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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With its superstars aging and its loyal coach slow to blend in young talent, Spain's glorious reign as the superpower of world football was bound to end.
The Spanish weren't favored to repeat as World Cup champions. But few expected the utter collapse that ended Wednesday with a 2-0 loss Chile, knocking Spain from contention and ending the run of the greatest team of the century.
Chile's pace and skill produced a dominating win similar to so many Spanish victories over the past six years. Spain was outplayed, out-run and out-fought.
The 5-1 beating by the Netherlands Friday was shocking and foretold where coach Vicente del Bosque's team was heading: Home.
"If you think about everything accomplished, and you told me we would be eliminated in group stage, I wouldn't believe you," del Bosque said.
"We have no excuses. It's a sad day for all of the players."
Six of Spain's squad has played at least 100 national team games while winning the 2010 World Cup and the European Championships in 2008 and 2012.
"Success is not eternal," said Chile coach Jorge Sampaoli, whose hyperactive energy around the dugout was shared by his team. "This generation could not continue with that success and you can understand it."
"It's very special the fact we were able to play today against the World Cup champions the way we did," Sampaoli said, and "eliminate them with courage, intensity and attack."
Del Bosque acknowledged that his players were "too slow, timid from the start."
Chile twice came close to scoring in the first 90 seconds, and led in the 20th minute when Eduardo Vargas finished a slick move of incisive passing that was truly Spanish in its execution.
The second followed in the 43th when Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas punched a free kick to the feet of Charles Aranguiz, who fired a rising shot right back past the veteran captain, who took much of the blame for the loss to the Netherlands.
"I only ask fans for forgiveness, we did everything we could," said Casillas. The 33-year-old came to the World Cup after a second straight season as second-choice goalkeeper at Real Madrid and a glaring error in its Champions League final win last month.
Spain came to Brazil with a very similar — but older — team to the 2010 squad. They added Brazilian-born striker Diego Costa, but he failed to score and was substituted in both matches.
Spain's "tiki-taka" style of play — keeping the ball for long stretches with short passes, and only shooting when you had a clear opening — had not been working as well in recent years. Brazil defeated Spain 3-0 in last summer's Confederations Cup final, a warm-up for the World Cup.
Spain became the third straight European defending World Cup champion to flop in the group stage. France in 2002 and Italy four years ago also failed to advance, or even win a match.
Spain can at least end that streak in a consolation game Monday against Australia. Chile and the Netherlands will play to decide the Group B winner. Both will advance to the final 16 knockout round, but the winner will be seeded higher.
Xabi Alonso, another Spanish veteran, will likely not start against Australia. He was replaced with 22-year-old Atletico Madrid midfielder Koke after an agonizing first half.
Alonso gave away the ball to Alexis Sanchez to start the move down Chile's right wing by Arturo Vidal and Aranguiz, leading to Vargas' score. Trailing behind the play, Alonso put his hands to his head.
He was booked before conceding another foul, forcing a free-kick that led to the second goal. And his usual accurate passing was off.
Other Spanish players were also guilty of wayward passing and woeful finishing.
Early in the second half, potential momentum shifts were lost when Diego Costa was slow on Andres Iniesta's threaded pass and Sergio Busquets volleyed wide in front of goal.
"We didn't do anything different to what we did in South Africa or the two Euros," said forward Fernando Torres, ineffective as a second-half substitute. "We came with the same mentality, approaching the games the same way."
Perhaps the Euro 2012 final was the high point of the era: A 4-0 dismantling of Italy on a similarly balmy evening in Kiev, Ukraine.
Then, the team was joined in locker-room celebrations by Crown Prince Felipe. He could not be in Rio de Janeiro. One hour after the match ended in the Maracana, at midnight in Madrid, he formally became king upon the abdication of his father, Juan Carlos.
On Thursday, Spain will wake up to a new king, but no longer rulers of world football.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With its superstars aging and its loyal coach slow to blend in young talent, Spain's glorious reign as the superpower of world football was bound to end.


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The NOVA OS Virtualization Architecture is a research project aimed at constructing a secure virtualization environment with a small trusted computing base. NOVA consists of a microhypervisor and a deprivileged multi-server user-mode environment running on top of it.
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- NOVA runs on multi-core 32-bit and 64-bit x86 machines that support ACPI.
- It also runs under QEMU (including VM support), and as a microkernel in a virtual machine on top of itself.
