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The early morning air was filled with jam-band tunes, no doubt from Karl's iPod—a welcomed deviation from the Eye of the Tiger anthem present at most starting lines. Jerry Garcia sang:
All my life it's been like this
If you love me it's your own risk
When the dust hits my shoes
I got the urge to move.
Added to Karl's signature image of a Red Bull cap, gloves and sunglasses was a walkie-talkie and a spool of orange tape attached to the front of a large backpack. Following a quick briefing, Karl set the Speedgoat 50K into motion. From the beginning, my intentions were obvious. Not wanting to sprint for the grand at the summit, I opened up a sizeable gap on the field and stayed a full minute ahead of Kilian until I was sure that the 10 Franklins were mine.
At the summit, I paused, looked around and took in a lot of nutrients to make up for all that I had just spent. I took in the view of the surrounding Wasatch Range, chatted with my spectating mom briefly and watched Kilian crest the climb and disappear before I continued on my way.
We descended down the backside of the mountain. From 80 yards back, I watched Kilian dart down a narrow eroded slope connecting the upper and lower part of the service road. A race official stood there watching it. When I approached and saw that the race official was in fact the Speedgoat himself, all I could manage was,
"What the f***, Karl?" as though I was blaming him for the blatant course cutting.
I flashbacked to a Skyrunning Race that I had run in northern Italy in 2007. I had begun a several-thousand-foot descent down a steep slope of interwoven tussock and rock. I zigzagged the switchbacks while wildly animated spectators yelled at me and pointed down the slope. "Diretto!" they screamed. "Diretto!" I learned quickly that cutting switchbacks was not only legal but actually encouraged.
Watching Kilian fly down the mountain, I was faced with a decision. At the time, it wasn't about going faster or slower, or about tromping wildflowers or unnatural erosion. It was about following our rules or theirs. I followed the switchback around. There was no way for me to be maddened by Kilian's shortcutting—I knew that he was simply following different guidelines.
I continued descending into Mineral Basin, through a large field of flowers that were just as Karl had said, "Amazing. Waist high. Super cool." The course descended several thousand feet more, then a short out-and-back at the bottom of Mount Baldy allowed me to take inventory on where I stood in the race—two minutes behind Kilian and a few minutes ahead of recently crowned World Mountain Running Champion, Max King, Tony and the rest of the field.
Jerry Garcia sang to me in my head while I began the second ascent of Mount Baldy:
I know you rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone.
I was feeling good, which is to say that I wasn't feeling bad. Halfway up the climb I spotted Kilian less than a minute ahead. He glanced over his shoulder and looked back at me. I pointed my head down and grunted forth. Looking up would have prevented me from taking a wrong turn, moments later, which cost me another two to three minutes. After getting myself back on track I did the two proper things that can be done in that situation and that is to utter some profanities and remain calm. The race was only half done and a sprint to make up for lost time could have cost me dearly.
After passing through Mineral Basin a second time, 19 miles into the race, the course started up a steep, trail-less slope. It started off as hands-on-knees steep and ended with hands-on-ground—I pulled at the grass in front of my nose so as not to go tumbling back down the mountain. With the vegetation so close to my nose, I caught a whiff of mint. The leaf that I put into my mouth wasn't mint, though. At the top of the climb near the summit of Hidden Peak, my brother was waiting.
"The rumor is Kilian's gonna get DQed."
"I suspected as much," I said, and then dropped down off the ridge and through a tunnel that connects the north and south sides of the mountain.
I plummeted fifteen-hundred feet down the north side of the mountain and back to the summit of Hidden Peak, where my brother and my mom were again waiting for me. I switched out shoes, revealing a mess of bloody toes. Several glances back and down, I saw no one. I grinded the final five miles to the finish where Kilian and Karl were talking. Karl approached me.
"I'm probably going to have to DQ Kilian."
Karl looked more tired and less happy than most of the runners in the race. That he hadn't yet made a decision told me just how much it was wearing on him.
Max came in, and Tony soon after. Forty-five minutes later Anna crossed the finish line—a half-hour ahead of the next woman.


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CALUMET – The CopperDog 150 sled dog race has grown tremendously in its first three years, and organizers have every reason to believe this year's event will be even better.
CopperDog Inc. became its own 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in August after previously functioning as a subcommittee of Main Street Calumet, and since then there have been several signs that point toward a successful event this year and a sustainable event in the future, according to race officials.
For the 2011 race it took six months to fill the CopperDog 150 pro-class race. For the 2012 race, it took 12 days. For this year's race, which is set for March 1-3, it took 3.5 hours.
The race used to be the primary responsibility of just half a dozen people, but now the organization has 12 board members, six event directors and about 20 main organizers, all of whom are volunteers. This year's race budget is also up to about $66,000, from last year's $60,000.
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The response from mushers has pointed in that direction, as evidenced in part by the quick registration, he said. The waiting list already had 10 mushers on it after just a few days.
"I've been doing this for 30 years and this is the best supported race I've ever been to, and that includes the Iditarod," Ian MacKenzie, a musher from Ontario, said after the 2012 race.
Drawing comparisons to the Iditarod is as good as it gets for a sled dog race and this year's CopperDog will feature another connection to the world's most notable sled dog event.
Ryan Redington, whose grandfather Joe Redington is credited with starting the Iditarod, will be making the trek from Alaska to Calumet to compete in the fourth annual CopperDog 150, as well as other Midwest races.
"The future for CopperDog looks bright," Brassard said. "Between the organizational changes, the 150 filling to capacity in less than four hours and the Redington name on the roster, we are heading into the 2013 race with unmatched enthusiasm."
Mushers from seven different states and Canada will descend on the Copper Country, which area officials hope will help reverse negative impact on the local economy caused by the low snowfall this winter.
"We know it's tough out there and the lack of snow has been devastating on many businesses, but support for the CopperDog has been simply amazing," said Abbey Green, vice chair of CopperDog Inc. and director of fund development. "Our entire team is driving forward and working very hard to make the 2013 CopperDog 150 a brilliant beacon of hope and point of community pride during a disappointing winter season."
While the number of people involved in coordinating the event is greater than ever and so is their experience level, the CopperDog 150 pro-class race and CopperDog 40 could still not get off the ground without hundreds of volunteers. People interested in volunteering can register at the CopperDog 150 website – copperdog150.com – which also contains regularly updated information about the event.
Organizers are also rolling out a more in-depth level of training for volunteers interested increasing their level of involvement.
"New this year is our Lead Volunteer Program. We're taking 25 to 35 dedicated volunteers and really teaching them about the mechanics of the race," Brassard said. "They are going to be our true leaders in the field this year. People can learn more about this program on the CopperDog website."

