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Description: A ribbon of green slicing through parched land, the Bighorn rushes past scenic bluffs and thick cottonwood bottoms, providing anglers some of Montana's best trout fishing.
Vital statistics: 84 miles long from Yellowtail Dam to its juncture with the Yellowstone near Custer.
Level of difficulty: A Class I river, suitable for practiced beginners.
Flow: Annual mean flow: 3,482 cfs near St. Xavier. Dam-controlled, floatable all year. Can have excellent conditions in May and June when other rivers are high with runoff. Optimal flows for fishing are 3,500-4,000 cfs.
Hazards: Snags and occasional logjams, swift flows in the upper section. Sudden high winds associated with storms. Three diversion dams (portage necessary).
Where the crowd goes: Afterbay to Bighorn.
Avoiding the scene: Downstream from Hardin.
Inside tip: Good fishing on warm winter days and in early spring. One of Montana's warmest areas.
USGS: Billings-MT, Hardin-MT, Forsyth-MT
Montana Afloat: #14, The Bighorn River
River rules: No motorboats from Afterbay to Bighorn. A National Park Service $5-per-vehicle user fee or $30 annual fee is required for floating between Afterbay and Bighorn. Permits can be purchased at Quill Gordon Fly Fishers and near the NPS Afterbay access.
For more information: Bighorn Trout Shop, Fort Smith; Bighorn Angler, Fort Smith; Quill Gordon Fly Fishers, Fort Smith; FWP, Billings; National Park Service, Fort Smith.
The paddling: Steeped in history and shrouded in controversy, the magnificent Bighorn River springs from the glaciers of the Wind River Range in western Wyoming. It may be the very best river in the United States for trout fishing. With tributaries including the Wind, Shoshone, and Little Bighorn Rivers, this is a big river, nearly as large as the Yellowstone when the two merge near Custer.
As the Bighorn flows from Wyoming into Montana, it carves a rugged and scenic canyon that extends for nearly 50 miles. This great chasm winds and twists through the mountains in a tortuous course, its limestone and sandstone cliffs exuding the same brilliant colors and hues as the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in Yellowstone Park.
According to a 1932 newspaper account, the Bighorn Canyon once contained formidable rapids: "This river is one of the most dangerous in America to traverse. Many have lost their lives in attempts to go down the rapids, while a few others succeeded in accomplishing the feat." Famous mountain man Jim Bridger claimed he shot the Bighorn Canyon on a raft made of driftwood logs. Bridger, however, was known to stretch the truth. He also said the rivers in Yellowstone Park steamed because they flowed so fast they got the river bottom hot.
Yellowtail Dam transformed the treacherous Bighorn Canyon into a flatwater paddle. The 525-foot-high dam, completed in 1967, backs up 71 miles of river. While a canoe paddle through the canyon remains extremely scenic, the area is used primarily by powerboaters and water-skiers.
Jim Bridger was only one of the dozens of mountain men who trudged up the Bighorn on their way to outstanding fur-producing areas along the Wind and Green rivers. This river valley is alive with Montana history. While Lewis and Clark did not explore the Bighorn, it's obvious from Captain Clark's journals that the Corps of Discovery knew the approximate length of the Bighorn and some of its tributaries. The river was named for its healthy population of bighorn sheep in the canyon area.
In 1807, an enterprising Spaniard named Manuel Lisa constructed Montana's first trading post at a point near where the Bighorn and Yellowstone rivers join. In future years, this spot became the site of several other forts, a projected city, and an army headquarters. All are gone today. Near Yellowtail Dam, the remains of Fort C. F. Smith can still be viewed. It was built in 1866 to protect travelers using the Bozeman Trail. The trail crossed the river about three miles below the present site of Yellowtail Dam.
Construction of Yellowtail Dam changed the entire character of the Bighorn River in Montana. The river once carried a heavy silt load to the Yellowstone. Now, the dam traps the dirt. Below the dam, the Bighorn winds through arid benchlands and thick cottonwood groves. The river is an oasis in the middle of a parched land, a belt of green that attracts many species of wildlife, including deer, beaver, and songbirds. During migration, waterfowl flock to the Bighorn.
The combination of less sediment and regular flows means the river no longer braids or creates islands. In fact, about 1,500 acres of islands have disappeared since 1967, a 50 percent decrease. While this habitat loss is especially significant to beaver, muskrats, and geese, other native wildlife associated with the river have also suffered.
On the other hand, the combination of less sediment and cold flows from the reservoir has created an outstanding trout fishery. The river is not only rich in vegetation, but it squirms with aquatic life, including freshwater shrimp and caddis fly larvae. The river flows through limestone country, and the water is quite mineralized and rich in nutrients, which makes for excellent insect life. Such a favorable climate creates extraordinary growing conditions for trout. For instance, a 7-inch Bighorn River rainbow trout can grow to 14 inches in a year, about three times the normal growth rate. A fingerling brown trout can grow to 16 inches in three years. Only the Beaverhead can match the Bighorn for productivity.
The Bighorn's reputation rests on its abundance of trout and their exceptional size. The record Bighorn trout is a 29-inch, 16-pound rainbow. Although few trout exceed 21 inches, the average trout is slightly more than 14 inches. The Bighorn has almost 6,000 fish per mile and over half of these are 13 inches or more, almost twice as many as the Madison and nearly three times as many as the Beaverhead.
These Bighorn fish facts are well known to trout fishing's cognoscenti, and this river's popularity has zoomed during the last two decades. During the peak periods of July, August, and September, the popular sections of the river may see well over 100 boats a day. Fortunately, this river has good fishing almost all year, so it is possible to avoid the crowds if you are willing to brave inclement weather. A National Park Service $5-per-vehicle user fee is required for floaters between Afterbay and Bighorn. Purchase permits at Quill Gordon Fly Fishers in Fort Smith or at the National Park Service Afterbay Access. No permits are required for those boating downstream from Bighorn.
Summertime moss and algae buildups can frustrate anglers-especially those with spinning gear. But the copious amounts of river vegetation attract wildlife, and the birdlife along the Bighorn can be spectacular. Shorebirds pass through this drainage in large numbers, and the river sees heavy waterfowl use during migration. In fact, up to 20,000 mallards winter on the river, and these ducks attract raptors like bald eagles and, occasionally, peregrine falcons. Afterbay is a favorite winter and spring spot for serious bird watchers.
The upper 44 miles of the river in Montana flow through the Crow Indian Reservation. Recreational use of this portion of the Bighorn, particularly for fishing and hunting, has been a controversial topic for several decades. In 1976 the Crow Tribe declared the river off-limits to non-tribal members. This initiated a legal debate that was resolved by a 1978 Supreme Court decision that ruled the river bed belongs to the State of Montana, not the Crow Tribe.
The state reopened the section of the Bighorn which flows through the reservation to public fishing in 1981. Be aware that on the reservation, recreational use is only permissible below the high-water marks. Hunting big game is not allowed and upland bird hunting is only allowed on deeded land. Waterfowl hunting is only permitted within the high-water marks.
Access to the Bighorn is limited, but adequate. Most floating occurs immediately below the dam in the 12-mile section between Afterbay and the Bighorn access. While the trout habitat between Bighorn and Mallard's Landing isn't as good, the fishing pressure is considerably lower and the fishing is still excellent.
Below Hardin, it is a warm-water fishery with limited populations of sauger, channel catfish, burbot, and smallmouth bass. This section also has good waterfowl concentrations and receives some hunting pressure. The Crow Reservation stops at Hardin. Floating pressure below Hardin is light. Access can be difficult, however, as the river flows mostly through private land.
Floaters use all kinds of crafts on the Bighorn, including motorboats and jet boats (no motors allowed above Bighorn access). Practiced beginners can handle the Bighorn. The main channel splits occasionally, and snags in the river can cause problems for the unwary. High winds can be a problem, too. Watch for the low diversion dam on the downstream side of the old Two Leggins Bridge. Below Hardin, watch for the Victory and Manning diversion dams.
