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Q: html5 new elements (header, nav, footer, ..) not working in IE html5 new elements (header, nav, footer, ..) not working in IE

A: You need to include the HTML5 shiv script in order to allow styling of HTML5 elements in older IE browsers: http://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/
To use, include the following script in your  element above your CSS:

A: Use HTML5shiv.js or write javascript code in HTML Conditional comments.

A: Another option is to use Modernizr, which includes the HTML5 Shiv and also provides HTML5 feature detection.

HTML 5 elements in IE Modernizr runs through a little loop in
  JavaScript to enable the various elements from HTML5 (as well as abbr)
  for styling in Internet Explorer. Note that this does not mean it
  suddenly makes IE support the Audio or Video element, it just means
  that you can use section instead of div and style them in CSS. you'll
  also probably want to set many of these elements to display:block; see
  the HTML5 Boilerplate CSS for an example. As of Modernizr 1.5, this
  script is identical to what is used in the popular html5shim/html5shiv
  library. Both also enable printability of HTML5 elements in IE6-8,
  though you might want to try out the performance hit if you have over
  100kb of css.
Supported browsers We support IE6+, Firefox 3.5+, Opera 9.6+, Safari
  2+, Chrome. On mobile, we support iOS's mobile Safari, Android's
  WebKit browser, Opera Mobile, Firefox Mobile and whilst we're still
  doing more testing we believe we support Blackberry 6+.
  ~ http://modernizr.com/docs/#html5inie

The following tags at least: article, aside, details, figcaption, figure, footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, section

A: Update - newer versions of IE do support HTML5 structural elements with the exception of the newer 'main' element. Using a CSS reset that includes the 'main' element such as normalize will fix this. Or you can just add the following CSS to your project:
    main { display: block;}

A: If you don't care about a little bit code-overhead just use inner DIVs for styling.
This sections can not be styled via CSS with IE<9 (no HTML5-support).
Even if you put a class-attribute inside the section-tag.

Level1

    some text

Level2

        some more text

Thats because IE<9 is killing the nesting for unknown tags.
The DOM looks crazy like this:

Level1

 some text

Level2

 some more text

<//section>

<//section>

But you can use DIVs as an IE<9-Fallback, if you don't like to use javascript shim's.
Instead of styling the SECTIONs, just style the inner DIVs.

Level1

        some text

Level2

                some more text

So you have modern surrounding HTML5-tags for SEO and all the styling is done by the DIVs for every browser as usual. It's full valid HTML5 and still works if javascript is disabled.

A: Use the script given below...it will help you..
For each new element you want IE < 9 to recognise..add as below:

document.createElement("article"); (within script tag) document.createElement("footer"); (within script tag)

Thank you


I am not sure I understand section 4.3. When talking about "media keep-alive packets" is it for the STUN Binding Indication usage or for all the options in section 10 of RFC 5245.  Maybe you meant that you should prefer DTLS/SRTP keep-alive like RTP no-op in this case. I had problem understanding this section. Please clarify.


Barkin' Mad is a feature rich slot machine made by Barcrest. This is one of my personal favorite Barcrest games, and it's mostly because of the Big Bet feature it has, that brings a lot of extra action to the game. As you see instantly after the game has loaded, this slot machine comes with a dog theme, and it's all about the dogs as they also trigger some special features now and then. Barkin' Mad features a very cool free spin feature with sticky wild symbols, it also has several ways to enter that feature during the Big Bets. All of the symbol positions spin individual of each other, that means that any symbol can land anywhere and that a full screen of all the different symbols is possible to get. This slot comes with different paytables for bets over and under €2.00 per spin, and also for the Big Bet feature. It also has sticky wilds in the free spins, so the potential maximal win is actually almost impossible to calculate.
Barkin' Mad has wild symbols on all the 15 different reel positions, and they substitute for all other symbols except the Barkin' Mad scatter symbol. During the free spin feature, the wild symbols become sticky. This might also randomly happen for one or more spins exclusively during the Big Bet spins. All the symbol positions on Barkin' Mad are individual, that means that each position can show any symbol at any time. During the base game it's possible to win the free games, and it's also possible to get a random multiplying wild appearing anywhere on the screen to create a winning combination. If the base game is played on a bet of €2 of higher, or if the Big Bets are played, it's possible to trigger the free spins by getting only 2 Barkin' Mad scatters, as a third one might randomly appear on the screen after the spin is finished. During the Big Bets only, it's possible to trigger the free spins during the Showtime bonus, that only appears if you win at least 25% of the Big Bet value on a spin.
Big Bet feature: Barkin' Mad has a Big Bet option where you can buy 5 spins for €20 or €30. These spins will be played directly after each other on auto play, and they will be played at the spin value of a normal €2 or €3 spin depending on which Big Bet you chose to play. This might sound like a horrible idea, to buy 5 spins worth a total of €10 for €20 or €15 for €30, but the Big Bets gives you a lot more frequent bonuses, both by giving you a chance to enter the free spins with only 2 initial scatters, but also by triggering the free spins during the Showtime bonus, that's only possible to trigger during the Big Bets. I find this game a lot funnier if the Big Bets are played, so this is one of the games where I actually recommend to try out the Big Bet feature.
Bonus game: The Showtime bonus can only be triggered during the Big Bet feature, and it's only triggered if you win €5 or more on a €20 bet, or €7.50 or more on a €30 bet. The Showtime bonus is a big wheel with different multipliers and free spin options. You get one spin on the wheel and it can multiply your wins from x1 to x5, or it can land on a free spin feature from 10 to 14 spins. If you land on a multiplier your triggering win will be multiplied, and you will return to the base game. If you hit one of the free spin options, you are offered to exchange your win into the free spins. This is highly recommended unless you have won a huge win, as the free spin feature usually pays way better than the triggering spins. If the free spins are chosen, the normal free spin feature is played with sticky wilds.
Free spins: As written above it's possible to trigger the free spin feature in different ways, but the most common one is by getting 3 or more Barkin' Mad scatters on the reels. A combination of 3 scatters will reward you with 10 free spins, while each additional scatter gives you 2 more spins. During the free spins all wild symbols become sticky, and that includes any wild symbols that was shown during the triggering spin. It's not possible to re-trigger the free spin feature.
Barkin' Mad is created by Barcrest.


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Europe should take inspiration from Germany's 'impressive stance' on asylum seekers
27/08/2015 Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Michele Nicoletti (Italy, SOC), the rapporteur on revision of the Dublin Regulation for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), today expressed his welcome for the German government's announcement that it will stop sending Syrian asylum seekers back to the country through which they first entered the European Union.
"This provision of the EU's Dublin Regulation has a great impact on the unfair distribution of asylum seekers across EU member States," said Mr Nicoletti, "as it tends to concentrate them in those countries that by geographical accident are most exposed to today's unprecedented mixed migratory flows. This and other distortions severely undermine the European response to the current refugee and migration challenges, and threaten wider European solidarity."
"I am also impressed by Germany's reassurance that it will not be overwhelmed even by the 800,000 asylum applications that it now expects to receive in 2015," he continued. "These two important steps show that far-sighted, humanitarian leadership, essential to addressing the current challenges, is still possible, given the political will. Other European leaders should take inspiration from this."

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Q: concept Marginal Probability
In the Above explanation it is written in square bracket that
Note that $x-({1\over 2})\mathrm dx$ and $x+({1\over 2})\mathrm dx$ are the values of X and in this interval
f(x,y) may be treated as constant , I did not understand why and how f(x,y) can
be treated as constant?

