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Private chalet,11 acres,stocked trout stream, hot tub in Boone
- bedrooms 3
- baths 2
- sleeps 8
- pool no
- hot tub yes
- pets allowed yes
- type Chalet
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$ 1,100 - $ 1,200 / week
vacation rental description
River Rock is a three bedroom two bath chalet located in a private park like setting on
11 beautiful acres of grassy meadows, waterfalls, and rushing trout stream. If you are looking for a
secluded and private streamside retreat, you will not find a better location anywhere. Elk Creek,
which is a class A stocked trout stream and is rated as one of the cleanest in all of North
Carolina runs right in front of this cabin. The sounds of the rushing stream can be heard throughout
the property, and the decks on River Rock overlook the stream and a georgeous grassy meadow where
deer and other wildlife frequently roam. This mountain chalet offers privacy and seclusion, but yet
is convenient to area attractions as it is only 10 minutes off the Blue Ridge Parkway, 10 minutes to
horsback riding at Leatherwood stables, 20 minutes to downtown Boone (great for ASU football
weekends), 30 minutes to Blowing Rock (excellent dining and shopping), and 30-45 minutes to 4
different ski areas. River Rock offers rustic comfort with a fully equipped kitchen with dishwasher
and microwave, satellite TV and vcr, washer & dryer, propane gas and electric heaters, and all the
bed linens and towels to make your stay comfortable. There is also a georgeous stone (river rock)
fireplace in the living room that creates a very warm and cozy atmoshere. The cabin has its very own
fire ring (great for family marshmallow roasts) as well as access to hiking trails which lead to a
beautiful 60 ft waterfall. There are also three picnic tables on the property where you can sit and
relax to the sounds of the stream, or have lunch in the middle of the mountains! The privacy of
this property makes it ideal for anything from a quiet honeymoon or romantic weekend to a memorable
family vacation.
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Bill Blalock 321-536-0141
chalet rental amenities
11 private acres
Decks overlooking trout stream and grassy meadow
Gas stone fireplace
Fully equipped kitchen with dishwasher and microwave
Satellite TV/VCR
Ceiling fans in all rooms
Propane and electric heaters
Fire ring for marshmallow roasts outside
Gas grill on deck
Three picnic tables on property
6 person hot tub
Game room with pool/ping pong table
activities and attractions in Boone Blue Ridge Mountains
Trout fishing on the property
Hiking to waterfalls on the property and nearby at Laurel Creek
Hiking and horseback riding at Moses Cone Park
Horseback riding at Leatherwood Stables
Wildlife viewing (alot of deer on this property)
Picnicing ( three picnic tables throughout property)
Twenty minutes to Boone (golf, Appalacian State University; Horn in the
West; summer arts festival; farmers' market, antiques, gem mining,
Tweetsie Railroad, etc.)
Close to Blowing Rock and Grandfather Mountain
Close to whitewater rafting, canoeing, river kayaking and boating
30-45 minutes to Banner Elk, Sugar Mountain,Appalacian and other ski
vacation rental rates
$175/night; 2 night minimum
Peak times may require longer stay
Holiday rates may be higher
Rates do not include taxes (7% sales and 6% occupancy) and a one time $85.00 cleaning fee
Pet fee $25 per pet if notified in advance. Pet fee $100 per pet if you bring a pet without notifying us.
Bill Blalock 321-536-0141
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Swansea City will hold out for a better offer for defender Ben Davies following Tottenham Hotspur's bid of £8m, according to the South Wales Evening Post.
Davies, 21, had been subject of an £8m offer from Spurs earlier in the week but it is understood the South Wales outfit will seek out a better offer for the left-back.
The Welsh international has excelled for the Swans since stepping into the first team two seasons ago following serious injury to Neil Taylor.
Tottenham could take advantage of Swansea's interest in midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson in brokering a deal though, with the Swans interested in breaking the Icelandic playmaker back to the Liberty Stadium.
Sigurdsson impressed at Swansea in a six-month loan spell at the end of the 2011/12 season before sealing a move from parent club Hoffenheim, to Spurs.
The former Reading man is valued at £10m by the White Hart Lane outfit but could be used as a bargaining chip in any deal for Davies.
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09-16-2013 01:58:48 | More by briiguy
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03-29-2013 16:34:53 | More by Jspriest
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Had it for first time at local FFF tasting fest. Most of the offerings I've had before, of the few I had not yet tried I was most impressed by the Creepy Raider. Another great pale ale done by FFF, gee that's a shocker.
Color was a fairly standard golden amber, the smell is when it got good. Aroma provided more of a heavier hop scent than I would have guessed for this kind of beer, and it was great. Upon second and thirds I was all about the smell first then drink next.
Taste was interesting, more flavorful than say the 219, not a citrus or fruity flavor of hops, but more of an amber hint. Still very unique even with Alpha King and other counterparts in this genre.
Overall, utterly impressed. Can't wait to retry. Came in excited to drink Zombie Dusts and Dreadnaught et al on a Sunday afternoon, left thinking most about the Creepy Raider. Well done guys.
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Enjoyed on tap at Blues Bar. Served in a point glass.
A: Pours a clear amber color with a whited head forming on the pour. It recedes slowly leaving behind a few splotches of lace.
S: Citrus zest, limes, lemons and grapefruit, with notes of a sweet biscuity malts. Nice and light in the nose, nothing overbearing in terms of the hops profile.
T: A little more malt than the nose suggested. Heavier bready malts with a nice sweetness to it. Bursts of grapefruit, orange flesh and lime peel. A little grass as well.
M: Light bodied with a medium-high carbonation level. Highly drinkable with a great balance to it.
O: I really enjoyed this pale ale, probably my second favorite one to date from FFF. This had a drinkability that rivaled ZD, but it didn't quite have the flavor profile, or the nose that ZD has. I would definitely have this again.
12-16-2012 14:43:17 | More by Treebs
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Served on-tap at Three Floyds in a Nonic Pint:
A - Light creamy Head with moderate lacing. A deep amber color, looks like it wants to be consumed.
S - Hops are not overpowering but pretty well balanced. I picked up grapefruit, some earthy tones and a slight sweetness of caramel
T - The Taste is different than I expected from the smell. the hops dominated with a resinous bitter and lots of citrus fruit. A slight malty aftertaste.
M - Full and foamy in the mouth with a dry finish. Minimal eveidence of the alcohol content just an enjoyable bittternes from the hops.
