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One side of our front yard was a statue of the Buddha that my father, Le Thanh Nhon, made. He was Vietnam's most famous artist. At the end of the war, the communists smashed all his work but they didn't touch his Buddha.
We left Vietnam 30th April 1975. We had 3 hours to leave, so quickly we packed our bags, loaded the car, fed the dog...to granny, and went down to the dock."
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GAINESVILLE — With the nation's second-leading shot blocker coming to town, conventional wisdom suggested undersized Florida would need everything it could get from its backcourt players to earn a win over Jarvis Varnado and Mississippi State.
But on a day when the Gators' guard duo of Erving Walker and Kenny Boynton could muster only a 12-of-23 outing, it was junior center Vernon Macklin and junior forward Chandler Parsons who carried the load.
Macklin had a career day, scoring on five of Florida's first seven second-half possessions, and Parsons had a double double to lead the Gators to a 69-62 win over Mississippi State on Saturday afternoon at the O'Connell Center.
Macklin and Parsons were a combined 15-of-22 from the field and scored 20 and 18 respectively, a career high for Macklin.
"Honestly, the double double means nothing to me, it's just the win was so huge," said Parsons, who had 12 rebounds. "I knew that I was going to have to rebound (Saturday), so I wasn't worried about how many, I just wanted to make sure I rebounded and not let my guy rebound."
Florida (17-6, 6-3 SEC) trailed Mississippi State (16-7, 4-4) by two at halftime but opened the second half by dominating the inside via Macklin. He scored 12 of Florida's first 14 second-half points, all inside the paint, including back-to-back dunks.
"We weren't really going at him (Varnado)," Macklin said. "A lot of the guards saw I was open and they passed the ball down low, and I decided to make a strong move."
Trailing 41-39, Florida went on a 16-4 run. The Bulldogs mounted a 7-0 run down the stretch to pull within 61-56 with 1:10 left. The Gators hit 8 of 10 free throws in the final minute.
The Gators outrebounded the Bulldogs, the second-best rebounding team in the SEC, 46-35. Varnado had 16 points, 13 rebounds and one block but shot 6-of-16.
"I think it's huge for us," UF coach Billy Donovan said of the win. " … Erving Walker less than 36 hours ago makes a game-winning shot, made a lot of big shots, Kenny Boynton made a couple plays coming down the stretch (in a win over Alabama), then all of a sudden offensively they don't play well. Now you can really enjoy and take pleasure at your teammates stepping up and being able to do some of that."
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McKenzie is not the owner of the dogs, Herwehe said. The dogs were taken to a veterinarian, who notified the society about the injuries, she said. One of them, a 2-year-old name Pipay, died at the vet's office.
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Former Heisman Trophy winner Ricky Williams has reached an agreement to join the staff at Incarnate Word in San Antonio as a running backs coach, the school announced.
Williams, who set 21 NCAA records at Texas and retired from the NFL in 2011, must still go through human resources procedures before the hire is official. Incarnate Word will be an independent in football this season before joining the Southland Conference in 2014.
"Ricky reached out to me about getting into coaching," Incarnate Word coach Larry Kennan said. "His experience will be a big help to our staff and players, and I think he will have a positive effect on our recruiting efforts."
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The goal of the deer, turkey, pheasant, and waterfowl youth hunts and the Mentored Youth Hunter and Trapper Program is to sustain hunting and trapping participation and its associated recreational and wildlife conservation benefits, but the ultimate goal is the passing down of tradition, knowledge, and experiences from one generation to the next, and spending quality time with friends and family outdoors.
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DEC offers a special Youth Firearms Deer Hunt over the 3-day Columbus Day weekend each October. Junior hunters (ages 14-15) will be eligible to take 1 deer with a firearm during this season.
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Pheasant hunting was one of the first hunting experiences for many of today's adult hunters, and this two-day hunt will help maintain this traditional introduction to hunting. Youth pheasant hunts take place on the last full weekend prior to the start of the regular fall pheasant hunting season in each area of upstate New York.
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A Picture of Detroit Ruin, Street by Forlorn Street
Workers are cataloging the tens of thousands of abandoned and dilapidated buildings in Detroit Credit Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times
Who's to blame for Detroit's collapse?
By Alexandra Le Tellier
July 18, 2013, 5:42 p.m.
Detroit filed for bankruptcy Thursday, making it the largest U.S. city to ever seek Chapter 9 protection. It's sad news for the once-great city. Still, the headline seemed to have delighted many. Just check out The Times' comments section, with several readers gleefully blaming Democrats. "Detroit should be held up as a national example how liberal-socialist, Democrat policies can destroy a once vibrant city within a generation," says "I hate the media." (Nice moniker.)
In a 2011 Op-Ed about Detroit's collapse, Scott Martelle, author of "Detroit: A Biography," gave readers a view of the Michigan city through a different lens. An excerpt:
The collapse of Detroit has roots in intentional de-industrialization by the Big Three automakers, which in the 1950s began aggressively spider-webbing operations across the nation to produce cars closer to regional markets, and to reduce labor costs by investing in less labor-friendly places than union-heavy Detroit. Their flight was augmented by government policies that, in the 1970s and 1980s particularly, forced municipalities and states to compete with each other for jobs by offering corporate tax breaks and other inducements to keep or draw business investments, a bit of whipsawing that helped companies profit at the expense of communities.
Racism plays a significant role too. Detroit's white flight exploded in the 1950s and '60s, after courts struck down local and federal policies that had allowed segregated housing. That was followed by middle-class flight on the part of blacks and whites as crime endemic to high-poverty, high-unemployment neighborhoods began spreading. It's significant to note that Detroit's inner-ring suburbs have been picking up African American populations as young Detroit families seek safety, stability and more reliable schools. As they run out of the city, its vast socioeconomic problems become even more distilled, more pronounced. Continue reading…
Earlier this year, Martelle wrote about Detroit's demise for our Op-Ed pages again, explaining:
Detroit, once the nation's fourth-largest city, has been crumbling since the 1950s, when its population peaked at a little over 1.84 million people. Estimates put the current population at under 700,000, and Detroit leads the nation's large cities in the percentage of people living below the federal poverty line. More than a quarter of Detroit's 140-square-mile city is now empty space. A Detroit house is cheaper to buy than a new car, and a high-paying job within the city limits is a rare thing to find, even with a recent influx of downtown-focused developments.
