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Senators News: December 31st
-Two changes to Ottawa's lineup against Buffalo tonight: Matt Carkner subs in for Brian Lee and Craig Anderson gets the start.
–The Ottawa Sun's Bruce Garrioch writes about Daniel Alfredsson's 400th career goal (link), with the captain saying, "It's a milestone but for me — it just adds to everything else. Right now, it's something that's in my mind, but, at the same time, it's going to be something I look back on 10 or 15 years from now and say, 'That's a pretty good accomplishment.' Right now, I try not to think about it. I know I don't have a lot of years left so I just try to enjoy every moment. When you play long enough, numbers are going to add up one way or another. I've been fortunate to be on a lot of good teams." And "That's something I've worked on the most: My goal-scoring ability since I've come over here. I always consider myself still a passer first. My shot is one of the things I've improved dramatically from when I came into the league. It feels really good knowing you're a threat when you get the puck and be able to put it in. I still try to figure out how I can score more goals in practice. I try to figure out ways I can be more effective. That's why I enjoy it. Trying to keep with the new styles, the young guys and the goalies, you've got to adjust to change."
–The Ottawa Sun's Don Brennan's potpourri article includes a bemusing quote (link) from Zenon Konopka who thinks Craig Anderson is getting too much criticism, "You've got to remember we're a young team, we have young people on the back end and the front end. When you're a young team, odd-man rushes and breakaways happen. If Andy is on a veteran team, he might be up for the Vezina Trophy." The problem with Konopka's sentiments is that Anderson was in front of an equally young team in Colorado and put up great numbers, so the criticisms are valid.
-Joy Lindsay's post-game report is up, including the news that Mark Parrish suffered a shoulder injury in last night's game (she speculates that Max Gratchev may dress in his place). Kurt Kleinendorst said about the game, "I really liked our first period. I did. Even though we were down by a goal, I thought we played really well. We just made two mistakes, and they both ended up in the net. And then we lost our mojo a little bit in the second period. It was just lifeless. The guys just weren't winning any battles. The effort was lacking. And then in the third, maybe they woke us up. Maybe they woke us up. I give the guys a lot of credit because they battled hard. It was a big win for us."
-I watched the US team lost 5-2 to the Czech Republic at the WJC. Just like in the game against Finland they had no response to adversity and received sketchy goaltending (I never bought into the hype around Jack Campbell). I'm not sure how good the game will be between Canada and the US, but for I hope it's more competitive than the last three.
Categories: Binghamton Senators, Ottawa Senators . . Author: Eye on the Sens . Comments: Leave a comment
Ottawa 3, Calgary 3 (OT); Binghamton 4, Syracuse 3 (OT)
Ottawa overcame atrocious goaltending from Alex Auld, taking dumb penalties, and a three-goal deficit to defeat Calgary in overtime. The Sens struggled in the first period, but were the better team there after. The game also featured a head shot from Sarich on Erik Condra which I doubt the NHL will punish. Click here for the box score. A look at the goals:
1. Calgary, Bourque
Kyle Turris deflects the puck through Alex Auld's legs, who would have easily stopped it if he had his stick in the proper position
2. Calgary, Glencross (pp)
Jared Cowen loses Glencross in the slot and he fires home a great pass from the corner
3. Calgary, Butler
Throws the puck at the net and Auld simply misses it–horrible goal
4. Foligno (Gonchar)
A great individual rush, sliding the puck beneath Irving
5. Smith (Lee, Phillips)
Powers a shot in on the far side
6. Karlsson (unassisted)
A great steal, picks up his own rebound and cashes it in an empty net as Irving can't recover from the initial save
7. Alfredsson (Karlsson, Neil) (pp)
Fires it top-shelf for his 400th career goal
Top-performers:
Erik Karlsson – ties the game and assists on the winner; despite a few turnovers he was good defensively
Zack Smith – strong defensively and scored
Daniel Alfredsson – scores the winner and was good throughout
Players who struggled:
Alex Auld – allowed two terrible goals
Jared Cowen – too many turnovers and was uncertain when he moved the puck
Binghamton came back to beat Syracuse in overtime 4-3. Mike McKenna picked up the win and the team had four different goal scorers (Da Costa, Hoffman, Dziurzynski, and Borowiecki). Derek Grant added two assists. Click here for the box score and here for Joy Lindsay's game summary.
Elmira won 3-2 tonight with Brian Stewart picking up the win while Louie Caporusso and Jack Downing held off the scoreboard
Senators News: December 30th
–The Ottawa Sun provides the Sens lineup going into tonight's game: Michalek-Spezza-Greening, Alfredsson-Turris-Condra, Foligno-Smith-Butler, Daugavins-Konopka-Neil. Chris Phillips is back in the lineup making Matt Carkner a healthy scratch; Alex Auld earns the start.
–The Ottawa Sun's Don Brennan writes about Erik Condra (link) who receives flattering praise from Paul MacLean, "He seems to make any line he plays on a pretty good line. He's kind of a player you'd say is kind of the conscience of the line, he's always in a good spot defensively, always puts the puck in a good spot, gets around the rink real good, does a good job on the boards and in his own zone … he's the type of player that can play with anybody." I agree wholeheartedly wit MacLean, but given that you have to wonder why he only played 8:45 against Montreal.
-The Ottawa media has been very soft on Craig Anderson this year, but The Ottawa Citizen's Ken Warren writes about his horrific numbers (link). Anderson, who rarely accepts blame for anything, says "Do what got you success in the past. There are going to be nights when you are not at your best. That's just the nature of this game. You're human. You're going to make mistakes." And "Overall, we've won more games than we've lost (in regulation). Obviously, when we've lost, we've lost big, so the statistics are skewed on that a little bit, but when we win, everything's good." Nearly half way through this season and I can't help but wonder what would have happened if the Sens hadn't traded for Anderson–they would have drafted one of the top-three players in the draft and then had statistically the best goalie in the NHL this next season. It's not really a fair comparison, but it's one of those things you chew on.
-The Sens signed their other two first round draft picks yesterday in Stefan Noesen and Matt Puempel (each, according to Capgeek, with 1.137,500 cap hits). I'm sure the Sens brass had hoped both would be participating in the WJC, but it's no surprise that they've been signed.
-Binghamton released Brandon Svendsen from his PTO and blueliner Mike Ratchuk is out with a concussion.
-I watched Canada annihilate Denmark 10-2 last night, with Mark Stone picking up a goal and an assist. The Canadians got lazy very early in the game and goaltender Mark Visentin continues to be shaky in goal.
-While it took Columbus GM Scott Howson longer than anyone else, he's finally realised his team's season is over (link). I'll quote beat writer Bob Hunter's reaction, "This can be reassuring and maddening. When you listen to him talk, sometimes he seems almost too reasonable to be running a professional sports franchise when the paying customers want to win yesterday. At other times, you almost want to take him by the shoulders and shake some sense into him. Where was he a month ago when the season was leaving town?" It's amazing to think someone could do a worse job running the Blue Jackets than Doug MacLean.
Senators News: December 29th; Binghamton 5, Adirondack 2
-In the Sens skills competition Jason Spezza had the hardest shot and Colin Greening repeated as winner of the fastest skater competition.
-TSN's power rankings are out (link) with Ottawa 23rd
–Sports Illustrated's Adrian Dater makes predictions for 2012 (link):
1. There will be a work-stoppage
I disagree with Dater, at least in the sense that I don't believe any games will be lost in the following season. His argument is based on instinct–he believes it will be a prolonged fight for the NHLPA to agree to a reduction of its profit sharing (losing games, but not the season)–but I seriously doubt that will be the case. With players in the NFL and NBA coming to agreements within the last few months I don't see the NHL situation as being so different that we don't get the same essential outcome.
2. Scoring will not improve despite rule-tweaks
Agreed. Three-factors keep scoring down: 1) goalie equipment, 2) a growing allowance of obstruction, 3) the lack of black and white rules for officials and players to follow.
3. The concussion epidemic will not be stopped
Agreed. The dinosaurs that run the NHL will fumble about until something forces them to change (like the death it took to put protective netting in all arenas)
4. Enforcers will become even rarer
Agreed, but this is nothing new.
5. The Phoenix franchise will be moved
Agreed, but Dater would be bolder if he predicted where. My guess is Quebec City.
6. Patrick Roy will become an NHL coach
Maybe, but I don't really care one way or another.
7. One or both of Lindy Ruff and Darcy Regier will be fired
8. Roberto Luongo will be traded
While the Scott Gomez trade proved anything is possible, this is one I doubt.
9. Jerome Iginla will be traded
Possibly, but it will depend on where the Flames are by the trade deadline and if Iginla wants to leave
10. Wayne Gretzky will be back and involved in the NHL
He has only been away from the NHL due to a financial disagreement so if that's settled I'm sure he will be.
-Binghamton won their second game in a row with a 5-2 victory over Adirondack. Rob Klinkhammer had a hat-trick and a four-point night while Pat Cannone and Corey Locke added the other goals. Mike McKenna earned the win. For the box score go here link and for Joy Lindsay's game summary go here link.
-Joy Lindsay Tweets today's practice lines (link, with Josh Godfrey back from injury): Klinkhammer-Locke-Parrish, Dziurzynski-Cannone-Bartlett, Hoffman-Da Costa-Grant, Cowick-Hamilton-Lessard; Borowiecki-Gryba, Raymond-Conboy, Godfrey-Schira.
-Elmira won 4-3 in a shootout, with Brian Stewart earning the win and both Louie Caporusso and Jack Downing scoring.
-I watched Canada's 5-0 win over the Czech Republic last night (Mark Stone scoring another goal), which was about as one-sided as their previous win against the Finns. Mika Zibanejad and Fredrik Claesson where held off the score sheet in Sweden's 4-3 shootout win over Switzerland.
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–The Ottawa Sun's Bruce Garrioch writes about last night's game (link) with Craig Anderson blaming luck for his abysmal performance, "I got some unlucky bounces. I thought we came out of the gate pretty good, took the lead and I didn't have the luck of the Irish. A couple of pucks off the post, off a skate, their guy. It's one of those nights where you need to make some better luck for yourself." Paul MacLean, who has been careful to not blame his goaltenders for losses, said "Everybody (could have played better). I can't wait until Friday because I think our team usually responds. It's a resilient team and I'm excited about Friday (when the Senators will play host to the Flames)."
–Sports Illustrated's power rankings are out (link) with Ottawa 20th.
-Joy Lindsay has Binghamton's lineup ahead of tonight's game (link): Rob Klinkhammer-Corey Locke-Mark Parrish, Mike Hoffman-Stephane Da Costa-Corey Cowick, David Dziurzynski-Pat Cannone-Mike Bartlett, Brandon Svendsen-Wacey Hamilton-Francis Lessard; Mark Borowiecki-Eric Gryba, Bobby Raymond-Tim Conboy, Mike Ratchuk-Craig Schira. Mike McKenna will get the start. Derek Grant will replace one of the forwards above as he returns to the lineup.
-I watched the Czech Republic's 7-0 drubbing of Denmark last night, where prospect Jakub Culek picked up 3 assists. Other than a few big hits the game (the best was Dane Anders Thode on Tomas Hyka) wasn't very exciting, something made much worse by the presence of Craig Button as the colour man–he's lousy as an analyst and even worse in the broadcast booth.
Ottawa 2, Montreal 6
Ottawa lost a lifeless game to Montreal through a combination of bad goaltending, poor defensive coverage, and a lack of energy. The game was over early in the second period and Paul MacLean made a serious mistake not pulling Craig Anderson earlier. For the box score go here link. A look at the goals:
1. Smith (Gonchar, Greening)
Greening drives the net and Smith cashes in the rebound
2. Montreal, Eller (sh)
Anderson is too deep in his net and Eller (with no option but to shoot) beats him far side
3. Montreal, Plekanec
A nice tip-in as Cowen can't control Plekanec's stick
4. Montreal, Cammallieri
Cashes in a rebound as Kuba can't control his stick
5. Montreal, Leblanc
Shoots through Cowen, but if Anderson isn't deep in his net it can't go in
6. Montreal, Subban
Cashes in on a 2-on-1 down low (no back pressure from the forwards)
7. Spezza (Michalek, Alfredsson)
Cowen drives the net and Spezza cashes in off a loose puck
8. Montreal, Cole (pp)
Another tip-in where again Cowen can't control the stick
Top-performers: there were none tonight, although Filip Kuba was the best blueliner, Jason Spezza was solid in all three zones, and I liked Bobby Butler's hustle offensively.
Craig Anderson – two bad goals and he simply couldn't make a save when the team needed him
Erik Karlsson – lead the time in turnovers and was a brutal -3
Kyle Turris – was among the turnover leaders and was largely invisible in the offensive zone
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Senators News: December 27th; Binghamton 8, Albany 3
-Here are the lines provided by The Ottawa Sun for tonight's game: Milan Michalek-Jason Spezza-Daniel Alfredsson, Nick Foligno-Kyle Turris-Bobby Butler, Colin Greening-Zack Smith-Chris Neil, Erik Condra-Zenon Konopka-Kaspars Daugavins; Jared Cowen-Erik Karlsson, Filip Kuba-Sergei Gonchar, Brian Lee-Matt Carkner; Anderson with the start. Chris Philips is out with an injury.
–The Ottawa Citizen's Allen Panzeri writes about tonight's upcoming game (link) with Paul MacLean trying to find something to get Bobby Butler going, "Bobby has really worked hard at being a good pro and a good player, and maybe this is an opportunity for him and Kyle to get together and have some chemistry. I think it's worth it for us, at this point in the season, to put those combinations together and give them a try." It will be interesting to see how he does playing with a shooting center.
–The Ottawa Sun's Bruce Garrioch writes about the return of Milan Michalek (link) which has one item worth mentioning: his concussion was the third of his career, making me wonder how easily he could suffer his fourth. Given how each concussion makes it easier to have another I wonder how small a threshold Michalek is at now.
-Garrioch writes that Peter Regin is still deciding if he'll have shoulder surgery (link), but it's hard to imagine he won't. In the same column he reports that Jesse Winchester "hasn't made any progress since suffering a concussion after getting slammed into the boards by Buffalo's Paul Gaustad a week ago."
-ESPN's power rankings are out (link) with Ottawa 17th.
-The Binghamton Senators came back from their break on fire, pounding Albany 8-3. Stephane Da Costa lead the way with a hat-trick and Corey Cowick had a three point night. Mike Hoffman, Mark Borowiecki, Mark Parrish, Corey Locke, and Rob Klinkhammer all had two-point nights. For the box score go here link and for Joy Lindsay's game summary go here link.
-Elmira won 2-1 in a shootout; both Louie Caporusso and Jack Downing were held off the score sheet
-Canada romped over Finland 8-1 in the WJC with Mark Stone picking up a hat-trick. Sweden overwhelmed Latvia 9-4 with Mika Zibanejad adding a pair of goals.
–Sportsnet's Mark Spector writes about the NHL's inconsistency in applying the charging rule (link), but rather than making the obvious point that the league needs to clarify the rule and its application he goes down into crazy land and blames the players being hit. It's such a simple problem to solve: call it when the player leaves his feet (that's in the rulebook right now) and define the circumstances where distance travelled is applicable. Unfortunately, those in charge of the situation share Spector's views (blame the victim), so there won't be a sensible resolution coming any time soon.
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Canisius commits to Vatican-led Initiative, Laudato Si'
Canisius College was one of the first universities in the United States to commit to the Laudato Si' Action Platform inspired by Pope Francis' 2015 ecological encyclical, "Laudato Si': On Care for our Common Home."
The Laudato Si' Action Platform is a Vatican-led initiative, in collaboration with several partners, to empower the universal Church to achieve total sustainability in the holistic spirit of integral ecology. The goal is to have various partners with the Church agree to a seven-year journey toward sustainability.
The Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development launched the enrollment phase of the platform on Nov. 14, the Global Day of Prayer for the Poor. This day is a deeply meaningful symbol of the platform's commitment to serving those who are most vulnerable to the consequences of our socio-ecological crisis.
"Canisius College is committed to Pope Francis' seven-year journey toward integral ecology at every-level," said John J. Hurley, president of Canisius College. "We look forward to sharing this journey with fellow universities around the world as we take action together for the care of our common home."
Canisius established a strategic plan for environmental sustainability in 2019. The Laudato Si' initiative will complement and enrich the goals and objectives of the college's sustainability strategy, which focus on tackling opportunities across campus that support environmental and social justice initiatives and align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
As a Laudato Si University, Canisius will chart its own course through the journey, with the assistance of the Laudato Si' Action Platform. Over this next year, the college will gather a group of faculty, staff, administrators, neighbors and students to develop a Laudato Si' Action Plan that will integrally and boldly advance each of the seven Laudato Si' goals:
Respond to the cry of the earth, Respond to the cry of the poor, Foster ecological economics, Adopt a sustainable lifestyle, Offer ecological education, Develop ecological spirituality, and Support local communities.
"The Canisius community is proud to play a role in advancing this timely and significant Vatican initiative," added Hurley. "It is particularly rewarding to see our students' commitment, including our Undergraduate Student Association members who passed a formal resolution to have the college engage in this process."
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WikiLeaks founder's lawyers allege CIA authorized spying on their visits
By Amanda Robert
August 16, 2022, 11:19 am CDT
Julian Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks, a nonprofit organization that publishes news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources. Image from Shutterstock.
Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are suing the CIA and former CIA director Mike Pompeo for allegedly recording their conversations and copying data from their electronic devices.
In a complaint filed in federal court in New York on Monday, Margaret Ratner Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek said they aim "to protect their fundamental constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States."
They are joined in their lawsuit by journalists John Goetz and Charles Glass, as well as security company Undercover Global and David Morales Guillen, its founder and former CEO, as defendants.
The Agence France-Presse via the Guardian and Courthouse News Service and Bloomberg have coverage.
The plaintiffs, all of whom are American citizens, said in their complaint they visited Assange while he was living under political asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. They were required to surrender their phones and other devices. They allege that without their knowledge or consent, employees of Undercover Global copied information stored on their devices.
They allege further that the security company then provided that information to the CIA with Pompeo's approval. Pompeo later would work as the U.S. secretary of state in the Trump administration from 2018 to 2021.
"While the named plaintiffs initiate this action, the practices complained of violate the rights of well over 100 American citizens who visited Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, England … during his sanctuary, including attorneys who were then representing him, journalists there to interview him, and even doctors who were then treating him, each of whom have a privileged and confidential connection to the asylee and other clients, sources and patients, some of whose confidential information was stored on their electronic devices," according to the complaint.
The plaintiffs also allege that between January 2017 and about April 2018, Pompeo authorized a surveillance system that placed hidden cameras around the Ecuadorian embassy. They said the footage from these cameras was then shared with the CIA.
Assange is awaiting extradition from England to the United States, where he faces 18 federal charges relating to his obtaining and disclosing of classified information, Bloomberg reports.
Robert Boyle, a New York attorney who represents the lawyers and journalists in their suit, told reporters that the alleged spying on Assange's lawyers means that his right to a fair trial has "now been tainted, if not destroyed."
"The recording of meetings with friends, with lawyers and the copying of his attorneys' and friends' digital information, taints the criminal prosecution because now the government knows the contents of those communications," Boyle reportedly said.
According to Bloomberg, a CIA spokesperson declined to comment on the suit.
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Given all the debate about law and gospel, and covenant theology, we can easily forget what is at stake. What, exactly, does the law demand of us? James (2:10) tells us that if we break even a single commandment, it were as though we've broken all of them. Paul warns us not to rely on "works of law" (Galatians 3:10). There's a reason for this!
After glancing through that list of all 613 commandments, I suddenly have a renewed appreciation for Christ's active and passive obedience. No hope of heaven without it. And what a blessing (and a relief) it is to know that because of Christ, God sees me as though I had kept all 613!
Isn't it amazing, though, as many times as we preach this - Law and Gospel - as clearly as we are enabled to do - folk (ourselves included) default back to our Law "screensaver"!
These 613 commandments has me clingling to that "Alien" righteousness. It is a righteousness outside of myself, where I look to the righteousness of Christ!
For you non-Lutherans out there, here is a neat hermeneutic which Lutherans use to properly distinguish both the law and the Gospel. Law and Gospel passages can be found in both the O.T. and N.T. alike. Confusing law and Gospel can have severe conconsequences. It is even worse if pastors confuse the law and the Gospel (most of Christian radio) because they actually keep people out heaven in doing so. Law: Any passage which shows God's wrath, judgment, or hatred of sin. Gospel: Any passage which shows God's love, grace, mercy, comfort or salvation. Law: S.O.S.: Shows our sins. Gospel: S.O.S.: Shows our Savior. Law: Do and don't. Gospel: DONE!
Couldn't be more on target, Lloyd! (Does that make me a Lutheran Baptist?!<grin>) And STILL after proclaiming all those truths - in easy to follow forms - we all tend to gravitate back to Law. I'm losing count of the number of times I've been told I should preach "more practical sermons" = telling people what to do! Although in fairness this "advice" often comes from people who want me to tell other people than them what to do!
We so easily fall back into the law and of course that leads to despair when even on our best days , we fail. When I was concentrating on doing , instead of looking to Christ I was undone and often falling into sin that I wanted to put to death.However as I have come to understand law and gospel , thanks mightily to the merry men at the White Horse Inn , my soul has found rest and joy . Thanks Kim and those merry dudes!!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't there 614 commandments?
"Do not eat the meat of a bull that has been stoned to death for goring someone. (Exodus 21:28) "
I find it too hard to resist pre-tenderized prime steaks.