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It was an unavoidable element of this year's NAHBS: the disc brake-equipped road bicycle. Just about every other booth had at least one disc road bike on display and several wheel manufacturers are rolling out new disc-compatible road wheels all the time. Fresh off the experience of NAHBS, it's hard not to feel like we're in an inexorable slide toward disc road being the future, or at least a large part of the future, of road bike specification. But is this really a good idea?
With the advantage of hindsight we can posit that the rise of disc brakes on mountain bikes was sort of a no-brainer. For most, if not all, mountain applications modern disc brakes offer clear and pronounced advantages over even the most advanced rim brake options. Having lived through this transition ourselves, we distinctly remember disc brakes coming to prominence on mountain bikes and the only real griping came from mechanics who had to deal with the first generations of often-finicky, sometimes jury-rigged, disc brake setups. These growing pains aside, there was little argument against the functional and technical superiority of the disc systems.
In cyclocross we've seen the recent UCI legalization of disc brakes and the ensuing product deluge from bicycle manufacturers introducing entire lineups of disc-compatible cross bikes. On race courses, the adoption of disc brake setups has been somewhat more tepid. The Americans seem more willing to jump headlong into disc brakes, whereas their European counterparts appear to be more reticent to invest in the "new" technology of disc. In unofficial conversations we've had with some Euro cross racers who will, for now, remain nameless, their primary hangup on disc is that they feel the increased braking power and consistency is offset by greater brake drag and poor mud clearance. In logical Euro fashion, their opinion boils down to something like, "We know the advantages and limitations of canti brakes; we don't really know the character of disc brakes yet, so why not stick with what we know works?"
Fair enough. The disc brake is here to stay for cross, whether or not the Euros adopt it for racing. The investment has been made on the product side. For high-end racers wanting to hit the cross course on tubular-rimmed disc brake compatible wheels, such things are available for a price. For customers seeking a price point cross bike with clincher tire offerings, 29" inch mountain wheels are readily available at a wide range of specs and prices. Compared to adopting disc brakes across the board for road, there are relatively few stumbling blocks from a product compatibility standpoint. Not so in road...
Road bikes still account for one of the largest market-shares in the entirety of the bicycle industry. Converting to disc brakes on road bikes would require an industry-wide rethink and redevelopment of not only frames but also wheels and the brakes themselves. This is the supply-side issue, or at least one of them. The other is asking the simple question of whether or not disc brakes for road bikes are even a good idea from the perspective of the cyclist.
Over the next couple weeks, we are going to bring you a series of articles designed to shed some light on this topic. We're going to try to take a scientific approach to this question when possible, and also try to get as much input from various viewpoints on the less scientific, more subjective aspect of this question. We're going to talk to various friends and colleagues in the industry to get their various views.
We're also going to do some testing of our own: We are currently finishing up production on a disc brake version of the Gaulzetti Corsa that we're going to ride extensively and see what it reveals to us. We're choosing the Corsa because it's the bike with which we are most familiar and we have many, many hours spent riding the non-disc version of this bike, so for us, the test will be the clearest way to evaluate the disc brake system on a familiar platform. It is worth noting from a sales and production standpoint we could care less if we're building disc or non-disc Gaulzetti frames. From our business perspective disc and standard road frames are equal so this is not an attempt to market one or the other brake system, but rather an attempt to arrive at logical conclusions based on what we discover for ourselves.
More coming soon. This should be a fun project and if you have anything to add to our little study here, or if there is anyone you feel we should talk to in our research, please send us a note.

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Together, the city of Murray and the Murray Independent School District are working to make the way to school safer for children. The city led efforts to seek Federal Safe Routes to School funding for sidewalks, and surrounding schools are following up with education and encouragement. The city has about 16,000 people and is located within a county of about 34,000. The middle school, which houses grades 4 to 8, is in the center of town, according to Eleanor Spry, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction.
For those students who are in grades 1 to 3, parents generally walk with their students, Spry says. The district doesn't receive funding for providing busing to students who live within a mile of school. Area schools lacked any sidewalks immediately around them. "The big picture: we've got traffic issues," explains Matt Mattingly, Director of Administration for the City of Murray. The city recognized that there would be many benefits from increased walking, he said. For example, if the students felt safe to walk, it could reduce traffic congestion around the schools. Additionally, walking to school "promotes being healthy."
In the Calloway County schools just outside city limits, schools had a policy prohibiting walking and bicycling to school because sidewalks did not exist, and it was not safe to walk. The City approached the school officials and offered to build sidewalks if the school system would change the policy. Due to the high cost of construction, school officials had assumed the sidewalks could never be built, however, Mattingly had attended a statewide SRTS training session and learned what it takes to help the program succeed. He needed a champion, he learned, and says, "I went back to both school systems and told them the city would do it, but they needed some dedicated individuals."
For three different fiscal years from 2006 to 2008, Murray was awarded $522,800 for both infrastructure and non-infrastructure SRTS projects from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, according to Kentucky's SRTS Coordinator Jackie Jones, who explained that the state uses one form for both types of projects. The city has contributed $56,718 to SRTS efforts, and the Murray Independent School District added $500 for noninfrastructure projects at the elementary and middle schools. The City budgets $50,000 each year for sidewalks, and the SRTS grant enabled much more sidewalk construction to be completed. "It's an awesome program," Mattingly says.
Murray has been participating in SRTS for three years: for two years with both city schools and most recently with the Calloway County schools. The city and school systems each have utilized their strengths to implement Safe Routes to School. The city has handled the infrastructure improvements. Meanwhile, the schools have taken on the education and encouragement efforts for students, parents and the community. Murray police officers provided the training for school crossing guards.
Murray has hired contractors to handle project construction, and to reduce costs, the city oversees the work and maintains the infrastructure once it is completed. For the first project, teachers surveyed routes near the school to observe the challenges students would face if they tried to walk. In addition, physical education teachers coordinated the first Walk to School Day event in October 2008. Police and fire officers helped with traffic and safety during those events. The community benefits from the sidewalks are widespread and visible. "Every time I drive down the street, there are people on the sidewalks, people pulling wagons on the sidewalks, people walking their dogs," Spry says. "We're seeing more bicycles in our racks" at the middle school.
The SRTS efforts have resulted in construction of 15,960 feet of sidewalks, including a recently completed sidewalk from the county middle school to a low income housing area. "We're filling in the gaps," Mattingly says. "There's a real need for sidewalks. This money gave us a big boost." Mattingly estimates that walking participation has increased 25 percent, and approximately 100 children walk regularly, with participation totals tripling on "International Walk to School" days. Physical education teachers are teaching about pedestrian safety, crosswalks and the health benefits of walking, Spry says. Schools have established encouragement programs that count steps students take and track these steps for small rewards. Teachers bicycle to school and also park and walk to school in order to be visible examples of pedestrian and bicycle activity for students. Another benefit has been parents who enjoy walking, and they have told Spry that it gives them a chance to meet and talk to other families. The walk to and from school also offers another good way to spend time with their children. In years past family time was spent by eating family meals together, Spry notes. "We've gone from eating together to exercising together." Mattingly said the city is working with Murray State University to create a bike plan for the city as well as a walkability plan, which will begin with a needs assessment. "We are glad we dreamt big," Spry says.
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Director of Administration for the City of Murray
Eleanor Spry
Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction for Murray Independent School District


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London - 10 May 2006-3, the mobile media company, today announced that it has entered into a national roaming agreement with Orange.