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Skip to comments.Italy Arrests Egyptians for U.S. War Cemetery Plot
Posted on 10/05/2002 6:31:05 AM PDT by veronica
ROME (Reuters) - Italian police said Saturday they had arrested three Egyptian fishermen suspected of plotting to attack a cemetery of American war dead south of Rome.
Explosives and maps highlighting the Nettuno American Cemetery and Memorial in the town of Anzio were seized in an apartment in Italy belonging to one of the men, a police official said.
"They were preparing a symbolic attack against the American cemetery," the official said, adding police suspected the men were tied to Islamic terrorism.
The Egyptians, aged 30 to 45, were arrested Friday but have not been formally charged. Police said they had been living in Italy and had legal working papers.
Italian media quoted the men as denying the allegations, one saying they had used the explosives for fishing.
Two of the Egyptians were arrested in their apartments and the third was seized on a fishing boat, police said. Police also found a map of Rome's international Fiumicino airport and maps highlighting some McDonald's restaurants.
The American Cemetery in Anzio was completed in 1956, and more than 7,000 U.S. soldiers killed during World War II are buried there. It has been visited by former U.S. presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton.
U.S. authorities have indicated that a mosque and Islamic center in Milan might be the financial hub of the European operation of al Qaeda, blamed for the September 11 attacks on the United States last year.
Italy has made more than 40 arrests on anti-terrorism grounds over the last 12 months, but prosecutors have had only mixed success in winning convictions against suspected al Qaeda members.
Four Tunisians suspected of being al Qaeda members were jailed earlier this year for five years in Italy's first conviction of terrorist suspects since September 11.
A group of Moroccans who had been arrested on suspicion of plotting to poison Rome's water network with a potentially lethal chemical compound were later freed.
Maybe they were just interested in doing a PETA-like protest at the Mickey D's.
More brave, Usama-suckers.
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The continued existence of the obscenity called 'islam' on this planet in unacceptable. But their fellow travelers in our midst have, so far, presented an obstacle to their destruction.
Fortunately, the stupidity of the moslem is such that they will almost certainly provide sufficient outrage at some point to open a window of opportunity for those disposed to liquidate them to do so on a grand scale.
Incidents like this one are helpful toward that end.
This article both saddened and angered me. These scumbags are capable of anything.
To Italy: We have some 8x7 foot cells ready for these idiots at Gitmo where they can observe some U.S. servicemen (and women) close up.
I am not a pyschologist and do not play one on TV, but if you are only happy around men who are required to have the same thinking, then Islam seems to be a great place for "men to love men"
I guess the violence which seems to be associated with this cult is a result of "men" confused about how to express their new found "brotherhood".
Maybe they should move the Taliban to SF so they can stop killing innocent women and children.
I've got to hand it to the Italians, they are really on the ball. My impression of them as an effective ally has skyrocketed over the last year.
Attacking dead people would normally incur little risk to the attackers, but there are two complicating factors at work here: first, the dead people are former American warriors; and second, the attackers are worthless Islamaniacs. Based upon related military precedent (such as Operations Desert Storm and Enduring Freedom, the various Arab-Israeli wars, etc.), it is entirely possible that the belligerents might suffer a shocking, sudden defeat, attended by heavy casualties, furious waving of surrender flags, and great wailing and gnashing of teeth. Wouldn't Allah be so proud?
With a coastline to defend that's about as long as ours, (immigrant) smuggling is very hard to stop. The only people that this alarming trend is helping, is Beretta. (Stock Tip)who are selling heat to the paesani who desperately need protection from an especially Albanian-led crime wave that is huge.
This is a very dangerous situation, potentially worse than any other European nation. When it goes political, it ain't gonna be pretty.
Welcome to the real world of Islam! Glad people are finally waking up! Islamists have been desecrating Christian graves in the Balkans for ages!
I agree and this article infuriated me. Yet it's hard to even define what is lowest these days. 9-11 was the lowest. Turning planes full of innocent humans into missiles with which to murder other innocent humans. Decapitating Danny Pearl and making a "training video" out of it. That was the lowest too. You will find that vandalizing Jewish grave sites is a favorite activity of neo-Nazis and Jew haters. More lowest. The list goes on and on.
To me that sounds too optmistic. Islam, by appeal or force, has rapidly spread to a billion people. It is now growing fast mainly by violence and murder.
So I wonder what makes them suspect an attack on dead folks instead of these McDonald's stores? Do they think that they wouldn't attack McDonald's for fear that the terrorists' good buddy bill clintoon might be in one of them?
Are explosives commonly used in fishing?
As long as its American, they don't care. With higher security at airports, embassies and other US interests, it was probably all they could think of that was AMERICAN. just a guess.
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Well its been good weather all winter pretty much ,so I was expecting Maynard to open early this year. I haven't heard from anyone on if it is or not. So is Boston Paintball Maynard Field open?
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Posted 01 March 2012 - 12:54 PM
The website says they're not open, so I would guess no, but you could always call them to find out. I think because we're getting snow very late in the winter they're not gonna take any chances by opening early.
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from what i have heard, late march early april. im going down to boston indoor sunday for rotations, so i'll try to find out.
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Yea they're opening this weekend. I'm gonna go up sunday if i get the chance.
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thank you for this grace
thank you for this grace
WOW! What a way to start the
WOW! What a way to start the day!
thank yo so mcuh for this
thank yo so mcuh for this
Absolutely exquisiite
Absolutely exquisiite
AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH, WON-der-ful.
AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH, WON-der-ful. Thanks so much.
Thank you! This makes me
Thank you! This makes me smile and gives me chills. Really cool.
Brought tears to my eyes aqs
Brought tears to my eyes aqs my sould remembered the words and melody!
so very, very amazing!
so very, very amazing!
...then you open a place where grace can come in.
such a profound thought isn't it?
Thank you Krista.
Thanks so much for sharing
Thanks so much for sharing this beautiful piece of communal music.
So beautiful. I was just
So beautiful. I was just transported to another place while it was being sung. At the end, I took a breath, smiled and felt great joy!
In the midst of a frenetic
In the midst of a frenetic day comes this transforming music..and there's hope, joy and faith Thank you Krista
such heavenly music.
such heavenly music.
Awesome. Thanks Pastor Sue
Awesome. Thanks Pastor Sue for sharing!
Awesome. Thanks Pastor Sue
Awesome. Thanks Pastor Sue for sharing!
Just about to weep... The
Just about to weep... The whole audience was made to feel part of the creative process.... and such beauty they all created together! Thank you.
A rare 100% feel good moment!
A rare 100% feel good moment!
Thanks for reminding me on a
Thanks for reminding me on a gloomy Monday of mystery and beauty.
Beautiful song, beautiful man
Beautiful song, beautiful man. Thanks!
