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Louise Erdrich 1954-
American poet, novelist, and author of memoirs and children's books.
The following entry presents criticism from 1985 to 1999 on Erdrich's life and works. See also, Louise Erdrich Literary Criticism and Love Medicine Criticism.
Erdrich is a poet and award-winning novelist whose works explore themes of family and personal survival and cultural continuity. The daughter of a German American father and an Ojibwe French mother, Erdrich populates her fiction with central characters drawn from both Native and non-Native cultures, and her poems reflect the unresolved tension of trying to preserve a minority cultural heritage in the face of the dominant white culture. Because it addresses universal concerns of motherhood and sisterhood as well as the unique life experiences of Native American women, Erdrich's work has garnered both praise and criticism for its wide appeal and lack of overt politicism.
Biographical Information
Erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota, on June 7, 1954, and was raised as the oldest of seven children in Wahpeton, North Dakota. Her Ojibwe (Chippewa) grandfather was once the tribal head of the Turtle Mountain Reservation nearby, and her parents worked at a boarding school run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Erdrich was a member of the freshman class at Dartmouth University in 1972, the year that women were first admitted as students. The university established its Native American studies department that year as well, and its first chairperson was anthropologist Michael Dorris. In a class taught by Dorris, who would later become her husband, Erdrich first began the cultural examination of her heritage that would later inspire her poetry and fiction, including Jacklight, her first volume of poetry, and the novel Love Medicine, both of which were published in 1984.
In 1978, Erdrich began a graduate program at Johns Hopkins University, and after completing a Master of Arts degree, she was invited to return to Dartmouth to give a poetry reading. Dorris attended the event, and they subsequently began a literary friendship that led first to professional collaboration and then to marriage in 1981. During the next decade and beyond, Dorris and Erdrich worked closely on all of their literary projects while raising a family that consisted of adopted and biological children. The collaborative partnership, revealed in more than two dozen interviews in Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris (1994), began to unravel during the mid-1990s. The couple separated in 1995, and Dorris committed suicide in 1997.
Since the publication of her second volume of poetry, Baptism of Desire, in 1989, Erdrich has focused primarily on writing long and short fiction, and in the late 1990s she began writing children's stories as well. While she continues to document the life experiences of full- and mixed-heritage Native American women in her novels, she has also adopted an interest in learning and preserving the language of the Ojibwe, known to its speakers as Anishinibe.
Major Works
Erdrich's first volume of poetry, Jacklight, is based on works she first conceived as part of her master's degree studies. The poems of this collection comprise five general thematic groupings. These include poems that explore the conflict of Native and non-Native cultures; poems that celebrate family and the bonds of sisterhood; songs of love; autobiographical poems that bring to life characters from the poet's childhood; and poems that elicit the mythical, storytelling aspects of her Ojibwe heritage. One of the best-known poems of this collection is the frequently anthologized "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"; another is "A Love Medicine," the family and sisterhood themes of which also form the basis of her novel Love Medicine.
With her second poetry collection, Baptism of Desire, Erdrich draws deeply on her experience as a mother, caretaker, and life partner, noting that many of the poems were "written between the hours of two and four in the morning, a period of insomnia brought on by pregnancy." The volume's title refers to a little-understood tenet of the Roman Catholic faith tradition in which Erdrich was raised; the poems embrace a complex spirituality born of the co-mingling yet conflicting religious traditions of her dual heritage. "Hydra," which masterfully intertwines themes of myth, maternity, Native intuition, and Catholic theology, finds the poet speaking to both the child in her womb and the mythical serpent, likening herself to the biblical mothers Eve and Mary. The solitude of maternal wariness in the presence of sleeping children is evoked in "The Ritual." Describing this collection, critic Carolyn Dunn wrote, "The ordinary and the extraordinary are woven into one seamless whole."
Although she began her literary publishing career as a poet, Erdrich is best known for her fiction, which includes short stories written for periodicals and anthologies, and more than a half dozen novels. The earliest of these, Love Medicine, was first published in 1984 and released in an expanded edition in 1993. The next four, The Beet Queen (1986), Tracks (1988), The Bingo Palace (1994), and Tales of Burning Love (1996), continue the stories begun in the first novel of three interrelated families whose experiences span most of the twentieth century. Set in and around a reservation in a fictional North Dakota town, these novels reveal Native American families living in cultural conflict while simultaneously depicting the universal issues of family life that cross cultural boundaries.
The Antelope Wife, which appeared in 1998, was Erdrich's first major work published without the literary or editorial influence of Michael Dorris. The late 1990s also saw the publication of two children's books by Erdrich: Grandmother's Pigeon (1996), and The Birchbark House (1999). Her most recent novels include The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001) and The Master Butchers Singing Club (2002).
Critical Reception
Most of the critical attention devoted to Erdrich's work has focused on her long fiction, especially the five interrelated novels; literary analysis of these works often praises Erdrich's intuitive narrative style and non-chronological portrayal of time. However, many of the cultural themes identified by reviewers of her novels—elements of Ojibwe mythology combined with aspects of Roman Catholic religious life; the depiction of women's relationships with loved ones and society as a whole; and portrayal of life experiences from both Native and non-Native perspectives—are also noted approvingly by reviewers of Erdrich's poetry. In a review of Jacklight, James McKenzie wrote that Erdrich's poetry "fills an important space in our evolving, collective knowledge of who we really are." Praising Baptism of Desire, Helen Jaskoski wrote, "The language is rich, the imagery sometimes almost hallucinatory."
Erdrich's literary approach to representing the Native American experience has been criticized on cultural and political grounds by some peers, including Leslie Marmon Silko. Silko's observation about the novel Love Medicine, for example, is that Erdrich does not accurately or fully address the political, psychological, or economic hardships endured by Native Americans in the dominant white culture. Other critics concur, however, that although Erdrich's unconventional use of narrative and descriptive language doesn't lend itself to overt political commentary, it fully communicates her deep concern for cultural preservation and continuity. As such, the universal appeal of her fiction and poetry is considered a strength, rather than a weakness, by such observers of her work.
Principal Works
Jacklight 1984
Baptism of Desire 1989
Imagination (nonfiction) 1980
Love Medicine (novel) 1984; expanded edition, 1993
The Beet Queen (novel) 1986
Tracks (novel) 1988
The Crown of Columbus [with Michael Dorris] (novel) 1991
The Bingo Palace (novel) 1994
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris [with Allan Richard Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin] (interviews) 1994
The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year (memoirs) 1995
Grandmother's Pigeon (juvenilia) 1996
Tales of Burning Love (novel) 1996
The Antelope Wife (novel) 1998
The Birchbark House (juvenilia) 1999
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (novel) 2001
The Master Butchers Singing Club (novel) 2002
Louise Erdrich and Jan George (interview date spring 1985)
SOURCE: Erdrich, Louise, and Jan George. "Interview with Louise Erdrich." North Dakota Quarterly 53, no. 2 (spring 1985): 240-7.
[In the following interview, Erdrich discusses her early works and talks about the life experiences that influence her poetry and fiction.]