The new agreement follows the completion of an auction for 3's national roaming business. All potential suppliers were evaluated prior to the auction and those that met 3's requirements for the supply of national roaming services were invited to register. Orange tendered the most competitive bid for the supply of voice, text and data services and has been selected as the preferred national roaming provider for 3 from the end of 2006.The 3 network provides coverage for voice, text and 3G mobile media services to 88% of the UK population and the new agreement with Orange, which has 99% coverage for voice and text services, will ensure 3 customers continue to enjoy the national coverage that they are used to.3 customers will continue to roam on O2, the current provider of national roaming to 3, until the transition phase commences in late 2006. Following the transition phase existing customers' handsets will select the Orange network in preference to O2, although they will still be able to roam onto O2. Going forward into 2007 all new customers will only roam onto the Orange network.Bob Fuller, CEO 3 UK said: "Following a thorough and competitive process over the last eighteen months, I'm very pleased to announce that 3 has a new national roaming partner in the UK. It was important we had a competitive tender and I am delighted with the outcome of the process. This is a good agreement for both 3 and Orange and will ensure that we continue to offer a great service to our customers."Bernard Ghillebaert, Executive Vice-President of Orange UK said: "The Orange network is renowned as one of the most robust and reliable networks in the UK and it makes commercial sense for us to utilise this asset within the wholesale market. We will continue to offer the highest levels of network reliability and service to all of our 15million customers and look forward to a fruitful relationship with 3."Under the terms of the agreement, when 3 customers are outside areas covered by the 3 network they will seamlessly roam onto the Orange network, where they will be able to continue to make and receive voice calls, send and receive text and multi-media messages, and access GPRS data services.The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. About 33 is a mobile media company delivering a convergence of communications, entertainment and information to customers on the move.The three areas which form the core of its business are:
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Taste of London is in Regents Park.
London's Regents Park will be transformed into a dining and drinking hub during the Taste of London festival, from June 21 to 24. The most exclusive event, The MENU, will see chefs Bruno Loubet (Bistrot Bruno Loubet), Nuno Mendes (Viajante), Angela Hartnett (Murano restaurant and the York & Albany pub in London), Jason Atherton (Pollen Street Social) and Wolfgang Puck collaborate on the ultimate tasting menu for a limited number of guests (400 across four seatings). The chefs will personally introduce their course, with a sommelier pairing every dish with the perfect tipple. Tickets are £395 ($605) plus VAT. The dinner is part of a broader celebration of London restaurants – from Michelin-starred to local bistros. Entry is £24 a person. tastefestivals.com/london
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Vegas makes Cavaliers road favorite vs. Heat on Christmas Day
LeBron, Love add 9.5 points to Cleveland's rating
Follow The Linemakers on TwitterWith LeBron James already in Cleveland and Kevin Love on his way there, the South Point in Las Vegas opened the Cavaliers as 3.5-point road favorites for their Christmas Day game against the Heat.
At the end of last regular season, the Cavaliers were rated by the Don Best/Linemakers power ratings 11 points behind the Spurs – the NBA's top-rated team – on a neutral court. In terms of actual spreads, San Antonio was a 13-point favorite at home vs. the Cavs on November 23, and -7.5 at Cleveland on March 4. The Heat were a half-point behind the Spurs in our ratings prior to the playoffs.
Cleveland being posted as a 3.5-point favorite at Miami puts in perspective the value bookmakers assign to James and Love. James, of course, was on the Heat the previous four seasons.
"We've got Cleveland being around 9.5 points better than last year's rating," said the South Point's Jimmy Vaccaro, one of The Linemakers on Sporting News.
The Linemakers' Micah Roberts has a similar analysis.
"LeBron James is worth at least 6.5 points to the ratings, and if there are no snags in the Kevin Love deal, he's worth at least 4.5-points. So that's about an 11-point upgrade for the Cavs that should put them right up there with the top-rated team in the leagues."
The South Point also posted Cleveland's season win total at 57.5. The Cavs won 33 games last season. However, they won 66 and 61 games in 2008-09 and 2009-10, respectively, LeBron's last two seasons in his first stint with the organization.
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It is important that your child be physically active—daily. Physical activity is essential for lifelong health and well-being. A child can't be healthy if he or she isn't playing actively most days of the week. It is important that your child has fun, so don't force your child to exercise. Instead, find activities that he or she likes to do and will do voluntarily. You can help your child stay active and healthy by:
- Being a good role model—be active yourself.
- Creating opportunities for your child to be active for at least 1
hour each day. One way to increase your and your child's activity is to break
the time up into several 10- to 15-minute periods of vigorous exercise
throughout the day, doing activities such as running, jumping rope, or playing
- Plan family activities that involve exercise. Go hiking or biking, wash the car, or walk around a mall. Offer choices, and let your child play.
- Make physical activity part of daily routines. For example, walk with your child to do errands, or walk to the bus stop or school, if possible.
- Join other families and create "neighborhood" time with group activities like touch football, basketball, or hide-and-seek.
- Let your child try different organized activities to see what he or she enjoys, such as tennis, T-ball, soccer, or martial arts.
- Allowing your child to pick out a low-cost toy at the store, a toy that promotes activity—such as a jump rope, Frisbee, or ball—instead of a food treat.
- Setting limits on daily computer and television "screen time" to no more than 2 hours a day.
- Assigning every family member daily, weekly, or monthly tasks that involve physical activity, such as housecleaning chores, weeding the garden, or washing the car. Rotate the schedule of tasks to keep your family interested.
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Pennsylvania Announces First Ethanol Production Facility & Cellulose Pilot
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell announced last week the location of the state's first ethanol production facility in Clearfield County. BioEnergy International, LLC, will operate the facility, which has an estimated production capacity of 108 million gallons of ethanol per year. This will make it the largest ethanol production facility east of the Mississippi River, and one of the nation's top ten ethanol producers. The facility will also produce specialty chemicals and will include a pilot for producing ethanol from cellulose and agricultural residues.
Rendell said that Pennsylvania has biomass resources sufficient to produce more than 500 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year. He also noted that Pennsylvania has 20 biodiesel production facilities in various stages of planning and construction, and the state might become one of the nation's leading producers of soy biodiesel by the end of the year.
Rendell presented BioEnergy officials a ceremonial check for $17.4 million at a press conference in Harrisburg, which represents various state grants and loans for the project. Rendell said, "Today, Pennsylvania takes another gigantic step forward on the renewable energy front in a move that will lessen our dependence on foreign energy sources." The governor noted that at current gasoline prices, the state is on track to spend more than $30 billion on transportation fuels outside the state.
BioEnergy International plans to invest $250 in the Clearfield County facility. This includes $70 million for the cellulosic ethanol pilot. Initially, the company will use corn as a feedstock, which will be replaced over time with organic wastes wood chips. For more information, see the governor's August 17 press release.
Last May, Governor Rendell launched the PennSecurity Fuels initiative to make E85 available to drivers throughout the state. See the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announcement of the initiative.
BioEnergy International, LLC, which is headquartered in Norwell, Massachusetts, plans to start construction of the Clearfield County plant in early 2007 and begin production in 2008. See the BioEnergy August 21 press release (PDF 15 KB).


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I found it impossible to talk to only one or two Hasids at a time. As I interviewed the Skver Hasids in the bleachers, the crowds around me grew. At one point, a middle-aged man pulled me from a group of younger Hasids, hoping to have a quiet word, boxing out a preteen on the way.
On the G train home, I was swarmed again by the mostly Satmar Hasidic crowd headed for the Williamsburg. I asked one of the men next to me what he had thought of the rally. He referred me to a Satmar across the aisle, and soon half the subway car had formed a circle around us.
But getting any of their names was difficult. This had been a problem the entire day. On the way to Citi Field, a young Bobov Hasid traveling with his father and brother told me his name was Ben Zion Halberstam. I wrote it down, then noticed everyone was laughing. He had given me the name of a Bobov rebbe.
With the Satmar Hasids on the subway after the rally, we got to talking about Zionism. A rally speaker named Rabbi Yechiel Meir Katz had drawn an implicit parallel between the 19th-century rejection of Zionism by the ultra-Orthodox and the need to reject the Internet. "Everyone who has a Jewish heart knows Zionism is against Judaism," one man said when I asked about Katz's comparison. Others told him to be quiet, perhaps understanding better how the quote would sound in a non-Orthodox Jewish newspaper.