Moving, beautiful, selfless,
Moving, beautiful, selfless, funny, delightful. My heart is so full!
I love the presentation/
I love the presentation/
My heart feels do open after
My heart feels do open after this beautiful sharing
Joy is infectious indeed, and
Joy is infectious indeed, and, as a joy filled person, Bobby McFerrin knows how to bring us into that space. It is remarkable to see how the audience participates in the co-creation of this joy. Isn't that the mystery? Thank you so much for sharing these video blog posts.
Joy to the world... takes on
Joy to the world... takes on another meaning. Such joy, I delight in the wonder. It is so meaningful to me when there is the intertwining of the performer and the risk, vulnerablity, and loveliness of the audience.
Thank you for yet another
Thank you for yet another reminder of why we are here; to LIVE IN GRACE
I have played the Gounod part
I have played the Gounod part on my violin, but have never heard the Bach part done by Bobby..what a masterpiece of joy!
a flood of beauty, touching
a flood of beauty, touching the heart. True music with all its power to ease the spirit.
Truly truly amazing.
Truly truly amazing.
It takes you to a deep place of joy within.
I love Mary--and being a good Jewish girl, I"m sure she would love the oy ve Maria, too.
You are a gift to the world!
You are a gift to the world! love marie
The sharing of one's self
The sharing of one's self through music is an act of healing and blessing.
And grace comes...
And grace comes...
My life is richer for this
My life is richer for this experience!
Thank you Bobby. i have
Thank you Bobby. i have always loved and have been thrilled by the fact that Gounod and Bach were born in different times and different places, and yet their music flowed so flawlessly and beautifully together. I believe with all my heart that there is an unseen hand that guided Gounod to place The Ave on top of Bach's Prelude. The audience participation created a special moment in time when they too could be a part of this beautiful musical encounter.
Where was this performance?
Where was this performance?
Thank you for sharing ....
Thank you for sharing .... Wow, what a talent God has given this young man!
Beautiful! Thrilling! Simple
Beautiful! Thrilling! Simple and stunning.
Just sweet
Just sweet
Beautiful, full of Divine
Beautiful, full of Divine Gace
Bravo! Our community chorus
Bravo! Our community chorus does a singalong after every concert, and we ALL get to float out of the hall on wings of song. Your words have just added depth to that process---joyous thanks.
What a great few minutes of
What a great few minutes of Joy and Peace!!
Beautiful piece and beautiful
Beautiful piece and beautiful sharing! Thank you!
I had chills as I listened to
I had chills as I listened to this. It causes me to think about the power of music - the power of a group of people singing together - the power of a leader facilitating a new experience - the power of each individual's memory to hold that experience and take it with them into their life journeys.
An inspiration for my singing
An inspiration for my singing scat and coro.
Wonderful !
Wonderful !
I went to hear Garrison
I went to hear Garrison Keillor do a reading at Yale several years ago and he read a few of his essays. Good, poignant, funny stuff. But at the end of his program, he asked the audience to sing with him. We sang Love Me Tender by Elvis and I'll always remember feeling in an altered state created by singing those words in unison with the whole audience. There was a hushed magic in the air as we filed out, electrifying and peaceful. There is nothing, in my opinion, more bonding than singing in unison.
Gorgeous. What joy to end
Gorgeous. What joy to end and Easter day?
This man is GENIUS!!!!
This man is GENIUS!!!!
What an exquisite way to
What an exquisite way to start my day. Thank you!
A few moments of light humour
A few moments of light humour and beauty combined. What better way to start the day?


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Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
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Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. This is her first novel.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:
Two days later, I sit in my parent's kitchen, waiting for dusk to fall. I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody, trying to convince us that smoking will kill us. But Mother once told me tongue kissing would turn me blind and I'm starting to think it's all just a big plot between the surgeon general and Mother to make sure no one ever has any fun.
At eight o'clock that same night, I'm stumbling down Aibileen's street as discreetly as one can carrying a fifty-pound Corona typewriter. I knock softly, already dying for another cigarette to calm my nerves. Aibileen answers and I slip inside. She's wearing the same green dress and stiff black shoes as last time.
I try to smile, like I'm confident it will work this time, despite the idea she explained over the phone. "Could we…;sit in the kitchen this time?" I ask. "Would you mind?"
"Alright. Ain't nothing to look at, but come on back."
The kitchen is about half the size of the living room and warmer. It smells like tea and lemons. The black-and-white linoleum floor has been scrubbed thin. There's just enough counter for the china tea set. I set the typewriter on a scratched red table under the window. Aibileen starts to pour the hot water into the teapot.
"Oh, none for me, thanks," I say and reach in my bag. "I brought us some Co-Colas if you want one." I've tried to come up with ways to make Aibileen more comfortable. Number One: Don't make Aibileen feel like she has to serve me.
"Well, ain't that nice. I usually don't take my tea till later anyway." She brings over an opener and two glasses. I drink mine straight from the bottle and seeing this, she pushes the glasses aside, does the same.
I called Aibileen after Elizabeth gave me the note, and listened hopefully as Aibileen told me her ideafor her to write her own words down and then show me what she's written. I tried to act excited. But I know I'll have to rewrite everything she's written, wasting even more time. I thought it might make it easier if she could see it in type-face instead of me reading it and telling her it can't work this way.
We smile at each other. I take a sip of my Coke, smooth my blouse. "So…;" I say.
Aibileen has a wire-ringed notebook in front of her. "Want me to…;just go head and read?"
"Sure," I say.
We both take deep breaths and she begins reading in a slow, steady voice.
"My first white baby to ever look after was named Alton Carrington Speers. It was 1924 and I'd just turned fifteen years old. Alton was a long, skinny baby with hair fine as silk on a corn…;"
I begin typing as she reads, her words rhythmic, pronounced more clearly than her usual talk. "Every window in that filthy house was painted shut on the inside, even though the house was big with a wide green lawn. I knew the air was bad, felt sick myself…;"
"Hang on," I say. I've typed wide greem. I blow on the typing fluid, retype it. "Okay, go ahead."
"When the mama died, six months later," she reads, "of the lung disease, they kept me on to raise Alton until they moved away to Memphis. I loved that baby and he loved me and that's when I knew I was good at making children feel proud of themselves…;"
I hadn't wanted to insult Aibileen when she told me her idea. I tried to urge her out of it, over the phone. "Writing isn't that easy. And you wouldn't have time for this anyway, Aibileen, not with a full-time job."
"Can't be much different than writing my prayers every night."
It was the first interesting thing she'd told me about herself since we'd started the project, so I'd grabbed the shopping pad in the pantry. "You don't say your prayers, then?"
"I never told nobody that before. Not even Minny. Find I can get my point across a lot better writing em down."