A: It can be treated as a constant because the range of $x$ is infinitesimally small. Since $f(x,y)$ (as a function of x for fixed y) is (presumably) smooth and bounded on this range, its variation goes to zero as the size of the range goes to zero and you can pull it out of the integral as a constant.

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In this tutorial, we are going to enable Developer Options on Samsung Galaxy A8 and A8 Plus (2018), and learn how to use it in the best manner. The Developer Options has extremely helpful features that help to customize the phone extremely. Once you enable the Developer Mode on Samsung Galaxy A8 and A8 Plus (2018), you'll get the access to hidden features on your phone. Both the phones feature very impressive configuration. In terms of performance, both are at par with OnePlus 5 and 5T. Or simply, we can consider them as the best alternatives to OnePlus 5 and 5T.
Usually, Google keeps Developer Options hidden in their operating system. And it is supposed to be accessed by Android developers. However, for an ordinary user, it becomes important when we flash firmware, custom recovery, etc., Most importantly, USB Debugging can only be enabled once we have access to Developer Options. Since you've an Android phone, you must know these settings.
They help you to customize your phone the way you want. If you're anything serious about customization, and personalize your phone, then enabling the Developer Options would be the very step in your way.
If you're looking to enable Developer Mode on your Galaxy A8 and A8 Plus (2018), then this guide will help you. The method is very simple, and it doesn't require any kind of technical skills. Neither, enabling these settings won't hurt your phone.
Moreover, you get access to features that can improve the performance very well. However, you must know that using such features incorrectly can harm your phone. If you're not sure what are you doing, then you mustn't use them.
USB debugging becomes necessary when it comes to connect our phone to PC, and transfer files. There are many firmware flashing tools that require USB debugging like Odin. To enable that option, you must learn how to activate developer options.
This hidden setting is incredibly easy activate, and access. The process remains almost similar to all Samsung smart phones.
Scroll down to locate Build Number option. Now, tap seven times over it.
Each time you tap on it, you'll get a message that contains a number of steps remain to become a developer. Once you tap seven times on Build Number, a message will appear: You're now a Developer or something similar.
In that way, one can activate the Developer Mode on Samsung's smartphones anytime. Since you've now access to Developer Options, you can enable USB Debugging, and access other useful features.
So, that ends our tutorial here on how to enable Developer Options, and USB Debugging on Samsung Galaxy A8 and A8 Plus (2018).
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Extractive sector: Plea for a massive presence of women
Training of women
Par ediallo - 31 May, 2021 - 07:42
The extractive sector in Senegal is marked by a weak presence of women. It is to reverse this trend that the African Platform for Women's Empowerment (Paaf) organized a roundtable on the theme "Oil and gas: the place of women's organizations in local content.
The opportunity was taken to call on the authorities to involve more women in this sector by helping them in training.
By Dieynaba KANE - Give an important place to women in the oil and gas sector:
This is the plea launched at the roundtable organized yesterday by the African Platform for Women's Empowerment (Paaf) on this issue. The various speakers recognized the low presence of women in the extractive sector in Senegal.
Based on the Itie report of 2019, published in 2020, Awa Marie Coll Seck stressed that "in the extractive sector, out of 7,951 people working in the 25 companies in the reconciliation area, women are 668, or 8.4% of the total workforce.
Worse, they represent only "5% of senior managers in large companies in the mining, oil and gas sector".
According to the President of the National Committee of the Itie, "there is a lot of work to be done". "It is clear that this is a sector dominated by men, but women have their place," she said.
For Ms. Seck, "there must be at least a balance, an equity". Showing the resources generated by this sector, the President of the National Committee Itie informs that in the 2019 report, "companies have declared a global amount paid to suppliers estimated at 891 billion, more than what is paid to the state.
This makes him say "there are a lot of means and resources, but they must return to the nationals, and that we do not forget the women.
What about the law on local content? Awa Marie Coll Seck believes that it is an "opportunity not to be missed".
Addressing the women, she declared: "It is up to us to appropriate it and to ask that everything the State does, that the local communities do, be at the service of women. This law will allow us to put important financial resources on the table."
For women to benefit from the exploitation of gas and oil, and the mechanisms put in place, Awa Marie Coll proposed tracks.
"The impetus of women in the supply chain and in local extractive sector policies and projects is a requirement.
Information on local content must be shared transparently, women's capacities strengthened and vocations aroused wherever necessary, funding granted for women's empowerment and local development support funds properly implemented so that all opportunities offered by the law on local content can be seized," she said.
Taking part in this meeting, the Director of Cabinet of the Minister of Oil and Energy maintains that the government is aware that "women are underrepresented in the extractive sector.
Thus, Issa Dione promises that his department will work with stakeholders to meet the challenge "so that they can participate actively.
This, he said, "will allow them to benefit from the opportunities of the value chain and increase the market share of local content.
The president of the Paaf stressed the need "to include a female dose in the entire ecosystem of hydrocarbons.
"This sector whose exploitation is a major turning point in our economy calls for its development a full involvement of women, "she pleaded.
On this basis, Maïmouna Diagne invites the State to open the doors of specialties, so far considered male, to women.
According to Ms. Diagne, "international experience has sufficiently shown that women's work is a source of inclusion, stability, social balance, productivity of work and sustainability in the construction of wealth.
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All About Beans - Inexpensive, Healthy and Nutritious
Beans are a nutrient powerhouse, and great for a hearty winter meal on a budget. Find out all you need to know about beans here
Besides being delicious and versatile, virtually all types of beans are nutrient powerhouses. Darker-colored beans are richest in heart-healthy, cancer-protective antioxidants, but all beans are beneficial to those looking to improve the nutrient density of their meals; rich in protein (about 7 to 15g), folic acid, magnesium, and protective phytochemicals. Most beans are also high in both soluble and insoluble fiber, and slowly digested carbohydrates, with a gentler, even beneficial, effect on blood-sugar.
Beans are especially filling and satisfying, even though they're fairly low in calories, (100 to 125 calories per half-cup serving). Hearty and toothsome, beans closely match meat's nutrition and flavor profile, without the accompanying dose of saturated fat, and for a fraction of the price.
Cooking dried beans from scratch gives you the firmest texture and best flavor, and it's easy to do with a little advance planning. But there's no denying that canned beans are wonderfully convenient (compare soaking, cooking, and seasoning beans to buying precooked canned beans), and you're more likely to eat beans regularly if there are canned beans in your cupboard – but read those ingredient labels carefully as some of the canned varieties may add extra, unnecessary ingredients like salt, and even in some instances pork fat and always look for BPA free cans!
Kidney beans are large; almost 3/4 inch, have a definitive kidney shape and are nearly maroon in color. These are the beans to use in chili because they're hearty, and take well to spices. Cooking time: 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
Light Red Kidney beans are similar to their darker relative and are the bean for the Southern dish, red beans and rice. Cooking time: 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
Pinto (Pink) is the staple of Mexican cooking, and is a pinkish-mauve color that turns brownish when cooked. Some variations are mottled. Pintos look like brown medium ovals. Pintos are favored for whole or refried beans in burritos and tacos. Cooking times vary from 1 to 2 hours depending on size.
Special note on Refried Beans or frijoles refritos:
Refried beans begin with onions and garlic sautéed in lard or oil, to which spoonfuls of cooked pinto beans are added, mashed, and cooked until they are thicker than mashed potatoes. Sometimes a little broth or water is added. The intriguing thing is that they are not re-fried at all. One theory for this misnomer is that in Mexican Spanish, "re" is a way to emphasize doneness, such as these beans are well-done or cooked thoroughly. They are not, however, fried two times.
Cranberry or Roman Beans are a favorite in Italian recipes. These medium mottled tan and red beans are oval in shape, take to spices well, and are very tender with modest cooking time 45 to 60 minutes.
Garbanzo or Chickpeas, popular in Middle East cuisine, are the basis for hummus, the bean spread spiked with garlic and olive oil. They're an imperfect round beige color and give both a nut-like flavor and firm texture. Use whole in soups or salads or grind up cooked beans for hummus or for frying for falafel balls. Modest cooking time of 30 minutes to 1 hour. Skins should be discarded because they're difficult to digest.
Black-eyed Peas are the ones to bring luck into your life on New Year's Day as the Southern custom asserts. These beans are white with black dots and have a light very smooth texture. Cooking time: 30 to 60 minutes.
Black or Turtle Beans are medium sized black oval beans, that are popular in Caribbean cooking and adapt well to South and Central American dishes for which a heartier, earthier, smoother bean is desired. Cooking time: 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
Navy beans are not navy blue as one would expect, but small white ovals that add a mild flavor to soups and salads and can be used in baked beans. They belong to the haricot bean (white bean) family, and cook in 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
Great Northern beans are another relative of the haricot bean (white bean) family but larger than navy beans yet offer a similar mild white beantaste that is great in soups and stews and in the classic French dish, cassoulet. Cooking time: 45 to 60 minutes.
Limas are plump, slightly curved beans that are pale colored and come in two sizes: small baby lima and white with a creamy smooth texture or slightly larger butter beans that are pale green to white. Both are delicious alone or added to soups or casseroles. Cooking time: 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
Dried beans should look even in color, shape and size. It's important to rinse them before soaking to determine if there are any stray pebbles or dirt that escaped the package. Beans that look wrinkled or misshapen should be avoided. Soak dry beans according to directions, usually several hours to overnight, and cook completely from 1/2 to 2 hours. Salt after cooking to avoid toughening. Once cooked, they can be stored in the refrigerator for several days and added to salads, rice, pasta, or stews as desired.
Canned Beans can have a tremendous amount of sodium, from 140 to 500 mg for a half-cup serving, rinse canned beans thoroughly with cold water before using them to eliminate extra (but not all) of the sodium. In addition to high quantities of added salt, even low salt versions may contain additives or preservatives- read labels, all that is necessary to preserve cooked beans in cans are the beans, water, and salt.
Beans are good for your digestive system and cardiovascular system as well as overall health, SupermarketGuru suggests you go out and try a new type of bean!


