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New Book on World Heritage Sites in the Philippines
Living Landscapes and Cultural Landmarks: World Heritage Sites in the Philippines by Augusto F. Villalon, Photographs by Neal M. Oshima, Publisher: ...
Thursday, 23 August 2007
UNESCO Mission rallies support for the preservation of the mountain gorillas of the DRC
A mission of experts led by UNESCO has rallied the support of the authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations ...
Tuesday, 21 August 2007
UNESCO joins United Nations effort in response to Peruvian earthquake
UNESCO's World Heritage Centre extends its deepest sympathies to those who have been affected by the powerful August 15 earthquake in Peru, which ...
Tuesday, 21 August 2007
Inscription of Lopé-Okanda site (Gabon) on UNESCO's World Heritage List
Gabon celebrated the inscription of its Lopé-Okanda site on UNESCO's World Heritage List over the weekend of 11-12 August 2007. Spanning four ...
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
"Journalisme et Patrimoine Mondial" just published
Heritage advocates often reproach journalists for not being sufficiently interested in their field and for being only able to speak about it in a ...
Tuesday, 7 August 2007
Dubrovnik Saved from Wildfires
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is relieved that the wildfires around the city of Dubrovnik (Croatia) are now under control and would like to pay ...
Tuesday, 7 August 2007
New Episodes of Patrimonito's World Heritage Adventures available
Two new episodes, the fourth and fifth in the series Patrimonito's World Heritage Adventures ,are now available. 4th: Ethiopia ...
Thursday, 2 August 2007
Winners of Patrimonito Storyboard Competition 2007 Announced
The winners of the most recent Patrimonito Storyboard Competition have been announced. The winning storyboard will be developed into the next ...
Thursday, 2 August 2007
Director-General voices concern over fate of Virunga National Park gorillas
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Following his retirement from 3M where he had worked for 30 years, Glen Ellyn resident Willie DiFabio embarked on a hike of more than 2,100 miles from Georgia to Maine along the Appalachian Trail. The trip took nearly seven months in 2008. He'll describe the people and places he encountered and the exceptional challenges of the trail, including the trail's geology, terrain and cultures along the way. DiFabio will share his adventures in a free talk, sponsored by the College's Cultural Events, at noon Tuesday, April 12, in Meiley-Swallow Hall.
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FHM received hundreds of thousands of votes on who is the sexiest women alive. Here we have captured the top 25 on FHM's list of sexiest women! Singer/songwriter Cher Lloyd comes in at #25. (Credit: Toby Canham/Getty Images)
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23. Kate Upton
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21. Laura Haddock
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19. Frankie Sandford
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New Mexico's centennial license plate is getting rave reviews for its design.
Gov. Susana Martinez has received a plaque from the Automobile License Plate CollectorsAssociation for New Mexico having the best license plate in the nation for 2010.
It's the turquoise plate featuring a Zia sun symbol.
Video game of the week
Each week Jenna Zamie, our own gamester of renown, combs the web for recommendations.
Game: Gatling Gears
Genre: Shoot 'em up
System: 360, PS3
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Bug study
Dora Consolidated Schools summer school session for kindergarten through sixth-grade students focuses on bugs.
Butterflies, dragonflies, ants, beetles and spiders are among the creatures students will learn about May 31 through June 3.
Students will start a bug journal, create art projects, do scientific experiments such hatching butterflies and take a field trip to observe studied species outdoors.
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On this day in 1920, Karol Jozef Wojtyla is born in the Polish town of Wadowice, 35 miles southwest of Krakow.
Wojtyla went on to become Pope John Paul II, history's most well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century.
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Holiday Drink Recipes from Tempe Mission Palms
November 20, 2012
Our Harry's Place "Mixologist" has been hard at work to create cocktails that can easily be made at home. We invite you to try this "Pumpkin Pie Martini" or "Hot Chocolate Cherry Bomb" this holiday season, as they are a hit here at Tempe Mission Palms. These drinks would be a perfect night-cap by the fire, or an easy "signature" cocktail at your next party. Cheers!
Pumpkin Pie Martini
1 Shot vanilla flavored vodka
1 Shot Irish cream
1 Heaping tablespoon pumpkin puree
1 Small Splash butterscotch Schnapps
1 Splash heavy cream
Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously. Pour into chilled martini glass. Garnish with whipped cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
Hot Chocolate Cherry Bomb
1 Shot cherry flavored vodka
1 Splash of cherry juice (or Grenadine)
1 Packet of hot chocolate
Prepare hot chocolate as directed. In cocktail mug, add vodka, cherry juice, and hot chocolate. Stir well and garnish with whipped cream, cherry, and chocolate shavings.


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Eraldo SpinelliOctober 29,2013Eraldo Spinelli
SPRINGFIELD Eraldo Joe Spinelli, 98, died Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, at his home in Springfield.
He was born Sept. 17, 1915, in Barre, the son of Umberto and Vitoria (Zorzie) Spinelli.
He attended schools in Barre, and graduated from Spaulding High School.
In 1938, he married Frances Bishop. They divorced and he later married Georgia Romano of Bellows Falls in 1954.
He was employed as a machinist by the Fellows Gear Shaper Company in Springfield most of his life.
He enjoyed golf, bowling and fishing.
He was a life member of the Springfield Elks Lodge B.P.O.E. #1560.
Survivors include two sons, Michael Spinelli of Waterbury Center, and Norman Spinelli of Springfield; a daughter, Martha Bruce of East Greenbush, N.Y.; nine grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by his wife, Georgia; two brothers, Louis and Elnoro; and also by a sister, Nelia.
A funeral service will be held at 12 noon Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, at the Davis Memorial Chapel in Springfield. The Rev. Peter Williams, pastor of St. Marys Catholic Church, will officiate.
Burial will follow in St. Charles Cemetery in Bellows Falls.
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Food Prices and Diabetes
By Health Day
Type 2 diabetes patients aiming to control their condition with a healthy diet face a big obstacle, new research reveals: high food prices.
A fresh analysis published in the American Journal of Public Health shows that as prices for healthy foods go up, so do blood sugar levels among people with diabetes. The finding comes from a close look at the results of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey- for the years 1999 through 2006. The survey takes an annual dietary snapshot of American food habits... while noting key indicators of blood sugar status.
The study team also examined the cost of groceries for the same timeframe using statistics drawn from the Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database.