"So this is what you do on the weekends?" I asked. "In your spare time?" I liked the idea of capturing her life outside of work, when she wasn't under the eye of Elizabeth Leefolt.
"Oh no, I write a hour, sometimes two ever day. Lot a ailing, sick peoples in this town."
I was impressed. That was more than I wrote on some days. I told her we'd try it just to get the project going again.
Aibileen takes a breath, a swallow of Coke, and reads on.
She backtracks to her first job at thirteen, cleaning the Francis the First silver service at the governor's mansion. She reads how on her first morning, she made a mistake on the chart where you filled in the number of pieces so they'd know you hadn't stolen anything.
"I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it."
Aibileen looks up to see what I think. I stop typing. I'd expected the stories to be sweet, glossy. I realize I might be getting more than I'd bargained for. She reads on.
"…;so I go on and get the chiffarobe straightened out and before I know it, that little white boy done cut his fingers clean off in that window fan I asked her to take out ten times. I never seen that much red come out a person and I grab the boy, I grab them four fingers. Tote him to the colored hospital cause I didn't know where the white one was. But when I got there, a colored man stop me and say, Is this boy white?" The typewriter keys are clacking like hail on a roof. Aibileen is reading faster and I am ignoring my mistakes, stopping her only to put in another page. Every eight seconds, I fling the carriage aside.
"And I says Yessuh, and he say, Is them his white fingers? And I say, Yessuh, and he say, Well you better tell them he your high yellow cause that colored doctor won't operate on a white boy in a Negro hospital. And then a white policeman grab me and he say, Now you look a here"
She stops. Looks up. The clacking ceases.
"What? The policeman said look a here what?"
"Well, that's all I put down. Had to catch the bus for work this morning."
I hit the return and the typewriter dings. Aibileen and I look each other straight in the eye. I think this might actually work.
Chapter 12
Every other night for the next two weeks, I tell Mother I'm off to feed the hungry at the Canton Presbyterian Church, where we, fortunately, know not a soul. Of course she'd rather I go down to the First Presbyterian, but Mother's not one to argue with Christian works and she nods approvingly, tells me on the side to make sure I wash my hands thoroughly with soap afterward.
Hour after hour, in Aibileen's kitchen, she reads her writing and I type, the details thickening, the babies' faces sliding into focus. At first, I'm disappointed that Aibileen is doing most of the writing, with me just editing. But if Missus Stein likes it, I'll be writing the other maids' stories and that will be more than enough work. If she likes it…; I find myself saying this over and over in my head, hoping it might make it so.
Aibileen's writing is clear, honest. I tell her so.
"Well, look who I been writing to." She chuckles. "Can't lie to God."
Before I was born, she actually picked cotton for a week at Longleaf, my own family's farm. Once she lapses into talking about Constantine without my even asking.
"Law, that Constantine could sing. Like a purebred angel standing in the front a the church. Give everbody chills, listening to that silky voice a hers and when she wouldn't sing no more after she had to give her baby to" She stops. Looks at me.
She says, "Anyway."
I tell myself not to press her. I wish I could hear everything she knows about Constantine, but I'll wait until we've finished her interviews. I don't want to put anything between us now.
"Any word from Minny yet?" I ask. "If Missus Stein likes it," I say, practically chanting the familiar words, "I just want to have the next interview set up and ready."
Aibileen shakes her head. "I asked Minny three times and she still say she ain't gone do it. I spec it's time I believed her."
I try not to show my worry. "Maybe you could ask some others? See if they're interested?" I am positive that Aibileen would have better luck convincing someone than I would.
Aibileen nods. "I got some more I can ask. But how long you think it's gone take for this lady to tell you if she like it?"
I shrug. "I don't know. If we mail it next week, maybe we'll hear from her by mid-February. But I can't say for sure." Aibileen presses her lips together, looks down at her pages. I see something that I haven't noticed before. Anticipation, a glint of excitement. I've been so wrapped up in my own self, it hasn't occurred to me that Aibileen might be as thrilled as I am that an editor in New York is going to read her story. I smile and take a deep breath, my hope growing stronger.
On our fifth session, Aibileen reads to me about the day Treelore died. She reads about how his broken body was thrown on the back of a pickup by the white foreman. "And then they dropped him off at the colored hospital. That's what the nurse told me, who was standing outside. They rolled him off the truck bed and the white men drove away." Aibileen doesn't cry, just lets a parcel of time pass while I stare at the typewriter, she at the worn black tiles.
On the sixth session, Aibileen says, "I went to work for Miss Leefolt in 1960. When Mae Mobley two weeks old," and I feel I've passed through a leaden gate of confidence. She describes the building of the garage bathroom, admits she is glad it is there now. It's easier than listening to Hilly complain about sharing a toilet with the maid. She tells me that I once commented that colored people attend too much church. That stuck with her. I cringe, wondering what else I've said, never suspecting the help was listening or cared.
One night she says, "I was thinking…;" But then she stops.
I look up from the typewriter, wait. It took Aibileen vomiting on herself for me to learn to let her take her time.
"I's thinking I ought to do some reading. Might help me with my own writing."
"Go down to the State Street Library. They have a whole room full of Southern writers. Faulkner, Eudora Welty"
Aibileen gives me a dry cough. "You know colored folks ain't allowed in that library."
I sit there a second, feeling stupid. "I can't believe I forgot that." The colored library must be pretty bad. There was a sit-in at the white library a few years ago and it made the papers. When the colored crowd showed up for the sit-in trial, the police department simply stepped back and turned the German shepherds loose. I look at Aibileen and am reminded, once again, the risk she's taking talking to me. "I'll be glad to pick the books up for you," I say.
Aibileen hurries to the bedroom and comes back with a list. "I better mark the ones I want first. I been on the waiting list for To Kill a Mockingbird at the Carver Library near bout three months now. Less see…;"
I watch as she puts checkmarks next to the books: The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, poems by Emily Dickinson (any), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
"I read some a that back in school, but I didn't get to finish." She keeps marking, stopping to think which one she wants next.
"You want a book by…;Sigmund Freud?"
"Oh, people crazy." She nods. "I love reading about how the head work. You ever dream you fall in a lake? He say you dreaming about your own self being born. Miss Frances, who I work for in 1957, she had all them books."
On her twelfth title, I have to know. "Aibileen, how long have you been wanting to ask me this? If I'd check these books out for you?"
"A while." She shrugs. "I guess I's afraid to mention it."
"Did you…;think I'd say no?"
"These is white rules. I don't know which ones you following and which ones you ain't."
We look at each other a second. "I'm tired of the rules," I say.
Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realize how thin this revelation must sound to her.
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Good stay in the city of Utrecht in Benb Flamingo-Utrecht
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Bed & Breakfast 'Flamingo-Utrecht' means a good stay in a spacious apartment with private entrance, TV, wireless internet, shower and toilet.
