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SOUTH KINGSTOWN ŌĆō Twenty-five years ago the homeless population in South County travelled from church to church in Wakefield, hoping for a warm meal, a warm bed and a warm welcome until the community found them a home at the Welcome House.
It all started in the fall of 1986 while Ted Seymour, a building contractor of Wickford was volunteering at Storehouse Meals at the Church of God in Wakefield when another volunteer approached him about a man who needed a place to stay. Seymour looked all over for a place the man could stay for the night, including the Rooming House, but everywhere was full to capacity. With no choice, Seymour paid for the manŌĆÖs room at Bob BŌĆÖs Motel in Wickford. The long night revealed something to Seymour. There was no place for a homeless person to stay in South County.
At the same time, Seymour knew Reverend John Hall at Saint AugustineŌĆÖs in Kingston was housing a homeless man at the church. The time proved ripe for action just as a national movement sparked in Washington DC to address the countryŌĆÖs growing homeless population and turn government buildings into temporary shelters.
ŌĆ£There was a lot of emphasis in that time for things going in other poor countries. I thought we should do something here,ŌĆØ Seymour said.
From the Church of the Ascension in Wakefield, Seymour, a pastoral assistant at the time, began to spread the word of the need of a homeless shelter and from there spurred South CountyŌĆÖs first temporary shelter program lead by community volunteers.
From the crisp fall months to the baron winter time, those looking for a place to stay travelled between six churches alternating each night, including Church of the Ascension, Kingston Congregational, Saint AugustineŌĆÖs, Saint Francis of Assisi, the Peace Dale Congregational Church and the VFW Hall.
Each night at 5 p.m. volunteers, who stayed the night, would bring in a pot luck dinner along with cots donated by the state to whichever church hosted the shelter and the homeless could expect a bed, a meal and a welcome. Initially only about three to four people would stay at the shelter, but as the shelterŌĆÖs reputation grew, so did its population and the volunteer shelter hired a part-time executive director Marianna Bristol to coordinate the program.
ŌĆ£A range of people stayed with different situations. Some worked. Some families that had kids went to school,ŌĆØ Seymour said. ŌĆ£It got crazy. The homeless people knew our schedule better than we did.ŌĆØ
As the shelter grew, the volunteers soon realized its one challenge. The homeless did not know when the next night of shelter would be. They needed a permanent location.
ŌĆ£We were fighting the perception that there were no homeless people in South County. That was proven wrong. We do have homeless people in this area. We thought we had a responsibility to act on it,ŌĆØ Seymour said.
In the spring of 1988, Seymour and the other volunteers found the building at 8 North Road on the market for $250,000. With a $40,000 grant from the town of South Kingstown and another $50,000 from the Davisville Credit Union, the shelter volunteers were able to purchase the building. For the next three summer months, the volunteers and the homeless people renovated the building with the help of Arnold Lumber and Wickford Lumbar.
Just before Christmas in the fall of 1988, South CountyŌĆÖs first full time shelter, the Welcome House opened.
As the Welcome House grew, it set up some perimeters.
ŌĆ£The rule of the homeless shelter was a person was not supposed to be there forever, but sometimes there was nothing else,ŌĆØ Seymour said.
With the difficulty to progress from homelessness to employment and housing in mind, Welcome House purchased four buildings in Peace Dale for transitional housing, where rent would be provided.
ŌĆ£The idea was to move people from homelessness to a transitional situation. It gave them stability,ŌĆØ Seymour said. ŌĆ£The concept was not just about providing one night shelter, but to allow people to move out of that situation. We tried to discourage people from staying for more than 30 days. We werenŌĆÖt trying to be a permanent solution, but as time went on we relaxed those rules. It wasnŌĆÖt realistic for some to move into an apartment in 30 days and get a job.ŌĆØ
At that time, Seymour, who worked in the building business, was approached by the Providence Habitat for Humanity to start the South County Habitat for Humanity, which helped renovate the four transitional houses.
In 1997, Linda Barden, co-founder of the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless and chair on the Women and Welfare Committee came on as Executive Director and took the Welcome House in a new direction, securing federal, local and state grants and grabbing the attention of state homeless advocates.
With her nearly 28 years of experience working with the homeless population, Barden was able to increase Welcome HouseŌĆÖs accountability as a nonprofit for donations and secured funding from the towns of South Kingstown and Narragansett.
ŌĆ£We were successful here at Welcome House in breaking down the verbiage and explaining in black and white English the reason and reality of homelessness,ŌĆØ Barden said.
A former homeless person herself, Barden carried more weight in educating the community about homeless issues.
Fifteen years after Barden came on board, Welcome House now includes 10 family units for transitional housing, two threshold units or permanent housing for the mentally disabled and two units which hold four single women and three single men in supported transitional housing. Last year, Welcome House went further by purchasing five Section 8 houses, where people will have supported permanent housing at 30 percent of their income and Welcome House is will not have to bear the burden of other costs.
Although Barden helped bring the homeless shelter to a new level, she wished after 15 years she was in another field.
ŌĆ£I wish we could have ended this whole issue years ago,ŌĆØ Barden said.
While funding has decreased for homeless shelters from $7.5 million in the middle of the last decade for the Neighborhood Opportunities Program to $1.5 million this year, shelter use has increased by 20 percent in the past two years, according to the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless.
To combat homelessness, two state lawmakers, Rep. Scott Slater (D-Providence) and Sen. John Tassoni (D-Smithfield) submitted legislation last week to provide $12.5 million in funding for the NOP, the funding agency for Rhode Island homeless shelters, in the next fiscal year. Those funds, under the legislation, would be disbursed by the NOP to support the family affordable housing program, the permanent supportive housing program, and the neighborhood revitalization program.
The bills also call for a bond issue to be placed on the November election ballot, seeking $75 million to provide funds to the Housing Resources Commission to be allocated to finance the Neighborhood Opportunities Program.
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The team behind the Reading, Leeds, Latitude and Glastonbury festivals have branched stateside for the first time, with a brand new event called the Vineland Music Festival.
It will take place on a 500-acre farm in Vineland, New Jersey, between 8-10 August and will be comparable in size to the 80,000-capacity Bonaroo Festival in Tennessee.
The event will call on the expertise of C3 Presents, who are best known for their success with Lollapalooza. It will also share a number of acts with the Chicago festival, which takes place the weekend before (1-3 August).
According to source it will be a "weekend of pure unadulterated rock'n'roll pleasure; the signature stamp of Reading and Leeds, Austin City Limits and Lollapalooza".
There will apparently be "a heady mix of the greatest bands in the world, energy charged sets; new rising stars and the freshest acts hitting the stages before the press have had a sniff of them", all set amongst "lush, green campgrounds".