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ASUS unveiled the release of their palm-sized projector - S1 - for the Japanese market. It will be out on sale on July 25.
A projection technology called DLP technology is applied for the S1. Thanks to that, S1 reproduces colors better than usual LCD projectors and projects clear images with high contrast. It features an LED light source, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 30~100 inch screen size, 0.73~2.43m projection distance, and maximum luminance of 200 lumen.


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In a recent "warning letter" to 23andMe, the FDA informed the genetic testing company that they are marketing their Saliva Collection Kit and Personal Genome Service (PGS) to the public without the proper marketing clearance or approval from the FDA. The FDA then went on to say that 23andMe needs to discontinue marketing the PSG kit until the company has received FDA approval to do so. The Genomics Law Report outlines some background and details of the cease and desist letter in two posts, here and here. If you're interested in more of the legalities and potential implications of the FDA v. 23andMe battle, the posts are a great read.
However, what really resonated with PPR was this Scientific American article by Charles Seife, also prompted by the recent FDA/23andMe kerfuffle: 23andMe is Terrifying, But Not for the Reasons the FDA Thinks. Seife also touches on the regulatory issue with the FDA, but really captures what we see to be the bigger problem with 23andMe with this:
But as the FDA frets about the accuracy of 23andMe's tests, it is missing their true function, and consequently the agency has no clue about the real dangers they pose. The Personal Genome Service isn't primarily intended to be a medical device. It is a mechanism meant to be a front end for a massive information-gathering operation against an unwitting public.
As Seife also reports, the company wants to become the "Google of personalized health care." Well, yikes.
For now, 23andMe says they won't sell your information without your explicit consent, but we've seen enough policies and rules change over time (e.g., Google's constantly changing policies, HIPAA and the elimination of consent, etc.) to know that "guarantee" isn't written in stone. Sure, it's possible that the company wants to use the data it collects for research that proves beneficial to the public, but…it doesn't seem like a huge leap to say that 23andMe isn't gathering all that data for altruistic purposes.
Ultimately, as Seife says, the real issue here is what 23andMe (and any other company or organization that collects personal health information) should be allowed to do with the data it collects. There are a number of privacy problems that must be considered when answering that question, which Seife also outlines quite well in the article. Of course, the debate over how we can best manage privacy concerns vs. public benefit and other interests is complex and varied. But at the very least, PPR believes you should be in charge of how your personal information is used. And, you should be able to see who all has access to it, when someone has accessed it, and why.
Side Note: As always, we want to point out that we're not trying to stand in the way of the very cool things happening with research and technology. In fact, we are very excited about the possibilities offered by advancements in these fields. We like you, research and technology, we really like you. But we like research and technology that does what the public expects and truly protects your privacy; that doesn't allow your personal information to be used or shared in hidden ways; that allows you to be in charge and aware of what's happening with your personal information at all times; that you can trust to honor your wishes regarding how your sensitive health information is used.


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I guess I spend a lot of time on the Internet, because I am aware that there's an entire subculture of people out there who see idiots and immediately think, "I must be that idiot," and, worse, I just became one for the purposes of this article. I am, of course, talking about YouTube challenges.
YouTube challenges rose to fame with the cinnamon challenge and expanded from there. The basic idea is to do something awful to yourself while filming it, then upload it to the Internet so other people can see it, laugh at your pain, and then do it to themselves. It's like a mentally crippled ouroboros trying to fuck itself in the eye.
Having seen numerous people do these things in videos, I was genuinely unable to discern why they were doing them -- it generally looks painful and without reward. Was that the point? Only one way to find out! But obviously you'd learn nothing if I just filmed these things. Instead, I'll try them out and then pass on my observations to you so you can spare yourself the anguish of trying at home to find out what all the fuss is about.
4 The Cinnamon Challenge
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The Rules: Take a tablespoon of powdered cinnamon and swallow it without any water.
The Gist: This is hard to do, as cinnamon is dried-out malice. Even the Mythbusters agree.
Observations: I learned that I have a lot of cinnamon in my cupboard first and foremost. I think people buy it for me assuming I am incapable of living like a real human and cinnamon would help me achieve normality. I can't recall ever using it.
I've watched videos of the cinnamon challenge enough to know what was going to happen to me. Did you know what was going to happen to me? There's coughing and gagging, sometimes even vomiting. None of these really appealed to me, but there are literally hundreds if not thousands of videos online of people doing it. What's the payoff?
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Pain. Pain is the payoff.
There is no payoff to doing the cinnamon challenge. The moment you attempt to swallow a spoonful of cinnamon, you can literally feel a searing tightness work its way down your throat, as though your body is saying "What are you, fucking stupid?" and trying to clench itself off before you do more damage. The worst part is that, if you're extra special stupid like me, the moment the cinnamon leaves your tongue and fills your mouth with a billion desiccated granules of desert-like awful, you panic and suck in quickly, trying to free yourself, which means you both swallow and inhale the cinnamon for a one-two punch of dumbassery that makes the spice invade two sections of your body where it doesn't belong.
You really have less than a breath to enjoy this dry, kind of stinging pain feeling, because now your body reacts with explosive disapproval. You cough-retch your way through the entire spoonful, which has now multiplied in size to several cups' worth of reddish dust billowing about your stupid head.
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It's like this, but less empyrean.
I was totally unable to do this challenge, and I'm OK with that. Success means swallowing a spoonful of spice, a reward at once so pointless and so undesirable that I can barely fathom how it came to be that this challenge is even a thing. I can only assume it's a mixture of schadenfreude and bizarre voodoo mind control that can account for its continual existence.
3 The Condom Challenge
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The Rules: Jam a condom (ideally unused) up your nose and snort until it comes to the back of your throat, from which you can pull it into your mouth. This was once known as "mental floss."
The Gist: I guess you could choke yourself out doing this or puke or something. The science behind it is kind of old as dirt, though. I once saw a dude do it with a live snake. Shoenice here does it double barrel. Good job, man.
Observations: I bought some magnum condoms for this because I figured they'd be the easiest to maneuver through the inside of my skull. I bought them at the pharmacy down the street, and the lady at the register literally made a Mrs. Krabappel-esque "ha" when she rang it up. It was subdued, but it was definitely there. Judgmental jerk. There goes her chance to ride the Felix Funk Ferret.