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This is a non-smoking apartment. There is a covered outdoor opportunity for smokers.
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The apartment Bed and Breakfast Flamingo-Utrecht is located on the ground floor. The apartment has a private entrance and a spacious layout.
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We arrived in Utrecht we was a short was a short walk to the B&B Flamingo. We were met by our host Warda who was very friendly to welcome us to Utrecht. We were made very welcome by Warda as it is our first time flying and going to other country. Warda even went that extra mile to cater for my special dietary needs. The appartment was very warm and cosy. And also very clean and a well stocked fridge. The appartment is about 15mins walk to the city center we were very impressed with the welcome we got in Utrecht. We are more than happy to stay again in Utrecht.
Great stay at this apartment for 3 nights. Warda, the owner, is a lovely lady who warmly welcomed us to this roomy and bright apartment. Although it is on the groung floor, the apartment is very quiet and we were not disturbed throughout our stay as it is about 20 minutes away from the city centre. Shops are nearby though. The king size bed and the bunk beds were really comfy and warm. Well equiped kitchen with all necessary electrical appliances and food for breakfast. Advise: you cannot leave the house without trying the amazing ginger bread kindly left by Warda!!! There is also a little terrace to hang up the clothes and to use as a smoking area. The only drawback is the toilet that does not have a washsink within it therefore you need to use the kitchen sink that can sometimes be a bit of an issue when you want to leave the dishes for later... Another drawback is the windows to the street that cannot be opened and they get steamed so humidity in the house is high so bear it in mind when you cook and first thing in the morning and open de terrace door and window to ventilate.
Overall, we had an amazing time in the house and in Utrecht so thank you very much Warda!!
Clean, well-furnished apartment with a well-stocked fridge.
It was a shame that the guests are not in control of their own heating. We were left cold and without heating on Christmas Eve when the host, who lives upstairs was away for the night.
Wonderful accommodation - very spacious and very well equipped. The location is good and it is only a short walk to the very centre of town. We were welcomed by the charming Warda who lives in the apartment above.
Very comfortable stay in a great location with a generous and welcoming host. Definitely recommend.
Very friendly reception by the hostess. Great apartment and excellent location a few minutes from downtown.
Here we go again gladly.
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Mycket trevligt bemötande av värdinnan. Stor lägenhet och utmärkt läge några minuter från centrum.
Hit åker vi gärna igen.
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A very nice appartment in a very nice area of the city.
The apartment is clean, spacious, cosy and well organized. With the internet and a TV. The kitchen is well equipped.
Near the entrance of the city center, this appartment is ideal to stay in Utrecht.
You will be greeted by Warda, a very nice host.
We are very satisfied with the flat. It is very nice and in a central location. The flat is good equipped and clean. The hosts are very kind and cooperativ. We are still there until 27th July and we will hopefully enjoy our stay furthermore.
Nice flat and close to the city center. The. She jumped only landlords are nice and helpful, but there were problems with the heating and the apartment was not heated throughout. Who needs to get up early in the morning, it has cold.
Schöne Wohnung und dicht an der Innenstadt. Die. Sie sprang erst Vermieter sind nett und hilfsbereit, allerdings gab es Probleme mit der Heizung und das Appartment war nicht durchgängig beheizt. Wer morgens früh aufstehen muss, hat es kalt.
Apartment very pleasant, well furnished, very comfortable and well located in the city, parking 5min, not the whole trip was the most perfect especially given the sympathy of the Dutch and guests, I recommend it to many!
Appartement des plus agréables, bien meublé, très confortable et bien situé dans la ville, parking gratuit a 5min, non tout le voyage fut des plus parfaits surtout vu la sympathie des néerlandais et des hôtes, je le conseille au plus grand nombre !
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jb wrote:Hikohadon wrote:The soothing effect of the suicide option to the person committing it is - unlike most big decisions - you don't have to worry about the consequences. You don't have to deal with your family's grief or people calling you a coward or your bills or your bitchy girlfriend or your car engine or your job or your weight or your cholesterol level or growing old or your health insurance or your pension. You just get erased, and everything else gets erased with it.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 6, 2012) – The U.S. men's beach volleyball team of Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers defeated compatriots Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal to win the gold medal at the Shanghai Grand Slam in China, the first grand slam event on the 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH World Tour.
Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.) and Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.), the tournament's No. 1 seeds, defeated Gibb (Bountiful, Utah) and Rosenthal (Redondo Beach, Calif.), ranked 14th, 21-19, 22-24, 15-11 in 1 hour, 7 minutes.
"I thought we played really well," Rogers said in an FIVB press release. "Jake and Rosey played very well, but I was very pleased with how we handled them."
The gold medal is their second of 2012 after they beat another U.S. team in the final of the Brasilia Open. That time it was Matt Fuerbringer (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Nick Lucena (Santa Barbara, Calif.) who fell to the 2008 Olympic champions.
"It was good to see another American team in the final and it happened in Brasilia as well," Rogers said. "We've got three American teams playing at the top of the world."
The result was the same as the 2011 World Tour event in Shanghai, when Rogers and Dalhausser won the gold medal with a 21-18, 24-22 victory over Gibb and Rosenthal.
For Gibb and Rosenthal, who are in a battle with Fuerbringer and Lucena for the second U.S. men's beach volleyball berth on the 2012 Olympic team, the silver medal represents their best result on the FIVB SWATCH World Tour since they finished third at the 2011 Quebec Open.
"(Dalhausser and Rogers) played great and they really just sided-out great," Gibb said. "We can't beat them if they side out that well. They played great and we can't take anything away from them."
To reach the final match Dalhausser and Rogers defeated Brazil's 12th-seeded Benjamin Insfrans and Bruno Schmidt when the Brazilian pair forfeited due to injury. Rogers and Dalhausser had won the first set, 35-33 before Insfrans was injured in the second set.
Gibb and Rosenthal beat Brazil's fifth-seeded Pedro Salgado and Marcio Araujo, 21-17, 21-15 in 41 minutes.
Complete information about the FIVB World Tour is available on the FIVB web site.


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Skip to comments.Obama: "If youve got a business -- you didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen."
Posted on 07/14/2012 3:17:41 PM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
Excerpt from the socialist-in-chief speech yesterday in Virginia:
"If youve got a business -- you didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didnt get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet."
(Excerpt) Read more at whitehouse.gov ...
The mainstream media needs to be overhelmingly challenged about telling the people the truth about Obama's Communist connection. Speak up now.
For those of you attending tea party meetings it's time to raise hell over Obama's hidden Communist philosophy. You have a tea party forum, use it.
I used the first version of the internet. We used to send crude "emails" but they went to a printer. Later on they went to a screen. You had to have the printer ID or screen ID to send and everyone could read the messages.
