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Argentine Media Regulation, Fake News, and the Election of Mauricio Macri
Mariana De Maio
November 2015 became a key date in the history of Argentina as former president Cristina Fernandez' party lost the national elections by the narrowest of margins, less than 700,000 votes, to the right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri, ending a twelve-year run of one of the most progressive governments in the history of Argentina. Many analysts argue that large media conglomerates, especially the Clarín Group, played a significant role in the process leading to political change. Macri supporters in the city of Buenos Aires provided some reasons for their decision to vote for Macri and against Daniel Scioli, who ran on Fernandez' party ticket. Their answers seem to be influenced by a series of fake news (misleading news articles) published by Clarín and La Nación, two leading news organizations in Argentina, during the months before the national elections. These misleading news stories were published in the front pages of those newspapers and at prime time in their affiliate TV and radio stations. Corrections and retractions rarely appeared in the front pages or prime time. Macri voters came to accept the initial news as legitimate and were influenced by them during the 2015 presidential election. Considering the insignificant margin of votes deciding the election, it can be argued that the two news organizations may have been instrumental in shaping the perceptions of just enough voters to swing the results in Macri's favor. This suggests that dominant mainstream media have had a significant influence on voters' attitudes and that this may explain in part the election's outcome.
Everyday Life in Argentina in the 1960s
Isabella Cosse
The 1960s in Argentina was a time convulsed by profound social, cultural, and political changes. Reflecting on the effect these processes had on the everyday, conceived as the spaces and routines involved in the reproduction of life that vary according to social class, generation, and gender, provides a valuable perspective for studying historical phenomena. It gives substance to and evidences the social nature of personal experience. Through that prism, the study of everyday life will be the gateway to understanding the turbulence produced by cultural effervescence, growing consumerism, the expansion of the media, the problems triggered by economic instability and escalating inflation, and the ruptures caused by political and social radicalization and the rise of repressive violence.
Family Planning and Reproductive Rights in Chile
Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney
The official histories of family planning and reproductive rights in Chile started in the 1960s, with initiatives by Chilean doctors to reduce maternal mortality due to self-induced abortions; Chilean women's mobilization for rights surged in the 1970s, and the concept of reproductive rights became the focus within health policy debates only by the 1990s. Specific Chilean political developments shaped these trajectories, as did global paradigm changes, including the politicization of fertility regulation as a subject of the Cold War. These same trajectories also generated new understandings of reproductive rights and women's rights. The goals of preventing abortions and maternal mortality, of controlling population size, and of protecting families all contributed to the public endorsement of family planning programs in the 1960s. Medical doctors and health officials in Chile collaborated with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and founded the first Chilean family planning institution, the Association for the Protection of the Family (APROFA). Since 1965, APROFA, affiliated with the IPPF, has remained the primary institution that makes family planning available to Chilean women and couples.
The concept of "reproductive rights" is relatively new, globally, and in its specific national representation in Chile; questions of women's rights gained unprecedented international prominence after the United Nation's designation of the International Women's Year (IWY) in 1975. International conferences, and the extension of IWY to a Decade for Women between 1975 and 1985, stimulated debates about policy norms that linked human rights, women's rights, and the right to health to nascent definitions of reproductive rights. Just as international gatherings provided platforms for debates about rights, unparalleled human rights violations under military rule (1973–1990) interrupted the lives of Chilean citizens. Women in Chile protested the dictatorship, mobilized for democracy in their country and their homes, and added reproductive rights to the list of demands for democratic restructuring after the end of dictatorship. While family planning programs largely survived the changes of political leadership in Chile, the dictatorship dealt a lasting blow to quests for reproductive rights. The military's re-drafted Constitution of 1980 not only compromised effective political re-democratization, but also imposed such changes as the end of therapeutic abortions, which have remained at the center of political activism against reproductive rights violations in the 21st century.