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Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy
BODY & SOUL: DIANA & KATHY, directed by Academy Award-nominee Alice Elliott, is a look at an unusual, symbiotic relationship between two people some would call profoundly disabled. Two of the country's most remarkable...
BODY & SOUL: DIANA & KATHY, directed by Academy Award-nominee Alice Elliott, is a look at an unusual, symbiotic relationship between two people some would call profoundly disabled. Two of the country's most remarkable advocates for people with disabilities, Diana Braun, who has Down Syndrome, and Kathy Conour, who has cerebral palsy, met three decades ago and vowed to fight to live independent lives. Told in an intimate verite style, the film is a story of a compelling and creative friendship, as Diana and Kathy model a grand experiment in independent living.
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American Foreign Policy: The Turning Point, 1898-1919
By Ralph Raico
With the end of the twentieth century rapidly approaching, this is a time to look back and gain some perspective on where we stand as a nation. Were the Founding Fathers somehow to return, they would find it impossible to recognize our political system. The major cause of this transformation has been America's involvement in war and preparation for war over the past hundred years. War has warped our constitutional order, the course of our national development, and the very mentality of our people.
The process of distortion started about a century ago, when certain fateful steps were taken that in time altered fundamentally the character of our republic. One idea of America was abandoned and another took its place, although no conscious, deliberate decision was ever made. Eventually, this change affected all areas of American life, so that today our nation is radically different from the original ideal, and, indeed, from the ideal probably still cherished by most Americans.
The turning point was signaled by a series of military adventures: the war with Spain, the war for the conquest of the Philippines, and, finally, our entry into the First World War. Together, they represented a profound break with American traditions of government.
Until the end of the nineteenth century, American foreign policy essentially followed the guidelines laid down by George Washington, in his Farewell Address to the American people: "The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is—in extending our commercial relations—to have with them as little political connection as possible."
The purpose of Washington's admonition against entanglements with foreign powers was to minimize the chance of war. James Madison, the father of the Constitution, expressed this understanding when he wrote:
Of all enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.
History taught that republics that engaged in frequent wars eventually lost their character as free states. Hence, war was to be undertaken only in defense of our nation against attack. The system of government that the Founders were bequeathing to us—with its division of powers, checks and balances, and power concentrated in the states rather than the federal government—depended on peace as the normal condition of our society.
This was the position not only of Washington and Madison, but of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the other men who presided over the birth of the United States. For over a century, it was adhered to and elaborated by our leading statesmen. It could be called neutrality, or nonintervention, or America first, or, as its modern enemies dubbed it, isolationism. The great revisionist historian Charles A. Beard called it Continental Americanism. This is how Beard defined it in A Foreign Policy for America, published in 1940:
[It is] a concentration of interest on the continental domain and on building here a civilization in many respects peculiar to American life and the potentials of the American heritage. In concrete terms, the words mean non-intervention in the controversies and wars of Europe and Asia and resistance to the intrusion of European or Asiatic powers, systems, and imperial ambitions into the western hemisphere [as threatening to our security].
An important implication of this principle was that, while we honored the struggle for freedom of other peoples, we would not become a knight-errant, spreading our ideals throughout the world by force of arms. John Quincy Adams, secretary of state to James Monroe and later himself president of the United States, declared, in 1821:
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions, and her prayers. But she does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
John Quincy Adams was the real architect of what became known as the Monroe Doctrine. In order to assure our security, we advised European powers to refrain from interfering in the Western Hemisphere. In return, however, we promised not to interfere in the affairs of Europe. The implied contract was broken and the Monroe Doctrine annulled in the early twentieth century by Theodore Roosevelt and, above all, Woodrow Wilson.
This noninterventionist America, devoted to solving its own problems and developing its own civilization, became the wonder of the world. The eyes and hopes of freedom-loving peoples were turned to the Great Republic of the West.
But sometimes the leaders of peoples fighting for their independence misunderstood the American point of view. This was the case with the Hungarians, who had fought a losing battle against the Habsburg monarchy and its Russian allies. Their cause was championed by many sectors of American public opinion. When the Hungarian patriot Louis Kossuth came to America, he was wildly cheered. He was presented to the president and Congress and hailed by the secretary of state, Daniel Webster. But they all refused to help in any concrete way. No public money, no arms, aid, or troops were forthcoming for the Hungarian cause. Kossuth grew bitter and disillusioned. He sought the help of Henry Clay, by then the grand old man of American politics. Clay explained to Kossuth why the American leaders had acted as they did: By giving official support to the Hungarian cause, we would have abandoned "our ancient policy of amity and non-intervention." Clay explained:
By the policy to which we have adhered since the days of Washington. . . we have done more for the cause of liberty in the world than arms could effect; we have shown to other nations the way to greatness and happiness. . . . Far better is it for ourselves, for Hungary, and the cause of liberty, that, adhering to our pacific system and avoiding the distant wars of Europe, we should keep our lamp burning brightly on this western shore, as a light to all nations, than to hazard its utter extinction amid the ruins of fallen and falling republics in Europe.
Similarly, in 1863, when Russia crushed a Polish revolt with great brutality, the French Emperor invited us to join in a protest to the Tsar. Lincoln's secretary of state, William Seward, replied, defending "our policy of non-intervention—straight, absolute, and peculiar as it may seem to other nations":
The American people must be content to recommend the cause of human progress by the wisdom with which they should exercise the powers of self-government, forbearing at all times, and in every way, from foreign alliances, intervention, and interference.
This policy by no means entailed the "isolation" of the United States. Throughout these decades, trade and cultural exchange flourished, as American civilization progressed and we became an economic powerhouse. The only thing that was prohibited was the kind of intervention in foreign affairs that was likely to embroil us in war.
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, however, a different philosophy began to emerge. In Europe, the free-trade and noninterventionist ideas of the classical liberals were fading; more and more, the European states went in for imperialism. The establishment of colonies and coaling stations around the globe—and the creation of vast armies and navies to occupy and garrison them—became the order of the day.
In the United States, this imperialism found an echo in the political class. In 1890, Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, of the Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power Upon History . Soon translated into many foreign languages, it was used by imperialists in Britain, Germany, Japan, and elsewhere to intensify the naval arms race and the scramble for colonies. In America, a young politician named Theodore Roosevelt made it his bible.
The great Democratic President Grover Cleveland—strict constitutionalist and champion of the gold standard, free trade, and laissez-faire—held out against the rising tide. But ideas of a "manifest destiny" for America transcending the continent and stretching out to the whole world were taking over the Republican Party. Roosevelt, Mahan, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, John Hay, and others formed a cabal imbued with the new, proudly imperialist vision. They called their program "the large policy."
To them, America up until then had been too small. As Roosevelt declared, "The trouble with our nation is that we incline to fall into mere animal sloth and ease." Americans lacked the will to plunge into the bracing current of world politics, to court great dangers, and do great deeds. Instead, they were mired in their own petty and parochial affairs—their families, their work, their communities, their churches, and schools. In spite of themselves, the American people would have to be dragged to greatness by their leaders.