Did government create my clients too, douchebag?
The original internet was DARPANET, a DOD invention. So if a company is solely an internet based company then to some degree the bastard is correct. However, the US citizen paid for that R&D a long tome ago so what difference does it make?
Oh I have no doubt he's a moron..if he was some sort of genius we would have gotten those college transcripts released a LONG time ago. I could beat Obama in a debate without even trying, it would be SO easy! Without a teleprompter Obama can't put a complete sentence together..but getting back to what Obama said here, this is does actually believe..he was raised to believe that only Govt can take care of you, that people are useless without the Govt
Seig heil! Buckwheat.
Bet you a box of doughnuts that at least the dog walks away from bunker this time.
Blud & boden, Buckwheat.
Why would anyone be surprised at this statement - the man is a GD Communist fer Crissakes!
But he'll settle for socialism....
He is the poster SOB for AA. Sad as I knew many an outstanding black soldier from officer to NCO who damn sure did the toughest combat jobs-yet, they never played the race card even if shot 7 times across the arms and shoulders with an AK auto burst.
0bama, his czars, the taxes and regulations have got to be history on January 20, 2013 at 1200 hrs. If he is reelected, the chances of CWII are GREATLY increased.
Words simply..........escape....me.
Tell that to Ross Perot, Obama. Or Bill Gates. Or any mom and pop company in any town across America.
Why did people vote for this elitist, arrogant moron?
The good news, in this absurd speech, is that it sounds like Barry is trying to hold onto his base at this point....cause this message is a joke & it's not going to fly with the general population.
If you don't treat Eric Holder's people like special-needs infants, you are racist.
Mr. Obama, you Sir, are an educated IDIOT....
Three times, I started a business, without anyone's help, and failed. The fourth time, it was successful, without the help of anyone. It was my idea, the risk was taken by me and the rewards, Sir, are MINE. I earned every penny of it. All the government has done is rob from me. Your form of Government, Sir, is nothing but a legalized thief...and you, Sir, LIE!!!!
Not true at all....Paradigm shift etc......thinking outside the box....Dr. Edward de Bono and Lateral Thinking.....
Gadzooks! If the Drive-By Media would just report what The Obamanation says... we wouldn't need an election campaign.
Did that dumbass actually say that?
No Barry you eff'n moron.. You where not that one that gave me the gift of being able to fix computers. You where not the one that woke me up at 2 in the morning with a web address I had never heard of.. You where not the one that dropped a perfect working van in my lap for the 575 bucks I had to spend so I could go to work.. You're not the one there, with me, guiding me through the jobs..
You Berry think your god. Wait till you meet mine. He'll knock you down a post or two. I suspect he will bring you back to reality sometime around Nov 6.
National Socialism, citizen, National Socialism:
We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that weve set. Weve got to have a civilian national security force thats just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. Barack Hussein Obama, 7/2/2008They dont call it a Civil Defense force, that would imply we need (or perhaps deserve) defense.
The official name is National Civilian Community Corps.
I think of it as the NATCCC, or simply the NATCs...
Obama: A true DOPE SMOKING dumb-ass:
Magical thinking is a type of causal reasoning or causal fallacy that looks for meaningful relationships in totally unrelated grouped phenomena.
He just DREAMS IT UP...
We had an intranet kind of thing at my university in 1977, and by 1980 emails were going out of the science research facility where I worked. By 1985 my husband was trying to make me connect my circa 1982 home computer to his work computer so he could nag me during the day (NO).
I lost everything in the Obama Meltdown and have worked 10-16 hours a day since then and thanks be to God have rebuilt it better than it was.
I did it in spite of this nimrod.
Pray for America
That's a gross oversimplification of the origins of the Internet. There were all kinds of other computer-to-terminal and then peer-to-peer protocols used in industry through the '60s and '70s, when BBN did its first work on Arpanet. Those, particularly packet-switching, protocols in various forms evolved for more disparate, multi-computer networks. There was a lot of interchange back and forth between those worlds as competing and subsequent protocols—most especially TCP/IP were developed and adopted as open standards.
It's not like academia and business were sitting there like baby birds, mouths agape, waiting for the federal government to put Internet goodies into their mouths. All kinds of alternatives were about and could have been adopted in various ways. "The Internet" as we know it really came about IMO not even with the 'worldwide web', but with the Mosaic browser, which was dreamed up by academic technology students who, yes, worked in a lab with federal funding. They later commercialized it via Netscape.
Pure marxism. If the government invented something didn't it use business people's taxes to do so?
D1: If you're holding office, you didn't achieve that. Somebody else who ran a business or actually worked for a living made it possible.
You ignorant sack o' Kenyan monkey shit, the Internet was originally ARPANET created by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), for developing a means of communications in a post-nuclear strike world (among other purposes). The government didn't invent the Internet so "companies could make money".
0bama is just a stupid ass, that's the long and short of it.
.........worth repeating.
How convenient. Using the internet as an example.
Obama internet speech
Halfwit talk for halfwit audience!
I give you history's biggest jive turkey.
He is truly an economic retard. How anyone can equate him with Romney is astonishing.
W.H. occupant is so full of himself. I cannot wait to see when he moves out !
The Internet was born out of the Pentagon's DARPA, as an email vehicle for scientists to communicate. Businessmen came in and made it into the World Wide Web, a whole different animal.
To paraphrase:
"Success has many gov't bureaucrat fathers ... Failure is your own d*mn fault, you worthless orphan!"
Spoken like a man who has never once run his own business.
obamunist bump for later.......
Hey, I've supported Sweeny's Pub for years, and often I didn't get there on my own. Marge drove me.
Barack, you a$$hole!
Obama represents the black NCO like...
Obama is just the wienie REMF.
Not only did Obama ride the short bus to school, he licked the windows. That's why we can't have his school records, I guess............
Elizabeth Warren Video: One of the Great Teaching Tools on Liberalism
Rush "Somebody needs to read to her a story...Somebody needs to read the story of the Little Red Hen. It's an old Russian folktale, by the way. The Little Red Hen finds a grain of wheat and asks for help from the other farmyard animals to plant it. However, no animal will help her. At each stage of the work there's planting, harvesting, threshing, milling the wheat into flour, baking the flour into bread, all of that. The hen again asks for help from the other barnyard animals — and, again, none of them will help.
Finally the hen has done it all on her own, completed her task and asks who will help her eat the bread, and this time everybody volunteers! But she says, "Nope. No one helped me, you don't get any bread," and she eats it with her chicks, leaving none for anyone else."
Hopefully, we'll be able to store our seed corn for a more bright future. Unfortunately, the majority feel like Obama, they are entitled to your efforts. "Property is theft." so say the 'Progressives'.