The sentiment isn't rare among the Satmar, who remain among the most anti-Zionist of the ultra-Orthodox groups. It was unusual for me to get close enough to the insular, Yiddish-speaking Hasids to see the fault lines between their sects, which can blend together from a distance. The Skver Hasids in my section seemed uncomfortable with Katz's invocation of Zionism as a great threat to the Jews. The Bobov Hasids on the subway showed me how to tell their hats from the very similar style of hat worn by the Satmar Hasids. And the Satmar Hasids, by and large, seemed to be the least comfortable speaking English.
Though organizers had described the event as promoting the use of Web filters to make the Internet acceptable for those ultra-Orthodox Jews who needed it for work, some speakers took a harder line. Rabbi Don Segal, who cried while addressing the crowd, told a story about an Israeli ultra-Orthodox man who had been forced to use the Web to make a living. The man "became completely spoiled," Segal related. "This device destroyed his Yiddishkeit," or his Jewishness.
In a gesture that underlined the event's significance in the eyes of its organizers, a rabbi led the huge crowd in the Sh'ma prayer in the manner in which it is sung at the close of Yom Kippur, with the second line, read silently on other days, chanted out loud. The prayer's words, sung 1,000 different ways, droned through the stadium like a decades-old modem struggling to connect.
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Galen Rowell, 19402002
By Reed McManus
When 31-year-old Galen Rowell showed up at the Sierra Club Bulletin office one day in 1972 with a portfolio of his images, Associate Editor Roger Olmsted was awestruck. "So where would you like to go next, Galen?" he asked the fledgling photographer. "But Roger, I dont have a camera," came the reply. "This one is borrowed." Olmsted quickly wrote a check to cover the essentials, and sent Rowell out to prepare "Fragile Nature, Fragile Man," the lead story in the January 1973 Bulletin (now Sierra). Attuned to wilderness issues from an early age when his parents introduced him to mountaineering on Sierra Club outings, Rowell knew that some places were best left untouristed, so he refused to identify the Northwest Territories peak that graced the issues cover. That was just fine with folks at the Club, who knew a kindred soul when they met himparticularly one bursting with artistry and enthusiasm for all things alpine.
So began a long collaboration.
In 1977, Sierra Club Books published Rowells first tome, In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods, an account of the 1975 U.S. expedition to Pakistans K2. Eight Sierra Club books followed, including Galen Rowells Vision and Mountain Light, Rowells 1985 classic (reissued in 1995). The latter lays out the photographers philosophy and techniques for creating "dynamic landscapes," in which the principles of action photography are used to capture convergences of light and form in seemingly unrepeatable moments. An accomplished mountaineer, Rowell described his approach as "a continuing pursuit in which the art becomes the adventure, and vice versa." Rowells images have graced Sierra Club calendars almost continually since 1977, and one will be on the cover of the 2004 engagement calendar.
So it was with particular sadness that Club members and staff learned of Rowells untimely death, along with that of his wife, Barbara, and two others, in a plane crash this August. The Rowells were returning to their home in Bishop, California, after leading a photo workshop in Alaska. A few weeks before, Galen Rowell had returned from a seven-week trek through Tibet with 165 rolls of exposed film.
Rowells legacy is summed up by Club member Louise Woo of South Pasadena, California, who named her son after the photographer: "I cant think of how many times over the past twenty years, sitting in a cubicle and grinding away at a computer, I have looked at his photos on my desk and been reminded that there is a whole world out there. We need that vision, whether we escape for five seconds or five days."


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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. First, I'm as conservative as they come. I however am in love with anything politics. I try to read all presidential bio's. This book made me so made. He lied even in this book. He withheld some info. I personally was upset over this book. And no it wasn't the missing details about Monica. It was his action while in AR, as the Gov. First, I'm as conservative as they come. I however am in love with anything politics. I try to read all presidential bio's. This book made me so made. He lied even in this book. He withheld some info. I personally was upset over this book. And no it wasn't the missing details about Monica. It was his action while in AR, as the Gov. I'd heard that the book was a bit exhausting in that it seemed - particuarly towards the end - that President Clinton had tried to mention everyone he ever knew. I decided to listen to the abridged audiobook - which I never do - and think maybe I should have gone for the full version. His descriptions of, or explanations for, some things seemed too brief, but possibly that's a feature of the book/author, period. Overall, I found this very interesting. Read in 2006 It took me three months to finish My Life...possibly the longest amount of time I've ever spent with one book. But it was worth it! It started out great...loved reading about Clinton's childhood, how he met Hillary...the normal stuff girls want to hear about. And the beginning of this presidency was also interesting - but toward the end, there was too much detail into every little thing and it just dragged. Political memoirs are notorious for being ponderous exercises in self-gratification. It's hard to find a book that isn't like this - Bill's book is guilty of it - but far less than many others have been. On the contrary - it is a piercing and interesting book about the nature of the presidency. It has become more interesting with the benefit of hindsight. Having a friendly debate with Newt Gingrich? Trying to pass health care reform? Preventing the stagnation of the economy? All of these issues are too relevant to the modern discourse. The political wranglings then have only become worse now, and many can rightfully yearn for the peaceful days of the 1990s. I am impressed by his strong memory, attention to detail, his descriptions of events of every nature, his dealings with all characters. Any president has to do some superhuman effort in order to even get elected. Of course, no president is flawless. He does gloss over some of his most unsavory affairs. But if you can survive these shortcomings, as well as the vast length of the book, you can find a truly interesting portrait of a past era.
There are at least two good reasons to read Bill Clinton's imaginatively titled new memoir, "My Life." For one thing, you're probably in it somewhere. Everybody else is, from Hank Aaron to Gennady Zyuganov to the guy designing dioramas for Clinton's presidential library. Another reason to read "My Life" is that it's a genuinely good and useful book. Mr. Clinton's book is a double flop: Either stake your claim to join the guys on Mount Rushmore or embrace your destiny as a guy who rushes to mount more. The president does neither and winds up with a book that reads like the world's biggest Rolodex punctuated by self-doubt. The book, which weighs in at more than 950 pages, is sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull -- the sound of one man prattling away, not for the reader, but for himself and some distant recording angel of history. Like its author, Bill Clinton's autobiography My Life is a big, sprawling jumble. Parts of it, as a waspish television commentator observed, read like a press-cutting book, or one of those school magazines in which everyone in the class has to be mentioned. ContainsMy Life: The Early Years by Bill Clinton My Life: The Presidential Years Vol. II (Vintage) by Bill Clinton Is replied to in
References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (69)Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0375414576, Hardcover)An exhaustive, soul-searching memoir, Bill Clinton's My Life is a refreshingly candid look at the former president as a son, brother, teacher, father, husband, and public figure. Clinton painstakingly outlines the history behind his greatest successes and failures, including his dedication to educational and economic reform, his war against a "vast right-wing operation" determined to destroy him, and the "morally indefensible" acts for which he was nearly impeached. My Life is autobiography as therapy--a personal history written by a man trying to face and banish his private demons.Clinton approaches the story of his youth with gusto, sharing tales of giant watermelons, nine-pound tumors, a charging ram, famous mobsters and jazz musicians, and a BB gun standoff. He offers an equally energetic portrait of American history, pop culture, and the evolving political landscape, covering the historical events that shaped his early years (namely the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and JFK) and the events that shaped his presidency (Waco, Bosnia, Somalia). What makes My Life remarkable as a political memoir is how thoroughly it is infused with Clinton's unassuming, charmingly pithy voice: I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgments can make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes the only, response to pain. However, that same voice might tire readers as Clinton applies his penchant for minute details to a distractible laundry list of events, from his youth through the years of his presidency. Not wanting to forget a single detail that might help account for his actions, Clinton overdoes it--do we really need to know the name of his childhood barber? But when Clinton sticks to the meat of his story--recollections about Mother, his abusive stepfather, Hillary, the campaign trail, and Kenneth Starr--the veracity of emotion and Kitchen Confidential-type revelations about "what it is like to be President" make My Life impossible to put down. To Clinton, "politics is a contact sport," and while he claims that My Life is not intended to make excuses or assign blame, it does portray him as a fighter whose strategy is to "take the first hit, then counterpunch as hard as I could." While My Life is primarily a stroll through Clinton's memories, it is also a scathing rebuke--a retaliation against his detractors, including Kenneth Starr, whose "mindless search for scandal" protected the guilty while "persecuting the innocent" and distracted his Administration from pressing international matters (including strikes on al Qaeda). Counterpunch indeed. At its core, My Life is a charming and intriguing if flawed book by an equally intriguing and flawed man who had his worst failures and humiliations made public. Ultimately, the man who left office in the shadow of scandal offers an honest and open account of his life, allowing readers to witness his struggle to "drain the most out of every moment" while maintaining the character with which he was raised. It is a remarkably intimate, persuasive look at the boy he was, the President he became, and man he is today. --Daphne Durham (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:21:22 -0400) President Bill Clinton's my life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. This is his story. (summary from another edition) |
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[edit] Research TipsEaling, or Ealing St Mary, is one of the ancient parishes of Middlesex. In 1894 it became an Urban District and in 1901 it became a Municipal Borough. In 1926 it was enlarged, absorbing the neighbouring parishes of Greenford, Hanwell, Perivale and West Twyford. It was enlarged again two years later to incorporate Northolt. In 1965 Ealing merged with neighbouring Acton and Southall to form the London Borough of Ealing.