Often, the imperialists put their case in terms of the allegedly urgent need to find foreign markets and capital outlets for American business. But this was a propaganda ploy, and American business itself was largely skeptical of this appeal. Charles Beard, no great friend of capitalists, wrote, "Loyalty to the facts of the historical record must ascribe the idea of imperial expansion mainly to naval officers and politicians rather than to businessmen." For instance, as the imperialist frenzy spread and began to converge on hostility to Spain and Spanish policy in Cuba, a Boston stockbroker voiced the views of many of his class when he complained to Senator Lodge that what businessmen really wanted was "peace and quiet." He added, with amazing prescience, "If we attempt to regulate the affairs of the whole world we will be in hot water from now until the end of time."
In 1896, the imperialists got their chance, when William McKinley replaced Grover Cleveland as president. McKinley has the reputation of an "archconservative." In reality, as Walter Karp wrote in his brilliant work The Politics of War, "What McKinley envisioned for the American Republic was a genuine new order of things, a modern centralized order, elitist in every way, and profoundly alien to the spirit of the Republic." The key to McKinley's transformation of America would be the "large policy." McKinley made Hay his secretary of state and brought Theodore Roosevelt into the Navy Department. And a golden opportunity presented itself: the plight of Spain in its rebellious colony Cuba.
The year 1898 was a landmark in American history. It was the year America went to war with Spain—our first engagement with a foreign enemy in the dawning age of modern warfare. Aside from a few scant periods of retrenchment, we have been embroiled in foreign politics ever since.
Starting in the 1880s, a group of Cubans agitated for independence from Spain. Like many revolutionaries before and after, they had little real support among the mass of the population. Thus they resorted to terrorist tactics—devastating the countryside, dynamiting railroads, and killing those who stood in their way. The Spanish authorities responded with harsh countermeasures.
Some American investors in Cuba grew restive, but the real forces pushing America towards intervention were not a handful of sugarcane planters. The slogans the rebels used—"freedom" and "independence"—resonated with many Americans, who knew nothing of the real circumstances in Cuba. Also playing a part was the "black legend"—the stereotype of the Spaniards as blood-thirsty despots that Americans had inherited from their English forebears. It was easy for Americans to believe the stories peddled by the insurgents, especially when the "yellow" press discovered that whipping up hysteria over largely concocted Spanish "atrocities"—while keeping quiet about those committed by the rebels—sold papers.
Politicians on the lookout for publicity and popular favor saw a gold mine in the Cuban issue. Soon the American government was directing notes to Spain expressing its "concern" over "events" in Cuba. In fact, the "events[ were merely the tactics colonial powers typically used in fighting a guerrilla war. As bad or worse was being done by Britain, France, Germany, and others all over the globe in that age of imperialism. Spain, aware of the immense superiority of American forces, responded to the interference from Washington by attempts at appeasement, while trying to preserve the shreds of its dignity as an ancient imperial power.
When William McKinley became president in 1897, he was already planning to expand America's role in the world. Spain's Cuban troubles provided the perfect opportunity. Publicly, McKinley declared: "We want no wars of conquest; we must avoid the temptation of territorial aggression." But within the U. S. government, the influential cabal that was seeking war and expansion knew they had found their man. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge wrote to Theodore Roosevelt, now at the Navy Department, "Unless I am profoundly mistaken, the Administration is now committed to the large policy we both desire." This "large policy," also supported by Secretary of State John Hay and other key figures, aimed at breaking decisively with our tradition of nonintervention and neutrality in foreign affairs. The United States would at last assume its "global responsibilities," and join the other great powers in the scramble for territory around the world.
The leaders of the war party camouflaged their plans by speaking of the need to procure markets for American industry, and were even able to convince a few business leaders to parrot their line. But in reality none of this clique of haughty patricians—"old money," for the most part—had any strong interest in business, or even much respect for it, except as the source of national strength. Like similar cliques in Britain, Germany, Russia, and elsewhere at the time, their aim was the enhancement of the power and glory of their state.
In order to escalate the pressure on Spain, the battleship U.S.S. Maine was dispatched to Havana's harbor. On the night of February 15, the Maine exploded, killing 252 men. Suspicion immediately focused on the Spaniards—although they had the least to gain from the destruction of the Maine. It was much more likely that the boilers had blown up—or even that the rebels themselves had mined the ship, to draw America into a war the rebels could not win on their own. The press screamed for vengeance against perfidious Spain, and interventionist politicians believed their hour had come.
McKinley, anxious to preserve his image as a cautious statesman, bided his time. He pressed Spain to stop fighting the rebels and start negotiating with them for Cuban independence, hinting broadly that the alternative was war. The Spaniards, averse to simply handing the island over to a terrorist junta, were willing to grant autonomy. Finally, desperate to avoid war with America, Madrid did proclaim an armistice—a stunning concession for one sovereign state to make at the bidding of another.
But this was not enough for McKinley, who had his eyes set on bagging a few of Spain's remaining possessions. On April 11, he delivered his war message to Congress, carefully omitting to mention the concession of an armistice. A week later, Congress passed the war resolution McKinley wanted.
In the Far East, Commodore George Dewey was given the go-ahead to carry out a prearranged plan: proceed to the Phillipines and secure control of Manila's harbor. This he did, bringing along Emilio Aguinaldo and his Filipino independence fighters. In the Caribbean, American forces quickly subdued the Spaniards in Cuba, and then, after Spain sued for peace, went on to take over Puerto Rico, as well. In three months, the fighting was over. It had been, as Secretary of State John Hay famously put it, "a splendid little war."
The quick U. S. trouncing of decrepit Spain filled the American public with euphoria. It was a victory, people believed, for American ideals and the American way of life against an Old World tyranny. Our triumphant arms would guarantee Cuba a free and democratic future.
Against this tidal wave of public elation, one man spoke out. He was William Graham Sumner-Yale professor, famed social scientist, and tireless fighter for private enterprise, free trade, and the gold standard. Now he was about to enter his hardest fight of all.
On January 16, 1899, Sumner addressed an overflow crowd of the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He knew that the assembled Yalies and the rest of the audience were brimming with patriotic pride. With studied irony, Sumner titled his talk "The Conquest of the United States by Spain." (It is contained in the Liberty Press edition of On Liberty, Society, and Politics: The Essential Essays of William Graham Sumner.)
Sumner threw down the gauntlet:
We have beaten Spain in a military conflict, but we are submitting to be conquered by her on the field of ideas and policies. Expansionism and imperialism are nothing but the old philosophies of national prosperity which have brought Spain to where she is now.
Sumner proceeded to outline the original vision of America cherished by the Founding Fathers, radically different from what prevailed among the nations of Europe:
They would have no court and no pomp; nor orders, or ribbons, or decorations, or titles. They would have no public debt. There was to be no grand diplomacy, because they intended to mind their own business, and not be involved in any of the intrigues to which European statesmen were accustomed. There was to be no balance of power and no "reason of state" to cost the life and happiness of citizens.
This had been the American idea, our signature as a nation: "It is by virtue of this conception of a commonwealth that the United States has stood for something unique and grand in the history of mankind, and that its people have been happy."
The system the Founders bequeathed to us, Sumner held, was a delicate one, providing for the division and balance of powers and aimed at keeping government small and local. It was no accident that Washington, Jefferson, and the others who created the republic issued clear warnings against "foreign entanglements." A policy of foreign adventurism would, in the nature of things, bend and twist and ultimately shatter our original system. As foreign affairs became more important, power would shift from communities and states to the federal government, and, within that, from Congress to the president. An ever-busy foreign policy could only be carried out by the president, often without the knowledge of the people. Thus, the American system, based on local government, states' rights, and Congress as the voice of the people on the national level, would more and more give way to a bloated bureaucracy headed by an imperial presidency.