"There's one serious flaw in this argument. How come, if we all have the "blessings" of government, ...we all have roads, we all live among other people we can hire as workers, the military protects everyone etc. , why then isn't EVERYONE rich?"
Can I quote you?
THE PRESIDENT: Now, before I finish, can I say, by the way, that some of you have been standing for a while and I see a couple folks slumping down a little bit. Make sure youre drinking water. Bend your knees. Dont stand up too straight. The paralegals will be — the paralegals? (Laughter.) You dont need lawyers. (Laughter.) The paramedics will be coming by, so just give folks a little bit of room, theyll be fine. This happens at every event.
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It's a difficult job keeping a jazz orchestra rolling, but veteran trumpeter Dan McMillion says he just can't give it up.
By PHILIP BOOTH, Times Staff Writer
© St. Petersburg Timespublished January 31, 2002
TAMPA -- Dan McMillion, the veteran Tampa trumpeter and leader of one of Florida's most notable oversized jazz groups, has a love-hate relationship with his job. That's how his friend Vic Hall, longtime jazz announcer for WUSF-FM 89.7, describes it in liner notes for the brass man's fifth CD, last year'sGot the Spirit.
McMillion, 65, is passionate about his art, taking his horn into stratospheric heights over rising and falling waves of trumpets, trombones and saxophones and a hard-driving rhythm section. It's an acoustic wall of sound that can be as powerful as any given guitar army.
But polishing his chops on trumpet and valve trombone represents a mere fraction of the work required to keep the Dan McMillion Jazz Orchestra rolling. There's a 200-piece library of charts to maintain and catalog; gigs to be booked in hopes of landing decent pay for each of 16 musicians; set lists, maps, transportation and countless other details for each gig; and sundry duties related to recording projects, marketing and publicity. It's little wonder that so few big bands find steady work, much less stay together.
The recordings of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Harry James early on excited McMillion, the son of a part-time big band musician, also a multi-instrumentalist. The aspiring trumpeter grew up in Detroit but graduated from Tampa's Plant High in 1956 and returned to Motown. He played with Woody Herman and backed the likes of Carmen McRae, Peggy Lee and Joe Williams.
He returned to Tampa in the mid-'60s, and led various combos in addition to his day job restoring and repairing Volvos. McMillion finally put together a big band of his own in 1995.
"I knew it would be a lot of work, but I didn't know how much work," he says of his jazz orchestra (a term he prefers over the musty-sounding "big band").
Recognition goes a long way to keep frustration at bay, and McMillion has had much to celebrate in recent months. For starters, he landed in the top 10 on the list of Grammy nominees in the category of Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. The top five, a group that this year includes bands led by Rob McConnell, Nicholas Payton, Bob Mintzer, Jim McNeely and Bob Brookmeyer, became official nominees.
And in the latest edition of Jazz Times, a major national jazz monthly, Got the Spirit was lauded for McMillion's playing, the work of his soloists and an intriguing, raucous stomper, Closing Time at the Engine Room Bar, written and composed by baritone saxophonist Butch Evans. That tune features solos by McMillion, bassist Joe Porter, tenor saxophonist Jeff Jordan, pianist Richard Drexler and trombonist Roger Delillo. Saxophonists Kim Bock and Valerie Gillespie take solos elsewhere on the disc.
The disc has received notice elsewhere at home and around the world, with laudatory reviews in Cadence magazine, the online publication Allaboutjazz.com and British periodicals Jazz Journal International and Big Bands International.
"The band has sort of come into its own," he says. "We sort of have a style. We can't be a ghost band for Maynard, but that's the style of the band -- Maynard Ferguson and Woody Herman."
The neoswing movement of the '90s, which yielded brief commercial attention for bands such as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Royal Crown Revue and the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, failed to spark attention for McMillion's group and other modern-leaning jazz orchestras.
"It didn't help us," he says. "I wasn't about to go into one of those retro shops and put the guys in zoot suits."
The public's interest in music by large jazz ensembles waxes and, mostly, wanes on a regular basis, as shown by McMillion and Chuck Owen, leader of Tampa's Jazz Surge, which is more oriented toward new original compositions. And commercial prospects are notoriously slim. So why keep on keeping on?
"Tenacity," he says. "I always say, the devil made me do it. I haven't given up on this thing, and I certainly have wanted to many times. I've always liked the big band sound and playing in that setting. It's something you can't reproduce with synthesizers."
PREVIEW: Dan McMillion Jazz Orchestra, Largo House of Jazz at the Largo Cultural Center, 105 Central Park Drive, 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $10. Call (727) 587-6793. Also, at 2 p.m. Feb. 24 at the Catherine Hickman Theater, 5501 27th Ave. S in Gulfport, admission $5 at the door.
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oh, i forgot to give the recipe i've been using:Dough Pizza Hut style1 1/3 c - Water (120 degrees, 44%)2 tsp - Sugar1 ¼ tsp - Salt2 T - Olive Oil2 c - All-purpose flour1 c - Bread Flour (Gold Medal)1 tsp - Baking Powder¼ tsp - Garlic Powder1 ½ tsp - Instant Dry Yeast (brand?)(can add 1/2 tsp basil or oregano)Omitted: ¼ tsp Onion Powder, 2 T Cornmeal
i use a bread machine to do the mixing.. it's a 1 hour cycle and i put the ingredients in, in the order they're listed. and yes, the powder and oregano and what not are in there for flavor i suppose. i got this recipe somewhere online.. claims to be the pizza hut dough recipe. it always come out more like bread and less like pizza crust. does gluten help anything? what recipe do you use?thanks a lot.
Dale B what style of pizza are you trying to make? Pappa Jhons? Pizza Hut pan? That would help us help you.Randy


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I am very intrigued by the ancient wisdom about debt that's been lost in our modern capitalist narrative. I wonder if we are condemned to repeat history's lesson or worst, that Marxist commentary and predictions would fulfill themselves at the beginning of another century. The excess of the financial market have not only raised its ugly head, but have trump common values of money and blinded us to the pitfalls of vice. Greed, envy, and pride are disguised as market opportunities, executive compensation, and a blind belief in the market. Much was said in the Jewish bible about debt, its underbelly in society, and liberation. It was Rabbi Jesus in the first century AD whose message of forgiveness from debt brought the Old Testament message into sharper focus. Perhaps Wall Street is closer to the heart of our religious salvation then Sunday morning collection plate. I've tried to comment on this in a blog about the Moral Conundrum of the Economic Bailout (http://pluralism.wordpress.com..., but would like to see a more comprehensive commentary on the subject. "Peace on earth, good will to men" was more then just a nice Christmas jingle, it was about forgiveness and balance sheets, that human flourishing (Shalom) who come to all men.


