The blog is kinda dumb but this is a decent review. I don't think it's a coincidence that both Bernie and Thaddeusz Stevens (and maybe Ethan Allen?) had ties to Vermont.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/27/book-review-albions-seed/
>Take a Jackson Pollock painting and cut it into a jigsaw puzzle with a hundred thousand parts. Throw away all the corner pieces, two-thirds of the edge pieces, and one-half of the rest. What remains is a little closer to the problems historians actually study.
Fischer, David Hackett. Historians’ Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought. New York: Harper & Row, 1970, 135n.
I happen to love David Hackett Fischer as a historian. I love how much detail he's provided on the events on April 19, 1775 and on the Trenton/New Jersey campaign (in Washington's Crossing). I happen to think that his book Paul Revere's Ride is probably the best book on the Battle of Lexington and Concord out there (though John Galvin's The Minute Men: The First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution is really, really close).
However Fischer gives some really bad history at the end of the book in talking about who might have provided information to Dr. Joseph Warren about British troop movements. He thinks it's a top level spy and he says that the circumstantial evidence points really strongly to it being Margaret Gage, the wife of Thomas Gage.
Here are his arguments:
1.) She was a woman politically divided. As evidence he offers up some statements about how she didn't want war to come to America. Not very strong evidence by itself because lots of people felt that way. Plus her two brothers were both British officers, so her whole family was Loyalist. One of her brothers actually came back to America several years after the war ended and settled--if anything he might have more commitment to the cause than she did.
2.) He quotes Lord Percy who quotes General Gage as saying that he was betrayed and that only one other person knew of his designs. Problem with this theory is that it's hearsay at best, and simply not realistic. Why in the world would General Gage tell his wife all of his designs and not tell his confidential secretary, his second-in-command, or any other British officer? Makes no sense.
Neither of those claims are badhistory though--they're just pieces of circumstantial evidence. The badhistory comes in his most powerful arguments.
3.) According to Fischer "the General remained in America for another long and painful year”. This is factually incorrect. Gage received orders to sail back to London on September 26, 1775 and left on October 11, 1775. April 19, 1775 to October 11, 1775 is almost six months to the date. Definitely not a year.
4.) Fischer also says that "After returning to Londo
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First source with the news
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Duke Announcement
https://goduke.com/news/2021/11/28/football-cutcliffe-duke-agree-on-separation.aspx
Summary:
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The Pelicans are 1-11.
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Pelicans GM & POBO David Griffin had heated exchange with former Pelicans HC and current Kings associate HC Alvin Gentry after Pelicans loss against the Kings.
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Alvin Gentry was the Pelicans HC from 2015-2020, and was fired after the 2020 Bubble.
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David Griffin became the Pelicans' POBO in April 2019 (before the Zion lottery). This was Griffin's first job in an NBA organization after the Cavaliers didn't renew his contract in 2017.
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Rumblings regarding David Griffin's future in New Orleans are increasing now, especially after this altercation.
Article:
>The rumblings began following the Pelicans' 0-3 start (currently a league-worst 1-11 after Wednesday’s loss to OKC), coupled with Griffin's public handling of All-Star forward Zion Williamson's prolonged recovery from offseason foot surgery. New Orleans brass certainly hoped Griffin's tenure would finally lead to a playoff berth, despite its tenuous two years building around Williamson.
>Word of a heated exchange between Griffin and Sacramento Kings associate head coach Alvin Gentry has since circled around the league.
>Griffin and Gentry first connected during a shared tenure in Phoenix in the Steve Nash era. And later the Pelicans head coach from 2015 to 2020, Gentry played an integral role in helping Griffin land New Orleans' head of basketball operations position in 2019, only for the executive to fire Gentry following just one season.
>While New Orleans projected optimism about competing for a postseason berth during the Orlando bubble, Gentry and a large portion of Pelicans staffers were already prepared for the coach's ouster, sources said, as Griffin was widely known to covet Ty Lue, who was the head coach in Cleveland when Griffin served as the general manager for LeBron James' 2016 championship team. Griffin would often tell team and other league officials that he'd given Gentry "all the answers to the test, and he still fails," sources confirmed to B/R.
>After the Kings defeated the Pelicans 113-109 on Oct. 29, Griffin approached Gentry in the bowels of Smoothie King Center to offer a warm hello to his former head coach, yet Gentry brushed off his initial efforts as inauthentic.