It is likely the Vineland Music Festival will feature a number of high profile acts which will then go on to play at Reading and Leeds. Early rumours suggest Rage Against The Machine (pictured) could be among the headliners.
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By Darshan Ahluwalia
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|This is the steepest trad 5.9 I've been on. Its overhanging, yet tons of huge holds make it 5.9. Take some small gear (black alien) for the top slabby traverse.
By John Wilder
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Mar 19, 2007
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
a second #2 camalot (or equivalent) will protect the traverse nicely...no need for micro gear.
really amazing climb, though- steep, fun, surprisingly well protected, and a thoughtful finish! full value for sure!
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Excellent climb! Juggy thuggery on the bottom.... delicate and thoughtful up top. Plenty of protection up top that appears right when you need it (HB offsets went in perfectly). No move is very hard, but hanging out the place gear guarantees a 10- pump.
Be sure to find the best protection possible before starting the traverse to protect your second below.
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Red River Gorge stylie! No crux on this but a pump crux. The traverse up top takes a good #3 camalot, I'd suggest SR-3" with doubles from .75"-3". With that rack you can place only cams, you can go with a single set of cams if you want to place some wires, which are fine, they'll just pump you out more.
The anchor on this has been replaced as off 11/11. You should be good to belay your second up and be able to lower or rap down from the 3-bolt station regardless of whether there's anyone TRing Spring Break.
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Operating here since 1935, the world's largest fish market is a sight to be seen and experienced. The jonai (inner market) area for wholesale fish merchants is closed to the general public, but the jogai (outer market) is open to everyone.
With its distinctive clock tower and curved granite façade, Wako is one of the most iconic department stores in Tokyo.
Around the corner from Hermès and Chanel, Sake Shop Fukumitsuya contains an informal bar that showcases fermented rice from the Fukumitsuya brewery, which was founded in 1625. The menu lists dozens o f premium sakes and mirins, including several rare or aged vintages, served by the glass.
Often called the "Japanese Gap," Uniqlo is a fashion retailer specializing in casual, affordable clothing for men, women, and children. While the company has more than 700 stores in Japan (and others worldwide), this flagship Ginza location is its biggest and flashiest.
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Japanese pastry chef Sadaharu Aoki established a reputation in Paris before opening his all-white, ultra-modern Marunouchi shop, where exquisite pastries are displayed like works of art.
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A variety store in the truest sense, this member of the Tokyu Hands department-store chain sells everything from kitchen knives to camping packs.
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On February 19, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a fact sheet reporting that it has granted 1,428 drone licenses to entities in the United States. Of those, 327 are designated active.
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The FAA is hurrying to get all the licenses processed in order to meet the September 2015 deadline set by Congress for releasing the drones over the United States.
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One geek, two country girls and a whole lot of music: Three CTV shows receive Golden Globe nods
Wednesday morning proved to be golden for three hit CTV programs, with "Big Bang Theory," "Nashville" and "Smash" earning a total of five Golden Globe nominations.
Representing geeks everywhere, Jim Parsons, who plays the always-hysterical Sheldon Cooper in "The Big Bang Theory," picked up an individual nod for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. This is the second time Parsons has been nominated for the award – the first time he was, he won it in 2011.
Also receiving individual nominations are "Nashville's" Connie Britton, nominated for Best Actress in a Drama Series, and Hayden Panettiere, nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie. This marks the first time either actress has been nominated for a Golden Globe.
"I am so grateful to the Hollywood Foreign Press to be nominated. It is a huge honor and I'm thrilled for Hayden and I to represent everyone who has been working so devotedly and tirelessly on 'Nashville,'" said Britton, in a statement after hearing the good news.
"I woke up to this news, cried and then made myself a grilled cheese. I am so honored!" tweeted Panettiere.
Earning ensemble recognition are CTV series "The Big Bang Theory" and "Smash," with nominations for Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy. While "Big Bang" has been nominated for the award before, this will be "Smash's" first opportunity to claim a Golden Globe.
"Congrats to my entire cast and crew @BigBang_CBS for the SAG and Golden Globe nominations!!!! We r so blessed!!!!!" tweeted an ecstatic Kaley Cuoco, who plays Penny on "The Big Bang Theory," also referring to the shows' Screen Actors Guild nominations.
"Everyone who is involved with 'Smash,' whether on the outskirts or at the epicenter, is thrilled and dancing in the aisles this morning on this wonderful news," said Steven Spielberg, Executive Producer of "Smash," in a statement.
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The two leaders discussed several issues, including efforts by Islamic countries to counter threats to the holy city of Jerusalem. Haniyeh praised the Emir of Qatar for pledging funds for Jerusalem and applauded Qatar's efforts to reconstruct the war-torn coastal territory.
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The first human beings to settle in the area we now call Greece were of Mediterranean origins. During the second millennium B.C., a rich and brilliant civilization, known today by the name of its most powerful king Minos, was established on the island of Crete around Knossos. At approximately the same time, another empire emerged on the Greek mainland. Its center was a large group of edifices at Mycenae, a city situated favorably in the fertile valley called the Argolis (an important geographical location because so much of Greece is mountainous, arid land). The Mycenaeans are the people known later in Homer's epic as Achaians. Unlike the Minoans, the inhabitants of Mycenae spoke Greek. They descended from a population that lived in the Caucasus; when they moved away, they brought with them a language considered an ancestor to most European dialects from India through Europe (named later Indo-European).
Archaeological finds show the extensive activity of the Myceneans in the eastern basin of the Mediterranean, where they came into contact with the Minoans. The relationship between the two kingdoms remains unclear, but it seems that for a while neither civilization dominated the other and that considerable interaction existed. Around 1400 B.C. Crete was captured, although by whom we cannot be sure. Probably economic and commercial competition led Mycenae finally to subjugate the Minoans. Since the Minoans were not Greek speaking and evidence of Greek language has been found around the Knossos palace, we suspect that Mycenaean overseers began to run the Knossos administration.
Mycenae's last military incursion took place during the thirteenth century B.C. in a war against a trading partner, Troy, a city strategically positioned on the coast of Asia Minor, along the sea route between Europe and the Near East. Although the Myceneans won the war, as Homer's epics show, within a short period their supremacy declined in favor of Dorian Greeks, ancestors of the inhabitants of Sparta. While the Mycenaean Kingdom as a political entity disappeared, its population intermingled with the newcomers, as did the dialects of these various Greek tribes.
