of “smart” products to talk to each other. Without that necessary bridge between devices, stringing commands together can be rather difficult. For example, it’s hard to get a toaster to communicate with a alarm clock if they don’t speak the same programming language. Zuckerberg explains this in simple terms. For assistants like Jarvis to be able to control everything in homes for more people, we need more devices to be connected and the industry needs to develop common APIs and standards for the devices to talk to each other. Advertisement While Jarvis is an impressive hobby project, it does fall significantly short of what’s already possible on systems like the Amazon Echo and Google Home. The biggest difference is that developers can build skills for those systems by plugging into Amazon and Google’s respective APIs. But for Jarvis, Zuckerberg had to reverse-engineer a lot of those same tasks. It ended up making really basic tasks a huge burden to program, as Zuckerberg explains in his post. Before I could build any AI, I first needed to write code to connect these systems, which all speak different languages and protocols. ... I had to reverse engineer APIs for some of these to even get to the point where I could issue a command from my computer to turn the lights on or get a song to play. The other huge problem is simply manpower. When you’re working with existing APIs and huge teams of engineers, it’s easier to divvy up responsibilities, like building different variations of the same command. Zuckerberg, however, had to program everything himself. He explains how this quickly became a time sink when he tried to program various requests for music. Apparently teaching Jarvis (or any other AI) the difference between “play someone like Adele” and “play some Adele” is really difficult. Zuckerberg also touched on the problem of teaching AI context. Understanding context is important for any AI. For example, when I tell it to turn the AC up in “my office”, that means something completely different from when Priscilla tells it the exact same thing. That one caused some issues! Or, for example, when you ask it to make the lights dimmer or to play a song without specifying a room, it needs to know where you are or it might end up blasting music in Max’s room when we really need her to take a nap. Whoops. Advertisement Zuckerberg also identifies a bigger problem that filtered up while he was trying to build his smart home hub. It had to do more with Jarvis’s inability to learn new tasks over time. I spent about 100 hours building Jarvis this year, and now I have a pretty good system that understands me and can do lots of things. But even if I spent 1,000 more hours, I probably wouldn’t be able to build a system that could learn completely new skills on its own—unless I made some fundamental breakthrough in the state of AI along the way. In short, Mark Zuckerberg appears to have built a pretty cool AI, something he can use to play games with his wife and daughter Max, and even use it to control different appliances around his gigantic home. But at the end of the day, even a genius like Zuckerberg is bound to the same shortcomings of technology that the rest of us are. So, it’s safe to say that if someone as smart and wealthy as Zuckerberg can’t get a smart home working properly, it will probably be hard for anyone to do it.

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Rossouw (33) passed away on Monday in her Bryanston home. She was treated for gastric complications on Saturday and was later discharged from hospital. A friend found her body in her flat after she failed to arrive for a dinner date. The cause of her death was unknown. Rossouw's body was due to be flown to Cape Town for funeral arrangements. The former Mail & Guardian deputy politics editor and reporter was described by M&G editor-in-chief Nic Dawes as "an extraordinary presence in our newsroom and in our pages; vivid, acute, and determined to break the story". Rossouw broke some of the biggest news stories while she was deputy politics editor for the M&G. She was the first to reveal the story of President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla mansion in rural KwaZulu-Natal. She had insight and a clear understanding of the news, which was demonstrated in the numerous articles she left behind. She left the M&G and joined City Press and Eyewitness News as a politics reporter, and joined Media24 as an international correspondent. Three of Rossouw's colleagues at the M&G wrote tributes to her. M&G politics editor and deputy editor-in-chief Rapule Tabane: When we first recruited Mandy to the M&G in 2007, she had been working in the Afrikaans press for a while and wanted a break in the mainstream English media. I knew her from Parliament when we used to go down for the weekly ministerial briefings that government organised after every State Of The Nation. She had a razor-sharp mind and invariably had a question for most ministers. When we had an opening for a politics reporter post, I decided we should take a chance on her. It was a risk because although I always saw her in action, I had never actually read her stories because they were in Afrikaans. But little did we know that we had landed such a gem. She was indefatigable and prolific and would produce five stories for the paper in a week without blinking an eyelid. She was also strong willed and continued to do well even after she left us in 2011. She loved her work and enjoyed all the publicity, the controversy, and the travelling that came with it. She always wore a smile to work (with those dimples) and loved the thrill of chasing a story. Along with Matuma Letsoalo and Mmanaledi Mataboge, we had the strongest team of politics reporters. She will be sorely missed by all of us. M&G politics reporter Matuma Letsoalo: It is really hard to come to terms with the fact that Mandy Rossouw is no more. The last time I saw her was during the ANC's January 8 statement in Durban and she looked happy and energetic as usual. Her sudden death is a great loss, not only to our industry, but to society at large. Although she left the M&G to join City Press two years ago, she remained a close friend and a reliable colleague, who would not hesitate to share information for stories. While she was younger than me, I learnt a lot from her and enjoyed covering politics stories with her. She had an amazing energy and never ran out of ideas. When the rest of us struggled to present story suggestions during our regular diary meetings on Mondays, Mandy would have five stories to work on for the week. But what I found most remarkable about her was her ability to burst into laughter regularly, even when she was under deadline pressure. M&G politics reporter Mmanaledi Mataboge: Mandy went the extra mile for every colleague if it meant getting a story. One day she waited up in a hotel bar until around 2am, drove me to a meeting with a source and was willing to wait because that guaranteed a unique breaking story. "Take your time," she said as we parted ways at a hotel reception in a city that we both did not know – the city whose streets she was willing to navigate at midnight to make sure I got the story we needed for our newspaper. She would not complain about the waiting or the workload. She was always there to help colleagues. When my brain blocked in the middle of writing a story I'd call her, regardless of what time it was, and she'd take the call and offer advice. I still have a chair she left at my house in August of 2009. For years she refused to take the chair because I just moved into the house when she visited and did not have chairs for my dining room. To this day, that chair is a reminder of the selfless person she was. She would never go on an overseas trip and come back empty-handed. She brought back chocolates and souvenirs for almost every colleague. After a lot of persuasion I got her to eat Chicken Licken for the first time in 2010 during the ANC's national general council in Durban. I had to restrain her excitement in the middle of the packed restaurant. She could not stop talking about how affordable and tasty the hotwings meal was. All eyes were on us, but she did not notice because she was just too excited to worry about who was looking. That was how much of a free soul she was. City Press editor Ferial Haffajee and assistant editor Adriaan Basson also released a statement on her death.

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The Santana family, which owns the Muse building at the corner of Bridge and Main streets, has purchased the building. Laura Santana confirmed the purchase but didn’t have many details about what was to come just yet. “Stay tuned,” she said. “But right now, we’re just focusing on cleaning out and repairing the building.” Police chase ends in charges SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY — A man from Rowland, PA faces charges after refusing to stop when ordered to by the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office. While trying to evade police, the man reportedly crashed into law enforcement vehicles, though no injuries were reported. The suspect, identified as Louis Didonna, 42, of Rowland, PA, was taken into custody without further incident. Didonna was charged with the felonies of aggravated unlicensed operation first degree, reckless endangerment first degree, criminal mischief second degree and misdemeanors for driving while intoxicated, fleeing police and reckless driving. Further investigation revealed that the suspect was wanted on a warrant from the Town of Thompson for DWI and criminal possession of a controlled substance and was subsequently charged with misdemeanor bail jumping. Louis Didonna was arraigned before Town of Highland Judge Anthony LaRuffa and remanded to the Sullivan County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail pending his next court appearance. DRBC official testifies on reservoir study TRENTON, NJ — Kristen Bowman Kavanagh, P.E., deputy executive director of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), provided written testimony to the Pennsylvania House Majority Policy Committee reaffirming DRBC’s position that the F.E. Walter Dam’s existing, congressionally authorized purposes of recreation and flood risk management should be protected. An ongoing study of the Caron County, PA dam was the subject of a committee hearing March 18, sponsored by state Rep. Doyle Heffley. “Short-term weather patterns and longer-term climate patterns are changing and affecting the water cycle in the basin. It is prudent to begin to evaluate and plan for… these changes. At the same time, DRBC supports maintaining the existing uses of the reservoir for flood risk management and recreation and recognizes their value to the region. These uses should be protected,” said Kavanagh in her written remarks. Sullivan hires HRC director MONTICELLO, NY – Sullivan County has welcomed Wurtsboro resident Adrienne Jensen as the executive director of its Human Rights Commission (HRC). “Upon meeting Adrienne, I was immediately impressed, and I think the residents of Sullivan County will be too,” said Julie Diescher, Commissioner of the Division of Human Resources. “Her skill set includes the ability to communicate in a variety of languages, including sign language, Norwegian, French and Spanish. She is a sympathetic and open-hearted listener; and she is very much interested in working with the community to achieve fair and just outcomes in every situation.” Jensen attended the University of California with a concentration in law, is scheduled to complete her degree in Public Advocacy and Communication in May and has done work conducting investigations and conflict resolution. “It is really important to me to involve myself in my neighborhood,” Jensen said. “It’s vital to me to help people bridge that gap, to see our similarities.” Keywords Rasmussen building purchased, DRBC, reservoir study, Sullivan hires HRC director Comments No comments on this item Please log in to comment by clicking here Related stories Villa Roma to be sold Honey bee festival on September 24 Rosh Hashana services Sullivan West welcomes new student board member Facebook PO Box 150, 93 Erie Avenue Narrowsburg NY 12764 (845) 252-7414 Sections News Arts & Leisure Obituaries Opinion Community Living Calendar Classifieds Lifestyle Magazines Submit News Services Advertising Rates Contact Us TRR newsletter Subscribe Online Bill Pay Connect with us © Copyright 2022 Stuart Communications, Inc. | Privacy Policy / Terms of Use Powered by Creative Circle Media Solutions

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Charlize Theron will now make the same as costar Chris Hemsworth in their coming movie, "The Huntsman." Ferdaus Shamim/WireImage via Getty Images Last month, leaked Sony emails revealed unequal pay between men and women in Hollywood, both with employees who work behind the scenes at studios and with on-screen celebrities. In one instance, it came to light that Jennifer Lawrence was paid less than her male costars in the Oscar-nominated "American Hustle" — despite arguably being a more in-demand star than any other cast member. Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth will both return for "The Huntsman," a prequel to 2012's "Snow White and the Huntsman." Kristen Stewart will not. Universal / Relativity And Charlize Theron took note. For her coming Universal movie "The Huntsman" — the prequel to 2012's successful "Snow White and the Huntsman," which earned nearly $397 million worldwide at the box office — the actress demanded to be paid the same as her male costar, Chris Hemsworth. "Charlize insisted that she get paid the same money as Chris. She has a great track record, so she got the same deal," one source told PageSix. Another insider added: "One knock-on effect from the Sony hacking scandal is that there will be more sensitivity about equal pay for actresses and hiring practices at movie studios." PageSix reports that Theron got a deal worth more than $10 million, the same as Hemsworth's, thanks to negotiations by her agents at WME. The figure sounds fairly accurate, considering Theron was named Forbes' sixth-highest-paid actress in 2013. "Theron likes to balance her work in smaller films, like 2011's 'Young Adult,' with bigger-budget fare like last year's 'Snow White and the Huntsman,'" Forbes wrote at the time. "She also starred in 'Prometheus,' the kind-of prequel to 'Aliens,' which earned $403 million at the global box office. Theron supplements her movie money with high-paid endorsements for brands like Dior." The sony hack revealed a salary discrepancy between male and female actors. Francois Duhamel / Sony Pictures In December, a leaked Sony email revealed that the female "American Hustle" stars Lawrence and Amy Adams received just 7% of the movie's profits, while their male costars Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, and Jeremy Renner got 9%. Representatives for Theron, who is also believed to be getting a fair share of the new movie's profits, had not responded to PageSix's report. "The Huntsman" is in preproduction and will be released in April 2016. Drama surrounded the original "Snow White and the Huntsman" after star Kristen Stewart was caught having an affair with director Rupert Sanders, which resulted in Sanders' divorce from wife Liberty Ross and his being dropped from directing the sequel. Frank Darabont, who directed "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile," will replace Sanders on the prequel. Stewart will not appear in the new movie because it doesn't involve her character. NOW WATCH: Robot Funded By The US Military Can Sprint And Jump Just Like A Cheetah

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Sept 19, 2012 – Spanish School Offers Prostitute Training Program With Guaranteed Job Offer A Spanish school that offers prostitution as a professional course with guaranteed job offer has won it’s first legal battle against opponents. www.naijagists.com For just €100, the prostitute training program will teach students how to become a professional prostitute and how to use use erotic toys and the most popular positions contained within the Kama Sutra. The school began advertising the course in May, but within weeks the Valencian regional government filed a case with prosecutors, alleging that the school promoted prostitution, which is illegal in Spain. But yesterday prosecutors said there was not any evidence that a criminal offence had been committed because advertisements for students did not promote prostitution, constitute fraud and were not aimed at minors. The venture has attracted much criticism in the predominantly Catholic country, with many saying it is the wrong way to tempt cash-strapped Spaniards back into work. But the Valencian firm, which flooded the city’s university campus with promotional flyers, says it will make the trade safer. It will also ensure budding sex-workers will not fall foul of the law, with in depth descriptions of the industry’s laws and how to work around them. “Prostitution is a career that many people live off from day to day, whether they are single or have a partner.” He added that 95 people, from the age of 19 to 45, had signed up to the diploma – which takes up two hours each day. And, once they graduate, they receive their first job offer – to become a teacher in the ‘school’ where they can help in practical classes. What they learn in the series of theory and practical classes will enable them to ‘earn a lot of money, very easily and quickly’. Esther Lopez Barcelo, a United Left MP in Valencia, said the party was considering appealing the ruling. Sex is a multibillion-pound industry in Spain, with colourfully lit brothels staffed mainly by poor immigrant women from Latin America, Africa and eastern Europe lining highways throughout the country.(Credit: DailyMail UK) Signs of end time!

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Last Saturday marked two months since The White Stripes announced their demise, but the group’s legacy carries on thanks to Jack White’s Third Man Records. In addition to the Record Store Day reissue of the band’s first two singles, the Nashville, TN-based label has announced a slew of Jack and Meg-related goodies for the eighth installment of its subscription program, The Vault. Among the incredible items included: — A live recording of the band’s final performance on July 31st, 2007 in Southaven, Mississippi. Entitled Live in Mississippi, the record is presented in crystalline audioquality and spread across 2 LP’s pressed on 180-gram vinyl. — A 7″ single featuring some of the band’s earliest recordings. The a-side is “Signed DC” originally done by the band Love on their self-titled debut record from 1966. The flipside is a rendition of the Otis Redding classic “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long.” “Recorded in Detroit in September of 1997 a mere two months after the Stripes’ live debut, this single provides a heretofore unheard era of the band,” explains Third Man. “Although their debut single ‘Let’s Shake Hands’ wouldn’t be released for another eight months, this recording shows how fully-formedrn the general idea, aesthetic and approach of the White Stripes was from the very start.” — A DVD entitled Under Moorhead Lights All Fargo Night featuring previously unseen footage from the band’s June 13, 2000 gig at Ralph’s Corner Bar in Moorhead, Minnesota. The performance was one their first following the release of their sophomore album, De Stijl, and featured a cover of Iggy Pop’s “I’m Bored”. Tracklists for both the live album and DVD are posted below. Those interested in joining the vault, can sign up here. Live in Mississippi Tracklist: 01. Stop Breaking Down (Robert Johnson) 02. Let’s Build a Home 03. When I Hear My Name 04. Icky Thump 05. Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground/As Ugly As I Seem 06. The Same Boy You’ve Always Known 07. Wasting My Time 08. Phonograph Blues (Robert Johnson) 09. Cannon/John the Revelator (Traditional) 10. Death Letter (Son House) 11. Astro 12. Apple Blossom 13. You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Do As You’re Told) 14. In the Cold, Cold Night 15. I Want to Be the Boy to Warm Your Mother’s Heart 16. Hotel Yorba 17. A Martyr For My Love For You 18. Ball and Biscuit 19. 300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues 20. Blue Orchid 21. I’m Slowly Turning Into You 22. Boll Weevil Under Moorhead Lights All Fargo Night Tracklist: 01. Let’s Shake Hands 02. Screwdriver 03. Wasting My Time 04. Jolene (Dolly Parton) 05. Little Bird 06. Apple Blossom 07. You’re Pretty Good Looking (for a Girl) 08. Your Southern Can is Mine (Blind Willie McTell) 09. Suger Never Tasted So Good 10. Truth Doesn’t Make a Noise 11. I’m Bored (Iggy Pop) 12. Cannon/John the Revelator (Traditional)

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A couple weeks ago, I wrote that the Real Techniques Sponge had gone on sale at drugstore.com. I’m not sure whether or not it is still on sale there, but just like any drugstore, their sales rotate. If it isn’t on sale there, you can try other resellers of Real Techniques products. I received the Real Techniques Sponge pretty quickly and was anxious to see how it compared to my tried-and-true classic beautyblender sponge. Look & Feel One end of the Real Techniques Sponge features a tapered, pointed tip but that’s where the shape-similarities end. Instead of widening out to an egg-like end, it does widen through the center a bit and then tapers back out, with one side being cut into a flat edge. The Pixiwoo ladies say this is to facilitate application around the contours of the nose and eye areas. Upon removing the Real Techniques Sponge from its packaging, I immediately noticed that it is firmer than the beautyblender. Sizing it Up Here’s a size comparison to my beautyblender: beautyblender.PRO compared to the Real Techniques Sponge The texture, differs, as well. Once wet, the Real Techniques Sponge didn’t feel as smooth as the beautyblender, but it is hard to judge without actually using it for application. Below, the Real Techniques Sponge has been saturated with water. You can see how much larger it is than its dry state in contrast to its packaging: Application I went about applying my Ponds Luminous Finish BB+ Cream the way I usually do: dispensing some on the back of my hand, then dotted it on my face with a clean finger. I then stippled the product into my skin with the broad, rounded sides of the sponge, and used the flat side around my nose and eyes. The texture discrepancy I noted before? More noticeable on my face than in my hands. Compared to the beautyblender, the Real Techniques Sponge almost feels rough. It is NOT rough, it isn’t uncomfortable…but the difference is detectable. After the product I had placed on my face could no longer be spread, I needed to apply more even though I used my usual amount. This means this sponge absorbs more than my beautyblender (and my Bundle Monster sponges). In short, the Real Techniques sponge absorbs a lot of product, in comparison. I repeated this test with a liquid foundation, too, rather than a cream. For this test, I used L’Oreal True Match in a shade too dark for me and experienced the same sort of results – very sheer application, requiring more product than I usually use. Also – here’s a quick (no photo) comparison to the Bundle Monster sponges I reviewed a while back – the Real Techniques Sponge is not as firm as the Bundle Monster Sponges. Size-wise, it is longer pre- and post-wet. The Bundle Monster sponge feels more ‘bouncy,’ when using it to stipple and does a great job with my Ponds BB+ Cream (it is actually my preferred applicator for it), but like I mentioned in this review – the Real Techniques Sponge still absorbs more product and has a rougher texture. The Bottom Line For what it is, the Real Techniques Sponge isn’t bad, especially if you can get it for $4.79. It’s a great way to explore sponges of this nature without committing to a full-priced beautyblender or to multiple Bundle Monster sponges. That said, I wouldn’t say it is a be-all-end-all, and I definitely wouldn’t call it a beautyblender, “dupe.” It does feel like a lower-quality material but you need to decide for yourself what is more important – feel, cost, or product needed? Have you tried the Real Techniques Sponge?

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Members Skip to main content Members Cllr Mrs JR Lumley Conservative Group General Election History Party History Ward History Members Interests Committees Outside Bodies Elected: 02 May 2019 First Elected 02 May 2002 Party: Conservative Ward: Sweyne Park & Grange Email: CllrJune.Lumley@Rochford.gov.uk Telephone No: 01268 784 147 Mobile Telephone No: 07770 653 787 Biography: Chairman, Statutory Officer Personnel Committee: 2020/2021. Member of Essex County Council (Rayleigh South Division) 2019/2021: Vice-Chairman, Standards Committee. 2017 - 2019: Vice-Chairman, Chief Officer Appointments Committee. 2015 - 2017: Portfolio Holder for Community. 2014 - 2015: Chairman of the Council. 2013 - 2014: Vice-Chairman of the Council. 2007 - 2013: Chairman of the Review Committee. Chair of Governors, Edward Francis Primary School. Member of Rayleigh Town Council since 1996. Chairman of RRAVS. Chairman of Wyvern Community Transport. 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UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping has issued Georges St-Pierre an ultimatum urging the former welterweight champion to make their fight happen before Saturday night, or Bisping will be forced to take on the winner of the interim title fight between Yoel Romero and Robert Whittaker. Bisping was initially slated to meet St-Pierre at this weekend’s UFC 213 event — at least that was the UFC’s desire — but as of yet, the fight has yet to be confirmed. While Dana White was always adamant that the middleweight title fight would take place in the summer, St-Pierre always claimed he would be ready to fight the Englishman in the fall. White now says that GSP wants to fight at welterweight on his return, but on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour, Bisping claimed that he is still very interested in facing the all-time great if a deal can be made. “I was supposed to fight GSP. Why wouldn’t I want to fight him? Of course, that would be big business,” Bisping said. “He’s a guy that will be regarded as a welterweight legend forever. I would love that fight for my legacy. We’ve been over this a million times. “Now, Dana is saying (Georges) doesn’t want to fight. Georges is saying he does want to fight. I know that I want to fight and if we can still make the Georges thing happen, then great, I’m all in.” Bisping highlighted that he has done everything in his power to make the St-Pierre fight happen. “Georges, if you’re watching this, I’ve done everything I can,” Bisping said. “I have called Dana White, I’ve expressed my desire to fight Georges St-Pierre. Every time we speak on the phone, I say, ‘Dana, that’s all well and good, but what about me and GSP?’” Having pursued the fight since it’s initial announcement, Bisping believes it is St-Pierre’s turn to try and make their championship date a reality. “(Dana) says GSP doesn’t want to fight and that he wants to fight at welterweight,” said Bisping. “Georges, I’ve done everything I can. If you want this fight to happen, get on your phone, call somebody up, send some messages — do f*cking something. I couldn’t care. “I’m sick of everyone saying I don’t want to fight. Honestly, who I fight next? I couldn’t give a shit. I really couldn’t. Whether it’s GSP, whether it’s Yoel, whether it’s Whittaker. … I’m sick of all the bulls**t. “I want to fight,” Bisping continued. “I’ve got to fight. My knee is still very much giving me issues, but who cares? I’ve got to fight. I’m blowing off the cobwebs and I’m getting ready. Towards the end of the year, one of those three will get it.” “The Count” insisted that if St-Pierre does not make something happen before Whittaker and Romero clash Saturday night, he will have no other choice but to meet the newly crowned interim champion. “Georges, man up!” Bisping said. “Make the call. I know you have some issues, but call the man, call Dana White. “I’m backed into a corner. I’ve said everything I can say. If he doesn’t step up, I’m going to take on the winner of those two (Romero versus Whittaker). I want to do it. A lot of people want that fight. Failing that, I’ll take one of these two. “Georges, if you’re watching, which I know you are because you want to know what I’m saying,” Bisping continued, “you’ve got until Saturday, because on Saturday I’m going to be on the FS1 post-fight show. Tune in, because one of those (fighters), Yoel Romero or Robert Whittaker, will be joining me on the desk. “If I can’t say I’m fighting GSP by then, then I have to say I’m going to fight Whittaker or Romero. I can’t be a little bitch about it. Basically, the countdown is on.”

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Posted by Chris Brown on November 7, 2013 – 10:17 am Buffalo hasn’t been a bad red zone offense all season, it’s just been the last three games where they’ve slipped down the league rankings to their current spot of 31st. Goal line execution is part of the problem along with quarterback decision making. The Bills over their past three games have converted just two of their eight red zone opportunities into touchdowns (25%). That’s what has dragged down their red zone touchdown percentage to its current mark of 42.3%. Here are some of the trouble spots. Buffalo’s collective passer rating inside the opponent’s 30-yard line ranks 27th in the league (77.7) almost 15 points below the league average. Plugging Thad Lewis and Jeff Tuel into the lineup over the past month has affected the continuity of the pass game. The Bills third down percentage in the red zone has also been subpar as Buffalo ranks 26th with a conversion rate of just under 29 percent (28.6%). “We’ve left a lot of yardage out there,” said Marrone. “There are some things we’re doing well. There are some situations like the red zone touchdowns—we’ve obviously went back and did some more studying on how other teams have been successful in the red zone. How we’re going to do something different, how we’re going to get over that hump. Because obviously if we’re doing the same things we’re not going to get any different results.” Still, the Bills yardage gained in the red zone ranks in the middle of the pack. They’re tied for 16th in the league at 2.83 yards per play, which isn’t bad down in the tight quarters of the red zone. Eric Wood is all for making some changes. “I think we’re going to address our plan down there,” said Wood. “I think guys are going to look at themselves to see who they’ve executed individually down there and just try to fix what we’ve been doing. Whether that’s different schemes, you personally improving. I think it’ll all contribute.” The Steelers rank 15th in the league in red zone defense allowing touchdowns more than 55 percent of the time (55.6%). Tags: Doug Marrone Posted in Inside the Bills

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Ruby Klokow (left) leaves the courtroom with her attorney, Kirk Obear, after she pleaded no contest Monday and was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1957 death of her 6-month-old daughter, Jeaneen. Under a plea agreement, prosecutors will recommend she serve 10 years of probation, with 45 days in jail. Credit: Sheboygan Press By of the Sheboygan - A 76-year-old Sheboygan woman pleaded no contest Monday to killing her infant daughter more than 50 years ago, a crime long classified as an accidental death until the woman's adult son went to police with a lifetime of suspicions in 2008. Ruby Klokow was charged in 2011 with second-degree murder in the death of Jeaneen Marie Klokow. In 1957, the mother told police her daughter had fallen from a sofa and hit her head. On Monday, she quietly entered the plea and was found guilty. Under a plea agreement, prosecutors will recommend she serve 10 years of probation, with 45 days in jail as a condition of that probation. Sheboygan County District Attorney Joe DeCecco said he agreed to the plea deal in part because it would have been difficult for a jury to view Klokow as the overwhelmed, angry and abusive young mother she was in 1957 and not as the frail woman she is today. He also said a jury might have found her guilty of a lesser manslaughter charge, and because the statute of limitations had run out on that crime, she then couldn't be convicted. Lastly, DeCecco said, it was extremely unlikely Klokow would have gone to prison even if she had been convicted of the main charge at trial, given her age, health and lack of much prior criminal record. Sentencing is scheduled for April 15. Circuit Judge Angela Sutkiewicz asked Klokow if she understood that the judge did not have to abide by the terms of the plea agreement and could sentence her to between five and 15 years in prison. Klokow said she understood. "I believe this is a good resolution of this case based on the statements" of the lawyers, Sutkiewicz said. Klokow's attorney, Kirk Obear, and DeCecco said Klokow might not even serve the 45 days in jail if sheriff's officials determine that, based on her low risk, it would better to keep her on house arrest than to take on the responsibility and cost of meeting her health care needs later his year. Extraordinary inquiry The charges - believed to be among the oldest ever filed in Wisconsin - followed an extraordinary investigation prompted by one of Klokow's surviving children who told police in 2008 that his mother had abused others as well as Jeaneen, and that he had always suspected she had killed his sister. It was only after watching TV shows about modern criminal forensic techniques, James Klokow said, that he realized the truth might finally be exposed. He also had been made to feel responsible for his sister's death, he told investigators, since his mother said she had to leave Jeaneen alone a moment to tend to James, who was fussing on the toilet. Detectives interviewed Klokow's relatives, reviewed a dusty 1957 autopsy report, and eventually disinterred Jeaneen's remains. Two medical examiners concluded that the injuries to the child could not have resulted from a simple fall from a 16-inch high sofa. When finally confronted, Klokow made admissions about what she had done, according to the criminal complaint, saying she wished she'd never had children and that she never told police about causing her daughter's death because she feared going to prison. Prosecutors had to resort to charges no longer on the books: second-degree murder, which means causing death by imminently dangerous conduct "evincing a depraved mind." She pleaded not guilty and her case plodded along. Last year, Klokow's attorney requested a mental evaluation. Klokow was found legally competent to stand trial. A judge had ruled earlier that prosecutors could use evidence of Klokow's treatment of her other children, but not introduce testimony regarding her treatment of her own siblings. James Klokow, 57, the oldest of four siblings, detailed other abuse that he and his siblings suffered at their mother's hand. He suspected his brother, Scott, who died in 1964, was a victim of their mother's neglect, if not outright abuse. His aunt told the detectives her own recollections about Ruby Klokow's mistreatment of both her own children and her siblings. Detectives exhumed the body of Scott Klokow but saw no signs of abuse. The case had been set for trial Monday when DeCecco announced late last week that it had been resolved. Klokow, who has been free on $10,000 bail since shortly after she was charged, appeared with a few friends and family Monday. She answered the judge's questions, explaining medications she takes and how she never finished high school because her mother kept her from attending. She declined to speak with reporters afterward. DeCecco said James Klokow, who did not attend Monday's hearing but plans to come to his mother's sentencing, feels vindicated by the conviction. Obear said the son never wanted his mother to go to prison, just to be held accountable. "He just wanted closure, like Ruby wanted," Obear said.

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Best I Faced: Calvin Grove - The Ring News Media Trivia Podcasts Ratings Schedule Shop Login Subscribe Saturday, September 24, 2022 | Follow Us: Subscribe RING CENTENNIAL HUB! Ring TV News Media Trivia Podcasts Ratings Schedule Shop Login Subscribe News Media Trivia Podcasts Ratings Schedule Shop Login Subscribe News Best I Faced: Calvin Grove Calvin Grove won the IBF featherweight title in 1988 and shared a ring with Azumah Nelson, Jeff Fenech, Arturo Gatti and Kostya Tszyu. Photo by James Vanegas 24 Mar by Anson Wainwright Quick-fisted Calvin Grove lived up to his “Silky” moniker, winning the IBF featherweight title in the late-1980s. He went on to face several top fighters at higher weights in the 1990s. Grove was born on August 5, 1962, in the small steelmill town of Coatesville, Pennsylvania. His father worked in the steel industry for nearly 50 years while his mother looked after Grove and his five siblings. He also had a large extended family and spent much of his formative years playing with his cousins. Grove first encountered boxing when he was in the ninth grade as a 14-year-old and began his amateur career two years later. He graduated in 1979, then worked in roofing for a couple of years while he continued his amateur career. The highlight came when he won the Pennsylvania Golden Gloves in 1982. A few months later, he turned professional after going 46-4 in the unpaid ranks. Grove fought primarily in Atlantic City in the early part of his career. He won his first 20 bouts before meeting future IBF bantamweight titlist Kelvin Seabrooks in February 1985. Grove had to recover from a second round trip to the canvas before winning a 10-round unanimous decision. Two fights later, he won the USBA 126-pound title, which helped position him to later fight for the IBF affiliated belt. In January 1988, Grove ​went overseas for the first time ​to face recently-minted Antonio Rivera in France. Grove recovered from a heavy knockdown to stop the Puerto Rican in four rounds. “I was very proud to win a world title,” Grove told The Ring. “I’m the only person from this area to this day to win a world title. People still come up to me today (to talk about it).” In his first defense, nearly four months later, he met a familiar foe, Myron Taylor, the older brother of Meldrick Taylor. Grove knew the Taylor brothers from their amateur days. Back then, Taylor used to get the better of Grove but the defending titlist matured and improved enough to win a 15-round unanimous decision. That summer Grove took his title to Mexico, yielding it in sweltering heat to extrovert Jorge Paez. Grove went down three times in the 15th round, which cost him as he lost a majority decision. Grove’s team had hoped to make the rematch on American soil but Team Paez wouldn’t agree to it and they met in a rematch, again in Mexico, in March 1989. This time Paez stopped Grove in the 11th round. “In both the Paez fights, it was the temperature; it was 130 degrees,” Grove said. “I wasn’t used to that temperature, inside a bullring.” Grove stepped up to 130 pounds and quickly won the USBA strap in August of 1989, though he lost it to talented former amateur standout Bernard Taylor. He again righted the ship and was rewarded with a WBC junior lightweight title opportunity against Azumah Nelson in November of 1992. Grove put up an excellent effort but lost a close unanimous decision. “He had experience but I knew I was going to give him all I got,” Grove explained. “Some people say, ‘Calvin won.’ Some people say, ‘Azumah won.’ I know he didn’t beat me and he knows it too.” He rebounded to beat grizzled former IBF beltholder Troy Dorsey four months later. Grove parlayed the win into a match versus a comebacking Jeff Fenech in Australia in June 1993. Grove upset the locals by stopping the hometown favorite with a fizzing right hand. “It was very special,” he said. “I looked at it as a blessing. My plan was to go out there and beat him.” Grove fought Miguel Angel Gonzalez for the WBC lightweight title in the fall of 1994 but found the tough Mexican too much and was stopped in six rounds. He continued to fight and lost three of his last four outings, though they were against a rising Angel Manfredy, Arturo Gatti and the much bigger Kostya Tszyu via one-round stoppage during a return trip to Australia. The loss to Tszyu was enough to persuade Grove to hang up the gloves. He did so with a record of (49-10, 18 knockouts). Grove, now 57, got married last September to longtime girlfriend Kim. He has four children and four granddaughters. The hometown hero still lives in Coatesville, a mile from where he grew up. After boxing, Grove returned to working in construction. Grove was inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame in 2018, where 32 of his professional fights took place. He graciously took time to speak to The Ring about the best he fought in 10 key categories. BEST JAB Bernard Taylor: I had the best jab. Bernard Taylor had speed; it wasn’t all power. BEST DEFENSE Jorge Paez: Taylor was quick just like me. He had more way more experience than me. He had getting on to 500 amateur fights; I had less than 50. It was like me fighting myself. He had a good defense but he wasn’t the best. Paez had the best defense. Paez had a sloppy style; he didn’t do everything always right. His unpredictability made him difficult. BEST HANDSPEED Taylor: Bernard Taylor had quick hands but I was quicker than him though. BEST FOOTWORK Paez: He was one of those guys who comes at you and you don’t know what he’s going to do. His unpredictability made him difficult to read and know where he would be. SMARTEST Taylor: He boxed almost like I boxed. He throws combinations; he had quick hands. He was very clever. STRONGEST Azumah Nelson: When we were up close, I couldn’t push him off. Kostya Tszyu was stocky and strong. I fought Azumah in our primes; he was a real rough dude. If he hits you, you’re gonna go night-night. Miguel Angel Gonzalez was pretty strong too; his style and my style just didn’t match. BEST CHIN Arturo Gatti: Gatti did have a great chin. I hit him with some good shots and didn’t get any change out of him. Troy Dorsey had a good chin too. BEST PUNCHER Kostya Tszyu: Oh man…when he caught me and it was like, “Wow, where am I at?” He could punch. The reason he caught me was because I wasn’t 25 no more. BEST BOXING SKILLS Taylor: Bernard Taylor was good. He was quick; he was able to do everything, box, move, set traps. He left the best of his game in the amateurs. He should have achieved more as a pro. He had 500 fights; that’ll put a lot of wear and tear on you. You can burn yourself out. BEST OVERALL Nelson: That’s very hard. I always wanted to fight Nelson when I was growing up and then, when it happened, everyone said, “Grove’s gonna get knocked out. He’s not gonna last. (Nelson)’s too strong for Grove.” Physically strong, hit hard. I was past my prime when I faced Kostya Tszyu and not in my best weight class, so it is difficult to know how good he was. Questions and/or comments can be sent to Anson at [email protected] and you can follow him on Twitter @AnsonWainwright. Struggling to locate a copy of The Ring Magazine? Try here or Subscribe You can order the current issue, which is on newsstands, or back issues from our subscribe page. Please leave this field empty SIGN UP TO GET RING NEWS ALERTS Email Address * Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. 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Sony San Diego to Work on One or More Free to Play Games Giuseppe Nelva January 20, 2014 2:50:35 PM EST Sony Computer Entertainment President and CEO Andrew House mentioned multiple times that Sony was very interested in the free to play market, and apparently that interest is strong enough to dedicate at least part of one of its first party studios to the development of free to play games. It was revealed today by a career opportunity ad seeking a Design Manager for the Sony San Diego studio. Sony San Diego has an exciting opportunity for a Design Manager! The ideal candidate will be proficient in all aspects of Game Design and have extensive experience with Free to Play and Live Game design support. Experience with leading and mentoring other designers is a must. The candidate will have three successfully shipped games and at least one commercially successful title in the Free to Play market. They will also be able to demonstrate their contribution to design and implantation in the titles they have shipped. Own, drive, and communicate the vision for major design initiatives of one or more games and relaying that vision to the internal and external members of the development team. * Maintaining the game design vision during all phases of the product development cycle from concept through implementation. * Producing game play content in the game production phase of one or more products. * Designing any element of one or more assigned games. * Reviewing and evaluating product concepts and designs for acquisition. * Reviewing and evaluating competitive products. * Creating and presenting new game concepts for development as needed. * Assisting the development team in identifying and creating techniques, structures and tools used to guide and encourage the evolution of game design within the studio. * Maintaining and enhancing creative relationships with inside and outside developers. * Skill improvement and training of direct reports. * Providing guidance and information to assist in the resolution of complex problems. The focus of the post on free to play experience is quite a telltale of what kind of games the candidate is going to primarily work on. So far, Sony San Diego’s main undertaking has been the MLB: The Show series, but the studio has also worked on multiple smaller PSN titles. A baseball game could probably adapt quite well to the free to play model, but we’ll have to wait for further information in order to know what kind of free to play experiences the studio has in store for us.

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Wired.com: Lamo/Manning Wikileaks chat logs contain no unpublished references to Assange or private servers (Updated) Wired.com's Kevin Poulsen and Evan Hansen have confirmed key details concerning unpublished chat logs between whistleblower Bradley Manning and informant Adrian Lamo. Responding to questions on Twitter, Poulsen wrote that the unpublished portion of the chats contain no further reference to 'private' upload servers for Manning, while Hansen indicated that they contain no further reference to the relationship between Manning and Wikileaks chief Julian Assange. U.S. Army Pvt. Manning, who allegedly sent 250,000 diplomatic cables and other secrets to Wikileaks, awaits trial in Quantico, Virginia. Wikileaks, working with newspapers in Europe, has so far published about 2,000 of the cables, with minor redactions. U.S. prosecutors are said to be building a case against Assange. Such a case would, according to legal analysts, have to prove he actively helped Manning leak classified information rather than act merely as a journalist working with a source. There is already discussion in the already-published part of the logs of a hypothetical secure FTP server. But public statements by Lamo suggested that such a server may in fact have been provided for Manning to upload classified documents, leading to intense debate over the unpublished part of the chat logs. Wikileaks supporters—most notably Salon.com columnist Glenn Greenwald—urged Wired to reveal more information. Wired balked, citing journalistic privilege and the need to protect the privacy of sources and subjects. Poulsen's comment appears to suggest Lamo's claims cannot be sourced to the remaining chat logs, only to the published sections or other communications. Along with Hansen's tweet, that leaves no new smoking guns in the unpublished portion or the logs, and little to suggest the degree of collaboration between Pvt. Manning and Wikileaks that prosecutors may need to pursue charges. Assange, who is neither a U.S. citizen nor resident there, is currently on bail in England, where he faces extradition to Sweden over unrelated allegations. Notes and screenshots of the tweets follow after the jump [Sean]: Above, a screenshot of an exchange I had over Twitter today with Wired Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen. If you find the last 72 hours of Wikileaks/Wired/Greenwald/Poulsen back-and-forth confusing, you aren't alone. Both sides have published lengthy attacks on the other which, while presumably intending to answer questions, have left many bystanders scratching their heads. Rob Beschizza summed up a lot of it earlier today, but here's my short summary: • There has been wide speculation that the United States will attempt to prosecute Julian Assange by claiming he somehow coerced or convinced Bradley Manning to give him the classified US documents Wikileaks has been publishing. At the very least, the US may try to prove that Manning received some kind of special treatment from Wikileaks/Assange. • Adrian Lamo has made statements to various news agencies in which he suggests that Manning told him Assange set up some kind of private or "special" FTP servers for his use. Obviously, a private server could be considered special treatment. • Assange has publicly denied this on numerous occasions, claiming Wikileaks received the cables through their normal submission system, and that he never heard the name "Bradley Manning" until it was published in the press. • Lamo claims that when he turned in Manning to the government, all of Lamo's hardware and data were seized by the feds, leaving him without a copy of the chat logs between himself and Manning. • Before that happened, apparently, he gave the complete logs to Wired News (wired.com). Since we understand that they have only published 25% of those chat logs so far, logic follows that they (and possibly the Washington Post) are the only ones (other than the feds) with access to the full logs. Wired News know what is actually in them and perhaps more importantly, what isn't. They have so far refused to publish or comment on the content of the other 75% of the Manning/Lamo chat logs. • This has become an issue, (most vocally noted by Salon's Glenn Greenwald) because of Lamo's interaction with the press. He's made claims (like the one about the private server) that are impossible for reporting journalists to fact-check without having access to the chat logs. • The assumption has been that the unpublished portion of the chat logs are relevant to these issues. • After all the huffing and puffing, the situation boils down to one question, which was posted at heykevinpoulsen.com: "The central issue is simply Wired refusing to confirm or deny what Adrian Lamo claims is in the unreleased chat logs." Earlier this evening I posted that link on twitter and Kevin Poulsen responded to me saying they'd already answered that question. I asked him to clarify and after a bit of discussion, he made the statement screenshotted above. At about the same time, Evan Hansen, Editor in Chief of Wired.com responded to Glenn Greenwald with this: You see what they just did there? Kevin and Evan both independently verified that in the unpublished portions of the chat logs between Adrian Lamo and Bradly Manning there is no further reference to private FTP servers, and no further discussion about the relationship between Manning and Assange. That's kind of a big deal, because the published portions of the logs do not support or back up the statements Adrian Lamo seems to have been making. And that would mean that his claims are based solely on opinion, not based on evidence in the chat logs. IANAL, but this would not appear to be good news for anyone attempting or threatening to prosecute Julian Assange and/or Wikileaks. What could have been a smoking gun now looks more like an empty water pistol. UPDATE [Sean]: When I stated in this post that the logs do not back up Lamo's claims, I was referring to the unpublished logs based on the clarification I'd just received from Kevin Poulsen. I made the assumption, perhaps incorrectly, that readers were familiar with the already published logs but it seems some people are just reading them now for the first time. Given that those logs have been public for months now, anything incriminating in them has already been seen and noted a bajillion times over— that's my assumption, anyway. There is some confusion about the already-published reference to an FTP server, and some people suggest that this backs up Lamo's claim. But I read these logs very carefully before making any comment, and didn't come to that conclusion. The section in question is as follows: (02:52:08 PM) Manning: keeping the key separate... and uploading via a different means (02:52:31 PM) Lamo: so i myself would be SOL w/o a way to prearrange (02:54:33 PM) Manning: not necessarily... the HTTPS submission should suffice legally... though i'd use tor on top of it... (02:54:43 PM) Manning: but you're data is going to be watched (02:54:44 PM) Manning: *your (02:54:49 PM) Manning: by someone, more than likely (02:54:53 PM) Lamo: submission where? (02:55:07 PM) Manning: wl.org submission system (02:55:23 PM) Lamo: in the massive queue? (02:55:54 PM) Manning: lol, yeah, it IS pretty massive... (02:55:56 PM) Manning: buried (02:56:04 PM) Manning: i see what you mean (02:56:35 PM) Manning: long term sources do get preference... i can see where the "unfairness" factor comes in (02:56:53 PM) Lamo: how does that preference work? (02:57:47 PM) Manning: veracity... the material is easy to verify... (02:58:27 PM) Manning: because they know a little bit more about the source than a purely anonymous one (02:59:04 PM) Manning: and confirmation publicly from earlier material, would make them more likely to publish... i guess... (02:59:16 PM) Manning: im not saying they do... but i can see how that might develop (03:00:18 PM) Manning: if two of the largest public relations "coups" have come from a single source... for instance (03:02:03 PM) Manning: you yeah... purely *submitting* material is more likely to get overlooked without contacting them by other means and saying hey, check your submissions for x... I've bolded the two parts I believe are relevant. In the first part, people are citing Manning's answer to Lamo's question as evidence, but this ignores the fact that Lamo's question is hypothetical. The question is presented as hypothetical, so I read the answer as hypothetical, too. Taking the answer out of context makes it sound like Manning is saying he used that system, when in fact he's merely suggesting the the type of system Lamo might use if he was in this situation. That's how I read it, anyway. The second bit is worth noting because it suggests Manning was submitting files somewhere also used by other submitters‐ hence the queue they might get lost in— and the reference to after submitting something, someone needs to take further steps to let Wikileaks know about it. To me, that doesn't sound like a preferential setup, or a private or secret FTP server setup for someone specific. That said, I didn't talk to Manning or Lamo, and I only have these logs to go on. Your interpretation may be different. But I don't see this conversation as evidence of anything special or preferential as Lamo has suggested, which is why I said the logs don't back up Lamo's claims. —Sean Bonner.

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A bomb blast has killed at least 14 people at an election campaign rally held by a pro-Taliban party in north-west Pakistan. Javed Khan, a government administrator in the Kurram tribal region where the bombing took place, said the attack also wounded 50 people. He said the bomb was apparently planted near the main stage of the rally. We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view. From 15p €0.18 $0.18 $0.27 a day, more exclusives, analysis and extras. Mr Khan said two party leaders escaped unhurt. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. The Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam party is considered to be supportive of the Afghan Taliban's fight against the United States and its allies. It is also sympathetic to the Pakistani Taliban. The Taliban have in recent weeks attacked secular Pakistani parties. Elections are to be held on May 11. One of the election candidates, Ainuddin Shakir, told a local television station that the blast went off just as the candidates were finishing their rally and leaving the stage. He said it appeared to have been detonated by remote control. About 2,500 people had gathered at a local religious school to hear the candidates speak, said one man who was in the crowd, Sabir Gul. The massive explosion came just as one of the candidates ended his speech and was leaving the stage, he said. Another resident, Mohammad Jamil, attended the meeting with his brother and was in the dining hall eating when the blast went off. "There was a deafening sound which stunned me for a while but I quickly moved out of the dining hall," he said, describing a 'hell-like' situation. "There were countless people bleeding and crying for help. My brother Khalil was among them." Interim Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso condemned the bomb blast and called on the local government to strengthen protection for candidates in the upcoming election. The historic vote, scheduled for this Saturday, will be the first time a democratically elected civilian government completes its term and hands over power to another. But the ongoing attacks against candidates, their supporters and political offices has cast a shadow over the momentous occasion, and may deter many people from going to the polls. There is also concern that the attacks could benefit the parties that take a softer line toward the militants, because they are able to campaign more freely ahead of the vote. Monday's blast however showed that no side is immune from the violence. Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the head of Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam, has been an outspoken supporter of the Afghan Taliban, but some militants in Pakistan have shown a willingness to target anyone connected to the US-backed government in Pakistan. In 2011, a suicide bomber struck a convoy in which Rehman was travelling through northwestern Pakistan, killing 12 people. The Taliban has also condemned democracy as a whole, meaning that any political party taking part in the elections could be considered fair game by the militant group. The violence is multi-faceted and reflects the various militant problems facing the Pakistani government and military. Most of the violence has come in the north-west, where Pakistan has been battling militants who are intent on overthrowing the government, and in the southern city of Karachi, where Taliban militants have gained a foothold. Numerous attacks have also hit candidates in the south-western Baluchistan province, where Baluch rebels are battling Pakistani troops. On Sunday in the southern province of Baluchistan, two gunmen attacked a convoy of an independent candidate and killed two of his police guards. On Friday, in Karachi, gunmen killed an anti-Taliban election candidate along with his six-year-old son and a political activist. We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view. At The Independent, no one tells us what to write. That’s why, in an era of political lies and Brexit bias, more readers are turning to an independent source. Subscribe from just 15p a day for extra exclusives, events and ebooks – all with no ads. Subscribe now

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Lego said today that it will terminate all of its promotions and ads in the Daily Mail, just days after consumers and anti-hate advocacy groups urged the world’s biggest toy company to stop doing business with the controversial British tabloid. A week ago, Lego fan Bob Jones sent a Facebook message to the Danish company, saying he was disheartened by its advertising in the Daily Mail, a tabloid known for its racist and xenophobic headlines. He specifically cited Mail headline that attacked a judge, who ruled British parliament must approve the Brexit vote, for being “openly gay.” Lego had been offering free giveaways in the tabloid. “It genuinely bothers me,” Jones wrote, “that a great progressive company like yours supports this ‘news’ paper, helping increase its circulation.” Jones also wrote that his six-year-old son is obsessed with Legos, but that even he “understands what [the Daily Mail] print is wrong.” You can read Jones’s entire post here. Lego first responded to Jones with a noncommittal statement, writing, “We continuingly evaluate and develop our partnerships and approach to those, in order to ensure that we are present on the best possible platforms for reaching children and parents.” But today, after hundreds more comments echoed Jones’s sentiment, Lego changed its tone. “Hi Bob! Our agreement with The Daily Mail has finished and we have no plans to run any promotional activity with the newspaper in the foreseeable future,” the company announced on Facebook. Stop Funding Hate, a British anti-hate group that sprung up shortly after the Brexit vote, and now lobbies companies to stop doing business with British tabloids, also pressured Lego to cut ties with the Daily Mail. Lego confirmed to the group on Twitter that it would no longer advertise in the tabloid. In 2014, Lego dropped its partnership with the oil company Shell, after coming under pressure from Greenpeace.