>From there, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the incident, Griffin denied the findings of the NOLA.com article, particularly his "answers to the test" line, and the notion that he played piano for Williamson during the team's bubb
... keep reading on reddit ➡>The Pelicans have found their next head coach, and New Orleans is expected to formally announce Phoenix Suns assistant Willie Green as the franchise's play-caller shortly after the Finals conclude, sources confirmed to Bleacher Report.
>It does appear that Green was not Pelicans executive vice president David Griffin's first choice, just as Stan Van Gundy, whom New Orleans fired in June after one season, was hired after New Orleans could not land Tyronn Lue a summer ago. Yet Green is widely acclaimed around the NBA for his leadership and humility, something that once garnered great respect as a player, and has only blossomed, sources said, during his five years on championship-contending benches in Golden State and Phoenix.
>Green was also someone Griffin's predecessor, former Pelicans general manager Dell Demps, had sought to hire as a New Orleans assistant and Griffin himself once eyed to bring on to Cleveland's coaching staff, sources said. In that light, perhaps Green leading the franchise he played for in 2010-11 was always meant to be.
>This marriage, however, would not have been possible without Brooklyn assistant Jacque Vaughn removing his name from consideration for New Orleans' vacancy. And while the appeal of keeping one's kids in the same location plays a factor in many NBA parents' career planning, league sources told B/R it was Vaughn's negotiations with Griffin that derailed the Nets coach from joining the Pelicans.
>In those talks, which included a dinner in Chicago, Griffin previewed the same level of influence he has utilized throughout the executive's tenure in New Orleans, where members of Van Gundy's coaching staff and Alvin Gentry's before his often mentioned Griffin's preferred involvement in areas such as minutes, rotations and skill development, primarily for the players he has drafted since 2019. With Vaughn, sources said, Griffin had specific ideas to fill out the coach's entire assistant group, envisioning Bucks assistant Charles Lee as the associate head coach, plus a starting backcourt of Nickeil Alexander-Walker and Kira Lewis.
>"He wants to have some level of involvement in every decision," one Pelicans voice said.
Currently looking for the 9th edition need for upcoming summer classes. If anyone one can link me a PDF it would be much appreciated!
Hackett out...*cough*
Summernats was really fucking loud… I heard it from gungahlin…
All right so as we know Mass Effect was probably one of the most influential Space Opera video games to come out in the last probably 15 years give or take. Mass Effect 1 obviously initially released only on Xbox but over time Mass Effect 2 would be released both on Xbox and Playstation. As a PlayStation player this was a godsend for me. Because I have been so interested in the Mass Effect franchise until that point but obviously because I didn't have an Xbox I was never able to play it. And then when we literally finally got all three games on the original PlayStation I went back and I played all three games several times over just so I could get my perfect story. I don't even know how many times I played the second and first games before finally getting to the Third.
Now as we know Mass Effect Andromeda unfortunately did not receive the greatest amount of Love. After all the game was relatively rushed and unfortunately when it was released it was basically unfinished. I don't even want to think back to those terrible janky facial animations. Now in my personal opinion I think that a lot of hate that Andromeda gets is actually unwarranted. Yes Andromeda had its problems and unfortunately the fan reaction was so bad that BioWare put any future projects for the Mass Effect property on hold. Now we don't actually know how long that hold is going to be but it might be for a very long time.
Anyway in all the time that I have played the Mass Effect Games 2 characters aside from Commander Shepard and the rest of the squad that Shepherd works with came out and became two of my favorite characters. These characters being Admiral David Anderson and Admiral Steven Hackett. As we all know Anderson is Commander Shepard's mentor.
And while Admiral Hackett has a great deal of respect for Commander Shepard as far as we know Shepherd has very little personal connection with the man though this could be wrong. Considering the fact that I never read any of the books I could be missing some key information.
One thing that I've always toyed with in the back of my head would be a game set where you play as the character of Admiral Anderson in his earlier years. Or possibly even playing as a younger Admiral Hackett. One idea that I've had is for a very specific ending sequence for a game specifically one perhaps where you play as Anderson. The game itself would likely take place during the first Contact War. Perhaps even starting with that famous shuttle ride that Anderson
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