"If there's a story there, that's enough," says Louise Erdrich, who brings to life the history and mythology of her people and, therefore, her identity: Chippewa, German, woman, Midwesterner. By juxtaposing and weaving past and present together, Erdrich gives shape to the prairie land and its people in her book of poems, Jacklight, and her novel, Love Medicine (both 1984, Holt,...
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James McKenzie (review date spring 1985)
SOURCE: McKenzie, James. Review of Jacklight. North Dakota Quarterly 53, no. 2 (spring 1985): 257-9.
[In the following review, McKenzie asserts that Erdrich's first volume of poetry successfully portrays North Dakota's varied population of "ordinary" people of both Native and European American heritage.]
The new North Dakota license plate blends romantic figures from the state's territorial past (Sakajawea, the Seventh Cavalry, Teddy Roosevelt) with objects from its present (a curve of highway, a farm silo, the capitol tower) to form what must be the most complicated image on any of the fifty states' license plates. Old Glory, in the middle of the montage,...
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Vernon Shetley (review date April 1985)
SOURCE: Shetley, Vernon. Review of Jacklight. Poetry 146, no. 1 (April 1985): 40-1.
[In the following review, Shetley offers a brief criticism of Jacklight.]
Louise Erdrich's rough-hewn poems view the American West they inhabit under two contrary aspects: as wild, daemonic nature or as landscape of human loneliness, whose physical correlatives are on the one hand forest and plain, and on the other roadside and small town. In the former mode, she seeks what was once called the "deep image," a logically inexplicable but archetypally resonant cluster of language meant to liberate an elementally powerful emotional response. While her reading has probably...
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Richard K. Waters (review date 1985)
SOURCE: Waters, Richard K. Review of Jacklight. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 9, no. 4 (1985): 136-9.
[In the following review of Jacklight, Waters comments on Erdrich's exploration of her mixed heritage through poetry.]
In Jacklight Louise Erdrich has achieved something unusual in the field of Native American poetry, where all too often the voice of the poet too stridently insists that the reader give attention to the poet's Indian-ness. Not that it is wrong to be read as an Indian poet, but usually the poets of such works contradictorily beg to be read as poets in the mainstream, despite the inevitability that poems written about...
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Michael Loudon (review date winter 1986)
SOURCE: Loudon, Michael. Review of Jacklight. World Literature Today 60, no. 1 (winter 1986): 159.
[In the following review, Loudon offers favorable criticism of Jacklight.]
Designating someone's "first book of poems" as such is typically an apologetic strategy. For Erdrich, "first-rate," "first ground," and "first light" are more descriptive of the forty-four poems of Jacklight. I felt early in the reading the same narrative force, precise images, and complex characters that eventually found full expression in her celebrated novel Love Medicine (1984), but the poems are far from mere exercises on the way to a novel. They are...
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Elaine Jahner (review date 1986)
SOURCE: Jahner, Elaine. Review of Jacklight. Studies in American Indian Literatures 9, no. 1 (1986): 29-34.
[In the following review, Jahner offers a critical review of Erdrich's Jacklight.]
In an age and culture where the sheer volume of poetry written on a given day must approach that of personal letters, critics know that words like "new" or "unique" are so shopworn as to threaten meaning. Nevertheless, these adjectives retain their original full force of signification when applied to Louise Erdrich's Jacklight. The poems in this volume demonstrate an awareness that words, well-placed, will pull at the bit, will make us realize that we can't...
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Louise Erdrich and Miriam Berkley (interview date 15 August 1986)
SOURCE: Erdrich, Louise, and Miriam Berkley. "PW Interviews: Louise Erdrich." Publishers Weekly 230 (August 15, 1986): 58-9.
[In the following interview, Erdrich discusses the development of her career and her collaboration with husband Michael Dorris.]
When Louise Erdrich was a child in North Dakota, her father encouraged her to write by paying her a nickel a story. Once in a while, a story found its way into a book hand-sewn by her mother. Still, she had no urge to be a writer, she says, "until I got to college and found I wasn't much good at anything else." If Erdrich is, one suspects, being unduly modest about her nonliterary achievements, there can...
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Louise Erdrich and Joseph Bruchac (interview date 1987)
SOURCE: Erdrich, Louise, and Joseph Bruchac. "Whatever Is Really Yours: An Interview with Louise Erdrich." In Survival This Way: Interviews with American Indian Poets, pp. 73-86. Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 1987.
[In the following interview, Erdrich discusses geographic, cultural, and family influences on her poetry and fiction.]
It was a sunny day in New Hampshire when Louise Erdrich and her younger sister, Heidi Erdrich, a student in Creative Writing at Dartmouth, met me at the airport. We drove to the house her sister was subletting from Cleopatra Mathis, a poet and teacher at Dartmouth. Louise and I sat out on the back deck above a field where...
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Helen Jaskoski (review date winter 1991)
SOURCE: Jaskoski, Helen. Review of Baptism of Desire. SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures, 2d ser., 3, no. 4 (winter 1991): 55-7.
[In the following review, Jaskoski discusses Erdrich's second volume of poetry.]
In Catholic doctrine, Baptism of Desire has a rather technical meaning: a person who is unable to manage conventional baptism of water can, by earnestly and truly wanting to be baptised, gain the benefits of the sacrament, i.e., entry into the church and eligibility for heaven. Longing and will may serve where form and ritual are impossible. In Louise Erdrich's latest collection of poems the technical meaning of longing to be baptised in the...
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Carolyn Dunn (review date 1993)
SOURCE: Dunn, Carolyn. Review of Baptism of Desire. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 17, no. 3 (1993): 188-93.
[In the following review, Dunn offers a critical overview of the poems contained in Baptism of Desire.]
When classifying American Indian literature, literary critics seek to define just what is distinctly Indian about these writers. Most of the writers today come from varied tribal and nontribal backgrounds, so it is difficult to categorize Indian writers under that simple heading: Indian. Male writers tend to explore themes of ritualistic death and rebirth through a communion within the community; female writers tend to look outward in...
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P. Jane Hafen (essay date summer 1996)
SOURCE: Hafen, P. Jane. "Sacramental Language: Ritual in the Poetry of Louise Erdrich." Great Plains Quarterly 16, no. 3 (summer 1996): 147-55.
[In the following essay, Hafen offers a critical analysis of Erdrich's poetry, focusing on her portrayal of culture and ritual through literature.]
As an intensely personal genre, poetry intimately reveals Louise Erdrich's voice as her well-known fiction does not.1 Evident in that voice are elements of the mosaic of cultural experiences that comprise Erdrich's life: Catholicism, German ancestry, working class, university education, and Turtle Mountain Chippewa.2 Erdrich's poetry is her first published...
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Robin Riley Fast (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: Fast, Robin Riley. "Resistant History: Revising the Captivity Narrative in 'Captivity' and Blackrobe: Isaac Jogues." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 23, no. 1 (1999): 69-86.
[In the following essay, Fast compares literary treatments of colonial Indian captivity stories, as represented in selected works of Erdrich and Maurice Kenny.]
Many contemporary American Indian writers are engaged in the shared project of complicating and revising the received history of the Americas. Kimberly Blaeser reminds us that survival is at stake here when she says that "the creation and interpretations of histories have … functioned directly as the...