The story of the war between the Trojans and Myceneans is the subject of the Iliad. "Ilion" is another name for the city of Troy, supposedly founded by one Ilus, the grandfather of King Priam of Troy. For centuries, the Iliad was regarded as a pure fiction, until an amateur German archeologist, Heinrich Schliemann, set out to prove the historical basis of the events described in Homer's poem. Between 1870 and 1894, Schliemann organized excavation teams that succeeded in uncovering the remains of both Troy and Mycenae. In Troy, Schliemann found traces of thirteen different settlements, each new town built on the ruins of the last. The seventh layer excavated showed a city completely destroyed by fire in approximately the thirteenth century B. C., which appears to validate the basic outlines of Homer's story of the fall of a great city.
That human beings often reflect on the past and compare the present with it unfavorably explains why the story of the siege of Troy by the Greeks loomed so large in the imagination that bards sang of Troy for century after century. From roughly 1200 B. C. to around 700 B. C.--close to five hundred years--the same stories were retold, exaggerated, and magnified, so that Homer's audience, living in the Iron Age, listened with wonder to tales of the Bronze Age, the "olden days" when, the poet said, one man could lift a stone that no two men would be capable of moving in their diminished world. This long tradition of story telling accounts for inconsistencies that scholars note such as impossible combinations of anachronistic customs, and a language containing idioms of different eras combined to form a special epic diction that no living Greek would ever have spoken.
Little is known about Homer, who seems to have lived in Ionia (modern Turkey), at the latest in the middle of the eighth century B. C., except that many believe Western literature started with him. No extant European literature predates Homer, but as we have seen, the oral narratives upon which he drew in composing his epics had a long history. Homer's two epics were recited frequently, but probably were not transcribed until well after his death. Reputed to have been a minstrel, traveling from palace to palace reciting the glories of past kings and heroes, Homer nevertheless remains a puzzle to scholars and historians: was he an actual human being, or is "Homer" simply a name for a community of oral poets who sang the stories of Achilles and Odysseus in bits and pieces that were later combined in two 24-book poems? (1) Although a definite answer to this question seems unlikely, critics believe in Homer's existence, because the epics that survive show so many signs of careful artistic control.
The oral narratives of the Iliad and the Odyssey probably were written down in the seventh century B. C., during the period when the Greeks were beginning to use the alphabet. The Hebrew documents that became the Bible were recorded in an alphabet similar to the alphabet brought to the Greeks by Phoenicians, the great traders who sailed the Mediterranean from the coasts of modern Lebanon and Syria. This transference of information may have begun as early as the twelfth century B. C., if modern analysis of inscriptions on stone is accurate. However, in Greece, writing as a method of saving information did not become routine until the era in which the Homeric poems were committed to papyrus.
Greece borrowed much more than the alphabet from the cultures of the Middle East. Greek architects learned how to build in stone from the Egyptians and Greek potters were heavily influenced by the floral and animal patterns that the artisans of Mesopotamia fired onto clay vessels. By the time of Homer, however, an identifiably Greek sense of the world appeared in a variety of art forms, including epic poetry and pottery as well. Both forms demonstrate a distinctive Greek preference for presenting narratives about human actions in a carefully patterned frame.
So many ancient vases have been recovered from Greek soil and dated by archeologists that art historians can demonstrate precisely how styles in Greek pottery changed over the years. The ninth- and eighth-century vases are decorated in hard-edged geometric patterns that gradually begin to reflect the Mesopotamian themes mentioned above. In the Homeric era, this Greek love of pattern increasingly allies to an instinct for story-telling. Vessels that guarded and were buried in Grecian tombs of the seventh century B. C. exhibit complicated narrative illustrations, often of Homeric subjects. Depictions of crucial moments from the Iliad and the Odyssey, for example, are set within symmetrically patterned shapes that function in the same way as the symmetrical shapes that Homer gives to his narratives. From these different creative spheres, then, emerges a characteristically Hellenic emphasis on fixing human activities in an orderly aesthetic relation.
Despite differences in tone and subject matter, the Iliad and the Odyssey share a common approach to narrative. Both epics focus on a few weeks out of a period extending for more than ten years and both stories begin, as the Roman critics who studied Homer noticed, in medias res (a Latin phrase meaning "in the middle of things"), for Homer assumes his audience is familiar with the traditional narrative. The works repeat significant motifs that reflect their own individual emphasis: the Iliad, a poem about war and death, is punctuated by extended descriptions of mourning rites and funerals; the Odyssey, a poem about survival and renewal, is punctuated by frequent short scenes of awakening.
As you read, notice the way repetition accentuates the action in the poems, not only in formulaic devices and recurring motifs, but also in the reverberation of whole episodes. Although studying the poems in excerpts inevitably obscures the symmetry of their structure, virtually every anthology offering selections from the Iliad includes both Book 1 and Book 24, the beginning and the ending, and an excellent example of the organization of a Homeric narrative. Book 1 depicts a quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae; Book 24 shows a reconciliation between Achilles and Priam, the king of Troy. The ending of the poem, one might say, provides a mirror image of its beginning.
The following outlines of the poems should help you link the episodes you will read and give some sense of Homer's artful balancing of episodes and characters.
In the Bronze Age, at the end of the thirteenth century, a loose confederation of Greek kingdoms besieged the walled city of Troy. The legendary reason for this attack was to avenge the abduction of Helen, the wife of Menelaus, one of the Greek kings, by a Trojan prince, Alexandros (Paris). To recover Helen, the King of Mycenae, Agamemnon, sailed with the leaders of various Greek cities and their warriors to the plains of Troy. For nine years, the Achaians and their allies were frustrated in their efforts to conquer the Trojans, who remained in their fortified city except for brief military clashes. From time to time, the Greek troops raided neighboring cities, taking prisoners for ransom. The events narrated in the Iliad occur in the course of fifty-two days, most of them spent in waiting. The real action of the poem takes only nine days.
Achilles, son of Peleus, king of Phthia, whose people are called Myrmidons, and of the sea-goddess Thetis; the greatest warrior in the poem.
Agamemnon, sometimes called Atreides, the son of Atreus; king of Mycenae.
Briseis, a woman captured by Achilles in a raid.
Diomedes, son of Tydeus; the ideal Greek warrior hero.
Menelaus, Agamemnon's brother, the king of Sparta and the husband deserted by Helen.
Odysseus, son of Laertes, king of Ithaca, and the craftiest of the Greeks.
Patroclus, the intimate friend of Achilles.
Hector, son of Priam and the defender of the Trojans.
Andromache, wife of Hector.
Astyanax, infant son of Hector and Andromache.
Priam, aged king of Troy.
Hecuba, wife of Priam.
Paris (Alexandros), another son of Priam, the abductor of Helen.
Glaucus, a Trojan ally from Lycia.
Sarpedon, son of Zeus and a Trojan ally from Lycia.