Back home, I observed a video or two and then tried my hand. I jammed the reservoir tip into my nostril and it just flopped there for a moment like a massive, deflated shlong booger. I imagine I looked shameful, another reason I wasn't filming this. Pressing my other nostril shut, I began to snort. For the first few moments, it was like I had a terrible cold and the condom wouldn't get loose. Then it hit a sinus cavity or whatever's back there and nothing felt good anymore.
Things happen fast right here, but I can tell you your eye will refuse to stay wide open and you'll be overcome with the urge to hack up the rubberiest loogie of all time. Disgusting noises burst forth, and it feels a bit like you did in fact just have your skull fucked. It's not a good feeling. There's a reason you don't run things from your nose to your mouth; that passage doesn't need to be scoured clean ever.
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It's in there. The blue part.
As quickly as it started, I found myself grasping a slimy rubber tip at the back of my throat and yanking the condom out of my head. It had traversed the inside of my mind and come out unscathed. I had violated my own face and learned nothing. Not one damn thing. My eye had begun watering, and there was a dull sting somewhere inside of me. The location was diffuse and hard to pinpoint. Maybe it was my soul, now coated in a thin layer of spermicide.
The whole process was uncomfortable but not painful. And I had in a single try succeeded in making the condom challenge something of a loser in my books. What was the point? Mild degradation? I can get that at work.


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For Immediate Release
March 29, 2007
Illinois History Teacher of the Year program accepting nominations
Award recognizes dedication to students and American history
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Board of Education announced today that nominations are being sought for the annual Illinois History Teacher of the Year Award. The award honors experienced teachers who are dedicated to sharing with students an understanding of America's past. The history teacher of the year program is sponsored by the Illinois State Board of Education, in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Preserve America.
"It is important that our students understand where America has been so that they can lead us into the future," Interim State Superintendent Christopher Koch said. "This is an opportunity to nominate a favorite history teacher, one who has made a difference in the lives of their students and is passionate about their sharing their subject."
The History Teacher of the Year Award is designed to promote and celebrate the teaching of American history in classrooms across the United States. It honors one exceptional K-6 teacher of American history from each state and U.S. territory. The selection of the state winner is based upon several criteria, including: experience in teaching American history for at least three years; a deep career commitment to teaching American history; evidence of creativity and imagination in the classroom; and close attention to documents, artifacts, historic sites, and the other primary materials of history.
The state winner will receive a $1,000 honorarium and will be in the running for the National History Teacher of the Year award to be selected this fall. His or her school library will receive a core archive of history books and materials.
The 2006 Illinois History Teacher of the Year was Marcella Vancil, a teacher at Flossie Wiley Elementary School in Urbana. Kristy Lynn Caywood of A. Vito Martinez Middle School in Romeoville was the 2005 Illinois History Teacher of the Year.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in partnership with Preserve America, inaugurated the award in 2004.
Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history. Increasingly national and international in scope, the Institute targets audiences ranging from students to scholars to the general public. It creates history-centered schools and academic research centers, organizes seminars and enrichment programs for educators, partners with school districts to implement Teaching American History grants, produces print and electronic publications and traveling exhibitions, and sponsors lectures by eminent historians. The Institute also funds awards including the Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and George Washington Book Prizes and offers fellowships for scholars to work in history archives, including the Gilder Lehrman Collection.
Preserve America is a White House initiative that encourages greater shared knowledge about the nation's past and increased local participation in preserving the country's cultural and natural heritage assets.
The deadline to submit a nomination for the Illinois History Teacher of the year is Monday, April 9, 2007. For more information, contact John Craig, Illinois Coordinator, at 217-782-4823 or email@example.com.


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Mr. Ruiz was born to Galdino Ruiz and Lucia Lujano in Whitsett on May 31, 1948. He married Rufina (Ruiz) Ruiz on May 9, 1969, in George West and resided in Three Rivers. He was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Three Rivers and worked as heavy equipment operator.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Angel Rudy Ruiz Jr.; a sister, Carmen Ruiz; and a brother, Galdino Ruiz.
Survivors include his wife, Rufina (Ruiz) Ruiz of Three Rivers; children Yvonne Ruiz of Corpus Christi, Yvette (Johnny) Hernandez of Portland and Leroy (Charlotte) Ruiz of Three Rivers; brothers, Robert (Lupe) Ruiz, Salvador (Rita) Ruiz, Joe (Nora) Ruiz and Mike (Celia) Ruiz, all of Three Rivers; sisters, Lupe (Adan) Martinez of George West and Leonor Ruiz of Three Rivers; grandchildren, Rebecca M. Ruiz, Mathew Ruiz, Anthonyray Ruiz and Ava Hernandez; and numerous nieces, nephews and relatives.
Visitation was held Tuesday from 1 to 9 p.m. at Galloway & Sons Funeral Home Chapel Three Rivers. A rosary was there that evening at 7 o'clock.
The funeral service will be conducted today (Wednesday) at 2 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Internment to follow at Three Rivers Cemetery with Rev. Zielinski officiating.
Pallbearers will be Daniel Bermudez, Butch Tejeda, Rodney Cantu, Michael Cantu, Robert Gilkerson, Gilbert Ruiz, Bertie Ruiz, Danny Ruiz.
Honorary pallbearers will be Rodney Cantu Jr. and Eddie Ruiz.
Services entrusted to Galloway & Sons Funeral Home, Three Rivers.


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The bossman bid on a fence building job along the right-of-way of a newly paved road in the northern New Mexico mountains. He didn't tell the ranch hands about it until he actually got the contract in hand.
All chores having to do with fencing — building, repairing, riding in search of problems — are WAY far down the list of jobs cowboys like, even below corral cleaning.
Fences on most ranches are made of four-strands of barbed wire strung on cedar posts. This highway job, though, was different. They needed steel posts. Supposedly, that was better (read easier) because rather than digging post holes, then tamping the dirt down tight after the posts were set, the steel posts could be driven into the dirt with some special equipment.
It was summertime, cool in the mountains, the cowboys needed their jobs, the bossman offered a bonus if they finished on time. They all packed up their bedrolls, gloves, assorted other personal equipment and headed for the mountains.
The boss's wife was drafted as camp cook, which was not good, but when a crew like this has worked really hard all day any old food will do as long as there's plenty of it, and she got that part right.