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Pakistani pilot writes after 46 years to daughter of Indian pilot he shot down Nearly half-a-century after shooting down an Indian civil aircraft under orders during the 1965 war with India, a Pakistan Air Force pilot has sent a condolence message to the daughter of the pilot of the aircraft he downed. Qais Hussain, a rookie Flying Officer during the 1965 war, made this moving and humane gesture via an e-mail, expressing his condolences and providing details of the circumstances under which he shot down the Indian aircraft. The e-mail is addressed to Farida Singh, daughter of the Indian Air Force pilot Jahangir “Jangoo” Engineer, one of the three famous Engineer brothers in the Indian Air Force. The e-mail, with the subject line “Condolence”, dated Fri, Aug 5, 2011, is copied to Naushad Patel and Jagan Pillarisetti, the Indian contacts who helped Mr Hussain to reach out to the bereaved family, something he had wanted to do for some time. Mr Hussain forwarded the e-mail to a group e-mail for Pakistan Air Force colleagues, saying, “Most of you would recall that I had shot down an Indian civil aircraft after being scrambled from Mauripur in 1965 War”. Referring to an April 2011 article by Air Cdre. Kaiser Tufail (“The Gujarat Beechcraft Incident - 1965 War”, http://bit.ly/qhltr65 ), which gives details of the incident, he says that it was Naveed Riaz, the Lahore-based businessman and aviation enthusiast who helped him get in touch with the Indian contacts through whom he then managed to reach Jahangir Engineer’s daughter. “I had decided to write a note of condolence, which I was able to do today and it is attached in full here below for your information,” he writes to his PAF colleagues, copied to Naveed Riaz. Reproduced below in full is his e-mail to Farida Singh: “Dear Mrs. Singh, “I am glad that by now we know about each other and it is no surprise that I am writing to you, thanks to Naushad Patel and Jagan Pillarisetti. “The incident happened 46 years back but it is as fresh in my mind as if it had happened yesterday. The aircraft flown by your father had drifted off course by many a miles and in his search for the destination, he had been going up and down in the border area of Rann of Katchh for quite some time and it made our Radar Controllers uncomfortable. I happened to be strapped up in my aircraft along with another pilot (my Leader) in his, on two minutes take-off alert. We were scrambled but I had to take off alone, and with the help from my radar controller, intercepted your father’s aircraft which was considered to be on a recce mission to open a new war front. I caught sight of him at 3000’ and made a pass so close that I could read his markings and the number of the aircraft. Your father spotted my presence immediately and he started climbing and waggling his wings seeking mercy. “Instead of firing at him at first sight, I relayed to my controller that I had intercepted an eight seat transport aircraft (guessing by the four side windows) and wanted further instructions to deal with it. At the same time, I was hoping that I would be called back without firing a shot. There was a lapse of 3 to 4 long minutes before I was given clear orders to shoot the aircraft. “After the shooting, I had a sense of achievement and satisfaction that I had completed my mission and destroyed any recce data that might have been collected to open a new war front. I landed back at Mauripur, Karachi with my fuel tanks bone dry and was greeted by my seniors and other squadron colleagues. Later that evening, All India Radio announced the names of the occupants who had lost their lives in that aircraft. “The reason that I have been trying to get in touch with you since recently is an article by Air Cdre Kaiser Tufail in April 2011, in which he researched the whole incident and came out with his story by interviewing me, the radar controller (a Flying Officer) and his supervisor (a Wing Commander) who took the decision to order the shoot. I have also read numerous versions that appeared in the Indian media at the time, said to be eyewitness accounts from peasants of Mithapur which are unfortunately based on hearsay. Even the findings of an Enquiry Committee constituted by the Indian Government are nowhere near to what actually happened. I was alone at the site of incident while my Leader who took off finally about 6 to 7 minutes after me (due to change of aircraft and a new pilot), was perched at the border at 20,000’ acting as a relay station between me and the controller at Badin. I had lost contact somewhere while descending to 3,000’ and had we not had this aircraft at 20,000’ at the border, I would not have found your father’s aircraft and he would not have lost his life along with all the others. Nonetheless, the unfortunate part in all this is that I had to execute the orders of my controller.“Mrs Singh, I have chosen to go into this detail to tell you that it all happened in the line of duty and it was not governed by the concept that ‘everything is fair in love and war’, the way it has been portrayed by the Indian media due to lack of information. I did not play foul and went by the rules of business but the unfortunate loss of precious lives, no matter how it happens, hurts each human and I am no exception. I feel sorry for you, your family and the other seven families who lost their dearest ones. I feel greatly grieved that you lost your brother Noshir recently. If an opportunity ever arises that I could meet you face to face to condole the death of your father 46 years back I would grab it with both hands. I would highly appreciate if you please convey my feelings to the other members of your family, who were equally hurt by the untimely departure of Jungoo to the next world.“I hope and pray that you and your family stay well“My best regards…Qais” Nearly half-a-century after shooting down an Indian civil aircraft under orders during the 1965 war with India, a Pakistan Air Force pilot has sent a condolence message to the daughter of the pilot of the aircraft he downed. Qais Hussain, a rookie Flying Officer during the 1965 war, made this moving and humane gesture via an e-mail, expressing his condolences and providing details of the circumstances under which he shot down the Indian aircraft. The e-mail is addressed to Farida Singh, daughter of the Indian Air Force pilot Jahangir “Jangoo” Engineer, one of the three famous Engineer brothers in the Indian Air Force. The e-mail, with the subject line “Condolence”, dated Fri, Aug 5, 2011, is copied to Naushad Patel and Jagan Pillarisetti, the Indian contacts who helped Mr Hussain to reach out to the bereaved family, something he had wanted to do for some time. Mr Hussain forwarded the e-mail to a group e-mail for Pakistan Air Force colleagues, saying, “Most of you would recall that I had shot down an Indian civil aircraft after being scrambled from Mauripur in 1965 War”. Referring to an April 2011 article by Air Cdre. Kaiser Tufail (“The Gujarat Beechcraft Incident - 1965 War”, http://bit.ly/qhltr65 ), which gives details of the incident, he says that it was Naveed Riaz, the Lahore-based businessman and aviation enthusiast who helped him get in touch with the Indian contacts through whom he then managed to reach Jahangir Engineer’s daughter. “I had decided to write a note of condolence, which I was able to do today and it is attached in full here below for your information,” he writes to his PAF colleagues, copied to Naveed Riaz. Reproduced below in full is his e-mail to Farida Singh: “Dear Mrs. Singh, “I am glad that by now we know about each other and it is no surprise that I am writing to you, thanks to Naushad Patel and Jagan Pillarisetti. “The incident happened 46 years back but it is as fresh in my mind as if it had happened yesterday. The aircraft flown by your father had drifted off course by many a miles and in his search for the destination, he had been going up and down in the border area of Rann of Katchh for quite some time and it made our Radar Controllers uncomfortable. I happened to be strapped up in my aircraft along with another pilot (my Leader) in his, on two minutes take-off alert. We were scrambled but I had to take off alone, and with the help from my radar controller, intercepted your father’s aircraft which was considered to be on a recce mission to open a new war front. I caught sight of him at 3000’ and made a pass so close that I could read his markings and the number of the aircraft. Your father spotted my presence immediately and he started climbing and waggling his wings seeking mercy. “Instead of firing at him at first sight, I relayed to my controller that I had intercepted an eight seat transport aircraft (guessing by the four side windows) and wanted further instructions to deal with it. At the same time, I was hoping that I would be called back without firing a shot. There was a lapse of 3 to 4 long minutes before I was given clear orders to shoot the aircraft. “After the shooting, I had a sense of achievement and satisfaction that I had completed my mission and destroyed any recce data that might have been collected to open a new war front. I landed back at Mauripur, Karachi with my fuel tanks bone dry and was greeted by my seniors and other squadron colleagues. Later that evening, All India Radio announced the names of the occupants who had lost their lives in that aircraft. “The reason that I have been trying to get in touch with you since recently is an article by Air Cdre Kaiser Tufail in April 2011, in which he researched the whole incident and came out with his story by interviewing me, the radar controller (a Flying Officer) and his supervisor (a Wing Commander) who took the decision to order the shoot. I have also read numerous versions that appeared in the Indian media at the time, said to be eyewitness accounts from peasants of Mithapur which are unfortunately based on hearsay. Even the findings of an Enquiry Committee constituted by the Indian Government are nowhere near to what actually happened. I was alone at the site of incident while my Leader who took off finally about 6 to 7 minutes after me (due to change of aircraft and a new pilot), was perched at the border at 20,000’ acting as a relay station between me and the controller at Badin. I had lost contact somewhere while descending to 3,000’ and had we not had this aircraft at 20,000’ at the border, I would not have found your father’s aircraft and he would not have lost his life along with all the others. Nonetheless, the unfortunate part in all this is that I had to execute the orders of my controller.“Mrs Singh, I have chosen to go into this detail to tell you that it all happened in the line of duty and it was not governed by the concept that ‘everything is fair in love and war’, the way it has been portrayed by the Indian media due to lack of information. I did not play foul and went by the rules of business but the unfortunate loss of precious lives, no matter how it happens, hurts each human and I am no exception. I feel sorry for you, your family and the other seven families who lost their dearest ones. I feel greatly grieved that you lost your brother Noshir recently. If an opportunity ever arises that I could meet you face to face to condole the death of your father 46 years back I would grab it with both hands. I would highly appreciate if you please convey my feelings to the other members of your family, who were equally hurt by the untimely departure of Jungoo to the next world.“I hope and pray that you and your family stay well“My best regards…Qais”

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The Yankees have called up catcher John Ryan Murphy and infielder Scott Sizemore, the team announced. To make room on the 40-man roster for Sizemore, Frankie Cervelli (hamstring) was placed on the 60-day DL. Murphy, 22, was off to a 5-for-26 (.192) start in seven games with Triple-A Scranton, though three of the five hits were doubles. If it wasn’t obvious before, it is now: he’s ahead of Austin Romine on the organizational catching depth chart. Just sitting on the bench and going through the various scouting meetings will be a good learning experience for Murphy. Sizemore, 29, was hitting .344/.436/.500 (160 wRC+) with three doubles and a triple in ten games down in Triple-A. He has struck out in 41.0% of his plate appearances, however. Sizemore can play second and third bases, giving the team some extra depth and protection in case Derek Jeter (quad) and Brian Roberts (back) continue to deal with their nagging injuries.

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Katie Salidas: Interview Answers - Part Three Pages Astrology Readings Little Werewolf Series Olde Town Pack Immortalis Series Chronicles of the Uprising Agents of A.S.S.E.T. Running From The Devil Bio Editing and Publishing Help Writing Advice Spilling Ink Home Interview Answers - Part Three All this week I am inviting you to interview me and enter to win a copy of my new novel, Immortalis Carpe Noctem. Click here for official rules. From Toni Whats your favorite dish at Blueberry Hill? LoL, Nice question. I am quite partial to the Blueberry topped pancakes. Though they turn your mouth blue, they are worth it. Quite tasty!! 2) Are you glad you lost your job, giving you the opportunity to finish your book? Hmmm, am I glad I lost my job. That question is not a black or white answer. I was well paid and financially secure. Losing that hurt quite a bit. Having more free time though is nice. 3) If you could no longer write books, what other occupation would you like to pursue? Professional Critiquer. Is that a real job? If not, it should be. How cool would that be to read other peoples stories every day and help make them better? 4) Have any of your friends or family been an inspiration for characters in any of your works? Yeppers, but I’m not saying who. 5) If money was not an issue, where in the world would you live and why? If money were no issue I would live everywhere. There are so many places in the world I want to see but just can’t afford to. If I had the money I would probably tour the world with my family and after seeing every place we could, then we would decide where we like best. From Areana 1)What or whom was the inspiration for your main male M.C? Lysander is a mix of quite a few men I have known over the years. 2)Do you prefer vampires more than any other creatures of the paranormal or are there others you like as well to write about? Vampires are my number one! I have loved them since I was a little girl. I do fancy werewolves too so don’t be surprised when they pop into my stories from time to time. 3)And that question follows tithe this one, Do you feel you write better with a female or male perspective? Being a woman I feel I can write from a female perspective better. It’s that whole “write what you know” thing. That’s not to say I can’t write a good male perspective, its just easier since I am a woman. 4)Do you see yourself writing a historical romance with a vampire twist? Actually I have one of those in mind right now. Will have to see if it pans out. I’ve never written a totally, Romance piece before. Okay, okay, last one: 5) Out of the thousands of authors out there, Whom would you most like to meet and/or have them write a forward for one of your books? I would love an opportunity to meet Anne Rice. Her Vampire Chronicles series is still my all-time favorite. I believe she revamped (pun intended) the genre back in the late 80’s and early 90’s with that series. (I do realize that Interview was published in the 70’s but didn’t gain the recognition it deserved until later) From BK What process did you go through to develop your characters in your book? Many of my characters are drawn from people I know. I like to take an aspect of their personality and tweak it or embellish it a little. 2. What type of music soothes your muse? I find the muse is an “in the moment” spirit. She likes a tune that matches the mood of the piece I am working on. If I need action, I must have fast paced, hard hitting beats. If I am writing a sensual and seductive scene, the muse demands softer music with flowing melodies and deep, husky voices. 3. When writing, does your muse ever just take over? I love it when that happens. Those are the times when pages write themselves and scenes play before my eyes like movies. All I have to do is sit back and let my fingers type away. It is such a beautiful thing. 4. Who are your greatest influences? Anne Rice was my first real inspiration for the vampire genre, because (and please correct me if I am wrong here) she was the first to show us things from the vampires perspective. Rather than being just a bloodthirsty monster, for the first time, vampires had feelings. She pioneered the way for other authors to follow. After that, we saw many more series pop-up where the vampire wasn’t always the bad guy. 5. What inspired your paranormal writing side? I think reading what came before and asking myself if I could do anything to “add” to the genre. When writing my story, I asked myself, why? Why can’t vampires handle the sunlight? Why do holy relics bother them? I wanted to give the reader a real, solid reason behind the answers to these questions. I wanted to make my vampires real enough to step out of the pages. at March 24, 2010 Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest 2 comments: Stina said... Great interview! I lost my job too. I wasn't sorry. 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Read more about Wall Street’s ongoing crisis. It takes a lot of pennies to make $700 billion Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged Congress Tuesday morning to authorize a $700 billion bailout of struggling financial institutions. Although the congressional leadership has indicated its willingness to get onboard with the plan, rank-and-file lawmakers from both parties are balking at what’s been called the largest bailout in U.S. history. Just how much is $700 billion? A lot, or not that much. There are about 300 million men, women, and children currently living in the United States, so the bailout is equal to roughly $2,300 per person. That’s right around what we each paid, on average, for gas and oil in 2006 ($2,227) and a bit less than our average personal tax burden ($2,432). Stepping away from average Joes, $700 billion is equal to about 12 Bill Gateses. The assembled net worth of the Forbes 400 is $1.57 trillion, or more than twice the cost of the bailout. Titanic, one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, raked in $1.8 billion from the worldwide box office, so James Cameron would have to make roughly 381 Titanic-sized blockbusters to settle Wall Street’s debts. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the single-year cost of obesity in the United States was $117 billion in 2000, or about one-sixth the bailout—although that number has been disputed. If the federal government siphoned off Florida’s gross domestic product, we could cover the bailout. Invading the Netherlands might be advisable—that nation’s GDP was $768.7 billion last year. Of course, invasions cost a lot of money. Back in 2003, the Bush administration told Congress that the Iraq war would cost between $60 billion and $100 billion, but it’s estimated that, so far, we’ve spent about $600 billion. Should the Treasury receive authority from Congress to borrow $700 billion, the national debt will rise by only about 7 percent. Right now, it’s sitting at $9.6 trillion. Let’s say Slate charged its advertisers $30 per 1,000 ad impressions, a common industry rate. And let’s imagine for a second that the federal government decided to nationalize Slate in order to pay for the bailout. We’d need our readers to rack up enough page views to see 23.3 trillion banner ads before the feds were satisfied. For historical perspective, consider that the Marshall Plan, which helped finance the recovery of Western Europe after World War II, cost the United States about $13 billion. Of course, in 2008 dollars that’s more like $100 billion. And Niall Ferguson has estimated that as a comparable share of the U.S. GDP, it’s more like $740 billion. Lastly, in apocalyptic terms, $700 billion really isn’t all that much. If nothing is done to change the way we finance Social Security, the trust fund reserves will be exhausted by 2041. This means that, in 75 years, there’ll be a shortfall of $4.3 trillion—or about six bailouts. According to the Stern report (issued by U.K. economist Sir Nicholas Stern), global climate change could cost the planet $9 trillion (or 12.86 bailouts) if we don’t address the problem within the next decade or so. Got a question about today’s news? Ask the Explainer. Explainer thanks Scott Berridge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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dulcetly...notes on a bookish life writing life | art & design | editor's desk | vintage style & decor | books, film, etc | miscellany | kristybowen.com Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Many thanks to Jeanine who posted this article about the economics of poetry on her blog, which got me thinking about money and how much an average poet makes doing this crazy poetry thing. I always joke that the money that I’ve made from poetry would probably, with a dollar, buy me a cup of coffee. In reality it’s probably around three grand (for 14 years of serious writing, pretty sad), which includes my Poetry Center prize for a third of that, and most of the rest, workshops I’ve been paid to and reading honorariums. Since I’m bound to Chicago and a full-time job, I do less of these probably than someone without these restrictions, but still, even without them, it’s probably not much. You can add in a little for royalties and the occasional paying journal, but I have probably made more money publishing and selling my own projects and /or selling author copies from other presses than I have in royalties. If you compare this to my income from visual art and crafty things (about $10,000 after taxes per year on average since 2007) it’s pretty sparse…luckily I’m not about to quit my day job. This discussion brought to mind this other article I’d been meaning to write about the last couple of months. Admittedly, I never had any ambition when it came to being a teacher of creative writing (which seems like it requires another sort of temperament and skill set than actually just..well..writing). Also, I always thought teaching it might (the same as if I had to put a pen to paper 8 hours a day, 5 days a week) make me less likely to find any sort of fun in it. Simple English Lit might have been okay , but at one point, straight out of undergrad and planning to get my Ph.D in the late 90’s, I'd already resigned myself to the glut of scholars in a very small field (let’s not forget my own ambivalence toward serious scholarly work) and decided to look elsewhere for a means to a living (pretty easy since I still don’t think I have the amount of patience it takes to run a classroom nor the required extroversion to not dread it.) All along, whatever it was I planned to do to make a living (ideally a fun, bookish job that allowed the time/mental space to create) I still saw poetry as the center of things. When I went for my MFA, I felt like sort of a rare bird as someone who wasn’t interested in academia. I was primarily in the degree program to further my own writing since I already had a job/career in library work. I had also already embarked on editing projects (had already started wicked alice a few years prior, was about to start dancing girl press) when I enrolled, so it’s hard to look at that time as something that was necessarily setting me up in a career of any sort. Was it useful? Of course, so much as a sustained period to focus and work on my writing, launch various projects, forge connections and look for feedback. Did it further my “career”? Probably, but more in intangibles (see previous sentence). Would I consider myself successful? Well, in America, “success” usually equals ”money”, so obviously, those folks coming out of programs who eventually land tenure track jobs, that’s an easy thing to track. Publication is a little trickier, since royalties even for laureates are pretty small beans in the publishing world. Maybe prizes, grants, fellowships, are an indicator if you seek them out. Honestly though, I’ve been thinking about the whole “successful” question and I think it boils down to one simple consideration. Are you still writing? Are you still working on things (published or not)? Does writing poems still make you happy? Feel like something worthwhile despite the financial bleakness. Or even more generally, for some people, who perhaps write less than they did in their MFA years, but who devote their time to other things ( journal, presses, readings series). Is poetry still important and central to your life? Is it worth it even knowing the fiscal rewards are pretty slim and sometimes it actually COSTS money to be a poet (in SASE’s, in entry fees, in funds for projects). And even if you never ventured into MFA territory, are you still doing the things it takes to put poems out in the world? To further and develop your work? If you answered yes to any of the above, then hell, yeah, that is success. I remember someone once throwing a statistic around that only a certain very low percentage of degreed writers were still actually writing 5 or 10 years after graduation. This feels almost like an urban legend to me since I would venture that most of the folks who graduated the same year I did are very much still writing and publishing their work, and many have gone on to do even more interesting writerly-related things. They don’t all make a living at it, but they are very much still doing it. Posted by kristy bowen at 3:44 PM 2 comments: Supervillainess said... Thanks for the shout-out, K! You were one of my early inspirations, by the way, when it came to hammering out an artistic life in this crazy world - you have a job, and you publish and edit - sort of ideal to me! I agree with you about the still writing - I would say that is the one and only basis for success - are you still doing it? If you can get published and get paid for still writing, that's even better, but just writing itself if kind of a good marker for passion, for creative energy, for whether or not you truly still love words. 3:45 PM Laura the Poet said... Kristy, great post. I've been thinking a lot about this too. It seems that they keep telling us "there are no academic jobs" or at least not enough. However, what about other fields? I guess for some a full-time tenure track job at a university is the Holy Grail of careers for a poet. But it boggles my mind how obtuse creative people can be when it comes to thinking outside the stanza and applying a poetic sensibility to other fields. Clearly, you have made a path for yourself in library science. I'm teaching in the public schools and doing freelance copywriting. 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An analysis of IUCN’s Red List of endangered species places 10 drivers of the Holocene-Anthropocene Mass Extinction in order of severity. It concludes that classical environmental threats like deforestation, hunting and overfishing – in 2016 – still top the list of biodiversity killers. Anthropogenic climate change is currently affecting 19 percent of species that are listed as threatened or near-threatened – making it the 7th extinction driver. (Stating the obvious: this position will change, as temperatures continue to rise.) Six classical killers are still bigger drivers of the Holocene-Anthropocene Mass Extinction than climate change is. Overexploitation (“the harvesting of species from the wild at rates that cannot be compensated for by reproduction or regrowth”) is still by far the biggest threat to Earth’s biodiversity – second is agricultural activity. In order of numbers of species affected the top-10 of extinction drivers is: 1. overexploitation (including deforestation, hunting and fishing); 2. agriculture (its direct ecological effects, excluding land use change); 3. urbanisation; 4. invasive species and disease; 5. pollution (agricultural, domestic, industrial); 6. ‘system modification’ (deliberate fires, dams); 7. climate change; 8. human disturbance (tourism, war); 9. transport; 10. energy production (not to be confused with energy pollution). Two useful exercises: comparing what’s worse – and what’s getting worse Extinction drivers work synergistically, so therefore tackling any one of them is always useful – faced with the challenge of slowing down the global decline in biodiversity. But of course we also want to know which are the largest single culprits – and here the analysis of currently endangered species offers a really good starting point. It was published in Nature in August 2016, as a commentary article under the title ‘Biodiversity: the ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers’ – which clearly helps to put feet on the ground and remove any romantic notion of what a mass extinction looks like in practice. The analysis was performed by a four-person team under lead author Sean Maxwell, a PhD student in environmental management at the University of Queensland, where co-authors Richard Fuller and James Watson are both associate professors. Fourth author is Thomas Brooks, head of science at the International Union for Conversation of Nature (IUCN) – the organisation that maintains the global Red List of endangered species that was evaluated by the group: The above image shows the taxonomic representation of the IUCN Red List [that seems to place relative weight on ‘higher’ animal biodiversity, considering the extent of plant biodiversity on Earth]. Birds have the highest number of threatened and near-threatened species, followed by amphibians. Mammal species take the third place on the list. (Malacostraca are a large class of crustaceans, Magnoliopsida are a class of flowering plants and Anthozoa at place 5 are a class of marine invertebrates that includes all species of coral.) Results of the study clearly show that classical environmental stressors are currently still a larger threat to Earth’s biodiversity than the relative newcomers [for comparison overexploitation affects 6,241 species on the IUCN Red List, agricultural activity affects 5,407 species – while invasive species threaten 2,084 Red List species and climate changes affects 1,688]. As the two images directly above and below indicate there is (apart from indirect synergy) also direct synergy between the drivers – as the vast majority of threatened biodiversity (6,994 species out of 8,688 species – that’s 81 percent) is impacted by multiple large groups of extinction drivers simultaneously. Another indication of the synergy between extinction drivers: the ‘interaction potential’ between major threat classes. The width of links between nodes represents how many species are simultaneously threatened by the two connected threat classes. Only links that have more simultaneously threatened species than the mean (860 species) for the network are shown. Furthermore it is of course also important to assess the relative development of these extinction drivers: Climate change is runner up on the extinction drivers list The authors acknowledge that especially climate change is set to become a far-larger threat to biodiversity in the future – stating “climate change will become an increasingly dominant problem in the biodiversity crisis.” For us that makes sense for two very important reasons. The first is climate inertia – on very many levels, from fossil lock-in emissions (decades), ocean-atmospheric temperature inertia (yet more decades), Earth system temperature inertia (centuries to millennia) to ecological climate impact inertia (impacts becoming worse over time under a constant stress) – all this to illustrate anthropogenic climate change, although already manifesting itself, is still very much an escalating problem for the future. We’ll just link to our ‘Real’ Global Temperature graph for background illustration of the intrinsically delayed onset of climate change – the warming itself, let alone its consequences. (And from there of course biodiversity loss is exponential to warming.) The second reason is the possibility that the ecological effects of climate change (the portion that is already manifesting itself) are currently already larger than thought – something that can be masked by looking at individual species and is better assessed when looking at ecosystems or entire biomes. Climate change has the potential to kill most of the coral reefs, climate change has the potential to kill most of the Arctic marine ecosystem*, climate change has the potential to dry out most of the Amazon rainforest – individual examples of macro-scale climate-biodiversity tipping points. The associated stressors are possibly already building up, while direct extinctions still lack. [*) For illustration – the authors present an example of the Arctic marine ecosystem collapse on individual threatened species level: "Hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) are among the 1,688 species affected. These have dropped in abundance by 90% in the northeastern Atlantic Arctic over the past few decades as a result of extensive declines in regional sea ice, and so in the availability of sites for resting and raising pups."] This ‘extinction inertia’ is just a bit more than a hypothesis. It’s an underlying trend that can be deduced from population extinctions and intraspecific biodiversity decline we learned in part 14 of this series. That’s the general decline of ordinary species – species that are not (yet) on the Red List of IUCN. That should worry us. Just like poaching. Just like bulldozers. Just like logging and overfishing. It really is a massive problem. The largest we have on Earth. © Rolf Schuttenhelm | www.bitsofscience.org

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Celebrating a brand new gorgeous new website. So grateful. | Kelly Rae Roberts My Account Student Access Offerings Shop Freebies Blog Retreats About Contact/FAQ Wholesale Cart Select Page Celebrating a brand new gorgeous new website. So grateful. Apr 10, 2016 | Life in Progress, Entrepreneurship The 10 year celebration continues! Last month we celebrated with a huge, epic bundle sale (thank you for the amazing response!), and this month we’re celebrating with a brand new website (my old one was over 7 years old!). Keep reading. I have so much to tell you! Hello, new blog on my brand spankin’ new beautiful website! I like you. A lot. Friends, this is the first time I’m posting on this newbie blog on my brand new website. And it feels sort of big. I haven’t consistently written blog posts in a long, long time, and this new internet home of mine has inspired me to get back to blogging, to share some more in depth thoughts that go beyond a status update (don’t get me wrong, Instagram is my social media BFF, and Facebook has been a good friend, too). I’m curious to see what unfolds! But, first let me introduce you to my new website! I have so much to tell you. I want to tell you how this has been in the making for about a year. I want to tell you that it all started when I realized that 2016 would be my 10th year not just as a working artist but as a woman who declared herself an artist, which perhaps was the most significant declaration of my adult life. I want to tell you that first there was the dream of a new site to celebrate my 10th anniversary, then all sorts of wondering how to make it real, then reaching out to a few amazing women (videographer! photographer! designer! strategist! copywriter!) who all said YES, they would help me make this thing come alive. As I’m typing this I’m realizing that it was indeed just about ALL women who took on this project – something that makes total sense given the sisterhood of my community, and makes me really proud. I love women supporting other women and this site has been built from the hearts and minds of women, plus a few very kind dudes who programed the site and made it functional. For the last many months as we’ve all been working our hearts out to make this thing go live, I’ve been saying little prayers of gratitude for them ALL, counting my lucky stars for them, celebrating them, and just generally being in awe of my fortune to work with these people. I’d love it if you checked out My Joyous Team page so you can get to know them, and perhaps reach out to them if you should ever need them for your upcoming projects. I recommend them all, highly. And they are beautiful people + souls. I’d love it if you grabbed a cup of tea and took a few minutes to poke around the new site. A few big changes have been made from my older site, including a new tag line: Let Art Out. Let Love In. For those of you who have taken any of my online courses, you know that Let Art Out, Let Love In is a huge part of what I teach, and what I know to be true. Art saves, reveals, and inspires and it changed my life 10 years ago by opening my heart to let all the love come rushing in. So, yes. Love the new tag line! Also, there are several new videos (the one on the home page is my favorite!), trailers and even silent videos. Love, love, love. We also have a totally new shop experience for purchasing prints. I’m giddy of this new shop, how it works, even how the check out pages work (I’m a total geek over such things). International friends, we don’t ship our prints worldwide because they get damaged in route and also because it costs more the print to ship it (I’m so sorry!). The good news? Garden Gallery, an online retailer who sells just about all of my licensed products can include my matted prints with your order should you purchase products with them. Because they are shipping larger items in larger boxes, they can include the prints without fear of them getting damaged. If you’re interested, be sure to check out their website and email them directly. The blog. The blog! It’s TOTALLy new. We took all 1600+ blog posts that I’ve written over the last ten years and put them into categories for easy reading. You can check out the new blog home page right here. I have a confession. This project required me to go back and read blog posts from those early years of declaring myself an artist and all the crazy things that happened shortly after that declaration (book deal! teaching! magazine contracts! licensing contracts! momentum!). As I re-read some of these old posts, I cringed a bit. I was a girl in a sort of adult puberty. A lot of highs. A lot of lows. A lot of hope. A lot of angst. A lot of vulnerability shared, at times too much. I was learning and creating new boundaries, a new life, all with awakenings and gremlins and so much love and so much fear. I have kept all those blog posts here on this new site as a way of honoring a life in progress as well as a way to tell the truth about what it looks like to simply become who we want to be. Also, for those of you who would like to get my blogs posts delivered to your inbox, please be sure to enter your email in the right hand side bar of this posts. So yes, I’m sitting over here working hard to celebrate this new internet home, to live inside the gratitude of it all, to be brave in love. Thank you, thank you, thank you for traveling with me. I’m so glad you’re here. I’d love to know what you think of the new site – comments are open should you have any questions! XO Sending much love, Show/Hide Comments (42 comments) 42 Comments Linda OBRIEN on Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 5:16 pm I am watching you weekly videos. Have ordered some supplies. Enjoying just watching for now and making notes of ideas till I get my materials set. My house is full of your stuff along with other paintings my dad did for me when he was alive. Reply Rosaura on Monday, May 16, 2016 at 6:04 am I know I am late for your contest but I still decided to write you. I admire your work so very much. I recently lost my daughter to cancer and I would love for you to make an angel for my daughter Natalie Jean. She was a great warrior. Even if it appears she lost her battle I know she is an Angel consoling those who are going through this horrible ordeal. I want to thank you for at least reading my message. I also thank you on behalf of her two children Grace Sophia and Yasset Anthony. Reply Kelly Rae Roberts on Monday, May 16, 2016 at 12:48 pm Rosaura, Sending so much love and comfort to you and you celebrate and mourn Natalie Jean. You are right – she is an Angel warrior, always with you. Big love, Kelly Rae Reply Chantal Cooligan on Friday, May 6, 2016 at 2:07 pm Thank you for shining so much light through your art and writing. Inspirational! Reply Maryam Sardari on Friday, May 6, 2016 at 12:15 pm Could I be the one among winners? I am a possiblitarian, too! Reply Carla Hogan on Friday, May 6, 2016 at 7:51 am KRR, You are the most inspiring person I have found/read! You are a beautiful person, friend, mother and wife! Your art is gorgeous. I bought one of your mantras as a gift to my S-I-L when she was battling cancer. I told her when I gave it to her not to read it at that moment because she and I would both be in tears. LoVe all the ideas Demarco has done! Wish there were more shops in my part of the world (KS) that carried your “stuff”!!! CoNgRaTs on your 10 year AnNiVeRsArY!!! Reply Monserrat Noguera on Friday, May 6, 2016 at 3:45 am I love your work and spontaneity. You are an inspiration. Reminds me ever day that it can be done! thank you Reply Lesley on Friday, May 6, 2016 at 12:25 am Hi Kelly, I have loved your work for several years now. I have some of your lovely Christmas Angels and an Angel named Dream Big to remind me to keep doing just that! It is getting harder to get hold of your work here in United Kingdom which is a great shame. I am loving your painting angels course too, it is real therapy for the soul! Reply Sarah Cook on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 8:37 pm I have given your beautiful items as gifts many many times. Thank you for sharing your heart with us. Reply Justin on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 6:32 pm Thanks for being so generous with sharing your amazing art! Reply sharon burcham on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 5:29 pm I have been a Kelly Rae Roberts fan since April 2010 when I first discovered your amazing work. I love it, it’s my favorite gift to give and my favorite to receive as well. Reply Chris on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 5:28 pm Dear KRR I love your new blog, your emails, your updates, your art…you are very creative and inspiring. Keep up your awesomeness! And it would make my day to win something too. ✌?️ Reply Kathy Smith on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 5:09 pm Thank you Kelly for awakening us to so many possibilities, and so much joy! Your art has greatly impacted my life, and I know so many others as well! Reply Debby on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 4:48 pm Keeping my fingers crossed! Hoping to be one of the winners because I LOVE jelly Rae Roberts art, style and message! Reply lisa remmick on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 4:25 pm My walls are covered in your art and I get so many compliments. I seem to read the right saying on the days I am having a bad day. What a beautiful gift collect, I would be proud to use and display all the items. You are awesome and so is your new blog! Reply Kathe Dooley on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 3:46 pm What an exciting time for you and how lucky for those of us who have found you and your amazing website and classes! Thanks for all you share with us. Reply Lori Jean on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 3:43 pm Just always luv’n all things Kelly Rae…luv…luv…thanks for sharing this beautiful blog spot…. xoxx Reply Sandy on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 12:58 pm Thank you for your inspirational and encouraging words! Reply Beth grimshaw on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 12:45 pm So grateful for you and your art Reply Stacey Leichtamer on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 12:45 pm Love, Love the new website! Reply Shawna Hanks on Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 8:49 am Kelly, You are such a fun and beautiful artist. I owned a retail store, until my hubby got too sick for me to tend to him and run a store, and I loved carrying your products. They always seemed to brighten up the store and all our moods. Congratulations on 10 years of great success! You’re awesome! Sincerely, Shawna Hanks Reply Juanita on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 9:32 pm I love kelly rae roberts collection! Reply Louise on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 4:43 pm Thank you for your inspiration and your beautiful heartfelt blogs. I love your work, I love your messages and I love your playfulness. You have encouraged me to nurture my playful heart, something that has been lost for so long….blessings to you ?? Reply Estella Magnuson on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 3:28 pm Thank you for your beautiful art. I have several pieces, love them! Reply Traci Foster on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 2:30 pm I’m loving your new website. My daughter and I are huge fans! Reply Kim Davis on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 6:06 am Hi Kelly Rae: Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent with us and continuing to inspire those that need support in every part of their lives! Reply Lori Marlow on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 9:45 pm Well thanks Kellyrae, so glad Demaco found you. Reply Debbie Rogers on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 7:12 pm You products touch my soul and encourage me to grow! Reply Kimberkey on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 7:10 pm Kelly you make my heart soar with happiness… Thank for continuing to mind to enjoy each moment in life no matter what it is … Always something to learn from each of them! ? Giggle everyday! Reply Adonna ebrahimi on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 5:54 pm I discovered a book of yours in Ojai, ca and I’ve been hooked ever since! I love your heart and your art – you are so genuine. Everything you do speaks to me! I have enjoyed taking your online classes :)) Reply Leigh on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 5:32 pm Thanks Kelly for your daily inspiration. Reply Suzy Meyers on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 5:25 pm Awesome wonderful designer and products Reply Janine on Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 10:49 am HI. I found out about you in Cory Huff’s mention in one of his course modules. I am just in the pre school stage of it all, barely crawling. I still need to get a new website with ecommerce. Your site is gorgeous! I wish I had some angels to help me make a good site. for me- alas I’ll have to settle with shopify because I’m took scared to try wordpress on my own. Anyway, have you thought of approaching Canada’s Indigo Book store to carry your work? They sell lots of gift items , especially inspirational things. check them out. http://www.indigo.ca I love how you set up your blog.. Reply donna joy on Friday, April 15, 2016 at 9:10 am Beautiful new look for your site-love it! Congrats on 10 yrs! I can still remember standing at your booth at Artfest to purchase some prints-and loving your work-and to see how far you’ve gone with it. Here’s to 10 more yrs~ Reply Kelly Rae Roberts on Monday, April 25, 2016 at 10:02 am Donna! It warms my heart that you were there all of those years ago. A true beginning and also such a refuge for us artist. Love and miss Artfest! Reply Joy on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 5:21 pm Absolutely Glorious… I love it. I will come back and spend much more time on here. ♥ Reply laura gaffke on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 10:25 am Kelly Rae, Your new website is amazingly beautiful! I love and appreciate how you left your old posts up. Yes, it can be strange to look back on “who were then” but kind of fun at the same time, right? The journey is where we grow and I honor and appreciate you sharing it. Congratulations on this big accomplishment and for being such a kind-spirited inspiration to so many people. Sending such goodness and joy your way! 🙂 Laura Reply Anab on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 8:25 am LOVELY! lovely! LOVEly! Reply Cheryl on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 11:13 pm I love your new website (can’t believe it was 7 years since the last change! Seems like only yesterday!) It is a privilege to share your journey – thank you for your authenticity – and happy 10th birthday! Reply Carol Weiler on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:02 pm Really fantastic! Not only looks good but very functional and easy to use. Happy Anniversary! Reply Caroline Pittari on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 3:58 am What a beautiful, joyful blog! Thank you, with gratitude + love. ? 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Accelerator casually made his way down the hall towards his dorm room, if you could call it that, anyway. It wasn't the coziest of accommodations, but he didn't dwell on the lack of space or cheerful decor. He had been a "student" at the Special Abilities Institute for the last four of the eight years of his life. He didn't know much about his past, not even his real name, but he didn't dwell on that either. The name they gave him after his Esper ability was discovered seemed to suit him just fine. Accelerator. One-Way-Road. The more he trained his vector control ability, the more he felt that his past was irrelevant. The scientists had told him that his power was approaching Level 5, and would likely lead to him being the strongest in Academy City. The want for strength and power isn't what was driving him though. It was the desire to be acknowledged. If no one remembers my real name, I'll make sure they all know my new one! He thought to himself as he turned a corner and suddenly stopped. He saw a girl crouched down against the wall trying to stay hidden from view. He didn't recognize her as any of the other children in the Institute, and she wasn't wearing the typical uniform the students wear either. She looked older than him, around twelve years old, at least. Despite the warm environment, she wore a two shaded gray full body suit that had to be as uncomfortable as it looked. She wore gloves on her hands and kept lacing and unlacing her fingers as she crept down the hall. Accelerator, still surprised to find someone new in a place he felt he knew every inch of, couldn't help but continue following her, passing the door to his room as he did. The girl crept up to the end of the corridor and carefully took a peek around the corner. Accelerator came to a stop and waited for her next move. That way leads towards the back offices and loading docks. I wonder if she's thinking of escaping. She must be new, anyone that's been here long enough knows there's no point in running. The girl must have felt the area was clear and proceeded with caution. The boy gave her a few seconds before following. The girl was heading right towards the docks like he had predicted, which would stand to say that she knew the layout of the building well. Was she a new student? Accelerator questioned himself as he pursued her, wondering if there could be people or places he hadn't known existed in the only home he ever remembered having. His gaze drifted downward as his mind thought of that possibility and didn't notice when the girl stopped in front of him. He looked up just as she turned around to see him nearly collide with her. His ability reacted immediately, repelling her away from him and knocking her off her feet. She sat up, brushed the long strands of violet hair back from her face and looked at Accelerator. A faint glimpse of recognition grew in her eyes before it faded to a more anxious and panicked look. "What the... What are you doing following me? And why did you push me like that? Did you use your hand? I don't think you touched me; you couldn't have touched... Who are you?" she said, rambling through her questions and observations quickly. "I didn't touch you, calm down. I'm not some jerk trying to make cheap moves on clueless girls. I was only following you because your behavior intrigued me. That doesn't often happen in this dull place, so I wanted to see how your actions would play out. Were you thinking of running away? Not that I'd say that's a bad idea, this place can bring out the worst in people. But unless you're new here, you'd realize escaping is pointless." Her worried look gave way to embarrassment. "I-I wasn't saying you were trying to touch me like that... That wasn't what I meant at all! But if you just considered me nothing more than entertainment for the evening, then that does make you a jerk. The fact that you think I'm new here is amusing though. I was one of the first subjects admitted to this institute. Out of the 47 inaugural students that started here, I'm the only original member left. Unfortunately, they don't think highly enough of me to give me a name. I was given the designation "Subject 37". And you still haven't told me who you are yet." He decided to let the jerk comment slide. As much as he wanted to keep his calm, uncaring attitude in check, he couldn't help but want to hear more about this girl's story. "I'm Accelerator. So you don't have a name? Not even a code name or anything like that? I've been here as long as I can remember, and I don't recall ever seeing you." Her nerves had settled and gave her a chance to look at the young boy in front of her more closely. She was reassured by her earlier feeling of recognition now that she saw his albino appearance. "Accelerator, so that's what they call you now." She nodded her head and paused for a moment before continuing. "That's funny. I remember when you first came here. You were pretty young back then, five years old at least..." "Wait... You remember the day I arrived here? What else do you remember? I mean... I don't care either way about my past," he said casually after remembering his earlier thoughts on the subject of his past. "But just for curiosity's sake, what do you know?" Just as she began to speak, a door creaked open from one of the nearby offices. Her face changed back to the panicked look, and she jumped up quickly. "We need to go, now!" she whispered as she gestured for them to go back the way they came. Before he could stand up, the person turned the corner and saw the two of them. Oh shit, it's Kihara. Of all the people to catch us out past curfew, it's that bastard... Accelerator rose to his feet, maintaining his relaxed and calm attitude, hoping he could smooth talk his way out of the trouble in which they found themselves. "Well well well, who do we have here? Mr. Accelerator himself thinking the halls are his to roam even after curfew begins. And this is truly a surprise. 37, what are you doing, trying to escape? Did you finally realize what's going down? That's pretty funny because I was just on my way to collect you from your cell. Thanks for saving me the trouble and meeting me halfway. Your time's up, bitch." Accelerator couldn't believe what he was hearing. What did he mean by 37's time being up? He saw she had backed herself up against the wall, her face reflecting a disturbing image of hatred and fear. "Kihara, look we were just out walking for a little bit, she was just telling me..." "Save it vector boy; I'll deal with you later. You don't realize who this is, so I'll excuse your ignorance. May I introduce you to the SAI's biggest failure, Subject 37. Unlike you, who is proving to be valuable enough to warrant an awesome nickname, she is useless and barely deserving of her designated number." "I'm not useless!" 37 shouted, venting her anger towards him. "You know as well as I do what happens when I use that ability. Why would I purposely do that to myself? Why try to raise my level if it'll destroy me?! If anyone is a failure, it's you for not stopping the experiments when you discovered what was happening! Instead, you pushed for more of them. You're a heartless monster, barely deserving to be recognized as a human being!" She ended her tirade by spitting what saliva she had in her mouth at his feet. Kihara looked down at the spit that had spattered onto his shoes and shook his head. "Now that's not very ladylike... After all these years, I would have figured you would have learned your place by now!" He drew back his arm intending to strike her. Just as his arm came down, Accelerator slid between Kihara and 37, surprising both of them. "Get outta the way kid. This situation is none of your business." Accelerator stood his ground, raising his arm up in a guarding gesture in front of her. "You're right, it isn't any of my business, and none of what you two are saying makes any sense to me. Not that I care enough to want to know anyway. But this girl and I were in the middle of a conversation. One that I intend to finish. It would be hard for her to do so after getting beaten down by a coward twice her size, however. So no, I won't move out of the way." Kihara glared at Accelerator for a few moments before relaxing his arm and stepping back a couple of feet. "Now now, no need to get aggressive here. But don't forget your place here either, vector boy. I'm the head advisor and scientist in your testing group. I know you just as well as you know yourself. Don't think I can't flatten you beneath my boot rubber and throw you away like we're doing to her." He looked past the two students and saw his reinforcements approaching. "Go ahead and take her away, boys. Rough or gentle, I don't give a shit." "Throwing her away? Why? Actually, I don't want to know. It's not my concern, but it's not happening now. Not while I still have business with 37." He swung his arm backward, intending to make contact with her to make sure she was okay. The movement, however, caused her to panic. She dodged his arm and ducked out from behind his protective stance. "NO! Don't touch! I can't... It'd be too much!" She yelled as she tried to run from the two security officers Kihara had sent after her. Accelerator stood in shocked silence as the two men chased her down and subdued her. "Her ability, which despite your 'I could care less' attitude I'm sure you're at least a little curious about, is an ability to mimic other Esper abilities for short periods of time. Which you'd think would be a pretty badass trick to have, right? Apparently, whenever she gains an ability, through skin-to-skin contact, by the way, she suffers pain and physical injuries. So she refuses to use it. Refuses to develop it or raise her Esper level. She's been here the longest out of all our subjects and has had zero progress. If she doesn't desire to gain more power, she's just a useless piece of shit wasting our time and resources. We gave her plenty of chances too. But the decision just came down the line to dispose of her." For the first time in a long while, Accelerator felt anger and sadness. Emotions he hadn't felt since he had finally realized he was alone in the world. All she wanted was to live a pain-free existence. And for her ability to be activated by touch... No wonder she was completely covered up and paranoid about him touching her. He had resigned to only look out for himself since he couldn't trust others. Why now though... Why does he feel sorry for a girl he just met? Is it only because she knows things about his past, or is this genuine concern for another human being? Kihara could read his expressions and knew Accelerator grew conflicted with the situation. "Hey kid look, don't worry about it. It'll be like nothing happened. Just look away." Kihara said as the men took her away. Accelerator's face twisted in conflicting emotions as he clenched his fists and let them fall to his sides. What could he do anyway? His path was a One-Way-Road after all. He hung his head down and looked away as the men reached the door at the end of the hall. As the doors closed behind them, he heard one last shout from the girl he barely knew. "I WON'T FORGET YOU! I'LL BE BACK, I HAVE A STORY TO FINISH! YOUR STORY, SEIJI ROISIN!"

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This week's story about ongoing challenges for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to stay on the F1 calendar has again raised an important question - why does F1 pay big premiums to its long serving star teams, but not cherish its most charismatic venues? The funding for Monza is a challenge with money coming from the local region, the local promoter and the Italian government via road tax rebates channeled through the national motorsport federation. At the same time, the current commercial deal between F1 and it's leading six teams sees them getting paid a premium based on their longevity in the sport and their success in the last 10 years. This initiative came about as F1 and its holding company CVC Capital Partners, looked to tie in the big names ahead of a planned floatation in Autumn 2012 that never materialised. But even without the generous payments, the sport has always shared the commercial spoils with the teams, while at the same time squeezing the venues that host the events. The event hosting fees are one of the three main commercial revenue streams alongside TV and media rights and sponsorships. Event hosting fees account for roughly a third of F1's income, but since CVC's acquisition of the sport they have targeted that and global sponsor partnerships as the big areas for growth. So when assessing what elements are truly valuable to F1 as a package, the sport values Ferrari, McLaren, Red Bull, Williams, Mercedes and its star drivers, who make the history, but doesn't make any allowance for the venues where all the history was made. The exception is Monaco, the one venue that unarguably does more for F1 than F1 does for the venue. Their hosting fee is negligible, because it's hard to imagine F1 without Monaco, in the same way as it is hard to imagine F1 without Ferrari. Clearly it's not hard for CVC and F1's CEO Bernie Ecclestone to imagine F1 without Monza, nor Silverstone which the F1 media seems to portray as always 'under threat'. In fact CVC did have a moment when things were getting difficult, when they told Ecclestone that a deal needed to be done to retain Silverstone as the teams had put pressure on and they considered that the negative fallout from no British Grand Prix would be a problem. The current deal was duly done. It's an example of the 'consensus power' that sometimes is brought to bear within F1. Another example is the teams telling Ecclestone, when the BBC decided to quit its TV contract two years early, that it was very important to maintain a free-to-air TV platform for the sport in the UK, rather than go exclusively behind a SKY paywall. That led to the Channel 4 deal, although ITV thought they had got it. So what is the consensus within the sport on Monza? If Ferrari is so important to the sport that it merits a $100m bonus as the longest standing team, then how do you value its home race, where much of the glory of Ferrari's history was written and where the Tifosi create a unique spectacle unrivalled in world sport? Certainly a few drivers made their feelings clear at last year's race there about how important Monza is to F1. Sebastian Vettel, having experienced the Monza podium for the first time as a Ferrari driver, said it would 'rip our hearts out' to lose the event. Clearly he was somewhat biased given the love he was feeling from the crowd for the first time in his career. Others chose more guarded language, but expressed similar support for the venue, which generates special passion and provides a unique backdrop. There is no survey or evidence yet pulled together to show whether the expansion of the F1 calendar and the move away from famous venues to new ones with no motorsport history like Korea, Abu Dhabi, and Azerbaijan is having a negative impact on the following for the sport. Certainly one meets many F1 fans these days who say that once they started to skip a few races as there are too many of them, they have lost the thread of following the sport and their interest has waned, the comments section of this site frequently confirms this view. Live TV viewing data I've seen in recent years has shown that the Japanese Grand Prix tends to get one of the lowest live audiences, which is strange because it is a great track and usually exciting things happen there. So maybe not all classic venues are cherished by fans? The time of day here is a factor; over 60% of the global TV audience for F1 is in Europe and in fact viewer numbers in Asia have slipped a bit in the last couple of years. Perhaps the sport should consider what are its "Crown Jewels" and put them in a special category to be cherished and nurtured. Clearly Ferrari and Monaco would be in there. Would venues like Monza and Silverstone earn a place?