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Further Reading
Fast, Robin Riley. "Claiming History." In The Heart as a Drum: Continuance and Resistance in American Indian Poetry, pp. 183-206. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 1999.
Seventh chapter includes a discussion of Erdrich's poem "Captivity" among a selection of works that offer literary variations on historic accounts of relations between native and nonnative peoples in Colonial America.
Finch, Annie. "Poets of Our Time." Belles Lettres 5, no. 4 (summer 1990): 30-1.
Review of Erdrich's Baptism of Desire.
Hughes, Sheila Hassell. "Falls of Desire/Leaps of Faith:...
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USF Well Prepared for ITA Regionals
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TAMPA - Plenty of off time off has allowed the USF men's tennis team to improve in preparation for this week's ITA Regional Championships in Tallahassee.
Thursday's qualifying rounds mark USF's first competition since finishing a nice run at the Bedford Cup on Sept. 16 in Gainesville. Bulls competing for a chance to get to the main draw are Guillermo De Vilchez, Joao Souza and Everth Dzib. The main draw gets going on Friday.
"It will be a good opportunity to see what we get from the hard work we've been putting in in practice for weeks," assistant coach Brandon Wagner said. "They've been working hard, we've been pushing them really hard, and they're ready to battle against some other guys instead of themselves."
USF did plenty of battling at the Bedford Cup with De Vilchez, Ravi Patel and Federico Sabogal all making the quarterfinals. Sabogal went on to play in the semifinals.
"All three guys had great tournaments and we've had other guys stepping up and playing a lot better. I'm interested to see who puts it together in this tournament," Wagner said.


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Every Little Girl Grows Up Wanting to Sell Metal, Right?!
Published: 5/10/2017 6:28:19 PM
By Katlin (Gainer) Biehl '14
Okay, probably not… however, maybe by the end of this blog you will be inspired to consider things outside of your normal dreams.
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Chapter 21. Muspel
The fog thickened so that the two suns wholly disappeared, and all grew as black as
night. Nightspore could no longer see his companion. The water lapped gently against the
side of the island raft.
"You say the night is past," said Nightspore. "But the night is still here. Am I dead, or
"You are still in Crystalman's world, but you belong to it no more. We are approaching
Nightspore felt a strong, silent throbbing of the air - a rhythmical pulsation, in four-four
time. "There is the drumming," he exclaimed.
"Do you understand it, or have you forgotten?"
"I half understand it, but I'm all confused."
"It's evident Crystalman has dug his claws into you pretty deeply," said Krag. "The sound
comes from Muspel, but the rhythm is caused by its travelling through Crystalman's
atmosphere. His nature is rhythm as he loves to call it - or dull, deadly repetition, as I
name it."
"I remember," said Nightspore, biting his nails in the dark.
The throbbing became audible; it now sounded like a distant drum. A small patch of
strange light in the far distance, straight ahead of them, began faintly to illuminate the
floating island and the glassy sea around it.
"Do all men escape from that ghastly world, or only I, and a few like me?" asked
"If all escaped, I shouldn't sweat, my friend... There's hard work, and anguish, and the
risk of total death, waiting for us yonder."
Nightspore's heart sank. "Have I not yet finished, then?"
"If you wish it. You have got through. But will you wish it?"
The drumming grew loud and painful. The light resolved itself into a tiny oblong of
mysterious brightness in a huge wall of night. Krag's grim and rocklike features were
"I can't face rebirth," said Nightspore. "The horror of death is nothing to it."


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Revamped program helps owners avoid foreclosure
Changes in housing market Homeowners who are 30 days late now have the option to meet face-to-face with their lender
Oregon homeowners who are 30 or more days late on their mortgage or have a verifiable financial hardship, now have the option to request to meet face-to-face with their lender to discuss potential ways to avoid foreclosure.
This is all possible due to the passage of Senate Bill 558, which went into effect in August. Unlike the old law, the new law applies to both judicial and non-judicial foreclosures. The new law also requires that a resolution conference be held before lenders can proceed with a foreclosure.
The overhauled program, called the Oregon Foreclosure Avoidance (OFA) Program brings together the homeowner, the lender and a facilitator to discuss alternatives to foreclosure, including loan modification, refinance, short sale, deed-in-lieu of foreclosure, or other preventative options.
Homeowners who are behind on their house payments can now meet directly with their lender to talk about how they can avoid foreclosure, said Elise Hui, executive director for the Housing Authority of Yamhill County. The housing authority of Yamhill County is ready and able to help homeowners learn about their options and hopefully avoid foreclosure.
A resolution conference is not guaranteed. Homeowners must receive and respond to a notice of a request for a resolution conference from their lender, or request a resolution conference following a state approved housing counseling agency certifies that they are 30 days late or have a verifiable financial hardship.
Homeowners who are at risk for foreclosure should start by finding a state approved housing counseling agency by visiting www. oregonhomeownersupport. gov or by calling 211 toll-free from any phone in the state.
Those who wish to participate in the program should visit www.foreclosure mediationor.org or call 1-855-658-6733 to learn more.


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Geothermal grant can have positive ripple effects
The grant secured by Haywood Community College to install a geothermal demonstration unit is one that could have broad implications for the county's economy down the road.
As Haywood's economy evolves, locally grown food is one of the rising stars. The use of chilling units that can help seal in the freshness of fruits and vegetables until they are marketed could be a game changer.
The $50,000 N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services grant will allow a demonstration unit to be installed at the Mountain Research Station. From there, HCC will offer classes to better acquaint those in the community with the advantages of geothermal heating and cooling. The unit will also allow community college students to get in on the ground floor when it comes to learning to build the units.
Part of the grant includes working with local growers on the feasibility of installing similar units at their farm.
Geothermal chilling involves using a water circulation system below the earth's surface where the temperature is a constant 54 degrees. Cooled water is pumped into a unit that can refrigerate produce generally picked in the heat of the day in the hottest months of the year.
Immediate chilling will not only help the farm products stay fresher longer, but will give farmers a longer time to get them to the end markets.
Economic conditions in an area fluctuate, and that is evident in Haywood County. A decade ago, a vigorous real estate market and housing building boom fueled the local economy. That cycle is down, but the agricultural industry has become more aggressive in getting its fair share of the increasing interest in healthier, locally grown food.
It is nice to see the continued working relationship between the community college and the state ag department's research station blossom into yet another avenue to help the local economy.


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Bill Belichick talks about Houston's ability to bring the blitz
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We've written about the Patriots blitzing tendencies over the last few weeks, but one thing we haven't mentioned much of this week is the fact that the Texans love to dial up pressure by sending an extra rusher as well. Patriots coach Bill Belichick said Saturday that the Houston defense isn't afraid to bring five and six rushers at a time.
"They bring five a lot and they bring six some, but they bring five quite a bit," Belichick said of the Texans, who blitz more than anyone else in the league, according to ESPN Stats & Information. "[J.J.] Watt isn't always in the same place. He flips sides in their base defense depending on the formation. Then in their sub defense, they usually line him up to the offensive right. They run a lot of games with him so even though he's lined up in one spot when the ball is snapped, he can be rushing out here or out'¦it's not always straight ahead.