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Email: dgw@rci.rutgers.edu
Tel: : 848-932-8367
Office: 309 Van Dyck Hall
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
M.A., Columbia University
B.A., Harpur College, SUNY Binghamton
As an Americanist who specializes in African American and American Women's history, Professor White is especially interested in issues of identity and the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality.
Deborah Gray White is the Board of Governors Professor of History and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. During her twenty-six years at Rutgers, she has not only been a teacher but the codirector of "The Black Atlantic: Race, Nation and Gender" project at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (1997-99), a research professor at the Rutgers Institute for Research on Women (1999-2000), and chair of the history department (2000-03).
Professor White is the author of Ar'n't I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (Norton, 1985). A second edition, with a new introduction and additional chapter, was issued in 1999. In anticipation of its anniversary, the Southern Historical Association celebrated it at its 2003 conference; and in 2005 a conference entitled "Slave Women's Lives: Twenty Years of 'Ar'n't I A Woman?' and More" was held at the Huntington Institute in California, with the proceedings published in the 2007 Winter issue of the Journal of African American Studies; the papers presented in honor of it at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women were published in the Journal of Women's History in July 2007.
Her other monographs are Let My People Go: African-Americans, 1804-1860 (Oxford UP, 1996) and Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 (Norton, 1999). Professor Gray White contributed a number of articles to the Journal of American History, Journal of Caribbean Studies, Journal of Family History, and Journal of African American History. She is also the editor of Telling Histories: Black Women Historian in the Ivory Tower (University of North Carolina Press, 2008), and, with Darlene Clark Hine and others, Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Oxford UP, 2004). She received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship, the ACLS, the American Association of University Women, and the National Research Council / Ford Foundation.
Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower, ed. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming 2008)
Too Heavy A Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999)
Let My People Go: African American 1800-1865 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
Ar'n't I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (New York: W.W. Norton, 1985, 1999 [2nd ed])
"'Can't We All Just Get Along': The Cultural Awakenings of the 1990's" - This book recounts the history of the 1990's through the lens of the decade's mass marches and gatherings. The Million Man March, the Million Woman March, the Promise Keepers, the LGBT Marches, and the Million Mom March tell us a lot about sexuality, and the state of American race, class, and gender relations. Separately, and in conversation with each other, they allow for an in-depth analysis of subjects like coalition building, intraracial and interracial faith, marriage and family relationships. In conversation with the past they speak to the continuing processes of millennialism and post-modernism. As such they are powerfully revelatory about American identity (ies) at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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512:306, America Since 1945
512:366, The History of Race and Sex in America
Race, Gender, and Nation
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Todd Owen Grabs SK Modified Finale Win At NAPA Fall Final At Stafford Speedway
October 9, 2016 by Shawn Courchesne Leave a Comment
Todd Owen celebrates victory in the SK Modified feature Sunday at the NAPA Fall Final at Stafford Speedway (Photo: Stafford Speedway)
STAFFORD – On July 15 at Stafford Motor Speedway, Todd Owen ended up with the winner's trophy for the SK Modified feature, but missed out on the chance to celebrate in victory lane.
Owen was declared the winner of the 40-lap feature that evening after Ronnie Williams was disqualified from victory for an issue in post-race inspection.
Sunday evening at Stafford, to close out the season, Owen got that chance he missed out on to celebrate in victory lane.
Owen, of Somers, used a daring three-wide move to go to the lead and went on to win the 40-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American Series SK Modified feature at the NAPA Fall Final at Stafford Speedway.
"That's a win," Owen said. "The first one was by a technicality. At the end of the year I still won, but this one was definitely cool because I was deserving of it and we had the car to beat."
Mike Christopher Jr. of Wolcott was second and Keith Rocco of Wallingford was third.
On lap 18 Owen was running second on the outside next to Christopher in the lead. Coming off of turn four Rocco went low to take the trio three-wide across the start/finish line. Into turn one Owen got the power drive through the corner and came off of turn two with a lead he wouldn't relinquish the rest of the way.
"This car was awesome all week," Owen said. "The heat race [Saturday] the thing was just on rails. … When you're on the outside [three-wide] you're in the wrong place so you've got to drive it in as hard as you can."
Rowan Pennink of Huntingdon Valley, Pa. had already clinched the 2016 SK Modified championship at the track before Sunday's final event.
Following the event Owen saluted track management and the Arute Family which owns the track for their resiliency in getting the event run on Sunday. The start of the event was delayed nearly seven hours because of showers through the morning and afternoon.
"Mark and Lisa Arute and the whole Arute family for waiting this thing out," Owen said. "Race fans they complain a lot about the racetracks. Today there's about seven people in the grandstands and they still wanted us to race. People need to think about that sometimes."