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Profit-share to revenue-share, multiple windows to single: HELP for explorers | Express Explained News,The Indian Express Sections Search for: English தமிழ் বাংলা മലയാളം हिंदी मराठी Saturday, Sep 24, 2022 ePaper Today’s Paper Journalism of Courage Home Express Explained NewPolitics Pulse India Cities Opinion RefreshedEntertainment Sports Audio 99acres.com Education Specials Events Subscribe Sign In Trending CORONA VIRUS COVID-19 VACCINE COVID CASES IN INDIA WORLD TEST CHAMPIONSHIP 2021 Elections 2022 Home Express Explained Profit-share to revenue-share, multiple windows to single: HELP for explorers Profit-share to revenue-share, multiple windows to single: HELP for explorers The Cabinet last week approved a new regime for oil and gas exploration, seeking to revive investor interest in the country’s energy sector. Written by Amitav Ranjan March 16, 2016 12:24:21 am The hydrocarbon exploration licensing policy (Help) addresses many of the ills afflicting Nelp or the new exploration licensing policy, the framework for the last 18 years. What was the need for a change in the existing New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP)? India’s offer of oil and gas exploration blocks under NELP since 1999 had limited success in terms of commercial discoveries and their monetisation. Of the 254 blocks auctioned in the nine NELP rounds, commercial production started in three blocks with total output of 0.4 million tonnes of crude oil and 26.11 million standard cubic metres of gas per day. Moreover, successful explorers were forced to offer gas at stipulated rates to fertiliser and power companies. The government stuck to its regulated low prices and, with three gas pricing formulas introduced in exactly seven years, investors stayed away from the sector. The NELP mechanism of profit-sharing where explorers first recovered their costs and then shared profits with the government was severely criticised by the CAG during an audit of KG-D6 block operated by Reliance Industries. The CAG alleged gold-plating by RIL to lower the government’s profit share. Subscriber Only Stories View All Premium Re-Defining The Tradition In Folk Art: An Art Educator’s Perspective Premium Symbiosis School of Sports Sciences (SSSS) launches undergraduate program... Premium MIT World Peace University launches Five-Year Integrated B.Tech with MBA ... Premium Bring Home The Ultimate Solution For The Whole Family With Airtel Xstream... Subscribe Now to get 78% OFF With low gas pricing, the so-called cost-recovery incentive turned out to be a misnomer with 167 out of the 254 NELP licence holders relinquishing the blocks after sinking nearly $ 8 billion in surveys and exploration drilling, or paying for unfinished jobs under the committed minimum work programme. Investments came to a halt. [related-post] So, why the delay in changing the policy scenario? Following the CAG’s objections, and dwindling interest in oil and gas exploration, the UPA government in January 2014 moved a Cabinet proposal to move to a single-licence, revenue-sharing mechanism where the government would not micro-manage the costs incurred, and would instead concentrate on receiving a share of the gross revenue. To attract investors, it suggested a premium in pricing for a certain percentage of the gas output. However, the proposed premium was not to be extended to existing finds as there were legal suits alleging that discoverers were deliberately not putting into production their finds to get better pricing. Advertisement The revenue-sharing model was strongly opposed by existing players and the framers of NELP. The new NDA government too initially considered premium pricing, but the Finance Ministry was not agreeable. The issue was taken up in the Cabinet which decided to provide a free pricing regime to new discoveries, including those discovered in NELP blocks, but not put into production. The issue was put on the back burner until last January, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi met global oil and gas bigwigs from BP, International Energy Agency and Royal Dutch Shell Plc on ways to kickstart oil and gas discovery. They suggested a relook at the pricing and regulatory framework. How is HELP different from the NELP? The UPA’s Uniform Licensing Policy (ULP) was rechristened Hydrocarbon Exploration Licensing Policy (HELP), offering a single-licence, revenue-sharing mechanism to replace the multiple-licence, profit-sharing NELP. Advertisement A single licence for exploration and production of all forms of hydrocarbons in blocks to firms offering the maximum revenue to the government would be given. Blocks would be allocated under the ‘open acreage policy’, wherein companies can submit bids for areas of their choice. What are the other aspects of the new policy? It provides for a common licence for all hydrocarbons, including shale gas and coal bed methane, and does away with computing complex investment multiples and scrutinising cost recoveries. Revenue-sharing will not be subject to cost recovery, monitoring will be simple, and the government share will accrue immediately on production, unlike in cost-recovery where the contractor first claimed its costs before splitting leftover profits, if any. It provides for marketing and pricing freedom for crude oil and natural gas produced from these blocks, and introduces the concept of open acreage policy where companies can choose blocks from the designated area round the year without waiting for roadshows and auctions like in NELP. Lower royalty as compared to NELP has been provided to encourage exploration and production. A graded system has been introduced in which royalty decreases from shallow water to deep water and ultra-deep water. Onland royalty has been kept intact so that revenues of states are not impaired. Cess and import duty exemptions have been retained from the NELP era. Advertisement Will the new policy lead to enhanced revenues for the government? Considering that India is not floating on oil and gas, all that HELP does is provide more pricing freedom to companies. The shift to revenue-sharing could prove to be a disincentive as the investment recovery period for producers gets prolonged. However, the reform of reduced government intervention should lure foreign investment when global oil prices recover. Advertisement What will help immediately is a separate CCEA decision to grant marketing, including pricing freedom, for new gas (not those currently under production) produced from deep offshore. This should act as a catalyst to India’s gas output and government revenue. Since this would be applicable to existing discoveries that are yet to commence commercial production, it would immediately benefit RIL, Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd, and Gujarat State Petroleum Corp. which have deep sea discoveries in licensed blocks yet to be brought into production. Advertisement The reserves which are expected to get monetised are of the order of 6.75 trillion cubic feet, or around 35 mmscmd, considering a production profile of 15 years. The associated reserves are valued at $ 28.35 billion. India currently produces around 90 mmscmd of gas, meeting hardly 40% of its needs. And is there any way in which the marketing and pricing freedom offered to promoters can translate into gains for consumers? Promoters will now be encouraged to develop their deep sea finds as their ceiling price would be lowest of the (i) fuel oil import landed price (ii) weighted average import landed price of substitute fuels (coal, fuel oil and naphtha) and (iii) LNG import landed price. This formula would result in an 85% jump in rates to $ 7.08 per million British thermal units from the government-regulated $ 3.15 per mBtu that comes into effect from April 1. Over time, it would pave the way for a level playing field between domestic and imported gas, and create a competitive gas market. If and when crude oil prices harden, petroleum product prices would go up, and so would the price of LNG, which is based on Japanese Crude Cocktail. Consumer prices would certainly rise, putting pressure on fertiliser rates and electricity tariffs. 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DETROIT -- The arrests of dozens of Iraqi Christians in southeastern Michigan by U.S. immigration officials appear to be among the first roundups of people from Iraq who have long faced deportation, underscoring rising concerns in other immigrant communities. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on Monday declined to say how many were taken into custody, but advocates say at least 40 people were arrested near or at homes, mostly on Sunday. Roughly 100 people protested Sunday at a Detroit detention center, many expressing their concern for the arrestees' safety. Chaldeans are among Iraqi Christian denominations that emerged in the faith's early days, and many speak languages similar to those spoken at the time of Christ. Their population in Iraq has dwindled as hundreds of thousands have fled war and violence over the decades. Hundreds of people gathered in Sterling Heights to protest the arrests. Marvin Yousef was one of the demonstrators, CBS Detroit reports. "They're targets. If they go back to Iraq, they're going to kill them," Yousef said. DOJ is trying to speed up the deportation process for undocumented inmates ICE said in a statement released Monday that all of those arrested had criminal convictions, including for murder, rape, assault, burglary, weapons violations and drug trafficking, and were ordered deported by an immigration judge after "full and fair" proceedings. Immigration officials said the judge determined they were "ineligible for any form of relief under U.S. law," but declined to discuss the appeal process or other legal options. Most of the orders had been issued a while ago but ICE could not remove them until an agreement was reached with Iraq. Nathan Kalasho, who runs a Detroit academy that educates Iraqi Christian students, called some of the convictions "petty." "Some of them were nonviolent, and some of these were 30 or 40 years ago," he told CBS Detroit. "These people have paid their debt back to society; they contribute to the workforce, countless hours." The Homeland Security Department has boasted in recent months that Iraq has agreed to start allowing the return of immigrants who have been ordered out of the United States. The first details of that agreement came amid litigation over President Trump's travel ban, and the first version of the order included seven countries. A subsequent version of that order, intended to quell legal challenges, dropped Iraq from the list of countries whose citizens were banned. The travel ban remains on hold amid legal challenges. California Latinos, fearful of ICE agents, slow the reporting of crimes The arrests come amid broader, aggressive immigration policies by the Trump administration. Immigrants who already have deportation orders and were allowed to stay in the country under the prior administration have become a target under Mr. Trump, with some getting arrested on the spot during check-ins with officers. Such arrests have dismayed family members and sent chills through immigrant communities. ICE said the Detroit-area arrests were part of its efforts to deal with a case backlog, and the vast majority of those arrested were being detained at a facility in Youngstown, Ohio. Officials said they don't confirm specific deportation plans. Chaldean American educational and community leader Nathan Kalasho, whose family operates a Detroit-area charter school for Chaldeans and others from Iraq and Syria, said the deportations are the result of a "back-door deal" between the U.S. and Iraq. "Who could think that this deal could possibly be good?" said Kalasho, who added it's particularly concerning after Chaldeans and other Iraqi Christians have been designated victims of genocide. "Iraq assumes a few hundred former nationals - some of these people have spent nearly their entire lives here and some have committed minor offenses. They've paid their debt to society." Judy Rabinovitz, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants' Rights Project, said the removal orders, while legal, could be decades old and don't reflect changing conditions in the countries of origin. She said similar removals have been carried out for Somalia and Cambodia natives. "Anyone with a final order is basically vulnerable at this point," she said. "The problem is, these aren't cases where these are people who pose a risk to public safety - it's just sort of irrational, low-hanging fruit. Get the numbers, get people out."

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Scholarships and Awards | Lehman College Catalog About Academics Admissions Arts & Culture Athletics Campus Life Certificates Research Departments Programs Courses Departments Programs Courses Home About Lehman College History of Lehman College Mission, Vision, and Values Statements The City University of New York College Governance College Accreditation and Affiliations Degree Programs Undergraduate Curriculum Graduate Curriculum Schedule of Courses Academic Organization Research Institutes and Community Resources Admissions Tuition, Fees, and Financial Aid Financial Aid New York State Programs (HESC) Federal Programs Scholarships and Awards Tuition and Fees Tuition Refunds Estimated Other Expenses Bursar's Receipt Non-Instructional Fees Miscellaneous Fees General Information Overview New York State Resident Tuition Rate Admission to Undergraduate Degree Programs Freshmen The SEEK Program Testing Requirements Transfer Students Testing Requirements for Incoming Freshmen, Transfer Students, and Information Regarding CUNY Assessment Tests Exemptions Community College Graduates Second Degree Students Transferring to Lehman Prohibition on Submission of Fraudulent Admission Documents Admission of Students Who May Pose a Risk to the College Special Admission Categories Academic Services and Policies Academic Information and Advisement Center Tutoring Programs Office of the Registrar Teacher Education Services Applying for Student Teaching Teacher Certification Examination Requirements for Initial Certification Bilingual Education Assessments (BEA) Applying for Teacher Certification Academic Honors Election to Honor Societies Academic Policies Flexible Grading Policy Credit and Course Loads ePermit Excess Credit Full-Time and Part-Time Matriculants Heritage and Foreign Transfer Students Policy Non-Degree Students Student Classification Summer Session Total Withdrawals Transfer Credit Undergraduate Certificates Withdrawal from Courses Credit by Examination Undergraduate Grading Systems and Related Policies Academic Integrity Academic Standards Baccalaureate Programs The Undergraduate General Education Curriculum The Undergraduate General Education Curriculum Pre 2013 General Education Program (Required Courses) 2013 CUNY General Education Program (Pathways): Required Courses Special Curriculum Programs Macaulay Honors College at Lehman The Lehman Scholars Program Teacher Academy Adult Degree Program Individualized Bachelor of Arts Program Bachelor of Arts-Master of Arts (B.A.-M.A.) Program Second Undergraduate Degree Program CUNY Baccalaureate Program Interdisciplinary and Interdepartmental Programs Professional and Preprofessional Programs Undergraduate Teacher Certifications Special Studies Internship and Field Experience Opportunities Study Abroad Opportunities Lehman Exchange Programs Experimental Course or Program Independent Extradisciplinary Studies Campus Facilities and Resources Academic Facilities The Leonard Lief Library Computer and Instructional Technology Facilities The Language Laboratory Advanced Imaging Labs Science Laboratories Instructional Support Services Program New York Botanical Garden The Bookstore Fine and Performing Arts Facilities Student Life Facilities and Programs / Services Faculty and Administration The City University of New York Board of Trustees Officers of the City University of New York Lehman College Administration Lehman College Administration Faculty Distinguished Professors Permanent Instructional Staff (Teaching) Emeriti Appendix Board of Trustees Rules and Regulations on Campus Conduct Notice of Non-Discrimination The City University Of New York Policies And Procedures Concerning Sexual Assault, Stalking, And Domestic And Intimate Partner Violence Against Students Lehman College Records Policy New York State Education Law Section 224-A College Policies, Procedures and Regulations The City University of New York Computer User Responsibilities Freedom of Speech Smoking Drug and Alcohol Usage Identification Cards Attendance and Absences Petitioning Solicitation on Campus Representing the College Extracurricular Activities and Programs Notification of Student Immunization Requirements Freedom of Information Law Notice CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity Procedures for Imposition of Sanctions for Violations of CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity The City University of New York Campus and Workplace Violence Policy Notice of Access to Campus Crime Statistics, the Campus Security Report, and Information on Registered Sex Offenders Athletic Program Participation Notice Academic Calendar All Catalogs (Archived) Home / Admissions / Tuition, Fees, and Financial Aid / Scholarships and Awards Scholarships and Awards Lehman College supports academic excellence with a growing network of scholarship programs and paid research positions for outstanding students. Inquiries about scholarships are welcomed in the Office of Scholarships, Shuster Hall, Room 205. New Students An Academic Achievement Scholarship Program is available for freshmen who are applying to Lehman College. Scholarships from $1,000 to a maximum of $4,000 per year are available to new students entering in the Fall semester. All freshmen who are admitted to Lehman are considered for Academic Achievement Awards. No separate application to the Scholarship Program is necessary for freshmen to be considered for the Award. The selection process is competitive, and awards are made on the basis of an outstanding academic record. Freshman students are evaluated on the strength of their high school record and their score on the SATs. The award is renewable for up to four years of full-time undergraduate study. With Lehman's full-time annual tuition of $4,000 a year, this scholarship, in combination with the New York City Merit Scholarship Award, the New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), and the Federal Pell Grant, should provide many students with the opportunity to complete their bachelor's degrees virtually free of charge and permit family education funds to be reserved for graduate and professional studies. Potential recipients must file a City University Freshman Application and list Lehman as a college choice. The filing deadline for Fall semester consideration is in mid-March. Only those students who have been admitted to Lehman are considered for these awards. 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Briscoe, 22, currently competes full-time in the Camping World Truck Series with Brad Keselowski and is a member of Ford’s driver development program. On Thursday, BKR owner Brad Keselowski announced he was shutting the doors on his Truck program at the conclusion of the 2017, which left Briscoe’s NASCAR future up in the air. “Chase has done a great job in the BKR trucks in 2017 and we are fully committed to his continued development and progression in NASCAR,” Ford Performance Global Director Dave Pericak told Motorsport.com in a statement. “We have already been active in working with our Ford teams to place him into the right Xfinity program for 2018, but right now we want his focus to be on winning races and competing in the playoffs for a championship in the Camping World Truck Series.” The most likely Ford Xfinity options for 2018 are likely to be with Roush Fenway Racing or Stewart-Haas Racing. Briscoe is fourth in the Truck series standings and finished second on two occasions this season. He is in good position to make the Truck playoffs even without a victory but has been in contention for a win several times season. Briscoe started racing in 2001 when he competed in quarter-midgets, winning his heat race and feature. Five years later, he returned to racing, driving 410 sprint cars at the age of 13. That year, he recorded 17 top-10 finishes and a win at the final race of the season. Briscoe became the youngest driver to win a 410 sprint car race, beating former NASCAR Cup series champion Jeff Gordon’s record by one year. Last season, Briscoe won the ARCA championship with the help of six victories in 20 starts.

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Only a tiny fraction of the black and Latino students who applied this year to eight of the city’s specialized high schools — considered the crown jewels in a system of 1,800 schools — were offered seats in one of the schools. | GETTY Racial segregation persists in city's most competitive high schools New city data released Wednesday shows that by at least one measure, black and Latino students in New York City are still extremely under-represented at the city's most competitive high schools, even as deep-seated segregation in the school system has grown into one of the most pressing education issues of Mayor Bill de Blasio's tenure. Only a tiny fraction of the black and Latino students who applied this year to eight of the city’s specialized high schools — considered the crown jewels in a system of 1,800 schools — were offered seats in one of the schools. Story Continued Below Of the nearly 5,850 black middle schoolers who took the specialized high school exam, only 194 scored high enough to gain admission at one of the schools. And of the 6,600 Latino students who took the exam this year, only 330 were accepted. Slightly fewer black students took the exam this year compared to last year, and sixteen fewer black students were admitted to a specialized high school compared to last year. But about 550 more Latino students took the test this year compared to last year, and only ten more students got in, demonstrating that there’s still a wide gulf between access to the exam and the ability to ace it. The specialized high school exam is unique, and many students who pass the test do so after months of intensive, and typically expensive, test preparation. Education officials noted that the city did more outreach this year in low-income neighborhoods to encourage students to take the specialized high school exam. Overall, nearly 28,000 middle school students took the specialized high school exam and just over 18 percent of test-takers were accepted into one of the eight schools. A startling lack of diversity at the city’s most competitive high schools has been a concern for years. De Blasio — whose son Dante attended a specialized school, Brooklyn Technical High School — vowed to address the issue during his 2013 campaign. But solutions have thus far eluded his administration, as alumni groups and some elected officials have warned City Hall that a change to the system could make the process less fair or the schools less rigorous. But racial segregation in the city’s specialized high schools has become an increasingly urgent topic for the mayor as advocates have highlighted the extent of the city’s integration challenges over the last year. “Today’s announcement illustrates just how deep the chasm is between different communities in our public education system, and provides us with new evidence that the city is not doing enough to nurture and support gifted education in every neighborhood," Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. said in a statement Wednesday. The Department of Education did, however, release data showing initial positive results from a pilot program aimed at integrating a small handful of the city’s public schools. Fourteen schools that are setting aside part of their incoming classes for high-risk or minority students mostly met their admissions targets this year. Several schools set aside as many as half of their seats for English language learners or students in the child welfare system. But schools that opened their admissions to high-risk students only after all zoned children were admitted were only able to dedicate 10 percent or less of their seats for at-risk children. The department also released some good news related to another mounting education crisis that impacts one in ten of the city’s 1.1 million schoolchildren: homelessness. More students living in homeless shelters applied to twelve high schools on their applications; students can list up to a dozen schools. The city also recently piloted a program to provide admissions help for children in shelters. And more students living in shelters applied for Kindergarten compared to last year. Other data released Wednesday showed that the number of students on Kindergarten waitlists for their zoned elementary school shrunk slightly to 1,083 children this year. Zoned waitlists are typically the result of overcrowded elementary schools. The number of prospective high school students who were admitted to one of their top choices decreased slightly. Education officials said fewer students got into one of their first choices for high schools because more students applied this year. About 72 percent of students were admitted to one of their top three choices, compared to 75 percent last year. “While there are many promising trends this admissions cycle – more support for students in shelter, fewer elementary schools with waitlists, and schools meeting their Diversity in Admissions targets – it’s clear there is much more work to do,” city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña said in a statement Wednesday. “Ultimately, the focus has to be – and is – on ensuring equity and excellence across every public school in New York City.”

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7 Money Lessons From Monopoly Monopoly is by far the best board game available; well, at least it is for me. Monopoly is not just a game, it can teach you important life long lessons regarding money. Over the years of playing I have learned a few valuable lessons from the game – here are some of them. Monopoly 1 Cash is King It’s great to buy properties and own as many as you can, but what happens when you have to pay taxes or rent to others? Having cash is crucial to be successful in monopoly; similar analogy can be applied to real life. Emergency funds are a must for everyone, they help pay for unexpected medical bills, car repairs, taxes and so on. Without an emergency fund you are left vulnerable. 2 Luck is Part of the Game Luck is just part of the game as it is part of real life, one player may have a few doubles and fly across the board picking up properties while you barley get to purchase anything. You have to learn to live with it; you cannot control everything in life. The best strategy is to stay positive and take advantage of the opportunities that come your way. 3 It’s all about Relationships Are you hard to deal with? Do you make fair deals? Do other players hate you or like you? Half the game is about building good relationships with other players, if you hold one of their property hostage chances are they will do the same to you. In real life it’s all about whom you know and what type of relationship you have with them, if you are social and welcoming person chances are you can be fairly successful – merely through the connections that you’ve built. 4 Strike While the Iron is Hot Sometimes luck may be on your side and you may roll a few doubles, this is when you have to take advantage of the opportunities that come your way. Be ready to make a few purchases and improve your situation. Sometimes in life you may have a short-lived hot streak where you can make dramatic improvements in your life, you have to be prepared to take advantage of them. 5 Negotiation Skills The game is all about negotiating and making deals, if you are too soft you will be taken advantage of and if you are too harsh nobody will make deals with you. Using proper negotiation skills are vital in this game. In real life we negotiate most of our lives; we negotiate with parents, with employers, business partners, banks, kids and so on. We spend most of our lives negotiating deals; hence you have to learn to be an efficient negotiator to get to where you want to be. 6 Improvements If you just buy the properties and do no build on them you will not succeed in the game, you constantly have to reinvest in your properties and improve your position in order to move ahead. In life, you constantly have to improve your balance sheet, by increasing your assets and reducing your debt. You have to improve your financial position and reinvest to reach your goals. 7 Risk is a Must In the game you must take risks, if you don’t take risks you will not win. Life, too, is about taking risks. Investing in companies or a business to increase your wealth requires you to take risks. No Risk, no Reward. What my Twitter Followers have learned? @Matt_SF Monopoly lessons – keeping an emergency fund is vital to survival! [Stead Fast Finance] @amabaie I learned that it takes a long time to make a fortune. Like, almost all day! [The Happy Guy Marketing] @moneyfunk That I’d make a mediocre realtor, at best. And my son would be wealthier than me. [Money Funk] @SuburbanDollar quality over quantity. One ok monopoly beats having half of every other monopoly. [Suburban Dollar] @FMFblog Better to be lucky than smart. 😉 [Free Money Finance] @GoBankingRates That once I own multiple hotels I’m allowed to laugh in my brothers face. [Go Banking Rates] @MyMoneyMinute Don’t play AGAINST your wife unless you want a fight! Goes for money OR Monopoly! LOL [My Money Minute] @clarifinancial Don’t always buy the first thing you land on. Owning your corner is more important than broadcasting your resources. [Clarifinancial] @BudgetsAreSexy Going to jail – bad. Winning beauty competiton – good! [Budgets Are Sexy] @BSimple Keep them coming!! [Simple Financial Lifestyle] @EvolutionWealth it’s all about liquidity (cash baby) and yes money will buy your way out of jail. Oh yeah, you can never avoid taxes. [Evolution of Wealth] @sohallor Buy Boardwalk then pay a luxury tax 1 roll later is a life lesson. [ING Direct] @prosperousfool How about life lessons? I learned that it isn’t over just because you had a few bad rolls. [Realm of Prosperity] @InvestorJunkieIn Monopoly if the banker never goes bankrupt. If it runs out of money it can always print more. Just as in real life. [Investor Junkie] What lessons have you learned from playing monopoly? Any other games have taught you important life lessons?

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New Super Mario Bros. 2 arrives in Europe on 17th August and will be the first retail download title on 3DS eShop. While this is already underway in Japan and Nintendo of America has revealed details of its distribution, Nintendo of Europe has been relatively quiet on its own plans. In a press release today it's been confirmed that eShop retail downloads in Europe will earn double the normal Club Nintendo stars for four weeks after launch, which is great for those that particularly enjoy Nintendo-themed folders, playing cards or real-life Mario Kart 7 trophies. It won't just be New Super Mario Bros. 2 in the eShop from 17th August, but also Freakyforms Deluxe: Your Creations, Alive! and New Art Academy, which were retail releases in Europe alongside 3DS XL on 28th July. The same statement says that many more 3DS games are on the way, without any details, while pricing hasn't been formally confirmed; previous comments from Nintendo suggest that the downloads will be at the full retail price. Are you tempted to download any of these next week?

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Zihao Wang | Center for Buildings, Infrastructure, and Public Spaces Skip to main content Columbia University in the City of New York Toggle search Columbia University Center for Buildings, Infrastructure, and Public Spaces Toggle search Submit keywords Search the site Main navigation expanded Home Social Justice COVID-19 Program Research People Application Library Publications Videos Center for Buildings, Infrastructure, and Public Spaces Zihao Wang 2019-20 Fellows Zihao Wang is a Research Fellow of the Center for Buildings, Infrastructure and Public Space and enrolled in the Master’s Degree program for Construction Engineering & Management at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science in Columbia University. He received a dual Bachelor’s Degree: Bachelor of Engineering in Building Environment & Energy Engineering from China University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou, China and Bachelor of Applied Science in Construction Management (Honours 1st Class) from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, both conferred in 2019. He is the student member of The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) since 2018. He was the finalist (the Second) of CIOB Global Student Challenge 2018, which was an annual international competition organized by The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) for undergraduate construction management students. His responsibilities in the team were market data analysis and resources allocation. He participated in Melbourne Innovation Districts Project in a joint course between City of Melbourne and RMIT University in 2017. He contributed to appropriate and innovative responses and implementation strategies for the project. His research interests focus on the interactive visualization of construction process monitoring, historic building preservation, as well as thermal comfort. In CBIPS, he will be participating in the research of visualization and data analytics to achieve more effective monitoring of the construction process, as well as the preservation of historic houses. Zihao Wang Student, FU FOUNDATN SCHL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE:GRAD, Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics My Contact Info [email protected] CBIPS Studio LabMudd Building, #706, 500 West 120 Street · New York, NY 10027 Phone +1 (212) 854-6574 Contact Us [email protected] Internal Use Only Login to Access Follow Us Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Columbia University ©2022 Columbia University Accessibility Nondiscrimination Careers Built using Columbia Sites Back to Top Close

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An interesting Title IX case was filed earlier this week in Pennsylvania. (You can read the complaint here.) Brian Harris, a former student at St. Joseph’s University, was expelled from the school after he was determined to have committed sexual misconduct. Harris has sued St. Joe’s, alleging gender discrimination on grounds that the judicial procedure (and I use both of those words very broadly) afforded to him was all but predetermined to find him guilty. The events in question occurred last November. The complaint provides text messages showing that a female St. Joseph’s student, Lindsay Horst, asked Harris to her dorm room, after a brief delay while she tended to a friend who was drunk at a party. Her text messages implied a desire to have sex, and she wrote that she wanted Harris to “sleep over.” The complaint then alleges that the two had consensual sex, that Harris spent the night, and that Harris saw Horst’s roommate before leaving the room, without incident, the following morning. There were no witnesses to the intercourse, although, somewhat confusingly, Horst claimed to have had a conversation with another student in the dorm during a brief period in the evening when Harris went to the bathroom. In that conversation, she allegedly claimed to have been pressured to have sex. In Horst’s mind, these events constituted a sexual assault. But despite believing that Harris had raped her, Horst did not report the incident to police, nor is there any indication that she received medical attention or had a rape exam performed on her. Instead, Horst filed a complaint through what passes for St. Joseph’s judicial process–in which, according to the university’s own wording, “civil or criminal rules of procedure and evidence do not apply,” hearsay is allowed, the accused student doesn’t have a right to cross-examine any witnesses or to be represented by counsel, and the preponderance of evidence standard is employed. The complaint alleges that quite beyond these biased procedures, the investigator assigned to the case was predisposed to believe Horst. (At one point, he allegedly compared Harris to former Penn State coach, and pedophile, Jerry Sandusky, and Harris claims the investigator misrepresented what Harris told him.) Indicative of the problems that occur when college procedures deny a right to counsel, Harris never read the report prepared by the investigator of his interview, nor was he able to ensure that Horst’s text messages–which at the very least indicated that she had initiated the evening’s proceedings–were introduced as evidence. Under the preponderance standard, Harris was found guilty. He appealed, noting the importance of the text messages–and the appeals process agreed that the text messages were important enough to rehear the case. Incredibly, the tribunal reaffirmed its original decision despite the text messages, and Harris was expelled. Harris’ suit claims that St. Joe’s discriminated against him on the basis of gender, thus violating Title IX, in part by constructing a procedure that failed to provide him “with basic due process, including the right to confront and question Horst to test her veracity and credibility”; the right to counsel; and, in general, “providing a disciplinary process that was fundamentally unfair.” St. Joe’s thus far has declined comment. This case raises some fascinating questions–especially if Harris can survive a likely motion to dismiss–which I’ll explore in my next post.

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The court scheduled five and a half hours of arguments instead of the usual one, a testament to the importance of the case, and the court’s ruling a few months later will present opportunities and challenges for the presidential contenders as well as for candidates in the battle for control of Congress. It is hardly clear, for instance, that a Supreme Court ruling upholding the law would help only Mr. Obama, as opponents of the law might redouble their efforts to elect candidates committed to repealing it. And a decision striking down the law might allow Mr. Obama to court voters unhappy with the Supreme Court’s decisions as he did in cases like Citizens United, which allowed unlimited campaign spending from corporations and unions. Appeals from three courts had been vying for the justices’ attention, presenting an array of issues beyond the central one of whether Congress has the constitutional power to require people to purchase health insurance or face a penalty through the so-called individual mandate. Photo The Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals from just one decision, from the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta , the only one so far striking down the mandate. The decision, from a divided three-judge panel, said the mandate overstepped Congressional authority and could not be justified by the constitutional power “to regulate commerce” or “to lay and collect taxes .” The appeals court went no further, though, severing the mandate from the rest of the law. On Monday, the justices agreed to decide not only whether the mandate is constitutional but also, if it is not, how much of the balance of the law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, must fall along with it. But even the Obama administration has said that the mandate is “absolutely intertwined” with two other provisions — one forbidding insurers to turn away applicants, and the other barring them from taking account of pre-existing conditions. In a statement issued soon after the decision, the administration reaffirmed its position that the Constitution permitted Congress to enact the mandate. “We know the Affordable Care Act is constitutional and are confident the Supreme Court will agree,” said Dan Pfeiffer , the White House communications director. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Pam Bondi, Florida ’s attorney general, said she welcomed the court’s prompt action in agreeing to review the 11th Circuit’s decision, in which her state was the lead plaintiff. “Throughout this case,” Ms. Bondi said, “we have urged swift judicial resolution because of the unprecedented threat that the individual mandate poses to the liberty of Americans simply because they live in this country.” Photo Representative Nancy Pelosi of California , the House Democratic leader, said a decision upholding the law would mean that “Americans will benefit from lower health care costs and greater access to high-quality medical care.” But leading opponents of the law said they were confident they would triumph. “It is high time for the high court to strike down this unconstitutional, unworkable and unpopular law,” said Randy E. Barnett, a law professor at Georgetown. Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter. You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up You will receive emails containing news content , updates and promotions from The New York Times. You may opt-out at any time. You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. Thank you for subscribing. An error has occurred. Please try again later. View all New York Times newsletters. The 11th Circuit did rule against Florida and the other states on one of their other central arguments, rejecting a challenge to the law’s expansion of the Medicaid program. The Supreme Court also agreed to hear an appeal from that ruling. The states, represented by Paul D. Clement, a former United States solicitor general, argued that Congress had exceeded its constitutional authority by expanding the eligibility and coverage thresholds that states must adopt to remain eligible to participate in Medicaid. The problem, Mr. Clement wrote, was that “Congress did not tie its new conditions only to those additional federal funds made newly available under” the Affordable Care Act. “It instead made the new terms a condition of continued participation in Medicaid, thereby threatening each state with the loss of all federal Medicaid funds — on average, more than a billion dollars per year — unless it adopts the act’s substantial expansions of state obligations.” The justices also said they would consider an intriguing threshold issue that could conceivably postpone any definitive ruling on the mandate until 2015. In September, a divided three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond , Va., ruled that it was premature to decide the case in light of the Anti-Injunction Act, a federal law that bars suits “for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of any tax.” The Supreme Court had interpreted the term “tax” very broadly for purposes of the law. Video If the Fourth Circuit ruling is correct, individuals may not challenge the individual mandate until the first penalty is due in April 2015. Advertisement Continue reading the main story On Nov. 8, a dissenting judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit also endorsed that position. The administration had initially pressed but later abandoned the argument. In the Supreme Court, the Justice Department suggested that the court consider the issue and perhaps appoint a lawyer to present arguments in favor of it, as the court occasionally does when the parties agree on a significant issue that could alter the outcome of the eventual decision. The court did not say on Monday whether it would make such an appointment, but the prospect seems likely. The justices will hear two hours of argument on whether Congress overstepped its constitutional authority, 90 minutes on whether the mandate may be severed from the balance of the law if Congress did go too far, and an hour each on the Medicaid and Anti-Injunction Act questions. In all, the Supreme Court agreed to hear three appeals, two from challengers to the law and a third from the Obama administration. The appeals involving the 26 states is known as Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services , No. 11-400. A second challenge, from a business group and two individuals, is called National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, No. 11-393. The federal government’s appeal is Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida, No. 11-398. There was no indication in Monday’s order that any of the justices had decided to disqualify themselves from the case. Such a notation is customary when justices have decided not to participate.

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NEWSLETTER: Get the day's top headlines from Times Editor Davan Maharaj >> In 2009, Mexico passed a law that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin, and the leftist Democratic Revolution Party has proposed several initiatives to decriminalize cannabis. But Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has stated numerous times that he opposes legalization, and thinks it would open the door to increased drug use. His conservative views are reflected in much of Mexico. "There are much more serious problems to solve in the country. I can't believe that the Supreme Court is considering this issue which stalks our youth with the threat of addiction," said Consuelo Mendoza, president of the National Assn. for Parents, who was campaigning against decriminalization outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday. "One of the big problems we have is the huge amount of young people who don't have access to education or jobs, but now they are going to have free access to take marijuana. This is terrible." Pro-legalization campaigners outside the court, meanwhile, lighted joints in celebration. Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera has said that he thinks Mexico City is ready for medical use of cannabis but that it was senseless to talk about such a move without first discussing the commercial issues it would involve. Advocates argue that removing prohibitions will be a key tool in combating drug violence, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives in Mexico in the last decade as drug gangs fight one another for control of lucrative smuggling routes and challenge a government crackdown. "We want to create a situation where people who use marijuana don't have to get it from organized crime," said Sanchez. Alejandro Hope, a security analyst in Mexico City, applauded the "symbolic" decision Wednesday as a move in the right direction. But he said that its early legal and practical effect would be minimal and that expectations should be kept low. "It won't strike down any laws, it will only protect the plaintiffs," he said. Health Secretary Mercedes Juan Lopez echoed his remarks. "From our point of view, this definitely doesn't mean the legalization of marijuana," she said in a television interview. "This is just one amparo granted to four people for their own consumption." "As the federal government, it's up to us to watch over the people's health," she added, "and we're conscious that marijuana is a substance that can generate addiction, especially in the young, as well as damage to people's health. The most important thing is to reinforce our prevention measures." Marijuana is the most widely consumed illegal substance in Mexico, and Sanchez said that nearly 60% of prisoners in Mexican federal jails were convicted of offenses related to it. She argues that decriminalization would allow Mexico's police and army to focus on crimes seen as more serious. But Hope predicted that the Supreme Court ruling and similar cases that may follow would have "almost no effect" on bringing down drug-related violence. "My guess is that most drug-related homicides aren't connected in any shape or form to marijuana," he said. Although some analysts estimate that marijuana accounts for about a third of the business of Mexican drug cartels, criminal organizations have been focusing increasingly on heroin and methamphetamine in response to growing demand for those drugs in the United States. Hope also predicted that few people would bother to grow their own marijuana, should personal cultivation become more widely legal. That would mean that the bulk of the market would remain in the hands of illegal commercial growers. Some details about the ruling remained unclear, including how much marijuana the four plaintiffs will be allowed to produce and whether they will be free to give it to other users. Jorge Pardo Rebolledo, who was the only judge to vote against the plaintiffs, expressed concern about where recreational users would get their marijuana — and suggested that they might have to commit a criminal offense to obtain it. However, Justice Olga Sanchez, who voted in favor of the amparo, said: "Absolute prohibition is excessive.... The right to consumption for recreational means should be authorized in respect for people's personal liberties." Bonello is a special correspondent. Cecilia Sanchez in The Times' Mexico City bureau contributed to this report.

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Mansfield police say 29-year-old Anthony Ford is wanted for the murder of 23-year-old Devon De La Rosa, she was found dead inside her home in the 600 block of Kingsway Drive. (Published Monday, July 22, 2013) Mansfield police are searching for a woman's boyfriend as a suspect in her murder after she was found dead inside the couple's apartment Sunday night. Police found 23-year-old DeVon De La Rosa dead around 11:10 p.m. Sunday night after family members of the accused killer, 27-year-old Anthony Raymont Ford, called police. Family described Ford as De La Rosa's boyfriend and the father of their son. Police began looking for Ford early Monday as a person of interest in the homicide. Later Monday, authorities issued an arrest warrant for Ford for a murder charge and set a bond of $100,000. Ford was last seen driving a black 2004 two-door Pontiac Grand Am GT with Texas license plate CZ8W738 and a missing hub cap. Ford is described by police as a 6-foot, one-inch black male weighing about 165 pounds. A photo of Ford was released by the department and is included above. Mansfield authorities ask that anyone with information related to the killing or the location of Ford to contact police at 817-473-0211. According to family members, Ford took his infant son to his mother's home before leaving the area. His mother, Lisa Ford Russell, urged her son to turn himself in to police on Monday. "I want him to turn himself in. Anthony, wherever you are, please, please turn yourself in," Russell said. Previous Coverage:

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(Picture: Environment Agency) Flooding is expected in parts of Britain over the next 48 hours, with up to three inches of rain to fall in the worst affected areas. Some areas in the east today were already experiencing localised flooding. Heavy rain causes flash floods in Norwich bbc.in/1puzrP3 http://t.co/X80aXJO682— BBC News England (@BBCEngland) May 27, 2014 Travel problems and chaos for commuters is also expected – with many warned to take extra care with their journeys and to plan ahead. While heavy rain already battered the capital today, more wet weather is expected across the country with Lincolnshire, South Yorkshire and the Humber forecast to be the worst hit. Up to 2.76 inches (70 mm) of rainfall could fall in those places in just two days. Flooding was already reported in East Anglia as well. Eastern England already seeing some local #flooding – esp in E Anglia. More rain to come through today. Best brightness in N & W UK. Stav D — BBC Weather (@bbcweather) May 27, 2014 A406 Telford Rd jct Bounds Grn Rd – Westbound lane one (of two) has flooding in it. Approach with caution. pic.twitter.com/XrvZMQ2Pqh — TfL Traffic News (@TfLTrafficNews) May 27, 2014 Flood alerts have been issued in the South East, Midlands and East Anglia due to surface water and low-lying rivers. Advertisement Advertisement Areas where flood alerts are in place include High Wycombe, Newbury, Basingstoke, Bromley, Lewisham, Greenwich and Croydon. Yellow alerts have been issued for Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Peterborough, Suffolk, East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North Yorkshire and York. The Environment Agency said: ‘There may be some flooding of low-lying land and roads, some disruption to travel and possibly flooding to individual properties.’ This is the scene in Penarth right now…Latest pics and updates here walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-new… #floods http://t.co/mMmW2EnTnY— Wales Online (@WalesOnline) May 22, 2014 A Meteo Group forecaster added: ‘An area of prolonged rain is moving up over the eastern region and it’s not going to shift until Wednesday night. ‘The rain is not exclusive to the east region but that’s where the persistent and largest rainfall totals of between 50 and 70mm will be. ‘Pretty much the whole of Great Britain will see rain at some point over the next 48 hours. ‘This means there could be some localised flooding.’ Flooding is expected over the next two days (Picture: Environment Agency)