The emptying of Detroit stems from a complex mix of intractable racism, corporate and governmental decisions, failed institutions and crime levels that have driven most of the middle class to the suburbs. Local governments have regularly undercut each other with tax deals to lure jobs (much as Texas Gov. Rick Perry tried to do on his recent visit to California). These deals have helped corporations at the expense of communities like Detroit, causing the city's tax base to shrink faster than the city government could adapt and leaving it with massive debt, annual operating deficits, a demoralized workforce, an impoverished population base — and no plan for how to fix things. [...]
The people who left Detroit did so in a million individual decisions framed by dwindling jobs and shrinking wages, persistent crime, a collapsed public school system and inadequate services. But the collapse of city services has been a symptom of the underlying problems, not the cause. In fact, the Detroit News recently reported that half the city's property owners have stopped paying their property taxes partly out of anger and frustration with the lack of services. "Why should I send them taxes when they aren't supplying services?" the paper quoted one resident as saying. "It is sickening…. Every time I see the tax bill come, I think about the times we called and nobody came." Continue reading…
So, what's next for Detroit? Here's another commenter's take. From "GregMaragos":
Now is hardly the time for conservatives to indulge in schadenfreude. Nevertheless, it is likewise not a time to turn a blind eye to this cautionary tale of the true cost of hyper-liberalism.
No federal bailout, period. No ifs ands or buts. The only cure for Detroit is a strong dose of tough love.
We wish the good people of this city well.
The decline of Detroit: How the architectural jewels in motor city's crown have fallen into disrepair and are now being demolished
Detroit And Bankruptcy: How A Once-Great American City Endured Decades Of Decay
Abandoned Detroit Schools
Book review by Peter Whoriskey
Among the ghosts of Detroit
Sunday, January 30, 2011
How do you tell the story of what is no longer there?
For many Americans, the decimation of the nation's manufacturing workforce over the past three decades is sensed only through statistics – millions of jobs lost, factories closed and a vague unease that some working families are being rolled over. But in Detroit, the economic destruction is palpable in the old plants that have been emptied and left to rot, serving as giant roadside tombstones for a more prosperous era. In " Punching Out," Paul Clemens, a native of Detroit, has set for himself the task of describing in depth the shuttering of one behemoth, as a kind of farewell.
The idea that a major American city could be in the process of turning into a ruin is both horrifying and alluring, becoming the subject of numerous trendy photography exhibits. But Clemens wants to do more than muse about another empty factory. "The arty delectation of Detroit's destruction – 'ruin porn,' as it's called – it sometimes seems to take up half the Internet," he writes. "I understand the fascination completely, and I don't get it at all."
His case study is the Budd Automotive plant, which in its heyday constituted a small city in itself, encompassing about 2 million square feet and employing 10,000 workers. Among other things, it stamped out pieces of Ford Explorers.
Beginning after production has ceased at the plant, Clemens's story centers on the grim work of wreckers and movers of equipment, of the security guards warding off vandals and of corporate scavengers from plants in Mexico and elsewhere who buy Budd's machinery for use in countries where labor is cheaper.
The tale unfolds in a series of vignettes that Clemens captured while hanging out during the months-long dismantling of the plant. The woes of Detroit provoke both desperation and philosophizing. Standing around 50-gallon oil drums with fires inside to keep warm, workers reflect somberly, sometimes colorfully, about the exodus of manufacturing and about their homesickness.
A scrap thief, caught by the security guards, is forced to kneel with his hands behind his head, but then asks for a job. A trucker named Rafael shows off his tattoos of an American eagle and a phoenix and then complains about Detroit: "It's cold, it's miserable. I want to go home and ride my motorcycle."
And the author of an industry newsletter called Plant Closing News, a kind of almanac of economic destruction, sees in the shutterings a reflection of moral decline, comparing the upheaval first to the fall of Rome and then to the wayward people of the Bible, with scriptural citations of Chronicles. "You know what? It's that desperate. We've lost our horizon. We don't know whether we're flying right side up or upside down," he says.
The equipment being salvaged from the Budd plant will end up in India, Brazil and Mexico, sometimes to make parts for the same auto companies, but with much lower labor costs. At the Mexican plant, the only other one that Clemens visits in the book, he notes that workers make about $3,500 a year, only a small fraction of what the unionized workers at the U.S. plant once made. Remember, Clemens instructs, that "this city once was a Cadillac, before becoming a Buick, then an Oldsmobile and a Pontiac (both defunct), and finally, a Chevy, a high mileage hauler that has done honest work but can sometimes seem closer and closer to coming to a halt."
Clemens displays a fascination with equipment, although its use and significance will often be a mystery to readers. But the ultimate absence, at least for this reader, is what the Budd plant was like in its heyday and what has happened to those who once populated the vast complex.
At one point, Clemens is left to imagine, as if in a movie, the manager looking out over the factory floor from his office as he realizes that things are headed for trouble. It is just the kind of scene that, if documented, might best describe the loss implicit in all those vacant factories.
Peter Whoriskey covers the auto industry and manufacturing for The Washington Post.
One Year in a Closing Auto Plant
By Paul Clemens
Doubleday. 271 pp. $25.95
During the late Dark Ages and into the Middle Ages, the nobility founded monasteries and built churches to repent for their sins. In the ancient world, the wealthy built public buildings like baths and temples to honor themselves and for the common good.
With the decline of the auto industry, Detroit has been dying for fifty years. In this time of government cut backs because of a reduced tax base, middle class poverty, and wealthy surplus, billionaires should set up to the plate and contribute to the common good.
Instead of looking for a hedge fund to invest in, wealthy Wolverines should unite and seek opportunities to relieve the burdens of daily life and obtain treasure in heaven.
Richard DeVos…$4.2 billion…Ada, MI
Ronda Stryker…$2.2 billion…Kalamazoo
Jon Stryker…$1.45 billion…Kalamazoo
Michael Ilitch…$1.4 billion…Detroit
Alfred Taubman…$1.4 billion…Bloomfield Hills
Pat Stryker…$1.35 billion…Kalamazoo
Manuel Moroun…$1.3 billion…Grosse Pointe Shores
S. Roger Penske…$1.3 billion…Birmingham
John Brown…$1 billion…Kalamazoo
John Gordon…$1 billion…Grand Rapids
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Without aid, DPS may close half of its schools
Class sizes also would swell under proposal filed with the state
Jennifer Chambers / The Detroit News
Detroit — Detroit Public Schools would close nearly half of its schools in the next two years, and increase high school class sizes to 62 by the following year, under a deficit-reduction plan filed with the state.