O - A very good beer for the style. Could see drinking a lot of these. Also a pleasant departure from 3F usual brews. Not that I don;t like their other beers, this is just a nice departure from the Norm.
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On-tap at The Long Room. Served in a pint glass.
A - White foam settles to a thin cap, leaving behind splotchy lace. Transparent golden body. Pretty much what you'd expect from a pale ale.
S - Quite balanced for 3 Floyds, with a mixture of tropical and citrus hops, a bit of grass and earthiness, and a sugary malt backbone. The aroma was initially quite understated, and even after I let it warm up it was still a bit lacking in potency.
T - The taste has a bit more kick to it, with a mix of melon, grass, grapefruit rind, and lingering piney bitterness. The malt is a bit more bready and less sweet than the aroma suggests.
M - Zesty carbonation, medium body that has more than sufficient heft for 6.2%. Chewy texture with a dry finish that leaves behind a mild amount of oily hop resins. No alcohol warmth that I could detect.
D - A solid beer, for sure, but pales (no pun intended) in comparison to other pale ales by 3 Floyds. I'd much rather have 219 or Zombie Dust, and I'd prefer Aotearoa for my New Zealand hop fix. Still, rather easy to drink a pint and I'd be happy to have more than one.
12-04-2012 05:11:38 | More by MasterSki
3.88/5 rDev -0.8%
On tap at FFF
A - Deep, almost copper-like, orange with a one finger head that settles down to a layer of foam. Clean looking and slighty reflective.
S - Soft, New Zeland hops dominate in the nose with a slight orange sweetness and pineapple. Reminds me of Alpine Nelson a bit
T - Slight orange and bitterness on the tip of the tongue. Has a good fruit presence with mango and pineapple in the middle. The fruit lingers on the finish as well.
MF - Medium body with light carbonation. Despite this very smooth and creamy.
O - Solid beer from FFF that reminds me of their version of Nelson. Very soft flavors throughout and easy to drink.
11-19-2012 23:52:28 | More by jeonseh
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Members of Sangama and the Karnataka Sexual Minorities Forum on Monday condemned the Delhi Government for not putting fire safety systems in place which, they said, led to the charring to death of 15 hijras in a fire at Nand Nagri in north-east Delhi on Sunday.
The fire blazed through a makeshift tent where a large number of hijras had gathered to honour deceased friends.
The incident created panic among community members who had gathered for the ceremony. Several others who tried to escape were also injured.
"We stand together with more than 50 seriously injured hijras, families of deceased hijras and with the hijra community as a whole in this moment of deep sorrow. From media reports it is very clear that fire safety measures and emergency evacuation facilities were not adequate in the Delhi Municipal Corporation's community hall, where more than 1,000 members of the transgender community had gathered as part of its community congregation," said a joint statement issued by executive director of Sangama Manohar Elavarthi and State coordinator of the forum Mahesh Patil.
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Press Release University of Arkansas:
Former Arkansas All-American,All-Southwest Conference selection and College Football Hall of Fame inducteeLoyd Phillips will serve as the A Club Honorary Captain for Saturday's gamebetween Arkansas and Texas A&M, it was announced Wednesday.
Phillips was a three-year letterwinner for the Razorbacks from1964-66. Phillips was the school's first two-time All-American, having earnedthe honor in 1965 and 1966.
In 1966, Phillips was a recipient of the Outland Trophy, whichgoes to the most outstanding lineman in college football. Phillips led theRazorbacks with a team-high 97 tackles in 1966 and earned All-SouthwestConference honors.
Phillips was a part of the 1964 national championship team andmade nine tackles in Arkansas' 10-7 victory over Nebraska in the 1965 CottonBowl, which helped clinch the national title. Arkansas was 29-3 in his threeseasons, while also capturing the SWC championship in 1964 and 1965.
Over his three seasons at Arkansas, Phillips made 304 tackles,including a 22-tackle performance against Tulsa in 1965, which still ranks astied for the fifth-highest single-game total in school history. In addition tobeing named a two-time All-American, Phillips was also a three-time All-SWCselection. Phillips was selected 10th overall in the 1967 NFL Draftby the Chicago Bears and went on to play three seasons with the Bears.
Following his playing career, Phillips was inducted into theCollege Football Hall of Fame, the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame and the UA Hallof Honor.
TheA Club honorary captain is recognized before each home game for theiroutstanding accomplishments on the field during their Razorback career. Eachcaptain will be available for a brief autograph session at the AT&T FanZone at The Gardens prior to each game. Before kickoff, they will be recognizedand will accompany the captains to midfield for the coin toss.
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Ah, Week 2. We're back with lines and picks for all the games, and man, Week 2 has gotta be the most nightmarish gambling week of the season. You have too many teams who overachieved in Week 1 that may still suck and go 6-10 (Bucs? Vikings? Cardinals?), and then a handful of teams who looked crappy but could still wind up as Super Bowl contenders (Saints, Packers, Giants).
A few of the supposed-to-be-crappy teams will actually be good, and then a few of the Super Bowl contenders will fall apart and have awful seasons this year, but WHICH ONES?
Well the Packers won't be in that second category, it turns out.
Without further ado...
All picks in BOLD.
Bears (+5) at Packers -- Starting off 0-1! Okay!
Reporter: Did you imagine this could happen? Cutler: Yeah, I dream about throwing four picks and getting sacked seven times. Obviously not.— Matt Norlander (@MattNorlander) September 14, 2012
Jay Cutler is just the greatest.
That's not sarcasm. Cutler and all his shameless pouting and dickish quotes and atrocious body language--all of it makes him the funniest, most entertaining player in football. Whether he's winning or losing, on the bench or reacting to a play on the field.
Obviously he lost last night -- and gave us a Hall of Fame night of Cutlerfaces -- but for all the people blaming him today, let's set it straight: once a quarterback gets destroyed by enough unblocked defensive lineman, expecting him to play well in that game becomes unrealistic. Look at Aaron Rodgers in all the games where he gets knocked around. And thanks to the Bears' disastrous line, Cutler hit that threshold in like, the first quarter. He was better than most QBs would've been.
But anyway, yes, we completely botched the Thursday pick. So we're due for some wins!
Vikings (-1.5) at Colts -- Three years ago Andrew Luck was a precocious redshirt freshman who'd just been the named the starting quarterback for Jim Harbaugh's up-and-coming Stanford program. He was probably well-liked by teammates and all his classmates, and he went to Stanford, which meant A) If football didn't work out, he probably be just fine, and B) He was spending the next three or four years in Palo Alto, which is pretty much the most perfect place in America.