"They do a good job of running games with a four-man line. They also mix in games with their fifth rusher so your left guard, your left tackle, your center — really anybody — can end up on anybody because of the multiple games that they run in passing situations. You can say, 'OK, we're going to help him here,' but after the ball is snapped, he might not even be there."
The multiple looks present a challenge for an offensive line.
"I'd say it's more visual communication, and you just have to have your rules," he said of the o-line. "All five guys have to see the same thing. So if one of them sees it differently than the other one, it's probably going to be a problem. When to pass them, when to bump them, when to stay with them, when to, even though this is the next guy here, sometimes you have to push past that guy to the next guy outside of him but you have to trust that the guy behind you is coming over to get the guy that's on you.
"But that's the way your rules tell you to do it. Sometimes you have to pass up a guy to go block another guy, being confident that the guy behind you is going to take that guy that you're passing up. Things like that. It's about all of them seeing it the same way. But the communication of, 'I've got this guy, you take that guy,' is really, I don't think there's a lot of that ' it just happens too fast."
Here are more highlights of Belichick's Saturday Q&A:
It seems like they have guys that are really disruptive on their own but schematically, they also dial up some pressure and play a lot of man coverage in the back. Is that the way you see it?
"Yeah, a lot of man coverage, a lot of pressure; it's mostly all man coverage, really. In the end, even the zones are matched so, yes, they're very disruptive up front. A little bit of secondary pressure, but not a lot. It's more linebacker pressure and man coverage. That's what they do."
When Tom Brady is at the line making calls and you have a guy like J.J. Watt, is it common to call for a double team or is that something that's already set up?
"I think it depends on how you have it set up, how that play is set up or how your game plan is set up. We've faced guys before, I'd say guys you have to game plan for ' the [Dwight] Freeneys and the Jason Taylors and guys like that ' whether they're inside or outside guys and you just have to decide how you're going to handle them. First of all, if they blitz then you have to pick up the blitz and the double team really doesn't exist. But if you have an extra guy, if you can get the extra guy to where that player is or if you can take a guy who would normally be in the pass pattern and let him either bump the guy on the way out or just block him and lose him in the pass pattern, so there are a lot of different ways you can try to get help in the passing game, if they don't blitz. If they blitz, you need all the guys that you have to pick him. You don't want to be double teaming one guy and letting somebody else come free. Again, there are a lot of different ways to do that, but I'd say those are basically what your options are if you want to definitely try to get help, get your line slid that way or keep an extra guy in on that side."
You haven't seen him a ton, but Andre Johnson is a guy that still after 10 years in the league, defenses can't find a way to slow him down it seems.
"He's really a special player; does a lot of things well. [He] hits a lot of deep balls, big target, obviously, double moves, go-routes, back shoulder-type throws. He's a tough matchup for anybody one-on-one. It's like throwing to a tight end; there's always a place to get the ball to him. But he's also very good on underneath routes, the under routes, the tear screens, even plays like hitches and slants, they hit them and he breaks tackles, like he did in the Jacksonville game. He does it every week really. He can take a short pass, a two, three-yard pass and turn it into a long run or he can run by the defense like he did against Denver on the post pattern. Go-route, double moves, stop-and-gos, all those things; he's got a good route tree, he has a variety of routes. Sometimes they put him in the slot, usually he's outside but they do move him around so you have to find him. He's good on the catch-and-run plays, he's good on the vertical routes, he's good in the red area, he can go up and get the ball, he blocks well. He's a great player. He's done it for a long time. He puts up big numbers every year and people are keying on him, they're looking for him and he keeps producing. He's a hard guy to cover."
He's a talented guy and can find ways to get himself open, but it seems like they also schematically draw it up so all the sudden, he's unaccounted for.
"Right, absolutely, they do. Gary [Kubiak] does a good job scheme-wise of balancing everything out ' the running game, the passing game, play-actions, dropbacks, complementary routes, complementary runs ' everything kind of ties together. If you're stopping one thing, then you're probably light on something else and it won't take them too long to find that and exploit it. He's definitely open on a few plays where it wouldn't matter who the receiver is, the guy is wide open and is going to make a big play. But there are also a lot of plays that he makes on his own: he goes up and takes the ball away from a defender or he takes a two-yard pass and turns it into a 40-yard run and plays like that. You're right, it's both. It's scheme and it's the individual player."
Do you remember scouting that Miami team?
"Yeah, he was down there. He came out, I want to say the same year as [Willis] McGahee. Charlie [Weis] and I were down there. McGahee, of course, was coming off the knee injury. It seemed like we were at Miami every year and they had 10 guys. Then it seemed like we were at Florida every year and they had 10 guys. There was a bit of shift there where Miami, they still had them, but they didn't have as many of them, where you felt like you're working out the whole team. You go down there on Pro Day and work out and you can't see them all. They have a receiver over here, a tight end over here, a running back over here, a couple defensive linemen over here, corners are working out over there, they have some linebacker'¦I mean wherever you look, you're looking at just too many guys to watch. Those are the kind of workouts that it's worth it because you're seeing eight, nine, 10 guys that are going to get drafted, they're going to play in the league. Whether you have them or somebody else gets them, at least you know them a little bit better."
Was there a feeling around the league that that was a special team?
"Yeah, like I said, they were loaded every year. Look at the backs that were down there, they went from [Clinton] Portis to [Frank] Gore to [Willis] McGahee. I'm sure I'm leaving a couple of them out, but it's just one guy after another. It's ridiculous. And receivers too: [Reggie] Wayne and [Andre] Johnson. Like I said, it was like two or three guys at every position every year. Pro Day down there was 10 draft choices."
How has the birth of his daughter affected Tom Brady's mood and preparation?
"He was like an hour late coming in the day after but otherwise good. We met yesterday. I think he's right on top of everything like he usually is. As far as his preparation, we met and went over their scheme and their players and the adjustments and things we expected the Texans to do and so forth and he seemed right on top of it to me, like he usually does."
We're about 45 minutes away from the kickoff of the Army-Navy game. What are your thoughts on the game?
"It's always a special day. That's one that seems like everybody in the country has a rooting interest on, one way or the other. They have some kind of family connection with one service academy or one service or the other. It's a great game for college football; it's a great game for our country. It brings out the patriotism in all of us. Yeah, it's a special game. There's really nothing else like it. There are rivalries, but that's such a national rivalry. It's not a bunch of guys who are going on to play pro football. They're going to go on to fight and some of them die for our country. It really is, on a competitive level, it's about as high as it gets. Yeah, it's great; a great event. Thanks for asking."
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Brook Lopez returns, but Nets stumble against Bucks
NEWARK — Deron Williams sat in front of his locker with both of his knees wrapped in ice and his foot in a tub full of ice water.
He looked tired, and on Sunday night so did the Nets.
Even the long-awaited return of Brook Lopez, and the much-needed post presence he provides, wasn't enough to offset the rigors of this lockout schedule. At least not yet.