The plan, part of a monthly update Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb gives the Department of Education, was filed late Monday to provide insight into Bobb's progress in his attempt to slash a $327 million deficit in the district to zero over the next several years. Under it, the district would slim down from 142 schools now to 72 during 2012-13.
Bobb has said school closures, bigger classes and other measures would be needed if he cannot get help from lawmakers to restructure finances in the state's largest school district.
DPS considered but declined to file for bankruptcy in 2009. In the past year, debt in the district has increased by more than $100 million, brought on by a mix of revenue declines in property taxes, reduced state aid, declining enrollment and an unplanned staffing surge this past fall.
Starting this fall, the district plans to boost class sizes in grades 4-12 and at all grade levels by fiscal 2012, which begins July 1, to save $16.8 million. The plan would hike class sizes for: Grades K-3 from 17-25 students to 29 in 2012-13 and 31 in 2013-14.
Grades 4-5 from 30 students to 37 in 2012-13 and 39 in 2013-14.
Grades 6-8 from 35 students to 45 in 2012-13 and 47 in 2013-14.
Grades 9-12 from 35 students to 60 in 2012-13 and 62 in 2013-14.
Because the district's contract with the Detroit Federation of Teachers requires payments to teachers for class sizes that exceed specified maximums, the district estimates it would spend $10 million in oversize class pay over four years.
Keith Johnson, president of the teachers union, said the proposed class size increases won't work and will never happen.
"I will never agree to any class-size increases," Johnson said. "These increases are antithetical to learning. Secondly, our classrooms aren't even built to accommodate those numbers.
"Johnson said the teachers' contract does not let the district exceed contracted class sizes through 2012. DFT filed an unfair labor practice charge in July to restore class sizes for the upcoming school year.
Parent Petrina Johnson said swelling high school classrooms to 60 students or more will only leave them uneducated.
"There is one teacher and she can barely get to each of the 36 kids now. That makes no sense," said Johnson, who has three children at Mumford High School.
School officials said the plan would create a "lecture hall" model similar to a university.
Johnson said teenagers aren't ready for that.
"This gives more opportunity for them to slip through the cracks," she said.
The proposal calls for closing 40 schools in fiscal 2012 and 30 schools in fiscal 2013. That would leave DPS with 72 schools for a projected 58,570 students, down from about 74,000 now. The district closed 30 schools this fiscal year, which is expected to save $23 million. The planned closings in fiscal 2012-14 would save more than $33 million.
Bobb said the district could save another $12.4 million from the school closures if it "simply abandons" the closed buildings. Past policy has been to keep the closed schools clean and secure, officials said, but the district could cut costs by eliminating storage, board-up and security.
DPS spokesman Steve Wasko said the district has laid out the path it must take to eliminate the deficit, and Bobb remains focused on working with lawmakers to pass one of three plans to restructure DPS' finances.
Those plans include splitting the district in two to put its debt obligation with an "old district," covering about 9,000 students. State revenue would pay off the debt, allowing the "new district" to move forward debt-free with undetermined start-up funds.
Such a plan would need approval by state lawmakers and Gov. Rick Snyder.
District officials said they are pursuing "renaissance" legislation to free up $400 million in future tobacco settlement funds that could help mend DPS' deficit and those of 40 other districts statewide. In return, the districts would make dramatic reforms based on the federal Race to the Top initiative, such as eliminating teacher seniority.
That proposal died last month in the state Legislature's lame duck session. A third plan would look at new systems and agencies used in New Orleans, which has converted more than half of its public schools into charter schools in the past several years.
Besides closing schools and increasing class sizes, Bobb's plan calls for the district to abolish its divisions of finance, legal services, human services and public safety and contract with either Wayne County or the city of Detroit for those services.
"This is the route that we'd need to take if the other larger solutions are not found," Wasko said. "It is in fact the route that we continue to take until alternatives are approved."
There was no mention of any of these plans in the documents Bobb filed with the state, Wasko said, because the plans are still being researched and fleshed out in and outside DPS.
"There is a lot of work going on," he said.
Joseph Johnson, executive director for the National Center for Urban School Transformation, said almost every urban school district in the country is struggling, but perhaps none as severely as Detroit.
"I haven't heard of an urban district taking such drastic of steps," Joseph Johnson said. "Certainly every urban district is engaging in some serious belt-tightening as they are dealing with smaller budgets and at the same time often higher expectation from the public in terms of student achievement."
Generosity is good for the soul. Donors tend to be unsung and unpublicized but examples of selflessness are important to inspire others.
Jay Bruce generosity knows no bounds
CINCINNATI– Jay Bruce calls himself "a product of generosity,'' so he's giving the Reds $400,000. It's something he has wanted to do since he was a kid selling candy door to door, to pay for his team's Little League uniforms. It's been in his head since the scout who signed him in 2005 offered advice Bruce embraced.
"Don't forget where you came from,'' Brian Wilson told the 18-year-old the day the Reds drafted him with their first pick in '05. Actually Wilson, being a Texan like Bruce, said, "Dance with who brung you.''
In other words, remember. Who you are, where you come from and how you got here. Repay the generosity loan.
It was a good lesson, one that Bruce would love to hear still, only he can't because a year after Wilson signed him, Wilson had a heart attack and died. He was 33 years old, with a family.
"Simple guy,'' Bruce recalled this week. "Nice to my family. Wasn't a BS-er, didn't sugarcoat anything.'' Wilson had played a little pro ball, in the Reds system. He got as far as Class A Billings, which isn't far at all. But if you pay attention, you learn things on those minor-league bus rides. Wilson was a student of the road.
"He told me what I was getting myself into,'' Bruce said. Bruce was 18 and leaving home and signing a big bonus deal, and he was doing it all overnight. Wilson kept Bruce's head from blasting off its axis. "For someone to take that time and show that initiative meant a lot. His job was to scout me and sign me and lobby the Reds that I was worthy of a first-round pick,'' Bruce said. "All the other stuff was just him.''
Bruce's job was to make Brian Wilson look like a smart man. And, to remember to dance. Brian Wilson Field will have lights and a scoreboard and the greenest of grass, in a part of town where green grass is a wish and not a metaphor. "In a not-so-affluent part of town,'' in Bruce's words.
Bruce won't stop there. He's taking over for Aaron Harang in the free-ticket business. He will maintain Aaron's Aces, Harang's ticket giveaway to military families. He will add a second ticket program, for families of special needs kids, to honor his 28-year-old sister Kellan. Kellan Bruce was born with her umbilical cord wrapped twice around her neck. The initial loss of oxygen left her mentally disabled.
"I've learned through (Kellan) not to take things for granted,'' Bruce said.