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Now Andrew Luck has to spend the next decade in Indianapolis while playing for what is most certainly not an up-and-coming team. And that's just your weekly reminder that Andrew Luck's life really kind of sucks this year.
Bucs at Giants (-7) -- No such thing as a bad New York Times article about a mustache, and via @katiebakes, this piece on Kevin Gilbride's departed mustache is no exception:
Gilbride first grew the mustache as a student at Southern Connecticut State in the early 1970s, he said, noting that "at that time, with everything that was going on in the world, everyone was doing something." It fit well, he said, with his long, curly hair then and helped offset what he said was a pronounced baby face. He had had it ever since, he said, save for a two-year "California phase" when he was the head coach of the San Diego Chargers from 1997 to 1998.
"In the beginning, I wanted it because it made me look older," he said. "Now, it's the opposite. So I'm not sure what I'm going to do."
Aaron Perlut, the chairman of the American Mustache Institute, said in an interview that Gilbride's mustache was a perfect example of the so-called Chevron design, which is "your standard-issue, law enforcement-style mustache." Perlut admired Gilbride's consistency, he said, as Gilbride stuck with the same look throughout his career, eschewing styles used by other N.F.L. personalities like "Andy Reid's walrus or Shad Khan's Mario Brothers Handlebar."
You should probably bookmark this article today and hopefully in a few months it'll make your day when you click on it by accident.
Texans (-7) at Jaguars -- Not done believing in Jacksonville! Just not against Houston.
Cardinals at Patriots (-14) -- Annnnd, no, not betting against the Pats here, either.
Saints (-3) at Panthers -- Ahh, memories.
We should never ever forget about this, the greatest headline to come out of the Bounty Scandal. And really: God bless the people at TMZ. They are so good at being the worst people in the world.
This is a huge game for both teams, and it should be awesome, especially if neither team plays anything like they did last week. Cam and the Panthers came out with a complete dud in Tampa, while Drew Brees and Co. looked totally out of sync starting from the first drive against the Redskins. You gotta think that comes back to Payton's absence, right? For now, we're going with New Orleans and putting my faith in Breesus, but if they look as mediocre this weekend as they did last Sunday, it may be time to just start betting against the Saints all year long as a rule.
Raiders (-2.5) at Dolphins -- Last year we came up with The Prison Test as the ultimate litmus test for a terrible NFL game: "If they showed this game on closed circuit TVs in prison, would the inmates even bother to watch?" And the answer to this one is... YES!
Everyone knows the Raiders are the most popular team in every prison in America.
Speaking of which... From NFL Talking Points this week, this commenter's story was fantastic:
Good friend of mine was in Long Beach California, walking in front of a Hooters. All of a sudden, a guy in a Chargers jersey gets devastated with a bar stool by none other than a guy in a Raider jersey. The Hooters subsequently empties, Chargers and Raider jerseys walking out with bar stools in an all out brawl. Not in SD, not in OAK, but at a hooters in Long Beach, which has plenty of hot girls but obviously not enough security to calm the situation. I FREAKING LOVE FOOTBALL!
Don't we all?
Browns at Bengals (-7) -- Why did CBS have to get rid of Gus Johnson? This would be a perfect Gus game. Two bad teams in a game everyone wants to ignore, and then--BOOM!--Gus gets involved and the game somehow becomes the best of the weekend and ends in a 60-yard Hail Mary. Instead we're stuck with Bill McAtee and Steve Tasker announcing the Ohio Bowl. Without Gus, this game probably does not pass the prison test, and if it does, it's only because of A.J. Green and Brandon Weeden jokes.
Chiefs (+3) at Bills -- The Chiefs looked great for a half against a good Falcons team. That's more than Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Bills can say about their work against a not-that-good Jets team.
Ravens (+2) at Eagles -- Philly goes to Arizona in Week 3, and even though the media is acting like the Eagles season is already headed nowhere, they did, in fact, win that abortion of a game in Cleveland, and there's a good chance the Eagles are 2-1 or even 3-0 coming into a Week 4 home game with the Giants. So anyway, we're picking the Ravens here, but don't let the Browns game or the Ravens pick confuse you: Philly's not THAT much of a disaster. For now.
Redskins at St. Louis (+3.5) -- Osi Umenyora in July:
"Who is this RG3 guy you guys keep talking about?'' Umenyiora said. "You talking about Bob Griffin? You guys are giving him a cool nickname already and everything. When he does anything in the NFL we're gonna call him RG3. Right now he's Bob Griffin.''
"Oh, um, RGIII? What is he? What does he like to be called? What does he want me to call him?"
"Yes," Umenyiora said. "I will call him RG3."
"He showed me that his name is RGIII. If he performs the way he performed that game, his name can be whatever he wants it to be."
Elsewhere, Tom Brady called his debut, "Incredible", and John Madden said, "And at some point, I have to admit that I said this, it just came out, I said RGIII's the best player in the NFL today. That's what I really thought. Those words did come out. Now, I don't know that I'm gonna live with that or back that up the rest of the season."
Not only is the RGIII bandwagon already at capacity, but it's traveling 1000 miles-an-hour. Anytime Redskins fans are the ones trying to keep things in perspective, you know the world has gone truly insane. I like RGIII, but it feels like we're due for a reality check here.
Speaking of reality checks ...
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Cowboys (-3) at Seahawks -- Do you get the feeling that of the people who were hyping Russell Wilson, more than 50 percent hadn't actually watched him play in a live game? Because I'm in that category, and I don't think I'm alone.
To be fair: His preseason numbers were incredible, he looked great in highlights, and hearing other people describe him, he certainly sounded like the type of guy who was drafted way too low and would turn into a killer QB. He probably still will.
But after a month of massive hype, the Seahawks were down 20-16 against the Cardinals Sunday and driving late for a game-winning TD. First, they got bailed out on a fourth down pass-interference call that kept the drive alive. Then, thanks to another pass interference call, Russell and the offense had SEVEN plays inside the Arizona 15, and they couldn't get it in the endzone. So, maybe he's not Drew Brees just yet. Russell and the Seahawks will get better as the year unfolds, but it's still very much a work in progress.
Anyway, all that makes me feel much better about this Cowboys pick.
[/cue Russell Wilson throwing for 400 yards Sunday]
Jets at Steelers (-5.5) -- Bill Barnwell took an in-depth look at the Jets outrageous performance against the Bills in Week 1, and it's great, but it ends with this:
Don't be surprised if the Jets passing offense is better than you think in 2012.