Ealing is a suburban district of west London, England and the administrative centre of the London Borough of Ealing. It is located west of Charing Cross and around from the City of London. It is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan. It was historically a rural village in the county of Middlesex and formed an ancient parish. Improvement in communications with London, culminating with the opening of the railway station in 1838, shifted the local economy to market garden supply and eventually to suburban development. As part of the growth of London in the 20th century, Ealing significantly expanded and increased in population, becoming a municipal borough in 1901 and has formed part of Greater London since 1965. It now forms a significant commercial and retail centre with a developed night time economy. Most of Ealing falls under the W5 and W13 postcodes, with the exception of Hanger Hill, which partly falls under the NW10 postcode area. [edit] History
[edit] ToponymyThe Saxon name for Ealing was recorded c.700 as 'Gillingas', meaning 'place of the people associated with Gilla', from the personal name Gilla and the Old English suffix '-ingas', meaning 'people of'. Over the centuries, the name has changed, and has been known as 'Illing', 1130; 'Gilling', 1243; and 'Ylling', 1254, until 'Ealing' became the standard spelling in the 19th century. [edit] Early historyArchaeological evidence shows that parts of Ealing have been occupied for more than 7,000 years Iron Age pots have been discovered in the vicinity on Horsenden Hill. A settlement is recorded here in the 12th century amid a great forest that carpeted the area to the west of London. The earliest surviving English census is that for Ealing in 1599. This list was a tally of all 85 households in Ealing village giving the names of the inhabitants, together with their ages, relationships and occupations. It survives in manuscript form at The National Archives (piece E 163/24/35), and was transcribed and printed by K J Allison for the Ealing Historical Society in 1961. Settlements were scattered throughout the parish. Many of them were along what is now called St. Mary's Road, near to the church in the centre of the parish. There were also houses at Little Ealing, Ealing Dean, Haven Green, Drayton Green and Castlebar Hill. The Church of St. Mary's, the parish church, dates back to the early 12th century. The parish of Ealing was divided into manors, such as those of Gunnersbury and Pitshanger. These were farmed; the crops being mostly wheat, but also barley and rye. There were also animals such as cows, sheep and chickens. Great Ealing School was founded in 1698 by the Church of St Mary's. This subsequently became the "finest private school in England" and had many famous pupils in the 19th century such as William S. Gilbert and Cardinal Newman. As the area became built-up, it declined and closed in 1908. The first known maps of Ealing were made in the 18th century. [edit] Ealing as a suburb of LondonWith the exception of driving animals into London on foot, the transport of heavy goods tended be restricted to those times when the non-metalled roads were passable due to dry weather. However, with the passing of the Toll Road Act, this highway was gravelled and so the old Oxford Road became an increasingly busy and important thoroughfare running from east to west through the centre of the parish. This road was later to be known as the Uxbridge Road. The well-to-do of London began to see Ealing as a place to escape from the smoke and smells. In 1800 the architect John Soane bought Payton Place and renamed it Pitzhanger Manor, not to live but just for somewhere green and pleasant, where he could entertain his friends and guests. Soon after (1801) the Duke of Kent bought a house at Castlebar. Soon, more affluent Londoners followed but with the intention of taking up a permanent residence which was conveniently close to London. The only British prime minister to be assassinated, Spencer Perceval, made his home at Elm House. Up until that point, Ealing was mostly made up of open countryside and fields where, as in previous centuries, the main occupation was farming. [edit] Old inns and public housesAs London grew in size, more food and materials went in and more finished goods came out. Since dray horses can only haul loads a few miles per day, frequent overnight stops were needed. To satisfy this demand a large number of inns were situated along the Uxbridge Road, where horses could be changed and travellers refresh themselves, prompting its favour by highwaymen. Stops in Ealing included The Feathers, The Bell, The Green Man and The Old Hats. At one point in history there were two pubs called the Old Hat(s) either side of one of the many toll gates on the Uxbridge Road in West Ealing. Following the removal of the toll gate the more Westernmost pub was renamed The Halfway House.
[edit] The expansion of EalingAs London developed, the area became predominantly market gardens which required a greater proportion of workers as it was more labour-intensive. In the 1850s, with improved travel (the Great Western Railway and two branches of the Grand Union Canal), villages began to grow into towns and merged into unbroken residential areas. At this time Ealing began to be called the "Queen of the Suburbs". Mount Castle Tower, an Elizabethan structure which stood at the top of Hanger Hill, was used as a tea-stop in the 19th century. It was demolished to make way for Fox's Reservoir in 1881. This reservoir, with a capacity of , was erected north of Hill Crest Road, Hanger Hill, in 1888 and a neighbouring reservoir for was constructed c. 1889. This supply of good water helped to make Ealing more attractive than ever.
[edit] Ealing as a modern Victorian suburbThe most important changes to Ealing occurred in the 19th century. The building of the Great Western Railway in the 1830s, part of which passed through the centre of Ealing, led to the opening of a railway station on the Broadway in 1879, originally called Haven Green. In the next few decades, much of Ealing was rebuilt, predominantly semi-detached housing designed for the rising middle-class. Gas mains were laid and an electricity generating station was built. Better transport links, including horse buses as well as trains, enabled people to more easily travel to work in London. All this, whilst living in what was still considered to be the countryside. Although much of the countryside was rapidly disappearing during this period of rapid expansion, parts of it were preserved as public parks, such as Lammas Park and Ealing Common. Pitzhanger Manor and the extensive grounds on which it stands, was sold to the council in 1901 by Sir Spencer Walpole, which had been bought by his father the Rt. Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole and thus became Walpole Park. It was during the Victorian period that Ealing became a town. This meant that good, well-metalled roads had to be built, and schools and public buildings erected. To protect public health, the newly created Board of Health for Ealing commissioned London's first modern drainage and sewage systems here. Just as importantly, drinking fountains providing wholesome and safe water were erected by public prescription. Ealing Broadway became a major shopping centre. The man responsible for much of all this was Charles Jones, Borough Surveyor from 1863–1913. He directed the planting of the horse chestnut trees on Ealing Common and designed the Town Hall, both the present one and the older structure which is now a bank (on the Mall). He even oversaw the purchase of the Walpole estate grounds and its conversion into a leisure garden for the general public to enjoy and promenade around on Sundays. [edit] Queen of the SuburbsIt was in 1901 that Ealing Urban District was incorporated as a municipal borough, Walpole Park was opened and the first electric trams ran along the Uxbridge Road. As part of its permit to operate, the electric tram company was required to incorporate the latest in modern street lighting into its overhead catenary supply, along the Ealing section of the Uxbridge Road. A municipally-built generating station near Clayponds Avenue supplied power to more street lighting that ran northwards, up and along Mount Park Road and the surrounding streets. It was of this area centred around Mount Park Road that Nikolaus Pevsner remarks as "epitomising Ealing's reputation as 'Queen of the Suburbs'.." In a very short time, Ealing had become a modern and fashionable country town, free of the grime, soot and smells of industrialised London, and yet only minutes away from it by modern transport. Who first coined the term Queen of the Suburbs is not known, but the name sticks to the present day. The Mount Park Road area still retains much of its original character and is still dominated by grand family homes. For the most part, it has resisted the conversion into dormitory bed-sitters, an effect which has over taken so many of the other London suburbs. With the amalgamation of the surrounding municipal boroughs in 1965, Ealing Town Hall became the administrative centre for the new London Borough of Ealing. Today, this also includes its offices at Perceval House just next to it.