Helen, the cause of the war; daughter of Leda and Zeus; wife of Paris and former wife of Menelaus.
Homer did not divide his poems into 24 books, since he would not have thought in terms of the needs of readers, but descriptions of the different units of action within the poem follow.
Book 1: A quarrel leads Achilles to withdraw from fighting.
Book 2: Agamemnon tries to test his troops' resolve to continue fighting without Achilles by suggesting that they all go home. This tactic backfires when the Greeks start to rush to their ships, and only Odysseus's powers of persuasion convince them to stay.
Book 3: Menelaus and Paris, the two husbands of Helen, join in a duel; when Menelaus is about to win, Aphrodite whisks Paris back to Troy in a cloud.
Book 4: The gods argue on Olympus; the Greeks and the Trojans begin to fight in earnest.
Books 5-8: With the exception of a brief interlude in Book 6, when Hector is seen with his wife and child in Troy, these books relate battle scenes. The Greeks are doing very well until Zeus contrives to give unusual success to the Trojans.
Book 9: One of the turning points in the poem occurs when Odysseus, Phoenix, and Ajax go to the tent of Achilles to plead with him to return to battle; despite the promise of treasure from Agamemnon, Achilles refuses.
Books 10-15: Fighting resumes, with the gods taking their favorites' sides, and the Trojans achieve their greatest triumphs. Emboldened for the first time, they leave the safety of their walled city and attack the Greek camp.
Books 16-18: The next major turning point in the poem occurs when Patroclus, Achilles' closest friend and alter ego, receives permission from Achilles to borrow his armor and fight against the Trojans in his place. Hector kills Patroclus and drags his body in the dirt, preventing burial. Achilles, in despair, prepares to take revenge and returns to battle, armed with a new shield made for him by Hephaestus.
Books 19-21: Knowing he is to die soon after he kills Hector, Achilles sets out to kill Hector and punish the Trojans. He is superhuman in his bravery and cruelty.
Book 22: Achilles kills Hector.
Book 23: The body of Patroclus is buried in an elaborate funeral.
Book 24: Achilles returns the body of Hector to his father, Priam, and Hector is buried in an elaborate funeral.
The story begins after Troy has been destroyed and the Greeks have returned to their homes. Only Odysseus, whose name gives the poem its title, fails to reach his destination. He has been punished by Athena for violating her temple and, worse, by Poseidon, the god of the sea who in retribution makes Odysseus's sea journey as difficult as possible. Having left Troy with a full complement of ships and men, Odysseus alone survives the various accidents and dangers that keep him from Ithaca for almost ten years. One of those years is spent on the island of the witch Circe; seven are spent with the goddess Kalypso. When he finally arrives after a twenty-year absence, Odysseus discovers that his palace has been virtually invaded by 108 men paying court to his faithful wife Penelope, who has steadfastly delayed the choice of a new husband.
Books 1 through 4: These first four books are known as the Telemachy, named for Telemachus, the son of Odysseus and Penelope. As the narrative begins, the Olympian gods begin to act on Odysseus's behalf. In preparation for the return of Odysseus, Athena encourages Telemachus to set off on his own journey to seek news of his father.
Books 5 through 8: Odysseus moves closer to Ithaca. With considerable difficulty, after bidding Kalypso farewell, he reaches the island Skheria. Assisted by the princess Nausikaa, he enters the court of Alkinoos, king of the Phaiakians.
Books 9 through 12: At the palace of Alkinoos, Odysseus reveals his identity and becomes the narrator of the central portion of the poem, in which he describes the event-filled journey from Troy that has occupied the last nine years.
Books 13 through 24: Odysseus arrives home at last, gradually reveals himself to his family and friends and gains their support so that he can take revenge on the suitors who have defiled his home. Reunited with his wife and son at last, he has still not done with traveling. The audience learns that this great sailor will die a peaceful, seaborne death, but only after he has set sail once more, to reach and then return from a land where no one has ever seen the sea.
The English word "myth" derives from the Greek mythos, which can mean simply "story." Greek mythology largely comprises stories about gods and goddesses. In contrast to the cultures of Asia and Africa, the Greeks apparently perceived these stories as fictional, as ways of explaining the natural world. Both Homer and Hesiod seem to indicate in their poems, albeit in very different ways, that what the gods are reported to have done is not literally but rather symbolically true.
In the Theogony, Hesiod spells out an account of the creation of the universe and the generations of the gods. According to Hesiod, the universe begins when Chaos ("yawning" undifferentiated matter) brings forth three natural forces: Gaia (2) (Earth); Tartarus (the region beneath Earth and Sea); and Eros (love, or sexual desire). Gaia, the female principle, then bears three children without the participation of a male: Uranus (sky); Oura (mountains); and Pontus (sea). Next Gaia marries her offspring Uranus, and from this union of earth and sky populates the world with various gigantic and malformed creatures, most notably, the Titans (giants). Repelled by his progeny, Uranus imprisons them in a secret place within their mother, the Earth. Enraged at the maltreatment of her children, Gaia makes a huge sickle and urges her sons, the Titans, to punish their father; only Cronos (Saturn) volunteers, and using the sickle, he castrates Uranus. From the blood and semen that fall on the earth as a result of this mutilation spring many new beings, including the female Erinyes (the Furies) and Aphrodite, the goddess of love.
The continuation of this mythic history of the sources of life is essentially a story of repressing violent natural impulses, and of shifting power from the matriarchal first-generation Gaia to the patriarchal third-generation Zeus, who is called--not quite accurately--the Father of the Gods.
The Homeric epics and the subsequent Greek dramas constantly refer to the various Olympian gods, so called because the family of Zeus resides on Mount Olympus, distinguishing them from the earlier generations of gods who dwell in or below the earth and consequently are designated Chthonic. (Chthon, or Earth, is another name for Gaia). By and large, the Chthonic gods personify forces of nature; the Olympian gods, by contrast, who act more like human beings, are thus "anthropomorphic," in the shape of men. Since the means by which the Olympians came to power are frequently alluded to in Greek literature, they are outlined below.
The Titan Cronos, after mutilating Uranus, marries Rhea, his sister. Like father, like son: when he hears that one of his sons will usurp his throne, Cronos tries to thwart this prediction by eating his children. But Rhea bears Zeus on the island of Crete, where Gaea protects him. (3) When Cronos demands the child, intending to swallow it, Rhea gives him a stone wrapped up in swaddling clothes, which Cronos proceeds to eat. Thus Zeus survives to dethrone his father and induces Cronos to regurgitate his various siblings, who become the first Olympian gods:
Zeus (Jupiter), god of the bright sky, who summons thunderbolts to serve as instruments of punishment: called by Homer "the Cloud-Gatherer."