I'm sorry, but I refuse to believe in the Jets passing offense in 2012 or any other year where Mark Sanchez is the starting quarterback. Don't you see? Sanchez ALWAYS sprinkles in a few games here and there where it looks like he's turned the corner and turned into a franchise quarterback. At this point it's just tradition. But then ... Nope! He's still Mark Sanchez.
Titans at Chargers (-6) -- Didn't watch the Chargers game Monday night, but hey it sure sounds like this team could kick off the year 2-0. And then ... [/checks schedule]
- Week 3 -- ATL
- Week 4 -- @KC
- Week 5 -- @NO
- Week 6 -- DEN
Yeah, 2-4 sounds about right by mid-October.
Lions at 49ers (-7) -- From Bovada:
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It'd be much cooler if you could bet on how many times NBC mentions it during the game Sunday night. You'd think it would only be once or maybe twice -- because really, what else is there to say? -- but oh, they will find things to say. The over/under for insufferable/unnecessary handshake discussions is at 12, and that's probably being too conservative.
Also, it's too bad we can't bet on Bob Costas' Halftime Essay Topic every week. Will he be lecturing us about Jay Cutler's and the importance of body language this week? Early odds are at 7/2!
Anyway, this game looks great, and we're going with the Niners mostly because of the PTSD I have from last year, when I ignored their success and continued betting against Harbaugh and Alex Smith for 10 straight weeks, losing just about every time. Not making that mistake again.
Broncos (+3) at Falcons -- Likewise, we're not picking against Peyton Manning. He looked great Sunday, the Broncos defense hasn't lost a step since last year, and until Peyton has one of those games where he looks like an old mess and you start to feel bad for him, he should be feared as much as he ever was. And hey, this should be the best game of the week.
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The great stories of Greek and Roman epic poetry continue to inspire modern literature, art, and film. In this course, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony, and Vergil's Aeneid will be read and discussed in English translation. Emphasis will be on plot and narrative technique, genre characteristics, changes in world view, and the reception of these poems in later periods.
Mode of Inquiry: Interpreting Texts
General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Fourth Semester Language Requirement (Latin and Greek)
Tragedy and comedy are among the most important genres of ancient literature. The study of major plays by writers such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, and Terence will illustrate the development of ancient theater and the immense influence these dramatic creations still exert on modern Western literature and film. Emphasis will be laid on the historical context of these works, their structure and generic conventions (and the conscious play with them), and on practical issues of staging and performance.
Mode of Inquiry: Interpreting Texts
General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered; Fourth Semester Language Requirement (Latin and Greek)
Through the study of ancient Roman texts in translation, this course explores the life experience of women in ancient Rome and the way their lives are reflected in 500 years of Roman literature. Since most Roman authors were men, students will try to reconstruct women's voices and their human experience by exploring both literary and non-literary sources, such as laws, grave inscriptions, and graffiti. In addition, students will examine artistic representations of women in the form of portrait sculptures and funerary monuments.
Mode of Inquiry: Interpreting Texts
General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Fourth Semester Language Requirement
Herodotus, Caesar, and Tacitus will be consulted, along with comedy, tragedy, fragments of ethnographers and passages from other primary sources to see how perceptions of barbarians changed over time, affected by the ways that Greek and Roman interaction with them changed. In order to better understand how recent history shapes our interpretation of ancient culture, we will study post-colonialist, Afro-centric, and "anti-anti-Semitic" approaches to the Greco-Roman image of Egyptians, Persians, Indians, Scythians, Libyans, Ethiopians, Phrygians, Lydians, Gauls, Britons, and Germans. Credit may not be earned for both LATIN 350 and CLAS/HIST 250.
Mode of Inquiry: Thinking Historically; Writing Centered
General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Fourth Semester Language Requirement
This course explores Greek attitudes towards gender roles and sexuality, drawing on primary medical texts, tragedy, comedy, didactic poetry, forensic speeches, the romance novel, philosophy, early lyric poetry, and secondary scholarship about these texts. Topics include gender construction, misogyny, hysteria, virginity, marriage, rape, seduction, inheritance, female and male desire, homosexuality, and rites of passage.
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Ancient Eastern Mediterranean religion cannot be understood without taking into account the interplay between economic, political and religious spheres, and the key role it played in justifying social structures, and coercing individuals to play their proper part in upholding social institutions. A variety of sociological and anthropological theories and approaches will be applied to the following topics within ancient Eastern Mediterranean religion: divination, Aphrodite, Apollo, cosmogony, festivals, and worship of the dead. The course will end with a reading of a Greek tragedy, Aeschylus' Eumenides, situating it in its religious and ritual context. Throughout students will constantly be confronted with the question, why are Greek and Near Eastern religions so similar? Can specific similarities be attributed to a common source, borrowing, membership in a single cultural area, or is this "how humans think?"
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Reading the recently released excerpt of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, the forthcoming book from Mindy Kaling (writing/producer/director/customer service ditz Kelly Kapoor on The Office), I had the sense that she'd make a great advice columnist for 14-year-olds. It's not that anything she says is wrong, really (except for the bizarre part where she makes fun of people who don't get LASIK), it was just cliché, and sort of condescending.
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From LeakyPedia
The Summoning Charm is a spell used to summon an object to the caster, using the incantation Accio. When the witch or wizard knows what the object they are after is they will usually name it as part of the spell, for example: "Accio dictionary". The spell with the opposite effect is the Banishing Charm.
[edit] Pronunciation
/ˈæki.oʊ/ ak-ee-oh – film and video game /ˈæksi.oʊ/ ak-see-oh – U.K. audio book /ˈæsi.oʊ/ as-see-oh – U.S. audio book
[edit] Effects and Limitations
The Summoning Charm is a fairly difficult spell to cast and is not taught until students' fourth year at Hogwarts. The class has to read three extra books in preparation for these lessons.[1]
The spell requires the caster to concentrate on the object as well as to speak the incantation. If the witch or wizard isn't concentrating enough the spell wont work and objects either wont move at all or will give up partway through.[2] If the concentration is great then the spell can be used over a quite a distance. Sometimes the user of the spell does not need to know exactly what they are summoning, a general idea is sufficient, such as knowing a sweet is hidden somewhere if not what type of sweet or precisely where it is.[3]
The spell can be stopped by a strong physical barrier or a Shield Charm[4]. Also an object can be bewitched with counter-enchantments to protect it from Summoning Charms.[5]
[edit] Uses in the books
[edit] Fourth Book
Molly Weasley used Accio in the summer holidays in 1994, when her twin sons Fred and George were trying to smuggle their magical sweets out of the house to help with their ambition of running a joke shop (which Molly did not approve of). She kept using the spell over and over until she'd found all the sweets that were hidden on their persons.[3]
Harry Potter was taught the Summoning Charm in Charms Class by Professor Flitwick, however Harry was too worried about the First Task in the Triwizard Tournament to be able to concentrate on it and was given extra homework on the subject.[6] Harry was given a hint by his Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher that a Summoning Charm would help him as he could summon his Firebolt and fly around the dragon his would face. Hermione Granger spent a day teaching Harry how to cast the spell properly and finally Harry mastered it.