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test_description='"git fetch/pull --set-upstream" basic tests.'
. ./test-lib.sh

check_config () {
	printf "%s\n" "$2" "$3" >"expect.$1" &&
	{
		git config "branch.$1.remote" && git config "branch.$1.merge"
	} >"actual.$1" &&
	test_cmp "expect.$1" "actual.$1"
}

check_config_missing () {
	test_expect_code 1 git config "branch.$1.remote" &&
	test_expect_code 1 git config "branch.$1.merge"
}

clear_config () {
	for branch in "$@"; do
		test_might_fail git config --unset-all "branch.$branch.remote"
		test_might_fail git config --unset-all "branch.$branch.merge"
	done
}

ensure_fresh_upstream () {
	rm -rf parent && git init --bare parent
}

test_expect_success 'setup bare parent fetch' '
	ensure_fresh_upstream &&
	git remote add upstream parent
'

test_expect_success 'setup commit on master and other fetch' '
	test_commit one &&
	git push upstream master &&
	git checkout -b other &&
	test_commit two &&
	git push upstream other
'

# tests for fetch --set-upstream

test_expect_success 'fetch --set-upstream does not set upstream w/o branch' '
	clear_config master other &&
	git checkout master &&
	git fetch --set-upstream upstream &&
	check_config_missing master &&
	check_config_missing other
'

test_expect_success 'fetch --set-upstream upstream master sets branch master but not other' '
	clear_config master other &&
	git fetch --set-upstream upstream master &&
	check_config master upstream refs/heads/master &&
	check_config_missing other
'

test_expect_success 'fetch --set-upstream upstream other sets branch other' '
	clear_config master other &&
	git fetch --set-upstream upstream other &&
	check_config master upstream refs/heads/other &&
	check_config_missing other
'

test_expect_success 'fetch --set-upstream master:other does not set the branch other2' '
	clear_config other2 &&
	git fetch --set-upstream upstream master:other2 &&
	check_config_missing other2
'

test_expect_success 'fetch --set-upstream http://nosuchdomain.example.com fails with invalid url' '
	# master explicitly not cleared, we check that it is not touched from previous value
	clear_config other other2 &&
	test_must_fail git fetch --set-upstream http://nosuchdomain.example.com &&
	check_config master upstream refs/heads/other &&
	check_config_missing other &&
	check_config_missing other2
'

test_expect_success 'fetch --set-upstream with valid URL sets upstream to URL' '
	clear_config other other2 &&
	url="file://'"$PWD"'" &&
	git fetch --set-upstream "$url" &&
	check_config master "$url" HEAD &&
	check_config_missing other &&
	check_config_missing other2
'