- A platform with Intel VT-x or AMD-V is required for running guest operating systems in VMs.
The source code of the NOVA microhypervisor is available as a git repository at https://github.com/udosteinberg/NOVA.
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JAKARTA -- The discovery of Avian influenza in cats and dogs has heightened concerns about a virus that experts had thought was basically infecting chickens, ducks and other fowl.
Health experts have called for closer monitoring of the H5N1 virus in domestic animals after Indonesian scientists detected it in stray cats near poultry markets in some parts of the country.
They worry that if the virus adapts to mammals it could more easily spread among people.
A survey by Chairul Anwar Nidom, a scientist at Airlangga University in Surabaya, found H5N1 antibodies in 20 percent of 500 stray cats near poultry markets in four areas in Java, including Jakarta, and one area in Sumatra where there had been recent human H5N1 cases or outbreaks of the disease in poultry.
The survey said the findings suggested the cats had probably been infected because they ate infected poultry.
In another case, Gusti Ngurah Mahardika, a virologist at Udayana University, surveyed pigs and domestic animals in Bali between September and December last year and found the virus in two dogs and a cat.
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Lo called for a stop to the import of wild birds from China for release in Hong Kong, a common ritual among Buddhists.
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PARIS (AP) — Lance Armstrong faces the prospect of losing his Legion of Honor medal after French officials announced Monday that an inquiry will be opened following his admission that he doped during his Tour de France wins.
Armstrong was awarded the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 2005 in recognition of his seven consecutive Tour victories. The American admitted to doping during all of those wins and has been stripped of the titles.
"An inquiry will be opened to see if there is cause or not to take his Legion of Honor away from him," Francois Sourd, top aide to the head of the Legion of Honor, told The Associated Press by telephone. "Mr. Armstrong will shortly be made aware of the procedure," at which point he can "present his defense" if he chooses.
Armstrong always denied using drugs throughout his career but owned up to doping in a television interview with Oprah Winfrey in January.
"When the newspapers started talking about this, we started to gather information," Sourd said, adding that this is only "the initial stage" of the inquiry and that Armstrong could keep his medal if there is no recommendation to strip him following the investigation.
Last October, USADA released a report that included affidavits from 11 of Armstrong's former teammates.
These affidavits detailed how the teammates were pressured to dope and supplied with EPO — a banned hormone that increases oxygen-carrying red blood cells to boost endurance — by Armstrong and then-team manager Johan Bruyneel. They also said they saw Armstrong inject drugs himself.
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Editor's note: Michael Mazza is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The views expressed are his own.
It's difficult to know precisely what was behind China's decision to institute an East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) at the weekend. Chinese claims to the contrary, it is clearly meant to up the pressure on Japan in the two countries' dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, over which the ADIZ extends. Internal Chinese political dynamics may also be at work here; President Xi Jinping, for example, must be benefitting from taking a strong stance vis-à-vis Japan. But whatever the reason for the creation of the ADIZ at this time, Beijing may ultimately regret it – and not only because it increases the likelihood of a violent incident over the East China Sea.
First off, the move needlessly antagonizes Taiwan and South Korea. The fact is that it puts a wrinkle into recently stable cross-Strait relations, as Taiwan also claims sovereignty over the Senkakus (known as the Diaoyutai in Taiwan), and it now has an overlapping ADIZ with the mainland.
The ADIZ is even more surprising in the context of China-South Korea relations, which have looked particularly warm of late. Seoul's quarrels with Japan over history have been at their worst in recent months, and Beijing has effectively stoked that fire. But China's new ADIZ overlaps with South Korea's; covers the disputed Socotra Rock (which both countries claim as within their own exclusive economic zone); and may extend a bit too close for comfort to Jeju Island, where South Korea is building a major naval base. In one fell swoop, Beijing has reminded Seoul that South Korea has more in common with Japan than it normally likes to admit.
Second, rather than lead to heightened wariness in Washington about getting caught in the middle of the dispute, the United States clearly considers the ADIZ a challenge to its support for Japan and its ability to operate freely in international airspace above the East China Sea. That explains the promptness with which Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel issued statements about the ADIZ.
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Kerry expressed deep concern and described the ADIZ creation as an "escalatory" and "unilateral action" designed to "change the status quo" in the region. After also expressing concern and describing the action as "destabilizing," Hagel felt compelled to assert that the implementation of the ADIZ "will not in any way change how the United States conducts military operations in the region" and to "reaffirm" that "Article V of the U.S. Japan Mutual Defense Treaty applies to the Senkaku Islands." An unnamed U.S. official told the Wall Street Journal that "there would likely be a demonstration of American military resolve to continue operating in the area of the islands without Chinese interference."