The tired Nets succumbed to the Bucks, 92-85, at Prudential Center.
Lopez moved well and finished with nine points, two rebounds and two assists in 22 minutes. But he also looked rusty, finishing 2-of-7 from the field and 5-of-11 from the line as he returned from Dec. 23 surgery to repair a broken fifth metatarsal in his right foot.
Most importantly, there were no setbacks.
"I felt good," Lopez said. "Getting used to being back in an NBA game, it is obviously very fast. My head was spinning for the first few minutes."
Meanwhile, the Nets looked like a team that couldn't find any energy after a brutal stretch of games.
"We didn't have any legs," Williams said of his team, which completed its fourth game in five nights. "They just really outhustled us and out worked us. ...You've gotta give credit to them because they played better than us."
No one played better than the Bucks' big man, Ersan Ilyasova. The 6-10 forward led Milwaukee with a career-high 29 points and career-high 25 rebounds.
"Ilyasova put up Dwight Howard numbers," Williams said of Ilyasova, who tied Howard's NBA season high mark of 25 boards.
Ah, it always seems to come back to Howard somehow. Lopez was the centerpiece of a potential trade for Howard — the Magic center publicly has requested a trade, and the Nets reportedly are his top destination. But that tiny fracture in Lopez' right foot stopped the trade talk and caused him to miss the first 32 games of the season.
Now, the rumors certainly will ramp up again. If the Nets hope to land Howard before the March 15 trade deadline, they'll need Lopez to prove he's healed from his injury.
And even if they don't trade for Howard, the addition of Lopez could turn around their season. The Nets have severely lacked a post presence this season; Lopez gives them one.
But it was clear Sunday night Lopez isn't back to his usual 20-point-per-game self. The Nets weren't 100 percent, either.
Coming off their most impressive win of the season — the Nets pounded championship contender Chicago on Saturday, snapping an eight-game losing streak — the Nets struggled mightily as they played their fourth game in five nights. They shot 34.1 percent from the field and 21.7 percent from three-point range.
"That game [Saturday] took a lot out of us," Williams said. "Even though we were up 20 for most of the game, we just — fighting off that [Bulls] team is tough"
It doesn't get any easier for the Nets tonight, when they face the red-hot Knicks at Madison Square Garden. It'll be the Nets' fifth game in six nights, and Carmelo Anthony likely will return from a groin injury.
The last time the Nets played the Knicks, Jeremy Linsanity was born (Feb. 4). Now, the Nets will be hoping for a little retribution.
Although they won't have Lopez — the Nets plan is to sit him until Wednesday's game against the Magic — expect the Nets to be very motivated to stop Lin.
"He was a little unknown coming into that game," Williams said of Lin, who scored 25 points off the bench against the Nets. "But everybody's having a tough time containing him. ... He's just really playing at a high level right now."
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CONRAD-HOTEL de Ville München places you in Ludwigsvorstadt, within a leisurely stroll of popular sights such as Marienplatz and Asamkirche. This 89-room, 4-star hotel welcomes guests with conveniences like free breakfast, a restaurant, and free in-room WiFi. It's in central Munich and also a short walk from Church of Our Lady and New Town Hall - Glockenspiel.
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- Free hot/cold buffet breakfast
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Onsite dining
CONRAD-HOTEL de Ville München
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Hotel Amenities
The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Event facilities measuring 1249 square feet (116 square meters) include conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers a terrace, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff.
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- 24-hour front desk
- Conference space
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- Free breakfast
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
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- Conference space size (feet) - 1249
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- Smoke-free property
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- Bar/lounge
- Tours/ticket assistance
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- Year Built 1999
- Conference space size (meters) - 116
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- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Offsite parking discounted rates available
Room Amenities
CONRAD-HOTEL de Ville München offers 89 accommodations with laptop-compatible safes and complimentary bottled water. Each accommodation is individually furnished. 51-cm LCD televisions come with premium satellite channels. Bathrooms include showers, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers.
This Munich hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones. Additionally, rooms include coffee/tea makers and blackout drapes/curtains. Hypo-allergenic bedding and irons/ironing boards can be requested. Housekeeping is provided daily.
- Premium TV channels
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Soundproofed rooms
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower only
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Individually furnished
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Mayers Bistro - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast and light fare. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). Open daily.
A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is served each morning between 6 AM and 10 AM.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! One child 5 years old or younger stays free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 8.00 per pet, per day
- Dogs only
- 1 per room
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
Optional extras
- Pet fee: EUR 8.00 per pet, per day
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
Hotel Name
- CONRAD-HOTEL Ville München
- Conrad Hotel Munich
- CONRAD-HOTEL Ville MÜNCHEN Hotel
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One child 5 years old or younger stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
Welcome Gift
Guests receive a complimentary bottle of water in their guestroom on arrival.
National Rating
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We perform over 100,000 tests annually using state of the art instrumentation and perform over 95% of all testing collected in our laboratory; offered 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
Our laboratory provides diagnostic laboratory services to the residents of the surrounding area, local nursing homes, and to patients of Affiliated Community Medical Center in Granite Falls. The laboratory is staffed by certified Medical Laboratory Technicians and Medical Technologists who are under the medical direction of a board-certified pathologist. The laboratory also participates in local health fairs, offering lipid and PSA testing.
The laboratory is accredited by COLA, a national healthcare accreditation organization. Accreditation is given only to laboratories that apply rigid standards of quality in day-to-day operations, demonstrate continued accuracy in the performance of proficiency testing, and pass a rigorous, biannual, on-site laboratory survey.
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Hundreds of students from Downeast headed to the University of Maine at Machias for a day all about their future.
It's the tenth year that Machias Savings Bank has held its Future Promises career fair for elementary students in the region.
"This year is our biggest one yet. We have 915 students attend, and what happens, they visit all the different exhibitors and get, kind of, some ideas about what they'd like to do when they grow up," said Lucille Bragg, with Machias Savings Bank and career fair organizer.
The kids even got to see what it's like to be a TV5 photographer and reporter.
Students can submit an essay about what they've learned at the fair.
"We select twenty winners and they'll each get a $250 prize this year at a banquet in May," said Bragg.
Organizers say the event is all about options.
"I think in rural areas, students don't always know what available to them. So, we try to give them an idea that, yes, I can become a dentist. Or, yes, I can become a cameraman, or a reporter, I could work at a bank, I could be a florist. I can do whatever I want," said Bragg.


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Israel's Supreme Court has given Justice Minister Tzipi Livni one week to respond to a lawsuit by an Israeli NGO representing victims of Palestinian terror victims in a case against the Bank of China.
On Tuesday, the court put its time mandate on Livni hours after the Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center filed a suit requesting information issued by the New York District Court under the Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters. In November, the Israeli government filed a petition with the U.S. federal court seeking to block the testimony of former Israeli intelligence official Uzi Shaya, saying he would divulge state secrets.
Shaya, according to reports, in 2005 alerted Chinese security officials to suspicious transactions, including transfers of money to terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Some 22 families of victims of Palestinian suicide bombers who brought the suit accuse the Bank of China of funding terrorist organizations through U.S. accounts. They are seeking millions of dollars in damages; a guilty verdict under anti-terrorism laws also could affect the bank's ability to continue conducting business in the United States, according to The Associated Press.