During the task Harry successfully summoned his broom from the boy's dormitory in Gryffindor tower to an enclosure by the Forbidden Forest.[2] This impressed Flitwick.[7] Harry's friend Ron Weasley was all for him using the same spell again in the Second Task so he could use aqualungs underwater, however Hermione pointed out that this would risk the exposure of the wizarding world to Muggles.[8]
When Harry was trapped by Death Eaters and about to be killed by Lord Voldemort, Harry jumped over a Portkey that could take him to safety in Hogwarts to get to Cedric Diggory's body in order to bring it back with him, seemingly at the cost of going back at all. However just in time Harry was able to summon it to him and he managed to take both himself and Cedric's body back.[9]
[edit] Fifth Book
Fred and George had their brooms confiscated by Dolores Umbridge after a Quidditch match. When the twins made their escape and quit Hogwarts, they summoned the brooms from her office, where they had been chained to the wall. Their spells were powerful enough to take the chains complete with pegs with them as they zoomed to their owners.[10]
Bellatrix Lestrange tried to summon the Prophecy from Harry's hands when they were in the Department of Mysteries, however Harry was able to block her with a Shield Charm. Hermione also summons their wands when they are Disarmed. Also Ron Weasley when under a spell that was making him act oddly managed to summon a brain to him from a tank, which consequently attacked him.[4]
[edit] Sixth Book
When Draco Malfoy uses Petrficus Totalus on Harry whilst on the Hogwarts Express, he tries to summon his wand into his hand non-verbally. It doesn't work, though this isn't surprising as he hadn't been taught to cast Non-Verbal Spells yet.[11]
After Harry and Albus Dumbledore find the cave where one of Voldemort's Horcruxes is hidden, Harry suggests simply summoning it. Dumbledore agrees, realising that this would be a good way of seeing what defences are activated in the event that someone tries to steal the Horcrux. The spell fails to summon it, but reveals that Inferi are hidden in the lake.[12] Shortly afterwards when Madam Rosmerta offers to run and get her brooms so that Harry and Albus Dumbledore can get to Hogwarts castle after the Dark Mark is seen over it, Dumbledore tells Harry to summon them instead.[13]
[edit] Final Book
Harry Potter and Rubeus Hagrid were fleeing from Death Eaters on Sirius' flying motorbike when Hagrid jumped off in order to stop one of them from cursing them. He landed on the Death Eater's broom, which fell under their weight. Harry in his desperation tries to summon Hagrid to him, but with Hagrid's part-giant blood the spell didn't work.[14]
Hermione reveals that at the end of the last school year when packing her trunk she realised that Dumbledore would have had books on Horcruxes, and was able to summon them from Dumbledore's office into the girl's dormitory. She theorises that Dumbledore would have wanted them to be found, or else he would have protected them from the spell.[15]
When Harry turns 17 and is legally allowed to use magic outside of school, he celebrates by using his first legal magic whilst of age and summons his glasses to him, and they poke him in the eye.[16] When Harry attends a wedding the next day he uses a Polyjuice Potion with hair that Fred had summoned from a local Muggle boy.[17]
After the trio realise that the Locketcrux had been in Number 12, Grimmauld Place Hermione tried to summon it, though they keep looking in case it was magically protected. They later realise it isn't there.[5] Harry tries the same again in Dolores Umbridge's office. [18]
At Godric's Hollow when Harry was once again unable to get his wand, he tried to summon it to him (out loud, this time). Again this didn't work.[19]
The contents of the vaults at Gringotts Bank are protected from Summoning Charms, however despite having been warned about this by Griphook Hermione, forgets and tries to summon Hufflepuff's Cup.[20]
[edit] Notes
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, GoF 15
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J. K. Rowling, GoF 20
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 J. K. Rowling, GoF 5
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 J. K. Rowling, OotP 35
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 J. K. Rowling, DH 10
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, GoF 18
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, GoF, 22
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, GoF 26
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, GoF 34
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, OotP 29
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, HBP 8
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, HBP 26
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, HBP 27
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, DH 4
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, DH 6
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, DH 7
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, DH 8
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, DH 13
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, DH 17
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, DH 26


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Wednesday was a good day for several educators in the West Orange-Cove Consolidated Independent School District.
Representatives of the West Orange-Cove Consolidated Independent School District's Education Foundation visited all of the district's campuses on Wednesday, plus the Alternative Education facility, and presented 11 grants to teachers. The purpose of the grants, and surprising the teachers in the process, is for innovative teaching.
"The purpose of these grants is to recognize and support teachers and students and provide them with the opportunities they may not have had without these awards," said Krispen Walker, president of the West Orange-Cove CISD Education Foundation.
This is the third year the WO-C CISD Education Foundation has surprised educators with the grants. The foundation has administered $67,000 in grants over three years, including $24,613 this year.
"It's been great going to all of the campuses (Wednesday) and seeing what these funds have been used to accomplish from the previous two years," Walker continued. "Like the garden at West Orange-Stark Elementary or a class which used a camera to create digital images. It's been a lot of fun."
The grants, which are funded through donations from members of the community, allow teachers to expand educational opportunities. The Foundation, a not for profit 501 (c) 3 corporation created in 2009, would like to express appreciation to Total Petrochemicals, Firestone Polymers, OCARC and Orange Savings Bank for their support through funding or in-kind services.
At the West Orange-Stark Academic Alternative Center, Carl Broussard received a grant for $2,178 to integrate gardening and horticulture education in the alternative school atmosphere.
Kristi Abshire, a teacher at North Early Learning Center, received a $5,000 grant to help create a "Little Hands" Science Lab for Early Childhood Development with various sensory tables, books, equipment and more.