This sort of benevolence happens a lot among pro jocks, more than we ever report. Part of it is we don't take the time to honor the good, because the good isn't sexy. Part of it is some athletes don't want their generosity made public. Who would you guess leads the current Reds in giving locally?
If you said Francisco Cordero, drop a coin into your own cup. Charley Frank, the director of the Reds Community Fund, says Coco donates "well into the six figures'' to local causes. Several other Reds are five-figure donors to the Community Fund, Frank said.
Bruce and his agent, Matt Sosnick, met with Frank in 2008, shortly after the Reds promoted Bruce from Class AAA Louisville. The three agreed that when Bruce struck it major-league rich, he'd be doing some giving back.
Now, Bruce has. The money is nice. The words are better. Stuff like this makes a player and a team easier to root for. "It's not a responsibility. It's a moral obligation,'' Bruce said. "The community takes you in. They make or break you. These people only want us to be successful.''
In return, Bruce hopes to offer the community a chance at the same success. "I'm trying to give kids and families what people gave me. When it comes to helping the less fortunate, (pro athletes) have the ability to do some amazing things. When I was in high school and trying to get the money to go to these tournaments out of state, people didn't have to open their doors when I knocked. But they did.''
He grew up in Beaumont, Texas, population 250,000, a place of oil refineries and high school sports. Brian Wilson's kind of place. They remember in Beaumont. They don't have to be reminded to dance.
"It's a huge deal to be able to give kids an opportunity to grow in every way they can,'' Bruce said. "Eyes on the prize, you know?''
Detroit's abandoned buildings draw tourists instead of developers
Detroit has seen an uptick in history buffs and photographers visiting its ruins since its bankruptcy filing.
December 25, 2013 | By Alana Semuels
DETROIT — He'd heard stories of ruin and blight, but that didn't prepare Oliver Kearney for what he saw:
Prostitutes roaming the streets at 8 a.m., rubble-strewn parking lots overrun with weeds, buildings taken over by bright pink graffiti, the message scrawled on blackboards in deserted schools: "I will not write in vacant buildings."
He took 2,000 photographs his first day.
"No other American city has seen decline on this scale," Kearney said. "It's really a once-in-a-lifetime thing you're going to see."
And he saw it all on a tour.
Kearney, an 18-year-old aspiring architect, persuaded his father to travel with him from Britain to Detroit to participate in one of the city's few burgeoning industries: tours of abandoned factories, churches and schools.
Led by tour guide Jesse Welter, they crawled on their hands and knees to peek inside a train station closed long ago; they squeezed through a gap in a fence to climb the stairs of what was once a luxury high-rise; they ducked under crumbling doorways to see a forgotten ballroom where the Who held its first U.S. Concert.
"In Detroit, you can relate, you can see traces of what's happened, you can really feel the history of a city," Kearney said. "In Europe, when things become derelict, they'll demolish them."
That's not possible here. The city estimates it has 78,000 vacant structures, and demolishing each derelict residential building costs $8,000 — money the bankrupt city can't afford.
The city says that 85% of its 142.9 square miles had "experienced population decline" over the last decade, and efforts to persuade investors to buy commercial buildings and rehabilitate them have been mixed, at best. For example, plans to turn the Michigan Central Depot, a once-grand train station, into a casino and then into police headquarters have gone nowhere, and it's stood empty since 1988.
Photographers have flocked to the city to capture the decline; two French photographers even produced a book, "The Ruins of Detroit." But since the city declared bankruptcy in July, hotels say they've seen an uptick in visitors inquiring about the ruins. So have restaurants in the up-and-coming district of Corktown, near the abandoned train station.
Welter says he had to buy a 12-seat van to accommodate the growing interest.
Welter once worked as an aircraft mechanic and then an ATM repairman. He dabbled in photography and began venturing into the city from his home in the suburb of Royal Oak, taking pictures of derelict buildings and selling the shots at an artists market.
The photos, though grim, brought back sweet memories: Viewers would remember passing through the train station in its glory, or recall photographs of their grandparents honeymooning at a posh hotel, depicted in Welter's photos as a decaying tower.
Welter, 42, figured that if other people were interested in seeing the buildings, he could guide them around and, perhaps more important, keep them safe. In October, two tourists were carjacked while visiting an abandoned factory; others have been assaulted there.
Welter guided his first tour in late 2011, but the business has really picked up this year. His clients pay $45 for a three-hour tour and explore some of Detroit's most famously blighted structures: the Packard Automotive Plant, the train station and the East Grand Boulevard Methodist Church, which features peeling paint and vast balconies.
Welter, who is bearded and slim, knows how to sneak into buildings closed to the public. He knows which neighborhoods are plagued by packs of feral dogs, and which ramshackle building contains a recording studio with equipment still set up as if its occupants just left for lunch. He knows the churches so well that he helped a young couple find an abandoned one in which to conduct their wedding.
It's not legal, per se, to enter these buildings. Police will give $225 tickets for trespassing if people enter schools, Welter says, but have otherwise told him they don't mind him going into other buildings.
On a recent weekday morning, he brought a visitor to one of his favorite spots, St. Agnes Catholic Church, a rotting structure where graffiti vandals have made their mark. A beam of sunlight shone through the windows, falling on the one remaining pew in the church, a haunting image that illuminated the church's destruction. Then Welter heard a motor idling outside and quickly ushered his guest toward the exit.
"Someone's pulling up out there; let's start walking this way," he said, moving toward the crumbling staircase that leads to the church's courtyard, which was littered with soda cans and food wrappers.
He's not afraid of the authorities — they're in short supply in this cash-strapped city — but of scavengers, vagrants and others who might take advantage of someone with an expensive camera. That's why he usually begins his tours at 7 a.m., the best time to avoid other humans, he says.
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Megletrocks, I'm so sorry for your homebirth experience. Homebirth midwifery can be just as controlling and traumatic as any other kind of birth management. It's a shame.
Keep in mind that Emergency Childbirth, while there is some good stuff in there, is really dated. Heart & Hands is VERY heavily management-focused, it is all "the midwife does this and the midwife does that", so that a lot of it ends up being superfluous/useless information. Special Delivery is also written from the perspective that a midwife is going to be managing the birth, but for me that part of it was easier to ignore.
One of my favorite books is Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering by Sarah Buckley. Also Jeannine Parvati Baker, Michel Odent, Laura Shanley, Those aren't how-to manuals, though. Midwifery Today is a great source.