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Slavery and Secession: The Daily Show’s Take | The True Blue Federalist The True Blue Federalist On the Civil War, Federalism, and the Nature of American Sovereignty. Skip to content Home About ← “We Must Disenthrall Ourselves” Secession, the Expansion of Slavery, and Race → Slavery and Secession: The Daily Show’s Take Posted on July 27, 2014 by Christopher Shelley Because I am buried in Midterm essays–yet again–in my Summer online courses, I don’t have time to make a proper entry. But since the topic has come up in the comments, I figured this is an excellent time to show a nice video on the relationship between slavery and secession. This was what Larry Wilmore and Jon Stewart of The Daily Show came up with back in 2010 during the sesquicentennial of South Carolina’s secession. Enjoy! The South’s Secession Commemoration Share this: Twitter Facebook More Reddit Like this: Like Loading... Related About Christopher Shelley Christopher Shelley teaches American history and American Indian history at Portland Community College. He is fond of border collies, and bleeds Dodger-blue. Any and all opinions expressed here are those of the expressors themselves, and in no way represent the views of Portland Community College. View all posts by Christopher Shelley → This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Jon Stewart, Larry Wilmore. Bookmark the permalink. ← “We Must Disenthrall Ourselves” Secession, the Expansion of Slavery, and Race → 262 Responses to Slavery and Secession: The Daily Show’s Take Jimmy Dick says: July 28, 2014 at 7:32 AM The clip is hilarious. Imagine what would have happened if a bunch of people flying flags celebrating Nat Turner’s Rebellion showed up in Lexington over the weekend. I’m pretty sure violence would have broken out once Goad flipped on Eddie Murphy’s reggae song, “Kill the White People.” It’s heritage, not history. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Christopher Shelley says: July 28, 2014 at 8:22 AM It’s a wicked little piece. This is the clip I show in my HST 202 course. I warn them that Larry uses a bad word but it gets bleeped out. I’m looking forward to Wilmore’s new show. LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: July 28, 2014 at 8:43 AM It is always interesting to see people claim slavery had nothing to do with secession when the people who seceded stated that the issue of slavery was the reason for secession. It always comes back to slavery. Fortunately, we are changing this via the use of the primary sources in history education. As more and more people become acquainted with how historians work they are finding out what the people of the past said. It is a lot like Charles Dew stated in his book. LikeLike Reply Christopher Shelley says: July 28, 2014 at 8:46 AM Exactly. For years and years, the Lost Causers could worm their way around the secession convention documents (in their minds, anyway), but Dew seals the deal. It kills me I only just found it. LikeLike Kellie says: October 30, 2019 at 10:06 PM I can’t find it anymore. Do you still have the clip? I want to share it with others also. LikeLike Reply Christopher Shelley says: February 1, 2020 at 3:08 PM Kelly, I only just now saw your Comment! Sorry. Here it is: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/wlytvw/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-south-s-secession-commemoration LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: July 30, 2014 at 3:23 PM Chris, per your request— ****************************** Jimmy, You are taking a narrow view of the secession documents. If you take them for what they are, they are nothing more than a list of grievances against the Federal government. I suggest you read each and every declaration and list these grievances to fully understand exactly what they are. Even so if secession was secession was only about slavery, so what? Slavery was a legal institution in the United States, and these Southern states were part of that country. Slavery was not the cause of the war. This has nothing to do with what bothers me. It does appear that it bothers you because you can’t find the document that proves otherwise. What did you expect these states to say we are seceeding because we are seceeding? Does that make sense really????? I am not going to go into what each individual soldier fought for, if slavery is the reason your ancestors fought then so be it. What side were they on? Let’s look at a few facts shall we? First we agree that secession was not addressed in the Constitution, and we all agree that sovereign can mean independent. Therefore the Southern States believed that had a right to withdraw from the Federal government. So with that behind us there is no need to revisit those issues. It is agreed that the war started at Fort Sumter with Major Anderson leaving Moultrie to occupy Sumter. Where are the freed slaves? For now we shall say the Confederates fired on Sumter and Anderson surrendered that fort, where are the enslaved people? There are none either way. In all of the communications I have read about the issue at Fort Sumter slavery was not mentioned the first time. Now the firing at Fort Sumter caused the war, why did the Confederates fire on this fort. It was because Lincoln sent an invasion fleet to Charleston and Pensacola. So now we see the Confederacy fired on an invasion fleet. Where are the slaves? Again there are none. This is not my opinion these are historical fact. I have also posted two US acts of Congress to this page you simply overlook them because they do not fit your idea of what the war was about. One gives the South a chance to come back under the Federal and keep their slaves; the other clearly states the war IS NOT about slavery. Again these are historical facts; to say otherwise is not being honest. LikeLike Reply Christopher Shelley says: July 31, 2014 at 9:43 AM George, at this moment I’m grading exams so I don’t have time to engage your argument fully. But I will say briefly that Lincoln did not launch an invasion fleet to Charleston Harbor. The Star of the West was an unarmed transport. It had a navy escort, but that escort was instructed to wait in the offing, and not attempt to enter the harbor. Lincoln was very careful in this. He even informed the governor of South Carolina that this was happening. But Jeff Davis could not allow the resupply of the last U.S. fort in Confederate waters. The rest of the un-seceded South (especially Virginia) was watching, wondering just how serious this new Confederacy was about secession, and he couldn’t look irresolute. So he ordered the fort taken before the Star could arrive. So, Lincoln maneuvered Davis into firing the first shot. Now the Union could look like the aggrieved party. If you want to be mad at Lincoln for being more clever than Davis, that’s fine. But those are the facts. This is what actually happened. And there were no freed slaves because freeing slaves was not a Union goal–yet. LikeLike Reply Rob Baker says: August 2, 2014 at 9:58 AM I think you are confusing the Star of the West with the smaller merchant ships Lincoln ordered to relieve Anderson with fresh food and supplies.. Buchannon ordered the Star of the West earlier to bring supplies to Sumter. it was deterred by Citadel cadets. Other than that you are right on. Lincoln sent a naval escort to assist only if Confederates did not allow the merchant ships to resupply Anderson at Sumter. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 2, 2014 at 10:20 AM Oh! Well, thanks for the correction. I thought I read that in McPherson, but I just moved and don’t have all my books at hand (it’s like being blind). A quick search through Freehling doesn’t make clear the actual transports Lincoln sent. I don’t have my CD of primary sources available, either. I defer, sir. LikeLike Rob Baker says: August 2, 2014 at 10:32 AM I looked for the names of the ships Lincoln sent, but I couldn’t find them in a cursory search. I don’t have the time to dedicate for thorough search either. All I know is that he sent merchant vessels, smaller in size to the “Star.” I think the Star was sent to Texas after Ft. Sumter. Perhaps Andy Hall can elaborate on that. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 2, 2014 at 4:43 PM Well isn’t that just amazing that you can’t find anything. on the ships Lincoln sent. So a more correct statement is simply “I just don’t know” right? LikeLike Rob Baker says: August 2, 2014 at 5:40 PM You have issues with reading comprehension. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 2, 2014 at 6:12 PM Yes as do you. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 2, 2014 at 4:41 PM I like an admission that you are wrong. Of course you will not get that from Dick or do-do head Baker. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 2, 2014 at 4:39 PM Wasn’t the Star of the west ordered by Buchanan? Wasn’t it carrying 300 re-enforcements for Sumter? Come on boys let’s see how much you know. LikeLike Rob Baker says: August 2, 2014 at 5:40 PM Learn to read George. Already covered that. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 2, 2014 at 6:15 PM learn to read Baker. You failed to mention the 300 re-enforcements. I told you once you are not the shapest tack in the pack. Now I am wondering iif you are even in the pack. LikeLike Rob Baker says: August 2, 2014 at 6:36 PM Perhaps you should provide the citation for what you are arguing. LikeLike Andy Hall says: August 4, 2014 at 9:17 AM Yes, Star of the West was subsequently sent to Indianola (near present-day Port Lavaca) to pick up Federal troops being evacuated from Texas. While there she was captured by Confederate forces and subsequently taken to New Orleans. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 4, 2014 at 9:20 AM Thank you, Andy. LikeLike Jimmy Dick says: July 31, 2014 at 11:04 AM I disagree about the secession part. You keep jumping to conclusions that are not supported by the facts. The Constitution was created in a certain way and meant to be a permanent union of the states. Secession is not in it because secession was not allowed. It is also not a compact between states. It is a permanent union. Now, the slave owners reached a conclusion that they could not stay in the Union because their labor system was under attack by economic forces they could not control as well as the fact it was not in keeping with the ideas brought forth in the American Revolution. They chose the concept of secession which ruined them. As for the Sumter issue you’re only arguing tired, retread Lost Cause garbage. Anderson did not have to do anything rebels and secessionist trash wanted him to do. He was an officer in the United States Army and no authority in South Carolina could order him about. He had every right and authority to move his troops anywhere he wanted on US property which is what Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter were. If the traitors didn’t like it, then that’s just too damn bad. Your statement about slaves at Sumter is just preposterous. It is pure ignorance. You are looking to make direct connections which don’t hold up. Again, let the people of the South use their own words to explain what they were doing. You find an overwhelming amount of them. You just ignore them because they prove you dead wrong. Again, start with the secession conventions. Lincoln did not send an invasion fleet. That is just more of the Lost Cause victim garbage. He would have been justified in doing so anyway. Again, more trash that has been thoroughly ridiculed. I went through the two documents. I explained what they really showed. Is historical context beyond your thought process? LikeLike Reply gpthelastrebel says: August 2, 2014 at 7:29 AM Well [Jimmy —Admin], You are beyond any help. The Constitution does not address secession at all, hence S.P. Chase’s decisioion in Texas vs White. You are wrong. Sumter???? [Edit —Admin]what are you talking about you [poopy head —Admin]. If you are gonna claim slavery is the issue you should be able to make a direct connection,. Like always you fail to do so. How do you know the makeup of the fleet? Post your sources and the names of the ships. Put up mouth. Why should I take youur [poopy opinion —Admin]? I can clearly read “the war is not about slavery.” That is a direct connection. You are ignorant beyond belief. LikeLike Reply Christopher Shelley says: August 2, 2014 at 11:03 AM That’s not the way it works, George. You have made a rather outrageous claim (“It was because Lincoln sent an invasion fleet to Charleston and Pensacola. So now we see the Confederacy fired on an invasion fleet”). It is up to you to prove this claim through evidence. You don’t get to make a claim like this and then tell us we’re the ones who have to fact-check it. LikeLike Reply Rob Baker says: August 2, 2014 at 2:22 PM Good luck getting an answer. Georgie likes to make claims and then tell people to “Prove him wrong.” His blog is full of such posts. His more recent ones, “Lincoln’s Slave” proved to be a big embarrassment to him. Predictably, this didn’t change his demeanor. He next decided that Lincoln owned indentured servants. I pointed out this was wrong as well, he decided to block me. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 2, 2014 at 4:46 PM Right and when I provide this through evidence. then what? Will you admit that you are wrong or will you just try a to spin the facts? LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 2, 2014 at 5:41 PM “Prove” what? LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 2, 2014 at 6:11 PM are you seriouys ? You don’t know what we have been discussing????? LikeLike Jimmy Dick says: August 2, 2014 at 11:56 AM Back up your claims with some facts once in a while, why don’t you? The only thing you do is make stupid and ignorant claims while ignoring all the facts that you don’t like. [Edit] [C]an’t [edit]…you [edit] even read the documents that the people wrote in 1860/61 stating repeatedly why they were seceding? As usual George, the only thing you’ve done with this last post is prove you are incapable of learning. If I want an exercise in selective memory and history I can go to your website where the Lost Cause is on full display. You want a direct connection between slavery and the fucking CW? READ THE [@#$%&] DOCUMENTS! [Edit] Instead we get another post from George whining that secession is not mentioned in the Constitution. Is divorce mentioned in the wedding vows? You know why it isn’t in there, but the part about until death do us part is is? Because it is meant to be forever. The people that wrote the [edit] Constitution meant for it to be forever. They [edit] told us that. You don’t get that part because you don’t like it. Well tough [luck]. You don’t get a choice in the matter. [Edit] In education we stress that people learn at different levels throughout their lives. You are living proof that there is an exception to that theory. Some people don’t learn at all throughout their lives because they choose not to. That is willful ignorance. We need to put your picture and the rest of the neo-confederates in that section to illustrate the point. [Insert fling at intellegence here —Admin] LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: August 2, 2014 at 4:13 PM Man the edits just take out so much of the wonderful insults I created for George. The last one was pretty good. I will have to start getting more creative because I’m sure George will just reply with the usual whine. Oh, you missed one, Chris. You really should let them stand on their not-very-literary merit so George gets the entire point. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 2, 2014 at 4:28 PM I know, I know; I did it to his also. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: August 2, 2014 at 5:17 PM should be wonder LikeLike Rob Baker says: August 2, 2014 at 2:31 PM Thanks for bring this clip to my attention. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Jimmy Dick says: August 2, 2014 at 8:48 PM Looks like George is forgetting something important to the discussion about Ft. Sumter. It was US property, not Confederate of South Carolina’s. The US had every single right to do whatever they wanted with Sumter and the traitors had no rights whatsoever to stop the US. But George believes in the Lost Cause view of the conflict and of course the truth is not something that he wants to use to prove his point on Ft. Sumter. Keep going down the rabbit hole, George. LikeLike Reply Christopher Shelley says: August 2, 2014 at 9:12 PM He’d like to get us tangled in the details of Sumter–as if that invalidates the big picture. LikeLike Reply gpthelastrebel says: August 3, 2014 at 7:06 AM Maybe Sumter belonged to the US maybe not. The important thing is Anderson broke a peace agreement and started the war. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 3, 2014 at 9:36 AM Prove it. Show your evidence for that assertion. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 4, 2014 at 7:22 AM If I show proof it may or may not be here. See Chris the problem is that you have let Dick and Baker drag your blog into the sewres. You may edit out a few words but the intended meaning is still there. So why should I post anything civil and factual here, when I can just post it to Cold southern Steel at http://coldsouthernsteel.wordpress.com/ Think about it. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 4, 2014 at 9:09 AM You give as good as you get, George. I figured your skin was a little thicker. As far as you showing your proof, that’s up to you. You are the one making the assertions. I don’t understand coming to this site if you are going to play coy just when it comes time to show evidence. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 4, 2014 at 10:01 AM This is fact. I canm here thinking that we could have a civil exchange of facts and ideas. I didn’t start the insults here. Remember how you were treated at Cold Southern Steel — you were welcomed and your posts were approved until you became insulting and only after several warnings were you not approved. So my question again is why should I post any facts here when i can get by with just exchanging insults. It is your blog you set the standards. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 4, 2014 at 10:06 AM I have not insulted you, George. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 4, 2014 at 10:24 AM Again maybe and maybe not. The fact of the matter is you did nothing about Dick’s and Baker’s remarks. To a great extent I have exposed your website for what it is just another bigoted blog. Mission accompilished. 🙂 And folks if you would like to exchange historical facts I invite you to Southern Heritage Advancement Preservation and Education at http://southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com/page.php?4 Or my blog Cold Southern Steel at http://coldsouthernsteel.wordpress.com/ Have a Dixie Day. LikeLike Jimmy Dick says: August 3, 2014 at 11:19 AM Maybe? What is that? You ignore the documents again that prove Ft. Sumter was US property and say maybe? There is no maybe to it. Why don’t you stick to the facts and stop trying to insinuate something that is not true with a maybe? Now do like Chris says and show some proof. Here is a good start. http://civilwarhome.com/doubledaysumter.html LikeLike Reply gpthelastrebel says: August 4, 2014 at 7:24 AM Is this how you do it [Edit]??? You are so stupid and biased you haven’t a clue what you are talking about. Hiow do we penetrate that stupid thick block you call a head and get some real facts in there. Why don’t you actually try and read a historical document? LikeLike Reply Christopher Shelley says: August 4, 2014 at 9:11 AM The documents are very, very clear, George. The Declarations and Ordinances leave no doubt that the Cotton States left the Union because they were afraid of losing slavery. Perhaps you would like to show us something we’ve missed? LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: August 4, 2014 at 10:03 AM Only party true and any rate slavery WAS NOT the cause of the wae. You have failed to prove that point LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 4, 2014 at 10:19 AM OK, George–I’ll play a round with you. Here is some proof: How about we start with South Carolina, since they started all the craziness? They were pretty clear. Here’s South Carolina’s “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union“: In the present case, that fact is established with certainty. We assert that fourteen of the States have deliberately refused, for years past, to fulfill their constitutional obligations, and we refer to their own Statutes for the proof. The Constitution of the United States, in its fourth Article, provides as follows: “No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.” This stipulation was so material to the compact, that without it that compact would not have been made. The greater number of the contracting parties held slaves, and they had previously evinced their estimate of the value of such a stipulation by making it a condition in the Ordinance for the government of the territory ceded by Virginia, which now composes the States north of the Ohio River. The same article of the Constitution stipulates also for rendition by the several States of fugitives from justice from the other States. The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, have enacted laws which either nullify the Acts of Congress or render useless any attempt to execute them. In many of these States the fugitive is discharged from service or labor claimed, and in none of them has the State Government complied with the stipulation made in the Constitution. The State of New Jersey, at an early day, passed a law in conformity with her constitutional obligation; but the current of anti-slavery feeling has led her more recently to enact laws which render inoperative the remedies provided by her own law and by the laws of Congress. In the State of New York even the right of transit for a slave has been denied by her tribunals; and the States of Ohio and Iowa have refused to surrender to justice fugitives charged with murder, and with inciting servile insurrection in the State of Virginia. Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation. The ends for which the Constitution was framed are declared by itself to be “to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” These ends it endeavored to accomplish by a Federal Government, in which each State was recognized as an equal, and had separate control over its own institutions. The right of property in slaves was recognized by giving to free persons distinct political rights, by giving them the right to represent, and burthening them with direct taxes for three-fifths of their slaves; by authorizing the importation of slaves for twenty years; and by stipulating for the rendition of fugitives from labor. We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States. Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection. For twenty-five years this agitation has been steadily increasing, until it has now secured to its aid the power of the common Government. Observing the forms of the Constitution, a sectional party has found within that Article establishing the Executive Department, the means of subverting the Constitution itself. A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that “Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free,” and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction. This sectional combination for the submersion of the Constitution, has been aided in some of the States by elevating to citizenship, persons who, by the supreme law of the land, are incapable of becoming citizens; and their votes have been used to inaugurate a new policy, hostile to the South, and destructive of its beliefs and safety. On the 4th day of March next, this party will take possession of the Government. It has announced that the South shall be excluded from the common territory, that the judicial tribunals shall be made sectional, and that a war must be waged against slavery until it shall cease throughout the United States. The guaranties of the Constitution will then no longer exist; the equal rights of the States will be lost. The slaveholding States will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the Federal Government will have become their enemy. Sectional interest and animosity will deepen the irritation, and all hope of remedy is rendered vain, by the fact that public opinion at the North has invested a great political error with the sanction of more erroneous religious belief. We, therefore, the People of South Carolina, by our delegates in Convention assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, have solemnly declared that the Union heretofore existing between this State and the other States of North America, is dissolved, and that the State of South Carolina has resumed her position among the nations of the world, as a separate and independent State; with full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do. Adopted December 24, 1860 [My emphasis throughout] There: South Carolina is stating in very clear terms that the reason for it leaving the Union was the North’s hostility toward slavery. That, my friend, is what we in the trade call “proof.” Your turn. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 4, 2014 at 10:27 AM Oh good grief the DoS have nothing to do with the war. There are documents and events that trump these docs. all day long. I have posted two passed by the US Congress. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 4, 2014 at 10:32 AM Really? So, you think that SC’s “Declaration of Causes” has nothing to do with secession? Because that’s the topic here–that’s what you said earlier: that secession had little or nothing to do with slavery. I am with child to see your trump cards here–especially the two passed by Congress. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 4, 2014 at 10:41 AM I said war. Please take you time to read. “that’s what you said earlier: that secession had little or nothing to do with slavery.” Please post that exact passage. I know you are trying to turn the tables on me. Won’t happen. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 4, 2014 at 10:48 AM No, I don’t play word games, George. I’m into logic and argument. Here are your words: Even so if secession was secession was only about slavery, so what? Slavery was a legal institution in the United States, and these Southern states were part of that country. Slavery was not the cause of the war. So, I made the obvious connection: that without slavery, there’s no secession; without secession, there’s no war to restore the Union. That seems a very clear path based on this chain of events. What is your objection? LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 4, 2014 at 11:05 AM Are you going to post the exact quotation where I said slavery had nothing to do with secession or not. Shall you be noted as a person who doesn’t tell the truth??? Again slavery was not the cause of the war. Your porblem is making all these connections. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 4, 2014 at 11:28 AM Here’s the entire quote: You are taking a narrow view of the secession documents. If you take them for what they are, they are nothing more than a list of grievances against the Federal government. I suggest you read each and every declaration and list these grievances to fully understand exactly what they are. Even so if secession was secession was only about slavery, so what? Slavery was a legal institution in the United States, and these Southern states were part of that country. Slavery was not the cause of the war. This has nothing to do with what bothers me. It does appear that it bothers you because you can’t find the document that proves otherwise. What did you expect these states to say we are seceeding because we are seceeding? Does that make sense really????? I am not going to go into what each individual soldier fought for, if slavery is the reason your ancestors fought then so be it. What side were they on? Let’s look at a few facts shall we? First we agree that secession was not addressed in the Constitution, and we all agree that sovereign can mean independent. Therefore the Southern States believed that had a right to withdraw from the Federal government. So with that behind us there is no need to revisit those issues. It is agreed that the war started at Fort Sumter with Major Anderson leaving Moultrie to occupy Sumter. Where are the freed slaves? For now we shall say the Confederates fired on Sumter and Anderson surrendered that fort, where are the enslaved people? There are none either way. In all of the communications I have read about the issue at Fort Sumter slavery was not mentioned the first time. Now the firing at Fort Sumter caused the war, why did the Confederates fire on this fort. It was because Lincoln sent an invasion fleet to Charleston and Pensacola. So now we see the Confederacy fired on an invasion fleet. Where are the slaves? Again there are none. This is not my opinion these are historical fact. I have also posted two US acts of Congress to this page you simply overlook them because they do not fit your idea of what the war was about. One gives the South a chance to come back under the Federal and keep their slaves; the other clearly states the war IS NOT about slavery. Again these are historical facts; to say otherwise is not being honest. I really don’t understand, George. Are you saying that my connecting of the dots here is wrong? I have shown that slavery caused SC to secede. Are you saying you need proof now that that secession caused the war? That is self-evident. That’s why it’s called a “civil war.” LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 7:52 AM Chris I do not see hwere I said slavery had nothing to do with secession. Please narrow it down to the exact sentence. Yes your problem with connecting the dots is you skip what doen’t support your agenda. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 7:57 AM “Even so if secession…was only about slavery, so what? Slavery was a legal institution in the United States, and these Southern states were part of that country. Slavery was not the cause of the war.” I took that to mean that slavery did not cause the war. And my point is that it caused secession, which certainly caused the war. But if you want a quick, succinct summary of events to refer to, look no further than Mike’s comment: The facts are: (1) Lincoln was elected president on a platform against slavery’s expansion to the territories. (2) SC and other states declared secession, issued ordinances, and began forming the CSA. (3) SC and other states stopped complying with the federal government. (5) Confederate forces fired on Ft. Sumter. (4) President Lincoln began preparing a response and explained his view of the situation to Congress on July 4, 1861. (5) Congress approved of Lincoln’s plan to militarily resolve the conflict so that the Union would remain intact. That’s pretty much it. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 8:06 AM Gee it looks to me like that says slavery was not the cause of the war. Am I correct? Why do you damage your credibility in that manner? What else have you not read correctly??? BTW Indian raids was also a cause of secession. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 8:17 AM One more time. Here’s Mike’s wrap-up of events. The facts are: (1) Lincoln was elected president on a platform against slavery’s expansion to the territories. (2) SC and other states declared secession, issued ordinances, and began forming the CSA. (3) SC and other states stopped complying with the federal government. (5) Confederate forces fired on Ft. Sumter. (4) President Lincoln began preparing a response and explained his view of the situation to Congress on July 4, 1861. (5) Congress approved of Lincoln’s plan to militarily resolve the conflict so that the Union would remain intact. So, no, George, you are not correct. Slavery was indeed the ultimate cause of the war. And, to let you know, I’m very much not interested in you repeating yourself. If you don’t have any new argument or new observation–if you are merely going to repeat what you’ve already said–then just say “I respectfully disagree” and we can go our separate ways. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 8:44 AM Chris, No I am correct. I did not say that slavery was not a cause of the war. It is right there you did your best and failed. No harm in trying. I do not see in Mikes post anywhere where he says slavery is the cause of the war. Cn you point that out??? LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 9:08 AM Well, I thought it obvious, but if it’s not, slip it in there like this: (2) SC and the slave states of the Deep South rejected Lincoln’s election as a direct attack on slavery, and so SC and other states declared secession, issued ordinances, and began forming the CSA. There. Now you have the chain of events. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 11:06 AM Exactly SECESSION not war. Keep trying. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 11:08 AM Wow. I don’t know how clear to make it. I believe I’ve said it 8 million times. Secession. Caused. the War. I am officially glaring down the rabbit hole I was warned about. LikeLiked by 1 person Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 8:19 AM “BTW Indian raids was also a cause of secession.” Prove it. Where is your evidence? LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 8:49 AM http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html#Texas The Federal Government, while but partially under the control of these our unnatural and sectional enemies, has for years almost entirely failed to protect the lives and property of the people of Texas against the Indian savages on our border, and more recently against the murderous forays of banditti from the neighboring territory of Mexico; and when our State government has expended large amounts for such purpose, the Federal Government has refuse reimbursement therefor, thus rendering our condition more insecure and harassing than it was during the existence of the Republic of Texas. Proof that you don’t read all of the available material. ‘Nuff said. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 8:59 AM Thank you. No, just proof that you have the ability to do support your assertions with evidence. And, BTW, much of the “property” that the federal government was failing to protect from the “savages” was slave property. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 9:36 AM Doesn’t matter it was property owned under United States laws. As to me being able to prove anything, honestly you just didn’t know. Tell the truth. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 9:40 AM No, it does matter, because it is yet another example in the body of evidence showing that secession was caused by slavery. And, to be honest, I have read the Texas Declaration but it was long ago, and I forgot about the Comanche part. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 11:12 AM Sure it amtters, it was slavery under US law. Never said slavery didn’t have anything to do secession. You are acting like Baker now. When are you going to show slavery was a cause of the war??? LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 11:20 AM Sorry, George, but you don’t seem to be able to follow, or are outright denying that there is, a logical chain of events. I can’t have an argument with someone who ignores what I say as if I haven’t said it. I’m done here. But thanks again for making me read the Texas Declaration–especially since it further supports the argument that slavery cause secession, and therefore the war. And thanks for the inspiration for writing this particular post. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 11:27 AM I never said anything about there not being a chain of events. We do know for a fact you leave some links out. Glad I could help. Thanks for admitting you do not read and thanks for admitting you do not know as much about history as you claim to know. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 4, 2014 at 12:15 PM Ok, George–I’ve created a blog post all for you, answering the question on how slavery caused secession. Thanks for the inspiration! LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 7:54 AM It was a waste of time I never said slavery wasn’t a cause to secession. I did say slavery was not the cause of the war. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 7:59 AM Pretty much the same thing, since Lincoln and the North were not going to allow the destruction of the United States by a bunch of sore losers. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 8:08 AM Who was trying to destory the US??? Lincoln caused a lot of unnecessray destruction himself. Are you cahnging the subject again? LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 8:18 AM The seceded states tried to destroy the United States; that’s the meaning of secession. And by bringing up Lincoln, do you see that it is you who are changing the subject? LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 8:45 AM No they just wanted to live in peace. Lincoln wanted war. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 9:02 AM “Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.” LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 11:04 AM Now we are playing with biased quotes instead of historical fact??? Lincoln wanted a war he got a war. That is fact LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 11:56 AM Nonetheless, it is a most accurate description of events. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 4:06 PM [Edit] LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 4:24 PM One can question my assertions, one can question my sources, one can question my neutrality, one can question my conclusions–that’s fine. But the discussion here happens because we accept each other’s integrity. Whatever else I am doing here, I am describing the truth as I see it in the sources. So to call me a liar is very bad form indeed, George. The gods know I have not questioned your integrity here. LikeLike Jimmy Dick says: August 4, 2014 at 10:16 AM Apparently you don’t understand what a primary source is, George. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 4, 2014 at 10:29 AM I just refuted your documents. They are not relevant, just like you. LikeLike Michael Rodgers says: August 4, 2014 at 6:56 AM Larry Wilmore loves the south. The south to him is much more than neoconfederate white-washing of the past, neoconfederate victimhood in the present, and neoconfederate imagination for the future. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply gpthelastrebel says: August 4, 2014 at 10:04 AM and your point????? LikeLike Reply Michael Rodgers says: August 5, 2014 at 4:56 AM like the times, has passed you by. LikeLiked by 1 person Jimmy Dick says: August 4, 2014 at 12:27 PM Another day, another post, another butt whomping of George. Man, Chris just slaughtered you with that post and you can’t see it. I love how you say you refuted documents and offer nothing to refute them with. You are just in flat out denial of reality. I suggest some psychiatric counseling because it cannot be easy living a live of delusion. Here ya go, some Joe Walsh live to put it into perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=573c6GFQfjQ LikeLike Reply gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 7:56 AM Gee [Jimmy] why is it always someone else giving me a buut whupping but never you???????????? LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: August 5, 2014 at 10:29 AM Because you are too f****** stupid to understand you’ve been getting your butt whipped every day on this blog and others. It’s a psychological condition you have that I call F***** Stupid. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 11:22 AM I love it I absolutely love it. Now you have to resort to foul language. LOL LOL LOL You are the best man on my team. Thanks partner. LikeLike Rob Baker says: August 5, 2014 at 7:02 AM Just an FYI Chris, George is responsible for nearly all of the comment policies on my blog. He will hijack posts, wonder off topic, etc. etc. LikeLike Reply gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 8:01 AM Yes it seems you like to let others insult your visitors. You hate whites and to be honest you are not smart enough for a blog. LikeLike Reply Rob Baker says: August 5, 2014 at 8:45 AM See what I mean Chris? George likes to say I “hate whites” because I banned him for disparaging remarks towards about Puerto Rican people…to a Puerto Rican woman…on a post….written by a Peurto Rican. LikeLiked by 1 person Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 9:11 AM I have not seen any sort of racist comments, Rob, and I hope not to. But that’s something I won’t tolerate. Brooks can allow LoSers to comment on his blog; I won’t. LikeLike Andy Hall says: August 5, 2014 at 10:11 AM Chris, as far as I know, Texas’ justification for secession is the *only* one that mentions Indians on the frontier. (Which make sense, because Texas was the only seceding state that had an active, ongoing conflict with Native Americans at the time.) But that’s a unique situation that applies to Texas, and cannot be attributed *generally* to the southern states that seceded. If you read the full document, the issue of slavery (and the perceived threat to it) gets a lot more space. The resentment of the Texas Secession Convention over the perceived failure of the federal government to protect its citizens against the “savages” on the frontier, particularly the Comanche, pretty much puts the lie to the popular notion that Confederates were somehow “better” on Indian issues that the U.S. government was, before, during, or after the Civil War. Extermination of Indians was official policy of the Republic of Texas, even before statehood in 1845. Some folks get righteous about the hanging at Mankato, but on the Texas frontier the Texas Rangers generally didn’t bother with the pretense of legal proceedings or hauling Comanche raiders in for trial. LikeLiked by 3 people Reply Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 10:31 AM I’ve done some reading on the Comanche, but only up to and not including their conflicts with Texas. Pekka Hämäläinen has done some fascinating work on the evolution of their horse-trading culture. And now, thanks to George, I have read the whole document, and see that slavery indeed gets a full treatment from Texas. LikeLike Reply gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 11:16 AM Regardless how many times slavery is mentioned it is still only one issue. Mississippi says this —- It seeks not to elevate or to support the slave, but to destroy his present condition without providing a better. So now we have Miss. leaving because the slaves would not be provided for. But the fact of the matter still remains slavery did not cause the war. LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: August 5, 2014 at 11:27 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhlXqYiTz2Q You need to quit taking the blue pill, George. The red pill of truth won’t kill you no matter what the other Lost Causers say. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 5, 2014 at 3:54 PM You cannot find where I have told a lie. In fact everything I have oposted is true. Now as far as lying goes. I have caught Shelly twice on his blog. [Edit] LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 4:23 PM Two things, George: 1) My name is Shelley. With two E’s. 2) Accusing me of lying is a request to be banned. B’bye. LikeLiked by 3 people Michael Rodgers says: August 5, 2014 at 11:30 AM George claims that you have to prove to him that Secession. Caused. the War. because President Lincoln could have let South Carolina accomplish its declared secession without war. Kinda like Roosevelt could have left Japan alone after Pearl Harbor. It’s time to end this thread. It’s not even the thread you want George posting on! LikeLike Reply Christopher Shelley says: August 5, 2014 at 11:36 AM Indeed, Mike. I’m way over it. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Michael Rodgers says: August 7, 2014 at 6:55 AM Your kindness to George has been repaid. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 7, 2014 at 10:00 AM Jesus Wept! Boy, he really just doesn’t get it, does he? I guess I can see why he thought I was “lying,” but he’s just too muddle-headed to grasp the overall point. LikeLike Michael Rodgers says: August 13, 2014 at 2:02 AM I made some comments on George’s blog to see what his argument is and to clarify the chain of events, etc. It’s the same old thing that they’re stuck on, which has been refuted time and again. This Larry Wilmore clip gets right at it when he said that the south didn’t invent slavery but they hung on to it tightly, when generally the USA and the rest of the world was ending or seeking to end slavery. Moving on, moving on. I just want to add here another shout out to the excellent job Al Mackey does to dismantle the false neoconfederate narrative, especially in the chapter by chapter “Book with No Credibility” posts. In the first one, Al has facts, data, and analysis, and he wrote this cogent description: “Slavery was the issue behind the confederacy wanting its independence to start with. The Federals wanted to preserve the Union, but they struck against slavery almost from the start. Ben Butler’s coming up with the ‘contraband’ device to keep from returning enslaved people to owners was in May of 1861, and from that time onward slaves came into Union lines almost continually.” LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 13, 2014 at 9:57 AM I saw your comment at GP’s site, and I appreciated the attempt at clearing the waters, especially that I just didn’t understand what George was trying to say. I added the comment “What Mike said,” but GP never approved it. Oh well. Yes, Al is a trove. Several times in all this I’ve referred to his material. His thrashing of that book is so complete, it scared me into posting my last thing on the Fourteenth Amendment because I thought he’s get there first and scoop me! LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: August 14, 2014 at 9:19 AM Yes your argument is the same old tired, worn out, agenda driven argunment that has been tried and tried again. You leave about half the events out of the order to prop your agenda. You brought absolutely no facts but posted your opinion, a bunch of “yes buts” and “what ifs” as if it means something. When you can bring some facts to the table you are welcome to do so. You don’t have tto run another blog and insult me. I treated you well on Cold Southern Steel,. because of your post here I may not be so kind to you in the future. Think about it. George Purvis Cold Southern Steel http://coldsouthernsteel.wordpress.com/ LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 14, 2014 at 9:33 AM George, we have been over this. I am now convinced that no amount of facts, and no amount of linking those facts in neat cause-and-effect narrative form is going to convince you of anything. Mike has certainly tried, with more patience than I. I certainly can’t say it any clearer. I’ve watched Mike bring fact after fact, and this has become boring. At least, though, we got you to admit that slavery had something to do with secession, so I suppose that’s a victory of sorts for the forces of reason. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 14, 2014 at 9:44 AM Yes we have been over this and you, your budies and Mike are proven wrong. I brought to the table facts, by Pres. Buchanan, that cannot be disputed and Mike ran off. Of course he may be like you and never read the source, that may be the reason for his comments here. Now you ubndertstand the comment “slavery had nothing to do with the war.” Amazing. Note I did not say agree but at least you understand. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 14, 2014 at 9:53 AM See, this is the problem: you cannot lay out a bunch of documents and say “See? Facts” without showing how they tell the story. That’s not history. You have to assemble those facts into a convincing narrative–a narrative that at the same time takes all the facts into account–including how slavery caused secession–and how secession caused the wr. Certainly I have way to much to do today to waste time reading thousands of words on Buchanan. If you can’t paraphrase the important parts, using the occasional quote to drive your point home, why should I bother? I suspect Mike fell asleep or threw his hands up in disgust rather than ran away. So, again, bring something new to the table or don’t bother. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: August 14, 2014 at 9:59 AM It obvious you haven’t read the facts either. Nothing more to say about that. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 14, 2014 at 10:03 AM Yes, George–exactly. ~I’m making all this up because I’ve never actually read the primary sources.~ [Note: text in “~” marks denotes irony.] LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: August 14, 2014 at 2:56 PM Exactly as I thought. LikeLike Pingback: The True Blue Federalist —Just another agenda driven Blaog | Cold Southern Steel Christopher Shelley says: August 7, 2014 at 10:24 AM I keep telling him, Dodgers, not Yankees. LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: August 14, 2014 at 10:27 AM You know George is never going to accept anything as a fact if it proves him wrong. He needs to start learning how to be a historian instead of a heritage nut. There are Five C’s in history as this article explains. http://www.ysursa.com/history/pdf/Burke%20&%20Andews%20Five%20Cs%20of%20History.pdf It would behoove the heritage crowd to learn them and apply them to what they do, but then that would end the heritage crowd. I make sure to explain these things to my students in my classes. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Michael Rodgers says: August 14, 2014 at 4:24 PM I read Buchanan’s account and the biography of him by Jean H. Baker. The facts remain the same: Confederate forces fired on USA’s Ft. Sumter. The neoconfederate argument isn’t an argument at all but a hodgepodge of “why didn’t they” questions: (1) If the founders wanted secession to be unconstitutional, why didn’t they write “Secession isn’t constitutional” in the Constitution? (2) If the secessionists wanted war, why didn’t arm themselves more fully when the price was so low? (3) If the USA was anti-slavery, why didn’t they free slaves from loyal slave states? It goes on and on with the questions. And then the neoconfederates ignore or contort the answers. So, I’m finished answering. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Jimmy Dick says: August 14, 2014 at 7:38 PM As you know those questions have been answered repeatedly. The neo-confederates do not like the answers. They prefer their simplistic and extremely erroneous ideas which are not supported by the primary sources. It is really crazy because the people of the past were pretty blunt about why they did what they did. It is only after the war when men like Jubal Early understood that they were going to go down in history for rebelling unsuccessfully against the lawful government of the United States in order to be able to continue holding people in slavery that they began to change the story. All one has to do is look at the primary sources to see that. Yet, these neo-confederates will not do that because that would mean acknowledging they are wrong. It is like Andy Hall said. The argument really isn’t about slavery for them. It is about their modern political ideology. They need a Confederacy to serve as a victim of the federal government. They cannot have a Confederacy that seceded over slavery even though some of them would like to restore that idea. Therefore they manufacture and maintain a falsified version of the past. Unfortunately for them their past is just as rotten as their ideology. Their ideology is just like that of the Confederacy; a rejection of the principles brought into being by the American Revolution. Liberty and equality cannot be limited to a select audience. History shows these two principles are not bound by any limitations. They cannot be harnessed or restrained. “True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights.” –Salmon Chase LikeLiked by 1 person Reply gpthelastrebel says: August 16, 2014 at 8:52 AM and speaking of hodgepodge look at the neo-yankee as you have defined it. The fact of the matter is I made the statement” slavery was not the cause of the war, you came to Cold Southern Steel to prove me wrong. You are unable to do that, so you retreat to this blog and and attack me and act like you cannot understand what the discussion.is about. LikeLike Reply Michael Rodgers says: August 18, 2014 at 4:14 PM I went to your blog for the reasons I said, to understand your argument and to clarify the chain of events. I left when you said, “Lincoln getting shot was the second best thing that ever happened in this country.” Good day to you sir. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: August 19, 2014 at 6:49 AM You came to Cold Southern Steel thinking you were some sort of wonder boy and that I would be an easy push over. You were wrong. You ran head first into Mr. Buchanan’s and ir stooped you like a steel door. You didn’t make one comment about the facts Buchanan outlined in these pages. You were trumped and retreated here to bolster your ego. No you left when you realized you had bit off more than you cold chew. You left so that you would not have to admit the facts thus proving your agenda driven ideas were wrong I do regret Lincoln did not get shot before he was elected president. that might have spared the lives of a million people both black and white And a Dixie day to you sir. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 19, 2014 at 8:49 AM Actually, no. Mike went to your site to try and achieve some sort of communication of respect. As far as the Buchanan material, as I’ve said, copying-and-pasting words on a page without any word of explanation does not constitute “facts” or any real “proof” of anything at all. Tell me, George, what does the Buchanan material mean? I don’t have the time nor energy to go over it without a compelling reason. You have not given me one. LikeLiked by 2 people gpthelastrebel says: August 20, 2014 at 5:31 AM No I am right about Mike. Perhaps you are right I need to explain every little detail for you. I just thought with your education you could read the written word. My mistake. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 20, 2014 at 11:33 AM My education didn’t come with a time machine that allows me to make up for all the time I would waste reading Buchanan. So summarize for me, George. Play a real historian for once. Synthesize the material, make an argument, give specific examples. It should be easy since you’ve got the documents right there. After you do that, if you’ve made an argument that I can’t ignore, I will read the material to see for myself. And then, if you’re right, I’ll say “Wow, you’re right.” Or I may not agree. Or I may agree with your argument, but not with your conclusions. That’s what real historical debate looks like. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 22, 2014 at 7:22 AM But your education came with a time machine that allows you to set-up, maintain , and post on this blog and other blogs. Seems if you just came with excuses???? I do fully understand where you are coming from though. I man you never read thesecession docs., so why should you read Buchanan. I mean all you have to do is keep going back to the secession docs and pretending you don’t ubnderstand my argument. Don’t try to ourtslick me, you just don’t have what it takes. Like you, I am not a historian, I have never claimed to be a historian nor do I have any ambition to be one. I can read though and I have found the time to do so. Now with that being said– SLAVERY WAS NOT THE CIAUSE OF THE WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 18, 2014 at 4:43 PM –> Slavery caused secession. I have proved this in the post called “Secession, the Expansion of Slavery, and Race.” –>Secession caused the war. We know this because Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion about Ft. Sumter was shelled. I just don’t get what’s hard to understand about this. What part am I missing? LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 19, 2014 at 6:51 AM Slavery was one cause of secession. It was not the only reason. The secession documents prove this. Slavery was not the cause of the war. I have posted this in Mr. Buchanan’s and the ORs LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 19, 2014 at 8:41 AM No. Slavery was overwhelmingly the sole cause of secession. The addresses of the special commissioners that I have discussed prove this. You are hiding behind the secession documents, which also show slavery was a cause. You refuse to even examine all of the “facts” that I laid out in that post. So who is ignoring facts now? LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 20, 2014 at 5:27 AM No slavery was only one cause of secession. Remember you don’t read. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 20, 2014 at 11:28 AM If you read through the addresses and letters of the Secession Commissioners here, you will find that they mention the tariff all of 5 times. They mention slavery 132 times. And that’s just the Commissioners documents on this page. There are over 40 such addresses and letters. Take away the tariff, there is still a Civil War. Take away the Comanches, Texas still leaves the Union. Take away slavery, there is no war. Slavery was overwhelmingly the cause of secession. (H/T to Corey Meyer) LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: August 22, 2014 at 7:15 AM Chris, I have no need to read anything related to secession. I know wht these docs say. Now according toyour logic and the number of times slavery is mentioned< we go to the OR's type "war" in the search box we get over 300 hits. That wouldmean between 1861and 1865 there were over 300 wars going on in the US! Amazing. It doesn' matter how many times slavery is mentioned, it was still only one issue. I know what you are doing, you are playing what i call willful ignorant. That is you haven't haven't the sources or the facts to prove me wrong so you just stick with secession and the secession docs.in hopes that I will tire of the argument and give in to you. Not gonna happen. You can pretend whatever you want there is noway to make my statement any clearer—- SLAVERY WAS NOT THE CAUSE OF THE WAR LikeLike Michael Rodgers says: August 18, 2014 at 5:12 PM Chris, I’m sure I’ve told you this a hundred times. Buchanan let the Confederates seize all the federal property except Ft. Sumter in South Carolina, thus giving secession the Presidential imprimatur, even though Buchanan stated clearly that secession was unconstitutional (it’s the deeds not the words that matter — the Declarations of Causes of Secession are dicta; what matters is the deed that SC seceded etc.). Buchanan promised to let the Confederates have Ft. Sumter but then Buchanan and Lincoln reneged on that promise and it’s those renegers who started the war. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 18, 2014 at 5:18 PM Of course! I forgot. How silly of me. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: August 19, 2014 at 6:54 AM It is deeds I agree. Like when Anderson took Sumter and broke a shaky peace agreement. Lime when Buchanan sent re-enforcements to sumter. Yes it is deeds I agree LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 19, 2014 at 8:42 AM Buchanan had every right to send reinforcements to Sumter, since that was U.S. property. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 20, 2014 at 5:29 AM Read. Read. Read. You haven’t a clue do you. Read what Buchanan says abou the incident. Quit playing games. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 20, 2014 at 11:14 AM Well, what does he say, George? You claim this document means something important. What is it? LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 22, 2014 at 7:02 AM Why don’t you read it and find out. Are you afraid of what you may learn???? LikeLike Jimmy Dick says: August 22, 2014 at 10:35 AM It looks like good old George can’t post anything with facts in it. The last three posts are essentially “I know you are, but what am I?” type posts. I find it amazing he accuses us of not understanding sources while he refused to analyze sources or accept sources that prove him wrong while cherry picking stuff and getting it out of context. If anything George has shown he is not a historian, but a diehard heritage nut incapable of learning. LikeLike Reply Christopher Shelley says: August 22, 2014 at 10:44 AM Well, it’s frustrating because he wants me to read his sources with no interpretation–essentially, I have to do all the work–but he won’t read my sources, which I’ve done the work to make into an actual essay for his benefit. I’m not going to make him slog through a bunch of sources and leave him to figure it out; instead, I’ve done the work of putting them together and making an argument. But that argument–that slavery and white supremacy caused secession–scares George, and so he must ignore it. It’s ironic that he accuses me of that in which he engages. In psychology, that’s called projection. For my part, I’m not ignoring his sources; I’m just waiting for him to make an argument about them. But he either doesn’t really know how to do that or he’s too lazy. I tend to think the former, but then, as Mike said, I’m probably too nice. LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: August 22, 2014 at 1:45 PM Well said. As you have probably noticed from following the blogs, almost all of the Causers prefer to make statements, erroneous claims, and then fail to provide anything to support their opinions. When they do offer something it is either out of context or overwhelmed by the available evidence. When we historians offer something they just ignore it. This is why I think they use the Lost Cause Handbook which makes them pretty predictable. They’re lazy. They can’t do a historical analysis of anything because they do not know how to do it. They just pick out what they want and that’s it. The rest is ignored and that is why they miss the context. As for the Waterboy’s recent steaming pile over on Brooks’ blog, you can easily see how he has created an entirely inaccurate history for America which was ripped straight from the handbook. His history has to support his beliefs and ideology. It looks like he took a list of historical events and connected them working backwards. I think the Soviet propaganda writers would have offered him a job writing for them. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 23, 2014 at 7:32 AM One thing I do notice you folks have nothing to prove the WAR WAS CAUSED BY SLAVERY. YOu can insult and demean all you want but you can’t prove me wrong. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 23, 2014 at 7:28 AM The sources will speak for themselves. Oh and If I want to argue white supremacy I would use Lincoln quotes. Lazy??? At least I read the sources!!!!!!!! Now once again SLAVVERY WAS NOT THE CAUSE OF THE WAR!!!!! LikeLiked by 1 person Christopher Shelley says: August 26, 2014 at 4:11 PM There are two extremes, George. One is to make assertions with no evidence. I hate that, and you’ve probably seen that on the CW blogs. The other extreme is to provide documents and such as evidence, but not tell anyone what you are asserting. What a historian does is combine these two ideas: make an assertion (a thesis), and then show the evidence that proves the thesis. Then we all get to argue about it. What I honestly respect about you, George, is that you really think you’ve got a good thesis, and you are providing honest-to-god documentation for that thesis. And I truly, sincerely appreciate that. You aren’t yanking things out of context, you’re not manipulating data to get the result you want–none of the things dishonest people do. And that’s why I continue to let you argue on this blog: because I think you’re trying to tell the truth as you see it. I may disagree with that “truth,” but not because of you; rather, because I don’t think the evidence points that way. My immediate problem here is two-fold: first, I can’t tell what your thesis is, because the documents do not speak for themselves. It is incumbent upon the historian to present both thesis and evidence. That is the nature of the craft. Second, I have done exactly that on my blog, in the post about secession and slavery: I offer a thesis, and then I present shit-tons of evidence–documents, “facts”–to support that thesis. And I did that because you inspired me to. But you refuse to read it! I can’t work with that, George. I am more than will to examine your thesis on Sumter, but you have to provide me with one. (And again, that’s not being unfair; that’s just how the craft of history works). And I’m more than willing to listen to your critique of my post on why secession was caused by slavery, but I can’t unless you read it. We are at an impasse. So show me the money, George. I’m not being disrespectful–I truly want to hear your Buchanan-Sumter argument. And likewise, I would appreciate it if you would read mine, and tell me why I’m wrong. I have no problem with that. But I truly tire of these “You didn’t prove it/yes I did/no you didn’t” spats. It is not interesting to me and I’ve got other things to do. (Did you see my new post on Lincoln’s racism?) So, please come back with something of substance, or fare thee well. Go Dodgers! LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 28, 2014 at 7:13 AM Oh good grief I am dealing with a buinch of 3rd graders who can’t read. Now they are arguging against a President of the United States. How far will they go to be right?? As I said attcak the nmessenger not the message. That says a lot about you and Dick. Folks if you are getting tired of this BS please visit Cold Southern Steel or Southern Heritage Advancement Preservation and Education. I have factuial history posted. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 23, 2014 at 7:24 AM Good old Jimmy has nothing useful to add to the converstaion. Just his usual demeaning remarks. Tell me Jimmy why should I post any fact when it known the sources are not being read??? LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: August 23, 2014 at 11:26 AM Anyone can post a source. Tell us what they mean and in what context. So far you can’t do that. You can’t do much of anything but run your mouth and make stupid statements that you cannot back up. We’ve shown slavery was the cause of the Civil War. You cannot prove that it wasn’t. You just cannot prove all the people in the past wrong. They said it was about slavery and you cannot shut them up. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: August 26, 2014 at 6:19 AM See Jimmy that is the problem with stupid statements such as “slavery caused the war.” It is just that it is stupid. History does not support that statement. What Chris has proven and I admitted as much 731 replies ago is that slavery was one cause of secession. You have sucessfully proven how stupid you really are and I also admitted that ages ago. Since then I have provided at least two sources that prove the war was not caused by slavery. They are the Ghost admendment and Mr. Buchanans Admin on the EVE. At the present time i am working on a 3rd source which is the ORs, which for the most part just support Buchanan’s satemnets. Now Chris and I are adults so there is no need for me to add any commentary to either of these documents because we both can read the written. You are a bit different, you hard headed and agenda driven so you more than likey need evry sentence broken down for you. That being your situation you are barking up the wrong tree. . I am not here to teach a bunch of grown-ups who act like 5th graders. Sorry. BTW I note you all only attack the messenger not the message why is that??? LikeLike Jimmy Dick says: August 23, 2014 at 11:28 AM Btw, if you have read the sources, what were they? What is your historical analysis of the South Carolina Declaration of Secession? Here is the link to the source. Give us your analysis of that source. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp LikeLiked by 2 people gpthelastrebel says: August 26, 2014 at 6:23 AM Not a problem — The S. C. Declarations are a list of grivences against the US government. It is not declaration of war. LikeLike Jimmy Dick says: August 23, 2014 at 11:32 AM Oh and by the way, I want to say thanks to George, the Waterboy, and all the Lost Causers out there. Thanks to them I am guaranteed employment for as long as I want to work. Somebody with intelligence has to teach and people like them cannot. So there will always be a need for people like me who can teach history to people who want to learn while people like George rant and rave about heritage and only appeal to stupid people. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 26, 2014 at 6:38 AM Yes there will always be a need for people like you who can toe the line, in the field of academics, for the purpose of perpetuating the lie of the cause of the war and keep the shining myth of good old Abe bright. Notice how you fellows spin a couple of documents, that have nothing to do with the war, in favor of an agenda based on a lie.and stupidity and call it real history.That is an excellent example of why people like me, who does not swallow this ignorance hook, line and sinker will always be around. I don’t mind the attacks on me for the simple reason it serves to prove you cannot attack the message. For these reasons peopke will always seek the truth at Cold Southern Steel or Southern Heritage Advancement Preservation and Education. Have A Dixie day. LikeLike Jimmy Dick says: August 26, 2014 at 10:41 AM Your response shows you will say anything to get out of admitting slavery was the cause of the Civil War, George. The Ghost Amendment shows slavery was the cause of the CW. The SC declaration of secession shows slavery was the cause of the war. No one thinks it is a declaration of war. Where did you come up with that stupid idea? You just made three posts that show you don’t know anything about the cause of the war. If anyone goes to your site it is because they chose to either remain stupid or to see what stupid people say about the past. You don’t do anything with history but mangle it. At least I have students who can think. People like you prefer to live in ignorance. I would never let my students use your site for anything except as an example of why people who believe in the Lost Cause are morons. The facts are staring you in the face. You even have them and take them out of context trying to prove you are right. If you can’t figure out the secession declarations are about slavery, then that is just you being willfully ignorant. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply gpthelastrebel says: August 28, 2014 at 7:04 AM Good job Jimmy , I knew that would be your exact response due to youir hate and ignorance . That being the case let’s just put this up for all readers sorta just to see which one of us isa liar. The Ghost Admendment reads — “No Amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any state, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.” –Joint Resolution of Congress, Adopted March 2, 1861 This was before Sumter. It was a last ditch effort on the part of the Federal Governemnet to bring the states that had seceeded back into the fiold. If the issue had been slavery then the South would just returned and war avoided. Of course we know that didn’t happen. The SC Declaration is not a declarations only idiots woulld think such.Oh that would be you wouldn’t it???? LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: August 28, 2014 at 10:46 AM Just what domestic institution do you think they’re referring to in the document? Lincoln opposed the amendment by the way. This is where your lack of contextual understanding stabs you in the back. This amendment is more proof that it was about slavery. I am just shaking my head that you failed on this. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: August 29, 2014 at 10:48 AM Really doesn’t amtter what Lincoln thought of the adm. The fact is it passed Congress and was on its way to ratification when war broke out. Are you now telling me that Lincoln started a war to keep this adm. from being ratified by the states??? Is that your position??? If the a13th adm. proves the war was about slavery, then you are telling me the South went to war for what Congress of the US was offerring then. Is that correct??? If so then why???? Jimmy this is just proof you have no clue what you are talking about. Instaed of trying to deal with real history I suggest you go back to you insults.That is where you are the most comfortable. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 29, 2014 at 11:03 AM It doesn’t matter what Lincoln thought of the admend. It was passed and on the way to retification when war broke out. Now are you telling me that Lincoln started a war to prevent this adm.om becoming law??? Ok let’s say the adm. proves the war was about slavery. Now you are trying to tell me the Federal governemnt was offerring the institution of slavery to the South free and clear, but the South says no we do not want a gift we had rather fight instaed of getting our way. Is that the ignorance you are trying to promote??? Man that is really dumb. I have failed on nothing.You haven’t proved me wrong yet. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: August 29, 2014 at 11:10 AM George, you said: Now you are trying to tell me the Federal governemnt was offerring the institution of slavery to the South free and clear, but the South says no we do not want a gift we had rather fight instaed of getting our way. Yes! That’s exactly what we are saying. Because for the Deep South, it was crucial to expand slavery, not just keep it where it was. The Slave Power absolutely had to have new territories for slavery to expand into. New free territories would become free states. New free states would eventually have the power to pass a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery (or so the Deep South feared). You would know this, George, if you had read my posts. And there’s nothing “dumb” about it. The secession commissioners’ addresses show this explicitly. This is exactly why slavery caused secession, which caused the war. At last, we are getting somewhere! LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: September 1, 2014 at 7:44 AM Yeah right Chris. I can just see those Southerners sitting arounfsaying :”gentle the federal government is giving us slavery ifwecome back to the Union. Shall we? Hell no let’s fight for slavey.. Oh boy you fellows come up with some off the wall thinking!!!!!!!!! LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: September 1, 2014 at 1:09 PM Nothing off-the-wall about it, George. It is the established narrative. I offer you my proof here. You see, merely keeping slavery in the states where it existed was not enough for Southern slaveholders. They required expansion of slavery into the territories; they required the nationalization of slave property, not just leaving it to state law. They overreacted to Lincoln’s election, and seceded. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: September 2, 2014 at 5:56 AM You offer no proof that the secession docs are declarations of war or the Confederacy was fighting for slavery. Bring some real proof. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: September 2, 2014 at 7:54 AM The evidence I’ve shown is more than just the Ordinances of Secession. My evidence (which you clearly haven’t examined) is the addresses of the secession commissioners. There are over 40 such documents, and leave no doubt–no doubt at all–that the Deep South states left because they felt slavery was threatened; that the federal government was not protecting slavery; that slavery could not expand into the territories. As you like to say, George, “It’s all right there in the documents.” So please, read those documents (and my post has the links), and then come back. LikeLiked by 1 person Christopher Shelley says: September 2, 2014 at 8:01 AM Of course I have. I continue to direct you to my real “proof,” and you continue to ignore it or pretend I haven’t. Read the addresses by the Special Secession Commissioners. There you will find unequivocal proof that the Cotton States seceded from the Union because they thought Lincoln was going to destroy it. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: September 3, 2014 at 5:13 AM You can read all the secession docs you want. You can post all the secession docs you can find still you cannot prove that slavery was the cause of the war. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: September 3, 2014 at 9:02 AM The Secession Commissioners addresses, as I’ve said. If you aren’t going bother reading the evidence, and commenting on that evidence, you aren’t contributing anything to this conversation. And if you aren’t going to contribute anything except “you haven’t proved it,” when clearly we have, you are just doing this: And I have no use for it. So please add something or go back to Cold Southern Steel and put up some more of the ORs out of order to make it awkward for people to read properly. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: September 4, 2014 at 6:31 AM Chris I may have replied to this once but in logging in it may have been lost. If this is doubled simply delete one. Your secession docs are meaningless. The 13th admen. blows them out of the water. The South did not return to the Union as we all know. Here something you should read. I am editing iot because it is such a long reply. You can look this up yourself. It is the Federal governemnts position on Ft. Sumter. OFFICIAL RECORDS: Series 1, vol 1, Part 1 (Charleston Campaign) Page 166 OPERATIONS IN CHARLESTON HARBOR, S.C. Chapter I WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, February 6, 1861. Hon. I. W. HAYNE, Attorney-General of the State of South Carolina: It is difficult, however, to reconcile with this assurance the declaration on your part that “it is a consideration of her [South Carolina’s] Page 168 own dignity as a sovereign, and the safety of her people, which prompts her to demand that this property should not longer be used as a military post by a Government she no longer acknowledges,” and the thought you so constantly present, that this occupation must lead to a collision of arms, and the prevalence of civil war. J. HOLT, Secretary of War. There is your cause right there put into plain English. Now about those secession docs——— I can go back to Cold Southern Steel it doesn’t matter to me, you will still be wrong. Of cources you can always post another page and get props from your buddies who are just as wrong as you are. It your choice, do what floats your boat. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: September 4, 2014 at 10:27 AM No, the secession docs are vital and telling. You myopically focus on who shot first in the context of two independent countries, while refusing to look at why one of these countries came into being, and why the other refused to accept that. Yes, you may go back to CSS. LikeLiked by 1 person Jimmy Dick says: August 26, 2014 at 1:10 PM Let us also note here for the public record that George did not analyze the South Carolina Declaration of Secession. He said it was a list of grievances against the United States. Note that he did not state what those grievances were about. That would be due to the fact that those grievances dealt with the issue of slavery. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply gpthelastrebel says: August 28, 2014 at 7:09 AM Sure I did I said it was nothing but a list of grievences against the Federal government. There is no place it declares war. Let’s also note for the record Jimmy Dick is the only person whocannot read the wtitten wotd without having someone break it down for him. Gee what a wasted education. LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: August 28, 2014 at 10:49 AM Still waiting on your analysis, George. A list of grievances? What grievances? Let’s ANALYZE the document. Hmm, looks like they were complaining about the issue of slavery. Since there is only one issue in the document it must only be about ONE issue and that does not make it a list. Man, I’m shaking my head again at George’s inability to analyze a historical document. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: August 29, 2014 at 10:51 AM Slavery was an issue. I have said that many times. Now please point out the passage where they said they the purpose of going to war was beacsue of that institution. Please point out where they decklared war on the US.I have not been able to find that passage in several years. Oh and BTW the 13th adm. came after secession. That means it trumps any secession document you can find. LikeLike Jimmy Dick says: August 29, 2014 at 3:04 PM Oh, good, George contradicts himself as usual. Imagine my surprise. George, you also make a claim regarding something I never said. Also, no surprise here. See, the Corwin Amendment was favored by Lincoln. You didn’t do any research on this or you would have caught that deliberate insertion into the conversation to see if you actually bothered to look stuff up. This amendment was passed before Lincoln came into office by Congress. It went to the states for ratification per the Constitution. The only way it could have passed was with approval by some states that seceded. However, Jefferson Davis ordered the attack on Ft. Sumter thus starting the Civil War. I’m sure you think that was not what started the war, George, but it was. It was an armed insurrection against the lawful government of the United States. Lincoln was perfectly within his rights as president to call up the militia and send the army against anyone in arms against the US government. So Lincoln did not start the war, he did not declare war against the confederacy because he was not declaring war against a sovereign government. He was putting down a rebellion within the borders of the United States of America. That is beyond dispute. If you think otherwise, George, then you need to go back to school because you failed basic history. But then you deliberately refuse to use context in your so called research. You are not a historian. You are an idiot trying to pretend you know something. You have been proven wrong on multiple occasions and just like the Waterboy you keep repeating the same stupid things over and over again. I don’t care how many times you say slavery was not the primary cause of the CW, George, it was. You have never even shown any proof that it wasn’t. In fact, you have proven that it was on a few occasions. The Corwin amendment is just a sterling example of that. George’s Words: “Ok let’s say the adm. proves the war was about slavery. Now you are trying to tell me the Federal governemnt was offerring the institution of slavery to the South free and clear, but the South says no we do not want a gift we had rather fight instaed of getting our way.” Yep. That’s what we are saying. That is exactly what happened. The amendment was the gift of slavery IN THE STATES WHERE IT EXISTED. It was not in the territories. Here is what Lincoln said about the amendment in his inaugural address, “I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution—which amendment, however, I have not seen—has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service….holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.” Now here is the question. Would this amendment have been ratified had the seven states of the Deep South not seceded and started the CW? I think it might have had a realistic chance. However, we will never know. Once the war started the amendment was dead in the water. The argument made by the people of that time period was about the expansion of slavery, not where it already existed. Sure, the abolitionists were all for ending slavery, but they were a minority. A very small minority at that. That amendment would have killed abolition on a national level, but not the state level. Abolitionists could continue to work to get states to end slavery. No, the slaveowners needed slavery to expand. That is what they were saying and that is what the argument was about. This amendment did absolutely nothing to halt that argument. Lincoln was on record on this issue multiple times. The CW itself is responsible for making the ending of slavery possible. Who knows what would have happened had a war not been fought? But it was and that is as they say, history. As is the Corwin amendment. It too went into the scrapheap of proposed amendments that failed for one reason or another. As for the 13th amendment, it was the byproduct of a war about slavery. I do not know where you get your idea there, but it wasn’t from us. You are trying to insert words into the conversation and attribute them to us, but I think we do a better job keeping track than you do. We do not claim that the US went to war to end slavery. It is plainly obvious it did not fight to do so until ending slavery became a war goal. The war was about slavery though because the people of that time told us it was. Specifically they said it was about the expansion of slavery which to the people of the south was the foundation of their way of life (their own words too). They believed that without slavery’s expansion the institution would wither and die. For slaveowners that meant the loss of their political power. For decades the slaveowners had used the power of the federal government to expand and protect their institution of slavery. The election of 1860 with Lincoln not even on the ballot in most southern states signified the loss of the control. With slavery’s expansion potentially blocked slaveowners would never control the federal government and use it to support their policies and their plantation style economic system which was inefficient and not very well conducive to the rest of the country. Slavery was the common thread that bound those states together via the slaveowners control. If that thread was broken, what real power did a slaveowner have? If slavery could not expand, how could the political power of the slaveowners be maintained? Kansas was the state most likely to be able to support slavery out of the rest of the west. It failed to expand to that state. The slaveowners saw themselves being hemmed in and reacted accordingly. You can say it was about economics. Sure, the economics of slavery. You can say it was about politics. Sure, the politics of slavery. You can say it was about anything, but it always comes back to slavery each time. Thomas Hart Benton said it best “We read in Holy Writ, that a certain people were cursed by a plague of frogs, and that the plague was everywhere. You could not sit down at the banquet table but there were frogs, you could not go to the bridal couch and lift the sheets but there were frogs! We can see nothing, touch nothing, have no measures proposed, without having this pestilence thrust before us. Here it is, this black question, forever on the table, on the nuptial couch, everywhere!” LikeLiked by 2 people Reply gpthelastrebel says: September 1, 2014 at 8:01 AM So instead of posting the passage from the S. C. secession doc. where war is decalred you decide to give a history lesson? You and Chris will say anything to keep from facing the truth. Gotta go post more on Cold Southern Steel from the ORs. LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: September 1, 2014 at 9:43 AM Don’t you mean stuff you cherry picked from the ORs out of context which falls apart when it is placed in context with everything else? LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: September 2, 2014 at 5:45 AM If you think I have cherry picked anything, feel free to do the look-ups in the OPRs yourself. I gave exact references so it should make the job easy for you. Oh BTW everything I have saidis being verified by at least two sources. I have yet tofind anything supporting your claim the secession docs prove the Confederacy was fighting for slavery. So far all we have is the opinion of you and Chris!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LikeLike Jimmy Dick says: August 29, 2014 at 3:30 PM While we’re at it, let’s put in this quote by Alvin Toffler which is rapidly being proven by George and the neo-confederates everywhere. The world is going to pass those people by and in my opinion is already doing so. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ” LikeLike Reply gpthelastrebel says: September 1, 2014 at 8:04 AM You are free to post anything you want up to and including proof the war was fought over slavery. When are you going to do that??? It is like your opinion — meaningless. Show us the passage in the S. C. secession doc. that declares war. LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: September 1, 2014 at 9:45 AM Once again, George proves Alvin Toffler correct. Poor George, unable to distinguish fact from fiction. I guess that is what happens when you make up stuff in order to believe myths. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: September 2, 2014 at 5:51 AM I love it when you post comments usch as this, it proves you do not have the facts to prove me wrong. Good job, keep it up. Be sure to check out cold Southern Steel , more from theOEs will be posted today. http://coldsouthernsteel.wordpress.com/ LikeLike Jimmy Dick says: September 1, 2014 at 9:48 AM I think the Beatles were writing about George and the people like him almost 50 years ago. Maybe they were watching the Centennial and wondered where all that Lost Cause crap came from? LikeLike Reply gpthelastrebel says: September 2, 2014 at 5:53 AM and what would the song be. I wanna hold your hand? Sorry Jimmy I don’t sweing that way. Thanks for asking. LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: September 2, 2014 at 9:51 AM Whoosh! Right over George’s head! LikeLiked by 1 person Jimmy Dick says: September 2, 2014 at 9:55 AM Oh George, we’re waiting on all your proof with breathless anticipation. You know, those facts you keep claiming to have. Like the one you used by Buchanan that actually proved you wrong. One day when you learn how to be a historian you might figure out why you got it wrong. I won’t be holding my breath. But until you can prove your claims which you have failed to do repeatedly EVERY SINGLE TIME no one is going to take you seriously. You can’t even go through the South Carolina Declaration of Secession without screwing it up. I’m still waiting on your analysis which you have not provided. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply gpthelastrebel says: September 3, 2014 at 5:19 AM You saying Buchanan is wrong is not proof. If you wnat me to be wrong then find in Mr. Buchanan’s where Buchanan says we are going to war because of the institution of slavery. Ther ORs must be wrong also as that verify everything Buchanan says. I guess Jimmy Dick and Chris Shelley know more about the events than the presiding President of The United States at the time???? I told you I can do this forever. Did you think I was kidding???? LikeLike Reply Christopher Shelley says: September 3, 2014 at 9:04 AM Wrong about what? I don’t even know what your point is. Make a point or stop commenting here. This thread is ridiculously long to have so little content. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: September 4, 2014 at 6:34 AM yes you have played that game before and sent Mike what ever- his name is to put my mind right. He left Cold Southern Steel for the saftey of this blog. Figure it out for yourself LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: September 4, 2014 at 10:08 AM I “sent” no-one anywhere. Mike chose to try and engage you fairly. I watched him try and deal with your circular arguments with poise, until you frustrated him. Oh, I have figured it out, George. If you wish to comment here any more on this topic (you are free to comment on other topics, of course), then you must deal with the secession commissioners’ addresses. If not, have a Dodger Day! LikeLiked by 1 person Jimmy Dick says: September 3, 2014 at 5:37 PM And we showed you that Buchanan was talking about slavery. I can’t help it if you can’t read basic English. The ORs do not say what you think they say. Once again, you have lied to everyone. Third paragraph. Read it and tell me what it says. [James Buchanan, Annual Message to Congress, 3 December 1860] Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Throughout the year since our last meeting the country has been eminently prosperous in all its material interests. The general health has been excellent, our harvests have been abundant, and plenty smiles throughout the laud. Our commerce and manufactures have been prosecuted with energy and industry, and have yielded fair and ample returns. In short, no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until within a very recent period. Why is it, then, that discontent now so extensively prevails, and the Union of the States, which is the source of all these blessings, is threatened with destruction? THIS ONE HERE, GEORGE!!!!!! The long-continued and intemperate interference of the Northern people with the question of slavery in the Southern States has at length produced its natural effects. The different sections of the Union are now arrayed against each other, and the time has arrived, so much dreaded by the Father of his Country, when hostile geographical parties have been formed. [THAT] PARAGRAPH RIGHT HERE GEORGE [THERE] HE SAYS SLAVERY IS THE PROBLEM!!!! I have long foreseen and often forewarned my countrymen of the now impending danger. This does not proceed solely from the claim on the part of Congress or the Territorial legislatures to exclude slavery from the Territories, nor from the efforts of different States to defeat the execution of the fugitive-slave law. All or any of these evils might have been endured by the South without danger to the Union (as others have been) in the hope that time and reflection might apply the remedy. The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of the slavery question throughout the North for the last quarter of a century has at length produced its malign influence on the slaves and inspired them with vague notions of freedom. Hence a sense of security no longer exists around the family altar. This feeling of peace at home has given place to apprehensions of servile insurrections. Many a matron throughout the South retires at night in dread of what may befall herself and children before the morning. Should this apprehension of domestic danger, whether real or imaginary, extend and intensify itself until it shall pervade the masses of the Southern people, then disunion will become inevitable. Self-preservation is the first law of nature, and has been implanted in the heart of man by his Creator for the wisest purpose; and no political union, however fraught with blessings and benefits in all other respects, can long continue if the necessary consequence be to render the homes and the firesides of nearly half the parties to it habitually and hopelessly insecure. Sooner or later the bonds of such a union must be severed. It is my conviction that this fatal period has not yet arrived, and my prayer to God is that He would preserve the Constitution and the Union throughout all generations. But let us take warning in time and remove the cause of danger. It can not be denied that for five and twenty years the agitation at the North against slavery has been incessant. In 1835 pictorial handbills and inflammatory appeals were circulated extensively throughout the South of a character to excite the passions of the slaves, and, in the language of General Jackson, “to stimulate them to insurrection and produce all the horrors of a servile war.” This agitation has ever since been continued by the public press, by the proceedings of State and county conventions and by abolition sermons and lectures. The time of Congress has been occupied in violent speeches on this never-ending subject, and appeals, in pamphlet and other forms, indorsed by distinguished names, have been sent forth from this central point and spread broadcast over the Union. How easy would it be for the American people to settle the slavery question forever and to restore peace and harmony to this distracted country! They, and they alone, can do it. All that is necessary to accomplish the object, and all for which the slave States have ever contended, is to be let alone and permitted to manage their domestic institutions in their own way. As sovereign States, they, and they alone, are responsible before God and the world for the slavery existing among them. For this the people of the North are not more responsible and have no more right to interfere than with similar institutions in Russia or in Brazil. Upon their good sense and patriotic forbearance I confess I still greatly rely. Without their aid it is beyond the power of any President, no matter what may be his own political proclivities, to restore peace and harmony among the States. Wisely limited and restrained as is his power under our Constitution and laws, he alone can accomplish but little for good or for evil on such a momentous question. And this brings me to observe that the election of any one of our fellow-citizens to the office of President does not of itself afford just cause for dissolving the Union. This is more especially true if his election has been effected by a mere plurality, and not a majority of the people, and has resulted from transient and temporary causes, which may probably never again occur. In order to justify a resort to revolutionary resistance, the Federal Government must be guilty of “a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise” of powers not granted by the Constitution. The late Presidential election, however, has been held in strict conformity with its express provisions. How, then, can the result justify a revolution to destroy this very Constitution? Reason, justice, a regard for the Constitution, all require that we shall wait for some overt and dangerous act on the part of the President elect before resorting to such a remedy. It is said, however, that the antecedents of the President-elect have been sufficient to justify the fears of the South that he will attempt to invade their constitutional rights. But are such apprehensions of contingent danger in the future sufficient to justify the immediate destruction of the noblest system of government ever devised by mortals? From the very nature of his office and its high responsibilities he must necessarily be conservative. The stern duty of administering the vast and complicated concerns of this Government affords in itself a guaranty that he will not attempt any violation of a clear constitutional right. After all, he is no more than the chief executive officer of the Government. His province is not to make but to execute the laws. And it is a remarkable fact in our history that, notwithstanding the repeated efforts of the antislavery party, no single act has ever passed Congress, unless we may possibly except the Missouri compromise, impairing in the slightest degree the rights of the South to their property in slaves; and it may also be observed, judging from present indications, that no probability exists of the passage of such an act by a majority of both Houses, either in the present or the next Congress. Surely under these circumstances we ought to be restrained from present action by the precept of Him who spake as man never spoke, that “sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” The day of evil may never come unless we shall rashly bring it upon ourselves. It is alleged as one cause for immediate secession that the Southern States are denied equal rights with the other States in the common Territories. But by what authority are these denied? Not by Congress, which has never passed, and I believe never will pass, any act to exclude slavery from these Territories; and certainly not by the Supreme Court, which has solemnly decided that slaves are property, and, like all other property, their owners have a right to take them into the common Territories and hold them there under the protection of the Constitution. So far then, as Congress is concerned, the objection is not to anything they have already done, but to what they may do hereafter. It will surely be admitted that this apprehension of future danger is no good reason for an immediate dissolution of the Union. It is true that the Territorial legislature of Kansas, on the 23d February, 1860, passed in great haste an act over the veto of the governor declaring that slavery “is and shall be forever prohibited in this Territory.” Such an act, however, plainly violating the rights of property secured by the Constitution, will surely be declared void by the judiciary whenever it shall be presented in a legal form. Only three days after my inauguration the Supreme Court of the United States solemnly adjudged that this power did not exist in a Territorial legislature. Yet such has been the factious temper of the times that the correctness of this decision has been extensively impugned before the people, and the question has given rise to angry political conflicts throughout the country. Those who have appealed from this judgment of our highest constitutional tribunal to popular assemblies would, if they could, invest a Territorial legislature with power to annul the sacred rights of property. This power Congress is expressly forbidden by the Federal Constitution to exercise. Every State legislature in the Union is forbidden by its own constitution to exercise it. It can not be exercised in any State except by the people in their highest sovereign capacity, when framing or amending their State constitution. In like manner it can only be exercised by the people of a Territory represented in a convention of delegates for the purpose of framing a constitution preparatory to admission as a State into the Union. Then, and not until then, are they invested with power to decide the question whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. This is an act of sovereign authority, and not of subordinate Territorial legislation. Were it otherwise, then indeed would the equality of the States in the Territories be destroyed, and the rights of property in slaves would depend not upon the guaranties of the Constitution, but upon the shifting majorities of an irresponsible Territorial legislature. Such a doctrine, from its intrinsic unsoundness, can not long influence any considerable portion of our people, much less can it afford a good reason for a dissolution of the Union. The most palpable violations of constitutional duty which have yet been committed consist in the acts of different State legislatures to defeat the execution of the fugitive-slave law. It ought to be remembered, however, that for these acts neither Congress nor any President can justly be held responsible. Having been passed in violation of the Federal Constitution, they are therefore null and void. All the courts, both State and national, before whom the question has arisen have from the beginning declared the fugitive-slave law to be constitutional. The single exception is that of a State court in Wisconsin, and this has not only been reversed by the proper appellate tribunal, but has met with such universal reprobation that there can be no danger from it as a precedent. The validity of this law has been established over and over again by the Supreme Court of the United States with perfect unanimity. It is rounded upon an express provision of the Constitution, requiring that fugitive slaves who escape from service in one State to another shall be “delivered up” to their masters. Without this provision it is a well-known historical fact that the Constitution itself could never have been adopted by the Convention. In one form or other, under the acts of 1793 and 1850, both being substantially the same, the fugitive-slave law has been the law of the land from the days of Washington until the present moment. Here, then, a clear case is presented in which it will be the duty of the next President, as it has been my own, to act with vigor in executing this supreme law against the conflicting enactments of State legislatures. Should he fail in the performance of this high duty, he will then have manifested a disregard of the Constitution and laws, to the great injury of the people of nearly one-half of the States of the Union. But are we to presume in advance that he will thus violate his duty? This would be at war with every principle of justice and of Christian charity. Let us wait for the overt act. The fugitive-slave law has been carried into execution in every contested case since the commencement of the present Administration, though Often, it is to be regretted, with great loss and inconvenience to the master and with considerable expense to the Government. Let us trust that the State legislatures will repeal their unconstitutional and obnoxious enactments. Unless this shall be done without unnecessary delay, it is impossible for any human power to save the Union. The Southern States, standing on the basis of the Constitution, have right to demand this act of justice from the States of the North. Should it be refused, then the Constitution, to which all the States are parties, will have been willfully violated by one portion of them in a provision essential to the domestic security and happiness of the remainder. In that event the injured States, after having first used all peaceful and constitutional means to obtain redress, would be justified in revolutionary resistance to the Government of the Union. I have purposely confined my remarks to revolutionary resistance, because it has been claimed within the last few years that any State, whenever this shall be its sovereign will and pleasure, may secede from the Union in accordance with the Constitution and without any violation of the constitutional rights of the other members of the Confederacy; that as each became parties to the Union by the vote of its own people assembled in convention, so any one of them may retire from the Union in a similar manner by the vote of such a convention. In order to justify secession as a constitutional remedy, it must be on the principle that the Federal Government is a mere voluntary association of States, to be dissolved at pleasure by any one of the contracting parties. If this be so, the Confederacy is a rope of sand, to be penetrated and dissolved by the first adverse wave of public opinion in any of the States. In this manner our thirty-three States may resolve themselves into as many petty, jarring, and hostile republics, each one retiring from the Union without responsibility whenever any sudden excitement might impel them to such a course. By this process a Union might be entirely broken into fragments in a few weeks which cost our forefathers many years of toil, privation, and blood to establish. Such a principle is wholly inconsistent with the history as well as the character of the Federal Constitution. After it was framed with the greatest deliberation and care it was submitted to conventions of the people of the several States for ratification. Its provisions were discussed at length in these bodies, composed of the first men of the country. Its opponents contended that it conferred powers upon the Federal Government dangerous to the rights of the States, whilst its advocates maintained that under a fair construction of the instrument there was no foundation for such apprehensions. In that mighty struggle between the first intellects of this or any other country it never occurred to any individual, either among its opponents or advocates, to assert or even to intimate that their efforts were all vain labor, because the moment that any State felt herself aggrieved she might secede from the Union. What a crushing argument would this have proved against those who dreaded that the rights of the States would be endangered by the Constitution! The truth is that it was not until many years after the origin of the Federal Government that such a proposition was first advanced. It was then met and refuted by the conclusive arguments of General Jackson, who in his message of the 16th of January, 1833, transmitting the nullifying ordinance of South Carolina to Congress, employs the following language: The right of the people of a single State to absolve themselves at will and without the consent of the other States from their most solemn obligations, and hazard the liberties and happiness of the millions composing this Union, can not be acknowledged. Such authority is believed to be utterly repugnant both to the principles upon which the General Government is constituted and to the objects which it is expressly formed to attain. It is not pretended that any clause in the Constitution gives countenance to such a theory. It is altogether rounded upon inference; not from any language contained in the instrument itself, but from the sovereign character of the several States by which it was ratified. But is it beyond the power of a State, like an individual, to yield a portion of its sovereign rights to secure the remainder? In the language of Mr. Madison, who has been called the father of the Constitution– It was formed by the States; that is, by the people in each of the States acting in their highest sovereign capacity, and formed, consequently, by the same authority which formed the State constitutions. Nor is the Government of the United States, created by the Constitution, less a government, in the strict sense of the term, within the sphere of its powers than the governments created by the constitutions of the States are within their several spheres. It is, like them, organized into legislative, executive, and judiciary departments. It operates, like them directly on persons and things, and, like them, it has at command a physical force for executing the powers committed to it. It was intended to be perpetual, and not to be annulled at the pleasure of any one of the contracting parties. The old Articles of Confederation were entitled “Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the States,” and by the thirteenth article it is expressly declared that “the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual.” The preamble to the Constitution of the United States, having express reference to the Articles of Confederation, recites that it was established “in order to form a more perfect union.” And yet it is contended that this “more perfect union” does not include the essential attribute of perpetuity. But that the Union was designed to be perpetual appears conclusively from the nature and extent of the powers conferred by the Constitution on the Federal Government. These powers embrace the very highest attributes of national sovereignty. They place both the sword and the purse under its control. Congress has power to make war and to make peace, to raise and support armies and navies, and to conclude treaties with foreign governments. It is invested with the power to coin money and to regulate the value thereof, and to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States. It is not necessary to enumerate the other high powers which have been conferred upon the Federal Government. In order to carry the enumerated powers into effect, Congress possesses the exclusive right to lay and collect duties on imports, and, in common with the States, to lay and collect all other taxes. But the Constitution has not only conferred these high powers upon Congress, but it has adopted effectual means to restrain the States from interfering with their exercise. For that purpose it has in strong prohibitory language expressly declared that– No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts. Moreover– No State shall without the consent of the Congress lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws. And if they exceed this amount the excess shall belong, to the United States. And– No State shall without the consent of Congress lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another State or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. In order still further to secure the uninterrupted exercise of these high powers against State interposition, it is provided that– This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. The solemn sanction of religion has been superadded to the obligations of official duty, and all Senators and Representatives of the United States, all members of State legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, “both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution.” In order to carry into effect these powers, the Constitution has established a perfect Government in all its forms–legislative, executive, and judicial; and this Government to the extent of its powers acts directly upon the individual citizens of every State, and executes its own decrees by the agency of its own officers. In this respect it differs entirely from the Government under the old Confederation, which was confined to making requisitions on the States in their sovereign character. This left it in the discretion of each whether to obey or to refuse, and they often declined to comply with such requisitions. It thus became necessary for the purpose of removing this barrier and “in order to form a more perfect union” to establish a Government which could act directly upon the people and execute its own laws without the intermediate agency of the States. This has been accomplished by the Constitution of the United States. In short, the Government created by the Constitution, and deriving its authority from the sovereign people of each of the several States, has precisely the same right to exercise its power over the people of all these States in in the enumerated cases that each one of them possesses over subjects not delegated to the United States, but “reserved to the States respectively or to the people.” To the extent of the delegated powers the Constitution of the United States is as much a part of the constitution of each State and is as binding upon its people as though it had been textually inserted therein. This Government, therefore, is a great and powerful Government, invested with all the attributes of sovereignty over the special subjects to which its authority extends. Its framers never intended to implant in its bosom the seeds of its own destruction, nor were they at its creation guilty of the absurdity of providing for its own dissolution. It was not intended by its framers to be the baseless fabric of a vision, which at the touch of the enchanter would vanish into thin air, but a substantial and mighty fabric, capable of resisting the slow decay of time and of defying the storms of ages. Indeed, well may the jealous patriots of that day have indulged fears that a Government of such high powers might violate the reserved rights of the States, and wisely did they adopt the rule of a strict construction of these powers to prevent the danger. But they did not fear, nor had they any reason to imagine, that the Constitution would ever be so interpreted as to enable any State by her own act, and without the consent of her sister States, to discharge her people from all or any of their federal obligations. It may be asked, then, Are the people of the States without redress against the tyranny and oppression of the Federal Government? By no means. The right of resistance on the part of the governed against the oppression of their governments can not be denied. It exists independently of all constitutions, and has been exercised at all periods of the world’s history. Under it old governments have been destroyed and new ones have taken their place. It is embodied in strong and express language in our own Declaration of Independence. But the distinction must ever be observed that this is revolution against an established government, and not a voluntary secession from it by virtue of an inherent constitutional right. In short, let us look the danger fairly in the face. Secession is neither more nor less than revolution. It may or it may not be a justifiable revolution, but still it is revolution. What, in the meantime, is the responsibility and true position of the Executive? He is bound by solemn oath, before God and the country, “to take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” and from this obligation he can not be absolved by any human power. But what if the performance of this duty, in whole or in part, has been rendered impracticable by events over which he could have exercised no control? Such at the present moment is the case throughout the State of South Carolina so far as the laws of the United States to secure the administration of justice by means of the Federal judiciary are concerned. All the Federal officers within its limits through whose agency alone these laws can be carried into execution have already resigned. We no longer have a district judge, a district attorney, or a marshal in South Carolina. In fact, the whole machinery of the Federal Government necessary for the distribution of remedial justice among the people has been demolished, and it would be difficult, if not impossible, to replace it. The only acts of Congress on the statute book bearing upon this subject are those of February 28, 1795, and March 3, 1807. These authorize the President, after he shall have ascertained that the marshal, with his posse comitatus, is unable to execute civil or criminal process in any particular case, to call forth the militia and employ the Army and Navy to aid him in performing this service, having first by proclamation commanded the insurgents “to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time” This duty can not by possibility be performed in a State where no judicial authority exists to issue process, and where there is no marshal to execute it, and where, even if there were such an officer, the entire population would constitute one solid combination to resist him. The bare enumeration of these provisions proves how inadequate they are without further legislation to overcome a united opposition in a single State, not to speak of other States who may place themselves in a similar attitude. Congress alone has power to decide whether the present laws can or can not be amended so as to carry out more effectually the objects of the Constitution. The same insuperable obstacles do not lie in the way of executing the laws for the collection of the customs. The revenue still continues to be collected as heretofore at the custom-house in Charleston, and should the collector unfortunately resign a successor may be appointed to perform this duty. Then, in regard to the property of the United States in South Carolina. This has been purchased for a fair equivalent, “by the consent of the legislature of the State,” “for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals,” etc., and over these the authority “to exercise exclusive legislation” has been expressly granted by the Constitution to Congress. It is not believed that any attempt will be made to expel the United States from this property by force; but if in this I should prove to be mistaken, the officer in command of the forts has received orders to act strictly on the defensive. In such a contingency the responsibility for consequences would rightfully rest upon the heads of the assailants. Apart from the execution of the laws, so far as this may be practicable, the Executive has no authority to decide what shall be the relations between the Federal Government and South Carolina. He has been invested with no such discretion. He possesses no power to change the relations heretofore existing between them, much less to acknowledge the independence of that State. This would be to invest a mere executive officer with the power of recognizing the dissolution of the confederacy among our thirty-three sovereign States. It bears no resemblance to the recognition of a foreign de facto government, involving no such responsibility. Any attempt to do this would, on his part, be a naked act of usurpation. It is therefore my duty to submit to Congress the whole question in all its beatings. The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union. I should feel myself recreant to my duty were I not to express an opinion on this important subject. The question fairly stated is, Has the Constitution delegated to Congress the power to coerce a State into submission which is attempting to withdraw or has actually withdrawn from the Confederacy? If answered in the affirmative, it must be on the principle that the power has been conferred upon Congress to declare and to make war against a State. After much serious reflection I have arrived at the conclusion that no such power has been delegated to Congress or to any other department of the Federal Government. It is manifest upon an inspection of the Constitution that this is not among the specific and enumerated powers granted to Congress, and it is equally apparent that its exercise is not “necessary and proper for carrying into execution” any one of these powers. So far from this power having been delegated to Congress, it was expressly refused by the Convention which framed the Constitution. It appears from the proceedings of that body that on the 31st May, 1787, the clause “authorizing an exertion of the force of the whole against a delinquent State” came up for consideration. Mr. Madison opposed it in a brief but powerful speech, from which I shall extract but a single sentence. He observed: The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound. Upon his motion the clause was unanimously postponed, and was never, I believe, again presented. Soon afterwards, on the 8th June, 1787, when incidentally adverting to the subject, he said: “Any government for the United States formed on the supposed practicability of using force against the unconstitutional proceedings of the States would prove as visionary and fallacious as the government of Congress,” evidently meaning the then existing Congress of the old Confederation. Without descending to particulars, it may be safely asserted that the power to make war against a State is at variance with the whole spirit and intent of the Constitution. Suppose such a war should result in the conquest of a State; how are we to govern it afterwards? Shall we hold it as a province and govern it by despotic power? In the nature of things, we could not by physical force control the will of the people and compel them to elect Senators and Representatives to Congress and to perform all the other duties depending upon their own volition and required from the free citizens of a free State as a constituent member of the Confederacy. But if we possessed this power, would it be wise to exercise it under existing circumstances? The object would doubtless be to preserve the Union. War would not only present the most effectual means of destroying it, but would vanish all hope of its peaceable reconstruction. Besides, in the fraternal conflict a vast amount of blood and treasure would be expended, rendering future reconciliation between the States impossible. In the meantime, who can foretell what would be the sufferings and privations of the people during its existence? The fact is that our Union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. If it can not live in the affections of the people, it must one day perish. Congress possesses many means of preserving it by conciliation, but the sword was not placed in their hand to preserve it by force. But may I be permitted solemnly to invoke my countrymen to pause and deliberate before they determine to destroy this the grandest temple which has ever been dedicated to human freedom since the world began? It has been consecrated by the blood of our fathers, by the glories of the past, and by the hopes of the future. The Union has already made us the most prosperous, and ere long will, if preserved, render us the most powerful, nation on the face of the earth. In every foreign region of the globe the title of American citizen is held in the highest respect, and when pronounced in a foreign land it causes the hearts of our countrymen to swell with honest pride. Surely when we reach the brink of the yawning abyss we shall recoil with horror from the last fatal plunge. By such a dread catastrophe the hopes of the friends of freedom throughout the world would be destroyed, and a long night of leaden despotism would enshroud the nations. Our example for more than eighty years would not only be lost, but it would be quoted as a conclusive proof that man is unfit for self-government. It is not every wrong–nay, it is not every grievous wrong–which can justify a resort to such a fearful alternative. This ought to be the last desperate remedy of a despairing people, after every other constitutional means of conciliation had been exhausted. We should reflect that under this free Government there is an incessant ebb and flow in public opinion. The slavery question, like everything human, will have its day. I firmly believe that it has reached and passed the culminating point. But if in the midst of the existing excitement the Union shall perish, the evil may then become irreparable. Congress can contribute much to avert it by proposing and recommending to the legislatures of the several States the remedy for existing evils which the Constitution has itself provided for its own preservation. This has been tried at different critical periods of our history, and always with eminent success. It is to be found in the fifth article, providing for its own amendment. Under this article amendments have been proposed by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and have been “ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States,” and have consequently become parts of the Constitution. To this process the country is indebted for the clause prohibiting Congress from passing any law respecting an establishment of religion or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or of the right of petition. To this we are also indebted for the bill of rights which secures the people against any abuse of power by the Federal Government. Such were the apprehensions justly entertained by the friends of State rights at that period as to have rendered it extremely doubtful whether the Constitution could have long survived without those amendments. Again the Constitution was amended by the same process, after the election of President Jefferson by the House of Representatives, in February, 1803. This amendment was rendered necessary to prevent a recurrence of the dangers which had seriously threatened the existence of the Government during the pendency of that election. The article for its own amendment was intended to secure the amicable adjustment of conflicting constitutional questions like the present which might arise between the governments of the States and that of the United States. This appears from contemporaneous history. In this connection I shall merely call attention to a few sentences in Mr. Madison’s justly celebrated report, in 1799, to the legislature of Virginia. In this he ably and conclusively defended the resolutions of the preceding legislature against the strictures of several other State legislatures. These were mainly rounded upon the protest of the Virginia legislature against the “alien and sedition acts,” as “palpable and alarming infractions of the Constitution.” In pointing out the peaceful and constitutional remedies–and he referred to none other–to which the States were authorized to resort on such occasions, he concludes by saying that– The legislatures of the States might have made a direct representation to Congress with a view to obtain a rescinding of the two offensive acts, or they might have represented to their respective Senators in Congress their wish that two-thirds thereof would propose an explanatory amendment to the Constitution; or two-thirds of themselves, if such had been their option, might by an application to Congress have obtained a convention for the same object. This is the very course which I earnestly recommend in order to obtain an “explanatory amendment” of the Constitution on the subject of slavery. This might originate with Congress or the State legislatures, as may be deemed most advisable to attain the object. The explanatory amendment might be confined to the final settlement of the true construction of the Constitution on three special points: 1. An express recognition of the right of property in slaves in the States where it now exists or may hereafter exist. 2. The duty of protecting this right in all the common Territories throughout their Territorial existence, and until they shall be admitted as States into the Union, with or without slavery, as their constitutions may prescribe. 3. A like recognition of the right of the master to have his slave who has escaped from one State to another restored and “delivered up” to him, and of the validity of the fugitive-slave law enacted for this purpose, together with a declaration that all State laws impairing or defeating this right are violations of the Constitution, and are consequently null and void. It may be objected that this construction of the Constitution has already been settled by the Supreme Court of the United States, and what more ought to be required? The answer is that a very large proportion of the people of the United States still contest the correctness of this decision, and never will cease from agitation and admit its binding force until clearly established by the people of the several States in their sovereign character. Such an explanatory amendment would, it is believed, forever terminate the existing dissensions, and restore peace and harmony among the States. It ought not to be doubted that such an appeal to the arbitrament established by the Constitution itself would be received with favor by all the States of the Confederacy. In any event, it ought to be tried in a spirit of conciliation before any of these States shall separate themselves from the Union. When I entered upon the duties of the Presidential office, the aspect neither of our foreign nor domestic affairs was at all satisfactory. We were involved in dangerous complications with several nations, and two of our Territories were in a state of revolution against the Government. A restoration of the African slave trade had numerous and powerful advocates. Unlawful military expeditions were countenanced by many of our citizens, and were suffered, in defiance of the efforts of the Government, to escape from our shores for the purpose of making war upon the offending people of neighboring republics with whom we were at peace. In addition to these and other difficulties, we experienced a revulsion in monetary affairs soon after my advent to power of unexampled severity and of ruinous consequences to all the great interests of the country. When we take a retrospect of what was then our condition and contrast this with its material prosperity at the time of the late Presidential election, we have abundant reason to return our grateful thanks to that merciful Providence which has never forsaken us as a nation in all our past trials. Our relations with Great Britain are of the most friendly character. Since the commencement of my Administration the two dangerous questions arising from the Clayton and Bulwer treaty and from the right of search claimed by the British Government have been amicably and honorably adjusted. The discordant constructions of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty between the two Governments, which at different periods of the discussion bore a threatening aspect, have resulted in a final settlement entirely satisfactory to this Government. In my last annual message I informed Congress that the British Government had not then “completed treaty arrangements with the Republics of Honduras and Nicaragua in pursuance of the understanding between the two Governments. It is, nevertheless, confidently expected that this good work will ere long be accomplished.” This confident expectation has since been fulfilled. Her Britannic Majesty concluded a treaty with Honduras on the 28th November, 1859, and with Nicaragua on the 28th August, 1860, relinquishing the Mosquito protectorate. Besides, by the former the Bay Islands are recognized as a part of the Republic of Honduras. It may be observed that the stipulations of these treaties conform in every “important particular to the amendments adopted by the Senate of the United States to the treaty concluded at London on the 17th October, 1856, between the two Governments. It will be recollected that this treaty was rejected by the British Government because of its objection to the just and important amendment of the Senate to the article relating to Ruatan and the other islands in the Bay of Honduras. It must be a source of sincere satisfaction to all classes of our fellow-citizens, and especially to those engaged in foreign commerce, that the claim on the part of Great Britain forcibly to visit and search American merchant vessels on the high seas in time of peace has been abandoned. This was by far the most dangerous question to the peace of the two countries which has existed since the War of 1812. Whilst it remained open they might at any moment have been precipitated into a war. This was rendered manifest by the exasperated state of public feeling throughout our entire country produced by the forcible search of American merchant vessels by British cruisers on the coast of Cuba in the spring of 1858. The American people hailed with general acclaim the orders of the Secretary of the Navy to our naval force in the Gulf of Mexico “to protect all vessels of the United States on the high seas from search or detention by the vessels of war of any other nation.” These orders might have produced an immediate collision between the naval forces of the two countries. This was most fortunately prevented by an appeal to the justice of Great Britain and to the law of nations as expounded by her own most eminent jurists. The only question of any importance which still remains open is the disputed title between the two Governments to the island of San Juan, in the vicinity of Washington Territory. As this question is still under negotiation, it is not deemed advisable at the present moment to make any other allusion to the subject. The recent visit of the Prince of Wales, in a private character, to the people of this country has proved to be a most auspicious event. In its consequences it can not fail to increase the kindred and kindly feelings which I trust may ever actuate the Government and people of both countries in their political and social intercourse with each other. With France, our ancient and powerful ally, our relations continue to be of the most friendly character. A decision has recently been made by a French judicial tribunal, with the approbation of the Imperial Government, which can not fail to foster the sentiments of mutual regard that have so long existed between the two countries. Under the French law no person can serve in the armies of France unless he be a French citizen. The law of France recognizing the natural right of expatriation, it follows as a necessary consequence that a Frenchman by the fact of having become a citizen of the United States has changed his allegiance and has lost his native character. He can not therefore be compelled to serve in the French armies in case he should return to his native country. These principles were announced in 1852 by the French minister of war and in two late cases have been confirmed by the French judiciary. In these, two natives of France have been discharged from the French army because they had become American citizens. To employ the language of our present minister to France, who has rendered good service on this occasion. “I do not think our French naturalized fellow-citizens will hereafter experience much annoyance on this subject.” I venture to predict that the time is not far distant when the other continental powers will adopt the same wise and just policy which has done so much honor to the enlightened Government of the Emperor. In any event, our Government is bound to protect the rights of our naturalized citizens everywhere to the same extent as though they had drawn their first breath in this country. We can recognize no distinction between our native and naturalized citizens. Between the great Empire of Russia and the United States the mutual friendship and regard which has so long existed still continues to prevail, and if possible to increase. Indeed, our relations with that Empire are all that we could desire. Our relations with Spain are now of a more complicated, though less dangerous, character than they have been for many years. Our citizens have long held and continue to hold numerous claims against the Spanish Government. These had been ably urged for a series of years by our successive diplomatic representatives at Madrid, but without obtaining redress. The Spanish Government finally agreed to institute a joint commission for the adjustment of these claims, and on the 5th day of March, 1860, concluded a convention for this purpose with our present minister at Madrid. Under this convention what have been denominated the “Cuban claims,” amounting to $128,635.54, in which more than 100 of our fellow-citizens are interested, were recognized, and the Spanish Government agreed to pay $100,000 of this amount “within three months following the exchange of ratifications.” The payment of the remaining $28,635.54 was to await the decision of the commissioners for or against the Amistad claim; but in any event the balance was to be paid to the claimants either by Spain or the United States. These terms, I have every reason to know, are highly satisfactory to the holders of the Cuban claims. Indeed, they have made a formal offer authorizing the State Department to settle these claims and to deduct the amount of the Amistad claim from the sums which they are entitled to receive from Spain. This offer, of course, can not be accepted. All other claims of citizens of the United States against Spain, or the subjects of the Queen of Spain against the United States, including the Amistad claim, were by this convention referred to a board of commissioners in the usual form. Neither the validity of the Amistad claim nor of any other claim against either party, with the single exception of the Cuban claims, was recognized by the convention. Indeed, the Spanish Government did not insist that the validity of the Amistad claim should be thus recognized, notwithstanding its payment had been recommended to Congress by two of my predecessors, as well as by myself, and an appropriation for that purpose had passed the Senate of the United States. They were content that it should be submitted to the board for examination and decision like the other claims. Both Governments were bound respectively to pay the amounts awarded to the several claimants “at such times and places as may be fixed by and according to the tenor of said awards.” I transmitted this convention to the Senate for their constitutional action on the 3d of May, 1860, and on the 27th of the succeeding June they determined that they would “not advise and consent” to its ratification. These proceedings place our relations with Spain in an awkward and embarrassing position. It is more than probable that the final adjustment of these claims will devolve upon my successor. I reiterate the recommendation contained in my annual message of December, 1858, and repeated in that of December, 1859, in favor of the acquisition of Cuba from Spain by fair purchase. I firmly believe that such an acquisition would contribute essentially to the well-being and prosperity of both countries in all future time, as well as prove the certain means of immediately abolishing the African slave trade throughout the world. I would not repeat this recommendation upon the present occasion if I believed that the transfer of Cuba to the United States upon conditions highly favorable to Spain could justly tarnish the national honor of the proud and ancient Spanish monarchy. Surely no person ever attributed to the first Napoleon a disregard of the national honor of France for transferring Louisiana to the United States for a fair equivalent, both in money and commercial advantages. With the Emperor of Austria and the remaining continental powers of Europe, including that of the Sultan, our relations continue to be of the most friendly character. The friendly and peaceful policy pursued by the Government of the United States toward the Empire of China has produced the most satisfactory results. The treaty of Tien-tsin of the 18th June, 1858, has been faithfully observed by the Chinese authorities. The convention of the 8th November, 1858, supplementary to this treaty, for the adjustment and satisfaction of the claims of our citizens on China referred to in my last annual message, has been already carried into effect so far as this was practicable. Under this convention the sum of 500,000 taels, equal to about $700,000, was stipulated to be paid in satisfaction of the claims of American citizens out of the one-fifth of the receipts for tonnage, import, and export duties on American vessels at the ports of Canton, Shanghai, and Fuchau, and it was “agreed that this amount shall be in full liquidation of all claims of American citizens at the various ports to this date.” Debentures for this amount, to wit, 300,000 taels for Canton, 100,000 for Shanghai, and 100,000 for Fuchau, were delivered, according to the terms of the convention, by the respective Chinese collectors of the customs of these ports to the agent selected by our minister to receive the same. Since that time the claims of our citizens have been adjusted by the board of commissioners appointed for that purpose under the act of March 3, 1859, and their awards, which proved satisfactory to the claimants, have been approved by our minister. In the aggregate they amount to the sum of $498,694.78. The claimants have already received a large proportion of the sums awarded to them out of the fund provided, and it is confidently expected that the remainder will ere long be entirely paid. After the awards shall have been satisfied there will remain a surplus of more than $200,000 at the disposition of Congress. As this will, in equity, belong to the Chinese Government, would not justice require its appropriation to some benevolent object in which the Chinese may be specially interested? Our minister to China, in obedience to his instructions, has remained perfectly neutral in the war between Great Britain and France and the Chinese Empire, although, in conjunction with the Russian minister, he was ever ready and willing, had the opportunity offered, to employ his good offices in restoring peace between the parties. It is but an act of simple justice, both to our present minister and his predecessor, to state that they have proved fully equal to the delicate, trying, and responsible positions in which they have on different occasions been placed. The ratifications of the treaty with Japan concluded at Yeddo on the 29th July, 1858, were exchanged at Washington on the 22d May last, and the treaty itself was proclaimed on the succeeding day. There is good reason to expect that under its protection and influence our trade and intercourse with that distant and interesting people will rapidly increase. The ratifications of the treaty were exchanged with unusual solemnity. For this purpose the Tycoon had accredited three of his most distinguished subjects as envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary, who were received and treated with marked distinction and kindness, both by the Government and people of the United States. There is every reason to believe that they have returned to their native land entirely satisfied with their visit and inspired by the most friendly feelings for our country. Let us ardently hope, in the language of the treaty itself, that “there shall henceforward be perpetual peace and friendship between the United States of America and His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan and his successors.” With the wise, conservative, and liberal Government of the Empire of Brazil our relations continue to be of the most amicable character. The exchange of the ratifications of the convention with the Republic of New Granada signed at Washington on the 10th of September, 1857, has been long delayed from accidental causes for which neither party is censurable. These ratifications were duly exchanged in this city on the 5th of November last. Thus has a controversy been amicably terminated which had become so serious at the period of my inauguration as to require me, on the 17th of April, 1857, to direct our minister to demand his passports and return to the United States. Under this convention the Government of New Granada has specially acknowledged itself to be responsible to our citizens “for damages which were caused by the riot at Panama on the 15th April, 1856.” These claims, together with other claims of our citizens which had been long urged in vain, are referred for adjustment to a board of commissioners. I submit a copy of the convention to Congress, and recommend the legislation necessary to carry it into effect. Persevering efforts have been made for the adjustment of the claims of American citizens against the Government of Costa Rica, and I am happy to inform you that these have finally prevailed. A convention was signed at the city of San Jose on the 2d July last, between the minister resident of the United States in Costa Rica and the plenipotentiaries of that Republic, referring these claims to a board of commissioners and providing for the payment of their awards. This convention will be submitted immediately to the Senate for their constitutional action. The claims of our citizens upon the Republic of Nicaragua have not yet been provided for by treaty, although diligent efforts for this purpose have been made by our minister resident to that Republic. These are still continued, with a fair prospect of success. Our relations with Mexico remain in a most unsatisfactory condition. In my last two annual messages I discussed extensively the subject of these relations, and do not now propose to repeat at length the facts and arguments then presented. They proved conclusively that our citizens residing in Mexico and our merchants trading thereto had suffered a series of wrongs and outrages such as we have never patiently borne from any other nation. For these our successive ministers, invoking the faith of treaties, had in the name of their country persistently demanded redress and indemnification, but without the slightest effect. Indeed, so confident had the Mexican authorities become of our patient endurance that they universally believed they might commit these outrages upon American citizens with absolute impunity. Thus wrote our minister in 1856, and expressed the opinion that “nothing but a manifestation of the power of the Government and of its purpose to punish these wrongs will avail.” Afterwards, in 1857, came the adoption of a new constitution for Mexico, the election of a President and Congress under its provisions, and the inauguration of the President. Within one short month, however, this President was expelled from the capital by a rebellion in the army, and the supreme power of the Republic was assigned to General Zuloaga. This usurper was in his turn soon compelled to retire and give place to General Miramon. Under the constitution which had thus been adopted Senor Juarez, as chief justice of the supreme court, became the lawful President of the Republic, and it was for the maintenance of the constitution and his authority derived from it that the civil war commenced and still continues to be prosecuted. Throughout the year 1858 the constitutional party grew stronger and stronger. In the previous history of Mexico a successful military revolution at the capital had almost universally been the signal for submission throughout the Republic. Not so on the present occasion. A majority of the citizens persistently sustained the constitutional Government. When this was recognized, in April, 1859, by the Government of the United States, its authority extended over a large majority of the Mexican States and people, including Vera Cruz and all the other important seaports of the Republic. From that period our commerce with Mexico began to revive, and the constitutional Government has afforded it all the protection in its power. Meanwhile the Government of Miramon still held sway at the capital and over the surrounding country, and continued its outrages against the few American citizens who still had the courage to remain within its power. To cap the climax, after the battle of Tacubaya, in April, 1859, General Marquez ordered three citizens of the United States, two of them physicians, to be seized in the hospital at that place, taken out and shot, without crime and without trial. This was done, notwithstanding our unfortunate countrymen were at the moment engaged in the holy cause of affording relief to the soldiers of both parties who had been wounded in the battle, without making any distinction between them. The time had arrived, in my opinion, when this Government was bound to exert its power to avenge and redress the wrongs of our citizens and to afford them protection in Mexico. The interposing obstacle was that the portion of the country under the sway of Miramon could not be reached without passing over territory under the jurisdiction of the constitutional Government. Under these circumstances I deemed it my duty to recommend to Congress in my last annual message the employment of a sufficient military force to penetrate into the interior, where the Government of Miramon was to be found, with or, if need be, without the consent of the Juarez Government, though it was not doubted that this consent could be obtained. Never have I had a clearer conviction on any subject than of the justice as well as wisdom of such a policy. No other alternative was left except the entire abandonment of our fellow-citizens who had gone to Mexico under the faith of treaties to the systematic injustice, cruelty, and oppression of Miramon’s Government. Besides, it is almost certain that the simple authority to employ this force would of itself have accomplished all our objects without striking a single blow. The constitutional Government would then ere this have been established at the City of Mexico, and would have been ready and willing to the extent of its ability to do us justice. In addition–and I deem this a most important consideration–European Governments would have been deprived of all pretext to interfere in the territorial and domestic concerns of Mexico. We should thus have been relieved from the obligation of resisting, even by force should this become necessary, any attempt by these Governments to deprive our neighboring Republic of portions of her territory–a duty from which we could not shrink without abandoning the traditional and established policy of the American people. I am happy to observe that, firmly relying upon the justice and good faith of these Governments, there is no present danger that such a contingency will happen. Having discovered that my recommendations would not be sustained by Congress, the next alternative was to accomplish in some degree, if possible, the same objects by treaty stipulations with the constitutional Government. Such treaties were accordingly concluded by our late able and excellent minister to Mexico, and on the 4th of January last were submitted to the Senate for ratification. As these have not yet received the final action of that body, it would be improper for me to present a detailed statement of their provisions. Still, I may be permitted to express the opinion in advance that they are calculated to promote the agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial interests of the country and to secure our just influence with an adjoining Republic as to whose fortunes and fate we can never feel indifferent, whilst at the same time they provide for the payment of a considerable amount toward the satisfaction of the claims of our injured fellow-citizens. At the period of my inauguration I was confronted in Kansas by a revolutionary government existing under what is called the “Topeka constitution.” Its avowed object was to subdue the Territorial government by force and to inaugurate what was called the “Topeka government” in its stead. To accomplish this object an extensive military organization was formed, and its command intrusted to the most violent revolutionary leaders. Under these circumstances it became my imperative duty to exert the whole constitutional power of the Executive to prevent the flames of civil war from again raging in Kansas, which in the excited state of the public mind, both North and South, might have extended into the neighboring States. The hostile parties in Kansas had been inflamed against each other by emissaries both from the North and the South to a degree of malignity without parallel in our history. To prevent actual collision and to assist the civil magistrates in enforcing the laws, a strong detachment of the Army was stationed in the Territory, ready to aid the marshal and his deputies when lawfully called upon as a posse comitatus in the execution of civil and criminal process. Still, the troubles in Kansas could not have been permanently settled without an election by the people. The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among freemen. Under this conviction every proper effort was employed to induce the hostile parties to vote at the election of delegates to frame a State constitution, and afterwards at the election to decide whether Kansas should be a slave or free State. The insurgent party refused to vote at either, lest this might be considered a recognition on their part of the Territorial government established by Congress. A better spirit, however, seemed soon after to prevail, and the two parties met face to face at the third election, held on the first Monday of January, 1858, for members of the legislature and State officers under the Lecompton constitution. The result was the triumph of the antislavery party at the polls. This decision of the ballot box proved clearly that this party were in the majority, and removed the danger of civil war. From that time we have heard little or nothing of the Topeka government, and all serious danger of revolutionary troubles in Kansas was then at an end. The Lecompton constitution, which had been thus recognized at this State election by the votes of both political parties in Kansas, was transmitted to me with the request that I should present it to Congress. This I could not have refused to do without violating my clearest and strongest convictions of duty. The constitution and all the proceedings which preceded and followed its formation were fair and regular on their face. I then believed, and experience has proved, that the interests of the people of Kansas would have been best consulted by its admission as a State into the Union, especially as the majority within a brief period could have amended the cons LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: September 3, 2014 at 5:52 PM Apparently, this is the max length for comments. Here’s the rest for the record: The Lecompton constitution, which had been thus recognized at this State election by the votes of both political parties in Kansas, was transmitted to me with the request that I should present it to Congress. This I could not have refused to do without violating my clearest and strongest convictions of duty. The constitution and all the proceedings which preceded and followed its formation were fair and regular on their face. I then believed, and experience has proved, that the interests of the people of Kansas would have been best consulted by its admission as a State into the Union, especially as the majority within a brief period could have amended the constitution according to their will and pleasure. If fraud existed in all or any of these proceedings, it was not for the President but for Congress to investigate and determine the question of fraud and what ought to be its consequences. If at the first two elections the majority refused to vote, it can not be pretended that this refusal to exercise the elective franchise could invalidate an election fairly held under lawful authority, even if they had not subsequently voted at the third election. It is true that the whole constitution had not been submitted to the people, as I always desired; but the precedents are numerous of the admission of States into the Union without such submission. It would not comport with my present purpose to review the proceedings of Congress upon the Lecompton constitution. It is sufficient to observe that their final action has removed the last vestige of serious revolutionary troubles. The desperate hand recently assembled under a notorious outlaw in the southern portion of the Territory to resist the execution of the laws and to plunder peaceful citizens will, I doubt not be speedily subdued and brought to justice. Had I treated the Lecompton constitution as a nullity and refused to transmit it to Congress, it is not difficult to imagine, whilst recalling the position of the country at that moment, what would have been the disastrous consequences, both in and out of the Territory, from such a dereliction of duty on the part of the Executive. Peace has also been restored within the Territory of Utah, which at the commencement of my Administration was in a state of open rebellion. This was the more dangerous, as the people, animated by a fanatical spirit and intrenched within their distant mountain fastnesses, might have made a long and formidable resistance. Cost what it might, it was necessary to bring them into subjection to the Constitution and the laws. Sound policy, therefore, as well as humanity, required that this object should if possible be accomplished without the effusion of blood. This could only be effected by sending a military force into the Territory sufficiently strong to convince the people that resistance would be hopeless, and at the same time to offer them a pardon for past offenses on condition of immediate submission to the Government. This policy was pursued with eminent success, and the only cause for regret is the heavy expenditure required to march a large detachment of the Army to that remote region and to furnish it subsistence. Utah is now comparatively peaceful and quiet, and the military force has been withdrawn, except that portion of it necessary to keep the Indians in check and to protect the emigrant trains on their way to our Pacific possessions. In my first annual message I promised to employ my best exertions in cooperation with Congress to reduce the expenditures of the Government within the limits of a wise and judicious economy. An overflowing Treasury had produced habits of prodigality and extravagance which could only be gradually corrected. The work required both time and patience. I applied myself diligently to this task from the beginning and was aided by the able and energetic efforts of the heads of the different Executive Departments. The result of our labors in this good cause did not appear in the sum total of our expenditures for the first two years, mainly in consequence of the extraordinary expenditure necessarily incurred in the Utah expedition and the very large amount of the contingent expenses of Congress during this period. These greatly exceeded the pay and mileage of the members. For the year ending June 30, 1858, whilst the pay and mileage amounted to $1,490,214, the contingent expenses rose to $2,093,309.79; and for the year ending June 30, 1859, whilst the pay and mileage amounted to $859,093.66, the contingent expenses amounted to $1,431,565.78. I am happy, however, to be able to inform you that during the last fiscal year, ending June 30, 1860, the total expenditures of the Government in all its branches–legislative, executive, and judicial–exclusive of the public debt, were reduced to the sum of $55,402,465.46. This conclusively appears from the books of the Treasury. In the year ending June 30, 1858, the total expenditure, exclusive of the public debt, amounted to $71,901,129.77, and that for the year ending June 30, 1859, to $66,346,226.13. Whilst the books of the Treasury show an actual expenditure of $59,848,474.72 for the year ending June 30, 1860, including $1,040,667.71 for the contingent expenses of Congress, there must be deducted from this amount the sum of $4,296,009.26, with the interest upon it of $150,000, appropriated by the act of February 15, 1860, “for the purpose of supplying the deficiency in the revenues and defraying the expenses of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1859.” This sum therefore justly chargeable to the year 1859, must be deducted from the sum of $59,848,474.72 in order to ascertain the expenditure for the year ending June 30, 1860, which leaves a balance for the expenditures of that year of $55,402,465.46. The interest on the public debt, including Treasury notes, for the same fiscal year, ending June 30, 1860, amounted to $3,177,314.62, which, added to the above sum of $55,402,465.46, makes the aggregate of $58,579,780.08. It ought in justice to be observed that several of the estimates from the Departments for the year ending June 30, 1860, were reduced by Congress below what was and still is deemed compatible with the public interest. Allowing a liberal margin of $2,500,000 for this reduction and for other causes, it may be safely asserted that the sum of $61,000,000, or, at the most, $62,000,000, is amply sufficient to administer the Government and to pay the interest on the public debt, unless contingent events should hereafter render extraordinary expenditures necessary. This result has been attained in a considerable degree by the care exercised by the appropriate Departments in entering into public contracts. I have myself never interfered with the award of any such contract, except in a single case, with the Colonization Society, deeming it advisable to cast the whole responsibility in each case on the proper head of the Department, with the general instruction that these contracts should always be given to the lowest and best bidder. It has ever been my opinion that public contracts are not a legitimate source of patronage to be conferred upon personal or political favorites, but that in all such cases a public officer is bound to act for the Government as a prudent individual would act for himself. It is with great satisfaction I communicate the fact that since the date of my last annual message not a single slave has been imported into the United States in violation of the laws prohibiting the African slave trade. This statement is rounded upon a thorough examination and investigation of the subject. Indeed, the spirit which prevailed some time since among a portion of our fellow-citizens in favor of this trade seems to have entirely subsided. I also congratulate you upon the public sentiment which now exists against the crime of setting on foot military expeditions within the limits of the United States to proceed from thence and make war upon the people of unoffending States with whom we are at peace. In this respect a happy change has been effected since the commencement of my Administration. It surely ought to be the prayer of every Christian and patriot that such expeditions may never again receive countenance in our country or depart from our shores. It would be a useless repetition to do more than refer with earnest commendation to my former recommendations in favor of the Pacific railroad; of the grant of power to the President to employ the naval force in the vicinity for the protection of the lives and property of our fellow-citizens passing in transit over the different Central American routes against sudden and lawless outbreaks and depredations, and also to protect American merchant vessels, their crews and cargoes, against violent and unlawful seizure and confiscation in the ports of Mexico and the South American Republics when these may be in a disturbed and revolutionary condition. It is my settled conviction that without such a power we do not afford that protection to those engaged in the commerce of the country which they have a right to demand. I again recommend to Congress the passage of a law, in pursuance of the provisions of the Constitution, appointing a day certain previous to the 4th March in each year of an odd number for the election of Representatives throughout all the States. A similar power has already been exercised, with general approbation, in the appointment of the same day throughout the Union for holding the election of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States. My attention was earnestly directed to this subject from the fact that the Thirty-fifth Congress terminated on the 3d March, 1859, without making the necessary appropriation for the service of the Post-Office Department. I was then forced to consider the best remedy for this omission, and an immediate call of the present Congress was the natural resort. Upon inquiry, however, I ascertained that fifteen out of the thirty-three States composing the Confederacy were without Representatives, and that consequently these fifteen States would be disfranchised by such a call. These fifteen States will be in the same condition on the 4th March next. Ten of them can not elect Representatives, according to existing State laws, until different periods, extending from the beginning of August next until the months of October and November. In my last message I gave warning that in a time of sudden and alarming danger the salvation of our institutions might depend upon the power of the President immediately to assemble a full Congress to meet the emergency. It is now quite evident that the financial necessities of the Government will require a modification of the tariff during your present session for the purpose of increasing the revenue. In this aspect, I desire to reiterate the recommendation contained in my last two annual messages in favor of imposing specific instead of ad valorem duties on all imported articles to which these can be properly applied. From long observation and experience I am convinced that specific duties are necessary, both to protect the revenue and to secure to our manufacturing interests that amount of incidental encouragement which unavoidably results from a revenue tariff. As an abstract proposition it may be admitted that ad valorem duties would in theory be the most just and equal. But if the experience of this and of all other commercial nations has demonstrated that such duties can not be assessed and collected without great frauds upon the revenue, then it is the part of wisdom to resort to specific duties. Indeed, from the very nature of an ad valorem duty this must be the result. Under it the inevitable consequence is that foreign goods will be entered at less than their true value. The Treasury will therefore lose the duty on the difference between their real and fictitious value, and to this extent we are defrauded. The temptations which ad valorem duties present to a dishonest importer are irresistible. His object is to pass his goods through the custom-house at the very lowest valuation necessary to save them from confiscation. In this he too often succeeds in spite of the vigilance of the revenue officers. Hence the resort to false invoices, one for the purchaser and another for the custom-house, and to other expedients to defraud the Government. The honest importer produces his invoice to the collector, stating the actual price at which he purchased the articles abroad. Not so the dishonest importer and the agent of the foreign manufacturer. And here it may be observed that a very large proportion of the manufactures imported from abroad are consigned for sale to commission merchants, who are mere agents employed by the manufacturers. In such cases no actual sale has been made to fix their value. The foreign manufacturer, if he be dishonest, prepares an invoice of the goods, not at their actual value, but at the very lowest rate necessary to escape detection. In this manner the dishonest importer and the foreign manufacturer enjoy a decided advantage over the honest merchant. They are thus enabled to undersell the fair trader and drive him from the market. In fact the operation of this system has already driven from the pursuits of honorable commerce many of that class of regular and conscientious merchants whose character throughout the world is the pride of our country. The remedy for these evils is to be found in specific duties, so far as this may be practicable. They dispense with any inquiry at the custom-house into the actual cost or value of the article, and it pays the precise amount of duty previously fixed by law. They present no temptations to the appraisers of foreign goods, who receive but small salaries, and might by undervaluation in a few cases render themselves independent. Besides, specific duties best conform to the requisition in the Constitution that “no preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one State over those of another.” Under our ad valorem system such preferences are to some extent inevitable, and complaints have often been made that the spirit of this provision has been violated by a lower appraisement of the same articles at one port than at another. An impression strangely enough prevails to some extent that specific duties are necessarily protective duties. Nothing can be more fallacious. Great Britain glories in free trade, and yet her whole revenue from imports is at the present moment collected under a system of specific duties. It is a striking fact in this connection that in the commercial treaty of January 23, 1860, between France and England one of the articles provides that the ad valorem duties which it imposes shall be converted into specific duties within six months from its date, and these are to be ascertained by making an average of the prices for six months previous to that time. The reverse of the propositions would be nearer to the truth, because a much larger amount of revenue would be collected by merely converting the ad valorem duties of a tariff into equivalent specific duties. To this extent the revenue would be increased, and in the same proportion the specific duty might be diminished. Specific duties would secure to the American manufacturer the incidental protection to which he is fairly entitled under a revenue tariff, and to this surely no person would object. The framers of the existing tariff have gone further, and in a liberal spirit have discriminated in favor of large and useful branches of our manufactures, not by raising the rate of duty upon the importation of similar articles from abroad, but, what is the same in effect, by admitting articles free of duty which enter into the composition of their fabrics. Under the present system it has been often truly remarked that this incidental protection decreases when the manufacturer needs it most and increases when he needs it least, and constitutes a sliding scale which always operates against him. The revenues of the country are subject to similar fluctuations. Instead of approaching a steady standard, as would be the case under a system of specific duties, they sink and rise with the sinking and rising prices of articles in foreign countries. It would not be difficult for Congress to arrange a system of specific duties which would afford additional stability both to our revenue and our manufactures and without injury or injustice to any interest of the country. This might be accomplished by ascertaining the average value of any given article for a series of years at the place of exportation and by simply converting the rate of ad valorem duty upon it which might be deemed necessary for revenue purposes into the form of a specific duty. Such an arrangement could not injure the consumer. If he should pay a greater amount of duty one year, this would be counterbalanced by a lesser amount the next, and in the end the aggregate would be the same. I desire to call your immediate attention to the present condition of the Treasury, so ably and clearly presented by the Secretary in his report to Congress, and to recommend that measures be promptly adopted to enable it to discharge its pressing obligations. The other recommendations of the report are well worthy of your favorable consideration. I herewith transmit to Congress the reports of the Secretaries of War, of the Navy, of the Interior, and of the Postmaster-General. The recommendations and suggestions which they contain are highly valuable and deserve your careful attention. The report of the Postmaster-General details the circumstances under which Cornelius Vanderbilt, on my request, agreed in the month of July last to carry the ocean mails between our Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Had he not thus acted this important intercommunication must have been suspended, at least for a season. The Postmaster-General had no power to make him any other compensation than the postages on the mail matter which he might carry. It was known at the time that these postages would fall far short of an adequate compensation, as well as of the sum which the same service had previously cost the Government. Mr. Vanderbilt, in a commendable spirit, was willing to rely upon the justice of Congress to make up the deficiency, and I therefore recommend that an appropriation may be granted for this purpose. I should do great injustice to the Attorney-General were I to omit the mention of his distinguished services in the measures adopted and prosecuted by him for the defense of the Government against numerous and unfounded claims to land in California purporting to have been made by the Mexican Government previous to the treaty of cession. The successful opposition to these claims has saved the United States public property worth many millions of dollars and to individuals holding title under them to at least an equal amount. It has been represented to me from sources which I deem reliable that the inhabitants in several portions of Kansas have been reduced nearly to a state of starvation on account of the almost total failure of their crops, whilst the harvests in every other portion of the country have been abundant. The prospect before them for the approaching winter is well calculated to enlist the sympathies of every heart. The destitution appears to be so general that it can not be relieved by private contributions, and they are in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to purchase the necessaries of life for themselves. I refer the subject to Congress. If any constitutional measure for their relief can be devised, I would recommend its adoption. I cordially commend to your favorable regard the interests of the people of this District. They are eminently entitled to your consideration, especially since, unlike the people of the States, they can appeal to no government except that of the Union. LikeLiked by 1 person Jimmy Dick says: September 2, 2014 at 10:03 AM Here you go, George! Start learning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNmeOOJCDY LikeLiked by 1 person Reply George Purvis says: September 3, 2014 at 5:08 AM Thank you for making my point. Secession not war. You would think you would have caught a hint by now. LikeLike Reply Christopher Shelley says: September 3, 2014 at 9:05 AM But secession led directly to war, George. There were a couple steps in between, but without secession, there’s no war. Period. Now, refute that with evidence, or please stop commenting. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: September 4, 2014 at 6:45 AM The act of secession itself did not cause the war. If secssion was the casue of the war. then why didn’t one of the presidents send troops to Biloxi, Miss.??? Neither president named a law in which secession was illegal, would that have been just cause for a war? Neither president used slavery as a reason to send troops to Sumter. The fact is no troops in Sumter, no war. LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: September 4, 2014 at 10:03 AM But Lincoln did send troops to Ft. Pickens in Florida. Neither president named a law because there was no specific law. Lincoln held that the Union under the Constitution was itself unbreakable, and no such law was needed. We’ve discussed this. You’re going around in circles. For Lincoln, slavery wasn’t the issue. Union and secession were the issues. He said so repeatedly, starting with his 1st Inaugural address. Again, you are pointing to the spark instead of the massive amount of fuel that created the conflagration of the war. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: September 3, 2014 at 5:21 AM I am supposeed to believe a youtube over the ORs and Buchanan???? So this is where you got your education. LikeLike Reply Christopher Shelley says: September 3, 2014 at 10:21 AM Well, if you actually watched this video, you would get an amazingly full picture of what actually happened in 14 minutes. And what is it that Buchanan says, George? Please now–it’s time to put up or shut up. LikeLiked by 1 person Jimmy Dick says: September 3, 2014 at 5:31 PM Gee, let’s see. Historian reads Buchanan. Historian sees where Buchanan says slavery is the problem. Historian reads ORs. Historians sees in ORs where slavery is the problem. Historian reads a lot of sources, of which almost all say slavery was the problem. Moron named George reads Buchanan. []George fails to understand that slavery was the problem because []George refuses to accept that conclusion. Same [guy] reads the ORs and says they don’t say anything about slavery. Again, [he] is refusing to accept the evidence the contradicts his idea. The Historian develops his interpretation based on the evidence. The [guy] refuses to accept any evidence that shows he is wrong. The Youtube video is based on historical evidence while the [guy] disputes the video because it does not say what he wants the history to be. Why should anyone bother with the [guy] when he has been proven wrong multiple times including by the very sources he displays? LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: September 4, 2014 at 6:36 AM gee historian has not posted anything from Buchannan or the ORs saying slavery is the problem. Me thinks historian is not telling the truth LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: September 4, 2014 at 10:05 AM Why are you fixated on Buchanan? He writes all thru his address about slavery causing the hostility in both sections. That seems to hurt your argument. LikeLiked by 1 person Jimmy Dick says: September 3, 2014 at 5:32 PM Okay George, time for you to pony up. Secession documents show that slavery was the issue that caused the Civil War. Prove me wrong. LikeLike Reply George Purvis says: September 4, 2014 at 6:17 AM I already have . The 13th does that I have told you time and time again, the secession docs mean nothing when you are discussing the cause of the war. The 13rh admend. blows them out of the water. Slavery became a none issue and soon disappeared from sight as the incidents at Sumter became the issue of the day. This easy to prove by reading Mr. Buchannan’s and the ORs. Here is a portion of a reposnse to the government in South Carolina regarding Ft. Sumter. You can look this up yourself to view the entire letter. This actually mentions going to war for something. OFFICIAL RECORDS: Series 1, vol 1, Part 1 (Charleston Campaign) Page 166 OPERATIONS IN CHARLESTON HARBOR, S.C. Chapter I. It is difficult, however, to reconcile with this assurance the declaration on your part that “it is a consideration of her [South Carolina’s] Page 168 own dignity as a sovereign, and the safety of her people, which prompts her to demand that this property should not longer be used as a military post by a Government she no longer acknowledges,” and the thought you so constantly present, that this occupation must lead to a collision of arms, and the prevalence of civil war. See how your little secession docs and speeches become meaningless as war nears. Fort Sumter is the isuue — the only issue. I can go back to Cold Southern Steel, not a problem, and you will still be wrong about wslavery causing the war. You can also make another page and gst props from your buddies who by the way also failed to prove me wrong. It is just a matter of what floats your boat. More of the ORS going up today. Take a read. LikeLike Reply Christopher Shelley says: September 4, 2014 at 10:30 AM No, George. The secession docs mean everything when it comes to the war. Sumter is merely the place where circumstances dictated the beginning of the war. So, thanks for participating. Please address my blog post on race and secession if you wish to participate further on this issue. This thread is closed. LikeLiked by 1 person Jimmy Dick says: September 4, 2014 at 10:57 AM Excuse me, but Fort Sumter was not the property of South Carolina. It was the legal property of the United States of America. The deed is on file. I believe either Andy or Al wrote a very nice and exquisitely detailed article on this citing facts. Just because the secessionists in SC disagreed does not mean they were correct. They were wrong on pretty much everything such as SC’s owning that fort. Had you used context in your historical analysis along with factual evidence you would have known this. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: September 5, 2014 at 5:45 AM Jimmy you are correct but there is more than that to be said about the issue. You are free to come to Cold Southern Steel if you want to. But you have to leave your insults at home and be civil. Can I assume you are keeping up with my OR posts???? Tell me in your honest op0inion whay shouuld i believe either Andy Hall or Al Mackey, known bigots???? LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: September 5, 2014 at 8:43 PM You may not like them, but I must say those gentlemen are not bigots. LikeLiked by 1 person Christopher Shelley says: September 4, 2014 at 6:47 PM One last thing: George, the ORs are great for what they are. But they deal mostly with military issues, starting with the Sumter crisis. They don’t cover anything before that. That’s why the secession docs are so crucial–one cannot understand the war without understanding the period right after Lincoln’s election. Of course, you should go back 10 or 20 years–at the very least go back to 1854–if you really want to understand the pressures that cause secession and the war. So this is why your analysis of slavery, secession, and the war is faulty; it’s not the OR documents you are using; you need to go further back. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: September 5, 2014 at 5:47 AM True to an extent but not entirely correct. I noticed you skipped over the OR post I made here. Why????? LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: September 5, 2014 at 6:34 PM Well, why did you ignore all my evidence–backed up with facts–in the other blog post? To answer your question, that document deals with you tiny sliver of what was going on. In the context of the time period under study, it’s not significant in the big picture. It’s not enough to just read a document. You have to ask questions of it–one must interrogate the sources. In this case, we have to ask why is Sec’y of War Holt writing to I. W. Hayne the Attorney-General of South Carolina about who owns Ft. Sumter? Why does Holt warn Hayne that his course of action is dangerous and could lead to war? The answer is, of course, that two sides are negotiating over Ft. Sumter. Why? Under what justification does SC claim it, and the US deny that claim? Keep asking questions of the sources, and eventually you get to secession. But why did SC secede? Because they feared the Republican victory in the elections meant grave danger to slavery. That’s the way it works. That’s why I didn’t answer it–it’s just one document dealing with the Sumter crisis. And that crisis, while important in itself in a discussion about who fired first and why, doesn’t address the larger picture of why there was war in the first place. The secession documents don’t declare war–of course not, that’s silly–but they do demonstrate that the Deep South was seceding from the Union over slavery. Without secession, there’s no war. Period. Now THAT is a historical fact. And without slavery, there’s no secession. That’s what I proved in the blog post you refuse to read. History is very different from what you think it is, George. You have to look at documents and events before the ORs. That’s why I keep telling you to look at the post I made. But you resist looking of what those crucial documents say. So instead of reading them, you just say you have “no need to adress [sic] race and secession.” That’s hardly the approach a real historian takes. That’s the approach of someone who has already decided on the result he wants, and be damned to the rest of the evidence. So, fair’s fair: I have read the ORs you have shown us at CSS. Now it’s your turn to read my blog post and tell me why I’m wrong. If not, then I reserve the right to not approve your posts. You’re not banned, mind you–I’ve got nothing against you, and actually really do want your engagement–but I’ve looked at your evidence, and now I want you to comment on mine. Until then, Go Dodgers! LikeLiked by 2 people gpthelastrebel says: September 6, 2014 at 4:37 AM The answer is simple, you secession docs and speeches are made meaningless by the 13tjh adm. and events leading up to the war. The secession docs are nothing more tthan a list of griveances against the Federal government. They in no way imply the act of war. There is no evidence the cause of the war was slavery. I have posted the 13th , Mr. Buchanan’s and most of the OEs supportinmg Buchanan yet you still argue the secession docs. and speeches while ignoring other events. Let me offer something else. Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunionists of the Southern States now in revolt against the constitutional Government and in arms around the capital; that in this national emergency Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease. FROM James D. Richardson; A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, vol. 6 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office Crittenden Resolution John J. Crittenden, Congressman (KY) 1861 (passed by both houses of Congress in July 1861) Now I know what your argument will be, that the Federal government was fighting to preserve the Union, but you cannot have two countries fighting for different reasons. The South did not fight because the US offered them slavery on a platter, it is a ridiculous argument. The issue was something else. What was that issue??? Ft. Sumter The broader issue money. OFFICIAL RECORDS: Series 1, vol 1, Part 1 (Charleston Campaign) Page 198 OPERATIONS IN CHARLESTON HARBOR, S.C. Chapter I. General Scott’s memoranda for the Secretary of War. It is known, indeed, that it would be Page 201 charged to necessity, and the holding of Fort Pickens would be adduced in support of that view. Our Southern friends, however, are clear that the evacuation of both the forts would instantly soothe and give confidence to the eight remaining slaveholding States, and render their cordial adherence to this Union perpetual. The holding of Forts Jefferson and Taylor, on the ocean keys, depends on entirely different principles, and should never be abandoned; and, indeed, the giving up of Forts Sumter and Pickens may be best justified by the hope that we should thereby recover the State to which they geographically belong by the liberality of the act, besides retaining the eight doubtful States. Now do you see what I don’t give your secession docs and speeches any attention??? They are made meaninmgless by other events. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: September 4, 2014 at 6:51 AM Time and time again I have asked you to prove the secession doc. were war declarations, you have failed to do so. Why? Now you are coming right out and saying the secession docs show that slavery was the cause of the war, yet your only proof is the secession docs. The 13th admen. makes these docs null and void Show where these docs are declaring war over the issue of slavery and I will admit I am wrong. If you cannot do so, be a man, and admit I am right. LikeLike Reply Christopher Shelley says: September 4, 2014 at 9:59 AM No-one has ever said that the secession ordinances were declarations of war. Your sense of “cause and effect” is incredibly limited to events at Sumter. That like saying in 1941, airplanes destroyed the Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, not the Empire of Japan. And Jimmy has already exploded your 13th Amendment argument. You have not shown why he’s wrong. You don’t seem to get that a federal guarantee to protect slavery where it existed was not enough for Southern slaveholders, and they left the Union over it anyway. I’m sorry, George, but I can’t devote any more time to this. I’m willing to argue with you in the spirit of a good argument, but you just aren’t doing that. LikeLiked by 1 person Jimmy Dick says: September 3, 2014 at 5:38 PM George, Have you read Apostles of Disunion? LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Jimmy Dick says: September 6, 2014 at 12:00 PM George, in reference to your last post. You are wrong. The secession documents do tell us exactly why the Lower South seceded: SLAVERY. They said it loud and proud. You are trying to separate the actual start of a shooting war with what caused that war in the first place. The order from Jefferson Davis started the actual shooting war. The cause of the war was slavery itself. Had slavery not been causing secession there would not have been a war. The 13th Amendment does not prove the war was not about slavery. The ORs are military documents that come from the Civil War, a war caused by slavery. You have done absolutely nothing to prove us wrong. In fact, you’ve shown more evidence that shows you don’t know what the hell you are talking about. You can’t even use the ORs properly because you’re trying to use them to prove something that they actually exist as the direct result of. As for Buchanan, he flat out said that secession was the result of slavery yet you ignore that. Don’t waste my time with your ignorance any more. If you are too f****** stupid to understand what the people of the past said, then just shut up. The more I sit here and look at your “evidence” the more I see a dumbass who ignores context and anything that proves him wrong. Just shut up. Quit lying to everyone because that is exactly what you are doing. What you say may fly with the uneducated trash of America but it gets you laughed out of schools across the country. Go back to your George Wallace bumper sticker collection. LikeLike Reply gpthelastrebel says: September 6, 2014 at 4:30 PM Well I see you are back to your foul language and insults. That would mean I have posted facts you can’t dispute. Oh and BTW I never said slavery was not one cause of secession I said it wasn’t the cause of the war. Now you have proof positive. LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: September 6, 2014 at 12:03 PM George, Have you read Apostles of Disunion? Have you actually read history instead of making trash up? You keep making the same claim and you can’t prove it. You can’t even use facts. Every time you do you prove yourself wrong. I’m laughing at how you use Buchanan. Good grief, you butcher it so badly. My students see this and they laugh at you. They can see what he is saying, but you deliberately refuse to admit that he said slavery was the problem. How f****** dumb are you? LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: September 6, 2014 at 6:50 PM Again, George! Have you read Apostles of Disunion? If you cannot answer the question I will take your silence to mean you have not read the book. LikeLike Reply Michael Rodgers says: September 7, 2014 at 4:35 AM George’s statement “The fact is no troops in Sumter, no war” offers not a fact but a hypothetical. The facts are that Ft. Sumter belonged to the USA and that Confederate forces fired upon it. Look, the USA currently has a naval base in Cuba. My point is that Jefferson Davis could have shown magnanimity about Ft. Sumter but chose to attack instead. George’s point is that Abraham Lincoln could have surrendered Ft. Sumter. The fact is that both men made their decisions. LikeLike Reply Christopher Shelley says: September 7, 2014 at 9:21 AM MacPherson writes that Davis and the new Confederate gov’t were effectively forced to fire on Sumter to show the Upper South (which hadn’t yet seceded) that they were serious. Virginia, Tennessee, et al were not going to join the Confederacy if it did what South Carolina had been doing for 30 years: talk big about resisting the federal gov’t, only to back down when things threatened to get hot. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply gpthelastrebel says: September 8, 2014 at 6:55 AM I don’t know so much about the Confederates they fired to show the upper South they were serious, but as the ORs are pointing out and I will post more of this in due time, Lincoln was putting together quite a large fleet to invade South Carolina. South Carolina and the rest of the country knew what was going down the road they had no choice but to fight. I will say this, and it is just my opinion, war was going to happen one way or the other at any given place. Sumter just fit the bill at the time. Money being the root problem, since the issue of slavery was settled by secession. That too is a post for another day Great point about the upper South still being in the Union. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: September 8, 2014 at 6:41 AM It doesn’t matter which side owned Sumter, that is just smoke and mirrors argument. The facts that I have already presented in Mr. Buchanan’s and the ORs prove that point. The fact that Sumter commanded the harbor of Charleston was reason enough for South Carolina to want Anderson out. South Carolina made an offer to buy Sumter at a fair price, the US refused to sell only added more agitation. Ownership only came into question when war was near. Anderson’s move to Sumter was considered an act of war. All of these facts have been posted. Gitmo. Different set of circumstances. LikeLike Reply Christopher Shelley says: September 8, 2014 at 10:30 AM Ok. Why did SC claim Ft. Sumter for its own, when it clearly belonged to the US? LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: September 9, 2014 at 7:33 AM Sumter commanded the harbor entrance. The other forts supported Sumter. Anderson could have shut down any sea trade with Charleston from Sumter. I would guess that by the act of secession that South Carolina tclaimed ownership of tyhe fort. The issue started when Buchanan was pres. , an aggrement was made forAnderson to not do anything to cause aggravation. Moving to Sumter and all parties knowing the importance of this fort set the events to war in motion. To be honest I haven’t, at this time, read anything about the 3 year time frame to complete the forts in the harbor. Keep that fact in mind, it may become part of the issue later. LikeLike Jimmy Dick says: September 8, 2014 at 10:53 AM South Carolina could not buy Ft. Sumter because South Carolina was part of the United States, not some illegal renegade secession government. The traitors in South Carolina were acting illegally so there is no justification for their attacks on the lawful government of the United States. The rebellion was put down over time. LikeLiked by 1 person Christopher Shelley says: September 8, 2014 at 11:06 AM Yes, I agree, but SC believed they had a right to buy it, and so my question: Why did SC claim Ft. Sumter for its own, when it clearly belonged to the US? LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: September 9, 2014 at 7:47 AM Well see that is where you are wrong. You have to get over your bigotry and hate and klet history tell the story. The Confederates were not traitors anymore than anyone else who has fought for independence. Now we do know for a fact that Buchanan and Lincoln to an extent recognized the Confederate government because both these US Presidents meet with oppece commisioners from the CSA. South Carolina had everyright to buy Sumter if the US government wanted to sell. I know of no law preventing such a sale , do you???? LikeLike Michael Rodgers says: September 7, 2014 at 5:21 AM Chris says that interpreting the secession declarations as declarations of war is “silly.” And George says that the secession declarations are “nothing but a list of grievences against the Federal government.” He continues, “There is no place it declares war.” Here’s some pushback. It is true that the secession declarers fantasized about achieving secession without war. They acted upon their fantasy (1) by trying to get as many slave states as possible to join them so that the resulting confederation would be sufficiently large to discourage the USA from militarily putting down the slave state insurrection and (2) by acting as much as possible as if secession was fait accompli to encourage the people in the slave states to support them and to discourage the people in the free states from acting against them. The proper way, though, to consider the secession declarations is not just as lists of grievances but as declarations of intention to go to war. They all conclude with the announcement that the so-called seceded states are now free and independent states, i.e. they already won the war that didn’t happen because they pre-emptively, single-handedly, and without negotiation emerged victorious against the people with whom they had grievances. Thus the secession declarations set down the clear implication that the so-called seceded states intended to fight militarily to achieve what they declared, if the federal government said no. (By the way secession declared was not secession accomplished, just as revolution declared was not revolution accomplished. The revolution declared in 1776 was accomplished with the 1783 Treaty of Paris.) LikeLike Reply gpthelastrebel says: September 8, 2014 at 6:27 AM What a load of hooey. War was never the intention. If you have been following my OR posting you will see that peace commissions from both sides were meeting to avoid war. It isclearlystated Ft. Sumter is the issue, nothing more, nothing less. Besides with secession, sthe issue of slavery was settled for the United States. It was never going to expand more, that is just common sense. LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: September 8, 2014 at 10:55 AM The only thing you are showing is the lack of context in your attempt to write history. You are missing a lot of information because it proves you wrong. That is why I say you are lying. Plus, the argument was over slavery’s expansion. [Why] are you…ignor[ing] what the people were saying? LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: September 8, 2014 at 11:09 AM I don’t think George is lying, because I think he believes it, which means he’s sincere. But I agree that he’s is not putting his facts in context, and that fatally flaws his interpretation. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: September 9, 2014 at 7:57 AM I don’t have to put anything into content.The documents i have posted and still post tellthe truth. When you say I don’t put things into content, context and offer no narrative, it simply means you do not agree with me, yet you have no facts to support your position. A good example is Jimmy Dick, he is reduced to using foul language and insults. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: September 9, 2014 at 7:52 AM I have wrote no revisions to history, that is an outright lie. I have not certainly not conmeup with some off the wall narrative trying to explain slavery and the war.I have posted nothing but facts supported by documents —UNION documents. The fact you have a clue about his is evident in your responses. LikeLike Michael Rodgers says: September 8, 2014 at 1:36 PM The Confederate peace commissions are the load of hooey, because they demanded the unacceptable: acquiescence to secession and recognition of confederation. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: September 9, 2014 at 8:00 AM It doesn’t matter what the Confederate peace commisioners demanded — it is called negotiation. They were met by Buchanan and Lincoln. LikeLike Rob Baker says: September 8, 2014 at 5:57 PM Robert Tombs certainly realized the result of secession. Correct George, the issue of slavery was settled for the time being for the United States. The South however, were more passionate about that issue. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: September 9, 2014 at 8:21 AM Rob slavery can be arguged several ways with the EP and West Virginia thrown into the mix. At this time just take the issue of slavery and secession. Yes slavery was a cause of secession, I have said that many times. No argument there. With secession and boundaries set slavery wasn’t going anyplace. The issue of slavery woulda, coulda, shoulda been setteled for the US.However slavery was still legal under the Constitution. Now consider this, The United States made no effort to eliminate slavery within its boundaries as the South seceeded.They did however pass an admenmdment to protect slavery hoping the South would return to the Union. It doesn’t sound to me like the US was totally against slavery at the time of secession or the South was more passionate.. LikeLike Rob Baker says: September 9, 2014 at 7:54 PM The United States left it to various states and federal proclamations to decide on the issue of slavery. These laws sided heavily with containment and limitation of the institution. This was one of the points of tension, or what the South saw as an ‘attack’ on the institution of slavery. To provide this tu quoque argument in order to change the focus is just silly. I’m talking about why the South seceded and the importance of the issue of slavery. I’m not touching on the legality of slavery in the U.S. at this time. You’re right. They passed an amendment protecting slavery. This further proves the importance of slavery to the South, that northern politicians would attempt to create a compromise amendment to entice them to stay. Keep stacking those straws George. I never said the U.S. was “totally against slavery.” However, the South was definitely more passionately, they seceded over the issue after all. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: September 10, 2014 at 6:43 AM Slavery was still legal in the United States regardless of what the states did. The spread of slavery or more specfic Negroes, into the territories became the rub. Slavery could have ended in the US at the time of secession but it did not. I have already gone over this with you. “You’re right. They passed an amendment protecting slavery. This further proves the importance of slavery to the South, that northern politicians would attempt to create a compromise amendment to entice them to stay” Well the departed didn’t return to the US because of that admn did they? That proves the slavery wasn’t the issue for them, but it does serve to prove the importance the US placed on them. Why were they so important Rob? Tell us. Was it because of the money they brought to the US treasurey??. If the war was about slavery, why was the US willing to give these states slavery to return to the Union? Why would the Confederates fight for something being given to them??? The issue was money. let me add this quote from Lincoln about the territories—- “Now, irrespective of the moral aspect of this question as to whether there is a right or wrong in enslaving a negro, I am still in favor of our new Territories being in such a condition that white men may find a home—may find some spot where they can better their condition—where they can settle upon new soil, and better their condition in life_ I am in favor of this not merely (I must say it here as I have elsewhere) for our own people who are born amongst us, but as an outlet for free white people everywhere, the world over—in which Hans, and Baptiste, and Patrick, and all other men from all the world, may find new homes and better their condition in life” LikeLike Rob Baker says: September 10, 2014 at 11:55 AM Don’t care about the legality of slavery in the U.S., what I care about is the South and why political leaders at that time felt slavery was being attacked. They cited this over and over again, fought it in Congress and seceded because of it. The seceded states knew that an amendment could be amended further, as was done in regards to prohibition in the 20th century. Southern leaders also knew that it was unlikely such an amendment would be ratified by other states, in addition to the fact that the Confederate Government was already in place. Keep in mind as well, usually the South reached a compromise over issues in which they threatened secession. In the Corwin Amendment, the offer was the status quo and without Southern gains. The South, time and time again, expressed distrust over Lincoln and the Republicans. Southern leaders viewed Republicans as the party that would end slavery. No, the South added very little to the U.S. Treasury. The tariffs in the South were abysmal. The entire port revenue out of the South didn’t equal New York. Many northern political leaders sought to maintain the union through various reasons. A lot of them are ideological. As far as the northern public, it is widely held that after Fort Sumter, northern public opinion, viewed the North as under attack given that the South fired the first shots and seized federal property. Prior to that the firing on Fort Sumter, only the deep South seceded, not the entirety of the South. So many saw this is the same event that occurred in the 1820s and 30s. Bare in mind that political leaders of the time also had a collective memory of the havoc and anarchy of the Napoleonic Wars. Both Sherman and Lincoln at one point reasoned that secession was essentially anarchy which would destroy the nation. Thinking back on the histories of the North Georgia, East Tennessee, and other places which fought internal civil wars during the national Civil War; they might be right. In short, to answer your redundant questions. The South did not trust the North on the issue of slavery. This was extended especially to Lincoln. This is expressed in papers, letters and legislation of the time. Short of Lincoln promising to allow slavery to expand into the midwest, it is unlikely the South would have felt secure in the institution regardless. They seceded to protect an institution which the entirety of the southern social order was based on. To secure this, they began seizing federal property throughout the south in an attempt to solidify dominance over their new country. This reached a stand-off at Ft. Sumter, where the U.S. military would not surrender federal property. The South was forced into a position to act (start war or admit to wrong doing [secession], with other Southern states watching). They fired, which brought the North down in retaliation. Great Lincoln quote, it really expresses his “Free Soil” attitudes, but it does little to further this discussion. It only serves to detract and point the finger at something else. I’d love to see you actually present this type of argument in a historical conference. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: September 11, 2014 at 5:57 AM And I don’t care about the secession docs. TYhey have been proven to be meaningless. Still slavery was legal in the US, there is no denying that fact. The South was wealthy and the North wanted this tax money, that is mentioned in the secession docs. I have some very good info posted at http://southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?2011091.0#post_2011109 http://southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?2009377.post that proves my point. I suggest reading the PDF posted . It will take some time but I think it is worth the effort. As I have said before slavery was given to the seceeding states, they yad no reason to fight for that institution. The Federall wanted these states back again. Now I asked you a simple question, why did the Federal government place such value on the Sseceeded atstes and wanted to bring them back into the Union? You did not give an answer. Perhaps the little passage below will answer the question for you. Registered Member #1 Joined: Tue Jul 17 2007, 09:46AM Posts: 3268 “What then would become of my tariff?” Abraham Lincoln. This question by President Lincoln has been lately looked for by several of this board and lost to memory, below is where it originated and where it is referenced. Mr. Seward, of the peace-faction, sent Allen B. McGruder, as confidential messenger to Richmond, to hold an interview with Mr. Janney (president of the convention), Mr. Stuart, Col. Baldwin, and other influential men of the ruling “Union party.” Mr. Seward said that secrecy was all important, and while it was extremely desirable that one of them should see Lincoln, it was equally important that the public should know nothing of the interview. Col. Baldwin responded to the invitation, since, though one of the ablest men of the convention, he was known personally to but few in Washington, having never served in Federal politics. He repaired to Washington as soon as possible, went in a closed carriage to Seward, and from there, in his company, to the White House. But in this short time the policy of the administration had. undergone a change. Seven Republican governors of Northern and North-eastern States representing the ” stiff-backed ” clique had descended on the government, and won the victory over Seward and the rest. With the ignorance of the South, which I am sorry to say is still prevalent with many Northern writers, they represented to Mr. Lincoln that the people of the South were not in earnest; that all their speeches, resolutions, and declarations of resistance were but a “game of brag;” that Virginia and the Border States would never leave the Union; that it would ruin the North to have a free-trade people to the South of them; that it would be but an easy job to conquer the cotton States, etc., etc. Mr. Lincoln, who had vacillated between the parties, found the combined pressure of office-seekers -and tariff-men too much for him; and when Col. Baldwin arrived he had gone over to the stiff-backed men, bag and baggage. But Mr. Lincoln gave him a most private interview, and the latter quickly dispossessed him of his erroneous impressions regarding the intentions of the Border States, who looked to Virginia as their leader. Lincoln’s native good sense, under the influence of Col. Baldwin’^ evident sincerity, immediately grasped the truth. He clutched his shaggy hair, as though he would jerk out handfulls by the roots; he frowned and contorted his features, exclaiming: “I ought to have known this sooner! You are too late, sir, too late! Why did you not come here four days ago, and tell me all this?” turning almost fiercely upon Col. Baldwin. Baldwin replied: “Why, Mr. President, you did not ask our advice. Be sides, as soon as we received permission to tender it, I came by the first train as fast as steam would bring me.” Lincoln rejoined: “Yes, but you are too late, I tell you, too late!” Col. Baldwin pleaded the question with him as he never did a case on behalf of a client in jeopardy of life. One* single step would be sufficient to paralyze the secession movement. This was a simple proclamation, repudiating the right of coercing sovereign States by force of arms, and to rely upon conciliation to bring them back into the Union, as had been the course pursued with respect to Rhode Island and North Carolina in 1790. It was a contradiction to suppose that any State would voluntarily abnegate Union except under conviction of real wrong. The question of the Territories had no such importance in the eyes of the Border States to urge them into secession, but coercion would be universally considered the casus belli. Lincoln seemed impressed by Baldwin’s eloquence and solemnity, and asked: “But what am I to do meantime with those men at Montgomery? Am I to let them go on?” “Yes, sir,” replied Col. Baldwin decidedly, “until they can be peacefully brought back.” “And open Charleston, etc., as ports of entry with their ten per cent, tariff? What then would become of my tariff?” This last question he announced with such emphasis as showed in his view that it decided the whole matter. Memoir of a Narrative Received of Colonel John B. Baldwin, of Staunton, Touching the Origin of the War. By Rev. R. L. Dabney, D. D. The Letters and Times of the Tylers, Lyon G. Tyler, Richmond, 1885. The Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. I, Jan. to June, 1876. Jefferson Davis, by Armistead C. Gordon, 1918. William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine: Vol. 27, Page 224, 1918 Lives of Distinguished North Carolinians, 1898 The New Republic: Vol. 17, 1918 Confederate Veteran: Vol. 25, Issue 10, 1917 LikeLike Rob Baker says: September 11, 2014 at 4:03 PM George, you should care about the documents because they are important. They demonstrate not the efforts of individuals, but of collective assemblies to willfully rebel against the United States for specific purposes. These assemblies stated their preferred reasons for secession, and the dominant topic is always slavery. It doesn’t matter if slavery was legal in the United States at that time. No one is arguing the contrary. What matters is that the South felt the institution was under attack, that slave state political power was hemmed and that the election of Lincoln was a vital threat. The South’s wealth was lagging behind the North’s. This is especially true in regards to tariffs. Despite the fact that a few Southern states had issues with the tariffs, they were never in unison on the issue. In fact, some Southern states benefited from the tariffs, which is why the did not follow S.C. in the 1830s. http://eh.net/database/u-s-customs-house-data-1854-59/ Posting an opinionated newspaper article, and a cherry picked portion of a speech that undoubtedly included more than what you copied and pasted, are not adequate sources in order to frame an argument. Additionally, the demonstrate opinions of single men, which is no weight outweighs legislative mandates. The South had every reason to fight for slavery. Their economy, social order, etc. was all based on the institution. Subsequent pleas, arguments, and opinions were published by various southern leaders on the institutions importance and the threats on the institution by the North. It brought conflict on numerous occasions leading up to the civil war. It was a point of tension during the Revolution, during the Constitutional Convention, during the 1st and 2nd Seminole wars, the Texas Revolution, after the Mexican-American War and the settlement of the West. Conflict nearly boiled over on numerous occasions (Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Bleeding Kansas). The list goes on and on George. I actually provided a plethora of answers…I can’t help it if you cannot read. This discussion between Lincoln has been rehashed time and time again. Too bad it is entirely a secondary account of something Lincoln might have said. You know, it’s hilarious you question the validity of A. Stephen’s Cornerstone Speech (even though Stevens admits that he spoke to the reporter and that the reporter changed variances in the account which did not include slavery), but you don’t approach anything that affirms your ill-thoughtout arguments with the same skepticism. Way to by objective… LikeLike Christopher Shelley says: September 11, 2014 at 4:38 PM Thank you, Rob (and Jimmy, and Michael). We have well and truly exhausted this thread. I am closing it. (Truly this time!) LikeLiked by 2 people gpthelastrebel says: September 12, 2014 at 6:51 AM Chris, Thank you for letting me post facts. Someone without a biased view of the Confederacy will take them and do more reserach and wthyey will find the truth. Folks if you want facts and not opinions please visit Cold Southyern Steel or Southern heritage Advancement Preservation and Education. be safe and have a Dixie day. George Purvis LikeLike Jimmy Dick says: September 8, 2014 at 1:11 PM The problem is that George is not using the facts the way they happened. He makes the claim that secession settled slavery. No, it did not. The CW settled slavery. Secession was caused by slavery which led to a war when Jefferson Davis realized things were not going the way he needed them to go. No slavery, no civil war. He is also repeating the Beardian claim about economics being the cause of the CW. That is erroneous, but a fixture of the Lost Cause belief system. Then he makes the claim that Anderson’s move to Sumter was an act of war. Wrong again. An officer of the US Army did not have to answer to trash who called themselves confederates. They had NO legal power over him whatsoever. Yet, George ignores this because to him the South was justified in their illegal rebellion. That’s where problems are occurring. Secession was unconstitutional. The actions of the lower south in seceding were illegal. Until he gets that through his head, he will not be doing anything but lying to people because he is trying to develop a history constructed on a false foundation. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply gpthelastrebel says: September 9, 2014 at 8:02 AM Now you are just spinning history. I also used the term common sense. Give me your mailing address and I’ll send you a pound LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: September 9, 2014 at 12:50 PM George, Lincoln was pretty smart. He never met with any confederate peace commissioners. He knew to do so would give the traitors a veneer of legitimacy which they had not earned nor ever would. Stop making crap up and trying to pass it off as fact. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply gpthelastrebel says: September 10, 2014 at 6:11 AM Just another typical Jimmy Dick comment. Lincoln himself may not have met with the peace commissioners but someone representing him did. Perhaps it was Scott. We will find out What I am post is only crap because you can’t prove it wrong. LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: September 10, 2014 at 3:38 PM Wrong again, George. No one representing Lincoln met with any peace commissioners. He refused to allow it. Stop making up stuff and lying to people about to promote your erroneous ideology. LikeLiked by 1 person Michael Rodgers says: September 9, 2014 at 2:46 PM George is trying to argue that the USA’s goal in 1860-1 wasn’t to rid the USA of slavery. He’s basically saying that if the USA’s goal was really slavery eradication in the USA, wouldn’t acquiescing to secession have advanced the country towards that goal by ridding the USA of those slave states that declared secession? George’s argument is moot because everyone already knows and has stipulated (1) that the USA’s goal in 1860-1 wasn’t to rid the USA of slavery and (2) that the USA’s goals in 1860-1 were (1) to put down the slave state insurrection of the so-called seceded states, (2) to keep the country together, and (3) to put the country on a course where slavery would eventually be eliminated by immediately stopping the spread of slavery into the federal territories. George wants to say that two sides in any conflict must have one and only one exactly opposing reason. Regarding the slave state insurrection, the slave states that insurrected were afraid of losing slavery and were greedy for it to spread. No matter how frequently Lincoln said that despite his strong anti-slavery beliefs they wouldn’t lose slavery in their states with him as President, they were never palliated. Lincoln, keeping his eye on his 3 goals listed above, put down the slave state insurrection when the insurrection turned violent, at Ft. Sumter. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply gpthelastrebel says: September 10, 2014 at 6:23 AM I have posted docs. proving that slavery wasn’t the casue of the war. I have posted docs that ptrove the US was willing to give the seceeded states slavery to come back to the Union. Alsso I have provided proof that Sumter was the issue that brought war to this country. The best you can do is tell people youir opinion. So how about you provide some docs 1. that prove the goal of the US in 1860 was to stop slavery.by going to war 2. a doc that proves the Confederacy was fighting for the preservation of slavery.and not independence 3. doc that says the goal of the US in 1861 was to free the slaves. Bring the docs on. You wany to be the wonder boy and run your mouth let’s see you put up some real facts. LikeLike Reply Rob Baker says: September 10, 2014 at 12:08 PM That probably has lot to do with your documents not proving anything about the war’s causes. You just think they do, and you’re sticking to that inaccurate assertion. 1.) He just told you that the U.S. policy was not to go to war to stop slavery. You are creating a straw-man argument by continuing to suggest that he is. Get this through that thick head George; no one is saying that the north went to war to end slavery. 2.) Why? Every time someone posts articles that definitively prove the main cause of the war, you dismiss the documents suggesting that secession is not war. You fail to recognize that war is merely policy by other means. The South went to war, to defend their act of secession, which was driven by slavery. When the country is at war, Jefferson Davis addresses the Confederate Congress about the conflict while giving them a history lesson of the repeated offenses of the north towards slavery. Easily connectable. When the state’s policy of secession to defend slavery did not pan out, they results to armed conflict to achieve the same ends. 3.) That’s a redundant question. Why ask the same thing twice? See number one again. Does the home know your left the premises? LikeLiked by 2 people gpthelastrebel says: September 11, 2014 at 6:01 AM If you could prove any of my docs wrong, you would have already done it. I would suppose you think the next best thing is to insult. LikeLike Rob Baker says: September 11, 2014 at 3:43 PM See George, this is an example of how you have no understanding of historical analysis. It is literally impossible to prove a historical document “wrong.” One might, however, prove content within a document as wrong. But the document remains evidence of something (opinion, fact, lying, etc.) just the same. What is wrong, and what has been proven wrong by numerous people on various threads, is that your interpretation of historical documents is wrong. LikeLike Michael Rodgers says: September 10, 2014 at 1:49 PM You proved Ft. Sumter was trigger, which everyone already knew. 1. No such docs. 2. Independence was goal, slavery — specifically securing and expanding — was reason. Docs = declarations of secession and every single other doc each and every one of them without exception including every single doc you posted — from 1776 to 1861. 3. No such docs. Pleasure. LikeLiked by 1 person gpthelastrebel says: September 11, 2014 at 6:09 AM If you cannot bring the docs proving the South went to war over the institution of slavery then your argumenti s useless. No if expanding tslavery was the reasobn for war then the Confederate states would have taken the offer to return to the US. The boundaries of slavery was limited when they seceeded. That stands to reason. 3. No docs no cigar. Isn’t it amazing I can produce docs to back up my statements????? What is more amazing I produce these historical documents, that most here have never read or heard of, and instead of folks taking them and learning they tell me the docs are wrong. Unbelieveable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LikeLike Jimmy Dick says: September 10, 2014 at 3:41 PM I did put up real facts proving my point and so did you. Your problem is you are trying to make them say what they don’t. YOU ARE WRONG. You have been proven wrong. Get it through your head. You can’t even analyze the facts like the secession documents because you know they prove you wrong. You are not a historian. Stop pretending to be one. LikeLike gpthelastrebel says: September 11, 2014 at 6:17 AM I am not trying to make any doc. say anything that is not written in them. It is all in English and I am sure everyone here has a good command of that language. The docs i put up are specfic abot the war and the cause. The secession docs you put up, one must stretch them to the absolute breaking point to even get to war and that is without any real cause. LikeLike Jimmy Dick says: September 10, 2014 at 3:47 PM Come on, George! Are you going to make the idiotic statement that has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the South financed the North with its exports dead wrong? Are you that stupid? Come on! Whip out those facts! Because when you do you’ll be buried under the actual facts. The tariff issue is pure bullcrap. The facts prove that beyond any chance of contestation. When are you going to stop trying to pass off this Lost Cause mythology as fact? Grow up. Quit lying to people with that weak ass crap of yours that falls apart like Confederate flag toilet paper in a rain storm. You have yet to prove anything. Most of the facts you put on here prove you wrong. That’s just ignorance on your part to keep repeating yourself. Every time you post on here you make yourself look dumber than the time before. LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: September 10, 2014 at 3:51 PM Rob, he can’t go to a real historical conference because he would get laughed out of the room. That is also why he cannot get a degree in history. He would not pass the classes because he refuses to let the facts speak for themselves. He cannot unlearn in order to relearn because that would conflict with his beliefs which are not based upon factual evidence. In other words, he is a typical neo-confederate who refuses to accept reality for what it is. LikeLike Reply gpthelastrebel says: September 11, 2014 at 6:11 AM Well,I got the best of you — but then you are no real historian either. LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: September 11, 2014 at 12:44 PM Really? A guy who blows off the secession docs saying they are meaningless? That is your ignorance showing through. You reject anything that shows you are wrong. That is just you being stupid. George, you got owned on this thread multiple times by several people and you still make the same stupid ignorant claims. You want a doc? Start reading books and throw your Lost Cause handbook in the trash. If you can’t read Dew and see where you are wrong then you are beyond redemption. You have not read Dew though. You will not read anything that shows you are wrong. You ignore the facts and then throw stuff out there totally out of context. Your Lincoln line about the tariffs? That’s a joke. It has been ripped apart multiple times and yet here you are again tossing it out there as fact. I’d ask how stupid you are, but you just proved it with that so called fact. We’ve shown you that the tariff was not the factor you want it to be, but you keep on saying it was. That is your ignorance. I’m done with you and your stupidity. Every historian on this thread has shown you to be wrong and you can’t admit it. That is insanity on your part. This is Chris’s blog, but if it was mine you would be long gone because you fail every time you post. LikeLike Michael Rodgers says: September 11, 2014 at 1:45 PM With the neconfederate absurdity reaching full circle, it’s time to close the threads and to remember what Mr. Larry Wilmore said in the video that the post introduced. The South didn’t invent slavery but held on to it like crazy. And so…. The single issue about which the war was fought was not the existence of slavery but the expansion of slavery. The goal of the USA was to expand in a way that would eventually extinguish slavery, while the goal of the states that declared secession and operated under the Confederacy was to expand in a way that would immediately inculcate slavery. For more information and relevant docs see the post that Chris wrote for George; it’s the next post at the true blue federalist. Best to all. LikeLike Reply Jimmy Dick says: September 11, 2014 at 2:04 PM Since George wants to bring in that weakass Williams and DiLorenzo stuff, let’s see a good quote from Andy Hall on the subject as he was busy ripping new assholes in neo-confederates over on civilwartalk last year. “But I do know this: craptacular “historians” like Walter Williams, who claimed that “Southern ports paid 75 percent of tariffs in 1859,” and Tom DiLorenzo, whose first edition of The Real Lincoln (2002) claimed that “in 1860 the Southern states were paying in excess of 80 percent of all tariffs. . . .” should rightfully be laughed out of any faculty meeting, professional conference or opium den where people take history seriously.” good old George has been throwing the tariff around since at least 2010 and lied to a lot of people. Fortunately those with facts were able to prove George was wrong. Why? Because George uses made up stuff or quotes out of context like his hero DiLorenzo does. 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The Real Reason Straight Americans Can’t Accept Gay Americans A s gay people, most of us have had to deal with the unrelenting hatred, prejudice and fear by some homophobic heterosexual Americans who can’t accept homosexual Americans. Please note, that I am not talking about ALL straight Americans, just those who do their darndest to make our lives miserable. Many people quote the Bible as their reason for gay bias, denying us respect, acceptance and basic human rights, going against what America AND Jesus Christ is all about. But the funny thing is, I believe that the reason they cannot accept us is because of a very primitive, childish and emotional reaction that has nothing to do with the Bible. On really a basic, primal level, homophobic heterosexual men can’t accept gay men because we are not like them. And the root of the issue is the childhood ridicule and scorn taught by society against any perceived weakness and femininity. What is really behind the arrogant, self-righteous, smug, mouth foaming, and red eyed craziness against gay people and gay men in particular? It all starts in the 1st grade. Boys learn to make fun of each other at an early age. Young boys also teach each other that they are better than girls, so anything feminine is not as good as anything masculine. This they all learn from observing adults, media, sports and action heroes. Various and subtle degrees of misogyny abound in America, encouraged and accepted by men and women. T he root is really anti-feminist…anything to do with females. Men are strong, women are weak. Men are leaders, women are followers. Men have intellectual discourse, women just gossip. Men are aggressive, women are passive. But what about passive men and aggressive women? This is also why men insult each other with female references. And we've all heard that coaches and drill sargeants humiliate their members by calling them "Girls", "Ladies" and "Pussies"; emasculating them to make them weaker and easier to control while making themselves appear stronger. Of course, "Faggots" is the next term stepped up. Even gay men use words like "Girlfriend", "Princess" or "Queen" when talking about each other. Boys learn to get at each other by making accusations that another boy is “like a girl”…and since “girls kiss boys” then to be gay is to be “a boy who kisses another boy”. Yechhh! The ultimate put down and threat to any boy’s identity, masculinity and social standing. Young boys are running scared that someone will find a reason to make them an outcast, and if they are branded gay, the entire school will turn against them and make their lives miserable with taunts and name calling. And we all know how boys love finding and picking on other kids. It's fun and funny and makes boys look tough, and no one is going to pick on you if you're the one doing the picking on. So each boy starts their own long campaign, whether consciously or subconsciously, to go against anything that might make them look weak…and this carries over into how they talk, what they wear, what sport they play, and eventually to what they believe, who they vote for, and how they treat people including their own families. From the start, American boys are taught to fear this type of ridicule. No boy wants to be perceived as weak. So the fear of not being masculine enough is smashed over each boy’s head, (reinforced by every family member, adult, and peer). Any sign of femininity is a blaring siren that this boy is a“sissy ”. And the most important element to note...is that boys and men teach each other in their personal interactions with jokes, remarks, accusations and hostility...that being gay is repulsive and something to be ashamed of. This is where it all comes from: Each other. So begins the “masculinization” of every American boy. That boy now has to learn the ways of manhood. Not REAL manhood…but doing things to appear “manly”. Things that Americans have decided are manly: aggression, pride, arrogance, intolerance, cursing, competing, fighting, fag bashing, chasing women, toughness, excess, revenge, wildness, stubborness, never looking weak, having an answer for everything, always being right and never admitting you're wrong, doing whatever you want regardless of the consequences or whoever it will hurt, etc. (This is also why the world would be a better place if it was run by women! Men are way too emotional!) This is true for all manner of American groups containing men, whether in sport teams, gangs, unions, companies, law firms, fraternities, colleges...men are expected to behave like REAL men. But some men say, "Hey, it's testosterone man, testosterone...I can't help it, I was born this way!" Hey, and that's fine with me...but then why will you refuse to believe us when we say we were born gay? Christian men are different...churches attempt to teach their men to live more like Christ: more gentle, more honest, with more integrity and an emphasis on leadership. But machismo still exists and sneaks into the "Christian Man". So, we get loud aggressive Christian leaders who think they know everything, and who act like they're God's right hand man. (Humbleness is one of those traits that is somehow overlooked, because it is a sign of weakness.) But society still believes that boys will be boys. Anything boys do...is charming. "Boys who love boys are gay"... so the average boy in America learns they can’t get TOO CLOSE to other boys. Boys can only love girls. Men cannot show or have affection with each other. Straight male society can only relate to each other through straight approved activities and since real men can't love other men, then they have to fight, compete, kill and conquer...even while playing together. Even if the game is intellectual like chess or video games...there is still violence without the violence...someone has to win...because losers are weak. Passive. Feminine. Pussy. Pansy. Gay. Women can make close friendships with other women, but straight men CAN'T get too close to other straight men. There are a lot of lonely straight men out there. Because to get close to another man is well…being gay! So independence and self-reliance is better than depending on another man, because there is always that competition and fear of looking weak. It is easier to keep up the facade when no one knows you too well. And when men get together they talk about girls, sex, sports, cars, gadgets, tools, the stock market, politics, facts and figures...etc. Men are always trying to impress each other...boasting about their accomplishments and achievements to appear stronger, smarter, tougher, richer and better...to each other. Notice that I said "appear". But for two men to share their feelings, struggles, failures or sadness with each other…is well…way too gay...a sign of feminine weakness. Some Christian men HAVEN'T gotten wind that in the Bible, David and Jonathan cried in each others arms, kissing each other because they had to separate. (1 Samuel 20:41) And yes, I'm talking about King David, who was chosen by God to rule His people. Hmmm. I have heard there are a few Bible translators who just can't deal with this scenario of affection between the two men. The Living Bible in 1971, translated that David and Jonathan "sadly shook hands, tears running down their cheeks". SHOOK HANDS? Are you kidding me? And the new version: "Both of them were in tears as they embraced each other and said good-bye" - New Living Translation. 1996, leaving out the kissing altogether! Or yet another, "And then they kissed one another and wept, friend over friend" - The Message. 1993. Let's make it VERY clear, shall we? For straight men to show love, affection, appreciation, admiration, friendliness, concern or care...is to be feminine…to be avoided because, “REAL MEN DON’T DO THAT”. The fear of being branded gay is so strong, that men will do and say anything to prove they are not “feminine” which includes having prejudice against a man who is perceived feminine. They beat us up so they can look butch! No girly man here. But of course, for straight men...touching, cuddling and engaging in sex with another male is disgusting to them. That is REALLY the BIG reason. Hey, no problem, dude. I get it. I ain't forcing you to do anything. It's a free country! But just because I'm not interested in heterosexual sex doesn't mean I want to eradicate heterosexuals from existence. I acknowledge that people are different, and because of Jesus Christ, have the right to live and worship God happily...even if I'm NOT like them. M any American men today are hyper-masculine. They work, fight, play, succeed, drink...to excess…to belong to that class of manly Americans. Power suits, power meetings, power lifts, power drinks, power lunches, power drills, power steering... It’s a bird, it’s a plane, It’s Superman! In Europe, many straight men can cook. It is a great thing to be able to welcome people and prepare a meal that everyone loves. But in America, cooking is a woman’s job. (Except for outdoor grilling which, because of fire and raw meat, conjours up images of cavemen. "Move over ladies...this is a man's job.") Real men, just sit there and eat. They don’t even help clean up the dishes because it's woman’s work. But what really is happening is, they are ruled by their fear of looking weak, so somehow even the act of NOT doing the dishes, is a message to all, "I AM A MAN... I DON'T DO DISHES!" Men are kings, waited on by their servants…their mothers, wives, girlfriends and daughters. There is a subliminal and subtle prejudice of anything feminine. Of course the hatred for transgender folks is even worse. Men who appear as women are looked on with laughter and ridicule, yet women who look like men are not even noticed. Women with short hair, flat shoes, slacks...are practical. Less feminine is good, more masculine is better. They believe that all gay men are effeminate, that is why they are surprised when they find out that someone they know is gay, because in their minds..."he doesn't act gay". Act gay? What does that mean? Does every straight man act like a WWF Wrestler? No. They don't realize that most gay men are just like them with no affectations, no lisps, and no swinging hips. They just can't stand the idea of a feminine man. These same insecure boys grow up to become lawyers, politicians, preachers and ministers and use their power unapologetically to attack us and get other people to attack us. It's the good ole boy behavior, the boy’s club that keeps alive gay prejudice. Besides, it confirms to their wives, girlfriends, buddies, and co-workers that, "I'm not gay! I'm so NOT gay that I will make laws to make gays miserable." They work in high places to take away basic human rights from us GLBT people. The ultimate male control...to make laws against us to keep us in line. It’s easy to bash a minority that no one supports. Gay jokes get guaranteed laughs and make you the hit of the party. And of course to sympathize with gay people might mean YOU are really GAY…so best to shut up. Childish, immature, unjust, uncivilized and barbaric, but “who cares, as long as I look straight!" And why are so many Americans so smug about their arrogance towards GLBT bias? Because they have people who agree with them. A mob. A mob who pats them on the back for throwing rocks at us, laughing all the way. America is ruled by the "herd mentality". If you don't think like us, then you must be one of them! And it’s a fact that people will criticize anything that doesn’t involve them. Anything we don’t do or that doesn’t jive with who we think we are…we find fault with. We all have self-centered perspectives that work to put down our opposites and fight to preserve ourselves at the expense of others, making negative stereotypes and demonizing our opponents. Whether a race, nation, sports team or political group, everyone criticizes the other guy: Rich vs. Poor, Conservatives vs. Liberals, Men vs. Women, Blacks vs. Whites, Christians vs. non-Christian... Straights vs. Gays. It's a self-preservation technique that all humans use to survive, forming groups and making enemies. All people do this, but it is humanity at its worst. And what about some American heterosexual women? Well some homophobic women may not accept gay men for another reason. We are not available to them. How many times have women learned that a man they were attracted to was gay, only to retort from their bruised egos, “What a waste!” And I once heard a woman who encountered a group of gay men, say in astonishment…“I felt invisible. No one paid any attention to me!” She was prejudiced because she was sexually ignored! But most homophobic women can't accept gay people because of the same reason that straight homophobic men can't accept gay people; because we are not like them and do not participate in their same games and rituals. And since we don't do the things that they do, they can't understand us...we are different. We are aliens. We are against nature. But why would some women object? Women may like that men are more feminine: kinder, gentler, more understanding... at the same time, they perceive feminine men to be weak. And it is one thing to be friends with a feminine man and another thing to marry a feminine man. Again the perception is weakness. They want their man STRONG. And if anyone is going to be feminine, it will be them, not other men. Some people want their boundaries well defined and gay men and women blur that line. But there are exceptions of many women who ARE accepting of gay men because many of us think more like them. They can relate and talk to us, while many women can't talk to their own husbands or boyfriends because for men, talking about feelings is well...too sensitive and too feminine. For awhile there, it was great that girls were like guys. Tomboys were fun and just like one of the guys. But now that America has gotten wind that some women who dress and act like guys might be lesbian…"Well that’s different". S ome straight men have sexual fantasies about lipstick lesbians…so why is there no problem there? But then again, is it perhaps that lesbians are not interested in straight men? Or because they find that some lesbians are better at doing things than they are? There are some lesbians who can not only fix a sink, but win a kickboxing tournament. And of course, heterosexual couples are against gay people because well, if they have a child who might be gay, they won’t have grandchildren, depriving them of their fantasy family life as well as bringing shame to them and their good name. Having a gay child is an embarrassment. So because it doesn’t work to their advantage, we are despised. We are harassed and denied rights because there are NO BENEFITS for them. They don't have any reason to support us because basically, they don't get anything in return. Why bother with gay people. "What's in it for me?" That is why they won't condone the "gay lifestyle". (As if we need their approval to be ourselves.) And because we do not physically participate in the heterosexual way to make a family...they accuse us of being AGAINST the family! Ridiculous. And to have a gay child is the ultimate humiliation for them. The parents of the gay child go into their own closet because they will lose their place in their club. “What will the neighbors think?” Of course the father blames the mother because their child is gay, she must have feminized the child. “It's your fault that he's a mama's boy!” Or the father blames himself for a gay son..."I should have played more ball with him when he was young." (Like playing ball makes a child straight?) We are an embarrassment to our self-centered parents. And some parents kick their own child out of the family, because we make them look bad. "No child of mine, could be gay!" So, why do homophobic Americans hate us? Because they selfishly are protecting their own interests and that involves destroying ours. Because we are not like them, they dismiss our lives, doing everything they can to keep us out of their schools, neighborhoods, work places and churches, making rules, regulations and laws to make sure we stay out. Much of it is based on fear, that if we gay people have our way, we will somehow take over, and surround them, and there will no longer be a straight world! Well calm down, there is and will always be plenty of straight people to keep the world going. No one is trying to take anything away from you. We respect straight society, straight marriage and the biological family. But we just want to be included, respected and allowed to live peacefully and with integrity, without the fear of being gawked at, judged, bashed and denied our humanity...continously. The same prejudice used against Blacks and Jews and other minorities...is still alive in us GLBT people. Americans have progressed some in civil rights…but are we really that far ahead or just more clever in how we hide our prejudices? Of course homophobic Christians deny that it has anything to do with that. They shout that homosexuality is against God, against the Bible, it is not natural, yada, yada. "The Bible is CLEAR...homosexuality is a SIN!" Well, I say..."The Bible is VERY CLEAR...“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get."- Matthew 7:1-2 W hatever their reasoning...they are practicing prejudice, stereotyping, bias and bashing, which is something Jesus Christ (in the Bible) taught against! They can't seem to see that they're breaking Jesus' basic teachings by judging us, looking down on us, making us outcasts and ganging up against us just as the Pharisees treated people they viewed as "sinners." These Christians all say they are following Jesus, but they conveniently forget that Jesus welcomed all these outcasts without reservations. Jesus spent not His ministry screaming at "sinners", but loving and accepting them. It was the Pharisees He screamed at for the way they perverted God's message, judging all those around them and making God unattainable, yet they themselves living in gross hypocrisy. A Christian man today is even thought to have integrity by standing up against the perceived sin of gay people. Such a man is branded righteous. They practice “righteous prejudice.” There is on record the unnamed televangelist (who was caught with a prostitute and asked for forgiveness) stated that he would KILL any gay man who approached him. Real Christian behavior from a “Man of God” who proudly admits he will break one of the Ten Commandments of God and think that God will justify it. Many homophobic straight Christians justify their discrimination saying WE are disobeying God, but if they are so against us because we are breaking the commandments of God, why are they not using that same fury and rage towards their own brands of immorality? Teenagers are having non-stop premarital sex, there is a 50% divorce rate, 50% (or more) cheating rate. Adult sex runs rampant in our society as a healthy way to find each other's soul mate and I don't hear any "Focus on Family" groups screaming about that or making laws to make unwed sex a crime or laws to stop divorce (the real danger to marriage) or even laws to ban porn from the internet or sex and violence on TV. Why? Because that would mean all their friends, families, co-workers, pastors and church members would be in their line of attack. And that would make them VERY UNPOPULAR. And no one wants to make premarital sex, divorce or remarrying against the law, because...what if their own marriage doesn't work out? Or their teenage kid might get caught having sex with another teen...and I know every red-blooded American male, Christian or nonChristian...takes an occasional peek at internet porn...and what would we watch if they stopped all the killing, sex and adultery on our soap operas and TV shows...so...we'll just keep our mouths shut about lust, fornication, adultery, remarrying and divorce. Besides, "God will forgive me and my family, we're Christians." But homosexuals...they're an abomination to God! So the real reason that homophobic people can’t relate to us is because we are not like them, we are a small minority…so therefore…we are NOT normal but perverse. They stick to their convictions and justify their prejudice, yet the average American doesn’t even know ANY gay person personally. We are the BOOGIE MAN. The new punching bag. They believe the stereotypes about us and make judgments and think God supports them. They have embraced bias, prejudice, injustice and vote on laws preventing gay people any rights to happiness going against what America stands for: the pursuit of happiness...liberty and justice for all...unless you are gay. The church has become the leader in its fight to destroy the lives of gay people because we are the enemy. Somehow now, according to another famous Christian televangelist…we are the cause of terrorist attacks, tsunamis, earthquakes, and floods!!! Really?! Wow, who knew we had so much power! But then I hear that these loudmouthed televangelists don't represent the feelings of the majority of Christians, but if this is true...why DON'T they speak up about it? They are tight lipped not wanting to offend their own, but in the course they have offended and ostracized the gay community, an entire population of people who need Jesus Christ. No one wants to side with gay people because others might THINK they are gay, sinful, or a supporter of sinful people, but again I will say...Jesus was a supporter of sinful people...ALL OF US, gay, straight or otherwise. And they are so proud to be Americans. America the land where you can be yourself and not be persecuted...and then they persecute us. So I say to those Christian Americans who justify their cold, judgmental and unrighteous behavior towards us, I will remind them of the words of Jesus: "...'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.' " - Matthew 25:40 So though most American Christians pride themselves as being moral, fair-minded, intelligent and godly people of integrity; they are really running on their prejudices, fears and insecurities, stroking their egocentric sense of superiority and manipulated by peer pressure more than they are on Jesus Christ, who taught that prejudice of any kind has no place in the life of any humble servant of God.