Six grants were presented to teachers at West Orange-Stark Elementary on Wednesday.
Katie Kornegay and Amy Thompson received a grant for $3,511.50 to create a program to motivate students to enter Life Science "STEM" fields of study, while Inez Hodge-Stevenson was awarded a grant for $2,997 to fund Mindworks Circle of Life providing academic enrichment by utilizing thematic concepts of the universe, plants and animals in numerous subjects.
Kathy Jones received a $1,300 grant for Elmo "Classroom Vision" which will create live, interactive teaching experiences by projecting images of documents and 3-D objects to a large screen.
Donna Johnson was awarded a grant, funded in honor of Mary Louise McKee, for $1,619.50 to create the Daily Five Literacy program which will be designed to fully engage students in reading and writing, while Angela Colbert and other Kindergarten teachers received a $1,350 grant to the installation of permanent projection screens to be utilized through increased instruction time and various activities.
Beth Lanclos received a grant for $2,095 to create Literacy Stations for second grade students using the Daily Five method.
At West Orange-Stark High School, Nancy Stark was awarded a grant for $1,136 for "Kitchen Chemistry" which will be used to purchase materials and allow students to gain valuable experience through "hands on" experiments. Kurt Reeves was awarded a grant for $1,000, funded by TOTAL petrochemicals, will allow students to build and race solar cars and see how energy from the sun can be used to power a motor.
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Rep. John Sarbanes, who represents much of the Parkville-Overlea area, is running an interesting experiment during this year's election.
Sarbanes is trying to see if primarily small donors can finance his campaign as part of his Grassroots Donors project, where he has raised $500,000 from traditional donations of more than $100, but can't access it until he receives at least 1,000 donations between $5 and $100, according to Salon.
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But Sarbanes isn't taking a huge risk with his reelection chances.
Sarbanes, son of former U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes, is facing Republican Eric Knowles (who is also the Constitution Party's candidate for governor) in a heavily Democratic district. In 2010, Sarbanes received 61 percent of the vote.
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The resume of our special teams/TE coach would suggest he has had more success and focus on coaching the TE position than special teams.
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Are you asking whether we would rather have the 2010 Michigan offense or the 2013 Michigan offense? Believe it or not, many would choose 2010. Negative rushing yards for multiple complete games may be your idea of doing well against good defenses, but not everyone agrees. Putting up 158 yards total against Iowa (albeit with both positive running yards and positive passing yards) might be a great achievement in your book, but others might reasonably disagree. Some of us would also take the 2013 Arizona offense over the 2013 Michigan offense. Putting up 42 points on a fifth-ranked Oregon squad in a victory is something you surely discount. I'm sure they would trade that game for our domination of Akron and UConn, right?
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I don't think we should expect much honest criticism in his public comments. Or, if his public comments actually reflect his true assessments, we should all be terrified. E.g., October 2013, after 27 for 27 performance: "I've got a great offensive line coach. I've got a great (offensive) coordinator."
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Bill Lynch's last three years at Ball State: 5-6, 5-6, 6-6 (2000-2002).
Hoke's first four years at Ball State: 4-8, 2-9, 4-7, 5-7 (2003-2006).
Each of Hoke's first four seasons was worse than any of the previous three seasons under Lynch.
Regardless of the positives and negatives of Hoke as Michigan's coach, saying he "turned around" Ball State is about as accurate as saying he always wears long sleeves and a headset, that Rich Rod never got angry on the sidelines, and that Bill Lynch never threw his gum on the sidelines -- namely, not accurate at all.
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I just envisioned Hoke burning a timeout because we weren't ready with a number for Peppers. Too soon?
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Just so we can daydream a little? Unfortunately, while the Harbaugh brothers are two of the absolute best coaches in the business and also have ties to the program, I don't see either one coming to Ann Arbor. No up and coming (or established) superstar coach even seems like a possibility at this point.
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I do not see how this myth continues to live on. Here is Ball State's record the three years prior to Hoke's arrival (under Bill Lynch):
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Each of Hoke's first four years was worse than each of the three years prior to his arrival. Only in Hoke's fifth year did he improve upon Lynch's record (and only by half a game). He had one outlier year, and used that to propel him into a better job. But his record isn't anything like those of coaches who consistently and significantly improve the results of the teams they take over (e.g., Harbaugh, Meyer, etc.). Heck, Turner Gill had a better track record of improvement in the MAC during the same time period, taking a Buffalo team that had won 1 game (2003), 2 games (2004), and 1 game (2005) under the previous coach, and then leading them to 2 wins in his first year, 5 in his second, and 8 in his third (and beating Hoke's ranked Ball State team for the MAC championship).
|21 weeks 2 days ago
|Our offensive line
Thank goodness we have the OL coach who led Colorado State to seasons of 4-7, 6-6, 4-8, and 3-9 before hooking up with Hoke. I have to imagine that Funk and Tony Gibson share notes.
|21 weeks 4 days ago
|Normal speed at Ball State
Ball State under Bill Lynch (last 3 years):
2000: 5-6
2001: 5-6
2002: 6-6
Ball State under Brady Hoke (first 4 years):
2003: 4-8
2004: 2-9
2005: 4-7
2006: 5-7
In other words, each of Hoke's first four years at Ball State was worse than each of the last three years of his predecessor, Bill Lynch. (Lynch also got a shot at a Big Ten job and has most recently coached DePauw.) This is not a turnaround. I presume the poster meant that not equalling 6-6 or 5-6 for the first four years was not achieving the "normal speed" that Ball State had achieved under Lynch. No one denies that he had one very good year at Ball State (out of six).
While he may love Michigan, be a good uniter of the program (which it needed), etc., some of us are not impressed with what he did at his previous stops.
|24 weeks 9 hours ago
|Still unknown
As I understand it, this still does not explain why so many people find the show The Big Bang Theory funny. I assume our best minds are still trying to figure that one out.
|24 weeks 2 days ago
|One answer
Okay, figured out that it's on CBSSports.com, not CBSSportsNetwork.com, on the web. Still don't know about the apps, so I'll defer to others on that.
|24 weeks 2 days ago
|Game available online?