But now, with the war against Spain and the philosophy behind it, we were letting ourselves in for the old European way, Sumner declared—"war, debt, taxation, diplomacy, a grand governmental system, pomp, glory, a big army and navy, lavish expenditures, political jobbery—in a word, imperialism."
Already, it seems, the global meddlers had come up with what was to be their favorite smear word: "isolationist." And already Sumner had the appropriate retort. The imperialists "warn us against the terrors of 'isolation,'" he said, but "our ancestors all came here to isolate themselves" from the burdens of the Old World. "When the others are all struggling under debt and taxes, who would not be isolated in the enjoyment of his own earnings for the benefit of his own family?"
In abandoning our own system, there would be, Sumner freely admitted, compensations. Immortal glory is not nothing, as the Spaniards well knew. To be a part, even a pawn, in a mighty enterprise of armies and navies, to identify with great imperial power projected around the world, to see the flag raised on victorious battlefields—many peoples in history thought that game well worth the candle. Only . . . only, it was not the American way. That way had been more modest, more prosaic, parochial, and, yes, middle class . It was based on the idea that we were here to live out our lives, minding our own business, enjoying our liberty and pursuing our happiness in our work, families, churches, and communities. It had been the "small policy."
There is a logic in human affairs, Sumner the social scientist cautioned—once you make a certain decision, some paths that were open to you before are closed, and you are led, step by step, in a certain direction. America was choosing the path of world power, and Sumner had little hope that his words could change that. Why was he speaking out then? Simply because "this scheme of a republic which our fathers formed was a glorious dream which demands more than a word of respect and affection before it passes away."
Sumner had to endure a storm of abuse for spoiling the national victory party. But suddenly the imperialists had problems of their own: before they could take control of the Philippines, they had to defeat Aguinaldo and his Filipino insurgents, now fighting for independence from America.
By 1899, the United States was involved in its first war in Asia. Three others were to follow in the course of the next century: against Japan, North Korea and China, and, finally, Viet Nam. But our first Asian war was against the Filipinos.
At the end of the Spanish-American War, we collected Puerto Rico as a colony, set up a protectorate over Cuba, and annexed the Hawaiian Islands. President William McKinley also forced Spain to cede the Philippine Islands. To the American people, McKinley explained that, almost against his will, he had been led to make the decision to annex: "There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and christianize them as our fellow-men for whom Christ also died." McKinley was either unaware of or simply chose not to inform the people that, except for some Muslim tribesmen in the south, the Filipinos were Roman Catholics, and, therefore, by most accounts, already Christians. In reality, the annexation of the Philippines was the centerpiece of the "large policy" pushed by the imperialist cabal to enlist the United States in the ranks of the great powers. To encourage the Americans in their new role, Rudyard Kipling, the British imperialist writer, composed a poem urging them to "take up the White Man's Burden."
There was a problem, however. When the war with Spain started, Emilio Aguinaldo, the leader of the Philippine independence movement, had been brought to the islands by Commodore Dewey himself. Aguinaldo had raised an army of Filipino troops who had acquitted themselves well against the Spanish forces. But they had fought side by side with the Americans to gain their independence from Spain, not to change imperial masters. With the Spaniards gone, the Filipinos prepared a constitution for their new country—while McKinley prepared to conquer it. Hostilities broke out in February 1899, and an American army of 60,000 men was sent halfway across the globe to subdue a native people.
Probably a majority of Americans joined in the fun of the faraway war. But thoughtful citizens wondered what this strange adventure would mean for the republic.
To protest the war with Spain, the Anti-Imperialist League had been formed. It included some of the most distinguished figures in politics, business, journalism, and education. Most were also, not by accident, believers in the classical-liberal, laissez-faire vision of American society and staunch advocates of free enterprise, small government, low taxes, and the gold standard. Now the league turned its efforts to ending the war against the Philippines and stopping the annexation of the islands. What was occurring, they warned, was a revolution. While most Americans remained seemingly unaware or unconcerned, the U.S was entering onto the road of imperialism, which, the League declared, "is hostile to liberty and tends towards militarism, an evil from which it is our glory to be free." The "large policy" of global expansion would mean never-ending war and preparation for war; and that would mean ever-increasing government control and ever-higher taxes.
Carl Schurz, leader of the German-American community, had come here to escape militarism and arbitrary government in his native country. He pointed out the consequences of the new dispensation: "Every American farmer and workingman, when going to his toil, will, like his European brother, have to carry a fully-armed soldier on his back." Edward Atkinson, who was head of a Boston insurance company as well as a radical libertarian, produced a series of pamphlets, including "The Cost of a National Crime," detailing the U. S. military oppression of the Filipinos as well as the burgeoning cost of the war to peaceful American taxpayers. E. L. Godkin, editor of The Nation , at the time the country's leading classical-liberal magazine, accused the imperialists of wanting to make America into "a great nation" in the European style, and thus prove that Washington and Jefferson had been a pair of "old fools." Andrew Carnegie critiqued the doctrine that annexation of the Philippines was somehow required for American prosperity. And Mark Twain weighed in with sardonic blasts at a marauding American government that was betraying the principles it allegedly upheld. For their pains, the opponents of the war were smeared as contemptible "traitors" by the establishment press, led by The New York Times.
The anti-imperialists gained powerful ammunition for their attacks when letters from American soldiers to their families at home detailed—often with naive pride—the atrocities being committed by U. S. troops. Prisoners were routinely shot, whole villages burned down, civilians, including children, killed in batches of hundreds—all with the knowledge of—and usually under the direction of—commanding officers. Soon the Filipino victims were in the tens of thousands, and the number of American casualties far outnumbered those of the Spanish-American War itself. Americans in the Philippines were conducting themselves worse than the Spaniards ever had in Cuba. People wondered: How did we ever get ourselves into such a mess? The anti-imperialists pointed out that this was how the British were acting in the Sudan, the Italians in Abyssinia, the Germans in Southwest Africa. It was part of the price of empire.
The dirty war went on until, in March 1901, Aguinaldo was captured and the Filipino fighters surrendered. But now America was an Asiatic power, plunged into the maelstrom of the imperialist struggle in the Far East. Secretary of State John Hay proclaimed the "Open Door" policy in China: American diplomatic, political, and, if necessary, military power would be applied to force free trade throughout China. Our advance base in the Philippines and our wide-ranging Chinese policy would obviously entail conflict with powers already there. Already, at the Navy Department, they were beginning to talk of the coming "inevitable" war with Japan.
We began to meddle in world affairs—or, as the imperialists put it, to assume our "global responsibilities" in ways our leaders had studiously avoided before. We took part in international conferences; we dispatched troops to China to join those of the other powers in putting down the Boxer Rebellion of Chinese patriots; we sailed our shining new navy around the world to show that we too had become a world power; and our government became a promoter of overseas investment and foreign trade on a grand scale and at taxpayers' expense. In Washington, the bureaucracies expanded at the State Department, the Navy Department, and elsewhere, filled with bright young men steeped in the new vision of America's global destiny. More and more, the American wealth machine was diverted to furnishing the underpinnings of world power.
When McKinley was assassinated in 1901, he was succeed as president by one of the country's prime imperialists. Theodore Roosevelt was a politician of the new breed through and through. With great insight, H. L. Mencken later compared him with Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. Both loved big armies and, especially, navies, Mencken wrote, and both believed in strong government both at home and abroad; no one ever heard either of them ever speak of the rights of man, only of the duties of citizens to the state. Interestingly, Teddy Roosevelt was a boyhood hero of a later American president—Lyndon Johnson—who admired his "toughness."