Both statements – especially Hagel's – are a boost for Japan, and neither was well received in Beijing. But things could get even worse for China. Indeed, Beijing will have much more cause for concern if the ADIZ leads the United States to alter its officially neutral position on the sovereignty dispute, something that Washington has thus far been at pains to avoid.
In his statement, Kerry noted that "we don't support efforts by any state to apply its ADIZ procedures to foreign aircraft not intending to enter its national airspace." This raises an interesting question: If U.S. aircraft operating in the vicinity of the Senkakus refuse Chinese requests for identification, will that mark an implicit rejection of Chinese claims to sovereignty over the islands?
An explicit recognition of Japanese sovereignty, moreover, may no longer be considered out of bounds in Washington. China has consistently opted for escalation over the past 14 months; the ADIZ is only the latest action to not only test Japan but the U.S.-Japan alliance as well. U.S. policy regarding the Senkakus has always been somewhat confusing: the United States recognizes Japanese administration of the islands, but takes no position on competing sovereignty claims, while considering defense of the islands to be a treaty obligation. The logic for maintaining that policy is weakening. An Obama administration that must be growing tired of China's tests may be looking for ways to communicate in unqualified terms that the U.S.-Japan alliance is an unshakeable one.
Japan, meanwhile, will be looking for ways to communicate its own resolve in the face of Chinese pressure. Since the Japanese government's purchase from private owners of three of Senkaku islands last year, Japan's actions have generally been non-escalatory. But Tokyo can issue only so many diplomatic demarches, and has increasingly limited alternative means of signaling steadfastness to Beijing. The government has long toyed with the idea of stationing officials on the islands. As the Wall Street Journal reported in September:
"A top Japanese government official said Tuesday that stationing government officials on a group of disputed islands is one way of strengthening Japan's claim to them…Placing government officials on the islands 'remains one option,' chief government spokesman Yoshihida Suga told reporters at a regular news conference. 'Under what circumstance we'll consider [that option] will be decided strategically,' Mr. Suga said."
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his advisors may be considering whether now is the time. But regardless of what they decide in this instance, Chinese actions are likely pushing Japan closer to adopting this course rather than intimidating Tokyo into inaction.
Over the last year, China may have succeeded in altering the decades-long status quo in the East China Sea. But actions once apparently aimed at upsetting the reality of Japanese control of the islands now increasingly appear aimed at asserting Chinese control. The difference may be subtle, but it marks a dangerous threshold. Crossing it may lead Japan, the United States, and others to take the very steps that Beijing most wants to forestall.
It's still too soon to tell, but China's new ADIZ may prove to be a strategic blunder – one that ultimately puts China's own interests at risk, while having lasting repercussions for stability in Asia.
The dragon has become to boastful and impatient.. ho ho ho! china is revealing its true goal. to not only become the number one economy at the expense of all western manufacturing. the PRC will not stop until its crazy ideologist communist party reaches its goal of global domination as a super power. after brainwashing 1.3 billion chinese in its anti-west nationalistic thinking, now it feels so 'uber' confident that it thinks it actually has the support of russia and can defeat as a paper tiger, china. you have a lot to learn. we are all watching you mature. however until now all we have seen is a baby chinese mao daughter paper tiger and some pathetic attempts at following the art of war. take a step back and mature before you think you are ready to rule the world chinese style.. foolish chinese.. !!!
Only a stupid person would write something like this, in 2020 China will become the number economy of the world. You wait and watch.
Well said and so true plus scary!
Effectively the PRC has shot down a plane, they know the US will call for restraint, same with the ROK and Turkey. So we all know how it will play out, the PLA want to do the action the suits say why bother, we all know.
It always amazes me that there are so many people that keep expecting this utopian world to just break out. You know, no war, no conflict, everyone living in peace & harmony. You know like the Coke ads from the 70's. LOL! It isn't going to happen people. The world is a dangerous place. Always has been, always will be. Its called reality. Would you rather live in a weak country or a strong country? Wake up, read history, stop being so naïve.
time to take your meds grampy. go reminisce about the 70's. young forward thinkers here do not need your no value add u go now trolling.
@FM has experienced enough reality to know that human beings are born with the same instincts through successive generations.