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A Maine nonprofit paid some of its workers with disabilities as little as $2 to $3 an hour, while consistently paying top managers six-figure salaries, according to a BDN review of the organization’s tax filings and a federal investigation report. One year, the organization paid a manager $570,000, which an accounting expert called “stunningly high.” Skills Inc., based in the Somerset County town of St. Albans, is the only employer remaining in Maine that pays some of its workers with disabilities less than the state minimum wage, under a little known federal law from 1938. But while it has paid an employee as little as $2.14 per hour, it quadrupled a former manager’s salary between tax years 2006 and 2013, ultimating paying him $569,844 in tax year 2013, according to the nonprofit’s tax documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service. It was an increase of almost $260,000 over the previous year. In that time, Skills also more than doubled its then-CEO’s salary, paying him a high of $217,596 in tax year 2013. The nonprofit’s tax year runs from July 1 to June 30. Skills offers residential and day programming in Somerset and Kennebec counties to people with intellectual disabilities, and its largest source of revenue is Medicaid, which is funded with a combination of state and federal tax dollars. In tax year 2015, Skills reported $13.8 million in total revenue. The organization also offers its clients jobs for pay that’s based on their determined productivity level, regardless of the state’s minimum wage, sorting items for its thrift store, cleaning area businesses, and packaging candle wicks and other goods. It used to employ clients at a St. Albans sawmill called Sebasticook Lumber. “At SKILLS, Inc. we believe that meaningful employment is one of the cornerstones of a happy life,” states its website. On its tax forms, Skills defines the enterprises where it employs clients, such as the thrift stores and lumber mill, as programs of the nonprofit, which means the organization can funnel any revenue it receives back into its operations. But the former mill manager, Vernon Martin, received an annual bonus of 25 percent of the sawmill’s earnings between tax years 2009 and 2013 instead of returning that revenue to the organization, according to the nonprofit’s tax forms. In tax year 2013, Skills ran almost $500,000 in the red, while Martin collected his largest paycheck yet. Former CEO Tom Davis also received a bonus starting in tax year 2009: 10 percent of the earnings of the nonprofit’s thrift stores, kennel and cleaning service. In tax year 2011 Davis started earning an additional bonus of 10 percent of the sawmill’s earnings. Skills sold the sawmill in 2016. “We acknowledge that not all decisions made were the best decisions and some of those decisions created unplanned, unforeseen and unintended programmatic and financial challenges for the organization,” wrote the current executive director, Stephanie Johnson, in an email to the BDN. During the time Skills owned the sawmill, it didn’t have to pay property tax on the facility due to its nonprofit status, according to the St. Albans town office. [‘I have something still to give’] While the Skills board of directors allowed the two nonprofit administrators to receive a combined $3.44 million over seven years, the nonprofit was violating the subminimum wage law. Skills accrued 75 violations between 2001 and 2016 as a result of insufficiently paying its workers with disabilities — the most of any other Maine employer in that time, according to U.S. Department of Labor enforcement data. Skills’ financial and operational details, gleaned from public records, show the latitude employers have to make decisions about the compensation of people with disabilities. They also call into question the validity of a law that allows employers to pay people less “whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by a physical or mental disability, including those relating to age or injury,” if the employers can prove the workers are not as productive as others. “Even if they paid [workers] minimum wage, that’s outrageous. That’s just unheard of,” said Gail Fanjoy when told about the salaries and bonuses paid to the Skills administrators. Fanjoy is a board member of the Maine chapter of the Association of People Supporting Employment First, and is executive director of KFI, based in Millinocket, which provides job coaching and day programs to people with disabilities. “I’m absolutely speechless.” Johnson, who served as Skills’ director of finance from 2010 to 2016, when she took over as executive director, said Skills’ financial history is “not relevant to who we are today. We’re a lot different than we were back then.” She noted that Davis, as the CEO during that time, and the board of directors were responsible for decisions about compensation. “The Board acknowledges that more attention should have been given to monitoring and adjusting those plans and changes should have been made in a more timely fashion,” Johnson wrote in an email. As the director of finance, Johnson earned an average salary of $80,000 between tax years 2011 and 2015. As executive director, she does not receive a bonus based on program revenue, she said. The organization couldn’t employ as many people with disabilities if it didn’t pay them a subminimum wage, she said. It currently employs 47 people at subminimum wages, according to Johnson. The chairman of the board, Jack Dyer, did not return four phone calls. Five other board members, who were responsible for reviewing performance and approving compensation, declined to comment or did not return phone calls. Davis did not return five phone calls over three weeks. ‘Some compliance issues’ The subminimum wage was first established by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Maine and other states have gradually moved away from the practice. New Hampshire became the first state to abolish the subminimum wage in 2015, and fewer Maine employers have been using it in recent years. In 2013, 13 Maine employers obtained subminimum wage certificates — which are good for two years — from both the U.S. Department of Labor and the Maine Department of Labor to allow them to pay subminimum wages, according to the Maine Department of Labor. In 2015, eight employers were authorized. Today, Skills is the only one paying employees a subminimum wage after Pine Tree Society, based in Bath, stopped using it July 1. “We believe in discovering people’s abilities and helping them grow and live more fully,” said Terry Berkowitz, the chief operating officer at Pine Tree Society, which serves children and adults with disabilities. “We just felt like the subminimum wage doesn’t … align well with that general philosophy.” The practice of paying people with disabilities less than minimum wage has been heavily debated in disability rights circles in Maine and around the country, with employers arguing it allows some people to have job opportunities they otherwise wouldn’t qualify for. Others decry it as discriminatory and outdated, and as pushing people toward menial tasks when more rewarding jobs exist that could be better suited to their strengths. Employers decide how much to pay people with disabilities by timing them at certain job tasks and then comparing their speed to the speed and pay of non-disabled employees elsewhere. That means the subminimum wage employer must call at least three other firms to devise an average baseline wage, say, for cleaning a bathroom. It then compensates its workers with disabilities at a commensurate level — for example, paying them half of the baseline wage if they take twice as long to clean a bathroom as workers without disabilities. There is no minimum amount workers with disabilities can earn. What has been less debated in Maine is the limited government oversight over employers paying people a subminimum wage. It’s largely up to the employer to set wages, which legally could be as little as a few cents per hour; there is no independent approval or review of the pay rates. The Maine Department of Labor does not know which individuals receive subminimum wages, nor does it check to ensure workers are in positions that best suit their abilities. It’s often only when there’s a complaint and subsequent investigation that families and communities can know how people who are blind, or have Down Syndrome or autism, are faring at work. “We have to go on the same system, the same methodology that we use for every other employer in the state of Maine,” said Pam Megathlin, the director of the Bureau of Labor Standards at the Maine Department of Labor. “It’s just like any other wage-and-hour law. We are not out there knocking on the door of every employer to make sure they’re in compliance every day.” Between 2001 and 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor investigated nine Maine employers and discovered a total of 292 subminimum wage violations; the department required back pay of about $42,800 to 213 employees. Skills accumulated the greatest single number of wage violations: 75, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Most of Skills’ violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act occurred between 2013 and 2015. At the time of the federal investigation in 2015, Skills employed 80 workers across seven programs who were eligible to be paid subminimum wage. Of those 80 workers, 70 were improperly paid. The cause of subminimum wage violations at Skills varied from worker to worker, according to the investigation reports requested under the Freedom of Information Act. Investigators found Skills made math errors when computing the wages, and failed to conduct time studies every six months, as employers are required to do. In some cases it didn’t conduct time studies at all. It also didn’t keep records of the results of certain time studies, appeared to have copied results from previous time studies and didn’t adjust wages after conducting studies. Investigators also found that Skills improperly conducted wage surveys, such as by not contacting enough outside employers or not providing their sources’ contact information as they’re required to do. Davis, Skills’ CEO at the time of the investigation, told investigators that the violations might have resulted from the “decentralized nature” of Skills’ operations, according to the 2015 investigation report. Each program was in charge of handling its subminimum wage operations. In some cases, workers either did not have the training to follow the subminimum wage requirements, or they did not do work they were supposed to do. “Yes, we did have some compliance issues that needed to be addressed,” Johnson, Skills’ current executive director, said. “We did address them immediately and implemented a new system of controls and protocols and procedures to make sure that those deficiencies did not happen again. All compensation and pay was appropriately corrected.” It was the eighth time Skills, or one of its programs, had been investigated by the U.S. Department of Labor. A 2010 investigation resulted in five subminimum wage violations for Sebasticook Lumber. A 2001 investigation into Sebasticook Farms found one violation. (Sebasticook Farms was the former name for Skills before it merged with Ken-A-Set, a Waterville thrift store, in 2005.) Three investigations into Ken-A-Set in 1992 found 51 subminimum wage violations. Two other investigations found no subminimum wage violations but did find one violation of the Family and Medical Leave Act for Skills’ failure to reinstate an employee after that employee took leave. After all the investigations, Skills owed its subminimum-wage employees back wages totalling $38,879. Employers nationwide have been found to incorrectly pay their workers with disabilities. Between 1997 and 2016, there were 77,855 subminimum wage violations across the country, requiring employers to pay their workers with disabilities about $16.5 million in back wages, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s enforcement data. “There’s all sorts of ways you can get in trouble if the federal government or the state Department of Labor chose to really dig around,” said Fanjoy, with KFI. “It’s a lot to go through to not pay people minimum wage.” Congress has moved to limit the use of subminimum wages nationwide by requiring workers currently being paid one to receive information about job-help services available through their state Division of Vocational Rehabilitation programs, which can match them with training, adaptive equipment, experiences to learn on the job and, eventually, higher-paying jobs for which they can apply. The new rules require workers to meet with vocational rehabilitation staff no later than July 22, and once a year thereafter. As of July 10, about two-thirds of people receiving the subminimum wage at Skills had been told about vocational rehabilitation services, said Julie Rabinowicz, the director of policy, operations and communication for the Maine Department of Labor. “About 85 percent of the clients have expressed an interest in working somewhere else and earning minimum wage or better, and are therefore planning to apply for services with vocational rehabilitation,” she said. Johnson said Skills “fully supports” vocational rehabilitation services “to integrate folks with intellectual or any other type of disability into competitive employment.” At Skills, workers paid the subminimum wage are also residents of its day programs. They typically work 10 hours a week — two hours a day, Monday through Friday, according to the 2015 investigation report. Skills also offers in-home assistance to people with disabilities, such as help taking medications or house cleaning, if they are living independently or in group homes. Though they can and do earn more than minimum wage based on their productivity, Skills’ clients currently work for a subminimum wage in three areas, Johnson said: as custodial staff, making and assembling goods under contracts with outside companies, and sorting goods for Skills Inc. Thrift Store in Skowhegan. All employees who dismantle and refurbish computers for Skills’ eWaste Alternatives computer recycling program earn at least the state minimum wage, in addition to those who work at the front of the thrift store. Currently, most of the people earning subminimum wage work behind the scenes at the thrift store — “some of whom have been working in support of the store for a very long time, love their jobs and have come to rely on the money they earn,” Johnson said. The store has operated at a loss for years. The subminimum wage, Fanjoy argued, is unfair from the start. “No one times me in my job and pays me less than a fellow executive director. The rest of society doesn’t operate like that,” she said. “There’s this huge population of people, often with intellectual and developmental disabilities, that are subjected to those kinds of archaic practices, put in positions that they’re lousy at by virtue often of their disability, and paid substandardly.” ‘Stunningly high’ Having a sawmill as a program of a nonprofit raised questions for Gloria Vollmers, a professor of accounting at the University of Maine who reviewed information from Skills’ 990 tax forms filed with the IRS. At issue is whether the sawmill employed enough people with disabilities to warrant it being a nonprofit service. “Where does the gray area end in which you can have a business within a nonprofit and still call it a nonprofit?” she said. Between tax years 2006 and 2015, the sawmill employed an average of 10 people with disabilities each year at subminimum wage, out of roughly 30 to 40 employees total, according to the 2010 and 2015 investigation reports. Martin, who oversaw their work, received $148,109 in tax year 2006. While the workers with disabilities continued to earn less than minimum wage, his compensation rose each year, and in tax year 2008 he started collecting a portion of the mill’s earnings. Between tax years 2009 and 2013, he received an average bonus of $211,156 per year on top of an average salary of $113,300. “That just struck me as stunningly high,” Vollmers said. Martin could not be located for comment. Johnson declined to provide his contact information, and no phone number or email was publicly available. A small-sized sawmill in Maine would normally pay a mill manager “in the neighborhood of $80,000 to $100,000 plus benefits,” said Don Tardie, who was involved in the wood products industry for 45 years, most recently serving as the managing director of the Maine Woods Company, a hardwood lumber manufacturer based in Portage. In tax year 2009, the year Martin started collecting a share of sawmill revenue, Davis also started receiving a bonus based on the performance of Skills’ business enterprises. He received 10 percent of the net earnings of several of the organization’s enterprises. In tax year 2011, Davis began earning an additional bonus of 10 percent of the mill’s net earnings, according to the tax forms. On average, these bonuses netted him an additional $29,700 per year in addition to his base salary of $120,000, not including benefits, for four years. “Any non-profit makes a profit, but they make a profit that is plowed back in the organization, so you don’t generally give it to the director or managers as bonuses,” said Carolyn Ball, an associate professor of public policy and management with the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine. Paying high salaries and awarding bonuses is not illegal, Ball noted, but it does raise further questions about how an entity is using its money to serve clients. These concerns were echoed by Fanjoy, of KFI, after she learned about the extent of the bonuses. “When we had a thrift store, for example, then the money would come into the organization,” she said. “I can’t imagine why you would set it up to benefit any one person, especially an administrator.” The Skills board’s choice to allow bonuses came at the expense of the bottom line. In tax year 2013, Skills ran almost $500,000 in the red. This was the same year Davis and Martin collected their highest salaries. “They paid themselves and not their agency,” Fanjoy said. “[The board members] totally, absolutely failed to do their job.” ‘Spirit of maintaining employment’ Today, the sawmill is showing that it’s possible to pay people with disabilities a minimum wage and still stay in business. When Martin, the mill manager, left in tax year 2013, Robert Zelie, who had worked with Skills as a log buyer, took over the operations. Under Zelie, workers with disabilities received a raise in pay; all employees were making at least minimum wage by January 2015. Davis, the CEO, retired in 2016, the same year Skills sold the sawmill to Zelie, who has continued to employ workers with disabilities without using the subminimum wage. They are still employed there today, making the same wages as their coworkers without disabilities. “When I bought the mill, I bought it in the spirit of maintaining employment for these people,” Zelie said. “We’re still trying to do it with people in mind and employment, not so much just the bottom line.” Maine Focus is a journalism and community engagement initiative at the Bangor Daily News. Questions? Write to mainefocus@bangordailynews.com.