# tests for pull --set-upstream

test_expect_success 'setup bare parent pull' '
	git remote rm upstream &&
	ensure_fresh_upstream &&
	git remote add upstream parent
'

test_expect_success 'setup commit on master and other pull' '
	test_commit three &&
	git push --tags upstream master &&
	test_commit four &&
	git push upstream other
'

test_expect_success 'pull --set-upstream upstream master sets branch master but not other' '
	clear_config master other &&
	git pull --set-upstream upstream master &&
	check_config master upstream refs/heads/master &&
	check_config_missing other
'

test_expect_success 'pull --set-upstream master:other2 does not set the branch other2' '
	clear_config other2 &&
	git pull --set-upstream upstream master:other2 &&
	check_config_missing other2
'

test_expect_success 'pull --set-upstream upstream other sets branch master' '
	clear_config master other &&
	git pull --set-upstream upstream other &&
	check_config master upstream refs/heads/other &&
	check_config_missing other
'

test_expect_success 'pull --set-upstream upstream tag does not set the tag' '
	clear_config three &&
	git pull --tags --set-upstream upstream three &&
	check_config_missing three
'

test_expect_success 'pull --set-upstream http://nosuchdomain.example.com fails with invalid url' '
	# master explicitly not cleared, we check that it is not touched from previous value
	clear_config other other2 three &&
	test_must_fail git pull --set-upstream http://nosuchdomain.example.com &&
	check_config master upstream refs/heads/other &&
	check_config_missing other &&
	check_config_missing other2 &&
	check_config_missing three
'

test_expect_success 'pull --set-upstream upstream HEAD sets branch HEAD' '
	clear_config master other &&
	git pull --set-upstream upstream HEAD &&
	check_config master upstream HEAD &&
	git checkout other &&
	git pull --set-upstream upstream HEAD &&
	check_config other upstream HEAD
'

test_expect_success 'pull --set-upstream upstream with more than one branch does nothing' '
	clear_config master three &&
	git pull --set-upstream upstream master three &&
	check_config_missing master &&
	check_config_missing three
'

test_expect_success 'pull --set-upstream with valid URL sets upstream to URL' '
	clear_config master other other2 &&
	git checkout master &&
	url="file://'"$PWD"'" &&
	git pull --set-upstream "$url" &&
	check_config master "$url" HEAD &&
	check_config_missing other &&
	check_config_missing other2
'

test_expect_success 'pull --set-upstream with valid URL and branch sets branch' '
	clear_config master other other2 &&
	git checkout master &&
	url="file://'"$PWD"'" &&
	git pull --set-upstream "$url" master &&
	check_config master "$url" refs/heads/master &&
	check_config_missing other &&
	check_config_missing other2
'

test_done

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Ghana meets the USA in Nuremberg knowing that a win will guarantee the debutants a place in the elimination rounds.
Group E remains the only group in which no team is yet to guarantee their place in the next stage, or be eliminated.
Should the Africans draw their match, they must hope the Italians beat the injury plagued Czechs.
But if the USA win, they will also be cheering on last start foes the Azzurri.
Black Stars coach Ratomir Dujkovic is in an atypically bullish mood.
"They have to worry. The USA will suffer because we are strong and we are not afraid of anyone," he said.
"Ghana is young and tough. We won't play for a draw. We always play offensive football and we play to win."
The Serbian coach has stated that he believes the match is the most important one of his life.
Should the Africans win it is likely they will face Brazil, but not even the prospect of the five time World Champions was enough to dampen his spirits.
"Every one of our players would give their lives for a win over Brazil," he declared.
"We're certainly not going out there to play in a half-hearted way."
His mood was echoed by Chelsea's Michael Essien who will again be a key player for his side.
"We are ready to play anyone. We're not afraid to meet the Brazilians," said Essien. "First we have to deal with the USA. They play good football and they will be tough."
While Essien was always going to be a vital player along with captain Stephen Appiah, their importance was increased when they lost their two goal scorers from their victory of the Czech Republic Asamoah Gyan and Sulley Muntari, due to the pair's collection of a second yellow card each.
The Americans have also been forced to count the cost of their draw with the Italians with the loss of defender Eddie Pope and midfielder Pablo Mastroeni who both saw red in their last match.
The loss of players on both sides was regrettable according the USA coach.
"The cards are excessive," Arena said.
"It's just too much. They have taken some good players out of some games."
He also laid out his game plan which will look to counter the Africans free flowing style.
"Hopefully we can deal with their team speed. That's my biggest concern," the 54 year old said.
"One thing we don't want to do is have a foot race with Ghana for 90 minutes. If we do, we're going to lose a lot of those races."
Despite striker Brian McBride's stitches still being visible, it was clear the wounds from last Saturday have healed for Team USA star Landon Donovan.
"I'm rooting for Italy for the rest of the week. As far as I'm concerned they are the nicest guys in the world," Donovan said.
"If it's 4-0 for Italy at half-time, I would probably want to know. If not, don't tell me."
A match that promises so much should make it compulsive viewing.


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.super Ljava/lang/Object;
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    value = {
        Landroid/hardware/display/DisplayManagerInternal$DisplayTransactionListener;,
        Landroid/hardware/display/DisplayManagerInternal$DisplayPowerCallbacks;,
        Landroid/hardware/display/DisplayManagerInternal$DisplayPowerRequest;
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    .prologue
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    invoke-direct {p0}, Ljava/lang/Object;-><init>()V

    .line 300
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# virtual methods
.method public abstract getDisplayInfo(I)Landroid/view/DisplayInfo;
.end method

.method public abstract initPowerManagement(Landroid/hardware/display/DisplayManagerInternal$DisplayPowerCallbacks;Landroid/os/Handler;Landroid/hardware/SensorManager;)V
.end method

.method public abstract isProximitySensorAvailable()Z
.end method

.method public abstract performTraversalInTransactionFromWindowManager()V
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.method public abstract registerDisplayTransactionListener(Landroid/hardware/display/DisplayManagerInternal$DisplayTransactionListener;)V
.end method

.method public abstract requestPowerState(Landroid/hardware/display/DisplayManagerInternal$DisplayPowerRequest;Z)Z
.end method

.method public abstract setDisplayInfoOverrideFromWindowManager(ILandroid/view/DisplayInfo;)V
.end method

.method public abstract setDisplayProperties(IZFZ)V
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.method public abstract unregisterDisplayTransactionListener(Landroid/hardware/display/DisplayManagerInternal$DisplayTransactionListener;)V
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Alien: Out of the Shadows è un romanzo fantascientifico del 2014 scritto da Tim Lebbon, ambientato nell'universo di Alien e pubblicato dalla Titan Books. Ambientato tra i film Alien e Aliens - Scontro finale, il romanzo è il primo di una trilogia progettata per legarsi agli eventi dei film. Gli altri romanzi della trilogia sono Alien: Sea of Sorrows e Alien: River of Pain. Originariamente doveva uscire nel dicembre 2013, ma la data venne posticipata al 7 gennaio 2014. La data è stata poi nuovamente posticipata al 28 gennaio 2014.

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Nel 2159 la stazione mineraria DSMO Marion, sotto il comando del capitano Lucy Jordan, è in orbita attorno al pianeta LV-178, con il compito di estrarre dalle cave del pianeta il tremonite. Improvvisamente, un giorno, la Marion perde i contatti con il complesso minerario e con le navette di trasporto della nave, la Samson e la Delilah. La Delilah, fuori controllo, si schianta contro la stazione orbitante causando tra l'altro la morte del Capitano Jordan mentre la Samson giunge alla stazione senza problemi ma con a bordo alcuni Xenomorfi. I danni subiti dalla Marion sono talmente gravi che la stazione si ritrova bloccata nello spazio e col rischio di precipitare sul pianeta.

La richiesta d'aiuto della Marion viene captata dalla Narcissus la navetta usata da Ellen Ripley per fuggire alla distruzione della USCSS Nostromo avvenuta trentacinque anni prima. Quello che Ripley ignora è che la navetta si trova sotto il controllo di Ash, il quale, prima della sua distruzione sulla Nostromo, ha caricato la sua coscienza AI nel sistema centrale della navetta. Appreso che sulla Marion si trovano degli Xenomorfi, Ash reindirizza la Narcissus verso la stazione per portare così a compimento l'ordine speciale 937 e catturare una delle creature. Una volta svegliatasi dal sonno criogenico, Ripley apprende con orrore di essere fuggita da un incubo per finire dentro ad un incubo peggiore.