Health Care Policy in Argentina
Giuseppe M. Messina
In Argentina, the provision of health care is divided into three components: a highly decentralized universal public sector, funded from general taxation; a constellation of compulsory collective insurance schemes, financed by contributions withdrawn from the salaries of workers in the formal labor market; and a system of private insurance companies used primarily by the middle and upper classes. Regarding the delivery of medical services, the configuration is mixed, as the weight of public and private providers is roughly equal. This complex structure, which derives from the historical development of particular institutions, produces high costs and unequal access to care according to a person's geographical residence, occupational status, and purchasing power.
José Ingenieros, El Hombre Mediocre, and Social Integration in Turn-of-the-20th-Century Argentina
Mariano Ben Plotkin
The life of Italian-Argentine scientist and intellectual José Ingenieros (1877–1925) has been considered a clear example of the potential for upward social mobility based on talent that existed in Buenos Aires at the turn of the 20th century. Born Giuseppe Ingegnieros in Palermo, Sicily, from a working-class family, Ingenieros was able to become both one of the most internationally renowned Latin American intellectuals and scientists—his scientific and philosophical works were translated into several languages—and also a socialite of high visibility befriending some of the most prominent members of the Argentine social elite. His trajectory seems to be an example of unparalleled success. Nevertheless, a close look at recently unearthed sources, particularly his private correspondence, not only shows a different picture of Ingenieros's life and works, but also forces us to reconsider accepted knowledge about the possibilities offered to immigrants by turn-of-the-century Argentine society. His trajectory constitutes an excellent case study for the analysis of both the potentials and the limits of social mobility in Argentina at the time, as well as the relationship between intellectuals and power during the transition from the oligarchic republic established in 1862, after the unification of the country, to the really democratic republic based on universal (male) suffrage introduced in 1912. An analysis of the context of production of his most popular work, El hombre mediocre, provides an opportunity to contrast his public image with the social insecurities he expressed to his relatives and friends.
The Middle Class in Argentina
Ezequiel Adamovsky
Since the mid-19th century, Argentine society has undergone significant demographic shifts. The expansion of capitalism and the growing complexity of the state apparatus increased the social importance of occupations that are usually considered to be part of the middle class, especially in the Pampas. There was a rapid increase in salaried labor and income distribution worsened significantly. A consumer society arose amid this climate and a good portion of the new trade opportunities rested in the hands of European immigrants, therein generating a complex panorama of both new and old forms of inequality. At the same time, various middle-class trades began to organize themselves in order to mobilize their specific demands. Nevertheless, they did not develop ties of solidarity between one another, nor a unified "middle class" identity. Such an identity would begin to form much later within the political sphere. Starting in 1919, politicians and intellectuals became concerned about the expansion of revolutionary ideas and labor activism, and in order to counteract this, they began to encourage pride in a middle class identity within the public sphere. The historical evidence suggests that from that time on, some members of the common people began to identify as middle class, thereby slowly transforming the perception of social difference that had up until that moment still been binary. A middle-class identity definitively took root after 1945 as a part of the political experience of the middle strata. Peronism, for its plebeian elements and for the social and symbolic space it granted the lower classes, posed a profound challenge to the concepts of hierarchy and respectability that had existed until then. This challenge paved the way for vast sectors to embrace a middle-class identity and to distinguish themselves from the pueblo peronista, as well as to assert their right to a central role within their country. In this context, the middle-class identity in Argentina assumed some characteristics unique to the region, weaving together narratives of nationhood that placed the middle class, the supposed descendants of European immigrants (the implication being "white"), in a place of preeminence as the champions of "civilization," and therein, as enemies of Peronism and the cabecitas negras, or the "little black heads," that supported him.
Paraguayan National Identity
Peter Lambert
Paraguay is a pluriethnic, plurilingual, and multicultural society, influenced by migration from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, which contains many conflicting identities. Despite its heterogeneity, there are certain characteristics which have been seen by Paraguayan and foreign writers as having significant influence on national identity. These are primarily related to three factors: Paraguay's geographical position as a landlocked country, between two regional superpowers, and the resulting historical isolation; the prevalence of Guarani as the favored language of the vast majority of Paraguayans, and its relationship with Spanish; and the impact of international war and defense of its frontiers, primarily the Triple Alliance War (1864–1870), on Paraguay's economic, cultural, and political development, as well as on its self-perception.