Hera (Juno), goddess of marriage and childbirth, sister and wife of Zeus.
Demeter (Ceres), goddess of agriculture.
Hestia (Vesta), goddess of the hearth or fireplace, the center of the home.
Poseidon (Neptune), god of the sea.
Hades (Dis), god of the underworld (the region is also called Hades).
The other Olympian gods include some of Zeus' numerous offspring by Hera and
by female Titans. With mortal women, Zeus fathers countless children, almost
none of whom attains divine status, because they are subject to death.
Aphrodite (Venus), goddess of love, and beauty; springs simply from ocean foam in the Theogony; is a daughter of Zeus and the Titan Dione in the Iliad.
Apollo (Phoebus), god of the sun; son of Zeus and the Titan Leto, brother of Artemis; possessor of special gifts of prophecy, especially as practiced in his name at the Oracle of Delphi (hence his frequent epithet "Loxias," meaning "the interpreter"); inventor of the lute and leader of the muses; primary guardian of art and order; bearer of a great bow whose plague-bearing arrows punish violations of order.
Artemis (Diana), virgin goddess of the moon and the hunt, daughter of Zeus and Leto.
Athene (Pallas Athena), goddess of wisdom and battle; sprung from the head of Zeus, in full armor; she embodies reason and purity and is the protector of civilized life.
Hermes (Mercury), herald and fast-moving messenger of the gods and thus the patron of travelers (a "herma" is a pile of rocks set up as a directional marker); son of Zeus and the nymph Maia.
Ares (Mars), the god of war; son of Zeus and Hera, lover of Aphrodite.
Hephaestus (Vulcan), the god of fire and the blacksmith of the gods; husband of Aphrodite. As variously explained in the Iliad, Hephaestus is lame; in a warrior culture, even those physically incapable of fighting could serve the war effort, like Hephaestus who fashions armor for those who can do battle.
Hebe, the goddess of youth; daughter of Zeus and Hera.
Greek literature depicts a number of seers and prophets charged with explaining the wishes of these gods to their fellow human beings. Gifted with an intense and often unsettling insight into divine purposes, they read omens and portents. Those who fail to heed their advice inevitably suffer.
Although the mediation of seers may be necessary to keep society at large alert to the will of the gods, the Olympians frequently intervene directly in human affairs when they have a particular interest in a person or an event. As the poet attributes his inspiration to the Muse, characters in the poem attribute their actions to the gods. Nowhere in Homer's epics, however, does a god have power to coerce characters to act in ways foreign to their temperaments. Athena and Aphrodite, for example, who regularly involve themselves in the action of the Iliad and the Odyssey, seem to reinforce rather than initiate decisions taken by the characters they assist. When Athena tugs at Achilles' hair or improves Odysseus' complexion, she is not forcing them to actions they do not themselves intend. To a certain degree, the gods may be seen in modern terms as psychological projections of the heroes' inner drives.
One consequence of Homer's probable position as the last in a long line of oral poets who sung of the fall of Troy is the casual way he dispenses with narrative material outside the focus of his poems. Both allude (that is, refer indirectly) to a number of events that are never fully explained. Part of the original contribution that any traditional artist makes is to shape an inherited story in just this way, by emphasizing some elements at the expense of others that may simply be omitted. These omissions are in themselves significant. Indeed, one reason for studying the backgrounds of creative work is to learn what artists select from the traditional options in offering their versions of well-known material. What they include and equally what they exclude reveal much about their priorities, their vision of the world.
Thetis, the leader of the Nereids or sea-nymphs, plays a much more important role in the Iliad than her relatively minor status would seem to warrant. She can exercise a degree of leverage over Zeus, whom she reputedly saved from a plot by his siblings. Her beauty was so great that Zeus wanted to marry her, but with the prediction that the son of Thetis would outshine his father, the Olympian gods hastily arranged for her to marry a mortal.
That mortal was the hero Peleus, the son of the king of the Myrmidons, Aeacus, who was himself a son of Zeus, and the brother of Telamon. All of the gods, except for Eris (Discord), were invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. In retaliation for this slight, Eris threw a golden apple marked "For the fairest" into the midst of the partygoers. Paris, prince of Troy and well known as a connoisseur of feminine charms, was asked to choose "the fairest." The contest pitted the three most powerful Olympian goddesses against each other: Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. Paris awarded the golden apple to the latter, who promised him in return the hand of the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen, wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta. Paris subsequently abducted Helen while he was a guest in the palace of Menelaus.
After so inauspicious a beginning to married life, Thetis did not remain in Peleus' palace for very long after their marriage. Wishing her child Achilles to be immortal, she tried to temper the infant's body by holding him in fire. (4) Appalled, Peleus intervened, and Thetis left him. As a consequence, Achilles was brought up by a succession of surrogate parents. Yet Thetis continued to be concerned about her husband and especially her son, emerging from her father's house in the depths of the sea to help Achilles whenever she could.
Agamemenon and Menelaus, sons of Atreus, belong to one of the most troubled families in all of Greek mythology. From one generation to the next, the members of the House of Atreus, their father, inflict atrocities on one another so that long-held grudges fester. Agamemnon in particular is doomed by this disastrous inheritance. Without some understanding of this history, neither the Iliad nor the Odyssey can fully be appreciated.
The brothers Agamemnon and Menelaus marry sisters, Clytemnestra and Helen. While Menelaus and Helen not only survive the Trojan War, but also (according to the Odyssey) resume an apparently stable marriage when it is over, Agamemnon and Clytemnestra do not. Too much bitterness lies buried in their past for Clytemnestra to excuse the faults of Agamemnon as Menelaus excuses Helen's.
Before the Achaians embark on their expedition to Troy to recover Helen, Agamemnon summons the allies to the port of Aulis, from which the ships are to debark. Dependent upon the winds to fill their sails, the ships sit stalled in calm weather while the allied troops become restless. Agamemnon consults the seer Kalchas, who informs him that the goddess Artemis demands a human sacrifice before she will permit the winds to blow. The crafty Odysseus goes to Clytemnestra in Mycenae to say that Agamemnon intends to give their daughter Iphigenia to Achilles in marriage. When Iphigenia arrives, she is sacrificed to the goddess rather than wed to the hero, and the winds rise. But Clytemnestra never forgives her husband.
Also unforgiving is Agamemnon's cousin Aegisthus, whose father Thyestes had long feuded with Atreus. Atreus invited Thyestes to a banquet at which two murdered children of Thyestes were served to their father in a pie. During the Trojan War, Aegisthus becomes the lover of Clytemnestra; after the war, the two conspire to kill Agamemnon when he returns in triumph to Mycenae. In the Odyssey, Odysseus hears often about the brutal murder of Agamemnon, a fate which makes him cautious as he prepares to return to a wife whom he has not seen for almost twenty years.