A good deal of that reputation for "toughness" derived from the Perdicaris affair in 1904. This episode showed for the first time how an instant "success" overseas could be used by a president for his own political advantage. A Republican convention was meeting in Chicago, without much enthusiasm, to renominate Roosevelt for president. Ion Perdicaris was a wealthy merchant living in Morocco. Allegedly an American citizen, he had been seized by a Moroccan chieftain named Raisuli and held for ransom. Roosevelt rushed American warships to Tangiers, and the famous, curt message was telegraphed to the Sultan: "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead."
When the Republican convention heard the news, it went wild with patriotic fervor. The only problem was that the State Department had already informed Roosevelt that Perdicaris was no longer an American citizen, having registered as a Greek subject in Athens for business reasons. Moreover, arrangements had already been made to free him. Roosevelt was aware of all of this; but the political gain from deceiving the public was too tempting. In time, other presidents would learn the same trick of projecting American power overseas simply to give their personal popularity a much-needed boost.
In 1912, Woodrow Wilson was elected president in a three-way election. Wilson was a "progressive," a leader in the movement that advocated using the full power of government to create "real democracy" at home. But Wilson's horizons were much broader than the United States. Preaching the gospel of "making the world safe for democracy," he aimed to extend the progressive creed to the ends of the earth. More than Franklin Roosevelt himself, Woodrow Wilson is the patron saint of the "exporting democracy" clique in America today.
Even before the crisis came, Wilson announced his new revelation:
It is America's duty and privilege to stand shoulder to shoulder to lift the burdens of mankind in the future and show the paths of freedom to all the world. America is henceforth to stand for the assertion of the right of one nation to serve the other nations of the world.
Soon America had its chance to serve. In 1914, Europe went to war, the bloodiest and costliest war in history up to that time.
The First World War was triggered by the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, in Sarajevo, by a Bosnian Serb. But the war's twisted roots went back for decades in the dark and complex diplomacy of the great powers. By 1914, Europe was an armed camp, divided into two great opposing blocks: the Triple Entente of France, Russia, and England, and the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and a less-than-reliable Italy. All the powers had vast armies and navies, equipped with the latest, most expensive weapons modern technology could produce.
When they heard of the murder of the Archduke (and of his wife Sophie), the Austrians decided to put an end, once and for all, to the Serbian threat to their tottering empire. They felt secure in the support of a powerful Germany. But Serbia was the protégé of Russia and the key to Russia's designs in the Balkans. And Russia was allied with France, which in turn was linked to Britain by a "cordial understanding," or Entente Cordiale. In the last weeks of July, halfhearted peace proposals were swept aside, as mutual fear gripped the European leaders and the orders were issued to mobilize the great armies. Ultimatums and declarations of war followed each other in rapid succession. By August 4, 1914, the European powers were at war and their armies were on the march.
Reprinted with permission from the Future of Freedom Foundation. © Copyright, 1995.
Ralph Raico (1936–2016) was Professor Emeritus of History at Buffalo State College and a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute
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Saturday night, our little town held its first annual fireworks show and we went to share in the celebration. Aria was amazed and unafraid. It was wonderful to share it.
I am savoring the baby time.
I did finish the June selection of CVM fiber. I spun it lace weight fine-63 yards of it.
It was a delightful fiber to spin; I can see why so many have raved about it. This was a first for me.
Everyday my parents and nieces came for a visit-we so enjoyed the extra family time.
Tour de Fleece Begins Today!
The Tour de France begins today.......for spinners, we choose to participate in a Tour de Fleece; spinning each day according to the race schedule choosing easier fibers on the lighter days and pushing hard on the tough terrain days!
I am beginning with some red Targhee fiber-a 4 ounce batt from Dyed in the Wool. On your mark, get set, go!
........and crafting time during naps.
We felted some bars of soap for a luxury exfoliate bath bar. So much fun to share!
but are much more sedate with the babies!
Aria stole a skein of wool from the basket and scooted as fast as she could to escape with her treasure; when she took a taste, she gave it back to me! Hysterical!
Eating is serious business in the morning.
Bob and Shelly are here to enjoy the growing nieces and nephews! Our swim was cancelled due to a beautiful thunder and lightening storm; it is in full summer pattern here weather wise!
The guys went golfing yesterday.
The girls got to stay home and play!!!! We made soap and it was a huge success!
it was so much fun; we didn't want to stop!
We took Bill out for his birthday....this is Bill, with his three sons and now they are all dads, too.
Why I have been MIA from the Blogosphere!
The grandsons enjoy some time together and Will cut a tooth here, too!
The bigger boys painted these shirts to hassle Caleb for the Miami Heat game but Caleb had the last laugh when his team won despite the overwhelming fan ratio in the room!
We visited the beach and added to the family tree!
These are ALL of my grandchildren!!!!
The crew at Boston Lobster Feast for Bill's birthday!
These are the 'C' installments of a weekly photography challenge I have joined.
Sketch........rarely indoors but quirky when she does come in-this is where she chooses to spend the occasional night.
This is her more common environment-the way out front yard.
Big Grey is filling out but still sticks pretty closely to his new people.
Storm likes ledges........she is in most of the time but does visit outside every few days.
PuffDaddy explores everywhere but does like his people's bed at night and the pool area which was his first domain.
Nyki stays close to the house, still enjoys night in the pool area but will only give snuggles for 5.2 seconds now that she is 'free' to roam. Stinker.
JD still has issues with trust and companionship-she comes in each night to sleep in the pool area but doesn't want too much interaction with anyone two or four legged.
Sissy does come in and visit us off and on all day but her favorite domain is the garage.
Bling, the king of the porch is still a teddy bear and loves to have us sit on the porch so he can get a right and proper stroking.
First, against all odds (like a killer migraine that stole a day and 1/2 from me!) I got the three counting books done in time for my grandbabies' visit this week!
All are grommeted and ringed and ready for little fingers and handling! I can't wait to share them!
On the knitting front, I have enjoyed some simple knitting from Kay Meadors with some yarn that was gifted to me. It is knit on #10 1/2 needles with an artsy yarn. It is a simple knit that I will be relying on when my house fills with company this week (garter stitch).
But for some mental stretching, I purchased a class from Craftsy to learn Brioche knitting. It is a great class and really puts your brain in gear! I did my first sample in one color; then today finished my two color sample. The darker strip on the two color sample was a stretch as I was lost on what was happening but I stuck with the directions and it worked-the colors are juxtaposed for a few rows! I am hoping that as I become more familiar with this work, the patterning will be more intuitive for me! The two color knitting is light with a dark background on one side and the opposite on the reverse. Unlike k1p1 ribbed work, there is no right or wrong side with this stitch because you do not carry the strands in the tradition way. Both sides are equally as attractive-very handy when you make scarves or reversible hats with this stitch.
This morning I cast on for a real project; the patterned scarf is on its way! I am using some of my hand spun Coopworth yarn on #7 needles-it just begs for one more row! I have used this for a carrot on a stick all day because I am getting ready for the great salmon run in which all my kids will be returning home for a visit this week!!! All of them-15!!!!! I have beds everywhere!
I finished the third entrelac blanket for a grandbaby! 36" x 45"
The sewing room is set up for an assembly line for getting those other two counting books done in time for the BIG visit!
Another pair of summer shorty socks are off the needles-these are for my brother who will be visiting soon, too!
This is a fun pattern-free from The Purl Bee called the Summer Shimmer Scarf. A very fun knit if you are looking to use up a skein of cotton yarn!
The rain has brought the rain lilies into full bloom. The light colored ones only last a few days but these red ones just keep putting out new blooms.....this on is in the yard.
This one lives in the pool area. I have to keep his leaves clipped back because he gets too jungle-y for his territory!
The desert rose is in full bloom-this is right outside my kitchen window and is a feast during my dish washing activities!