Two cabins were rented. They had running water, but no bath facilities. A lady down the road, though, offered her bathtub, water, soap, etc., for a small fee. At least they could clean up.
Everything went great the first few days. Then came the problem. The boss had not realized much of the fence line was through solid rock. Many spots required blasting to loosen things up so the posts could be driven.
The cost went up, of course, the profit went down, the bossman's ulcers acted up. This was not a happy camp. Until…
One afternoon they quit a little early and one of the hands happened to have a little red (of all colors) dry fly. He rigged up a line and pole with that red fly — and caught a mess of trout.
You'd have thought he'd struck gold from the celebration. The boss's wife did know how to cook trout, and they had a feast that night for supper. From then on everybody trooped down to that pond every chance they got, some other flies proved successful as well, and supper turned out to be a fun time. They even got out a set of dominoes and played "Shoot the Moon" — for money, of course.
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At last the fence topped the rocky hill, and they could drive the posts into genuine dirt for a change. They finished the job on time, and the cowboys all got their bonuses.
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Russia bashing is anti-AmericanJune 11,2014As a contributing author to the pre-nomination book by Webster Tarpley, Obama: The Postmodern
Coup The Making of a Manchurian Candidate, I am uniquely disappointed to watch that books warning that the election of Barack Obama would lead the world to war against Russia and China unfolding in our present time.
The fact of the matter is that President Putin, Russia and China are not threats to the United States, but that we have become a threat to ourselves. In a betrayal of our own national
mission, we have adopted the economic program of our enemy, British free trade, monetarism and militarism, and rejected the American system of political economy (to use Henry Clays term) of internal improvements, and protection of agriculture and industry.
The threat Russia and China pose is not to the people of the United States, but to our bankrupt financial system, typified by Wall Street, which has hijacked our national economic policy, our political parties and our major media organs. In writing Obama: The Postmodern Coup, we knew that a financial crisis triggered by the collapse of a quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble was looming, and that Wall Street would push a candidate to serve its desperate interests, and not a true national leader in the mold of FDR or JFK we sorely need.
On learning that Zbigniew Brzezinski served as a senior campaign adviser to candidate Obama, the strategy of this administration became clear. In contrast to the Mideast-oriented outlook of the neo-cons, the grand chessboard of Brzezinski has always been about ruling the world through controlling Moscow and Beijing, a fact known too well by Putin.
It was also understood that the modus operandi for this would not be the overt war of the neo-cons, but covert operations, such as color revolutions like the neo-Nazi overthrow of Ukraine, financed with $5 billion from the State Department and billions more from Wall Street cut-outs like financier George Soross International Renaissance Foundation.
Infamously, it was Brzezinski under Carter who in essence launched al-Qaida in Afghanistan to lure the Soviets into a trap. More recently, it was Brzezinski who pushed the Bush administration to give asylum to Chechen terrorist asset Ilyas Akhmadov, still on the State Department payroll, which Pravda declared to be like Russia giving asylum to Osama bin Laden. So much for the war on terror! Indeed, Putin would state, We can not have double standards when fighting terrorism, and it cannot be used as a geopolitical game.
Obama, following the Brzezinski script, is playing the Great Game of British imperialism, utilizing perpetual war to control the world, as is the case with the war against Libya, Syria and now the Ukraine. For Bush it was bombs away. For leftist Obama its color revolution, tribal terror proxies, asymmetrical warfare, regime change and if all else fails the type of direct bombing visited upon Libya.
Thank God so many Americans said no to a planned attack on Syria predicated upon a faked poison gas story, and that some in Congress were willing to impeach Obama, or this game might by now have moved to the brink of thermonuclear confrontation.
But, some protest, Putin jailed Pussy Riot hes a tyrant! Well, if a group of Wall Street-funded artists were filming their group orgies or masturbation with frozen chicken parts at the Rutland Hannaford, some leftists might have a different view.
Of course, Rutland is in the same situation as Russia when it comes to the flood of heroin. Most comes from Afghanistan under U.S. and British oversight. Perhaps Gov. Peter Shumlin should join with Russias call to have the poppy fields destroyed. Drugs are big money, and big money needs laundering, which takes big banks, and is easy to hide with the quadrillion dollar derivatives market swirling around.
And this is the point. The central choice we have to make as citizens is about our own economic system. The reason the American Revolution and Civil War were fought was to free America from the bondage of the British free trade economic model and to institute what became known as the American system of political economy, based on public control of money and credit, massive infrastructure projects, and the protection of manufacturing through tariffs.
Today we know free trade has not worked, yet the political system remains silent. Even the new black solar billboards around the state are certainly not made in America, but with cheap labor, because both parties sold the American worker and manufacturing out. Russia and China know better. We let cheap Chinese goods cross our border tax-free, but the Chinese auto industry keeps out Fords and Chevys with a 25 percent import tariff.
If it were not for Russia, the Union may have lost the Civil War. Yes, few know the fact that Russia pledged its fleet with an implicit threat to attack the British should it intervene to stop the Union blockade of the free trade confederacy. Russia was Americas friend in our war against imperialism, in our war against slavery, and in the war against fascism. Today, they can be our friend in economic development. We should learn to recognize a friend when we see one.
A few years back, Vermonters did call for the impeachment of President Bush, but I am afraid the principle of that call has been betrayed by politics, racism, and consent to the treason of our elected officials. Something must be done, to prevent the spark that could send the ICBMs flying, to prevent another president from inheriting this dictatorship, and to bring our nation and the world back from the brink.
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Many public officials have decided just saying no to requests for government documents is not the best way to keep them secret. Indirect assaults on the public's right to know are better, they believe. That way they cannot be accused of disobeying freedom of information laws.
As thoughtful Americans were pondering the observance of Sunshine Week last week, West Virginia Supreme Court members were considering an important freedom of information case. It goes to the heart of one method used to keep the public from obtaining documents to which it is entitled under state law.
Local and state officials have known for years that they are permitted to charge the public reasonable fees, usually a few cents per page, for providing copies of government documents. But in 2012, officials in Nitro, near Charleston, decided to up the ante. They told a couple who had filed a Freedom of Information Act request that the city would charge them $25 an hour for looking up the documents.