The story of the golden apples explains why Aphrodite favors the Trojans in the war (though she has another motive as well, since she is the mother of Aeneas, a Trojan hero), and why Hera and Athena bitterly oppose them. The sacrifice of Iphigenia explains why Kalchas asks Achilles for protection before he will advise Agamemnon during the plague. Homer, however, does not dwell on this pre-history.
In general, the motives of the immortal gods concern Homer much less than do the motives of mortals, and the present interests him more than the past. By contrast, as we shall see, the Greek dramatists probe the roots of their characters' actions in more detail. Although Homeric narrative shares its subject matter with classical Greek tragedy, its viewpoint is unique. What matters in the epics is how one acts now: the sense of immediacy which the oral poet strives to create has been perpetuated in Homer's poems.
2. Or Ge (compare "geology," study of the earth).
3. Zeus is one of the male father-gods typical of Indo-European cultures. Significantly, in this story of his youth, Zeus is nurtured by his powerful mother and grandmother, who are identified with Crete, where the mother-goddess was supreme. Evidence for this worship of the feminine has been found in the artwork recovered from Minos' great palace at Knossos. Minoan religion, like its presumed Mesopotamian sources, involved the worship of a fertility goddess. Matriarchal rituals also were practiced in the Cycladic islands surrounding Delos, judging from the sculptures predominantly in female form discovered there.
4. A later Roman story has Thetis protect her infant son by immersing him in one of the four rivers of Hades, the Styx. Since she held him by his heel, that portion of his anatomy (his "Achilles' heel") remained vulnerable to attack.


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A couple weekends ago I attended the Desert Ice Bonspiel. Their 8th, my first. I had originally hoped to get our team in, but they booked it fast and early. Luckily, Bond Girl Marissa had a spot open on her team, and I was lucky number three to be asked to go! Then, our first game was at 7am. Not a fan of the early mornings. At. All. However, the fortune cookie that came with my giant panini encouraged me to wake up early.
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got it togehter for the third. Not having the timer didn't really affect our sweeping, but it made a huge difference in my delivery. I like having that quantifiable number to reference for each stone I deliver. Night and day from the first two games to the last three. Despite that, I think our on ice success had a lot to do with our curling swagger. Fred, Marissa and I rocked the custom Adidas curling shoes.
Ed "The Wrench" Werenich and Neil Harrison and got a taste of their personalities. I can only imagine the stories I'd hear if we sat down for a pint or two.
The highlight, however, was playing on the team with Fred Maxie. On the ice was fun, but it's hard to do any real curling with crazy s-curves, ridges and uphill/downhill ice. It was off the ice where it got interesting for a curling nerd like myself.
Brier. In a controversy laden appearance, nonetheless! He got Ed Lukowich, a pretty damn good curler and already eliminated in Alberta provincial qualifying, to replace his injured dad who was playing at lead. But then Ed became skip, and they won Alberta. So people got pissed and he was a pretty hated guy. Couple that with being young and very outspoken/odd/immature, whatever, and there were a lot of press clippings and hurt feelings
sweet tankard along with the purple heart above. It should be noted that the rules changed the following year, a replacement player must play the same position, or something like that. All that made for some good stories. Good times and good curling.
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With 4 days until Virginia Tech faces Alabama in the Georgia Dome, we turn our attention to no. 4 on roster Mr. J.C. Coleman. Last season, Coleman added a spark to Virginia Tech's running game but at his current size, he just wasn't enough to overcome terrible blocking, poor wide receiver play, and lackluster play calling. With a year under his belt, Coleman has a chance to be a weapon for Virginia Tech this fall. Although he'll have to carry the load early on in the season while Trey Edmunds gets his feet underneath him, Coleman should slowly develop into a dual-threat player. I would expect to see the Oscar Smith grad split outwide several times a game and used on multiple end-arounds this season. Scot Loeffler will likely do everything he can to get Coleman on the outside in one-on-one situations with the defense. That's where he is most successful.
The Breakdown
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 192 lbs
Position: Running Back
Year: Sophomore
High School: Oscar Smith High School
Location: Chesapeake, VA
High School Career
Coleman missed three games during his senior season yet he still piled up 1488 yards and 20 touchdowns. That's impressive since Coleman plays in one of the toughest districts in the state of Virginia. His junior season though is what led to his impressive offer list. He fan for 1402 yards and 21 touchdowns that year.
For awhile, UVA was considered the favorite for Coleman but the young man shocked the world when he committed to Virginia Tech during the Hokies spring game. Coleman held offers from Tech, West Virginia, UVA, Maryland, Duke, Vandy, ODU, and FIU.
Reasons For Excitement
Playmaking Ability: As it stands, Coleman is the Hokies best playmakers. Think about it, who else on offense can take a three yard carry and turn it into an 80 yard touchdown? Logan Thomas can but only when he can run in a straight line and just use his long strides to get there. Demitri Knowles has that ability but he hasn't quite been able to do that on his own yet. If the Hokies are going to have any explosive plays, Coleman will be involved in them in some way, shape, or form.
Versatility: His size does make him a tough target to hit in the passing game but Coleman is the type of player you can split outwide when needed. He's similar to Percy Harvin with his versatility. Whether or not he can deliver at the same level as Harvin did for the Gators a few years back remains to be seen.
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Can He Be A 20 Carry Back?: I think that's the real question as the season looms. A lot of Tech fans are expecting Edmunds to develop into our workhorse with Coleman being a guy we spell him with and move around in various roles. However, early on in the season, I actually see those roles being reversed. I see the coaches using Coleman more until Edmunds gets his feet wet. So, can Coleman be a 20 carry a game guy and still be effective? That's a good question.
What to Expect in 2013
Something better than last year. I think that's what VT fans should expect. We're not going to fix this thing overnight but improvement is necessary if Tech wants to win more than 7 games again in 2013. Coleman is crucial to our success this year and I'm expecting at least 700 yards out of him this season. I think that would be a positive step forward since he is, after all, still a true sophomore.
I think after the first three weeks, Tech fans will know what we have in our running game. I don't want to base everything on Alabama because they're the best team we'll face all season. They might be the best team Coleman faces in his entire career, honestly. Also, I don't want to base everything on Western Carolina because of the talent differential. But, after ECU, we should know whether Edmunds and Coleman will give Tech a better ground game than what we had last year with Coleman, Holmes, and Tony Gregory.