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Tony Stewart a NASCAR driver struck and killed another driver that had been walking on the track during a race on a dirt track in New York, said authorities on Sunday.
The incident took place on Saturday night at the Canandaigua Motorsports Park during the Lucas Oil Empire Sprint.
One sprint car hit a wall on lap 14 of a race of 25 laps, said a Sheriff from Ontario County.
A video of what happened shows that the driver of the car that crashed left his vehicle and was walking toward racecars on the track, which were slowed down due to the yellow flag.
In the video, it appears the driver was yelling and pointing his finger at something. A car can be seen swerving to avoid the driver walking on the track.
In the video, Stewart's car passed close to the man on the track and it appeared as though the right rear tire of Stewart's car hit the driver.
The driver was taken by ambulance to the hospital, but died prior to arriving.
Stewart, said officials, has been fully cooperative in the investigation. He acknowledged the collision took place with the many walking on the track.
Stewart was scheduled to race today at Watkins Glen in a Sprint Cup race for NASCAR, but has decided not to race.
Authorities would not name the driver who died, but a witness watching the race said the deceased was Kevin Ward Jr., 20, one of his friends.
A spokesperson for Stewart said they were attempting to sort out all the details of what took place.
A tragic incident took place on Saturday night during a race in which Stewart participated, said the team spokesperson. Tony was not hurt, but a competitor was killed.
Stewart has won the NASCAR championship three times in his career. The track where the tragedy occurred is about two hours by car from Sunday's Watkins Glen race by NASCAR.
Authorities said a full investigation was taking place and they would let everyone know when they were finished and what the outcome was.
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11 Iconic Guitar Combinations
Jay Karlson May 6, 2011 0
It's said 'a poor musician blames his instrument' but what about good musicians? Do they claim their accomplishments are solely the result of their own efforts? Not really. Most of them thank co-writers, band mates, friends and family.
Guitar players, however, are famous for attributing success to a unique bond with their instrument. As a result, man and machine become inseparable, and over time, the general public has trouble separating where the guitar ends and the guitarist begins. Submitted for your approval is a list of several iconic guitar(ist) combinations. And yes, this one goes to eleven.
Rick Nielsen
Hamer 5-Neck
As a boy, Rick Nielsen quit collecting stamps because they weren't loud enough. Switching to guitars should have slowed him down, but didn't: he recently pared his vintage guitar collection down to the essentials, and it's still well north of two hundred instruments.
That's not counting the dozens of novelty guitars he uses in every Cheap Trick show: he has checkerboard guitars, Beatles guitars, album cover guitars, even a cartoon character guitar that looks exactly like him. So it's gonna take a special guitar to cement the public image of Rick Nielsen on stage.
Enter the wonderfully stupid Hamer five-neck electric guitar. It hit public consciousness hard in the 1982 'She's Tight' music video, and Nielsen has been doomed to lug the 80-lb joke on tour ever since. Possibly one of the most-recognized rock instruments ever, the guitar is completely functional, with one 12-string neck, three six-string necks, and a fretless bottom neck (if you can reach it).
Square Guitar
Bo Diddley is, arguably, most responsible for transitioning blues into rock and roll, mainly through his use of insistent, driving rhythms and hard-edged tone. His trademark instrument was a rectangular-bodied electric guitar that he developed himself and played in thousands of concerts. Why a rectangle? Well, it turns out he was jumping around on stage one night, and his massive Gibson L5 shifted and hit him right in the boys. The next day, Bo designed the smaller (safer) guitar we'll forever associate with him.
Number One (First Wife)
Number One (aka, 'First Wife') was a Fender Stratocaster used by Texas blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. He played it on every one of his studio albums, and in hundreds of concerts. Stevie Ray said he immediately knew there was something special about Number One. He said he didn't even have to play it—he just knew by the way it looked that it would sound great.
Usually it's the woman who tries to change the man after marriage. Not with Stevie Ray. Immediately after trading for Number One, he tried to convert it to a left-handed tremolo to imitate his idol, Jimi Hendrix. But the job was botched, and he went to a truck stop desperate for something to cover the damage. All he could find was a "custom" sticker in the parking lot, so he slapped that across the bridge, and added prismatic stickers to spell out his initials, "SRV". Additional modifications are too numerous to count.
But that's nothing compared to the legendary abuse that Number One took. Treat a woman like Stevie Ray Vaughan treated a guitar, and you'll do time. Stories abound about how he would kick it, punch it, ride it like a surfboard, and carry it around by the tremolo bar. And if that wasn't enough, during shows he'd bounce it off the wall, catch it (or not), and keep on playing.
Number One is currently in the possession of Stevie's brother, Jimmie Vaughan, although rumors persist that it was buried with Stevie in Dallas.
Much like a cartoon character wears the same clothes in every episode, cartoonish Angus Young is rarely seen in anything but a schoolboy uniform, playing a Gibson SG electric guitar. The look is every bit a trademark as the band's logo, and has been official AC/DC merchandise for over thirty years.
Young first discovered the SG at 14, when he bought a used 1967 model. It was very light and had an extremely thin neck that suited his smaller hands (he's 5'3″). This is odd for Gibson products, and many now believe he learned to play on a factory defect or a stolen custom instrument. That guitar lasted only a year, as the neck warped and rotted from Young's blood and sweat. But by then his fingers could twist into pretzels if called upon, and it's been nothing but stock SGs after that.
Young has worked with Gibson extensively to try and re-create the specific elements that made that first SG so special, but to no avail. You can however, play a signature model, which re-creates many components of his current touring guitar.
Red Special (The Fireplace)
Dr. May (PhD, Astrophysics) built his one-of-a kind electric guitar with his dad over 40 years ago, primarily because they couldn't afford a 'proper' guitar. Father and son designed and built the instrument from scratch, with the goal of producing greater range, tunability, and vibrato than guitars currently on the market. Oh, and it HAD to feed back, which was precisely what Fender and Gibson were trying to avoid with their guitars.