Clearly, an open-endedsearch fee such as that in Nitro is an indirect assault on the public's right to know. Many West Virginians seeking access to government documents would abandon their quests upon being told they were liable for $25 an hour, or some other amount, in fees for a search. That is especially true given the fact officials conducting the search would have every incentive to make it a long, costly one.
Nowhere in the state Freedom of Information Act is there a provision for government officials to charge search fees for finding documents. The only charge authorized is that those requesting records can be required to pay reasonable costs for making copies of them.
A Kanawha County circuit judge made that point in ruling in the couple's favor in their lawsuit against Nitro. City officials appealed to the state Supreme Court, which heard arguments in the case earlier this month.
Why high court justices even accepted the case for review is puzzling. In other situations in the past, the court has made it clear that when the wording of statutes is unambiguous, there is no room for judges or justices to interpret meaning. And, as the lower court judge noted, in specifying the public can be charged only for "actual cost in making reproductions" of requested documents, the Freedom of Information law "could not be any clearer."
Supreme Court justices should rule against Nitro. Doing otherwise would give local officials throughout the state license to shut off access to public records – by pricing them out of reach of West Virginians.


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I really don't know if they're going to make taijutsu users fight Obito as well. Is it Ninjutsu for Obito, and Taijutsu for Madara? :shrug:
Originally Posted by KGB Kakuzu
Well they figured out how to hot him recently, but before that they were still baffled as to how they missed him during the Itachi Pursuit arc. No one actually found out his limit time except Konan through constant observation, and Shikaku presumably via Konan or someone she told (Naruto)
hmmm , that its wierd ,,,, lol ... now i see whta people are asking that hahaha who knows
Your all forgetting mifune, he should be the best taijutsu specialists in the whole army. But im sorry taijustu wont be enough to beat madara....
Tsunade would bet on Tenten, but I´m going on all and on with flashes of akamaru, lee, lady tenten, the comeback and final blow of the kages, specially gaara, and seeing kakashi doing something incredibly cool and dying spittting his guts out. I´m just being honest
guy and lee are on their way
Remember what happened to Hinata vs Pain? While she really was impressive she got demolished. Very quickly... If she couldn't touch pain there is no way she can stand a chance against Madara. Remember he wields the rinnegan too. Neji and her should just stay out unless there is a combo attack.
You guys dnt remember frog kata by sage naruto which is one punch needed only to kill tge opponent.
Lets see....Neji is the best taijutsu user after guy, maybe even on par with him, and he has the byakugan wich could prove to be very usefull when dealing with Susanoo.
Lee probably has his uses as well, Naruto of course, I think Kitsuchi commanded the taijutsu unit so he's probably good at it as well.
Well we already know Tsunades taijutsu is powerful enough to destroy him. But up against Madara in the current situation it is probably Guy. But I don't think he will manage to pull out such a brute force on Madara's susanoo like Tsunade did.
Of course Neji,Lee,Naruto, and Gai.. But if they think they can stand a chance,they need kakashi, because Kakashi is the only one who can go to the other dimension
rock lee with drunken fist
3.neji (all hyugia)
7.and more, I'd say all taijutsu users
If A and Hokage, 2 of the best taijutsu user can't match with Madara, not sure who can.
People are forgetting that the alliance is also using deception and distraction tactics to support the Taijustu users. When Madara fought the Kages, he had the use of most of his abilities. The alliance is making him fight blind and pushing Obito to the limits of his displacement tech. It's all to support the Taijutsu users with their attacks. Yes fighting the pair is no easy ftask, but even if no Taijutsu user is at 100%, they don't want to be the one that sits out. The alliance has strength in numbers, a brilliant strategy, and the motivation to focus on a common goal.
You should never doubt hope because all your left with is despair. On one side, there is two people trying to control the world. And on the other side their is a large number of people trying to save it.
What naruto said should be taken with a pinch of salt. True madara has been trolled abit by taijutsu based attacks. If not from Tsunade, then A/onoki and recently gai. However that is NOT madara's weakness. He has taken full advantage of his edo form.
If madara was to use Tendo he becomes nearly impervious to physical attacks. If he uses Tendo in conjunction with Shurado physical attacks will not work.
Then there is final stage susano. I didn't need to mention the precognition ability of the sharingan because currently its minor though that could come to the aid if needed. Madara hasn't been pushed at all to validate naruto's statement.
However there is one taijutsu that i believe would get the better of madara and i am even thinking of making a thread on it. That taijutsu is Kawazu Kumite
If there is a taijutsu skill that get the better of madara it will have to be this.
Originally Posted by Chatte
Finaly I am getting what I want. More spotlight on the Hyuugas with Byakugan .
None. A got pwned by Madara (who was fighting other kages as the same time!) with ease, so a little fry like Rock Lee wouldn't do crap to him.
If Guy were to go 8 gates I sure he would do the most damage out of everybody who's tried.
Originally Posted by meowNverse
Finaly I am getting what I want. More spotlight on the Hyuugas with Byakugan .
I am afraid I'll be a bit dissapointed, I don't see Neji.
For me he is the representative one, even though Hinata is there as well.
Honestly, the first taijutsu users are likely to get killed. So the fodder will go first.
Originally Posted by Chatte
I am afraid I'll be a bit dissapointed, I don't see Neji.
For me he is the representative one, even though Hinata is there as well.
Hiashi is there and Hinata is there as well. I bet there are more Hyuuga there than those two. Maybe we dont see Neji yet, cause he is preparing something boss .
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Floating Flame Balls
Floating Flame Balls Flames do something odd in space: they form tiny
almost-invisible balls that might reveal the secrets of combustion
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August 21, 2002: Paul Ronney wasn't looking for flame balls. They came as a complete surprise.
It happened in 1984 when Ronney, a combustion researcher, was at the NASA Glenn Research Center's Microgravity Drop Tower in Ohio. He pressed a button and sent a can of burning hydrogen falling down a 90 ft. shaft. For 2.2 seconds it plummeted, freely falling and weightless, with a 16mm movie camera recording the action. Ronney knew that flames did strange things in low gravity--that's why he was doing the experiment--but he wasn't prepared for what he saw in the film room later.
Right: Looking down the shaft of the Glenn Research Center's 2.2 second Microgravity Drop Tower. [more]
The flames had broken apart into tiny balls that moved around like UFOs. "I thought I had done something wrong," he recalled. Some of his colleagues didn't believe him when he described the experiment. Indeed, "it was ridiculous. No one had ever seen anything like it."