Poiché mancano pochi giorni prima che la stazione precipiti sul pianeta, i pochi superstiti progettano di fuggire a bordo della Narcissus dividendosi a turno la sola capsula criogenica presente a bordo. Tuttavia, prima di poter partire essi devono sostituire il combustibile esaurito della navette e le uniche scorte di carburante disponibili si trovano nella miniera sull'LV-178. A complicare ulteriormente le cose c'è il fatto che la sola navetta con cui si può raggiungere il pianeta, la Samson, è ancora popolata da quattro xenomorfi. Nello scontro con di essi gli ingegneri Welford e Powell vengono uccisi insieme al dottor Garcia, mentre uno degli alieni fugge a bordo della Marion.

Ripley e i superstiti — Chris "Hoop" Hooper, Karen Sneddon, Josh Baxter, Kasyanov e Lachance — atterrano sull'LV-178 ed entrano nella miniera. Mentre scendono nel complesso, Ash (che ha ormai infettato i computer della Marion) sabota l'ascensore e li fa precipitare al livello più basso della miniera, dove i minatori hanno scoperto dell'esistenza degli Xenomorfi. Essendo l'ascensore andato distrutto in modo irreparabile, i sopravvissuti sono costretti ad attraversare il complesso per raggiungere un secondo ascensore sito sul lato opposto. Ben presto essi finiscono nel nido degli Xenomorfi e rinvengono un enorme veicolo spaziale alieno abbandonato sepolto sottoterra. Inseguiti dagli Xenomorfi essi si ritrovano costretti ad entrare dentro l'astronave.

Il gruppo scoprono che l'antica astronave ha una tecnologia dall'aspetto organico ed è piena di uova di Xenomorfo che sono state allevate dai proprietari dell'astronave, una misteriosa razza di alieni artropodi dall'aspetto canino estinti da diverso tempo. I sopravvissuti vengono attaccati dagli Xenomorfi e si iniziano a contare tra le loro file diversi feriti: Baxter si rompe una caviglia, Sneddon viene attaccata da un Facehugger, Kasyanov viene ferito dal sangue acido degli alieni perdendo così l'uso di un braccio e Ripley viene gravemente ferita da uno Xenomorfo generato dagli antichi alieni canidi. Nonostante le loro ferite i sopravvissuti riescono ad abbandonare la nave e a raggiungere il secondo ascensore. Baxter viene però ucciso da uno Xenomorfo.

I sopravvissuti, infine, recuperano il combustibile necessario per far ripartire la Narcissus e decidono di far esplodere la miniera prima di tornare al  Marion . Una volta a bordo il gruppo è attaccato dallo Xenomorfo che in precedenza si era nascosto nella navetta e Lachance rimane ucciso. Una rediviva Sneddon insegue la creatura fino alla stiva e lì si fa saltare in aria insieme alla creatura e al chestburster che stava crescendo dentro di lei. Mentre la Marion inizia ad entrare nell'atmosfera dell'LV-178, Hoop e Kasyanov mettono Ripley nel med pod dell'astronave per curare le sue ferite. Tormentata da incubi ricorrenti dove sua figlia Amanda viene uccisa dagli Xenomorfi, Ripley implora loro di cancellarle anche gli ultimi ricordi ed Hoop, seppure con riluttanza, accetta. Anche Kasyanov entra nel med pod per curarsi le proprie ferite, ma il crudele Ash prende il sopravvento del macchinario e la uccide.

Hoop trasporta un Ripley incosciente alla Narcissus e la mette in stasi insieme al gatto Jones, che era rimasto al sicuro a bordo della navetta per tutto il tempo. Hoop poi ripulisce il computer di bordo distruggendo Ash, il quale in un ultimo atto di sfida sabota il meccanismo di rilascio automatico della navetta. Senza alternative, Hoop dice addio a Ripley e fa ritorno sulla Marion per sganciare la Narcissus. In lacrime Hoop vede la navetta allontanarsi sapendo che al suo risveglio Ripley non si ricorderà di lui.

In attesa che la Marion si disintegri a contatto con la superficie del pianeta, Hoop recupera tutte le forniture che può e fugge a bordo della Samson.

Sviluppo
Il romanzo è il primo di una nuova trilogia che si collega coi fatti dei film di Alien, anche se i libri seguenti, non scritti da Lebbon ma dagli autori James A. Moore e Christopher Golden. I romanzi sono stati scritti sotto la supervisione della 20th Century Fox e sono stati confermati come canonici.

Audiolibro
Nel 2016 l'Audible Studios ha editato una versione audiolibro di Alien: Out of the Shadows. L'audiolibro è uscito il 26 aprile 2016, in coincidenza con l'Alien Day.

In Italia l'audiolibro è uscito col titolo Alien: Oltre l'oscurità sotto forma di una serie audio di 10 episodi.

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The American news the American way
This is how Cupra dominates the extreme conditions in the heart of Lapland
That's where the Arctic Driving Center is located, where local driving schools teach their students how to handle extreme conditions, or even experienced rally drivers practice their skills.
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Sunday, March 20, 2022, 00:16
Sports suspension, selective torque control, four-wheel drive… All this top-level technology helps the vehicle to behave precisely, and the driver to overcome adversity when driving.
cope with low grip conditions such as those that occur on ice or snow. Conditions found in the heart of Finnish Lapland, in Rovaniemi, home of Santa Claus and the Northern Lights. That's where the Arctic Driving Center is located, where local driving schools teach their students how to handle the extreme conditions they may face in their day-to-day driving on Arctic Circle roads, or even experienced rally drivers practice their skills.
Photo gallery: This is how Cupra dominates the extreme conditions in the heart of Lapland
Specifically, surrounded by forest and with several differentiated circuits that
occupy an area of 17 hectares, in these facilities you learn to control situations of understeer and oversteer, to balance the weights to carry out sporty driving on these surfaces and to face a slalom at high speed. And the Cupra Born has dominated them all. It is one of those electric ones that it is impossible to think is boring, despite what the majority believes about this type of motorization. They value it as silent, soulless, only for the city… and this vehicle is totally the opposite. With a total output of 231 hp and rear-wheel drive, it offers impressive dynamics in low-grip conditions.
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Although technology such as the DCC and ESC Sport systems (with ESC Off function for total disconnection when equipped with the e-Boost pack and wider wheels), or the oversized front brakes, do the same, the driver is essential. To get an optimal response at all times, you have to know how to react. For example, when braking, it must be as smooth and progressive as possible until stopping, possibly much further than previously thought, even if the tires are winter. You must also increase the safety distance with the vehicle in front and not make sudden movements because the car may react in the opposite way to what is expected.
On the completely opposite side is one of the
only 7,000 units that have been produced for the entire world of the Formentor VZ5, a high-performance SUV with 390 hp and 480 Nm of torque, which is synonymous with emotion behind the wheel. It has exceeded, and by far, all expectations in the same tests on closed circuits, as well as on the open tracks of the iconic Arctic Rally – one of the latest additions to the WRC calendar. It has an advanced and rigid chassis that also allows the firmness of the shock absorbers to be configured in up to 15 positions thanks to the Adaptive Chassis Control (DCC), which benefits from the Progressive Steering and the ESC Sport system, which allows the rear axle to slide. with total control to face the exit of the curves more efficiently.
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So that it is also safe, its 4Drive all-wheel drive system comes into operation. Although all its technology can also be disconnected (always in closed and controlled circuits) if the Drift mode is activated: the ESC is completely deactivated and, thanks to the 'Torque Splitter' system, all the power can be directed to a single rear wheel, which helps to make a controlled oversteer, for example.
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National Saviors
Apr10 by bobreagan13
One hundred fifty years ago this day, was a Sunday – Palm Sunday. It was the day that Confederate General Robert E. Lee met Union General Ulysses S. Grant at a house in Appomattox Virginia to surrender his army. This act ended, for all practical purposes – the American Civil War.
I chose the descriptive word for the war carefully. There have been long running controversies as to what properly to call that conflict. Each has its own ideological or partisan shade of meaning that is unnecessary to expound here. "Civil war" is a term, however, that describes a military action between and among factions in a body politic that are otherwise politically, culturally, and economically closely associated, and that certainly describes the states and their citizens who took sides in the 1861 – 1865 American conflict.
Most civil wars, before and since, have not ended well. The bloodiest and most devastating in the modern era was the Thirty Years War in Germany during the years 1618 – 1648; it took fully two centuries for that land to recover, and, arguably, longer. The English Civil War paused for 11 years when the king was beheaded and a theocratic dictatorship established. When that played out, bloody retribution was visited upon the leaders during the Restoration. The Russian civil war in the wake of the Bolshevik revolution resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands, and 70 years of oppression with tens of millions more dead. Our Civil War was pretty much an exception. There was no mass retribution by the victors. There was talk of punishment for the Confederate leaders, but only one – Henry Wirtz, the commandant of the Andersonville prisoner of war camp – was convicted and executed. And that was for war crimes, not treason or secession.
What has been called "waving the bloody shirt" – bringing up real or imagined past injustices in history to justify injustice being committed in the present — by politicians, occurred on and off. The aftermath could have been much worse. Since Appomattox, there has never been serious consideration of revanchism or secession, and many of the most ardent supporters of the Stars and Stripes and the ideals it stands for, are those whose ancestors fought under the other flag for four long years. The brunt of bitterness was born by the freed slaves, in all parts of the nation, not just the South. Racism was virulent, but it was not caused by the war. Racist attitudes intensified in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a nationwide, and worldwide, phenomenon, and were never confined to the American South.
Part of the reason for the reconciliation was the magnanimity Grant showed to Lee and the defeated Confederates. Unlike so many other wars of all kinds, the losers were not required to stack arms and be marched to POW camps or worse, but allowed to immediately return home. The officers were treated with dignity and respect. Of course, Grant certainly had President Lincoln's approval for such treatment. The President had already set the tone for binding up the nation's wounds rather than seeking retribution, in his second inaugural speech. Lee's surrender and bidding his soldiers to "furl the flag" and accept defeat and go home was no less an act to encourage reconciliation. The former Confederate soldiers could have headed for the hills and swamps to fight on as guerrillas indefinitely. In those days, that was a distinct possibility. Some called for just that. None, fortunately, were those who had the respect and confidence Lee inspired. The country owed a lot to Lincoln, Grant, and Lee for what they did – and did not do – at war's end in April 1865.
For more, see April 1865: The Month that Saved America, by Jay Winik, HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.
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She was the talk of Norn Iron in the Summer of 2012 with her Facebook sensation, Fifty Shades of Red White and Blue which was published in 2012 and swiftly became a bestseller.
She quickly followed this with more novels, Dirty Dancin in le Shebeen and Maggie's Feg Run in 2013, with all her books written in the Belfast dialect. She has adapted two of her novels into hugely successful plays, most recently Dirty Dancin' in le Shebeen, prior to that 50 Shades of Red White and Blue in Northern Ireland and 51 Shades of Maggie for the rest of Ireland and the UK and worldwide! Leesa also wrote Slimmer for Christmas, a hilarious Christmas play performed in Northern Ireland in late 2014 - early 2015.
In 2016 Leesa transformed Maggie's Feg Run into a successful on stage tour.
Leesa is set to continue entertaining the country with her witty gritty tales and 3D characters that have helped her shoot to success.
You literally couldn't write the stuff – but Leesa Harker can!!
Belfast humour that will leave you will tears rolling down your cheeks.