The families, through Shurat HaDin director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, requested specific documents from the justice minister last June as well as the testimony of Shaya. No response nor documents have been forthcoming, according to Shurat HaDin.
"We have filed this suit today as we believe Minister Livni is culpable not only of failing in her duties under the Hague Convention, but of failing the Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism in their quest for justice," Darshan-Leitner said in a statement Tuesday.
A similar case against the bank was brought by the family of American student Daniel Wultz, who was killed in a 2006 terror attack in Tel Aviv.
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Hostal Portada
Hostal La Portada (Guesthouse) is located in a quiet residential area, close to one of the largest malls in El Salvador- Metrocentro.
Our guesthouse is Californian style and it is protected as a El Salvador's cultural heritage building.
We also have an onsite professional dentist office. Great prices for all guests. Some English spoken.
6 large rooms have private clean bathrooms and showers, cable television, hot water, wireless, air conditioning or fan.
The friendly staff (and its owners) can arrange for tours or other services required by our guests as our goal is makig sure our guest enjoy their experience while visiting El Salvador!
Aiport transfer can be arranged.
Advise about arrival time.
Check in at 2pm, but If you are coming earlier we can store your luggage .
Check out at 12pm.
Credit Card Facilities, Visa and Matercard.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
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- Air Conditioning
- Breakfast Not Included
- Free WiFi
- Laundry Facilities
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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8a Calle Pte. 2326 Colonia Flor Blanca, San Salvador, El Salvador.
One block from Flor Blanca. The bus terminal Occidente is 6 blocks away. The bus #42 and 44 C stops less than a block infront of the Flor Blanca stadium.
We are locates next door to a famous restaurant El Yugo (well known in the area).


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Published: 2012-09-04, by Ana Gracia.
Frog on Ice features Plop, a frog that finds itself in a frozen world and needs to advance through the five levels and defeat the Evil Ice Wizard.
How to move? Use its tongue to slide across the ice and collect coins and power-ups (googles, gloves, sneakers, cape) while moving from icicle to icicle. Beware of the freezing water and the evil attacks.
The controls are undoubtedly original and the gameplay itself feels like new. It's a really fun game which is also challenging, as surviving is more difficult than you would think. We highly recommend that you at least try it out to experience the controls and gameplay, really worth it.
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Rooms in the heart of Cologne
Size80 m²
Floor No.3
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Smoking allowed
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
Accommodation summary
|Roonstraße, 50674 Köln, Germany
|Property type
|Private room
|Property ID
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
|A week ago
In the heart of Cologne, very quiet 80 sqm apartment with shower, gas central heating, cable TV, kitchen with gas stove and oven, and with many details to discover, and experience terror. The scene and, unique and lovable. I offer sleeping facilities for two persons. Here you are correctly if you want to discover the gay Cologne. I am at with words, often with assistance.
Also like to bike hire!
The apartment is located nearby (3 minutes) of the subway stations and Moltkestraße Zülpicher place. and 5 minutes walk from the Rudolf place, very central (downtown) 2 min to the bus.
The property is located in the new city of Cologne. This district lies down in a semicircle around the old town. The name should not be fooled - the majority of building the new town are only compared to the old "new," is dominated by buildings from the period. The shops, cafes, clubs and bars in the neighborhood are much more recent. The Belgian Quarter and the adjacent area to apply the Friesenplatz example, as the hottest party in Cologne miles.
Also offers the traffic-Neustadt best conditions. The U 15 runs in a semicircle through the entire quarter, so that you can reach all areas quickly. It is close to downtown connections to go out in literally every direction. The city center with all its historic attractions is just around the corner, and run who do not want to have in half a dozen subway lines selection.
House rulesBitte keine Haustiere mitbringen
Kaution für Schlüssel 100,- EUR
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
|Monthly rate for up to 2 guests
|Price for > 2 guests
|$ 41 US per guest/night extra
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Reviews of this property
Cute correct, helpful Vermieter.Da but we are a little older, we would have a slightly better sleep comfort gewünscht.Für Younger OK.
Netter korrekter, hilfsbereiter Vermieter.Da wir aber etwas Älter sind, hätten wir uns einen etwas besseren Schlafkomfort gewünscht.Für Jüngere OK.
Staying in Andrea's place was great. He's a good and helpful host, the apartment is good, and I think it's a good deal staying there, because this house is really central in the city, and you can reach every part of Koln easily.
The longest corridor in Germany to put it in the words of the host. Nice host intressante very helpful, and clean apartment and everything was great again and again.
Der längste Flur Deutschlands um es mit den Worten des Gastgebers zu sagen.
Netter Gastgeber sehr hilfsbereit, intressante und saubere Wohnung und alles top immer wieder gerne.
A wonderful host as it appears in the picture book: warm, relaxed, generous, hassle free and totally reliable! Anytime again!
Ein wunderbarer Gastgeber, wie er im Bilderbuch steht: herzlich, locker, großzügig, stressfrei und absolut zuverlässig! Immer wieder gerne!
Everything perfectly!
Alles bestens!
everything was ok.
alles war o.k..
Here you will feel like at home, relaxed atmosphere, gracious hosts. great!
hier fühlt man sich wie zu hause, ungezwungene atmosphäre, liebenswürdiger gastgeber. toll!
Sleeping at andreas house is nice. He is friendly, helps you when needed and gives you a lot of privacy. The balcony is nice when you like to smoke. The room is oke and next to the bathroom. And the house was central located.It was my first time i used Wimdu, but i liked it!.
Great place to stay. The host was super nice. I can only recommend.
Prima Übernachtungsmöglichkeit. Der Gastgeber ist super nett. Kann ich nur weiterempfehlen.
great hosts! It all works beautifully. would not hesitate to go there again :)
super gastgeber! hat alles wunderbar funktioniert. würde jederzeit wieder hin :)
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Aggression Against the Communities and Sovereignty of Brazil
In 1982, the Brazilian government built a rocket-launching base in the county of Alcântara in the interior of the northeastern state of Maranhão. The government expropriated, through decree in the name of public interest, an area of 52,000 hectares (128,000 acres). Around 500 families were affected. The majority of the families, descendants of quilombolas (residents of quilombos, fugitive slave communities), survived through coastal fishing and subsistence farming. They were relocated to seven agrovilas (planned farm communities), far from any fishing grounds. The land they received is unsuitable for agriculture. And, little by little, to survive, the families are returning to cultivate their expropriated lands.
In 1990, the government of President Fernando Collor increased the base by another 10,000 hectares, bringing to 62,000 hectares the total area of the Launch Center of Alcântara.
Cardoso Cedes Alcântara to the United States
In October 2000, the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso signed an accord with the government of the United States for the transfer of the base, that is, of the 62,000 hectares. In the accord, the US would assume control of the area and the Brazilian authorities would no longer even be allowed to monitor it. In effect, the Launch Center of Alcântara would be an American military base.