I agree with @FM completely.
One instinct in humans causes them to aspire to Utopia, and also to rebels against their parents' values.
There is no Utopia.
Human beings are aggressive, not just assertive, by nature. They survive that way, and that is good.
I mentioned "rebel," not "rebels."
China, the slave of the world. "Please invest in us, these 13 year old girls can pump out million iPhones an hour."
You fool, slave don't get paid. Chinese are getting paid.
No, no, no, ... USA should not go to war or military action because of 'j'a'p'a'n'e's'e-interests'.
usa and britain ireland australia norway and all those losers should just wait there mothers will be leveled to the ground they are messing with the wrong people 1 nuke and britain will be gone 1 nuke and australia is dust if all of them want a fight then they will taste what real pain is.
Nonsense. Ireland? Norway? Australia?
What one can expect from sand and dust?
Didnt realise chinese troll are stupid too
Australia is actually rather large, so it would take more than one nuke. Of course, the US would then nuke China a thousand times and kill a billion people and the remaining several hundred million would die slowly of starvation and radiation.
Why do you want to nuke China? You assume Sand is Chinese? LOL.
His clear agenda is for U.S. to fight China. You fall right into it.
A Chinese retaliatory nuke strikes would kill half the American population. The other half would slowly starve to death or die of radiation sickness in a nuclear winter. Don't you think this MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION IS MAD? Then why make dumb remarks?
The US would be one of the last countries to NUKE anyone, much less Australia!
I know you"re too young to remember, but I'm not. I can assure you that we were the FIRST to nuke anyone.
As far as I know, the US is the first and the last to use a nuclear bomb.
For what's it's worth, I still believe diplomacy should be the first weapon of defense.
@banasy, you are right: we are indeed the last SO FAR, as far as I know.
I would hope that the lessons learned from Nagasaki and Hiroshima would be enough to deter anyone from taking such a permanent action, JIF.
Unfortunately, people either have short memories, or think that the risks are worth it to forward their agenda, whatever that may be.
Thank you @ banasy! I was thinking that same thing when i read his post to me earlier. And even if not, our POTUS would not be the first to nuke anyone! And why Australia even??? Lmao
Lol @ Maersk, sure sounds to me like you have a mouthful of that chinese stuff yourself! Hows it taste? Lmao
Wanta know how i could tell @ Maersk? Cuz you cant speak properly! Lol and i betcha aint sittin down either huh? Been bending over too much too huh? You might wanta re~think those extra curricular activities of yours! Pole smoking isnt good for the diet no matter what anyone else tells you!
In any case @ Maersk, happy gobble gobble day! Chao! Lmao
In any case @ Maersk, Happy G o b b l e day to you! Lol chao!
This article is full of self-complacency.
going to war is not an option...what a load of crap....have we learned nothing......thousands of years of war...murder, slaughter, children, women etc...who were once enemies are now friends, and who were once friends are now enemies...and the cycle goes on...the only difference now...is we have the power to destroy the ship we call earth...to end all life on this planet...what good would this accomplish...
lets not let the failure of politicians/people of power do this again...we as people of this earth must realize, accept and act on our responsibility for each other and our planet...
there is a solution that does not involve war...lets seek this solution together
No one is going to nuke anyone or go to war with anyone. This is probably some bizarro strategy by China to get something it wants Cuban Missile "Crisis" style. It's just so pathetic and self-defeating, it almost seems like a plan that North Korea would have cooked up.
Exactly @ Josh! Political posturing! By a bunch of brats about WHO has the biggest and baddest TOYS!
Oh and who has the biggest and best playground!
The author is dumb or pretends not to see the strategic significance od action by china. By establishing the zone, china asserts its authority beyond its territory. 50 years down the road, they will exert control over the islands.
How true? What would Nippon and the US do then? You think they are willing to commit national suicide over some barren rocks and open seas?
I see several writers here using words like dumb, stupid, moron, and fool. The arguments accompanying these insults are usually based on irrational premises.
Typical is the frequent reference to a Grail-like "Peace" that has never existed because of human nature and the necessity for territoriality if human beings are to survive as a species.
There will always be wars, between nations and between individuals. Advocacy of complete disarmament is suicidal.
The unintentional transparency in many of the banners for world peace reveals a simple desire for Butter instead of Guns, The cry is for more and more butter: not just cheap butter, but free butter.
The purpose of the hegemony of China is world control, or is it resources?