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species †Vitimia evoluta Sharov, 1968: Orthoptera Species File Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0) Home Search Taxa Key Help Wiki Taxa hierarchy This is your first entry to the "Taxa hierarchy" display. You can modify these specifications at any time by clicking the "Change items displayed" button in the header. Note: If you want your changes to be preserved for future sessions, you should login. To do this, click on the logo in the upper left corner. suborder Ensifera family †Vitimiidae Sharov, 1968 genus †Vitimia Sharov, 1968 species †Vitimia evoluta Sharov, 1968 urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:24185 Ecology: Terrestrial. Specimen records are available. Citations: Sharov. 1968. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 118:167 [171] >> Vitimia evoluta urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:24185 Gorochov. 1995. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 260:57 >> Vitimia evoluta Type specimen information: Type locality: Asia-Temperate, Siberia, Buryatiya, Baissa, Transbaikalia; Cretaceous: Lower Cretaceous, Turga series Kind of type: holotype Specimen category: fossil Home Search Taxa Key Help Wiki | Top of page Copyright © 2022. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – Revlon Consumer Products Corporation is being sued for alleged false advertising of its “DNA Advantage” products in federal court. Revlon is facing a consumer fraud class action lawsuit that was filed by two women who claimed the company made false and misleading claims regarding the benefits of various beauty products that include a statement that they include “DNA Advantage” in them. Anne Elkind and Sharon Rosen, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, claim the products are advertised as providing a “DNA Advantage” despite the fact that none of the products can stimulate, interact with or otherwise affect the genetic code in human skin cells, according to a complaint filed April 17 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Revlon claims in its federal trademark registration that “DNA Advantage” refers to an “ingredient in the manufacturing of cosmetics and makeup to protect against UV rays,” which is basically nothing more than sunscreen, according to the suit. “Revlon’s deliberate use of the phrase ‘with DNA Advantage,’ rather than ‘with sunscreen,’ is likely to deceive ordinary consumers into thinking that there is something particularly scientifically-important and beneficial about these three cosmetic products, certainly over and above anything having to do with mere protection from UV rays in the form of simple sunscreen,” the complaint states. This deception is especially aggravated by Revlon’s concurrent use of the phrase “Age Defying” as part of the overall “Revlon Age Defying with DNA Advantage” brand name, the suit says. The plaintiffs claim Revlon’s packaging of the products features a double-helix design characteristic of the shape of deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA molecules, which could further deceive ordinary consumers. “Plaintiffs paid more for the products than they otherwise would have absent these statements, and would not have been willing to pay the prices they did, or to purchase them at all, absent the misrepresentations,” the complaint states. The plaintiffs claim Revlon used unfair and deceptive business practices; false advertising; negligent misrepresentation; intentional misrepresentation; violated of the Unfair Competition law; violated the California False Advertising law; violated the California Consumers Legal Remedies Act; breached express and implied warranties; and unjustly enriched itself. The plaintiffs are seeking for an order declaring the action to be a proper class action; an order enjoining Revlon from selling the Age Defying DNA Advantage products; an order enjoining Revlon from selling Age Defying DNA Advantage products in a false or misleading manner; an order requiring Revlon to engage in a corrective advertising campaign; an order requiring Revlon to pay the nationwide class restitution; and compensatory and punitive damages. They are being represented by Jack Fitzgerald and Thomas A. Canova of the Law Office of Jack Fitzgerald PC; and Ronald A. Marron of the Law Offices of Ronald A. Marron APLC. The plaintiffs’ attorneys could not be reached for comment. The case has been assigned to District Judge Arthur D. Spatt. U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York case number: 2:14-cv-02484 From Legal Newsline: Kyla Asbury can be reached at class actions@legalnewsline.com. Original Story: Class action filed against Revlon over ‘DNA Advantage’