The objective of the US government is not only to conduct rocket launches, but also to use nuclear warheads as a way of maintaining military control over Amazonia. The geopolitical strategy of the US in Amazonia already includes military bases in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia, which are supported by information from SIVAM (Surveillance System for Amazonia), developed by private US companies. Thus, what is an issue is the sovereignty of Amazonia and the control of its wealth, biodiversity, and sources of potable water.
The base could function with just 8,000 hectares (20,000 acres), the area that is in fact occupied by the personnel and installation. But the greatest danger for the Quilombola families is yet to be seen. The Americans would exercise control over the base, without interference from the Brazilian authorities, in return for payment of $34 million per year. This agreement demonstrates that sovereignty over our land can be bought. Experts argue that the principal interest of the US government is to place its forces at the entrance to Amazonia. The US already controls 60% of the world's rocket-launching bases and, therefore, does not need Alcântara. But it does need to tighten the noose around Amazonia, as it is doing with its numerous bases in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. With its bases and with SIVAM, the US could militarize the Amazonian region.
Status of the Accord
By determination of the Brazilian constitution, any international agreement requires approval of the National congress in order to enter into being. The Brazilian government sent to Congress the accord already signed in order to receive approval, a necessary condition for the US government to enter into the area.
In 2001, the agreement was sent to the Commission on Foreign Relations, whose coordinator was Deputy Waldir Pires (PT-BA). The Commission has produced an opinion, unanimously approved, in which it rejects the accord as it stands and proposes changes that guarantee Brazilian sovereignty over the area.
The accord then passed to the Commission on Science and Technology, under Deputy José Rocha (PFL-PA), which produced an opinion favorable to the original accord.
In March 2002, the accord was then sent to the Commission on Constitution and Justice, under Deputy Zenaldo Coutinho (PSDB-PA). Coutinho is to produce another review, to be voted on by the commission.
Subsequently, in the coming weeks, the report of the commissions will be voted on by the entire Congress, in which the deputies normally follow the recommendations of the commissions.
Campaign Against the Accord
It is necessary to stop this accord in the Congress because its approval will permit the US government to assume control over the entire Alcântara base (62,000 hectares), with serious consequences for the local communities and for national sovereignty.
Main Demands of the People of the Region
The population that lives in the region and is affected by this government policy has organized the Movement of the Affected by the Base (MAB). Their main demands are:
- Identify the families that live in the affected region and survey their needs
- Do not relocate another family, in particular the 210 that are threatened by the 10,000-hectare increase in the area of the base
- The right to work on the lands covered by the original decree (inside the 52,000 hectares), with an official concession for use
-Guarantee the regularization of those lands that are inside the base that were "Quilombola lands"
- Guarantee education for all children, in addition to technical assistance, capacity-building, and resources for development and agricultural production on these land
- Creation of a social fund composed of 15% of the value of each space launch. Of these resources, 5% would be for the county government and 10% for the dislocated communities.
May the Brazilian government not hand over the base to the United States.
The History of the Communities
By Evanize Sydow*
The county of Alcântara was founded in 1648 and its economy was based on the production of cotton and sugar cane. The work was done by African slaves. In 1759, during the colonial rule of Portugal's Marquis of Pombal, the lands of the Jesuits were confiscated and sold to private parties. The properties of the religious orders of the Carmelites and the Mercedarians persisted until the end of the 19th century and then passed to the Catholic Church or to the state, giving rise to the traditional communities.
At this time, Alcântara began to be inhabited by slaves and descendants of indigenous peoples. With the fall in the price of sugar and pressures for the abolition of slavery, various quilombos formed in the region, mainly from escaped or freed slaves, based around collective production. They are traditional communities, with culture, dialects, forms of production, and internal rules all their own.
The historical and cultural importance of these communities was such that the Brazilian constitution of 1988 recognized the their right to their lands. In general, they are territories denominated "remains of Quilombos". These communities, built by the work of ex-slaves, are also called "terras de preto" (i.e., "lands of black people"). The inhabitants were labeled "Quilombolas". The lands abandoned by the religious orders were given the name "terras de santo" and "terras de santíssimo" (roughly, "saintly lands" or "holy lands").
*Journalist and Member of the Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos.
Accord Violates the Constitution
By Waldir Pires*
The agreement of the Brazilian government with the government of the United States in April 2000, regarding the use of the Base of Alcântara, is profoundly harmful to the national interest, to our development, violates the constitution, harms our sovereignty, and limits (or, better, supercedes) our just yearning for national participation in the benefits of the technological and scientific transformation of our time.
It is not an accord. It is submission to economic and commercial interests that would inexplicably be imposed on Brazil.
The international agreements will be valid only when approved by the National Congress. Thus, says the Constitution of the Republic. I recommended, as a committee chair in the Congress, for the rejection, pure and simple, confronting the overwhelming majority vote of the government.
I was happy when I perceived, over the course of the public hearings and the debate on the issue, that significant groups from diverse parties from the government's political base supported us, if oppressive changes to the text were introduced, setting the national fate.
Brazil has signed the United Nations Outer Space Treaty that stipulates the non-appropriation of space by individual or national interests. More than 20 years ago, Brazil embarked on a national project of participation in the economy and occupation of space.
The country has invested, over the years, over $500 million. It built the Alcântara Launch Base and developed the VLS (Satellite Launch Vehicle) to integrate the various nations that are increasingly participating in the market of space and its increasing benefits in telecommunications, as well as atmospheric and climatic information gathering on all of nature. The market for space, in the first decade of this century, now reaches high levels, perhaps several tens of billions of dollars.
Why would we distance Brazil from all of this? How can we allow that, with exceptional geographic advantages at two degrees from the equator and for this reason with enviable operational costs, the Alcântara base could interrupt its project of building the Brazilian presence in space? How can we tolerate that after so much effort and with the benefits in sight, including for the domestic firms that are involved, it is possible to adopt a position, in the accord with the US, so submissive and complacent, in relation to the true strategic interests of the country?
The accord as it stands impedes everything. It is a capitulation of sovereignty and of material interests. Its clauses impede the technological development of the country. It strictly prevents our scientific involvement, now or in the future, that can bring us so much closer to those countries more technologically advanced in this area, such as Russia, France, Ukraine, China and India.
Why? To safeguard American technology that will be denied to us? For whose sake? The proposed revision, that corrects this ominous accord's suppressive and dangerous sections, was approved almost unanimously by the Commission on Foreign Affairs of the House of Deputies. This vote aimed to reduce the enormous risk to which the nation would submit itself and to secure an independent path of construction and development, for our people.
* Waldir Pires is Federal Deputy of the PT/BA (Workers Party, state of Bahia). He served previously as governor of Bahia and the Minister of Social Welfare.
Alcântara Today
The county of Alcântara is located 22 kilometers from São Luís, the capital of the state of Maranhão.
Such is the history and cultural wealth that the region was officially designated a Brazilian cultural heritage site in 1948. It is one of the largest collections of architectural sites in the country.
The total territory of Alcântara is 114,000 hectares (280,000 acres). There are around 19,000 inhabitants, the majority of which are descendants of indigenous people and fugitive slaves. Almost 80% of the population lives in rural areas and lives from fishing, agriculture, and other primary production, often with traditional or artesian practices.