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Hometown: San Diego, California/San Diego, California
Birth Date: Nov. 25, 1989
College/Major/Grad Year: Texas/Corporate Communications/2011
Joined Team: January 2008
MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: 2013 - USA Volleyball Cup...FIVB World Grand Prix Preliminary Round. 2008 – Tour of China...Pan American Cup (Fifth Place). 2006 – TV Azteca Cup.
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: 2013 – Played in three sets versus Japan on July 10 in opening match of USA Volleyball Cup in hometown of San Diego…Scored four kills on 12 errorless attacks in the match…Played in eight sets during second weekend of FIVB World Grand Prix, registering eight kills on 23 attacks and four digs. 2008 – Credited with 53 points during a three-week, eight-match tour of China…Converted 41 percent attacks into kills in China…Tallied 49 kills during the event…Played in five sets during the Pan American Cup with two kills. 2006 – Tallied 22 points during the TV Azteca Cup with one match start against Mexico on Sept. 29...Played in 14 sets at the TV Azteca Cup with five set starts…Started match versus Mexico on Sept. 29 at the TV Azteca Cup and tallied six points on five kills and a block…Recorded eight points versus Peru on Sept. 28...Came off the bench in two sets versus Cuba on Sept. 27 to compile two blocks and two kills.
COLLEGE HIGHLIGHTS: 2010 – Name AVCA All-America First Team, Big 12 Player of the Year and NCAA All-Tournament Team as Texas reached NCAA semifinals…Selected as finalist for Honda Award…Led Longhorns with 536.5 points (4.55 per set) and 465 kills (3.94 per set). 2009 – AVCA All-America Third Team selection and All-Big 12…Totaled 3.17 kills and 3.64 points per set. 2008 – AVCA All-America honorable mention after ranking second on team with 2.94 kills per set. 2007 – Selected as American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) National Freshman of the Year and AVCA All-America First-Team…Selected All-Big 12 First Team and Big 12 Freshman of the Year…Started 30 of Texas' 31 matches and appeared in 99 total games…Ranked first on the team in total kills (445) and second in kills per game (4.49)…Tallied double-figure kill totals in 25 of her 30 matches.
OTHER USA VOLLEYBALL EXPERIENCE: Selected most valuable player of Women's Open Division of 2010 USA Volleyball Open National Championships while participating with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball A2 Program…Trained with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team during the spring of 2008 in an attempt to make the 2008 Olympic Games roster…Member of U.S. Women's Junior National Team in 2006…Helped Team USA to the gold medal at the 2006 NORCECA Continental Women's Junior Championship in Mexico…Second highest scorer for Team USA at 2006 NORCECA Continental Championship.
CLUB/PREP CAREER: Played for EPIC Volleyball Club (San Diego, Calif.) and coached by Ozhan Barambagui…Ranked second in the 2007 recruiting class by PrepVolleyball.com…Led Epic to third place finish at 2006 USA Volleyball Girls' Junior National Championships and earned spot on the 18 Open All-Tournament Team...Attended Westview High School (San Diego, Calif.) from 2003-2007…Started playing indoor volleyball in 2004 with Coast Volleyball Club.
PERSONAL: Born Juliann Christine Faucette on Nov. 25, 1989, in San Diego, Calif…Parents are Chuck Faucette and Carolyn Ryba with sisters Jenna (1987), Tomilyn (1995), Javoni (1995) and Jade (1997)…Father played for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League in 1989…Hobbies include singing, dancing and acting…Favorite food is sushi and favorite book is The Shack…Favorite Musical Type is R&B...Favorite musicians are Alicia Keys and Justin Bieber…Favorite athlete is Michael Jordan…Favorite actress is Julia Roberts and favorite actor is Jim Carrey...Was a gymnast for eight years before becoming a cheerleader and dancer in her teens…Most admired people are her mom and dad because "they both have influenced me in different ways and are very strong, successful people."
What are the top songs in your iPod: Miguel "Adorn", Alicia Keys "Girl on Fire" and Robin S. "Show Me Love"
Name three things that most people do not know about you. I've been in plays and musicals, I was in Choir for seven years, and I used to be a dancer
What do you like to do in your spare time? Read and sing/listen to music
What do you envision doing as a career after competing for the national team? Playing overseas, or becoming an American Idol star! Or becoming a news caster
Other than family, who would you like to invite to complete a dinner foursome (individuals can be dead or alive)? God, Oprah, Michael Jordan and Justin Beiber
Who was your club coach prior to going to college? Ozhan Barambagui
Where would you like to spend a week's vacation? Fiji
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? The Caribbean Islands
What is your favorite room in your house and why? My room because it's great for relaxing and reading
What is the one luxury item that you could not do without? My ipod
What luxury item do you wish you could invent? A time machine or instant travel
Rank the following types of television programs in order you like best: Reality TV, crime dramas, game shows, sit-coms, music television, cable news, sports. Sports, Reality, Music Television, sit-coms
What is your favorite television program? Gossip Girl
What is your favorite movie? The Avengers
What is your favorite book? Angels & Demons
What is your pre-match ritual? Listen to my music and get loose
On an airplane, would you rather, sleep, read, work on a computer or talk with the person sitting next to you? Read
What is the best thing about competing on the USA Women's National Team? You can learn something new and grow into a better player and person every single day
What is your favorite volleyball drill? Tennis
What sport would you be competing in if not for volleyball? Track or Football
Who is your favorite athlete? Michael Jordan
What is your favorite food? Sushi
What is your hometown best known for? Sunny San Diego
How many different languages can you converse in? Two
What was your favorite subject in school? History
If you could see any musical act or performer (dead or alive) in concert, who would it be? Michael Jackson
If you won the lottery, what is the first thing that you would buy or pay for? A house
If you would live as one other person (celebrity or not) for one day, who would it be? Beyonce
If you could have one super power, what would it be? To Fly
If a movie was made about your life, which actor or actress would you want to play you? Angelina Jolie
If you were stranded on a desert island, what three things would you take with you? My ipod, a good book, and some water
If you could live in another time period for a week, which one would you choose? The 60s
If you could be on the cover of one magazine, which one would you choose? Vogue
What is the most "embarrassing" song on your iPod? Cotton Eyed Joe
What is your favorite holiday? Thanksgiving
What is your favorite season – winter, spring, summer or fall? Summer
What is one off-the-court talent that you have? Singing
What was the most defining moment in your life? When I accepted Jesus Christ into my life
What are your most prized possessions? My family and friends
What is your motto? The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender
What reality show (American Idol, the Apprentice, the Real World, Survivor, Big Brother, etc.) would you be best on? American Idol
What is your pet peeve? Wasted talent, bad attitudes and lying
What communication tool do you use most often – text messaging, talking on the cell phone or e-mail? Text Messaging
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