I've always heard and read that hands and knees position is ideal for big babies. I've favored it for my last two births (8.5 lbs and 9lbs 3 oz.) If you do choose a midwife, I think it is important to find one that is more hands off. I'm thankful this time to have one like that. I did appreciate my UC though. It was an interesting experience relying soley on what I felt would be right. I appreciated the Heart and Hands book in preparation for my UC last time.
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Monday, 18 February 2008
Roll on 2018!
It's not my fault. I was born there. You can choose your team in that way about as successfully as you can choose your family. I now live within shouting distance of the Emirates Stadium, and while I'm pleased when Arsenal win, I like them as a friend, but I can never love them.
To be a Barnsley fan is to be intimate with disappointment, for it to be one of your default emotions. Barnsley aren't rubbish - if theyb were simply crap, maybe we could walk away. The frustrating thing is that every now and then there is a flash of what they are capable of, and then they are deeply, deeply mediocre.
We were seventh in the Championship when I came back from India, starting to look like real contenders for a play-off slot. And then we took December and January off. We got two draws and a defeat from the three bottom placed clubs, and lost to everyone else. When we win, we win by one. When we lose, we lose by three. We dropped to seventeenth. And then we played
West Brom, who were top of the table, and beat them comfortably. You see the pattern?
And so to Saturday 16th February 2008. We were 14th in the Championship. Liverpool were, as usual, fifth in the Premiership. Our two most in-form strikers were cup-tied, and the goalkeeper whon was responsible for most of our victories was our for the rest of the season with injury. We'd just signed West Brom's tjhird choice keeper on loan, a man who's had two starts in the last 18 months.
He hadn't even had time to learn the defenders' names.
The bookies were offering 16-1 on a Barnsley victory; 1-5 Liverpool. The papers said things like:
"Against Barnsley in the FA Cup the Reds should be hopeful of putting away a few goals and easing into the quarter finals without too much bother."
Ninety minutes later, they were saying things like:
"One of the greatest upsets in FA Cup history."
Yes, when this happened:
it was arguably the biggest upset since Barnsley beat Man U 3-2 in the fourth round in 1998.
Big clubs get famous victories every season. For Barnsley it happens once every ten years.
What, you want to talk about beer? OK: I celebrated with a bottle of Paradox, a 10% Imperial stout from Brew Dog matured in Islay Malt Whiskycasks. What beer would you celebrate such a famous occasion with? What have you got in your cellar or cupboard that you're saving for a very special day?
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It's not compulsory to like soccer just because you are a bloke! Personally I think it's a waste of space.
- 18 February 2008 at 13:31
- Pete said...
Nor is it mandatory to take a bleak, negative view about eveything in the entire world.
But increasingly it seems that in the blogsphere, being miserable for a hobby is far more popular than football can ever be.
- 18 February 2008 at 13:47
- Alan said...
I can't say because the Greenock Morton last won the cup in 1922. Nothing saved for the repeat victory has lasted. Their collapse in the table since Christmas sees them facing relegation and, really, should taking Gretna out of the cup really be seen as a triumph?
You are right about the blogosphere, though. I've been doing this for almost five years on my own sites and commenting for about as long on others before that and for some reason it is a bastion for the misery goats - including me sometimes.
- 18 February 2008 at 14:24
- BLTP said...
Celebration beer:
When Barca won the la legia we were in town and so had a lot of Estrella probably much more than the catalans washed down with Pata Negra!
If the Tykes get to the semis it's Deus all round
and if we get to the final I'll just buy a brewery!
- 18 February 2008 at 16:19
- Kieran Haslett-Moore said...
Anything that puts Liverpool in its place has to be good. Unless that thing is man u of course.
- 18 February 2008 at 18:31
- zythophile said...
I'm a fourth-generation Superhoops fan meself*, and I've always known I'm extremely happy to support a team I can feel a genuine connection with, even if the successes come only once every generation or so.
We're the REAL fans, Pete, and when Manchester United fall again into a lower division, as they did in 1974, the world will see just how fickle their fanbase is.
Celebration beers after footie - it always used to be a pint of Young's in the Brook Green Hotel, but I don't know, after the place has had a revamp.
I'm sorry you don't like football, goatshed man - a well-struck free kick is as beautiful as any other perfectly executed endeavour, and seeing my (other) team win the first cup final at the new Wembley after they were 2-0 down at half time last year was as much of a thrill as seeing Bruce Springsteen on the Pete Seeger tour at the venue next door.
Incidentally, Pete, you'll get your chance for revenge later this month.
*that's the ENGLISH team that plays in blue amd white hoops, Alan - and for pedants, Reading doesn't count, their shirts don't carry full hoops any more.
- 18 February 2008 at 20:49
- BLTP said...
I think we drank some victorian IPA brewed the year The Tykes last beat QPR before Pete set of to India!
- 18 February 2008 at 22:42
- Alan said...
Zyth - do I have a Subbuteo team for you!
- 19 February 2008 at 00:09
- headlessbob said...
That Brew Dog imperial stout is quite crazy. It took me about an hour to finish a half bottle, that peaty flavour is almost excessive. But then again, I suppose its meant to be sipped slowly over a long period of time... for which its a great beer.
I believe they age the beer in Ardbeg barrels.
- 19 February 2008 at 23:17
- zythophile said...
I believe they age the beer in whatever casks they can get from whichever distillery has some spares at the time, which means a constantly changing range of different whiskies, and adds to the fun and gaiety ...
- 20 February 2008 at 20:17
- headlessbob said...
Ah, perhaps the batch I had was from Ardbeg barrels then. Good beer, certainly.
- 20 February 2008 at 22:17
- BLTP said...
off subject but if only all beer related tshirts were this desirable!
- 21 February 2008 at 12:32
- al_uk said...
Ah but bltp...stretched over my white and hairy belly I'm not sure it would be quite so desirable but you're right its a great pic.
I dread Barnsley getting other than mediocre, the Championship has to be the best league in the world,. ok the football isn't always brilliantly skilful its better than alot, you can go through the whole range of emotions and as any team can beat any other any given Saturday (there's me being all coy and sentamental...as if football is played on Saturday afternoons any more!) waiting for the results to come in at 5pm is always exciting.
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How did your relationship with Joel Plaskett develop?
I met Joel the first time when I was 17. He came in to listen to some demo recordings me and some other local bands had been working on in Halifax. On my 20th birthday, I received a call from his manager, Sheri Jones, inviting me to Gordie Sampson's Songwriting Camp in Ingonish, Cape Breton. We hooked up when I got back to Halifax and that's when plans to record my album were laid out.