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Webb Simpson, 26, is making his Masters Tournament debut this year. A Raleigh, N.C., native and former Wake Forest golfer, Simpson is in his fourth year on the PGA Tour and has won two tournaments. He agreed to share his thoughts on his first Masters through Tournament week with Masters.com's John Steinbreder:
This is the plan for my Masters Week. I am driving down from Charlotte, N.C., the Sunday before the Tournament starts, and my wife and I are renting a house right next to Augusta Country Club. That's where we'll be staying all week, with our little boy James, who is just over a year old. Other members of my family have rented another house of their own, and so has my wife's family.
I do not have any Practice Rounds scheduled at this point. But I do plan on playing nine holes every day. My hope is to get a veteran player or two to go out with me, so they can teach me about that course, because I know there is so much to learn there. Experience is a key to doing well at Augusta, and fortunately my caddie, Paul Tesori, has worked 10 Masters over the years. I am sure he can help me quite a bit, but I would like to get some input from some players, too.
You need to be strong in all aspects of the game to succeed at Augusta, but I think the short game is the most important. You have to chip and putt well to do well. You can miss it on that course and still be OK, and I think it is important to realize that as well. You don't want to play scared, but you want to err more on the side of safety than not.What are my favorite golf holes at Augusta National? Well, No. 13 is about as perfect a par 5 as there is. Like all great par 5s, it has a real risk-reward tradeoff, off the tee and also from the fairway. You can make a 3 or a 6 there real quick.
I also love the 16th hole. It is such a great par 3.
I cannot wait for the Masters to start, and I am really going to try and enjoy myself the early part of the week. It will be especially fun sharing it all with my family. But come Thursday, when the Tournament begins, I am going to try and get into my routine. I know not many first-timers have gone on to win. But I will be there trying to do exactly that.


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"We checked the house, the lights were on. I could see through the screen door, she didn't even have her front door closed. She had curlers on and her phone to her ear," he relates, back in the moment. "She kind of motioned to me, 'Come back tomorrow.' Turns out she was part of a Miami Herald focus group and she must have thought this was something worth calling a reporter and making a big deal over."
She almost shot you!
"I think that would say something about the lady, not the mayor," Suarez snaps. "I got a letter from a guy in Los Angeles saying, 'Gee, I wish my mayor would come visit me. I don't care if it is 10:15 p.m.'"
Suarez continues painstakingly running over the details of that night, one that has come to publicly define his career: He never saw a gun. Mrs. Benson didn't seem all that upset at the time. Did he mention her front door was open, practically inviting guests to stroll on in? Finally he stops short with what sounds like a breakthrough.
"I was too sensitive," he concludes. "I just didn't know how to defuse things. I didn't have the ability to go back the next day to see Mrs. Benson. I sent an aide -- I should have gone myself and had a photo opportunity."
Kulchur decides to seize the moment and play therapist. I'm having a hard time separating these two men, the Xavier Suarez of 1998 and the Xavier Suarez I'm talking to right now. I have to ask: Were you all right during those 111 days? Was there something going on in your personal life that left you a bit unbalanced?
"No! It was just the opposite!" he thunders, his moment of clarity instantly dispelled. "It was the enthusiasm of being able to run the city correctly, having executive powers, but being frustrated at not being able to govern! And having people question your every motive when you're trying to do good things!"
The Xavier Suarez of today definitely doesn't sound crazy. A little deluded? No doubt. But steering the conversation away from politics reveals the erudite Harvard law and Kennedy School of Government graduate who first impressed folks back in the Eighties.
Suarez is putting the final editing touches on his book, A Unified Theory of God, Mind & Matter, a sprawling treatise on, well, everything. In excerpts provided by Author House (the book's "self-publisher" -- not, they stress, a "vanity press," though if you mail them a check, they'll self-publish you too), Suarez breezily moves through discussions on metaphysics, the pros and cons of Darwinism, the existence of a higher being, and not least, why we're all here on this planet.
"I got started about ten years ago with Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time," he says. "It was mesmerizing to think that we're on the periphery of the expanding universe." Dan Brown's best-selling The Da Vinci Code served as a further impetus to attempt fusing religion with science, and if the results don't always cohere, they're no less fascinating for their intellectual twists and turns. Who knew the former mayor had been a budding philosopher this whole time?
"My interest was accelerated when I was thrown out of office in 1998," Suarez explains with a good-natured laugh. "One of the beneficial side effects was that I had a lot of time on my hands." Time, he adds, to see that "in the first half of the Twentieth Century, science explained everything. In the second half -- I'm borrowing from Jacques Barzun here -- it couldn't explain anything!"
If scientists can't even agree on why gravity exists, he continues, then don't expect them to understand the rise of fascism. Or how to enact economic theory. But it's here, just as Suarez is blaming a misunderstanding of "entropy" for many of Miami's ills, that he begins to get into trouble. He has plenty of novel ideas for county government, but somewhere in the journey from his brain to the outer world, matters get a little hazy.
Forget about an independent airport authority. Suarez wants to privatize the airport. And where has privatization been done? "Peru," he answers matter-of-factly. "There's a couple in Europe, I think. It's a growing trend!"
Likewise Suarez believes he's hit on a solution to the heated debate surrounding Miami-Dade's gay-rights ordinance, which Christian Coalition activists are once again gathering signatures to overturn. "Remember when President Clinton was elected, what he did with gays in the military? 'Don't ask, don't tell.'" Suarez is positively bursting to announce his own version for Miami's gay-rights ordinance: "Don't repeal, don't enact."
Yet when informed by Kulchur that "don't ask, don't tell" has been an unqualified disaster for all concerned -- record numbers of gay soldiers have been discharged, even Arabic linguists at a time when their translation skills are needed more than ever -- Suarez can only stammer back: "I really don't know about that."
To be fair, though, while Suarez's notions may be half-baked, the same can be said for much of the brain trust currently occupying the dais at the county commission chambers. Perhaps that's the reason Suarez's political resuscitation has been making some surprising headway.


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They Risked Their Lives for the Truth: Please Listen to Scahill and Rowley
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It's likely they need no introduction or explanations of their proven credibility as dedicated and brave journalists. If you seriously can't afford to take the twenty-nine minutes to watch, here is a very abbreviated version.
On Feb. 3 at The Guardian, Naomi Wolf published 'JSOC: Obama's Secret Assassins'. She writes that 'The President has a clandestine network targeting a 'kill list' justified by secret laws. How is that different than a death squad?' She praises 'Dirty Wars', and calls the shadow CIA/JSOC/mercenary armies operating with impunity and virtually no accountability 'the biggest story in our nation's contemporary history.
From the Guardian:
US news organisations are facing accusations of complicity after it emerged that they bowed to pressure from the Obama administration not to disclose the existence of a secret drone base in Saudi Arabia despite knowing about it for a year.
Glen Ford at Black Agenda Report 'Fleets of Drones Descend on Africa' lists far more drone bases on the continent than I'd known.
In the very heart of the African continent, the 17,000-man United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo wants to use U.S. drones to monitor armed groups in the region, where U.S. Special Forces are also operating. Those drones would be deployed under much the same UN Security Council language that NATO used to launch its war against Libya, in 2011, allowing "all necessary measures…to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack."