Sorry for the dumb question, but I've only had to use the Watch ESPN and BigTen2Go apps before. Will the game be viewable using the CBS Sports app? Is there a different way to watch it (CBSSportsNetwork.com)? Neither one seems to be showing the earlier game. (At work for the day.) Thanks for any help.
|27 weeks 5 hours ago
|Even better
Meyer asking Harbaugh "What's your deal?" after Michigan runs up the score.
|27 weeks 6 days ago
|Reason for hope
By year three of his stint at Colorado State, Funk's squad was averaging 2.5 yards per carry (114th out of 119th). In year four, they improved to 3.8 yards per carry (71st out of 120), on their way to a 3-9 record. Improvement, huzzah!
|29 weeks 21 hours ago
|MAC Coach of the Year
Well, 2011 MAC Coach of the Year was Ron English. I'm sure Michigan fans (and Hoke himself) would trade any of those coach of the year awards for a conference title.
|32 weeks 4 days ago
|Michigan State, UCF, and Baylor
Baylor has 2. More importantly, Baylor has Art Briles.
It will always be true that some teams outperform their recruiting ranks. Others underperform. Given that we were 7-6 this past year, I thought some people have focused on the relative recruiting success of Hoke. I was merely pointing out that at least this year, with respect to recruiting, as judged by Scout.com, our relative recruiting success against our primary rival is...not particularly strong. I'd much rather win in the fall than win in recruiting, but this was a thread about recruiting.
|32 weeks 4 days ago
|Top 100 recruits
At least according to these Scout.com ratings, Michigan has 3 commits in the top 100. Ohio State has 10. That is not good.
|33 weeks 1 day ago
2008 - 8 games under 300
2009 - 3 games under 300
2010 - 0 games under 300
Borges arrives
2011 - 3 games under 300
2012 - 4 games under 300
2013 - 5 games under 300
Obviously, it's not that the total under RR (11) roughly equals the number under Borges (12). The majority under RR came in his first year. Borges' number of games under 300 rose each year. The regression under Borges at Michigan is consistent with the regression that Borges has experienced at other stops.
That said, he seems like a good guy and I wish him well.
|33 weeks 4 days ago
|Business processes, etc.
My question regarding this premise is why did Brandon agree to pay Hoke approximately $4M/yr in March 2011? That was not the market price for Hoke. Minnesota had looked at Hoke in November 2010, and then hired Jerry Kill in December 2010 (ultimately at around $1.2M/yr). Given the intense desire on Hoke's part to coach Michigan, and the lack of interest in Hoke from other top programs, his compensation appears significantly inflated.
|33 weeks 5 days ago
|Bob Stitt - HC of small school
Actually, I think Bob Stitt would take the right OC job. (He first gained some notoriety when Holgorsen credited him after the 2012 Orange Bowl as the inventor of the Fly Sweep, when WVU put up 70 on Clemson.) It would be like a Malzahn hire, when he jumped to the OC ranks of an FBS school. Not saying Michigan will consider it, but some smart program should interview him.
|33 weeks 5 days ago
|Bob Stitt -- Colorado School of Mines
Bob Stitt -- Colorado School of Mines.
|33 weeks 6 days ago
|Michigan's schedule
Given that Auburn this year played at LSU and at Texas A&M, and also played Alabama, Georgia, Ole Miss, and Missouri, is Michigan's schedule next year really a murderer's row? I would say no. (It will of course be harder than this year's schedule.)
|33 weeks 6 days ago
|Yards per carry
Cal. under Borges:
'01 3.4
'01 5.7 (pre-Borges)
'02 3.2
'03 3.4
Auburn under Borges:
'04 4.3
'05 4.8
'06 4.1
'07 3.8
'10 5.6 (pre-Borges)
'11 5.2
'12 4.8
'13 3.3
'12 4.1 (Loeffler )
'13 6.3 (Malzahn)
'11 3.4 (pre-RR)
'12 5.4
'13 5.3
Count me as someone who does not believe that all OCs, all schemes, and all S&C programs are relatively equal on the FBS stage. (If that were truly the case, we should simply hire the staff willing to work for the lowest amount. Our spending suggests that we do not subscribe to this theory.)
|34 weeks 3 days ago
|E.g., LSU
LSU started a true freshman at center this year that Hoke turned away (because he had filled up the class at that point on OL) -- Ethan Pocic. And this was despite the fact that Pocic had not even played any center in high school. Stop blaming the former regime. It's year four for Hoke, Funk, and Al.
|34 weeks 4 days ago
|Congrats to Jerry Montgomery
Oklahoma D line coached by our former D line coach Jerry Montgomery, who was poached at the end of last season.
|34 weeks 4 days ago
|Freshman offensive linemen
I believe Ethan Pocic, whose offer Hoke pulled when we filled up and who was high on Michigan, started some games this year at center for LSU as a true freshman. I also believe he had never played the center spot before reporting to LSU.
|34 weeks 5 days ago
|247Sports article (free) - Peppers
The author of the article has responded in the comments, and notes that while Speight has "better tools, but sometimes the ball does not come out right," and Peavy has been the most consistently accurate, the best QB he has seen on Team Nitro has been...Jabrill Peppers.
|34 weeks 5 days ago
|Return to traditional Michigan run game
2010: 5.58 yards/attempt
2011: 5.15 yards/attempt
2012: 4.76 yards/attempt
2013: 3.28 yards/attempt
|34 weeks 6 days ago
|This narrative
This narrative is not only tired, but just not accurate. The Arizona QB literally had no offers coming out of high school. He enrolled in Arizona last year out of junior college. It appears he had no other offers coming out of junior college, unlike, for example, Bo Wallace or even Nick Montana. With this zero star recruit, RR leads them to an 8-5 record and a beatdown of Oregon and BC in their bowl game. And you attribute this to a plethora of talent left by Stoops? If this were Michigan and Hoke, many would be saying that he needs a four/five star QB with four years under genius Al to learn to properly "execute" his perfect West Coast Offense, of which Al would not change a thing, no matter what happens in any game.
The true freshman leading receiver for Arizona is also a three-star recruit. How can it be that a true freshman is productive? Is this person attiributable to the cupboard Stoops left as well?
|34 weeks 6 days ago
|Money for John Harbaugh
To be fair, though, somehow we decided to pay $4 million for a coach that has never won a conference title, and is barely .500 lifetime (even coaching in the MAC and MWC). (The fact that Brandon hired Hoke and Borges doesn't surprise me; the fact that he is wildly overpaying them is somewhat troubling.) If John Harbaugh -- a Super Bowl winning coach who has won 2/3 of his games in the NFL, is in his prime, has a great coaching tree (e.g., Chuck Pagano coached under him), has Michigan ties, and is not a diffiicult personality (like his brother) -- were really an an option at $7 million a year, Michigan would be foolish not to pay it.