Do you feel this record captures a specific period in your life or were some songs written spontaneously in the studio?
Three songs on the album were written during the time Joel and I were in studio. Those were "Déjà Vu," "In My Lungs" and "Scene of the Crime." All the other songs are ones I have been writing since I was 16. That's what I like about this album: instead of being a depiction of a specific period in my life it's a collection of all kinds of different experiences and time periods.


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September 13, 2006
A Calvin College music professor has won a song-writing contest sponsored by the Christian Reformed Church as part of the denomination's 150th anniversary plans.
Bert Polman wrote "God, We Sing Your Glorious Praises" and set it to the tune of "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing," intending the four-verse hymn to fit both traditional and contemporary styles of worship.
The CRC sesquicentennial planning committee hopes to hear the hymn sung at churches across the continent in 2007, and beyond.
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"It was the text that stood out," she says, "and the tune is familiar and crosses various musical styles."
Polman, a Dordt College graduate and long-time CRC member, is in his second year as music professor at Calvin after teaching for 20 years at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ont.
Founded in 1857, the Christian Reformed Church in North America will celebrate its sesquicentennial in three parts—remembering, rejoicing, rededicating—under the theme "Grace Through Every Generation."
In addition to Polman's winning composition, the judges recognized four other songs as runners-up to reflect the diversity of styles of music.
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We're opening up this post for any and all discussion on the Iowa caucus. I'll keep a running tab of everything that's going on in Iowa in the comments. Click in, and join in with your comments on how it's going.
EDIT: OK, the caucuses have officially started. Our reporter on the ground in Iowa will be giving us regular updates as to how it's progressing. See below for more.
7:00 Early numbers indicate that Clinton and Obama are neck and neck for first on the D side, and Huckabee and Romney on the R side. Detailed numbers in the comments as we get them.
8:10 We're about to hit 50% reporting on the Dem side, so time for another update up here. 47% reporting, Obama 34% Edwards 32% Clinton 32%. Huckabee has 35% of the R polling to Romney's 24%; Thompson, McCain, and Paul are all duking it out for third in the teens. Details and crosstabs below.
8:36 We have 81% of precincts reporting, and it looks like Obama's getting the nod for winner with 36%. The real stories here are the Democratic fight for second place, with Edwards holding the slimmest of leads over Clinton, and the fight for third on the Republican side, which has become a four-way race between Thompson, McCain, Giuliani, and Paul, with four percentage points separating the top from the bottom of that list.
10:00 OK, we have 98% of precincts reporting on the Democratic side. John Edwards still holds second place with 12 votes, but with so few precincts remaining it seems likely that he'll hold that lead. That would make the results on the Democratic side 38% Obama, 30% Edwards, 29% Clinton. The Republican side is currently Huckabee 34%, Romney 25%, Thompson 13% and third over McCain by about 300 votes of 13,000, with 86% of precincts reporting. It also seems likely that he'll hold, though an upset is still possible there. If that occurs, we'll be sure to mention it tomorrow, but that's enough Iowa tracking for one night. Good night, everybody!
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Deal Or Something Else
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 3:23pm
Biden swears there's no deal with Obama. Likewise, Thompson swears he isn't dropping out, detailed in a post from TPM humorously titled "Fred Yawns for the Finish Line."
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 3:42pm
I've downloaded all the political ads I can find from this cycle so far and I have to say every last one of Fred Thompson's make him look like a sleepy hound dog.
Supreme Court Justice Bill Clinton
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 3:28pm
There's a rumor going 'round that Hillary would appoint Bill to the Supreme Court if there was a vacancy. Some of the comments suggest this is a scare tactic to keep people from voting for Hillary.
Regardless, I want front row seats to that hearing.
The Swingin' Court
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 3:58pm
I think this would make the Supreme Court way more fun than it is now.
Richardson's Caucusers
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 3:39pm
Is caucusers even a word? Well it is for this comment!
I wonder if the Richardson caucusers have any endorsements from the campaign as to who to caucus with where Richardson is not viable?
The rumors over at Bleeding Heartland are that Richardson's folks are going to break for Obama where Richardson is not viable.
That could be HUGE if true. I've been very skeptical about Obama's numbers in Iowa because so much of them have relied on first time caucus-goers and college students. Add Richardson's and Biden's caucusers to Obama's support and suddenly that's a whole different picture.
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 3:59pm
I think its weird that the story from everyone, including Obama, is that everyone will align with Obama. It isn't totally unlikely, but I would think a dedicated Kucinich voter would be upset at Kucinich telling them to vote for Obama.
I could be wrong, but it seems discordant to me.
Buy it
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 4:37pm
I had half a mind for a while there to think that the whole "everybody's pledging second-place support for Obama" thing was something out of one of the opposing camps. I mean, really, Richardson pledged his caucusers to Obama? Richardson, the lifelong Clinton fan? Who risks losing his guaranteed nod at Secretary of State if she wins? Smells fishy to me. And what good would this doing that bring in Iowa anyway? It'll spread through national media quickly, sure, but that's of limited effect on short notice compared to boots on the ground, and nobody's canvassing for Kucinich right now and ending their pitch with, "and hey, if it doesn't work out, vote Obama!" It's all mighty suspicious.
Anti-Mormon Calls - From Oregon?
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 4:01pm
An interesting break in the case of anti-Romney, anti-Mormon calls in New Hampshire from that state's AG, out just a few tantalizing hours before the Iowa caucus starts.
Not Yellow Book, But Little Red Book
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 4:36pm
Yep, the company's based in the People's Republic of Portland.
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 4:18pm
In this order:
Edwards, Obama, Clinton. (Biden.)
TB Crystal Ball
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 4:29pm
Obama, Edwards, Clinton. I'm going with the Crystal Ball on this one. Who am I to question its wisdom?
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 4:38pm
I also predict at least one candidate will fall over from exhaustian before the end of the day.
Boots on the ground for Edwards
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 4:26pm
We have a contributor in Iowa right now, canvassing for the Edwards campaign. The fabulous Angela Brewer reports, "There's a huge amount of energy in the Edwards campaign office. He's working out of the Steelworkers' Union hall, and his sister has been making calls from there and getting really good response. Today is all about getting people who have either verbally or in writing at a rally committed to supporting Edwards, and getting them out to caucus and seeing if there's anything we can help them with, like a ride to the caucus site. We have a lady that fell on the ice earlier, and we'll be sending a steelworker to her house to help her out of her house and through the caucus. All in all, lots of people at phones making sure pledged caucusers show up to caucus."