Did China make strategic error with air zone?
China's only mistake is trying to keep its people from freely accessing information around the world. Keeping its people stupid is what's keeping China backward.
And what will we do, have another chicken Navy Pilot land a super secret aircraft on the mainland after an incident over the islands . . . while we sit and complain. That certainly worked. They got all the data they needed and made us disassemble the plane to remove it vs. flying it out. Any wonder they believe they can do anything?
A lot of western people concern human rights of china and these people may be the friend of Chinese. However,Mr. Michael Mazza (the autor)is unhappy because of ADIZ but I do. Mr.Michael Mazza is not the friend of Chinese definitely. I suggest not approving his visa to China for ever. Father more, China should do more things which the enemy not delight with.


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The deployment of McClellan's army suggested a possible avenue of attack. Two of his corps lay south of the Chickahominy River, separated from the remainder of the Union army. Of these two corps, the Fourth Corps of Union general Erasmus D. Keyes had moved on May 24 to the village of Seven Pines, several miles from the nearest supporting Union troops. Three major roads led to the town—Nine Mile Road, Williamsburg Road, and Charles City Road. Johnston prepared a plan of attack: first, he would envelop the lone Fourth Corps and then, once it had been shattered, attack the Third Corps of Samuel P. Heintzelman. The Chickahominy River, swollen by heavy rains, would prevent reinforcement from Union troops north of the river, who relied on a lone, rickety structure known as the Grapevine Bridge to get across. Confederate troops, moving along the three roads, would encircle Keyes. Johnston initially planned the attack for May 29, but delays by subordinate Gustavus Woodson Smith pushed it back to May 30.
The Battle
Johnston's plan ran into trouble from the start. He could not coordinate his command effectively; Confederate regulations made no allowance for the organization of troops into corps, so Johnston had to divide his army into ad hoc "wings." This unwieldy command structure, coupled with the plan to move along three different thoroughfares, spelled trouble. Johnston's most trusted subordinate, James Longstreet, created additional difficulties. Longstreet, a sometimes shameless self-aggrandizer thirsty for additional authority and acclaim, changed the plan of attack without informing Johnston so that his troops could enjoy a more prominent role in the assault. Finally, the weather contributed to Confederate difficulties, as wet and muddy roads slowed troop movement.
Johnston's plan called for D. H. Hill to open the battle at eight o'clock in the morning, but Longstreet's meddling resulted in a traffic jam, delaying Hill's assault. Meanwhile, Union division commander Silas Casey observed Confederate activity along the roads throughout the morning. Suspecting an attack rather than a probe, Casey ordered some of his troops under arms.
About one o'clock in the afternoon, the pugnacious and combative Hill launched the attack with his division despite the fact that he had no idea whether any of the other Confederate elements had reached their assigned positions. Casey, while leery of a Confederate attack, had failed to inform his men that he suspected one was imminent, and thus Hill's men shattered the first line of Casey's division shortly after 1:00 p.m. The Union forces subsequently put up a strong fight and fell back to a line of rifle pits, but by three o'clock the Confederates had broken that position as well. Exhausted by the fighting, Hill's division, in the parlance of the time, was "played out." Union troops from the Third Corps under Philip Kearny began to arrive on the field, bolstering the Union line.
Meanwhile, Union general Edwin V. Sumner of the Second Corps, under orders to remain in readiness to move but having received no direct instructions, moved his divisions south, across the Chickahominy, after hearing the firing. Despite fears that it might fail, the Grapevine Bridge held as Union soldiers tramped across. Confederate general G. W. Smith, receiving word from Hill that his attack had run out of steam, advanced his wing of the Confederate army, intending to strike the Fourth Corps in the flank. W. H. C. Whiting's division led the advance. Proceeding along Nine Mile Road, Whiting's men encountered Darius Couch's division of the Union Second Corps, and swung into battle at Fair Oaks Station at four o'clock. Union general John Sedgwick's division of Sumner's Second Corps had reached Couch at around three o'clock, and they too aligned for battle. Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Postmaster General John Reagan, and Joseph Johnston all supervised Smith and Whiting's advance. Fighting raged, but the Confederates could gain no solid advantage despite the fact that Whiting kept feeding more troops into action. As fighting petered out toward nightfall, the Union line at Fair Oaks had extended its flank to rest on the Chickahominy River, protecting the Grapevine Bridge and thus ending the isolation of the Fourth Corps.