Bottom Line
I'm not expecting the world out of Coleman yet but I would like to see steady improvement out of him this fall. I think 700 yards rushing and maybe 200 yards receiving wouldn't be a bad goal for the sophomore. If he can top that then the Hokies might have just enough to return to Charlotte as the king of the Coastal Division.
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Defense also shines for CLU
WHEN/WHERE: Today, 7 p.m., Ernie Chapman Stadium.
LAST YEAR: CLU def. Chapman 27-6.
SERIES HISTORY: CLU leads 11-5.
GAME FACTS: The showdown will be a conference game next season when Chapman becomes an official member of the SCIAC. Chapman QB Bret Visciglia has thrown for 1,309 yards while Chad Milburn (67.4 ypg) and Kali'i Kunitomo (63.4 ypg) are the leading RB and WR, respectively. CLU's offense has been nearly unstoppable. Sr. QB Jake Laudenslayer has completed 105 of 165 passes for 1,664 yards and 14 touchdowns and is leading the SCIAC in passing efficiency. Jr. WR Eric Rogers leads the SCIAC in receiving with 94.9 yards per game while Sr. RB Daniel Mosier leads in scoring with 14 touchdowns.
It's easy for it to get lost amid all the high-scoring offensive theatrics.
But the Cal Lutheran football coaches haven't overlooked their team's recent defensive dominance.
The Kingsmen are allowing only 13.6 points and 285.7 yards per game this season. They have held three of their last four opponents to a touchdown or less.
CLU will be looking to enhance those statistics tonight when the No. 9 Kingsmen (6-1) play Chapman (4-3) in a nonconference game at Ernie Chapman Stadium.
"What the defense has been doing the last few weeks has been impressive," CLU head coach Ben McEnroe said. "They have handled the leading rusher in the nation and dropped 30 yards off his statistical average and held them to almost 200 yards below their season average. They have been excellent."
CLU has already clinched the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title and an automatic NCAA playoff berth.
But the Kingsmen still have plenty of motivation to continue their recent stretch of dominating play.
"We are still in consideration for a home playoff game and in order to earn that right we need to keep winning football games," McEnroe said. "We are trying to build the strongest case we can for ourselves because that is all we can do at this point."
McEnroe is confident his team has received the message and has no plans to take its foot off the gas pedal.
"I can tell by the way they have practiced the last couple of days they have not suffered any lapse in focus," McEnroe said. "Our guys know what they need to do and they are ready to play. There is not going to be any letdown. If we are going to be beat, a team is going to play better than us. We won't lose because we are not focused."
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Intel's Tiny Hope for the Future (continued)
What's Intel's interest in all this? Think of Maytag bankrolling research into cheaper prefab houses: More homeowners means more dishwashers. "Do I care about ducks in Maine? Absolutely not," says Gelsinger. "Do I care about exploring applications so we can start to demonstrate the value of these networks? Absolutely. What I'm really interested in is selling a lot of silicon for these little devices here."
UC Berkeley's relationship with Intel is governed by an open collaborative research agreement, which requires that nearly all of its work be nonexclusive. Sensor net software, in particular, is flourishing in this open environment. The motes are powered by TinyOS, a Berkeley-designed, stripped-down operating system built to run on 128 kilobytes of memory. Hellerstein estimates that only a few dozen programmers worldwide have mastered TinyOS. But that number is growing rapidly as curious geeks download the code from open source software development site SourceForge.net. Hundreds of downloaders are experimenting with TinyOS, and Hellerstein credits non-Intel developers with honing the motes' ability to coordinate their relative positions to one another. He hopes a compatible database program, TinyDB, will get similar treatment.
The lablet has also farmed out its hardware needs, striking a deal with San Jose's Crossbow Technology. Crossbow agreed to make a few hundred motes for researchers at a cut rate; in return, it received an undisclosed investment from Intel Capital.
Sensors can't become the next big thing until a host of mundane technical issues are resolved: How to get the chipset radios off the crowded 900-MHz spectrum? How to program the networks to not just spew reams of information but be intelligent enough to figure out which measurements are vital and which are junk? "The challenge in tiny sensors is doing some computation at the level of the motes," says Hellerstein. "It's just too expensive to ship out all the data."
Then there's the power issue. Despite TinyOS's relatively scant memory requirements, the motes still burn through batteries far too quickly. And even if they didn't, there would be no room for alkaline AAs in a sensor-filled future. There's talk among researchers of using solar cells, or even MEMS devices that harvest imperceptible vibrations in the environment, but no ready solution.
The toughest challenge of all is creating motes clever enough to function without constant tending. "How do you ensure that people build motes that can be deployed by a local farmer?" asks Richard Beckwith, who heads Intel's sensor experiments in vineyard maintenance. "That's a really hard problem. I'm sure it's going to happen, but I'm not sure how."
"We used to joke inside the company that Intel is the largest single-cell organism on the planet," says Gelsinger. The joke, like many engineering cracks, isn't exactly ha-ha funny, but it is revealing. For all of its runaway success with processors, Intel has had a tough time diversifying.
Despite a triumphant third quarter, the firm realizes that the desktop processor market is starting to plateau. In the not-too-distant future, Moore's law could become too pricey to maintain; there's no point in building yet another multibillion-dollar fab if its chips are too expensive for the lion's share of users. The company needs new industries to colonize, and sensors are a logical first step. Intel won't say exactly how much it has put toward sensor nets so far, but it's certainly less than $50 million. "That's not even Intel's latte budget," says G. Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research, which tracks the semiconductor industry.
The good news about sensors as a diversification play is there's no competition to fend off; other companies have shown little initiative in developing the technology. And sensor nets certainly make for impressive demos. At an Intel Developer Forum early last year, Gelsinger wowed the audience by releasing a swarm of sensor-studded beach balls. As they bounced around, the balls beamed their ever-shifting coordinates to a base station, which in turn charted each orb's movement on a large display. It was proof, Gelsinger announced, that sensor networks can self-configure on the fly - the key to fulfilling his vision of motes that can be deployed like pixie dust.
Right now, the motes are a lot closer in size to golf balls. Which means that the company is looking for short-term uses that don't require the sensors to be ultrasmall - or ultracheap. The example that Gelsinger loves to bandy about is an assembly line outfitted with $200 motes designed to gauge machine vibration. If a robot's rumble feels out of sync, the motes relay a warning to a supervisor's laptop: Machine number 27 will break down in the next 30 days. "Now, this piece of equipment costs a million dollars, and it's a disaster if it breaks," he says. "In that case, a $200 sensor is a very cheap device. I mean, it's trivial if you can actually solve this nightmare problem."