Much as my mother was an excellent home cook, her talents were never applied to our school lunches. The staple of our mid-day meals was always a sandwich, with a limited rotation of fillings. Perhaps it's the influence of cuisines from around the world, the proliferation of inspiration on Pinterest, or a desire to switch things up in the kitchen, but lunches seem more creative than ever before. And why not? Making a PB&J day-in, day-out can get as tedious as eating one. Along those lines, here you'll find 12 alternatives to a lunch box sandwich. Click on the recipe name to get to each of the recipes.
Layer turkey, hummus, vegetables, and olives onto whole grain flatbread, roll, and slice into colorful pinwheels.
Embellish chicken salad with apples and walnuts and pack alongside lettuce leaves for lunch box "tacos" instead of traditional sandwiches.
Top mashed avocado with cucumber slices and smoked salmon, all piled onto dense rye or other favorite bread.
Onto a piece of whole-grain flatbread, spread your favorite nut, peanut, or seed butter along with just enough chocolate hazelnut spread to make it count. Add a banana, roll up, and go. Yum!
Layer roast beef with veggies, lime juice, and other Thai flavors for a savory wrap that's a little on the exotic side. Recipe and photo thanks to Cooking Light.
A satisfying twist on a nut butter sandwich. Instead of bread, crunchy apple slices hold the fillings in place.
Use a waffle iron to make a cheese and greens panini. Add ham or turkey, too, if desired.
A combo of tuna AND salmon makes this salad extra nourishing and just as tasty spooned onto crackers as into a sandwich.
Consider this a salad, only piled onto a tortilla spread with cream cheese. Sunflower seeds add crunch. Photo credit: Christine Chitnis.
What are your favorite non-sandwich school lunches?
For more school lunch ideas, head here to check out my cookbook, Best Lunch Box Ever. You can also find loads of lunch packing tips and ideas in the School Lunch Section of my blog, which you'll find here.
You caught me just as I was inwardly groaning at the thought of another school year of packing lunches! We all read through this post and have marked up several new possibilities for both kids. Thanks!
Oh good, Hayley! Thanks for the comment.
My kids will be excited to try these. They're not big on having a sandwich every day!
Mine either, Kim, and it's fun to mix it up.
my teen won't take a lunchbox, so no ice packs/refrigeration! Any suggestions?
Any suggestions for non sandwich lunches that don't need refrigeration?
We were just discussing the lunch box yesterday. This is perfect timing, Katie!
Thanks Kate. Nice to hear from you!
my son 12yr. he is very thin and not average height (13+cm) but he can eat normal meal still never see any improve of put on weight and height. any advice for breakfast / lunch /dinner.