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 4:27pm
That's a whole lot of caucus
That's dedication
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 4:29pm
Someone get that lady a campaign button!
More from the Iowa correspondent
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 6:43pm
The union hall finished canvassing and calling every precinct about a half hour before the caucusing started, leaving a good little bit of time for nailbiting before heading off to caucus.
Angela is also going to be observing a caucus precinct as well. She called in as she was pulling into the precinct location, a local high school, and could find no parking — the school parking lot was completely full, as were the streets for blocks away.
My Precasts
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 4:41pm
(Prediction + Forecasting) / Reading Way Too Many Caucus Polls =
Edwards, Obama, Clinton, Richardson, Biden.
As for the Dark Side:
Huckabee, Romney, McCain, Thompson, Giuliani.
Edwards 35% Obama
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 4:44pm
Edwards 35%
Obama 30%
Clinton 26%
Upping the ante
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 4:55pm
You made it more complicated with your fancy numbers. I think first place has a significant 5-6 point spread between first and second, and second and third are clustered more closely together, with 2-3 points separating.
My two cents (worth far less than you think)
By Sam Jones
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 4:49pm
I made my call in a Des Moines pub back in August, and due to my stubbornness I am sticking with it. I forsee Romney and Hillary in 1st, Huckabee and Obama/Edwards in 2nd, McCain and Edwards/Obama in 3rd, and finally Thompson/Guilliani and Richardson in 4th.
What is also important is who can capitalize most on a win or a big 2nd place upset. Unless someone beats Hillary tonight and can seriously roll into Feb 5 with the momentum, I just don't think her campaign can lose in the weeks to come. On the other side, however, its a whole different story. If Huckabee wins 1st, it looks like he just won't have the money, manpower, or organization to do much with his victory. I think the Republican primary is going to be a long and hard one, where even if Guilliani finishes fourth in Iowa, his camp is strong enough to be a real contender through March.
Mixing It Up
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 5:13pm
What I'm really holding out for are different winners in Iowa than New Hampshire with a mix in South Carolina. And sure, someone's going to win in Nevada, but that's going to have about zero momentum for the winner.
I want a mixed up picture going into Super Tuesday because damnit, I'm tired of having my table set for me by Iowa and New Hampshire! I want my vote to possibly be of importance this time around.
Hope it's Edwards
By PDiddie
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 6:07pm
then Obama, Clinton and Dodd.
Think it will be Obama, Edwards, Clinton and then Richardson.
Reading tea leaves is HARD
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 6:33pm
Back in 1984, I worked the Iowa caucuses for Gary Hart. Knocking on doors, dropping leaflets, and attending the caucuses themselves (but not voting, of course -- I was a California resident back then). A really interesting experience.
A LOT happens in the caucus hall itself. There's discussion about resolutions, local politics, etc. Then, after the first division into groups for presidential candidates, there's a ton of trying to get people to switch camps, and it's not just picking up the "unviable" groups. If a group is just short of viable, its members will lobby their friends for One More Voter, and sometimes they'll get it. If not, unviable groups will try to merge behind one candidate. If that fails, then their voters will disperse to the already viable groups.
All of this jockeying is PUBLIC. If somebody makes a good enough pitch, it can change a significant number of votes. Will that help Obama, Clinton or Edwards? I don't know, and neither does anybody else! I'm guessing Obama-Clinton-Edwards, but wouldn't be surprised by Edwards-Clinton-Obama.
The only result that would really surprise me is if there aren't any surprises!
Early rumors
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 7:15pm
Entrance polls for Iowa have Clinton and Obama well above others on the Democratic side, and Huckabee and Romney duking it out for the R's.
Anecdotal turnout reports are nuts. Some precincts are seeing three or four times more people than they saw in 2004. A large proportion of those new voters seems to be women, youth, and independents.
Edwards leads
By TXsharon
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 7:35pm
Senator John Edwards : 34.51%
Senator Hillary Clinton : 31.63%
Senator Barack Obama : 30.34%
Governor Bill Richardson : 1.77%
Senator Joe Biden : 1.38%
Senator Chris Dodd : 0.21%
Uncommitted : 0.16%
Precincts Reporting: 144 of 1781
Obama for a second, then just now Edwards again
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 7:53pm
Edwards 33%
Obama 32%
Clinton 32%
24% precincts in
Huckabee 36%
Romney 23%
Thompson 14%
15% precincts in
Wow it's close
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 8:06pm
All of the front runners are in the 30's right now. Richardson has 1 percent.
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 8:01pm
So far, a whopping 56% of Democratic voters per exit polls are attending their first caucus.
22% are between 17 and 29, higher than the 30-44 age spread.
51% of pollers said bringing about change mattered most to them, as opposed to 20% with experience. Of the change pollers, 51% of them supported Obama, vs. 20% for Edwards and 19% for Clinton.
If they want change
By TXsharon
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 8:05pm
then why are they supporting Mr. Consensus? Incongruent
Neck and neck
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 8:02pm
We're up to 31% reporting.
Obama's got the 33%, Clinton and Edwards 32%.


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Weekend Plans: St. Patrick's Parade, Easter Bunny, children's theater, Cinderella, more
Posted March 11, 2015
Happy weekend! Here's what's happening on the family fun front. As always, check WRAL.com's Out & About section for more.
It's time for a parade! The annual Raleigh St. Patrick's Day Parade starts at 10 a.m., Saturday. The parade starts at the Lane and Wilmington streets area around the state government complex, makes its way down Wilmington Street, heads down Fayetteville Street (where my family usually sits when we go) and eventually ends at the Raleigh Convention Center. When the parade ends at around 11:30 a.m., a festival will begin at City Plaza on Fayetteville Street with live music and activities for kids. The final performance ends around 6:30 p.m.
If you're downtown for the parade and festival, you also can head over to Reptile and Amphibian Day at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the free event includes opportunities to see exotic live reptiles and amphibians from around the world and here in North Carolina. There also will be hands-on science education stations, crafts and games.
The Easter Bunny takes his seat at malls across the region. Our Easter events database has the details, along with information about egg hunts and other seasonal events over the next few weeks. Easter is April 5.
Disney's new live-action "Cinderella" opens in theaters on Friday, including Marbles Kids Museum's IMAX theater. Princess fans can meet and greet with Cinderella and Prince Charming. The characters will be there from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Friday, for those going to the 5:30 p.m. or 7:45 p.m. shows. On Saturday, they'll be there from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. for those going to the 1 p.m. and 3:15 p.m., Saturday, shows.