At the same time, another section of the United Nations is about to launch an investigation into the legality of U.S. drone warfare in Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan. Thus, it is possible that the United Nations Security Council could wind up calling in American drones to attack people in the Congo region, while the U.N.'s special rapporteur for human rights and counterterrorism is investigating whether U.S. drone warfare violates international law.
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Late hours at Strip Club + punch to head + victim in critical condition = 1st degree attempted murder:
and goddell wont do sh!t to him
Man what in the world kind of "punch" did he give buddy to damn near kill him?
There was an incident in my home town where a couple guys got into an argument in front of a grocery store. One hit the other and the guys head hit a piece of the curb and the guy died. The guy that threw the punch ended up spending years in the pen because he lost his cool in an argument over a parking spot.
I don't know what kind of shape the victim in this case is in, but a guy that was big and athletic enough to play LB in the NFL could really crank a guy.
Ban fists!! Only those with background checks should be allowed to have them!
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You can't say Pizza Hut Canada's marketing team lacks creativity. First it introduced the brand's "dough-scented" perfume, which is now available in the U.S. And now the brand has released a new "sultry, humorous" R&B ballad titled "Lovers."
Pizza Hut Canada and its advertising agency, GRIP Limited, wanted to give back and thank their Facebook fans for "A year of affection and love."
They partnered with audio production house Pirate Toronto to create the song, which made its Facebook debut on Valentine's Day Thursday. Pizza Hut Canada is inviting fans to write their own lyrics for the chance to be featured in the "Lovers" remix.
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Italy Language and LanguagesEdit This Page
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Italy Language and Languages
Most materials used in Italian research are written in Italian. However, you do not need to speak or read Italian to do research in Italian records. You will, however, need to know some key words and phrases to understand the records.
Because the Roman Catholic Church is predominant, most church records are in Latin. Because of the various political situations through the years, you may also find records from the northern areas in French or German.
Latin grammar may affect the way names appear in the church records. For example, the names Dominica and Dominicam refer to the same person. Translated into Italian, this same person would be Domenica. If the records are in Italian, the spelling of your ancestor's name will not be affected by grammar.
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Language Aids
The Family History Library has genealogical word lists for Italian and Latin.
The following English-Italian dictionaries can also aid you in your research. You can find these and similar material at many research libraries or bookstores:
- Orlandi, Giuseppe. Dizionario italiano-inglese, inglese- italiano (Italian-English, English-Italian dictionary). Terza ed. Milano: Carla Signorelli, 1957. (FHL book EUROPE REF 453.21 Or5d 1961.)
- Il nuovo dizionario inglese Garzanti (The new Garzanti English dictionary). Milano: A. Garzanti, 1984. (FHL book EUROPE REF 453.21 G199n.)
Italian Genealogical Word List
This list contains Italian words with their English translations. The words included here are those that you are likely to find in genealogical sources. If the word you are looking for is not on this list, please consult an Italian-English dictionary. (See the "Additional Resources" section below.)
Italian is a Romance language derived from Latin. Many of the words resemble those of Latin. See "Latin Genealogical Word List" below.
Italian is spoken in Italy and the southern part of Switzerland in the cantons of Ticino and Graubünden. Italian is also spoken in Yugoslavia near the border with Trieste. Some of the records of Corsica, Nice, and Savoy were written in Italian before those areas became part of France. Clusters of Italian immigrants in major cities like New York, Chicago, Montreal, Toronto, and Melbourne also speak Italian.
Sicilian, Neapolitan, Romanesque, and Venetian are major dialects of Italian, and they use words similar to the words on this list. Several other minor dialects are spoken in the various provinces of Italy.
Italian Genealogical Word List
Language Characteristics
In Italian, the endings of most words vary according to the way the words are used in a sentence. Who— whose—whom or marry—marries—married are examples of words in English with variant forms. This word list gives the most commonly seen form of each Italian word. As you read Italian records, be aware that almost all words vary with usage. Only some variations are explained in this guide.
Italian nouns are designated as masculine or feminine. For example, vicinanza (neighborhood) is a feminine word, and villaggio (village) is a masculine word. Generally, nouns ending in -a are feminine, nouns ending -e may be either masculine or feminine, and nouns ending in -o are masculine.
Adjectives and articles (a, an, the) will have either masculine or feminine endings for the noun they modify: -a for feminine singular nouns, -o for masculine singular nouns. For example, in Italian you write ava paterna (paternal grandmother) or avo paterno (paternal grandfather).
For nouns ending with -a, the plural is formed by replacing the last letter with -e; for nouns ending in -o or -e, replace the last letter with -i to form the plural. For example, figlia (daughter) becomes figlie (daughters), and padrino (godfather) becomes padrini (godparents).
Articles and adjectives take -e as the feminine plural ending, and -i as the masculine plural ending. Buona figlia becomes buone figlie (good daughters) and buono padrino becomes buoni padrini (good godparents).
Verb tense
Verbs also vary depending on mood, who is acting, and whether the action is in the past, present, or future. For example, the Italian verb sposare (to marry) could appear with various endings:
Present | Past Tenses |
marry | married, was married |
(she/he) | sposa è sposato, fu sposato, sposò |
(they) | sposano sono sposati, furono sposati, sposarono |
Diacritic Marks
The Italian language has several additional letters with diacritic marks: à, è, ì, ò, and ù. These diacritic marks indicate a change in pronunciation, but do not affect alphabetical order. They are more often used in recent documents.
Spelling rules were not fixed in earlier centuries when records of our ancestors were written. The k, j, and w are only used in foreign words. The following spelling variations may be found:
y or j used for i
i used for j
Additional Resources
This word list includes words most commonly found in genealogical sources. For further help, use an Italian- English dictionary. At the Family History Library, the Italian dictionaries are cataloged with the call number 453.21. The following dictionary is also available on microfilm for use in Family History Centers:
- Orlandi, Giusseppe. Dizionario Italiano-inglese, Inglese-italiano [Italian-English, English-italian Dictionary]. Milano: Carlo Signorelli, 1957. (FHL film 1,181,660 item 5.)
Key Words
To find and use specific types of Italian records, you will need to know some key words in Italian. This section gives key genealogical terms in English and the Italian words with the same or similar meanings.
For example, in the first column you will find the English word marriage. In the second column you will find Italian words with meanings such as marry, marriage, wedding, wedlock, unite, and other words used in Italian records to indicate marriage.
English | Italian |
banns | pubblicazioni, notificazioni |
baptism(s) | battesimo, -i |
birth(s) | nata, nascita, -e |
burial(s) | seppellimento, sepolto, sepolture, -i |
child | neonato, neonata, infante, bambino |
christening(s) | battesimo, -i |
confirmation(s) | cresima, -e |
death(s) | morte, morire, decesso, -i |
father | padre |
husband | marito, sposo |
index | indice |
marriage(s) | matrimono, sposato, coniugato, maritato, -i |
month | mese |
mother | madre |
name | nome |
parents | genitori |
parish | parrocchia |
surname | cognome |
wife | sposa, moglie |
year | anno |
Latin Genealogical Word List
This list contains Latin words with their English translations. The words included here are those that you are likely to find in genealogical sources. If the word (or some form of it) that you are looking for is not on this list, please consult a Latin-English dictionary. (See the "Additional Resources" section below.)
Latin is the mother language for many modern European languages. Many words in English, Spanish, French, and other languages resemble Latin words and have the same or similar meanings.
Latin was used in the records of most European countries and in the Roman Catholic records of the United States and Canada. Because Latin was used in so many countries, local usage varied. Certain terms were commonly used in some countries but not in others. In addition, the Latin used in British records has more abbreviations than the Latin used in European records.
Language Characteristics
Variant Forms of Words
In Latin, the endings of most words vary according to how the words are used in a sentence. Who—whose— whom or marry—marries—married are examples of words in English with variant forms. This word list gives the most commonly seen form of each Latin word. As you read Latin records, be aware that almost all words vary with usage.