"Flame balls are the weakest flames we have," says Ronney. "Compared to a birthday candle's 50 to 100 watts, a flame ball produces only 1 to 2 watts of thermal power. They burn using very little fuel. It's almost as if a hydrogen-burning flame's last line of defense as it approaches extinction is to draw itself into a simple ball."
Ronney, who is now an engineering professor at the University of Southern California, believes that flame balls will help him and others crack the unsolved mysteries of burning. Considering that combustion powers our automobiles, generates our electricity, and heats our homes, there's much about it we don't understand. "For example," he says, "a moderate amount of turbulence makes a flame burn faster, but too much turbulence extinguishes it." No one knows why.
Below: Tiny flame balls that form in low gravity are hard to see. These were filmed in the dark by a low-light video camera onboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1997.
Flames are hard to understand because they are complicated. In an ordinary candle flame, for example, thousands of chemical reactions take place. Hydrocarbon molecules from the wick are vaporized and cracked apart by heat. They combine with oxygen to produce light, heat, carbon dioxide and water. Some of the hydrocarbon fragments form ring-shaped molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and, eventually, soot. Soot particles can themselves burn or simply drift away as smoke. The familiar teardrop shape of the flame is an effect caused by gravity. Hot air rises and draws fresh cool air behind it. This is called buoyancy and is what makes the flame shoot up and flicker.
Flame balls, on the other hand, are simple. The balls form in low gravity where turbulence and buoyancy have little effect. Oxygen and fuel combine in a narrow zone at the surface of the ball, not hither and yon throughout the flame. Once ignited and stabilized, their size remains constant. Unlike ordinary flames, which expand greedily when they need more fuel, flame balls let the oxygen and fuel come to them. Finally, the fact that flame balls are spherical reduces their dimension to one: the radius of the flame itself.
"Flame balls are to combustion scientists what fruit flies are to geneticists," says Ronney. "It's not that we want more fruit flies, or flame balls, but they provide a simple model for testing hypotheses and checking computer models."
Right: A schematic diagram of a flame ball. Credit: Paul Ronney.
One of many mysteries about fire is the way weak flames go out before their fuel is totally exhausted. It puzzles physicists and vexes automakers who want to build clean, efficient "lean-burning" engines that run on fuel-air mixtures with low fuel concentrations--much like a flame ball. Ronney believes that studying one (flame balls) will help us with the other (cars).
Here on Earth, researchers can't study flame balls for long. A typical plunge down the drop tower lasts only 2 seconds. So, working with NASA scientist Karen Weiland and others at the Glenn Research Center, Ronney designed the Structure of Flame Balls at Low Lewis-number (SOFBALL) experiment. It's a sealed chamber where flame balls flying onboard the space shuttle can burn for a long time.
SOFBALL orbited Earth for the first time in 1997 on shuttle Columbia--and it produced some surprises.
Computer models had predicted the flame balls would be small and either extinguish or drift into the chamber walls in a few minutes. Instead they were two to three times larger than predicted and burned for over 8 minutes until the experimental system automatically extinguished them. Furthermore, although the flames were large, they were the weakest ever seen--emitting little more than 1 watt of thermal power.
"We knew then that we still had lots to learn about weak combustion," recalls Ronney.
Left: A candle flame on Earth (left) and onboard the space shuttle (right). [more]
The experiment, upgraded and re-named SOFBALL-2, will soon fly again. It's slated for launch onboard space shuttle Columbia (STS-107) in late 2002 or 2003. During the mission, flame balls will be allowed to burn for 25 to 167 minutes. Instruments will monitor their temperature, brightness, heat loss, and the composition of their gaseous byproducts. Because flame balls are so sensitive to motion, the shuttle will drift during the experiments instead of using its reaction control thrusters to maintain position.
Because this research is so fundamental, it touches on many aspects of combustion: lean-burning engines for cars and airplanes; explosion hazards in mine shafts and chemical plants; emissions from cars and coal-burning plants; arson investigations. The list is long ... and it doesn't stop on Earth.
Below: Astronaut Janice Voss (the sister of co-author Linda Voss) monitors a combustion experiment onboard shuttle Columbia in 1997.
Flames act differently in space, so fire safety is also different. If you see a fire on Earth, you might run over and stomp it out or use a fire extinguisher. In orbit, rushing over and stomping on a flame might accelerate combustion, at least temporarily, because you are creating an airflow that did not exist before. Flames in low-gravity tend to spread slowly, so stomping might cause a flame to jump to something else when it wouldn't have otherwise. Furthermore, flame balls are stealthy: they give off no smoke and little or no visible light. It's hard to extinguish something you can't find. What happens if a loose flame ball runs into something? Will it ignite? SOFBALL-2 could answer many such questions.
SOFBALL will also set the stage for longer-term experiments aboard the International Space Station inside the Fluids and Combustion Facility--yet to be installed in the US lab module. That's a long way from Ohio, where Ronney discovered flame balls in 1984. But he says it's worth the trip to find out how else "those ridiculous little flame balls" might surprise us.
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SOFBALL will fly again onboard the STS-107 research mission in late 2002 or 2003.
History: Ronney didn't know it in 1984, but flame balls (or something like them) had been predicted in 1944 by Soviet physicist Yakov Zeldovich. Zeldovich thought the phenomenon, like balancing a pen on its point, was possible in theory but too unstable to exist in reality. And indeed flame balls can exist only within a very narrow window of conditions, one of the requirements being microgravity, which means they would not have been observed under normal conditions on Earth.
Candle Flames in Microgravity (NASA/GRC)
Dr. Paul Ronney -- (USC) home page
The Physics of Fire: Infernal Combustion -- (discover.com) After eons of sputtering research, the science of fire goes into orbitP>more NASA combustion research links: Microgravity Combustion website (NASA/GRC); SOFBALL (NASA/GRC); Combustion Module Home Page (NASA/GRC)
Movies of flame balls from the SOFBALL experiment onboard space shuttle Columbia in 1997: movie #1 (1 MB); movie #2 (1 MB).
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Music Review: 1913 changed music foreverBy Jim LoweStefan Hard / Staff File Photo
Montpelier pianist Michael Arnowitt performed in Burlington on Tuesday.
BURLINGTON For music, 1913 is likely the most important year of the 20th century. Not only was it during one of the most fertile artistic periods in history, it included the centurys seminal music masterpiece.