However, Paraguay is also unusual in that following the catastrophe of the Triple Alliance War, there was a concerted effort by a group of intellectuals to challenge the liberal consensus and reinterpret the past to create a national history. This revisionist approach became increasingly influential until, after the Chaco War (1932–1936) and the end of the liberal period, it became the dominant "official" version. Here it subsequently remained through civil war, dictatorship, and finally transition to democracy. While many observers believed this hegemonic revisionist version would disappear with the end of the Stroessner regime in 1989, it has proved more resilient, flexible, and durable than expected, reflecting a high level of internalization of national identity. This in turn suggests that the official discourse was not purely an invention of tradition but was constructed on deeply held ideas of geographical, cultural, historical, and linguistic difference.
The Social Construction of the Photographic Portrait in 19th-Century Rio de la Plata
Andrea Cuarterolo
With the arrival of the daguerreotype in Río de la Plata, in 1840, the photography industry was immediately monopolized by portrait photographers. By 1850 there were already more than ten daguerreotype photographers in both Buenos Aires and Montevideo, the two main cities on either side of the river. The majority were traveling foreigners, who frequently moved their studios between the two banks. Local society welcomed this new technology with enthusiasm and praised its representational perfection and its powerful verisimilitude. However, the high cost of the first daguerreotypes made portraiture an item of prestige and social differentiation, reserved only for those who were well-to-do. Far from the instantaneous photography of the early 21st century, daguerreotype portraits involved lengthy exposure times. This meant that they were highly staged, according to the attitudes, expectations, and motivations (conscious or unconscious), of the photographer, the subject, and the society in which these works were created. Through expertly arranged costumes, scenery, and poses, the bourgeoisie of Río de la Plata communicated and immortalized the prejudices, behaviors, and opinions specific to their class.
With the emergence of paper photography and the growth of standardized formats, such as the carte de visite, c. 1855, photography transcended class boundaries for the first time. In this period the portrait acquired a commemorative function associated with the consolidation of new genres, such as post-mortem portraits, wedding portraits, and First Communion portraits, pictures meant to immortalize important family events. During this time large photography studios appeared, with new and luxurious facilities, in which the photographic compositions would become much more sophisticated and theatrical.
For the local elite the decision to have their portraits taken was an act of expressing their identity; for certain social subjects, however, being photographed, invariably through the imposition of the operator, and with no agency in the representation of their own image, photography functioned as an instrument of privilege used to construct otherness. During this period the development of disciplines such as anthropology, criminology, and psychiatry, which sought to record and classify everything that did not conform with the normalized homogeneity of the time, made photography the ideal tool to identify those "others" for whom there was no space in respectable society or who fulfilled a negative role in it.
Women, Politics, and Media in Uruguay, 1900–1950
Christine Ehrick
In the first half of the 20th century, Uruguay was a relatively educated, democratic, and politically progressive South American country, and women there used old and new media for professional and political ends. Radical, Catholic, and liberal feminist women all utilized print media to promote their views and build support for their respective causes in publications aimed at both female and general audiences. Anarchist feminist María Collazo, for example, edited an important publication, La Batalla, from 1915 to approximately 1927. By the late 1920s, radio was an emerging mass medium, and women activists, journalists, and others sought to make their voices heard, literally and figuratively, on its airwaves. Starting in 1935, those airwaves included Radio Femenina, the first all-woman format radio station in the Western Hemisphere. One of the voices heard on Radio Femenina was Dra. Paulina Luisi, Uruguay's leading feminist activist, who became a powerful voice of both the Socialist Party and the politics of the Popular Front in the late 1930s and early 1940s.


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Credit to Golf.com's Jonathan Wall for being the first to spot what appears to be new Wilson Prototype blades in Gary Woodland's bag in the Bahamas.