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ESPN College GameDay built by the Home Depot is coming to the UH Campus Nov. 18-19 and Cougar fans are encouraged to come out and show their support for the nation's 10th-ranked football program! Below is some information to assist you as you plan on coming over for this historic on-campus celebration. Game Day Location GameDay will set up on the Cullen Circle, adjacent to the Cullen Performance Hall and the University Center, beginning Thursday morning. The show will go on air Friday at various times throughout the morning with live hits and fans are encouraged to come out to see the set and the crew. The Saturday morning show gets started at 8 a.m. on ESPNU and continues on ESPN from 9-11 a.m. There are two primary locations for fans to watch GameDay on Saturday. ESPN will open a "Pit" right behind the stage, which can accommodate approximately 300 fans. This is a controlled area and food, drink, backpacks and signs on poles are prohibited in this specific area. This area will be opened to fans at 6 a.m., two hours before the start of the show. The second area is just behind the ESPN "Pit" and is the large area of fans often seen on GameDay broadcasts. Fans are encouraged to bring signs in support of UH Football and fans will have free access to move throughout the Cullen Circle and surrounding areas. ESPN will provide sound and large video screens to allow thousands of fans to see andhear the show regardless of location on the Circle. UH and ESPN will have security on location, so any signs displaying offensive language or deemed to be in poor taste will be confiscated, so let's not only show the country we are some of the best and most creative fans in America, but also some of the classiest as well! When Should I Arrive? Come early and celebrate this incredible achievement. Only 12 schools get an opportunity to host ESPN GameDay each year and this is a first for the UH campus. GameDay will let the first 300 fans into its "Pit" right behind the stage, but there will be plenty of space on the Cullen Circle and in front of the Cullen Performance Hall for fans to see the show. Camping will be prohibited, but fans arrive as early as 4 a.m. to welcome the GameDay crew to campus! Parking The UH community is encouraging fans traveling into Saturday's game to park in their normal game day locations. If you have a reserved parking pass for the game, we ask that you park in your designated lot and walk over to the set, which is located next to the University Center. Parking will be available at 5 a.m. Cash (single game) parking will also open at 5 a.m. These lots around the GameDay set are $10 Cash lots located the Game Day site are lots 20A and 1B/1E. They are located on Calhoun Road and University Drive. If you are a student and live on campus, the set is located next to the Moody Towers. Limited parking will be available in the UH Welcome Center Parking Garage for fans driving in specifically to see ESPN GameDay. The Welcome Center Garage is located at the intersection of University Drive and Calhoun Road. Fans may also park in the cash lots around the stadium and campus as well. Parking PDF What Should I Bring? First of all, wear RED! It's a Cougar Game Day and we always encourage our fans to wear RED! Bring your signs! UHCougars.com will give away a team store gift card for the most creative signs as well as a team store gift card for the best CaseKeenum For Heisman Sign! Fans can submit their nominations by emailing UHCougarsDotCom@Gmail.com. Fans will need to send pictures of their signs while on the GameDay sight on Saturday in order to be eligible. Also, please tweet us your pictures @UHCougarFootball and hashtag #UHGameDay. Social Media Tweet a picture of your ESPN College GameDay sign to Houston Head Coach Kevin Sumlin (@CoachSumlin) with a hashtag #UHGameDay for your chance to win an autographed football. Fans must follow @CoachSumlinon Twitter to be eligible. Fans are encouraged to hashtag #UHGameDay on Twitter. Fans can also get more information by following @UHCougarFB on Twitter and Houston Cougar Football on Facebook. Fans can also send pics in to UHCougarsDotCom@gmail.comor use the hashtag #UHGameDay for a fan photo gallery. Official UH GameDay Merchandise 2404 Southwest Frwy (between Greenbriar/Shepherd and Kirby) Houston, TX 77098-4602 (between Greenbriar/Shepherd and Kirby) Houston, TX 77098-4602 5500 Spencer Hwy3 (at Beltway 8) Pasadena, TX 77505 (at Beltway 8) Pasadena, TX 77505 16610 US Hwy 59 (at First Colony Blvd) Sugar Land, TX 77479-2330 21351 Gulf Freeway Webster, TX 77598 Cheez-It Real FanCam Going to be a GameDay on Saturday? Make sure you check out the Cheez-it Real FanCam at GameDay. The FanCam takes a panoramic picture of the crowd at GameDay and you can go online browse through the crowd, find you and your friends and share your GameDay experience. You can also create customized shirts and posters of your GameDay. Check out the FanCam from last week at Stanford... here Check back on Sunday afternoon to see the Houston FanCam, and try to find yourself here. Key Dates / Times Date Events Nov. 17, Thursday GameDay crew begins stage setup Nov. 18, Friday ESPN will begin live hits from the UH campus Nov. 19, Saturday 4 a.m. Cullen Circle will open Nov. 19, Saturday 6 a.m. ESPN will begin screening fans for entrance into the "Pit" Nov. 19, Saturday 8 a.m. ESPN GameDay begins broadcast on ESPNU Nov. 19, Saturday 9 a.m. ESPN switches its coverage over to ESPN Nov. 19, Saturday 11 a.m. ESPN finishes its show and begins to breakdown the set Nov. 19, Saturday 2:30 p.m. Kickoff at Robertson Stadium UH vs. SMU Senior Day 2011 Directions 1. UH Fan Shop, both on campus and University Bookstore.2. The College Store3. Academy Sports & Outdoors From Hobby Airport Follow the exit signs from airport to I-45 North Stay on I-45 North Exit Elgin-Lockwood Cullen (44a) Turn Left on Elgin at the stoplight Stay on Elgin as it curves to the right Turn left into UH entrance #18 at the stoplight From Downtown / George Bush Intercontinental Airport/Houston (IAH) Follow the exit signs from the airport to I-45 South Stay on I-45 South through downtown Houston Exit Spur 5 South Turn right on University Dr. (the first stoplight) At the next stoplight you are across the street from UH - this is UH Entrance #1 Saturday, Nov. 12 ESPN Announces GameDay Coming To UH Campus HOUSTON- The University of Houston is pleased to announce that ESPN's College GameDay is coming to the UH campus for the first time in school history next Saturday (Nov. 19), in conjunction with the 2:30 p.m., regular-season home finale vs. SMU. Many details will follow throughout the week, but Cougar fans of all ages are encouraged to display their support for the show during its stay in town. "This is an incredible opportunity for the nation to see what is taking place at the University of Houston," Director of Athletics Mack Rhoades said. "We thank ESPN and Home Depot for this outstanding event and we salute the work of our student-athletes, our coaches, our staff and our fans for making this event a reality." UH officials are working with ESPN on location details, which will be announced as soon as they're available, likely early Monday. The show will originate from the UH campus on Friday (noon to 2 p.m. CT) as well as the Saturday show which runs from 8-11 a.m. CT. Fans are invited to come out to the activities on both days and show the country their support for the nation's No. 11-ranked program. "This is part of the championships culture we are building here at the University ofHouston," Head Coach Kevin Sumlinsaid. "Not just on the field, but for our student-athletes in the classroom, in the community and the involvement of our fans and alumni, this is what we have all worked towards. This is an opportunity to show the country what UH Athletics is all about." Houston is one of just five undefeated teams remaining in college football and is coming off a 73-17 win on Thursday at Tulane. UH is scoring points and racking up yardage at record rates. The 2011 Cougars are averaging 628.8 yards per game this season, the most in NCAA history. The team is also scoring 54.7 points per game, the most since Army (56.0 ppg) in 1944. Tickets for Saturday's game are sold out. Cougar fans will witness the final regular-season home game for a senior class that includes school and NCAA record holders Tyron Carrier, Patrick Edwards, Case Keenum and Marcus McGraw. Stay tuned to www.UHCougars.com for more details and updates on this exciting event!

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Mariners' Luis Sardinas proves worth as utility man, tosses perfect eighth inning against Cubs Despite intermittent showers sprinkling Wrigley Field throughout the day, the Cubs dispatched the visiting Mariners, 12-1, on Friday. As tends to happen these days in one-sided contests, the M's trotted out a position player to pitch the eighth and save a fresh bullpen arm for the weekend. That position player was infielder Luis Sardinas, who set down a trio of Cubs in order on eight pitches, using fastballs ranging from 79-82 mph and a 66-mph curve to retire Addison Russell on a hard grounder to third, Jason Heyward on a nubber back to the mound and Javier Baez on a deep fly to left. His time out there was so enjoyable that he couldn't help but crack a smile at how things were going: With his team trailing by a dozen runs at the time, having sat through a 74-minute rain delay and just embarking on a stretch of 32 games in 33 days, Mariners skipper Scott Servais figured it was the right time to lean on a position player to pitch for the first time this season. "It was my first time on the mound in professional baseball," said the 23-year-old. "I didn't try to do too much, just tried to throw the ball right down the middle." "Tremendous job," said Servais. "He threw the ball downhill, had a little breaking ball. That's not easy, with the rain delay and we're down like that." With that appearance, the versatile Sardinas proved his worth as a utility man -- as he's now seen game duty at shortstop, second base, third base, first base, left field and the pitcher's mound this season. That's how to earn your keep at the big league level.

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Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino says changes to his formation in the second half were key as they beat Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino says changes to his formation in the second half were key as they beat Bournemouth 1-0 Mauricio Pochettino claimed a half-time formation change was the key to Tottenham's 1-0 victory over Bournemouth at Wembley. Spurs were without the in-form Ben Davies through illness which caused boss Pochettino to make a tactical change as he switched from his now-favoured 3-4-2-1 formation to a 4-2-3-1 instead, with Jan Vertonghen shuffling across into a left-back role. However, with Spurs struggling to carve open the Bournemouth defence, Pochettino reverted back to 3-4-2-1 at the interval with Vertonghen moving into a wing-back role and Eric Dier dropping into the back three. It was a change that paid off almost instantly as Christian Eriksen fired in the only goal of the game two minutes into the second half. Speaking post-match, Pochettino said: "They [Bournemouth] played so deep in the first half and we made some mistakes in the first half with our positioning and offensive set-up and we found it difficult to move the ball quickly and break them down. Mauricio Pochettino directs his Spurs side from the touchline at Wembley "In the second half we worked and tried to fix that, we made some changes to our formation in possession and I think that was good because we began to dominate and create a lot of chances." Spurs' form at their temporary home has been called into question as they failed to win any of their first three Premier League games at the national stadium, while winning all four of their away matches. Christian Eriksen attempts to get past Dan Gosling They looked to be in danger of dropping more points at home with the score locked at 0-0 at half-time but Eriksen's goal was enough to seal a valuable three points that keeps Spurs third in the table. With a big game against Real Madrid looming on Tuesday, Pochettino was pleased with his side's win and relieved to not have to answer any questions about his team's so-called 'Wembley curse'. 2:59 Tottenham 1-0 Bournemouth Tottenham 1-0 Bournemouth "It was important. It was a game we needed to win and take the three points and it was difficult but in the end our performance was enough to take the three points," he said. "In the Premier League you can always concede some chances, Jermain [Defoe] had one and Hugo Lloris made two big saves and was fantastic. "It's normal for you to ask [about Wembley] when we don't win here! But I am so pleased to avoid the question this week and hopefully for the rest of the season."

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According to the New York Times, Donald Trump has mostly been stashed away in his phallic Manhattan hotel, Trump Tower, since Friday, “increasingly isolated and upset.” Trump’s Saturday night plans, fear mongering and hate trolling with Paul Ryan in Wisconsin, were abruptly cancelled after a video of Trump saying of women “grab them by the pussy” was leaked, and no one wanted to hang out with him anymore. No biggie, Trump didn’t want to go anyway, so he avoided doing debate prep instead: “At times [Trump] was joined by his small circle of loyalists, who arrived to prepare him for Sunday night’s debate against Hillary Clinton but instead spent much of the time trying to figure out how to undo the damage wrought by the surfacing of an 11-year-old video recording on which he can be heard gleefully describing pushing himself on women and sexually assaulting them.” Trump spoke sporadically to reporters too, “but lacked his usual gusto,” the Times reports. Advertisement Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, visited him in his tower on Saturday, but Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump, did not. That same day, CNN released audio of Trump telling Howard Stern that his eldest daughter is “voluptuous” and that Stern can go right ahead and call her a “piece of ass.” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie have also spoken to Trump, according to the Washington Post’s anonymous Republican source. Apparently the two told Trump that he’d “have to apologize for the first time in [his] life.” Whether due to shamelessness or wanting to fuck with Christie, Trump did not do that. In conclusion, Trump’s properties have once again managed to squeeze free publicity from his violent idiocy. Trump Tower may hereafter be known as the detestation to weather a political mutiny, to unwind when everyone hates you, and to tweet on the toilet.

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Static Code Analysis Tools Static code analysis tools — analyze code without executing it. Generally used to find bugs or ensure conformance to coding guidelines. Helps to keep your code healthy and maintain code quality. On Android the most popular code analysis tools are: Lint PMD Findbugs I usually keep static code analysis scripts and related file in separate folder. Lint The lint tool checks your Android project source files for potential bugs and optimization improvements for correctness, security, performance, usability, accessibility, and internationalization. Config To add lint to your android project create script-lint.gradle file. Important lint options: lintConfig — path to lint rulesets file where you can suppress issues. htmlOutput — path where html report will be generated. Import script-lint.gradle to your build.gradle file. Test Rebuild your project and then run lint with ./gradlew lint command. In case it finds some issues you will see similar output. ./gradlew lint Execution failed for task ':app:lint. Lint found errors in the project; aborting build. Wrote HTML report to: template/app/build/outputs/lint/lint.html When you open lint.html report file you will see list of issues with description and advices how to fix them. In case you want to ignore this issues add following rule to rules-lint.xml file. Note: there are other ways how you can suppress lint warnings. More information about lint is available on official site. Findbugs Static code analysis tool that analyses Java bytecode and detects a wide range of problems. Config To add findbugs to your android project create script-findbugs.gradle file. Important findbugs options: excludeFilter — path to findbugs rulesets file where you can suppress issues. classes — path to generated classes (if you have more then one flavor, path consists of flavor name, in current case ‘dev’). source — path to source code. html.destination — path where html report will be generated. Import script-findbugs.gradle to your build.gradle file. Test For testing purposes we will create following method. Rebuild your project and then run findbugs with ./gradlew findbugs command. In case it finds some issues you will see similar output. >./gradlew findbugs Execution failed for task ':app:findbugs'. FindBugs rule violations were found. See the report at: template/app/build/outputs/findbugs/findbugs.html When you open findbugs.html report file you will see list of issues with description and advices how to fix them. In case you want to ignore this issues add following rule to rules-findbugs.xml file. Note: there are other ways how you can suppress findbugs warnings. More information about findbugs is available on official site. PMD PMD is a source code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. Config To add pmd to your android project create script-pmd.gradle file. Important pmd options: ruleSetFiles — path to pmd rulesets file where you can suppress issues and define which issues to track. source — path to source code. html.destination — path where html report will be generated. Import script-pmd.gradle to your build.gradle file. Test For testing purposes we will create following method. Rebuild your project and then run pmd with ./gradlew pmd command. In case it finds some issues you will see similar output. >./gradlew pmd Execution failed for task ':app:pmd. 7 PMD rule violations were found. See the report at: template/app/build/outputs/pmd/pmd.html When you open pmd.html report file you will see list of issues with description and advices how to fix them. In case you want to ignore this issues add following rule to rules-pmd.xml file. Note: there are other ways how you can suppress pmd warnings. More information about pmd is available on official site.

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In case you haven’t kept up with the latest news, there’s been a lot of talk about such a possibility these last few weeks.It’s almost as if they are testing the waters, seeing the people’s reaction, but most of all making sure they are completely terrified of such a possibility so as to make sure the mass goes along with them in their decision.For one second lets suppose the mad debt race is halted in August 02. What really happens?From our own experience we know that defaulting on your countries debt is indeed catastrophic as Wall Street and the politicians that work for them predict. What happens is that the US would fall into the feared 3rd world economy status Americans never want to experience. Worst of all, credibility is lost in a way people just don’t comprehend. When that sort of trust shatters, it’s like trying to put together a crystal cup: You can glue it back together but it will never be the same, the illusion is lost. Make no mistake, defaulting would cause poverty and a significant decrease in the American lifestyle for decades to come.But on the other hand you can’t avoid asking yourself, why do the creators of the greatest economic crisis known to man kind want to continue rising the debt level? What’s in it for them? Well my dear friends, it’s the mechanism they have been using to grow rich beyond their wildest dreams and doing so on by sending that debt to the American’s middle class through inflation and higher taxes, while the bailout money goes straight into their pockets.You may think billionaires are done for,t hey don’t care about money, and you’d be wrong. Few billionaires retire and spend the rest of their lives with their families in some far away beach paradise. The nature that made them rich in the first place makes them keep going for more and more money in spite of not needing it.Continue doing what has caused the economic crisis in the first place could hardly be called a solution. Would you fix your own debt situation by getting yet another credit card to burn and go further into debt? Of course not, we all know the hard choice that must be made. Cut down your expenses, save money and get out of debt. We all know thats the solution on an individual case and it’s the same thing here.If America puts an end to its ever growing debt not everything would be bad.First of all, on an elemental level it would stop the vicious debt cycle, both on an economic and political level. The greedy criminals that have caused this would have to find other ways of getting richer. The political cost would likely end the current administration in the next elections. That is if social unrest can be controlled and they don’t take the easy way out by resigning, forcing anticipated elections like it happened here.Second, a cheaper dollar would mean that America is at another level compared to foreign economies. A more competitive dollar would mean that “Made in USA” is viable on a broader spectrum, small and medium companies could be started and strive.The horizon looks bad either way. The decisions to be made aren’t easy and none offers a good, let alone ideal solution, but you still have to ask yourself if going further into debt is the right choice.I never knew anyone that got out of a hole by digging down even more or stopped a fire by throwing gasoline at it.These clearly are times to speed up your preparedness if you have been slacking. On an economic level I’d keep even more of my money out of the banks and put it into precious metals which will keep going up in price either way.After writing this post I did some googling, wondering “what does Ron Paul think about all this?” As usual the man doesn’t let you down. Ah, what a president he would have been.Read here “Ron Paul: U.S. Government Is Defaulting on the Average American All the Time so as to know why Dr. Ron Paul will vote NO on raising the ceiling and going further into debt.FerFAL

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Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from the new VeloPress book, “Fast After 50,” by Joe Friel. For more, read the entire excerpt of the chapter on high-intensity training. I turned 59 in 2014, and I have maintained a high level of fitness since I first began endurance racing in the late 1970s. Training with an emphasis on high-intensity intervals has been my preferred method of preparing for events throughout my career, which includes racing mountain bikes, road bikes, cyclocross, and Xterra triathlon. I made a few forays into long-distance events such as the Leadville 100 mountain bike race and the Ironman triathlon, but my preference is racing for one to four hours. I embrace a higher-intensity/lower-volume regimen partly because I love to suffer but also because of the race results I’ve achieved with this philosophy. I have a short attention span for training rides. I like the excitement of pushing the pace both on the climbs and descents as opposed to riding at a slower pace for a longer ride. A long ride for me is about three hours, and I rarely do more than one a week. Early in my career, I noticed that I was able to compete with and often beat riders who trained at much higher volumes, sometimes putting in 20 to 30 percent higher volumes than I did. I’m not saying that my peers should have been training differently, just that I could compete at the highest level while practicing my preferred method of relatively low volume. Racing with a high fitness level while training the way I prefer is a big motivator and the primary reason I have had longevity in endurance sports. As I get older, I need more time to recover, especially from longer rides. This need for recovery time combined with less time to train has made me emphasize intensity over volume even more. Several studies have shown that, although we all lose a certain percentage of our VO2 max over time, maintaining a schedule of high-intensity training significantly cuts the rate of decline in VO2 max. The two key factors that make training with high intensity possible and beneficial for the aging athlete are proper recovery and the motivation needed to push yourself. Here’s how I manage these at age 59. I’ve learned that by reducing volume, I’m more rested for high-intensity sessions, and by being rested, I can push myself harder during the intervals. Getting quality recovery by including massage, stretching, hydration, nutrition, and sleep enables me to build momentum in my fitness program. For motivation, I find that a mix of joining group workouts and using the website Strava is effective in helping me to push my intensity to high levels. Whether it’s our local Durango, Colorado, Tuesday-night ”world championships” or the Specialized Bicycles lunch ride, whenever I ride in a group training situation, I’m motivated to push myself. I know a lot of riders avoid these group rides because their egos get hurt if they get dropped, but the best way to get better at group rides is to do them. Learn when to pull and when to sit in, and determine what strategy you need to stay on as long as possible. Suffering is less noticeable in a group dynamic; you don’t have as much focus on the pain of the effort when you are making sure that you hang on to the wheel in front of you. Jumping across gaps or working with other riders to maintain a gap becomes a type of shared group pain, and I find it helps me push harder than when I train alone. Strava plays a big role in my specific high-intensity intervals. I have always pushed myself on certain segments in my training rides. If I am training for a power race, I do intervals on the flats and rollers. If there is race coming up with long climbs, I simulate that in my training. Now that Strava has become popular, course segments have start and finish lines, and I’m racing not only my own PR but also that of every other rider on Strava. With the help of the Strava segments, I’ve learned how to pace myself, where to go hard, and where to conserve effort in order to reduce my time. It’s a great motivational tool. I think the major reason I’ve been a successful endurance racer is that I’ve determined the right intensity/recovery ratio for me. It’s not static — it changes with my personal stress level, altitude, age, illness, injury, and more. I’m careful not to deceive myself by greedily overtraining because going hard has no value without proper recovery. Joe Friel’s groundbreaking new book “Fast After 50” is for every endurance athlete who wants to stay fast for years to come. For runners, cyclists, triathletes, swimmers, and cross-country skiers, getting older doesn’t have to mean getting slower. Drawing from the most current research on aging and sports performance, Joe Friel — America’s leading endurance sports coach — shows how athletes can race strong and stay healthy well past age 50. In “Fast After 50,” Friel offers a smart approach for athletes to ward off the effects of age. Friel shows athletes how to extend their racing careers for decades — and race to win.