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A Questionable Vegetable (Flash Fiction)
Shawn Van Tol	Flash Fiction	 July 25, 2014 2 Minutes
(This one is funny to me. I wrote it, got to the end, and literally said out loud, "This is the stupidest story ever. It's not even worth reading." Then I laughed, edited it, and hit publish. /shrug)
Bob came in quickly from the rain and shook his coat. Droplets of water flung from the garment and made small spots on the hardwood floor. Brian did his best to not be bothered by it. Bob hung the coat and rushed into the living room. "Hey, Brian," he said with a big smile. "So sorry I'm late. Man!" he said with a laugh. "How about this rain?"
"Yeah," Brian said, eyeing the spots on the floor. "It sure does fall from the sky, doesn't it?"
Bob laughed. "It sure does!" His hand swooped out and clutched Brian's in a death grip handshake. "How ya been, pal? It's been so long since I've seen ya!"
Brian feigned a smile and did is best to keep his hand from breaking. "Oh sure, but it feels like it was just yesterday."
Bob laughed again, released Brian's hand, and gave him a hard slap on the shoulder. "Isn't it great? That's how you know you've got a great friendship. Say, where are the girls?"
Brian shrugged and found himself staring at the drops on the floor again. A small pool was beginning to form under Bob's jacket as well. "Can I help you clean that up? I'd hate to see your floor get ruined."
Bob turned to look. "Oh that? Nah. I put that flooring in last fall. Holds up like a champ."
"Oh," said Brian.
"Oh!" shouted Bob, startling Brian from his small trance. "Where are my manners? Let me pour you a drink." Bob rushed out of the dining room and grabbed some glasses from the kitchen.
"No, Bob, it's okay. We'll probably have a few drinks at dinner." Brian cringed when he saw the vodka bottle come out of the freezer.
"Yeah, but those places always charge so much, ya know?" Bob said with a smile. "Gotta get warmed up on our own before we head out. That reminds me, where did you say the girls went?"
"Oh," Brian said. He watched the two glasses clink with two ice cubes each, ice cubes that were promptly drowned in a clear liquid. "I think Catherine took Susanne down to show her your new vegetable garden."
Bob came around the counter and handed over the glass. Brian took it in his hand and was forced into an obligatory cheers. "What?" asked Bob. He took a large swallow and nearly finished half of his drink.
"Something about a vegetable garden," Brian said.
"We don't have a vegetable garden," said Bob.
"Oh," said Brian. He sipped at the vodka and felt his eyes begin to water a bit. "Well something about some vegetable. A new vegetable."
Bob took another swallow and finished his drink. The ice cubes left abandoned in the glass looked as though they never had a chance to melt. "Why would she take Susanne down to see a vegetable?"
"I don't know," said Brian. "They left in a hurry and I didn't really understand."
Just then, the door opened and the two wives entered. Hugs were exchanged, again, and Bob was quick to seek resolution. "Where did you dames get off to?"
"Oh," Susanne said. "I took her downstairs to the lobby to see the new art gallery."
"Oh," said Bob. "Oooohhhh! Down in the lobby. Down to the vestibule." A shit eating grin spread across Bob's face, and Brian suddenly found the strength to try more of the vodka.
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ROCCO'S LAST REQUEST
"You like exotic women, don't you?"
It was Cousin Rocco thrusting with the rapier, seeking out a vital organ, preferably the heart. Tanya, his bare naked, flame-haired Russian squeeze toy perched trophy-like on his knee as if to punctuate what to me seemed glaringly obvious. At first, I didn't take the bait. But then I did.
I'll explain.
I loved Rocco. He was a black sheep among a family characterized by its black sheep. Rocco's parents and grandparents didn't flee Sicily for the USA along with my parents and grandparents, and they never stopped repenting their decision to stay. But in so many other ways, Rocco was more 'Americano' than I could ever be.
My cousin was only a few weeks old when his father perished in a workplace accident – no safety harness or hardhats in those days – and his widowed mother inexplicably failed to bond with their second child. Instead, she fixated on his older brother, pampering and spoiling the heir while neglecting the spare, and farmed the newborn out to his paternal grandmother - my great aunt - to raise. That was in the 1940's and the sibling rivalry persisted from cradle to grave. Everything Rocco ever did could be attributed to an obsession with winning his mother's affection.
Rocco was nine when his grandmother too passed away. By that time, his mama and older brother along with most of the aunts, uncles and cousins had migrated to Germany to toil in the factories of Volkswagen and Krupp and Mercedes Benz, or to the USA. 1955 was a bad year for the little boy who found himself prisoner of an orphanage run by Catholic friars. He was persistently beaten and sexually molested. At 13, he escaped his tormenters to live as a beggar in the streets of Palermo and later Catania, just another street kid among thousands of abandoned children in post-war Sicily.
But the Americanos had earlier done the country a huge favour: after the 1943 landings, they reinstated the Mafia like never before. Rocco was soon running errands, dealing drugs, collecting the 'bustarella,' that weekly envelope filled with cash that all Catania shopkeepers are encouraged to provide to their 'protectors,' and pimping girls even younger than himself. He was eating now and grew into a robust and self-confident young tough.
When 1968 rolled around and the Beatles migrated to India to pursue Transcendental Meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the enterprising Rocco decided that India was where he belonged. He hitched-hiked overland through Afghanistan, arriving in Mumbai and Delhi at the same moment that thousands of British and American hippies began flooding into the country. He learned to speak English in India. He dealt hallucinogens to itinerant expats. He partied with the Beatles and lived like a South Asian prince. He mellowed.
When Rocco returned to Italy in the early '80's, once again he'd arrived in the right place at the right time. The Beatles had split up and heroin-addicted John Lennon died of gunshot wounds. Nonetheless, our cousin's career as a legitimate businessman and behind-the-scenes facilitator for political wannabes was taking off. Rocco once again reinvented himself. Still, Lennon's assassination made him feel bad. He never stopped talking about it.
With his seed money and old Mafia connections, he invested in real estate and high-end boutiques in Torino and Milano and contracted to fashion accessory and shoe factories in Tuscany, such as Gucci and Ferragamo, for goods to sell. He became rich. In the '80's and 90's, he backed Silvio Berlusconi who seduced the Italian voter and achieved on the Italian peninsula what Donald J. Trump failed to achieve in the USA: a virtual dictatorship of the rich wherein private enterprise became an extension of the state apparatus. Berlusconi's so-called Bunga Bunga parties made Jeffrey Epstein's get-togethers look like children's birthday gatherings. Rocco went from a starving street kid to a wealthy, respectable, neo-Fascist playboy practically overnight.
Whatever you might have wanted, Rocco could arrange it. You see, there's a great misunderstanding about how Italian, and especially Sicilian, society works; both are driven by a concept called 'Clientelismo'. Clientelismo is not a uniquely Italian phenomenon, but like everything else they do, Italians have refined it to the level of fine art. Clientelismo means that if you want something that's basically unattainable - say, university entrance for your imbecile son - then it can be arranged via any number of connections, but the only way to guarantee that said imbecile graduates to a career in medicine is to purchase a guarantee. Only a Mafioso can provide such a guarantee. The 'client' then enters into a never-ending web of obligations.
Whatever one might think about my cousin, they would likely be wrong. To the end, he was the friendliest, most ingratiating, most loving person in the world, and a true family man. He was also an accomplished cook. He was generous to a fault. My own children adored him and, when he suddenly passed away this April, they were devastated by the sad news. We all were. Yeah, he was an old fox. But every animal, plant, insect, and even fungi have a critical job to do in the world.
You need to know this backstory to understand where Rocco's question was coming from.
"You like exotic women, don't you?" he'd asked.
I recalled a business trip to Lagos, Nigeria in the early '90's. I'd come to sell aircraft propellers and brake assemblies for the country's six C-130 Hercules that were grounded for lack of spare parts. Only somebody with connections - the American version of Clientelismo - could secure the production slots with McDonnell Douglas, as the USAF had priority and the CIA controlled the commercial distribution market. So, while a coup d'état raged in the military barracks, legislative chambers, and the streets outside, at 3 am I was tossing and turning and struggling with a severe case of jet lag in a plush suite in the Hotel Eko Meridian. The Ministry of Defence building was burning, my purchase orders going up in smoke.
I decided to grab my swim shorts and head down to the pool in the ground floor patio that was surrounded by an artificial jungle of dangling tropical ivy, potted palms, and twinkling strings of tiny Christmas lights, suggesting the story of Hylas and the Water Nymphs. As if stepping into the African version of the myth, a half dozen scantily clad young women emerged from the foliage to slip silently into the water. "What's your name?" they twittered in their soft fairy-like voices, at the same time stroking my arms and competing for my ankles while I backstroked over the warm surface of the pool. "Will you come play with us?"
There was a time at the Conrad Hilton Hotel. The Hilton isn't some cheap flophouse among the sprawling morass of slums that envelop Johannesburg. It's the city's most prestigious hotel only spitting distance from the airport terminal where I was poised to fly next day to the Democratic Republic of Congo. A soft knock at the door. The most irresistibly attractive creature I'd ever encountered stood calmly in the doorway, the top buttons of her hotel uniform unfastened, proffering a shiny red apple on a silver platter. If ever Eve had tempted Adam, here was Genesis repeating itself. The Bible calls it the fall of man and the infiltration of evil in the world, but personally I don't believe there are any vices below the belt.
In his twilight years, Rocco over-wintered in Thailand. He bragged that he spent less than two Euros per day on food and was eating like a king. Last season, he spent three months in Cambodia. His modus operandi never varied. He would rent a nice chalet in one or another of the many beach resort developments dedicated to European snowbirds and retired expats, hire a bevy of young, compliant servant girls, then settle in to enjoy the bright blue skies, warm clear ocean, tasty food, and exotic women.
Some would have accused Rocco of being a misogynist, that is, a male chauvinist who hates women, objectivizes them, and takes pleasure in dominating and abusing them. I've been called that myself; but hey, nobody's perfect. On the surface at least, Rocco was the prototypical gentleman. He understood – albeit in a kind of raw, primordial way - the seemingly complex but essentially simple dynamic of male-female relations. He believed that the basis of all relations between men and women is transactional. Whether it's a 50-year marriage with your high school sweetheart or a 5-minute fuck with a cheap hooker in a shabby motel, it will always be an exchange of goods and services. Well, I don't entirely subscribe to this philosophy, but I do a little bit.
Rocco and his ex-wife (that's another story) had two daughters. He knew that in spite of the Women's Movement and @MeToo, the girls would most likely end up dependent on an undependable male once Daddy was dead and buried. It's like that in Italy. It's like that everywhere. So, as his strength waned and the consequences of the fast life began claiming him, Rocco liquidated most of his investments in order to purchase flats for his daughters to rent for income and also for them to occupy with their children as their liaisons and marriages inevitably fell apart, one after another. He put his children on a pedestal, though being a realist, not a very lofty one.
Rocco knew that when his offspring felt the biological urge to reproduce, they wouldn't be so astute in selecting a sperminator and that staying in an abusive marriage wasn't very different from what he'd endured in the orphanage. As usual, he was right. After his oldest daughter had her most recent partner's name tattooed in large blue font up and down her spine, the guy walked out the door. She was pregnant with her second child.
Rocco understood the 'Pareto Principle.' According to Italian Professor Pareto, 80% of available women in any society will be attracted to only 20% of the male population. You guessed it: the 20% with money. But what about that other 20% of women? Well, there's a lot to be said for a dude with a pretty face, huge biceps, nice tattoos, and a hard salami. Did you think those qualities always come with money? For the answer, just ask Melania Trump (www.francescorizzuto.com/post/defending-melania).
Most telling of all, Rocco looked after his aged mother right to the end. Only the best care, the most expensive nursing home, daily visits with small treats and gifts. In her Will, she left everything to his older brother. But even in Italy there is sometimes justice. Italy still functions under Roman Law and there are fairly rigid rules governing inheritance. In the end, the liquidation of the old lady's estate left Rocco's daughters each with a little nest egg which, according to form, they will surely squander. But I'm running ahead of myself.
Enough philosophy. Let's get back to my cousin's question: "You like exotic women, don't you?" Men are always challenging one another and deflecting challenges. Some would put it down to toxic masculinity. Whatever it is, it is. It doesn't unnerve me. Never has.
He wasn't exactly asking. He was telling me that I had a taste for exotic women, implying – no insisting – that we both had a taste for exotic women. It isn't that there aren't enough good and wholesome Italian women to go around, or that they aren't exotic enough; just a matter of perspective, right? Or is it like men and automobiles? While Fiat cranks out affordable puddle-jumpers for the masses, those of more discerning tastes and fatter pocketbooks go for the sportier Japanese and German and even Russian models. Don't you just love the analogy?
But no, it's actually not like that. Rocco was right. Every interaction between a man and a woman is transactional...she wants something, he wants something. Thankfully, most women have that principle nailed right down. Separating emotional from financial goals, they hold the Pareto Principle in high esteem, however one might spell 'gold digger' in Chinese characters or maybe the Cyrillic alphabet. Romeo & Juliet be damned. Nobody perishes for love in this soap opera.
If you look at the proliferation of internet websites devoted to young and old women displaying their most intimate parts while demonstrating every conceivable sex act known to man or beast, via webcam to a dedicated audience of deprived – and some not-so-deprived – men (and also a lot of women) in exchange for money, it's hard to argue that male/female relations aren't transactional. These so-called 'models' aren't experiencing that big Hollywood wedding, not now at least. But I'm sure that more than a handful will emerge to hook a really big fish this way, because we men, both rich and poor, have always made our decisions using the small head between our legs rather than the big head sitting atop our necks. All women instinctively know this, and if they don't, then someone should tell them.
So, I had a talk with my son Vinnie whose investment in internet dating wasn't paying the dividends he'd expected. Or any dividends. I reminded him of Uncle Rocco's philosophy of live well and never look back, and how Rocco defined the basis of every relationship, that is, as transactional.
"I know Dad," he said. "A buddy looked at my dating profile and freaked. He said it was the exact opposite of what women are looking for. He said I needed to knock three years off my age and add it to my height, then post some photos of myself holding a baby. Also, a snapshot without my shirt taken by somebody at the beach, and another photo in a business suit, smoking a fat stogie and acting like a billionaire. So, that's what I did. Changed my online profile."
"And within a couple of hours I had five new emails asking for hook-ups."
"See..? Uncle Rocco is looking after you from wherever he is now!"
But I'm digressing.
After I answered "yes" to my cousin's question, he looked knowingly at his enticing companion and sighed, "Good. Because I'm leaving you this one in my Will."
On February 1, 1685, King Charles II of England, languishing on his death bed after a life of dissipation, famously pleaded with his brother, James II: "Do not let poor Nelly (Nell Gwyn, his favourite concubine) starve."
That was Rocco's last request too, that I should look after Miss Carrot Top.
See, I don't especially love exotic women, nor do I seek them out; not generally. To be honest, over the last 60 years, some of the most physically unattractive, I'll dare say repulsive, females have won my heart. To me, every woman seems exotic and I was just trying to please my cousin in his final days and hours by telling him whatever he wanted to hear. He'd had a rough life, lived by his own code, and I thought he deserved my admiration and a measure of hard-earned compassion.
After Rocco's passing, Tanya moved on to other things. After all, she's no Tinkerbell gingerly sipping dew drops from a lotus petal. She's Russian tough, Russian sexy, and under 30. I liked her. She knew the formula. She had the ground rules straight.
And like the wannabe king, Donald J. Trump, famously said about Ghislaine Maxwell: "I wish her well…"
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La  (traduit par « République des Enfants ») est un parc à thème situé à La Plata, dans la province de Buenos Aires, en Argentine. Le parc à thème, aussi connu comme la « Ville des Enfants », représente une ville (proportionnellement à la taille pour les enfants) avec toutes ses institutions : le parlement, la maison du gouvernement, le palais de justice, l'église, le port, le théâtre, l'aéroport, les restaurants, les hôtels