Circled by the large Environmental Protection Area of Reentrâncias Maranhenses and the edges of Legal Amazonia, the region is rich in biodiversity and natural resources.
Despite being one of the principal tourist areas of Maranhão and having a high-tech base for space technology, the county has only one hospital, one ambulance and one secondary school. The majority of the communities do not have electricity. The streets are in poor condition. The illiteracy rate is one of the highest in the state.


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Every golfer has that one place. Maybe it wasn't your first choice, or maybe it's a course you've dreamt of playing since the very beginning… but this was it. The best place you've ever golfed. You threw your clubs in the trunk and left there, vowing to be back, no matter what it took.
We posed the question to our loyal Facebook followers, and they responded in astounding numbers… places in their own town, to courses clear around the world. We have sorted through them, have done our research, and are bringing them to you five at a time.
We hope you enjoy dreaming with us, and perhaps you'll find a new best place of your own!
First up this month is Cypress Point, located in Pebble Beach, CA
Cypress Point Club was designed by Alister MacKenzie and opened in 1928. It was once a co-host for the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, formerly The Bing Crosby Tournament, last doing so in 1991. Cypress Point also hosted the only Walker Cup on California soil in 1981. Cypress is ranked #2 in Golf Magazine's list of "Top 100 Golf Courses in the World," behind Mackenzie's other masterpiece, Augusta. Cypress Point will always have its place in the upper echelon of golf history.
Regarded as the most exclusive course in the world, it is virtually impossible to play a round unless you are invited by a member. The club decides the cost of yearly membership fees by equally dividing the total operating expenses amongst all members. Each member of the club is required to pay the same amount in dues, regardless of the amount of play or the number of visits to the club.
Torrey Pines, La Jolla, CA
Located in La Jolla (pronounced "la hoya"), California, Torrey Pines Golf Course sits on the coastal cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean and is recognized as the premier municipal golf course owned and operated by a city. It is named after the Torrey Pine, a rare tree that grows in the wild only along this local stretch of the coastline in San Diego County and on Santa Rosa Island.
It offers two picturesque and, due to its yearly hosting of the PGA TOUR's Farmers Insurance Open event, widely recognizable championship 18-hole golf courses. It is surely the most accessible public facility for the die-hard enthusiast wishing to play at a world-renown facility that nearly all golfers know by name.
Torrey Pines was the site of perhaps the most memorable modern day U.S. Open Championship, when in 2008, under the typically brutal conditions of this major tournament, injured and hobbling Tiger Woods defeated Rocco Mediate during their sudden death playoff after 90 grueling holes of exciting golf.
Spyglass Hill, Pebble Beach, CA
Spyglass Hill Golf Course takes its theme from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, Treasure Island, published in 1883. Local legend maintains that Stevenson once wandered the Spyglass area gathering ideas for his novels. With this in mind, Robert Trent Jones Sr. set about creating a treasure of his own.
Opened in 1966, Spyglass Hill Golf Course features two distinctly different kinds of terrain that influence the way the holes look and play. The first five holes roll through sandy seaside dunes challenging you to carefully pick the safest path. The following 13 holes are cut through majestic pines with elevated greens and strategically placed bunkers and lakes to grab the errant shot. Hole names such as "Black Dog" and "Billy Bones" are hints for the unwary.
Spyglass Hill Golf Course is rated one of the toughest courses in the world from the Championship tees, boasting a course rating of 75.5 and a slope rating of 144. The PGA TOUR consistently lists Spyglass Hill holes 6, 8 and 16 among the toughest on the TOUR, and during the 1999 United States Amateur, the stroke average of the field during medal play was in excess of 79.
Westmoreland Golf Course, Barbados
Improve your golf game at Royal Westmoreland. Reduce your handicap as you test yourself on our par 72, 7,045-yard course designed by acclaimed course designer, Robert Trent Jones, Jr. Work on your stroke play on the superbly maintained, perfectly considered fairways and greens that surround the estate.
Enjoy the Caribbean sunshine and clear blue skies. Take in the breathtaking views, thriving greenery and flourishing tropical landscape. Line up your putt as the ocean washes up on the not-so-distant shoreline. Perfect.
The golf course is as enjoyable as it is demanding. You'll find a mixture of short holes, with a challenging back nine preceded by tricky greens on the front.
Royal Westmoreland is a private estate with golfing access only available to villa owners or rental guests, unless special access is granted by appointment.
Pine Dunes Resort and Golf Club, Frankston, TX
Carved through majestic, century old pine trees with contoured fairways & rolling terrain, Pine Dunes provides the most peaceful setting you'll find for a world-class round of golf. The Championship, Par 72 Layout is tucked away in the Piney Woods of East Texas, heralded as one of the best courses in America.
With the determination of Owners Jodi Lutz and Scott Miller, and World-Renowned Golf Course Architects Jay & Carter Morrish, Pine Dunes was crafted into a golfer's dream getaway, inviting golfers to experience top quality golf & conditions for as little as $59/round.
Pine Dunes is a spectacular, 4.5 Star Rated Championship Golf Course open year-round, designed by legendary & world renowned architects Jay & Carter Morrish. You'll quickly understand why respected golf magazines & critics have presented Pine Dunes with dozens of Awards, and we invite you to experience a golf getaway deep in the heart of Texas.
A variety of packages are available to each player including daily-fee play, stay-n-play weekend getaways and large group outings. Spacious, comfortable overnight accommodations in guest condominiums can be reserved for your foursome or a group as large as 40 players.
Where was the best place YOU'VE played? Stop by our Facebook page and let us know… you may find it here next month!
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Today, I am sharing Bedspread, Lorna Goodison's well-known poem about the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. I did notice that a number of my blog readers appeared to be searching for this poem, and I thought I would share it, particularly since this is poetry month. I hope you will enjoy it. For more on Lorna Goodison and her work, please see my previous posts.
Sometimes in the still
unchanging afternoons
when the memories crowded
hot and hopeless against
her brow
she would seek its cool colors
and signal him to lie down
in his cell.
It is three in the afternoon Nelson
let us rest here together
upon this bank draped in freedom
It was woven by women with slender
capable hands
accustomed to binding wounds,
hands that closed the eyes of
dead children,
that fought for the right to
speak in their own tongues
in their own land
in their own schools.
They wove the bedspread
and knotted notes of hope
in each strand
and selvaged the edges with
ancient blessings
older than any white man's coming.
So in the afternoons lying on this
bright bank of blessing
Nelson my husband I meet you in dreams
my beloved much of the world too is
asleep blind to the tyranny and evil
devouring our people.
But, Mandela, you are rock on this sand
harder than any metal
mined in the bowels of this land
you are purer than any
gold tempered by fire
shall we lie here wrapped
in the colors of our free Azania?
They arrested the bedspread.
They and their friends are working
to arrest the dreams in our heads
and the women, accustomed to closing
the eyes of the dead
are weaving cloths still brighter
to drape us in glory in a Free
(From Selected Poems, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 1992)
Copyright Lorna Goodison. Reprinted with the author's permission.