On Tuesday at the University of Vermont Recital Hall, Montpelier pianist Michael Arnowitt took a student- and musician-studded audience on a fascinating odyssey through a broad spectrum of music of 1913 culminating with the aforementioned work. This is the program that Arnowitt performed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington last summer.
Tuesdays program closed with that famed work that was the programs highlight, Arnowitts transcription of Igor Stravinskys Rite of Spring. At the notorious premiere of this groundbreaking ballet, the audience degenerated into fisticuffs the lovers versus the haters and the police were brought in. The work, evoking prehistoric rituals for spring and fertility, broke every musical rule with its extravagance, its driving rhythms and its blatant sensuality. Its a breathtaking work.
Arnowitt took this brilliantly orchestrated work for massive orchestra actually only The Adoration of the Earth, Part 1 and reduced it to one piano. And, surprisingly, it proved quite effective. It didnt hurt that Arnowitts substantial virtuosity was able to manage this driving power, while at the same time distinguishing a broad palette of colors. His performance was exciting as well as deeply moving.
Much the same could be said for a deeply contrasting work, the opening movement, Allegro agitato, of Rachmaninoffs Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat, representing the height of late Romanticism. This demanded a different kind of virtuosity, and Arnowitt responded rhapsodically. (Although this isnt the music Arnowitt is known for, it would be splendid to hear him play the whole sonata.)
Musical change was happening in America too. Charles Ives The Alcotts from his Piano Sonata No. 2 employed early American themes in a contemporary style. Leo Ornsteins graphic Suicide in an Airplane mixed styles of Liszt and Stravinsky, and perhaps Philip Glass, in a fascinating way.
Humor was represented by the inimitable Frenchman Erik Satie, who poked fun not only with his titles but with his music. Still, his Of the Edriophthalma from his Embryons dessechés (Dried Embryos) paraphrased Chopins famous Funeral March imaginatively and beautifully. This is what improvisation can be.
Tuesdays program opened with the familiar. Yet Debussys Impressionism challenged 1913s audiences with its unique flavor that involved constantly fluctuating rhythms, harmonies and tonal colors. Arnowitt proved a master, mixing blurs with distinct passages to bring out the beauty of Nos. 1, 4 and 8 of the composers Preludes, Book II.
Arnowitt interspersed these pieces with brief commentary that tied the disparate music into the rapidly changing world of 1913. It was at once a challenging and most rewarding evening.
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PITTSBURGH, PA (February 8, 2008) – Airlines other than US Airways at Pittsburgh International Airport (www.FlyPittsburgh.com) reported a combined 17.1 percent increase in passengers for the year in 2007 compared to 2006 according to the scheduled airline traffic report issued by the Allegheny County Airport Authority. Nine airlines operating at the airport showed increased passenger traffic, three of which reported growth in excess of 20 percent.
Additionally, airlines other than US Airways have reported a combined 75 percent increase in passengers since 2004 (5,528,023 passengers in 2007/3,153,792 passengers in 2004).
A total of 699,625 scheduled passengers were enplaned and deplaned at Pittsburgh International Airport in December 2007, which brings the yearly total to 9,785,651. That translates to a 1.6 percent drop in passenger traffic for 2007 from 2006 (9,785,651 in 2007/9,949,049 in 2006). Compared to December 2006, passenger traffic was down 9.1 percent for the month (699,625/769/680; 9.1 percent decrease).
"Pittsburgh International Airport is now an airport where most passengers begin and end their air travel. We continue to work with the airlines to make the transition from a hub smooth and successful for the region's travelers," Allegheny County Airport Authority Executive Director Bradley D. Penrod said. "The factors that help us achieve that success is by offering more airline choices and lower, competitive fares. The increases reported today are evidence that the public is responding to the changes."
For 2007, Southwest, Delta and AirTran led the way for the gains, with each airline posting more than 20 percent increases. Southwest reported 1,390,887 passengers for 2007, up from 1,138,504 for a 22.2 percent increase (1,390,887/1,138,504; 22.2 percent increase). Delta reported 21.8 percent growth (940,885/772,249; 21.8 percent) and AirTran had the largest percentage growth off all airlines – 28.4 percent – at PIT (407,196/317,038; 28.4 percent).
"AirTran's growth is especially encouraging," Penrod said. "AirTran was the first of our current low-cost carriers here and its patience and persistence have paid off. The airline recognizes a good opportunity and plans to almost double its operations here this spring. Southwest, United, Myrtle Beach Direct and Air Canada are also increasing service in the next months."
AirTran is a good example of how low-cost carriers have grown over the years at Pittsburgh International Airport. The airline's traffic has grown 46 percent since 2003 (407,196 passengers in 2007/278,445 passengers in 2003; 46 percent increase).
Beginning February 14, AirTran will start service between Pittsburgh International Airport and Southwest Florida International Airport in Ft. Myers. Also beginning the same day, the low-fare carrier will increase its service between Pittsburgh and Tampa to daily flights from Saturday-only and introduce daily flights between Pittsburgh and Ft. Lauderdale.
Myrtle Beach Direct Air will be adding a third flight to Myrtle Beach, S.C. to its schedule and will add service to St. Petersburg, Fla. United will increase its service to Denver and Chicago and Southwest Airlines will increase its service to Tampa, Fla. and Orlando. In April, Air Canada will increase its service to Toronto.
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Stansfield Vending is hosting its 30th annual team dart tournament at the La Crosse Center. The event draws teams and players from across the region.
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"The TWON program is for Texas residents who depend on household wells for their water needs, so they can learn about improving and protecting their community water resources," Gholson said. "The program was established to help well owners become familiar with Texas groundwater resources, septic system maintenance, well maintenance and construction, and water quality and treatment."
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"We invite private well owners to bring in a water sample to be screened for nitrates, total dissolved solids and bacteria," Gholson said.
Well owners who would like to have their well water sampled can pick up two sample containers from the AgriLife Extension office in Refugio County.
Bringing water samples to the training is not required, Gholson said, but those wanting to have water samples analyzed must attend the training.
He said space is limited, so attendees are requested to register at http://twon.tamu.edu/training or by calling 979-845-1461 as soon as possible.
The training is one of 30 being conducted statewide through the Preventing Water Quality Contamination through the Texas Well Owner Network project. Other scheduled trainings include Robstown, Yoakum and Brazoria.