The 'Red Special' took two years to complete, and emptied the local junkyard. The neck used wood from a 19th century fireplace mantle, and the tremolo used metal from a motorcycle kickstand and his mother's knitting needles. The unique red color came from countless applications of Rustin's Plastic Coat (a furniture finish). The only place young Brian splurged was on the Burns Tri-Sonic pickups, which are responsible for the bright, crunchy tone on Queen's 'We Will Rock You' and the biting solo in 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.
Numerous companies have made Red Special copies over the years, but now you can get a real one from the man himself at brianmayguitars.co.uk. Just don't take your motorbike if you pick it up in person—you may be missing some pieces on the ride home.
'50s Fender Esquire
Bruce Springsteen plays other guitars, and keeps plenty of spares on tour, but the Born to Run album cover forever links The Boss to a blackguard, maple-neck Fender Esquire. And he hasn't fought the perception. Since its debut on BTR in 1975, the guitar has been his virtual co-star, appearing on the covers of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live 1975-85, Human Touch and Greatest Hits.
Like any legendary instrument, details of its origins are murky. Some say Bruce originally bought it from a luthier who (others say) rescued it from a recording studio liquidation sale. His guitar techs say it's either a 1953 or '54 model, or possibly a '55 due to the v-profile on the neck. It's been in the shop for more nips and tucks than Joan Rivers, so you'd best go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (where it now resides) to decide for yourself.
As Fender's mortal enemy Gibson says, 'Ultimately, who cares…whatever kind of mutt of an instrument the thing had become by the time it landed in Springsteen's hands, it has been the driving force behind some of the most compelling rock anthems in the last 35 years."
Frankenstrat
David Lee Roth sent Eddie Van Halen home for bringing a Gibson ES to practice, telling Eddie "you ain't Roy Orbison, come back with a real guitar". Eddie tried a Les Paul but it was too heavy, and a Fender Stratocaster sounded too thin. That's when he got the crazy notion to combine the two. The resulting surgery was a mess, but the butchery was covered by a black pick guard, so no one was the wiser. Well, except for the 'tone' knob controlling the volume.
Undeterred, he then used masking techniques to paint the guitar white with random black stripes. It looked pretty awful, but all those electrical mods produced a rich tone known as the 'brown sound'. The guitar was prominently photographed on the 1979 album Van Halen, which sold gangbusters and made the band an overnight sensation.
Eddie's popularity spawned loads of copycat guitars, so he painted the Frankenstrat with red bicycle paint, lost the pick guard, and added a nonfunctional pickup near the neck, next to a fake five-way switch. Other changes included a Floyd Rose tremolo shimmed with a 1971 quarter, school bus reflectors on the back, and a smaller pick guard made out of a vinyl record.
And that's not even half the modifications this poor instrument has endured. But the guitar is now as unique to Eddie as his fingerprint, and the band did go on to sell over 50 million records with it. A 2008 version of the Frankenstrat now resides in the Smithsonian Institution.
Guitarists buy Les Pauls because they think playing one on stage will get them laid. They're right. And much of the thanks goes directly to Jimmy Page, who made this guitar—and Led Zeppelin—the sweaty embodiment of 70's sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.
Case in point: Black Dog.
We're done here.
In the late 60s Eric Clapton was at a career crossroads. On pure impulse, he bought six Fender Stratocasters from a Nashville music store, despite being a devoted Gibson player. He gave one guitar each to friends George Harrison, Pete Townsend, and Steve Winwood, and then used the best components of the remaining three to make a single guitar for himself.
Little did he know that instrument would become his stage and studio guitar for the next 15 years. Clapton nicknamed the guitar 'Blackie' and played it on thirteen consecutive solo albums, including 461 Ocean Boulevard ("I Shot the Sheriff') and Slowhand ("Wonderful Tonight", "Lay Down Sally", and "Cocaine").
Blackie's last public appearance before retirement was the Live Aid concert for Africa in 1985. In 2004, Clapton auctioned off Blackie and donated the proceeds to the Crossroads Centre, a drug and alcohol rehab clinic on the Caribbean island of Antigua. American music chain Guitar Center purchased Blackie for $959,500, which was a world record at the time. Guitar Center technicians say the instrument is in working order, and if it goes missing, the first place they'll look is Clapton's house.
In the 1960s, seeing a black man with a foot-wide afro dressed like a pimp and playing rock guitar backwards must have been mind-blowing, drugs or no drugs. Add that said music was 20 years ahead of its time, and it's almost too much too take. Such was Jimi Hendrix.
Yeah, it is rumored that Jimi preferred the darker tone of Les Pauls right before he set the standard for rock star deaths. But Hendrix will forever be remembered for playing reverse-strung, right-handed Fender Stratocasters left-handed. Don't bother re-reading that—it doesn't help, and yeah, it was just as weird to write as it was to read.
And note the plural. Jimi isn't linked to a single guitar because he had this insane penchant for lighting the damn things on fire during performances. As a result, the few remaining Hendrix Strats are worth a small fortune. In 2008, a guitar Hendrix torched during a London show sold for £280,000 at auction.
No guitarist is more wedded to his instrument than the reigning Monarch of the Blues, B.B. King. As the man himself tells it, in 1949 he was playing a 'Chitlin Circuit' dancehall in Arkansas when the heater upended and set the building on fire. In his haste to escape the flames, King left his beloved Gibson semi-hollow electric guitar inside.
Mortified at his potential loss, King ran back into the burning building and retrieved it. The next day he learned the fire was started by two men fighting over a woman named Lucille, so he named the guitar 'Lucille' to remember those mad moments when he risked his life to save it. He then vowed never again to run into a burning building or fight over women (some will argue these are two separate things, but they don't understand the blues).
In 1968 King described Lucille with equal parts sacred devotion and dirty passion: "it loves to be petted and played with. There's also a certain way you hold it, the certain noises it makes, the way it excites me … and Lucille don't want to play anything but the blues … Lucille is real, when I play her it's almost like hearing words, and of course, naturally I hear cries."
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