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A funeral service was April 7at the Riverside Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Chattaroy, with his son, Bishop Bryon Wiltse conducting, for longtime Deer Park area resident Lyle L. Wiltse, who passed away on April 2, 2012 on the family farm.
Born in Hunters on April 15, 1938, his family moved to Deer Park when he was in the seventh grade. He graduated from Deer Park High School in 1957.
Following school he went to work for the Great Northern Railroad's communications department working on its telegraph pole line. He married his high school sweetheart, Sheila M. VanSlyke, on Jan. 18, 1958.
His railroad career took the couple to their first home in Eureka, Mont. They followed the railroad around the country through parts of Idaho, Montana and Washington. Eventually, he left the railroad to follow his dream of farming. He bought a home with 17 acres near Clayton.
He and his wife continued to grow their farm with additional land purchases adjacent to their own. He supported his family by working multiple jobs. He worked at Deer Park Pine Industries, drove school bus for the Deer Park School District and worked for Deer Park Auto Freight on Saturdays while also working with his family to clear timber from his farm.
Mr. Wiltse finally gave up his last side job as a sanitation contractor for the city of Deer Park, and devoted himself to full-time farming in the early 1980s.
After being diagnosed with Stage 4 Multiple Myeloma and given a four-month prognosis, he lost his nearly four-year battle with the disease last week.
With his wife by his side he made it to places like the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, and the Everglades. He enjoyed grandchildren's graduations, church missions, weddings, and welcomed a few great-grandchildren into the world.
He is survived by his wife, Sheila Wiltse; seven children, Lyle (Judy) Wiltse of Noxon, Mont., Loren (Madonna) Wiltse of Cheney, Robin (Wiltse) of Spokane, Bryon (Paula) Wiltse of Clayton, Leanne Wiltse of Salt Lake City, Utah, Christine (Wiltse) of Conrad, Mont.; two sisters, Ellen Lewis of Deer Park, and Darlene Stach of Ferndale, Wash.; two brothers, William Wiltse, of Gaston, Ore., and Richard Wiltse of Mead; 21 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Interment followed the service at Woodland Cemetery in Deer Park with Lauer Funeral Home, Deer Park, in charge of arrangements.
The Wiltse family suggests memorial contributions be made to Hospice of Spokane, P.O. Box 2215, Spokane, WA 99210-2215.


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Zimbabwe | Seeking greener fields in UK
Eighteen of the newly created plots last month were offered to members of Zimbabwe's national soccer team, with promises of more to come if their successes continued with qualification for the African Nations Cup finals (accomplished) and the World Cup (mathematically still eligible) (Andrew Meldrum, "Zimbabwe Rewards Soccer Heroes with Cleared Land," Guardian, Aug 20). Several members of the Warriors were affected by the land-clearing, yet Zimbabwe Football Association chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze remarked, "We can't have our ambassadors living in slums and shacks." None of the recently disappeared players was in the lineup for Zimbabwe's most recent World Cup qualifier, so we do not know if they would have been in line for housing. It seems unlikely now. But they might be in a position to better appreciate the ironic voice of Musaemura Zimunya's "Hooray for Freedom":
After nine years of singing
nyika iyi ndeyedu vatema
'Avaunt, you suckers of our sweat!'
we wake up to find
an invasion of farmlands
by big black aristocrats
benzocrats and brothermen
with independence torches
burning down squatter villages.
Hooray for freedom!
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2009 Jazz Album Releases
Album Review: John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble's 'Eternal Interlude'
Review of 'Eternal Interlude' by the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble
Album Review: Myron Walden's 'Momentum'
Review of Myron Walden's album 'Momentum.'
Album Review: 'Reflections' by the Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio
Album Review of Reflections by Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio
Album Review: Michael Bublé's 'Crazy Love'
Album review of 'Crazy Love' by jazz singer Michael Buble.
Album Review: Ben Allison's 'Think Free'
Review of 'Think Free' by Ben Allison.
Album Review: Miguel Zenón's 'Esta Plena'
Review of 'Esta Plena' by Miguel Zenón.
Album Review: Edmar Castaneda's 'Entre Cuerdas'
Review of jazz harpist Edmar Castaneda album 'Entre Cuerdas'
Album Review: Vijay Iyer's 'Historicity'
Review of 'Historicity' by the Vijay Iyer Trio.
Album Review: Tyshawn Sorey's 'Koan'
Review of 'Koan' by Tyshawn Sorey
Album Review: Matt Wilson Quartet's 'That's Gonna Leave A Mark'
Review of Matt Wilson's 'That's Gonna Leave a Mark.'
Album Review: Rez Abbasi's 'Things To Come'
Album Review of Rez Abbasi's 'Things to Come'
Album Review: Luis Bonilla's 'I Talking Now'
Review of trombonist Luis Bonilla's CD 'I Talking Now!"
Album Review: 'Ultrahang' by Chris Potter Undergound
Album review of "Ultrahang" by Chris Potter Underground.
Album Review: Jim Rotondi's 'Blues for Brother Ray'
Review of trumpeter Jim Rotondi's 'Blues for Brother Ray'
Album Review: Jerry Bergonzi's 'Simply Put'
Review of saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi's album 'Simply Put.'
Album Review: Jimmy Greene's 'Mission Statement'
Review of saxophonist Jimmy Greene's album 'Mission Statement.'
Album Review: Sean Jones' 'The Search Within'
Review of Sean Jones' album 'The Search Within.'
Album Review: Diana Krall's 'Quiet Nights'
Review of 'Quiet Nights' by Diana Krall
Album Review: Marcus Robert's 'New Orleans Meets Harlem, Vol. 1'
Review of the album 'New Orleans Meets Harlem Vol. 1' by pianist Marcus Roberts.
Album Review: Jim Rotondi's 'Blues for Brother Ray'
Review of trumpeter Jim Rotondi's 'Blues for Brother Ray'
Album Review: Martial Solal's 'Live at the Village Vanguard'
Review of 'Live at the Village Vanguard: I Can't Give You Anything But Love' by jazz pianist Martial Solal
Album Review: Nels Cline's 'Coward'
Review of 'Coward' by guitarist Nels Cline.
Album Review: 'Watts' by Jeff 'Tain' Watts
Review of 'Watts' by drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts.
Album Review: Joshua Redman's 'Compass'
Review of 'Compass' by Joshua Redman.
Album Review: The Bad Plus' 'For All I Care'
Review of 'For All I Care' by The Bad Plus.