Création
La République des Enfants a été construit par la fondation Eva Perón sur  pris sur l'ancien parcours de golf . Le parc a officiellement ouvert ses portes le , lors d'une cérémonie présidée par le président Juan Perón. Eva Perón n'a pas pu participer à la cérémonie en raison de son cancer qui l'a emportée quelques mois plus tard.

Le parc à thèmes
La République des Enfants est construite sur un terrain de 52 hectares. À l'intérieur, les enfants peuvent explorer les différentes caractéristiques géographiques, les paysages naturels, la campagne et la ville. Il comprend un complet de la ville avec toutes ses institutions et de ses centres. Les bâtiments reprennent différents styles architecturaux, tels que l'architecture mauresque ou le style néo-gothique.

Une voie de chemin de fer de type voie étroite de  traverse le parc.

La banque municipale est une copie du palais des Doges à Venise, tandis que le palais de la culture a été inspiré par le Taj Mahal à Agra. Ce dernier bâtiment héberge le musée de la poupée de Carlos Moneo Sáenz. La chapelle comporte de larges toits-terrasses inspirés par l'architecture normande, ainsi qu'un balcon et des clochers. Un aquarium est également présent dans le parc.

Le parc a été conçu à la fois pour les loisirs pour les enfants, et pour leur instruction dans l'éthique républicaine. Autour de la  est l'organe législatif, inspiré par le parlement britannique, qui abrite l'enceinte de la chambre des députés et sénateurs du gouvernement de la République pour enfants ; ce corps est élu à partir de groupes d'étudiants locaux. Une fois par an à la date anniversaire de la fondation de la République, les membres du conseil municipal de la ville de s'engager dans une session spéciale.

Disneyland et la République des Enfants
Selon le site officiel de la République des Enfants, Walt Disney a visité le parc en 1953 et, « surpris par la beauté, s'en est inspiré pour construire Disneyland ».

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Parc de loisirs en Argentine
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Home Breaking News Ceremoniously opened lotus tower remains closed for public till next year
Ceremoniously opened lotus tower remains closed for public till next year
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Although open, the Colombo Lotus Tower would remain closed for public viewing until next year as it has not yet been fully completed, Project Director Shantha Gunananda said.
He said the construction company, CEIEC, has refused to hand over the project till next year because the tower has been opened by President Maithripala Sirisena when the project was incomplete.
Speaking to Daily Mirror, Mr Gunananda said the TV and radio broadcasting and transmission from the tower could be commenced mid next year.
He said the Chinese construction company has not yet informed about the estimated cost for the future expenses to complete the tower.
"The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission has paid its attention to this issue," he said.
In early September, Cabinet approval was given to set up a new state-owned enterprise (SOE) to commercialise the Lotus Tower and handle its financial operations.
Mr Gunananda said the delay in the opening of the tower was an obstacle to invest in it and set up an SOE to manage it.
USD 104 million was spent for construction of the tower and eighty per cent of the cost has been funded by the EXIM Bank of China.
The tower comprises a telecommunication museum, a restaurant, supermarkets, food courts, conference halls with a seating capacity for 400 people, a 1,000-seat auditorium, luxury hotel rooms, ballrooms and an observation gallery.
At the opening of the tower on September 16, President Sirisena alleged that there was no trace of the Rs. 2 billion which was paid as an advance to one of the Chinese construction companies. (Indika Sri Aravinda)
Bkhk Sunday, 13 October 2019 12:10 PM
Gota will open it properly. Karma dictates it
Chathu j Sunday, 13 October 2019 02:59 PM
Definitely.....
ANTON Sunday, 13 October 2019 03:39 PM
Our new president Mr. Sajith will open it for Christmas festival.
Tupac Sunday, 13 October 2019 04:26 PM
This might be gotaS HQ we will never get to see the tower


Is there a more treacherous instrument in the string family than the viola? How intractable it can be to those many who endeavour to play it in tune but succeed only fitfully. But when Roger Benedict tucks it under his chin, how perfectly behaved it is. Here indeed is a viola tamed—and it does his master's bidding to the most beguiling of ends in a way that most other violists would give their eye teeth to emulate. It is impossible to overstate the merit of this recorded recital; it brims to overflowing with good things, not least the stream of often exquisitely mellow tone which Benedict conjures from the instrument.
Here's a fascinating compilation, well off the beaten track—and yet another instance of Melba's adventurous forays into the seldom heard, even less seldom recorded.
Charles Kœchlin's Sonata for Viola and Piano (which years later would be followed by sonatas for cello and for horn) is a major opus to which both Benedict and Timothy Young bring a wealth of experience and insight.
Kœchlin's sonata is unlikely ever to reach the top ten of viola favourites. There is little about it which could be thought of as either memorably catchy or of Olympian profundity. But it is nonetheless a valuable addition to the sadly small repertoire of music for the instrument—and it is played with such beauty of tone and insights of such intense musicality that it holds the attention from first note to last. Certainly, the dark and sombre nature of the opening adagio is wonderfully evoked—as is the wild dance that is the essence of the scherzo. And the calm, thoughtful approach to the extended soliloquy which takes up much of the third movement is musical to the nth degree.
I particularly liked Kœchlin's Quatre Petites Pièces in which Benedict and Young are joined by Ben Jacks whose horn playing here is the stuff of aural delight, enchanting moments that would surely charm the grumpiest bird from a twig. The musical chemistry of the trio is constantly apparent here, not least in the opening andante in which a songlike viola and Jacks at his winning best make magic. I particularly admired the skilled and most effective internal tonal balance. Young is everywhere convincing, not least in finely stated, rippling figurations in the movement marked très modéré.
Benedict and Young come up trumps, too, in four engaging pieces by Belgian composer Joseph Jongen. These, too, are as polished in presentation as the Kœchlin works.


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Home » Insurance Blog » Affordable Care Act » Can States Ban Obamacare?
When the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, was first enacted, many states (and other groups) attempted to fight the law, or at least specific provisions. Several states attempted to ban Obamacare within their borders, but being a federal law, this proved impossible.
This didn't stop some states from doing all they could to sabotage and undermine the program. For example, several states refused to use federal funding to create state health exchanges (through which residents could apply for, purchase, and manage health insurance plans). Some states also refused to supplement Medicaid programs with additional state funds.
Legal complaints against Obamacare were largely unsuccessful, and the Supreme Court ultimately upheld the law by a ruling of 5-4. Despite that, there have been dozens of attempts to repeal the ACA in the house and senate since it went into effect. President Obama blocked these attempts with his veto power (or the threat of veto).
Now there is a new president and a new administration in the White House, and President Trump and the republican-led Congress have vowed to repeal and replace Obamacare. What does this mean for states? Can they ban Obamacare now?
At this point, the ACA is a federal law, which means it can only be banned if the Congress and the president all agree to repeal it, which they plan to do. This only involves individual states insomuch as members of Congress will vote on behalf of their states, hopefully taking the wants and needs of their constituents into account.
If the ACA is repealed and replaced, states will no longer be beholden to Obamacare – they will have to follow whatever law is enacted to replace the ACA. Insurance companies, healthcare providers, and U.S. citizens will have to do the same.
The president has the power to issue executive orders, but may not use this power to overturn existing laws, like the ACA. However, executive orders can be used to undermine the authority of Obamacare and make the law ineffective.
This has already started. President Trump has signed an executive order directing federal agencies to begin granting waivers, exemptions, and delays for any of the measures included in Obamacare that would impose costs on states or on individuals.
Many people and entities were upset about the individual mandate (that requires every citizen to carry minimum coverage or pay penalties). This executive order could allow federal agencies to give provisions to individuals without healthcare or waive penalties associated with failure to meet mandatory minimums, for example, although this has not been expressly stated.
The executive order has also called for a halt on new regulations that would extend the reach of Obamacare, and grants states greater latitude to control health care programs. The language of the executive order is not very clear about what these directives mean or how they should be implemented in a practical sense.
So, can states ban Obamacare? The answer is no – the federal law cannot be banned outright at the state level. However, it seems as though states are gaining greater ability to challenge and undermine the law should they so choose.