Near nightfall, while riding behind Confederate lines near Fair Oaks, Johnston inspected the lines personally. Warned by a staff officer that he was riding dangerously close to the front lines, Johnston replied, "Colonel, there is no use dodging; when you hear them they have passed." Almost immediately thereafter, a spent bullet hit him in the shoulder. Moments after that, one of the last Union artillery shells fired during the battle burst in the air, throwing fragments into Johnston's chest and thigh. Gravely injured, Johnston relinquished command. Next in line stood G. W. Smith, who temporarily assumed command, but relinquished it because of ill health. The Confederate attack had not gone well.
The next morning, June 1, at 6:45, Hill's division renewed attacks in its sector, but, failing to make much headway, ended the effort by 11:30 a.m. Equally exhausted and disorganized by the fighting, the Union troops also settled into their positions. The Battle of Seven Pines–Fair Oaks had ended.
At 1:30 p.m., Davis arrived at Confederate headquarters and informed Smith that General Robert E. Lee would take command of the army. At two o'clock Lee, out on an inspection of the Confederate lines, arrived and received the command he would retain for the remainder of the war.
Time Line
May 30, 1862 - Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston, seeking to protect Richmond from George B. McClellan's army, gives orders for a Confederate attack the following day. He hopes to take advantage of a swollen Chickahominy River and split the Union force in two, attacking first the Union Fourth Corps and then the Third.
May 31, 1862, morning - Confused Confederate dispositions, the meddling of Confederate general James Longstreet, and poor roads result in a delay of the planned Confederate attack on Union troops on the Peninsula.
May 31, 1862, 1 p.m. - Confederate general D. H. Hill launches his attack against Silas Casey's Union division of the isolated Fourth Corps at Seven Pines.
May 31, 1862, 1 p.m. - Hearing firing, Union general Edwin V. Sumner of the Second Corps sets his divisions in motion to move south of the rain-swollen Chickahominy River at the Battle of Seven Pines–Fair Oaks.
May 31, 1862, 3 p.m. - After breaking several Union lines, Confederate general D. H. Hill's men run out of steam during the Battle of Seven Pines–Fair Oaks.
May 31, 1862, 4 p.m. - Confederate general G. W. Smith's division under G. W. C. Whiting encounters the Union division under the command of Darius N. Couch near Fair Oaks.
May 31, 1862, nightfall - Union general Edwin V. Sumner's Second Corps begins to arrive on the field at the Battle of Seven Pines–Fair Oaks.
May 31, 1862, nightfall - Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston is gravely injured by a Union shell; G. W. Smith temporarily assumes command of the Confederate army.
June 1, 1862, 6:45 a.m. - Confederate general D. H. Hill renews his attack, but makes little headway at the Battle of Seven Pines–Fair Oaks.
June 1, 1862, 2 p.m. - Confederate president Jefferson Davis assigns Confederate general Robert E. Lee to command the Army of Northern Virginia after Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston is wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines–Fair Oaks.
- Civil War, American (1861–1865)
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Cite This Entry
- APA Citation:
Luebke, P. C. Battle of Seven Pines–Fair Oaks. (2014, October 21). In Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved from http://www.EncyclopediaVirginia.org/Seven_Pines_Battle_of.
- MLA Citation:
Luebke, Peter C. "Battle of Seven Pines–Fair Oaks." Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities, 21 Oct. 2014. Web. READ_DATE.
First published: February 3, 2010 | Last modified: October 21, 2014
Contributed by Peter C. Luebke, a doctoral student in the department of history at the University of Virginia.


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Unless you paid over $12,000 for one via auction, the only way to get hold of a white Xbox One console is to have been responsible for actually building the console. So this unboxing is one hell of a tease.
The "I MADE THIS" is only going to get sillier the longer time goes on, regardless of a Microsoft employee's pride, but hey, it's a small price to pay for having such a nice console.
The controller looks especially great up close. Though the fact the Kinect is still black is, yet again, setting my OCD aflame.
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One of the true signs of a leader is how they handle mistakes. This applies to mistakes made by yourself, your team, or your organization. The following three steps will get you there.
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This crucial first step allows you to step up and take responsibility for the mistake. If you or your organization makes a mistake, it is always best to quickly admit it to. Many leaders spend a lot of energy trying to brush the mistake under the carpet or blame someone else. This strategy of hiding or not admitting to mistakes pretty much always backfires and makes the situation worse as you begin to lose trust. Instead do the opposite and take responsibility as soon as it's clear that you made a mistake. Doing so will actually build trust as people will understand that you are taking responsibility for your (or your firm's) actions. Remember that your boss, your employees, your peers, and your customers are watching.