"The core content of this program is the same as other trainings, but the information is tailored to local water quality issues and aquifers," he said.
Gholson said more than 1 million private water wells in Texas provide water to citizens in rural areas and increasingly to those living on small acreages at the growing rural-urban interface.
"Private well owners are independently responsible for monitoring the quality of their wells," he said. "They are responsible for ensuring their drinking water is safe. This means they are responsible for all aspects of the water system – testing, inspecting, maintaining – and this training will help private well owners to understand and care for their wells."


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Bringing dignity to the state's first Poet Laureate
In the Jan. 19, 2013, edition of The Inter-Mountain, there appeared an article on Karl Dewey Myers, the first Poet Laureate of West Virginia. In the "History of Tucker County" by Homer Fansler, there is a biography of Karl Dewey Myers. My understanding is that he played a prominent role in setting things up for kids during the 1920s. He also wrote a tremendous amount of letters, sending them to prominent individuals, including presidents, writers and sports figures. In these letters, he would include copies of his poems. These were entered into two books that I had seen in 1971 at the Parsons Graded School Library. Where these books are or where the mass of his writings went seems to be anybody's guess.
The reason I know about Karl Dewey Myers is that the Randolph County Historical Society and the Tucker County Historical Society in the late 1980s requested I do research on his life, which I did. His real nickname was not Duke, as presented in the article, but Deut, which people around Parsons elongated into Deuteronomy.
At the end of his life, Deut was not well liked. He had an irascible temper, often confronting people in the street or banging his crutches on wooden porches of hotels or businesses. He died at a family's home in Leadsville, Randolph County. Since he had no money and since nobody fronted any money, he was buried in the indigent section of The International Order of Foresters cemetery at the bottom of a hillside, along with three other graves. This research is in the library of the Beverly Museum.
Anyway, the Randolph County Historical Society and the Tucker County Historical Society provided a marker on the grave we believe is his, according to the information we were given. Don Rice and Randy Allan spearheaded this opportunity to bring finality and dignity to our first Poet Laureate of West Virginia.
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Do you know the author Jennifer Haigh? She has written four novels and her latest, Faith, is a masterpiece. It is a story of an Irish-Catholic Priest-soaked family set mostly in the last decade, a period of the latest greatest embarrassment to the Catholic hierarchy, that of the molestation epidemic. But for all that, Faith is an incredibly touching story of Father Art, his sister Sheila who tells the story, his brother Mike and a mother trying to channel Rose Kennedy with her blinders full on but without Hyannis as a backdrop.
I found Haigh by chance just after her first novel, Mrs. Kimble, came out. As I recall, I liked the book jacket at first and then the book. She tells stories about families and her novels are 'novel novels' — if you know what I mean. Reading Faith I followed my time-honored method of reading wonderful novels:
- I begin reading and after a few pages I know that I'll like the story; I'm hooked and I put the book aside for a day or so.
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- Just before the end, I put it aside for a few hours or even a day because I don't want it to be over.
As I began reading Faith I thought of Father Martin, my Father's uncle who died before I was born and my two maiden aunts and my step-grandmother from Ireland and I thought of growing up as an Altar Boy and the Nuns from Ireland and drinking and though I don't feel Boston at all, when you grow up so drenched in a religion as I did, there is an irresistible pull to this very sad yet striking story that gets you out of Beantown, past geography and makes you want to make sure that you don't miss living, as Father Art almost missed it.
It is a story, most of all, of loneliness.
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Um… okay. So this is what happens when Brendan Ryan becomes better known for a poorly marketed pornstache than his actual comeuppance as an everyday St. Louis Cardinals shortstop. Oh, wait. No comeuppance? He sucks? My bad.
Which is sorta why I haven't really said much this offseason about my dearly beloved Redbirds. What' s there to say? Jake Westbrook signed? Okay. Cool. We traded Blake Hawksworth for Ryan Theriot? M'kay… nice. I guess. Can we guarantee that Skip Schumaker won't take another step backwards? How about facing the fact that closer Ryan Franklin really ain't cut out to be a closer? And then…???
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I still haven't really gotten over the crapfest that was the second half of the 2010 season. No one likes a sore loser, but goddamn it if I ain't still sore as hell! Matt Holliday, Albert Pujols, Adam Wainwright, Chris Carpenter… YADIER MOLINA.
Friends, Romans, Cubs fans… those names command a division title.
And that's what I want. At the very least, we ought to be slaying the Reds, the Cubs and whatever other foe floats carelessly towards the top.
Does Ryan Theriot magically make that happen? Uh… no. In fact, as a hitter, Baseball Reference has Theriot matched up with the likes of Aaron Miles, Jason Bartlett and former St. Louis Brown, Ernie Johnson. And while Bartlett had one good year, let's not get too excited over these comparisons; 'cuz frankly, there's little that breeds excitement.
Yes, maybe Theriot will solve the leadoff problem that has crippled the Cardinals in recent years. Then again, he probably won't. He's gotta beat out Brendo and Skippy for a job first, which for us anticipating fans, is sorta like having to vote from a pool of John Kerry, George W. Bush and a bowl of potato salad.
Which one is the bowl of potato salad? I'll leave that up to you.
Hate me 'cuz I'm still bitter, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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Heh, Bobby Jenks just became availalbe, but I'm not sure he's the solution the Cards are looking for either.
Ahhhh! SShredder, no, no Bobby Jenks. I'd rather have Franklin than Bobby. Like the White Sox, I'm a bit tired of Bobby's inconsistencies.
Do the cards want to over pay for a World Series MVP?
I hear he's on the market.
Why didn't the Cards sign Uribe?
Now he will forever be known as BoOoOoOOOoo-Ribe.
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Shaun — No, obviously we only overpay for outfielders who drop the ball in playoff games in L.A. (ahem, Holliday)…. did I say that? My bad.
Sorry, Jane, but in my opinion, Kerry has the appeal and zeal of a wet blanket. A flip-flopper's delight, he's been a yes-man his whole political career. I voted for him too… not that I wanted to… just didn't have a better choice… yet he still managed to lose to Dubya… ugh.
Aaah John Kerry…can't stand that guy. I can't believe those comments Theriot made about being on the right side of the Cardinals/Cubs rivalry. He better help his team win!