But Gelsinger knows that assembly-line motes will do little to burnish Intel's rep as a trailblazer. The hoopla, in large part generated by Gelsinger's fervor, is over smart dust, sensors shrunk down literally to the size of specks. The goal is to halve the size and price of a mote every 18 months, which would have each unit about the size of a grain of rice and selling for around $5 by 2011. That would enable the company to scatter tiny self-configuring hardware as casually as corn seeds. "I want to get to where I'm cranking up huge fabs to deliver, you know, Intel Inside Band-Aids," says Gelsinger. "Let's say a Band-Aid today costs a penny. In the future, they'll sell 10-cent Band-Aids that are also interactive heart monitors. We'll get to a price point where everything starts to have sensors. And when we get there, Intel will be building enormous fabs for consumables as well as ones for maintainable devices."
Has Gelsinger been reading too much Neal Stephenson? "Intel's whole business is built around selling $200 processors," says Linley Gwennap, president of the Linley Group and former editor in chief of Microprocessor Report. "You have to sell an awful lot of $2 processors to make the same amount of money. Sure, if you put them in Band-Aids the volume is going to be tremendously high. But it's not a slam dunk that the mathematics will make it profitable."
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Schumacher joined the SPD in 1918 and served as editor of its newsletter during 1920–1924. He was elected to the Württemberg Diet in 1924, serving until 1931, and to the Reichstag in 1930, serving until 1933. He was imprisoned much of the time during 1933–1944 because of his opposition to Nazi rule.
In 1945, Schumacher became a driving force in the recreation of the SPD, proving to be a staunch opponent of the merging of the party with the German Communist Party (KPD). The October 1946 merger agreement reached with Otto Grotewohl, chairman of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East German) SPD, confirmed Schumacher's status as the leading SPD politician in Germany's western occupation zones. After the fusion of the SPD and KPD in the Soviet occupation zone, which brought the Socialist Unity Party (SED) into being, Schumacher was elected chairman of the SPD for West Germany and West Berlin. A member of the Parliamentary Council since 1948, he supported the founding of West Germany but repeatedly stressed its provisional character.
Schumacher's campaign to become the first West German president ended unsuccessfully in the September 1949 elections. As a member of the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) since 1949 and especially as opposition leader of the SPD group, he became one of the strongest critics of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, whose policy of integrating West Germany into the Western bloc was regarded by Schumacher as the main obstacle to Germany's reunification. Schumacher called Adenauer "the chancellor of the Allies" during a parliamentary debate in November 1949 and was excluded from a subsequent session. Schumacher not only opposed the dismantling of Ruhr industry and the agreements on the Saar region but also fought against the entry of West Germany into the European Council and against the founding of the European Steel and Coal Community. In spring 1952, he regarded the so-called Stalin Note, a Soviet propaganda proposal to reunite Germany, as an important step forward, but Adenauer rejected Schumacher's demand to consider it seriously. Schumacher died in Bonn on 20 August 1952.
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Childs, David. From Schumacher to Brandt: The Story of German Socialism, 1945–1965. Oxford and Frankfurt: Pergamon, 1966.; Edinger, Lewis J. Kurt Schumacher: A Study in Personality and Political Behavior. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1965.; Merseburger, Peter. Die schwierige Deutsche, Kurt Schumacher: Eine Biographie. Stuattgart: Deutsche Velags-Anstalt, 1995.; Moeller, Robert G., ed. West Germany under Construction: Politics, Society, and Culture in the Adenauer Era. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.


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When fire swept through the F.X. Matt Brewery in West Utica on May 29, 2008, firefighters streamed to the scene from New Hartford, Whitesboro, Yorkville, New York Mills, Ilion, Willowvale and Maynard to help city crews. There were no municipal boundaries — just a powerful sense of community working together for the common cause.
That same teamwork needs to be employed across the region to get area roads cleared following a major snowstorm.
Municipal leaders who oversee public works should get together and determine the best way to make that happen. It shouldn't matter whether a Utica plow clears a New Hartford road or that a Whitestown plow helps out in Westmoreland. The idea is to get the roads cleared and make them safe for drivers. Period.
Making roads passable following a major storm is a challenge facing all of our communities. For instance, what good does it do to have Route 233 clear in the town of Westmoreland if it's impassable once you get to the Kirkland town line? Or having Genesee Street clear in Utica, but clogged in New Hartford village?
Most municipalities have little, if any trouble, clearing the roads after a routine winter snowfall. Snow is no surprise in the Mohawk Valley this time of year, and public works departments have skilled workers to handle the situation.
But steady storms that bring abnormal amounts of snow test even the best departments. Richard Conte, a heavy equipment operator and former DPW commissioner in Utica, recently told the city council that the department's resources have been stretched, and that a lengthy storm could prove troublesome. Other communities could find themselves in a similar situation. That's when a united effort is critical.
Creating a regional storm team is not without its complexities. But it can work. When a devastating fire wiped out the town of Marshall's highway equipment in January 2011, the town kept roads clear by working with two contiguous towns — Kirkland and Sangerfield.
Let's not wait for some great emergency for municipalities to explore such a cooperative effort on a larger scale. As was the case with the brewery fire, neighbors can make a huge difference in exceptional circumstances. The bottom line is that we're all in this together. When an Oriskany motorist gets stuck in a blizzard in Boonville and needs to get home, he doesn't really care who plows the road.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — James Harden scored 21 points Thursday to lead the Houston Rockets to a 116-96 win over the Indiana Pacers in the first NBA preseason game in the Philippines.
Omri Casspi added 17 points and 10 rebounds off the bench for Houston, while Paul George led the Pacers with 17 points. Dwight Howard was held to nine points in his second game for the Rockets after struggling with foul trouble, and had four turnovers.
Houston coach Kevin McHale started Patrick Beverly at point guard and Terrence Jones at power forward instead of Jeremy Lin and Donatas Motiejunas, who started in the first preseason game.
"I told them I will change starting lineups every game to see what happens. They're aware of it," McHale said. "On this game, I saw D-Mo (Motiejunas) having a great synergy with Omri Casspi and the bench was just energized."
AMICK: Dwight never waffled on Rockets
NO. 1?: Is top SG Kobe, Wade or Harden?
For Indiana coach Frank Vogel, the Rockets just showed up more ready to play.
"It's simple: the Rockets played better than us," he said.
NBA Commissioner David Stern said that basketball-obsessed Philippines was an ideal host for NBA preseason games, and the league could go to other Southeast Asian countries in the future.
He said that Filipinos were "rabid fans in a wonderful way."
"The NBA is always trying to find ways to take advantage of opportunities particularly in Southeast Asia, and the Philippines lead the way," Stern said. "But we're beginning to see activity around like Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore."
The teams will play each other again on Sunday in Taiwan, the ancestral home of Rockets guard Lin.
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