In taking responsibility, don't blame others as the reason you failed. If necessary, issue an apology but keep it short and to the point. The faster you get through this step, the better as it will cause others to start looking at the solution instead of focusing who is at fault.
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The van market is changing - and this Renault Trafic has needed to change with it: it has. We especially like the careful touches: the load-through facility in the full-steel bulkhead that lets you poke long items into the cab. The 'Eco Mode' driving option that makes it easy to lower your running costs. The Mobile Office package with its folding front seat. The way you can mount your smartphone or tablet on the dashboard to work with Renault's clever R&GO app. And the wide-angle passenger sunvisor mirror that helps when reversing. Though we've seen some of these things before in other LCV products, they've been delivered here with a greater level of thought and thoroughness that operators will like.
Renault's Trafic is one of those vehicles that has quietly inveigled itself into an almost invisible ubiquity. They're everywhere, but are such a part of the automotive landscape that they barely register. Unless, that is, you're looking to run a fleet of vans and then the Trafic registers front and centre of your buying decision and has done since it first appeared in Renault dealers back in 1981.
That first generation model is still doing sterling service under licence in India as a TATA Winger but was replaced here in 2001 with a second generation model that saw service for thirteen years. In 2015, this third generation model waded into the fray against rivals like the Volkswagen Transporter and the Ford Transit Custom, not to mention its design siblings, the Vauxhall Vivaro, the Fiat Talento and the Nissan NV300.
Renault passenger vehicles have embraced the idea of the downsized turbocharged engine to boost efficiency and now the commercials follow suit. The engines that power the Trafic are both relatively small 1.6-litre turbodiesel units but punch above their weight. Most buyers will be drawn to the single turbo 1.6-litre unit, available in either dCi 90 or dCi 115 power outputs. In order to match the sort of grunt Mercedes can deliver with its rival Vito, Renault also debuts the Energy dCi 120 and 140 engines. Powered by two turbochargers working together, these engines combine excellent performance with decent fuel economy. From just 1,500rpm, the Energy dCi 120 cranks out a hefty peak torque of 320Nm, while the dCi 140 variant delivers 340Nm so there's plenty of muscle even if you're loaded to the roof.
Renault claims that these power and torque figures are what you would have previously expected from a 2.0-litre engine in this class and that view is borne out by the figures. A Volkswagen Transporter, for instance, comes in 84 and 102PS power outputs at the entry level, while the Trafic now comes in 90 and 125PS guises, so it's even better than Renault's word. The driving position, though not as lofty as in some models, nevertheless affords a decent view up the road. You get big door mirrors to help with manoeuvring and tried and tested transmissions.
True, there's only so much a van designer can do with a rectangular box with a wheel at each corner, but there's clearly been a concerted effort to distinguish the Trafic from the workaday LCV norm. As is the vogue with current Renaults, you get an outsized bonnet badge, flanked in this instance by a black trim strip and a pair of huge headlight pods that seem to have started climbing towards the windscreen pillars. The outside of the Trafic isn't the big story here though.
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Patti Nelson brings us this weeks challenge over at TMITA/PCC. It was to make anything but a card with a birthday theme. I decided to make another candy bar wrapper. This one more for a boy. The colors seem a bit off here in my picture. All the blues are in the larger piece of paper, but you really can't see that very well. The ribbons are actually a bit brighter in blue, but they look really dark here, probably because I am taking the pic late in the evening. So, oh well... it really looks like it all goes much better in real life. Sometimes things just photograph that way!
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EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Glenn Beck Details His New Stealth Weapon In The Culture War
Glenn Beck wants to change the face of American culture, and he plans to do so by trying to downplay his role in the stage shows and movies he hopes to roll out in the coming years through his new production company, American Dream Labs.
Beck detailed his plans to an audience of VIP ticketholders at a July 5 "Beck Unplugged" event leading up to his "Man in the Moon" spectacle, the first effort for his new company.
Over the course of the July 4-6 Man in the Moon holiday weekend, the radio and TV host explained that as part of his effort to turn society toward his own beliefs, he planned to begin moving into the entertainment space with stage shows, music, and movies, the first of which is slated for Christmas 2014.