Latin words for persons, places, and things (nouns) are classified as masculine, feminine, or neuter. For example, rex (king) is a masculine word, aetas (age) is a feminine word, and oppidum (town) is a neuter word.
Words that describe persons, places, or things (adjectives) will have either masculine, feminine, or neuter endings. For example, in Latin you would write magnus rex (great king), magna aetas (great age), and magnum oppidum (large town).
This word list gives only the masculine form of adjectives. For example:
noster, nostra, nostrum (our) is listed as noster
magnus, magna, magnum (great, large) is listed as magnus
nobilis, nobile (noble, known) is listed as nobilis
Some words have both a male (-us) and female (-a) form, such as patrinus (godfather) and patrina (godmother). This word list usually gives only the male form even though a female form may occur in Latin records. Thus, given the word famulus (servant), you can conclude that famula is a female servant.
Similarly, this word list gives only natus est ("he was born"). You can conclude that nata est means "she was born." The plural form nati sunt means "they were born."
Plural forms of Latin words usually end in -i, -ae, or -es. Thus patrinus (godfather) becomes patrini (godparents), filia (daughter) becomes filiae (daughters), and pater (father) becomes patres (fathers). However, these same endings may also indicate other grammatical changes besides plurality.
Grammatical Use
The endings of Latin words can also vary depending on the grammatical use of the words. Latin grammar requires a specific type of ending for a word used as the subject of the sentence, used in the possessive, used as the object of a verb, or used with a preposition. Latin words fall into several classes, each with its own set of grammatical endings.
If you do not find a Latin word in this list with the same ending as the word in your Latin document, find a similar ending in the examples below to see how the word in your document is used:
Latin | English |
filius | son |
(pater) filii | (father) of the son |
(baptizavi) filium | (I baptized the) son |
(ex) filio | (from) the son |
vidua | widow |
(filius) viduae | (son) of the widow |
(sepelivi) viduam | (I buried the) widow |
(ex) vidua | (from) the widow |
pater | father |
(filius) patris | (son) of the father |
(sepelivi) patrem | (I buried the) father |
(ex) patre | (from) the father |
Other noun endings change as follows to show possession:
-as may change to -atis
-ns may change to -ntis
-or may change to -oris
-tio may change to -tionis
Example: sartor (tailor) changes to sartoris (of the tailor)
Words that show action (verbs) also vary depending on who is doing the action and whether the action is past, present, or future. For example, the Latin word baptizare (to baptize) will appear with various endings:
Present | Past |
baptize | have baptized, baptized |
(I) baptizo | baptizavi, baptizabam |
(he) baptizat | baptizavit, baptizabat |
(they) baptizant | baptizaverunt, baptizabant |
is baptized | was baptized |
(he) baptizatur | baptizatus est |
Spelling rules were not standardized in earlier centuries. The following spelling variations are common in Latin documents:
i and j used interchangeably
u and v used interchangeably
e used for ae (æ)
e used for oe (œ)
c used for qu
ejusdem or eiusdem
civis or ciuis
preceptor or praeceptor
celebs or coelebs
quondam or condam
Additional Resources
This word list includes only the words most commonly found in genealogical sources. For further help, use a Latin-English dictionary. Latin-English dictionaries are available on each floor of the Family History Library. The call numbers begin with 473.21.
The following Latin-English dictionary is available on microfilm for use in Family History Centers:
- Ainsworth, Robert. Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary, rev. ed. London: F. Westly and A.H. Davis, 1836. FHL 473Ai65a 1836; FHL 599,788.
Additional dictionaries are listed under LATIN LANGUAGE - DICTIONARIES in the "Subject" section of the FamilySearch Catalog. Most bookstores carry useful, inexpensive Latin-English dictionaries.
The following sources can also be helpful for reading Latin records:
- Baxter, J. H. and Charles Johnson. Medieval Latin Word-List From British and Irish Sources. London: Oxford University Press, n.d. FHL 942 A8bm.
- Grun, Paul A. Schlüssel zur alten und neuen Abkürzungen: Wörterbuch lateinischer und deutscher Abkürzungen des späten Mittlealters und der Neuzeit. Limburg/Lahn, Germany: Starke Verlag, 1966. FHL 943 B4gg Vol. 6, Key to ancient and modern abbreviations: Dictionary of Latin and German abbreviations of the late middle age and modern times.
- Jensen, C. Russell. Parish Register Latin: An Introduction. Salt Lake City, Utah: Vita Nova Books, 1988.FHL 475 J453p A guide to understanding Latin as it appears in continental European church records.
- Martin, Charles Trice. The Record Interpreter: A Collection of Abbreviations, Latin Words and Names Used in English Historical Manuscripts and Records, 2nd ed. London, England: Stevens, 1910. FHL 422.471 M363re 1910.
- McLaughlin, Eve. Simple Latin for Family Historians, 2nd ed. Birmingham, England, London: Federation of Family History Societies, 1987. FHL 471.1 M273 This booklet lists Latin words frequently used in English parish registers.
Key Words
To find and use specific types of Latin records, you will need to know some key words in Latin. This section lists key genealogical terms in English and gives the Latin words that have the same or similar meanings.
For example, in the first column you will find the English word marriage. In the second column you will find Latin words with meanings such as marry, marriage, wedding, wedlock, unite, legitimate, joined, and other words used in Latin records to indicate marriage.
English | Latin |
birth | nati, natus, genitus, natales, ortus, oriundus |
burial | sepulti, sepultus, humatus, humatio |
christening | baptismi, baptizatus, renatus, plutus, lautus, purgatus, ablutus, lustratio |
child | infans, filius/filia, puer, proles |
death | mortuus, defunctus, obitus, denatus, decessus, peritus, mors, mortis, obiit, decessit |
father | pater |
godparent | patrini, levantes, susceptores, compater, commater, matrina |
husband | maritus, sponsus, conjux, vir |
marriage | matrimonium, copulatio, copulati, conjuncti, intronizati, nupti, sponsati, ligati, mariti |
marriage | banns banni, proclamationes, denuntiationes |
mother | mater |
name | given name nomen |
name | surname cognomen |
parents | parentes, genitores |
wife | uxor, marita, conjux, sponsa, mulier, femina, consors |
External Links
- Online English to Italian to English Dictionary
- Italian Dictionaries - Italian Glossaries - Dizionario Italiano: About.com
- University of Notre Dame Archives - Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
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Barrow shop blaze drama
Last updated at 14:49, Monday, 31 December 2012
A PANTOMIME audience had to be evacuated from the theatre after a fire broke out in an adjacent Barrow charity shop.
Firefighters and police were called to the British Heart Foundation shop in Portland Walk at 5.45pm on Saturday after a fire started inside the building.
The Red Riding Hood panto which was being performed in The Forum had to be cancelled for safety reasons due to the smell which spread to the building.
A spokeswoman for The Forum said the theatre was around half-full and all customers were offered the chance to watch the show again yesterday (Sun) for no extra charge.
Evening Mail columnist Darren McSweeney was one of the first on the scene.
He said: "All the shop windows were blackened and smoke was pouring from the shop door and above the windows.
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He said: "It's under investigation at the moment, but it's not thought to be malicious.
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Mr Maguire said the majority of the stock downstairs was "severely damaged".
Trudy Warburton, area manager for the British Heart Foundation, was at the scene in the aftermath of the fire as she waited for a glazier to arrive and board up the shopfront.
Ms Warburton said: "We're just trying to determine what the cause of the fire was and then there'll be a big clean-up operation.
"We are going to be in urgent need of donated stock from the general public.
"Luckily, somebody quickly alerted the fire brigade to the fact there was a fire, so that has thankfully helped minimise the damage and we're very grateful for that."
First published at 14:45, Monday, 31 December 2012
Published by http://www.nwemail.co.uk
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if my memory serves me correctly this is not the first time there has been a fire in this unit there was a fire when Peacocks had it so maybe the Electrics need checking