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irishracing.com | News - Caspian Caviar Gold Cup glory goes to Warthog Top Quick Links Home Fixtures Racecourses Betting Odds Betting Offers IE Free Bets GB Free Bets Race Cards Big Race Entries Entries Fast Results Race Results Weights & Entries Early Closing Hong Kong Races Top 18+ | Commercial Content | T&Cs apply | Wagering and T&Cs apply | Play Responsibly | Advertising Disclosure Mobile View Logon | Register + Latest offers Home Cards All Cards Big Race Entries Entries Runner Index Trainer Index Jockey Index Results Full Results"; Fast Results"; Runner Index Trainer Index Jockey Index Bet Offers Listowel Free Bets and Betting Offers Betting Offers IE Betting Offers & Free Bets Existing Customers Offers Promo Codes Betting Offers UK Betting Offers & Free Bets Existing Customers Offers Promo Codes Betting Hub Daily Specials Betting Guides Bet Calculator How to Bet on Horse Racing Horse Racing Terminology and Jargon Explained Horse Racing Betting Terms Explained Understanding Horse Racing Bet Types Types of Horse Races Betting Odds Explained How to Pick a Winner Each Way Betting Lucky 15 Betting Lucky 31 Betting Live Stream Horse Racing What is SP in Horse Racing What is a Handicap Race What is a Tote placepot Tote betting Accumulator betting Odds Betting Odds Betting Odds Calculator Statistics Daily Statistics Season Statistics Ireland Flat Leading Trainers Leading Jockeys National Hunt Leading Trainers Leading Jockeys UK Flat Leading Trainers Leading Jockeys National Hunt Leading Trainers Leading Jockeys Watch Horse Tracker News More Horse Tracker News Blog Hong Kong Races Gallery First Time Gear Fixtures Runners Abroad Punchestown 2022 Cheltenham 2022 Sidelined Jockeys Top 10 Tracked Whispers Runner Index Trainer Index Jockey Index Non-Runners Market Movers Mobile View Search Site With Home Cards Big Race Entries Fast Results Full Results Watch Betting Offers Listowel Free Bets and Betting Offers Betting Hub Betting Offers & Free Bets IE Betting Offers & Free Bets UK Betting Odds HorseTracker News More My Account Non-Runners Market Movers News Fixtures Betting Guides Bet Calculator How to Bet on Horse Racing Horse Racing Terminology and Jargon Explained Horse Racing Betting Terms Explained Understanding Horse Racing Bet Types Types of Horse Races Betting Odds Explained How to Pick a Winner Each Way Betting Lucky 15 Betting Lucky 31 Betting Live Stream Horse Racing What is SP in Horse Racing What is a Handicap Race What is a Tote placepot Tote betting Accumulator betting Statistics Racecourses Runners Abroad Hong Kong Races Sidelined Jockeys First Time Gear Whispers Runner Index Trainer Index Jockey Index Top 10 Tracked Cheltenham Punchestown Bookmakers Logoff Desktop View Home News News Caspian Caviar Gold Cup glory goes to Warthog Sat 14th Dec 2019, 15:06 Robin Des Foret - third for Willie Mullins © Photo Healy Racing Warthog battled back admirably to claim a narrow victory in an attritional renewal of the Caspian Caviar Gold Cup. David Pipe’s grey had run a fine race to finish third in last month’s BetVictor Gold Cup on his seasonal reappearance — and while he has previously struggled for consistency, he returned to Cheltenham towards the head of the market as a 7-1 chance under David Noonan. The seven-year-old cut out much of the running four weeks ago and was once again ridden prominently, initially taking the 13-strong field along before taking a lead from outsider Imperial Presence. As the latter faltered, Warthog was back in front before the home turn, but looked booked for minor honours once again after being joined and passed by 40-1 shot Spiritofthegames after the final fence. However, with both horses tiring in the testing conditions, Warthog managed get back up and claim a thrilling contest by a head. Pipe said: “In the past he has been a bit of a weak finisher and I wasn’t really confident. We half thought about going for the two-mile race, but had no weight in this, so we decided to give it a go. “Last season he started off at Sandown really well, but he didn’t progress from there. His jumping went to pot and he lost his confidence. “David Noonan gets on well with him and it was important to get a good start and get the first few (fences) right — it was poetry in motion after that. “This is more of a galloping track than the one the BetVictor was run on and David was keen to keep hold of him as he folded a bit last time, but in fairness, he found loads today. “It’s nice for the yard and for the owners.” Dan Skelton, trainer of Spiritofthegames, admitted defeat was hard to take. He said: “I’m gutted. He was two lengths ahead on, but the other one came back and is obviously a very tough horse. “We were just desperate for the line to come. If the last 100 yards were on better ground he may have held on, but there are no excuses. “I thought we had it won after the last. There is a nice race in him, but he will go back up in the handicap now, which makes it that bit harder.” The Willie Mullins-trained Irish raider Robin Des Foret travelled strongly for a long way and was just three-quarters of a length behind the front pair in third. Latest Stories which may interest you Sergeant just does enough in Listowel finale Thecompanysergeant sent favourite backers home in good spirits at the end of a week long festival when justifying his short odds in the Brendan Daly Memorial Slan Abhaile(Pro/Am) INH Flat Race at Listowel. Patience pays off for Half Nutz syndicate Half Nutz rewarded his owners patience when getting up late to win the William Hill Pick Your Winners Handicap at the Curragh. French Rescue an 80-1 surprise in Apprentices Handicap French Rescue belied his odds of 80-1 when running out a gutsy winner of the Tipperary Crystal Apprentice Handicap at the Curragh. 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Math nerds and historians, it's time to get excited. Minds of Modern Mathematics, a new iPad app released Thursday by IBM, presents an interactive timeline of the history of mathematics and its impact on society from 1000 to 1960. The app is based on an original, 50-foot-long "Men of Modern Mathematics" installation created in 1964 by Charles and Ray Eames. Minds of Modern Mathematics users can view a digitized version of the original infographic as well as browse through an interactive timeline with more than 500 biographies, math milestones and images of relevant artifacts. IBM hopes that classes and students will use the app, provoking more people to pursue math, science or technology-related educations and jobs. "Careers of the future will rely heavily on creativity, critical thinking, problem solving and collaboration – all themes that were core to the 'Minds of Modern Mathematics' movement and remain equally relevant today," Chid Apte, IBM Director of analytics Research and Mathematical Sciences said in a press release. "What better way than a mobile app to reintroduce this timeless classic to inspire a new generation of learners?" Starting from the first French pope to celebrated mathematician John von Neumann, users can see every major math-related event or person in a visually impressive layout. You can tap on an entry to read more about it, and view how math events and math superstars relate in time to other historical events, such as the First Crusade that seizes Jerusalem and the signing of The Declaration of Independence. And in case you (like me) haven't taken math since high school, the app also includes an "IBM Mathematics Peep Show" of nine 2-minute animated clips that will help you brush up on mathematical concepts like topology and exponents. The Minds of Modern Mathematics app is available for free on the App Store. But if the iPad version isn't enough, you can always visit the large-scale timeline on display at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, NY and The Museum of Science in Boston, MA.

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E-levy: NDC MPs are ready to die - Show Peep Home General News Entertainment Politics Lifestyle Sports Search Saturday, September 24, 2022 Home About Us Privacy Policy Terms and Conditions DMCA Disclaimer Contact Us Sign in Welcome! Log into your account your username your password Forgot your password? Get help Privacy Policy Password recovery Recover your password your email A password will be e-mailed to you. Show Peep Home General News Entertainment Politics Lifestyle Sports HomePoliticsE-levy: NDC MPs are ready to die Politics E-levy: NDC MPs are ready to die By admin February 9, 2022 0 76 Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Alexander Afenyo-Markin Madina Member of Parliament (MP), Francis Xavier-Sosu, has said the 137 Minority MPs will do everything within their power to resist the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-levy). According to him, there can be no progress or achievement without sacrifices, hence the MPs are willing to die for Ghana. His remark was a reaction to Deputy Majority Leader, Afenyo-Markin‘s statements about the health of some NDC MPs. Mr Afenyo-Markin is reported to have said some of the MPs were putting their health at risk by refusing to seek medical care abroad so that they can participate in parliamentary sittings and oppose the E-Levy bill. Taking to Twitter, the NDC lawmaker indicated they will rather die fighting the e-levy which he described as insensitive than travel to pave way for its passage. ALSO READ: He wrote: The 137 NDC MPs will rather die fighting the senseless insensitive and regressive E-levy than to travel and allow your government to pass the wicked E-levy. There can be no progress or achievement without sacrifice. We are ready to die for Ghana. The 137 NDC MPs will rather die fighting the senseless insensitive and regressive E-levy than to travel and allow your government to pass the wicked E-levy. There can be no progress or achievement without sacrifice. We are ready to die for Ghana.#Yentua E-Levy#SayNoToE-Levy pic.twitter.com/TSDoV4MCud — Francis-Xavier Sosu (@fx_sosu) February 8, 2022 Source link Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Previous article50-year-old Ghanaian male Vogue editor set to marry his long time boyfriend in a plush wedding Next articleLukaku goal sends Chelsea into Club World Cup final against spirited Al Hilal – Citi Sports Online adminhttp://www.showpeep.com Graduate of Ghana Journalist Institute, London. Over 2 years of writing experience. RELATED ARTICLES Politics Gabby praises Kwesi Pratt and Kweku Baako; this is why admin - September 23, 2022 Politics NDC extends deadline for picking of nomination forms admin - September 23, 2022 Politics Sports Minister visits NPP headquarters admin - September 23, 2022 Most Popular 5 Foods Which Can Reduce Cholesterol In 2022 » GhBase•com™ September 24, 2022 Gospel musician Esaaba Haizel gets massive recognition from the White House » GhBase•com™ September 24, 2022 Ve’ondre Mitchell Bio, Age, Height, Net worth & More September 24, 2022 Preston Oliver Bio, Age, Movies, Height, Net Worth September 24, 2022 Load more EDITOR PICKS 5 Foods Which Can Reduce Cholesterol In 2022 » GhBase•com™ September 24, 2022 Gospel musician Esaaba Haizel gets massive recognition from the White House... September 24, 2022 Ve’ondre Mitchell Bio, Age, Height, Net worth & More September 24, 2022 POPULAR POSTS Rap songs never got me paid – Edem [Video] May 5, 2022 Is Jake Andrich Gay? Sexual Rumours, Relationship, Height February 23, 2022 Get Familiar With Kacy Rondeau, The White Lady Who Knows The... February 23, 2022 POPULAR CATEGORY General News4776 Lifestyle4155 Entertainment2000 Sports1951 Politics1691 ABOUT US Showpeep.com is available to provide newsreaders with real-time news updates and accurate news reportage with the right facts. To provide accurate education for the general public. Contact us: info@showpeep.com FOLLOW US Home About Us Privacy Policy Terms and Conditions DMCA Disclaimer Contact Us © 2021 ShowPeep.Com All Rights Reserved.

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The 2015 recipient of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) National Teacher of the Year Award, Shanna Peeples, recently spoke about the importance of teachers believing in their students—and imparting their expectations to students—particularly students who doubt their ability to succeed academically. Students have similar feelings and frequently report favoring teachers who “believe in [students’] ability to succeed”. Teachers’ expectations may either counteract or reinforce negative expectations held by traditionally disadvantaged students who lack access to educationally-successful role models. To date, however, little is known about how teachers form expectations and whether their expectations are systematically biased. Along with colleagues at American University and Johns Hopkins University, I begin to address these questions in a recent study. We find evidence of systematic biases in teachers’ expectations for the educational attainment of black students. Specifically, non-black teachers have significantly lower educational expectations for black students than black teachers do when evaluating the same students. We cannot determine whether the black teachers are too optimistic, the non-black teachers are too pessimistic, or some combination of the two. This is nonetheless concerning, as teachers’ expectations likely shape student outcomes and systematic biases in teachers’ expectations for student success might contribute to persistent socio-demographic gaps in educational achievement and attainment. As Ms. Peeples noted in her interview, it is important that all teachers maintain and convey high expectations for all students. Our study identifies systematic biases in teachers’ expectations using data from a nationally representative survey of U.S. tenth graders that asked two teachers per student how much education they expected the student to ultimately complete. The research design is motivated by the intuitive idea that if two teachers disagree about the expected educational attainment of a student, at least one of the teachers must be wrong. One possibility is that such differences are random in nature, owing perhaps to idiosyncrasies in the chance encounters that occur between students and teachers during the school year. However, if such differences in teachers’ expectations are related to the demographic match between students and teachers, this suggests that teachers have systematically biased beliefs about students’ educational potential for at least a subset of student-teacher relationships. Having two teachers provide their expectations for each student is central to our strategy for disentangling the causal relationship between student-teacher demographic mismatch and teachers’ expectations for students from other, possibly confounding factors. For example, student and teacher race may be correlated with school resources, which might influence the likelihood of being assigned to an other-race teacher, but also influence expectations about educational attainment. However, comparing two teachers’ expectations—one black and one non-black—for the same student at the same point in time eliminates such concerns. When looking at average effects across all students, we find small, statistically significant effects of student-teacher racial mismatch on teachers’ expectations. However, these relatively small average effects are entirely driven by much larger effects among black students. For example, when a black student is evaluated by one black teacher and by one non-black teacher, the non-black teacher is about 30 percent less likely to expect that the student will complete a four-year college degree than the black teacher. These results are not meant to, nor should they, demonize or implicate teachers. Biases in expectations are generally unintentional and are an artifact of how humans categorize complex information.[1] Rather, we hope to start a dialogue between educators, policymakers, parents, researchers, and other stakeholders about the possible causes and consequences of systematic biases in teachers’ expectations for student achievement and attainment. Our findings highlight the need to better understand how teachers form expectations, what types of interventions can reduce or eliminate biases in teacher expectations, and perhaps most importantly, how such expectations and biases affect the long-run student outcomes of ultimate import. Correlations between teachers’ expectations and student outcomes are well documented, but whether or not this relationship is causal remains unclear; it is a question that our research group is currently working on. The finding that student-teacher racial mismatch affects teachers’ expectations for students’ educational attainment is consistent with existing evidence that indicates student-teacher racial mismatch directly affects student achievement (see studies from Tennessee, California, and Florida). To the extent that teacher expectations do affect student outcomes, the systematic biases in teachers’ expectations discussed above illustrate the importance of hiring of a more representative teaching force. Although the teaching force has become more racially and ethnic diverse of late, in 2012, 44 percent of K-12 students in the U.S. were racial or ethnic minorities compared to only 17 percent of teachers. Similarly, it might be wise for teacher training and professional development programs to routinely emphasize the importance and duty of all teachers to nurture, support, and encourage all students, regardless of their innate ability, talents, behaviors, or home circumstances. Teachers can avoid the “soft bigotry of low expectations” by maintaining, and expressing, high expectations for each and every student. [1] See, for example, Cosmides, Leda, John Tooby, and Robert Kurzban. 2003. “Perceptions of Race.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7(4):173–179.

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WikiLeaks cables confirm collusion between Vatican and dictators By Marc Wells 15 April 2013 Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks released a new archive of 1.3 million diplomatic cables and intelligence records last Monday encompassing the years 1973 through 1976, dubbed “The Kissinger Cables.” The database includes documents revealing the ruthless operations led by the US worldwide, at a time when the international working class was on the offensive and the bourgeoisie was waging a ruthless counterattack. Among the cables, a series of diplomatic communications exposes the relationships between the Vatican and a number of dictatorial regimes, from Chile’s Augusto Pinochet to Argentina’s Jorge Rafael Videla to Spain’s Francisco Franco. On September 11, 1973, a CIA-backed coup led by general Pinochet overthrew the elected government of Socialist Party President Salvador Allende. In Pinochet’s 17-year dictatorship, thousands of left-wing activists, students, trade unionists and anyone suspected of opposing Chilean and international capital were killed or disappeared by the regime. Hundreds of thousands were jailed and tortured, or sent into exile. The names of these criminal state operations, such as “Operation Condor” or “The Caravan of Death” are forever embedded in the consciousness of Chilean workers. Pinochet’s “struggle against Marxism” remains one of the most violent developments in the history of the 20th century. The main goal of such struggle was to destroy the working class and its organizations, both physically and through the imposition of aggressive economic policies of privatization and deregulation. These created a model of enrichment by a small oligarchy for the following decades. Many governments joined this “struggle,” with the US leading the pack. President Richard Nixon and his National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger allocated $8 million for the campaign to destabilize Allende. While maintaining an appearance of liberal reforms and a more relaxed policy toward the USSR initiated by John XXIII, the Vatican, led by Pope Paul VI, lent support to the Chilean dictator. In a cable dated October 18, 1973, Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, Vatican Deputy Secretary of State, denied the crimes committed by Pinochet’s junta, expressing “his and Pope’s grave concern over successful international leftist campaign to misconstrue completely realities of Chilean situation.” More precisely, the cable documents Benelli’s view on the “exaggerated coverage of events as possibly greatest success of communist propaganda, and highlighted fact that even moderate and conservative circles seem quite disposed to believe grossest lies about Chilean junta’s excesses.” His source of information was Cardinal Raúl Silva, a staunch opponent of communism. According to the cable, “Cardinal Silva and Chilean Episcopate in general have assured Pope Paul that junta making every effort to return to normal and that stories alleging brutal reprisals in international media secret are unfounded.” The role played by figures like Silva or Paul VI himself—promoted as “progressives” at the time—emerges quite clearly in these documents. Benelli states that “validity and sincerity of Cardinal Silva cannot be challenged since Silva is known internationally as one of Church’s leading progressives who, moreover, gave tacit support to President Allende.” This evidence shows not only the denial of Pinochet’s crimes by the Vatican and the Chilean Church: it reveals the bankruptcy of the Allende government, which based itself on relations with layers of the Church that were completely hostile to it. In fact, the Archbishop states that, “leftist forces have greatly cut losses by convincing world that Allende’s fall due exclusively to fascist and external forces rather than to shortcomings of Allende’s own policies as is rightly case.” If there is any objective truth in Benelli’s statement, it is the fact that Pinochet, who was appointed by Allende as head of the armed forces, took advantage of the political environment created by Allende’s retreat from the reforms he had promised. Allende was himself a capitalist politician, promoting a “Chilean road to socialism” but fundamentally committed to demobilizing the working class. This prepared the field for a right-wing military takeover. In November 1973, in the immediate aftermath of Pinochet’s coup, another cable documents negotiations for the renewal and revision of the Concordat, originally signed in 1953, between the Vatican and the fascist regime of Francisco Franco in Spain, which effectively rejected the principle of separation between state and Church. Archbishop Agostino Casaroli—the Vatican’s Secretary of Public Affairs at the time and another “ Ostpolitik reformist” figure who developed new relations with Eastern European countries in an attempt to boost the Church’s influence in Stalinist-ruled countries—met with Spanish officials. It was agreed that a low profile be maintained. There were several reasons for this: first, events in Chile had created immense opposition among workers and students, and the Church risked being publicly exposed as an ally of dictatorial regimes. Secondly, there were disagreements inside the Vatican itself on how to best manage the Vatican’s image and distance it from fascist dictators. A cable dated November 7, 1973 states that a “difference of views between the Vatican and the Spanish Episcopate is on the fundamental question of whether there should be a new Concordat negotiated.” The record shows that the Episcopate was “amenable to partial accords or revisions of the 1953 one, since they believe a new Concordat might once again associate the Church with the regime” while they are “trying to disassociate the Church from the GoS [Government of Spain] in the eyes of the Spanish public.” While layers of the ecclesiastic hierarchy were concerned that after Franco’s death negotiating terms would be less favorable and were pushing for a new deal, the “liberal,” “progressive” section of the Vatican sought to “maintain its liberal image if only partial accords on the most vital points of friction” were renegotiated. Contrary to Casaroli’s request to keep the visit under the radar, Franco’s regime “promoted extensive press and television coverage of the visit,” provoking a reaction from the Vatican. According to the Italian publication l’Espresso, Casaroli protested to a Spanish minister for “the offensive violation of the reassurances received from the Spanish government to maintain a low profile.” A few years later, on March 24, 1976, Argentine Commander Jorge Rafael Videla headed the coup that overthrew President Isabel Perón, wife of former President Juan Perón. Videla ran a brutal police state, adopting free-market economic policies similar to Pinochet’s. His regime, infamously associated with the “Dirty War” and “Operation Condor,” became synonymous with disappearances, murder and torture. Videla’s close accomplice in the coup and the military dictatorship that followed was Navy Admiral Emilio Massera. New cables show the close ties between Massera and Pio Laghi, Apostolic nuncio (Holy See diplomat) in Argentina. A cable dated November 7, 1975 reveals that Laghi “talked with Admiral Massera early November 5 on same subject [President Perón], and recently with many other participants. Nuncio [Laghi]’s analysis was that Mrs. Perón must leave as soon as possible by leave of absence, resignation, or golpe ”—that is, a coup. Besides being a close friend of Massera, Laghi was well respected in military and diplomatic circles. As the same cable confirms, “Nuncio is well connected and is astute observer. His overall conclusion was that she is finished. Only form of departure remains in question. However, he commented, it could take longer than expected and be an agonizing process.” Ultimately, the real agony was experienced by tens of thousands of workers, students and political activists, labeled “terrorists,” who actually fought in opposition to the state terrorism which characterized the Videla regime, but were either killed or tortured, jailed and disappeared. Pio Laghi was more than a known entity for the US government. In a cable dated May 14, 1974, Laghi is depicted as “highly educated, personable, speaks excellent English, and is well disposed toward the United States.” These revelations shed light on the recent installation of the new Pope Francis, the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The new Pontiff is deeply implicated in the “Dirty War” waged by the Argentine military junta (see “The ‘Dirty War’ Pope”).

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During today’s spring training game between the Pirates and Rays, the Pirates broadcast team decided to try a fun experiment. The TV and radio color commentators (Steve Blass, Bob Walk, and John Wehner) would handle the TV broadcast, while the guys who usually do play-by-play on the radio (Joe Block) and TV (Greg Brown) would handle the radio broadcast. This may not have been a good idea. The facts aren’t entirely clear, but there appears to have been tension of some sort here. Block and Brown decided to turn their radio broadcast into a bit of a party, complete with silly outfits and novelty cocktails. Whether this was a reflection or cause of conflict is unknown as of now, but during the top of the eighth inning, Blass got fed up with the racket coming from the booth next door, and went to do something about it: At this point, it seemed that the crew was just engaging in some fun, games, and fern theft. But then Brown decided to invade the TV booth, grab the headset from Blass, and show everyone how Not Mad he was: The causes and true nature of Brown’s seemingly long-held grievances may not be known, but it’s pretty obviously time for everyone involved here to take a step back and relax before something happens that everyone regrets.

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Colin Kaepernick will win a Super Bowl one day. He’s got the team, the personal, the coaching, and above all, he’s got the “it” factor that so many general managers in professional football long for in a quarterback. In two years of playing time, Kaepernick has been in more big games than most QBs could ever dream of. Kaepernick set an NFL Playoff record for yards rushing by a quarterback with 181 against Green Bay in last year’s Divisional playoffs. In the NFC title game on the road in Atlanta against Matt Ryan and the Falcons, Kaepernick rallied the 49ers back from 17 points down to advance to their first Super Bowl since the 1994 season. In the Super Bowl, Kaepernick led a furious comeback from 22 points down against the Baltimore Ravens that fell 5-yards shy from taking the lead with under two minutes left in the game. This year, despite playing three-fourths of the season without his No. 1 wide receiver, Michael Crabtree, Kaepernick held his own and kept San Francisco in contention. With Crabtree back by Week 13, the 49ers finished the season, including the playoffs with a 7-1 record. In the 2013 playoffs, Kaepernick twice rallied the 49ers from behind on the road for wins at Green Bay and Carolina. Against Seattle in the NFC Title Game, Kaepernick had his best individual performance in three games at CenturyLink Field and gave his team an opportunity to win, but a pass intended for Michael Crabtree was deflected and intercepted, ending the 49ers 2013 season and a shot at their second straight Super Bowl appearance. If the pass were six inches farther, the 49ers would have been up 24-23 with less than 30 seconds left to play. But that’s the nature of the beast in the NFL. One season ended with a pass too far, the next ended with a pass too short, and sadly, there may never be another chance, but don’t tell that to Kaepernick, who two days after the loss was already at 49er headquarters working towards the 2014 season. Colin Kaepernick will win a Super Bowl one day, hopefully with this group of players who have appeared in three straight NFC Title games. With another offseason, the 49ers will regroup, rebuild, and rearm for another title run, and with No. 7 under center, San Francisco will be competitive, and one of these years, Kaepernick’s passes won’t be too short, or too far, but just right, and that’s the year he will finally raise the Lombardi Trophy.

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Blurred photo of emergency vehicle. (Photo11: barbol88, Getty Images/iStockphoto) Police continue to investigate after a Chicago man was viciously beaten as bystanders filmed the assault and screamed “he voted Trump,” according to local reports. David Wilcox, 49, said a minor car accident escalated into violence on Wednesday morning, the Chicago Tribune reported. According to Wilcox, a black sedan scraped the side of his car, so he pulled over and asked if the driver had insurance. "I stopped and parked. And I asked if they had insurance, and the next thing that I knew they were beating the s*** out of me," Wilcox told the Tribune. Video of the incident shows several people gather around Wilcox and repeatedly hit and kick him, as people on the sidewalk scream “Beat his a**,” and “he voted Trump.” In the video, Wilcox attempts to get into his car, but someone in the driver's seat begins to accelerate as Wilcox grabs onto the door frame and is dragged along the side of the road. "He stepped up back to 70 and 80, swerved again," Wilcox told the Tribune . "I was looking at oncoming traffic. He probably slowed to about 45. God was watching over for me. I rolled about five or seven times into the oncoming traffic lanes.” Wilcox told the Tribune that he did vote for Trump, but the crowd wouldn’t have known that and he doesn't believe politics played a factor in the beating. He told the paper he believes the taunts came from people who were watching the beating, and said he heard someone say, “It’s one of them white boy Trump guys.” He filed a police report and police are still investigating the incident, the Chicago Police Department told USA TODAY on Monday. Wilcox was treated for minor injuries and released from the hospital, WLS-TV reported. The incident comes amid a string of anti-Donald Trump protests across the country and more than 200 hate incidents reported against minorities since the election. There have also been reports of attacks against those who supported Donald Trump including a California girl who was assaulted at her high school after posting on social media that she supported Trump last week, KGO-TV reports. A man was attacked while holding a Trump sign, according to NBC Connecticut. And the New York police are searching for a man accused of choking a man wearing a Trump slogan hat. Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/2fS26Qz

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Mention A.J. Hinch and you're sure to draw negative reactions. By some accounts, he didn't do well in his first stint as a manager. David Kaplan talked to a GM who said he was the worst manager in the past 10 years. But was he? He took over for Bob Melvin in 2009 as a 34 year old manager just 4 years removed from his last AB as a ballplayer. The team was 12-17 under Bob Melvin (.413 pct.) and 58-75 under Hinch (.436). The next year the team got off to a poor start (31 -48, 392 pct) and he was replaced by perhaps his polar opposite, the gritty ballplayer loving Kirk Gibson, who finished with a similar record and winning percentage (34-49, .410) the rest of the year. In fact, Hinch's combined winning percentage of .420 in 2009-2010 is better than the other two managers -- Melvin and Gibson who managed the Diamondbacks those same two seasons. Hinch is considered a failure those two years, but those two managers had a combined .411 win percentage with the same talent. Was Hinch really that bad or was that team just not ready to win yet? Hinch was an outside the box choice back then, having been just 34 years years old with his previous experience coming as the team's manager of Minor League Manager Operations followed by a promotion in 2006 to the team's Director of Player Development. He's still an outside the box choice now. It may not have been the most successful managing experience in terms of wins and losses, but it was a good experience working with a youthful team. Hinch did a pretty good job working with up and comers like Justin Upton, Dan Haren, Ian Kennedy, Adam LaRoche, Gerardo Parra -- and Edwin Jackson. Talented young players like Chris Young, Kelly Johnson, Mark Reynolds, Miguel Montero, and Stephen Drew had arguably their best years playing for Hinch and actually regressed playing for Gibson. Nevertheless, Hinch was fired because of his won-loss record. The other two managers have continued managing with Melvin finding success in Oakland and the controversial Gibson hanging on to his job despite two straight disappointing .500 seasons on a team built to win now. Meanwhile Hinch has returned to the front office and now works for the San Diego Padres as their VP of Professional Scouting The assumption now is that Hinch isn't suited for the dugout steps and belongs in the front office. Maybe he's not a leader, or maybe he's too smart and too analytical and stats-oriented to lead MLB players. But that's not the case at all according to those who know him well -- including some who currently work in the Cubs front office. While he does have knowledge of analytics, he is regarded as a player-first type leader. He is well-liked by his players and has the kind of personality that can comfortably communicate with the front office members, players, and even the media. Moreover, Hinch was once a player with whom the Cubs, both present and future can relate. He was himself once a well-regarded prospect and spent 7 years as an MLB player. Like many great managers, he was a catcher, a position that gives players a unique vantage point on all aspects of the game. Hinch knows the game extremely well. It's difficult to say exactly why Hinch failed in his first stint, but he wouldn't be the first manager to do so and then go on to have a successful career afterward. And he was, after all, just 34 when he was hired and did as well as two current MLB managers with the same talent. He'll be 40 by the time the next season starts and perhaps the bright up and comer has picked up some wisdom all along the way that he can share with a new group of up and comers.

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The official word is that the restriction imposed on Xml naming conventions are inherited from Xml's parent-set SGML, with one exception only: In Xml, as an additional option, names may begin with an underscore '_' character. SGML was developed by IBM in the 1960s, by a group of minds that were thinking '1960s style'. As a result, the brain-storm that lead to the creation of SGML was likely to have been distracted by the overwhelming notion that space-ships, time-travel and flairs made of kitchen foil to protect against 'them aliens' and their fool-hardy attempts at thought-provocation and mind-control were justified thought processes. So. The question still remains. Why doesn't SGML allow numbers? Furthermore, why would there be any sort of restriction imposed on the use of any character other than the control-characters; <, >, & and empty space? It would be madness, surely to present the computer geek with so many keys for so many different characters, only to prevent him or her from using them. The most significant reason is the 1960s thinking parser, and it's following of the complexity rule to a degree of outright pedantry. 'The simpler the parser is, the faster it will perform' The alphabet is 26 capital + 26 uncapital characters big in total, and that's 52. Allowing numbers is an additional ten digits, which is about a sixth more! In human terms, this would be like having to wash six hideously filth-encrusted pots, each one taking an hour to clean, and then hidden underneath the last pot is an extra bonus pot to wash, and you must wash it! You have to repeat this routine every single day for the rest of your life, and that's exactly what it like. Precisely! Mark-up language documents have a tendency to bulge in content. So, the less jobs for the parser, mean a direct increase in performance speed. The benefits then trickle down through the ranks until they metamorphose into pure lucrative performance. In the 'Ye olde days of horse, carriage and a Commodore 64' it was far more the user's responsibility to count their bits and bytes manually, in order for the kilobytes to take care of themselves. However, as the modern CPU is more able to cope than its ancient predecessor, the restrictions imposed by the parser have become more significant than the performance issues. If it's any consolation, if I were to design a Mark-up language myself (which for argument's sake, we will call NAM-LIT-MAML, because Nicholas' awesome mark-up language is the most awesome mark-up language (ever!), then it would allow you to use any number of all the characters in the entire history of the world, and indeed universe, without exception, and I would work really hard to create some never been used before characters for the language's own use, which could still be used within the document by use of its own escape character that looks nothing like any other character that's ever been used before by anyone ever. The restrictions imposed by Xml are inherited from SGML, and we can all agree that in this day and age of space-ship camels and other useful robotic mammals, they are unnecessary, stupid and go against the grain of Object Oriented programming. Further reading at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/ Although the simpliest way that I have found to make a name xml compatible is to include a suffix of '_', there is no standard and as such other methods are in use. In your example, the first character has been converted into a hex value. This hex value represents the '6' character in both ASCII, Unicode and undoubtedly others. A good thing about using hex values is that all characters in a code-set e.g. Unicode may be represented. A bad thing is that they aren't as readable at a glance.

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The next president will face a nation debt of $20 trillion, nearly double what it was when President Barack Obama took office. The national debt likely will reach the staggering $20 trillion figure in 2017, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington think tank. On March 16, the new president and Congress will have to reach an agreement on the debt limit—which will likely be $20.1 trillion, according to the center’s projection. That will last until mid-summer, before another negotiation will ensue on borrowing more to pay the government’s bills. “There are a number of uncertainties between now and then and we don’t know exactly what the revenues and outlays will be, but we project the total gross debt will hit $20 trillion sometime in February,” Shai Akabas, director of fiscal policy for the Bipartisan Policy Center, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview. “Health care is the biggest driver of government spending with Medicare and Medicaid,” @ShaiAkabas says. “February is typically a bad month for the national debt because a lot of tax refunds go out then.” The national debt currently stands at $19.8 trillion. When Obama came into office in January 2009, the national debt was $10.6 trillion. The spending agreement Obama reached with Congress in late 2015 allowed the Treasury Department to borrow another $1.5 trillion before he leaves office in January 2017. To put the $20 trillion figure in perspective, MarketWatch reported in September the combined valued of all 500 major corporations in the S&P 500 were valued at $19.1 trillion as of the summer of 2016. These companies include Apple Inc., Exxon Mobil Corp., Facebook, and other giants. Further, the U.S. national debt is more than all of the world’s physical currency, gold, silver, and bitcoin, according to MarketWatch. The combined value of every dollar, euro, yen, pound, and other physical currency is $5 trillion. The world’s physical gold is worth $7.7 trillion and the world’s physical silver is valued at $20 billion. The Congressional Budget Office projects that gross debt in 2017 will reach $20.16 trillion, but did not have a month-by-month breakdown as of deadline. The budget office’s 10-year debt projection estimates the national debt will reach $28.19 trillion in 2026. The amount of debt held by the public will be 77.2 percent of the gross domestic product in 2017. By 2026 the publicly held debt will be 85.5 percent of the economy, according to the budget office. Treasury Department spokesman Rob Runyan told The Daily Signal that the department does not have a projection to share. For the next president and Congress, the challenge will be to slow the rate of debt’s growth. This is because a cut in the national debt won’t come unless there is a budget surplus, which no one projects, Akabas said. Akabas thinks a deal for bipartisan entitlement and tax reform is possible over the next two or four years, while both parties will have areas where they want to spend more. “Health care is the biggest driver of government spending with Medicare and Medicaid,” Akabas said. “But, Republicans are concerned about defense and Democrats are worried about domestic [spending]. There will be some dialogue about giving back in those areas.” While divided government can lead to gridlock, Akabas also has some optimism. Congress and the new president could reach a bipartisan plan to tackle the debt in a way that wouldn’t cause one party to be blamed. Further, he said he anticipates such a debt plan—that would require some unpopular actions—could be offset with popular items such as more infrastructure spending. There are actions that Congress and the next president can take to rein in the debt, but the problem might be what realistically will be done, said Romina Boccia, deputy director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. “A lot can be done in the next administration’s budget proposal and with Congress’s follow up,” Boccia told The Daily Signal. “Neither candidate for president has a strong plan for addressing the debt.” She said there is still potential to control the debt. “The House Budget Committee has presented a plan that can make a real difference,” Boccia said. “Any plan will have to include entitlement reforms, health care spending reforms, and Social Security reform.”

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I’m sitting in front of the fire at my parent’s place enjoying this brew and relaxing on an unseasonably chilly November afternoon. This is an optimal way to enjoy a brew of this magnitude. I’d never come across Backwoods Bastard from Founders which might be an indictment on my brew culture acumen but I snapped this up immediately when I was out looking for Ten Fidy so I could introduce my dad to it. Bourbon barrel aged brew bro-cachos, the Bastard is your salvation. Founders Brewing Company Backwoods Bastard Aroma/Appearance This is the best nose I’ve encountered on any of the bourbon beers I’ve had. It’s sensationally, succulently sweet with vanilla notes pushing their way to the front. The aroma is supported by a nice bourbon finish, full of oak with a hint of a sharp booziness that doesn’t overpower. The color looks exactly like a glass of bourbon, with a thin head that you can’t get to billow and that fades pretty quickly back into the beer. Just check out the pour video: The Bastard is a beauty just to look at and smell, let alone drink… Flavor/Mouth-feel Let this one warm up! Please! It’s wonderfully smooth when it’s cold for being a 10.2% ABV bomb. Letting it warm opens up a fantastic bouquet of everything that’s great about beer aged in charred oak barrels where bourbon once dwelled. Letting it warm unleashed the booziness of the bourbon that is a little muted when enjoyed straight out of the fridge. If you balk at the alcohol bite on some higher ABV beers, its probably best to drink this one cold. If you want a fuller experience with it, warm it up and go to town. I prefer to sip it over a period of time so I can see what it’s like straight from the fridge all the way up to room temperature. There isn’t much that’s unique about this brew in terms of the bourbon barrel aged line, the beauty is in it’s wonderful silkiness. The mouth-feel isn’t too thick but still coats the mouth which allows for the finish to stick around longer. The flavor profile is distinctly bourbon but mixes in a nice vanilla prominence previewed in the head. There are also notes of dark fruits like raisins, prunes and dates as well as a tiny, tiny hint of cocoa and coffee on the back. The beer is wrapped up by the nice alcohol bite I’ve been talking about too much. Overall This beer is so smooth its remarkable. Sometimes the bourbon barrel aging gets out of control and overwhelms the beer, hiding some of the great supporting flavors that can be brought out. The brew artisans at Founders did an unbelievable job with this. It’s bourbon to the core but the quality and prominence of the supporting flavors elevates it to world class status. It is a classic beer for cold nights and will warm you up in an instant.

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A psychologist for LA County who thinks President Trump’s tax bill stinks to high heaven likened himself to Jesus when he admitted delivering a crappy Christmas present to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. Robby Strong told AL.com he dropped off the box of horse manure at Mnuchin’s house as an “act of political theater” to hammer home the point that “Republicans have done nothing for the American worker.” “What I did, I would like to compare to what Jesus did when he went into the temple and overturned the tables of the money-changers, who were exploiting the people financially in the name of religion,” Strong told 89.3 KPCC. “I feel like that’s what the GOP has done to the American people,” added the psychologist with the LA Department of Mental Health. Strong — who said he was an organizer for the Occupy LA movement — sides with critics of the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul who say it favors corporations and the wealthy, CBS Los Angeles reported. He told KPCC that he “borrowed” some poop from a pal who owns horses and gift-wrapped it in a festive box. Strong added a card addressed to Mnuchin and Trump. “We’re returning the ‘gift’ of the Christmas tax bill. It’s bulls—. Warmest wishes, The American People. P.S. – Kiss Donald for me,” he wrote. On Saturday, the bearded man posted several images on Facebook, one of which shows him posing with a shovel next to the box, and another that shows the box full of what appears to be dung. “I need someone to ride along and document my Secret Santa project. I’m going to hand deliver boxes of horse s—t to Steve Mnuchin over in Beverly Hills,” he added in a message. “No disguises, no fake names. Totally owning this one. You’re only powerless if you do nothing!!!” he wrote. Strong said he delivered one box to a home Mnuchin owns in Beverly Hills, and another to his mansion in a tony Bel Air neighborhood where the LAPD’s bomb squad responded to. Mnuchin was not in Los Angeles when he received the putrid presents, CBS reported. He said he realizes his stunt might have put his job at risk – and that he was surprised he has not been arrested by the Secret Service, which questioned him at his home. “I just got interviewed by the Secret Service and I’ve now joined some of my heroes like Timothy Leary and Martin Luther King,” he told AL.com. “[The agents] just showed up in my yard.” The LAPD, Secret Service and Treasury Department have not commented on the probe. Strong pooh-poohed suggestions the prank could have alarmed Mnuchin or his family. “LOL!” Strong wrote on Facebook. “It was pure organic horse–, just like everything that administration’s done so far. Bomb scares certainly were not my intention, but maybe they should be a little scared, eh.” Strong insisted that he was merely exercising his First Amendment rights. “A few years ago when [a Supreme Court ruling] said that corporations are persons and money equals free speech, that is so absurd and my rule of thumb is now that if corporations are free speech, then so is horses—t.” He also said he didn’t violate laws about mailing hazardous waste. “It was a gift-wrapped package of poo,” Strong told AL.com. “I kind of dodged that whole issue. Is there a law that you can’t drop off a box of poo? Not really.”

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The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. So I got a hold of an Amazon Fire TV this week, and wanted to see what it would take to get the new Unreal Engine 4 running on the device. As one would expect, new hardware and new software lack perfected technical documentation on how to accomplish an involved task between the two of them. Luckily, both Epic Games and Amazon had more than enough to get me started on the process. Here’s how I went about it and what I learned during the process. Hope it helps others in attempting the same. Amazon Fire TV Setup First, bookmark this link - https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb/connect-adb.html. We are going to be going over all of this, so no need to go there now, but hang onto it for future reference. Setting up the Amazon Fire TV for development is fairly straight-forward. If you haven’t set the box up yet, go through the setup tutorial and platform overview that auto-launches upon first use. You will be prompted to connect the device to a Wifi hotspot. Do this, as Wifi it’s the required connection method for application deployment. Once your Fire TV is all set up, Head to the bottom of the list of options on the left and find settings. Click the button on the Fire TV remote to enter the “Settings" Menu Scroll through the “Settings" Menu to the very end option, "System", and select it. Select the “About” section and scroll down to “Network”. Write down your Fire TV IP address. You will need it when it comes time to deploy your UE4 App. Next, hit the “Back” button to return to the “System” menu and head down to “Developer Options”. Inside “Developer Options”, turn on ADB Debugging. Remember where this is, as you may have to toggle this on occasion, I’ve had to a few times after failed deployment attempts. And that’s it for the Fire TV. Computer Setup Go ahead and bookmark this link, too - https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Platforms/Android/GettingStarted/index.html. As like before, we are going over it all, but you may want this for later. You’ll need a Windows computer, with the latest UE4 SDK installed. The Amazon Fire TV is an Android device, so we need to install the Android Development Tools. The easiest way to do this is using the TADP (Tegra Android Development Pack) found inside the UE4 install you have on your machine. You can do it manually following the instructions inside the link above, but this is the easiest way to get moving. The TADP can be found here: [ENGINE INSTALL LOCATION]\Engine\Extras\Android\tadp-2.0r8-windows.exe I used the default settings for this installed, and it works perfectly fine for both the Android devices I’ve tested (Amazon Fire TV and the Nexus 5). REMEMBER WHERE YOU INSTALL THESE - I left mine as the default, but if you change this directory, make sure you know where the tools are going, because we will be referencing them a bit later in the post. This install will probably take a little while, so be patient. It may even go “Not Responding” a couple times, just wait it out. You may even run into this warning about verifying the driver publisher. Tell it to install anyway. Once it’s done, we need to make sure some Environment Variables are set. Right click on “Computer”, then select “Properties”. On the left, you’ll see "Advanced System Settings". Select that, then "Environment Variables" from the bottom of the popup. We are looking to make sure that 4 Environment Variables are in both the User and System variables lists. You only need 3 if you’re not using C++ source, but let’s go ahead and add the other so we don’t forget about it in the future. Look for the following in either of the lists. If they don’t show up, at all, select new and fill out the information for both lists. If they’re in one list and not the other, you can just copy the values from one into a new variable in the other. ANDROID_HOME JAVA_HOME ANT_HOME NDKROOT Here is where mine are setup using the default options and install location. Once you’re sure these are listed in both the User and System variables lists and pointing to the appropriate locations, we can head over to Unreal to ensure that It recognizes the build directories. Open the Editor, and select File -> Package Project. If the Android options are available, you’re one step closer. Note - you may need to restart Unreal if you set these variables with the editor open. Click on "Packaging Settings" in that menu, then the “Android” option. It will probably look like this - Hit “Configure Now” under “App Manifest", and you should get a green bar verification with the text “Platform files are writeable” like this - Now, Unreal Engine is set up for Android deployment. We now need to set up our ADB (Android Debugging Bridge) to be able to connect with the Amazon Fire TV. Since the Fire TV doesn’t connect to a computer via USB, we have to add the device to ADB via it’s IP address. Go ahead and open up the windows command terminal, cmd.exe. We need to change directory to where adb.exe is currently located. This will be where you installed your Android tools earlier. In my case, it is located here. If you have trouble finding it, you can search for adb.exe in windows. It will be in a platform-tools folder. We need to reset the adb server here, then add our device. Enter the following commands one at a time, and replace with the IP of your Amazon Fire TV. adb kill-server adb start-server adb connect To verify that the device was found and is connected, enter the command adb devices. You should see the IP address listed. If it is not listed, Head back to the Fire TV, and Toggle the "ADB Debugging" setting under "Developer Options" as outlined above, and do command adb connect to try and add the device again. Deployment Once the device is shown in the list, head back over to UE4. Since we are deploying to an Android device, we need to use a project set up for mobile. In this example, I use the Mobile Temple example project that is available on the marketplace. For more information on setting up a mobile project consult the Unreal Engine documentation. Once it’s open, Let’s launch on the device. Hit the Launch button, and select Android ATC. I prefer to see the log, so I can monitor the status. It will probably sit on this screen for quite some time. This is because deploying over Wifi takes a good bit longer than USB (a major downside to this whole operation). Be patient, and wait for this success notification. And there it is! You can even plug an Xbox 360 wired/pc or PS4 controller into the back of the Fire TV and walk around the scene. You’ll notice that this demo isn’t optimized for the device and is a little choppy and grainy, but it’s a good starting point and example of how to begin developing UE4 projects for the Fire TV. My focus now has turned to tricks for optimization on the platform. I'll share my findings. Thanks for reading. -ivey

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Observing the current turmoil in Egypt, one obvious question is what tactics would work best for Mubarak, assuming he wants to stay in power. The official U.S. government answer is that he should be a good guy—permit more freedoms, reduce corruption, not prevent demonstrations or arrest opponents or try to shut down sources of information critical of him. It's the obvious thing for Obama and Clinton to say, given that they are playing mostly to the American public. And it is what most of us would like to believe. But is it actually good advice? Are there examples of dictators who responded to mass opposition by shifting towards a freer and more democratic system and stayed in power as a result, or is such a move interpreted as evidence that the dictator is on his way out, hence a reason for more people to join the opposition? The current Iranian government, faced by mass opposition, took the opposite strategy and is still in power.

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Autodesk We've all made the standard paper airplane, that elongated triangle made up of six simple folds. But what if you wanted to make a paper airplane that looks like an armadillo? Could you get that to fly? If you're using Pteromys, a new research tool created at Autodesk, the answer is yes. Autodesk researchers on Tuesday will present a paper at the SIGGRAPH graphics and design conference outlining a system that helps users turn just about any concept for a paper airplane -- no matter how bizarre or extreme and no matter how much or how little experience the user has with flight dynamics -- into a streamlined, aerodynamic flying wonder. Pteromys is the brainchild of Nobuyuki Umetani, a post-doctoral scientist who spent a year working at Autodesk Research in Toronto. The science behind Pteromys is complex, relying on Umetani's years studying computer graphics and physical simulations for interactive and aerodynamics. Make it Fly For users, it's simple: Draw a digital plane design in the tool, click the "Make it Fly" button, and sit back as it instantly optimizes the design for maximum air time. Even better, the system can transmit the design to a laser cutter, which quickly spits out an easily-constructed version of the user's plane. Then it's time to go flying. The results can be surprising, with designs that make it possible for everything from an armadillo to a dragon, to soar. It's that surprise element that led to the project's title, which is a scientific name for a flying squirrel . "I asked why we were calling it" Pteromys, said Ryan Schmidt, an Autodesk Research scientist who oversaw Umetani's work. Umetani replied, "'Isn't it obvious? It's something that shouldn't fly, but does." Although there are some obvious commercial applications for the tool, such as an iPhone app for designing paper airplanes, it's not at all clear what will become of the project. Pteromys isn't publicly available and it's uncertain when, or if, it will be. But it's an example of the kind of interactive system, where users are guided by simulations inside tools, that people at Autodesk like Umetani are creating. Plus, Autodesk -- which builds 3D design software for entertainment, engineering, and other industries -- hopes to soon have the tool on display at one of its technology workshops in San Francisco as a demonstration of that kind of research and technology. Still, the idea behind Pteromys is compelling. It began as a much less ambitious project geared toward helping Schmidt, who had no concept of aerodynamics, design a plane that would stay aloft. "I was trying to make a glider on a MakerBot [3D printer] and I couldn't get it to fly," Schmidt said. Umetani pointed out that Schmidt's design wouldn't fly because of basic aerodynamics -- "the wings were in the wrong place, and the center of mass needed to be further back." Umetani's work on the project proceeded with his understanding of basic engineering, concepts much simpler than anything a giant aviation company like Boeing might work on, Schmidt recalled. It fit right in with the mission of Autodesk Research, a 50-person division of the San Francisco 3D design software company. There, scientists work on projects -- like Pteromys -- that may be years ahead of what any of the company's product divisions need, yet which foresee where its technology will be headed. For Pteromys, "the whole premise was to encode that knowledge," Schmidt said, "to help a user like me who is hopeless at designing a glider." Even though the science behind Pteromys made sense to Umetani, the challenge was integrating it into a tool that provided instant feedback. Usually, things like fluid dynamics and other scientific principles involved in making planes require weeks of computation on a supercomputer -- and not on a laptop computer. Autodesk But that's just what Umetani did, borrowing elements from propeller design -- known as "blade theory" -- and applying them in a way that could quickly evaluate different designs for airworthiness. That's when the light bulb went off over his head. "The Aha moment was when [Umetani] realized that this would work with any sort of wing shape," Schmidt said." Infinite designs What makes Pteromys exciting for paper airplane fans is the idea it can turn almost any design into something that will fly by tweaking details like wing location and shape, or the length of fuselage. The user decides on the design -- "a wing shaped like this, and a body shaped like that, and the system...moves them around," said Schmidt. Within seconds, Pteromys evaluates the design and runs millions of simulations, optimizing it until it arrives at the most aerodynamic. The user can view a chart that shows how far the plane will fly. "It relies on this assumption that there is an infinite [number] of gliders that would fly some distance," Schmidt said, "and the system is searching for the glider that will fly the furthest."

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