N.C. Theatre is performing "Peter and the Starcatcher" through Sunday at the Duke Energy Center for Performing Arts in Raleigh. The Tony-award winning prequel to Peter Pan is described as a musical play that takes viewers on a "romp" through Neverland. The show is best for ages 10 and up, not because there's anything age inappropriate, but because it's a kind of a dense play with lots of dialogue (it's a musical play, not a musical). The show runs two hours and 15 minutes with one intermission. Tickets start around $25.
"The Velveteen Rabbit" continues at Raleigh Little Theatre through March 22 with several shows this weekend.
We have six children's consignment sales across the region.
The ArtsCenter in Carrboro has a couple of family-friendly shows this weekend.
At 11 a.m., Saturday, Hobey Ford returns with his Animalia, a puppet show that combines both science and art. Learn about the world of birds, see a butterfly's metamorphoses, witness an undersea ballet of whales and dolphins. Tickets for the one-hour show are $9; $7 for kids; and $28 for a family four pack. Kids under 2 are free. It's part of The ArtCenter's SuperFun series for families.
And at 6 p.m., Saturday, Transactors Improv: For Families will perform a short-form improv show based on suggestions from the audience. Tickets are $10 and $6 for kids. The show runs about an hour. It's best for grade schoolers and up.
Forest Moon Theater's Children's Interactive Theater will present "Miserella Finds Her Manners" at 11 a.m., Saturday, at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre, 405 S. Brooks St. The story features Princess Miserella, who is beautiful, but has horrible manners. She learns a lesson thanks to a retired fairy and an orphan. The show is best for ages 3 to 7. Tickets are $5 each.
And Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham has a free family day from noon to 4 p.m., Sunday. The afternoon includes a gallery hunt, hands-on activities and a photo station where visitors can pose like old masterworks in the museum's collection. Rags to Riches Children's Theater will perform a variation of Aesop's Tales at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. It's all free.


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Random House Trade, 9780812971231, 249pp.
Publication Date: June 9, 2009
From the internationally renowned author of In a Different Voice, a remarkable debut novel: a love story that introduces an unforgettable character in modern fiction, Kyra, and a superb new fiction writer, Carol Gilligan. Kyra is an architect designing a new city, a woman of humor and courage living in a vibrant world of family, friends, and colleagues and determined to break out of old structures. When she meets Andreas, a director staging an innovative production of Tosca, neither wants to fall in love–and yet, inevitably, they do. Their story takes us from Cambridge and an island off the coast of Massachusetts to Vienna, Thailand, Cyprus, and Wales as Kyra seeks the deepest truths about herself, other people, loyalty, and love. This reaching leads her to commit singular acts that startle and shock, inspiring new freedom for others as well as for Kyra herself. Rich with Carol Gilligan's signature gifts–emotional wisdom, subtle renderings of the intricacies of human relationship, conflict and choice, and lyrical prose–Kyra is a luminous, magnificent novel by a writer realizing the range of her powers.
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Kathy Jetton, Senior Director of Greater Charlotte Heart Walk, has the lofty goal of $1.75 million; a realistic figure based on the generous support of the corporate community at past events and individual donors and survivors from this region who embrace the organization's mission of building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Jetton started with the American Heart Association's local office in March, but she came to Charlotte from her former AHA position as Senior Regional Director of the Knoxville and Tri-Cities market. Jetton managed the development staff in the East Tennessee market with an overall fiscal budget of $1.2 million. She saw a 99 percent increase in revenue there from when she began with the AHA in 2007.
This year's Charlotte Heart Walk will be held Saturday, September 21 and is expected to bring more than 12,000 participants and 130 company and community teams to promote the importance of physical activity, good nutrition and a heart healthy lifestyle. Prior to joining the AHA, Jetton worked for First Tennessee Bank and Buckle, a national clothing and accessories retailer.
Jetton, a native of Lincolnton and daughter of Roby and Linda Jetton, is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She and her husband and son reside in Matthews.
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Cardinals from around the world were called to the Vatican in Rome after Pope Benedict XVI resigned, effective Feb. 28, saying he lacked the strength to carry on as pope.
Late this week, cardinals — the second highest-ranking clergy in the Catholic Church — began meetings closed to the media where they discuss issues facing the church and the qualities needed in a new pope. They voted Friday to start the conclave, or formal process of electing a pope, on Tuesday. Conclave sessions also are secretive and closed to the media.
The meetings have kept Clemmer and other USCCB media staff busy.
"We have office space at the Pontifical North American College, a seminary for American students located on the Janiculum Hill, just a 10-minute walk from St. Peter's Square," Clemmer said in an email interview.
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Clemmer also has been posting sporadic updates to USCCB's Twitter feed, @USCCB. His boss, Sister Mary Ann Walsh, has been posting daily to the USCCB media relations blog at http://usccbmedia.blogspot.com.
He said he's seen reports that as many as 5,000 accredited media members have descended on the Vatican to cover the papal transition.
"You don't see the same throngs of people that you saw with the funeral of John Paul II, but the atmosphere is still electric with a sense of anticipation," he said.
For USCCB media relations staff, "the strategy is that the media are hungry for stories amid a secretive atmosphere and that plenty of people are willing to fill that vacuum with agendas and narratives that are generally antagonistic toward the Church," Clemmer said.
"This is why, at the start of this process," he added, "the U.S. cardinals welcomed the opportunity to speak to media, providing an outline of the proceedings without compromising the confidentiality of their discussions."
But U.S. cardinals quickly caught flak for that and since have canceled press briefings and interviews.
"One surprise of this experience has been how different the American approach to speaking to media on the record is from the Italian culture of secrecy and unsourced leaks," Clemmer said. "What we view as simple transparency can be interpreted as an attempt to hijack the deliberations and put an American pope in place.
"I can't speak to the feelings of the (U.S.) cardinals in terms of the media blackout and related issues, but they have certainly refrained from all speaking to media — interviews and briefings alike," Clemmer said. "This has, however, not prevented individual cardinals from communicating with his 'flock,' such as Cardinal (Timothy) Dolan's radio show and other cardinals on Twitter. Of course, this communication will also cease once the cardinals go into conclave."
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Ravi Jayanthi, resident of Kakinada, has been given Bharat Gaurav Award for providing services to Telugu people in Muscat from 2014 onwards. The Indian International Friends Society has announced award for Ravi. The Indian Ambassador to Oman Indra Mani Pandey has presented the award to Ravi on February 21 on the occasion of Global Friendship Day. Ravi thanked the Indian government for recognising his services.