Don't expect American Dream Labs' work to have the obviously ideological dynamic that inhabits Beck's past work. "One of the things that you'll see with the Man in the Moon is the Man in the Moon has been made for a different set of people," Beck told his "Unplugged" audience. "We have to stop preaching to the choir."
But because Beck realizes that his public persona is toxic to most Americans, he plans to make his message more subtle and downplay his involvement. Beck explained that he doesn't "even want my name on my books anymore," and had asked Man in the Moon's engineers to ensure that the Moon, which Beck plays in the show, didn't resemble him. (This doesn't quite square with the fact that Beck himself plays a major role in the show.)
"My name has been good for you guys but bad for the bigger populace," he said. The next stage in Beck's attempted climb to cultural supremacy will depend on whether the "bigger populace" sees Beck's face in his works.
BECK: One of the things that you'll see with the Man in the Moon is the Man in the Moon has been made for a different set of people. We have to stop preaching to the choir. You guys are going to love it, but if it was any other face but mine, and this is the thing that I really wrestled with, and I don't even want my name on my books anymore. First of all, I usually come up with the story and others write it, but my name has been good for you guys but bad for the bigger populace. I play the Moon in this, and when they came to me with the prosthetics they said, "what do you want the moon to look like," and I said, "just not me." You don't want me to look like me at all. We are going in a different direction to where we're trying to do music and entertainment. We're going to start hopefully this year for Christmas 2014, for movies. That's why I'm building the American Dream Labs, to try to get into the entertainment space as well. News is one thing, but news and elections are the last stop. Culture and entertainment are the first stop.
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It wouldn't be enough for a replica A-Team van to simply sit there. The A-Team drove around real fast smashing into stuff, so damn it, replica LEGO models should too.
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Iowa's beautiful days of summer were a perfect backdrop to the wedding of James Edward Wise and Sarah Loranz. The wedding which took place on Thursday, August 8, 1878, may well have been in the Presbyterian church of Clarinda, Iowa, a church built through the sponsorship of the bride's father, Anthony Loranz in 1860. The church tower bell, freighted overland from Fulton county, Illinois in 1860 also and through the efforts of Mr. Loranz, would have rung in joyous celebration of this marriage of his youngest daughter. Perhaps the weather accommodated a wedding dinner held outside under the trees on the Loranz family's property in Clarinda. Many of the prominent citizens of Clarinda would have been in attendance as well as a large family contingent for both the bride and groom. The Loranz family were early pioneers of Page county, arriving in 1858. The groom's family were newcomers to the county, arriving in September of 1875 from Monroe county, Ohio. The patriarch of the Wise family, Jacob Wise and his wife Mary Dunn, surely contributed to the wedding picnic or dinner, perhaps supplying the mountainous platters of delicious chicken, turkey and beef, and overflowing kettles of Iowa corn, famous as the best in all of Iowa. It is safe to assume these items were provided from the produce of the Wise farm, tended by their own hard work and prepared with their loving hands. A wedding cake was most certainly baked by one of the numerous female relations, as well as pies and treats of all varieties. The splendor of the harvest of fruits and vegetables would have provided a hearty banquet for all guests.
Although born and raised in rural America, these young people were not country bumpkins. Photos of what is presumed to be wedding portraits, show James dressed in a formal black suit with a sparkling white collared and button down shirt. Sarah wore a stylish fitted silk dress with dark lace and darker velvet at the v-neckline. A high collar of white lace and ribbon provided a beautiful contrast to the dark velvet. Sarah's dark, abundant curls were secured in a fashionable french twist or braid, with only her bangs giving away her natural curl. Beautiful dangling earrings and a matching choker completed her exquisite ensemble.
Just twenty-two years before, on a Friday, the 16th of February, in 1855, James came into this world welcomed by a cold Ohio winter day and two loving parents, Jacob and Mary Dunn Wise of Franklin township in Monroe county. He was their fourth child and second son. James spent his youth as most young men who were farmers' sons did; working on his father's farm, learning the skills he would later depend on to earn his living as an adult. He attended school when able, usually during the winter months, perhaps walking or riding the mile or so to the icon of rural American education, the Swazey one room schoolhouse. This small but mighty institution provided scholarly education to James, his eight siblings and numerous cousins. James surely spent his Sundays in fellowship with family and neighbors in the adjacent M.E. church and the cold days of winter learning the three "R's" … "reading, riting and rithmatic."