Gary Woodland was spotted with a set of unreleased @WilsonGolf prototype blades in the Bahamas. 👀 https://t.co/59n8rVAxwY pic.twitter.com/tg2RDe92DS
— Jonathan Wall (@jonathanrwall) November 27, 2018
A few hours later, Wilson Staff tour pro Brendan Steele posted a Tweet of his own on the new irons, noting that he was part of the design team. The cat is officially out of the bag.
So new blades and Gary Woodland? What in the name of Gene Sarazen is going on here?
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Wilson's current blade, the FG Tour 100, was released in 2014 as part of Wilson Staff's 100th anniversary as a golf brand. This new prototype features a few similarities to the Tour 100, including the same bore-through hosel, but the muscle back is a little simpler looking and it appears to be more toe-weighted. We've reached out to Wilson for more information, and the company confirms they've been waiting for a chance to test the new prototypes with its Tour staff, specifically Brendan Steele.
It's shaping up to be a busy fall for Wilson Staff. We've been through Driver vs. Driver, and the introduction of Cortex, and a replacement for the two-year-old D300 irons and metalwoods is due by January. Wilson's FG Tour V6 irons are also two years old, and considering Wilson's two-year product cycle, MyGolfSpy's 2017 Most Wanted Player's Iron is also due for an upgrade.
The other part of the story, however, is what's up with Gary Woodland?
Partial Free Agent
According to Wall's article, Woodland is an equipment free-agent, sort of. After leaving Callaway at the end of 2015, he signed a metal-woods only deal with TaylorMade and has been using Titleist irons and wedges without a deal. Woodland will apparently be gaming the new Wilson blades, as well as a Wilson FG Tour V4 utility iron, at this week's Hero World Challenge.
For its part, Wilson says Woodland expressed some interest in a new blade, and the company was happy to supply him with product – as they would for any Tour player – for personal testing and evaluation. The fact Woodland is putting the irons in play this week in the Bahamas indicates a level of interest a few steps beyond "personal testing."
The three-time PGA tour winner is currently 32nd in the Official World Golf Rankings, and it remains to be seen if this week represents an equipment trial on his part or a prelude to a new equipment deal with Wilson Staff. If that were to happen, Woodland would be Wilson's highest ranking Tour pro. Brendan Steele, Kevin Streelman and Padraig Harrington are currently ranked 103rd, 176th, and 187th respectively.


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If someone told me that the people of Fiji have 100 words to describe the different shades of blue in the water and sky that bless their tropical paradise, I would believe them.
Of course, it's not true, but when the sun shines, the waters that surround this Pacific nation's 320-plus islands and hundreds more islets transform into more shades of blue than you can even begin to name.
Many Canadians know little about Fiji, often confusing it with Tahiti, although the two are completely different. Because of its short distance away by plane, Australians and New Zealanders have long enjoyed it as a holiday destination. Now a growing number of North Americans are starting to find out about Fiji for themselves, often using it as a stop to break up the long journey to Australia, and they are learning that it is a place with a distinct culture and history.
Some of these travellers are arriving in Fiji via cruise ships which are making it a port of call while others are flying there from Los Angeles or Hawaii, often with Fiji Airways, formerly Air Pacific, which operates frequent flights.
Flights arrive in Nadi, a town on the west coast of the largest island, Viti Levu. From there, they can journey to a dizzying array of coastal resorts, ranging from the most luxurious five-star establishment on a private island to the most humble backpacker hostel. Tourism is the country's largest industry which no doubt thrives thanks not only to the the natural beauty of the islands, but also because of the disarming friendliness of Fijians.
It would be lazy and patronizing to portray the people of Fiji as smiling, happy natives. Like people everywhere, there are good and bad folks, but the majority of people I encountered during my brief stay, even those outside of the tourism industry, were more than happy to teach me about their country and their culture. Considering that the people in Fiji live in what Canadians would consider a bona-fide island paradise, it may be realistic to believe that Fijians are truly are as happy as they seem.
Communicating with Fijians is easy as English is widely spoken. During my time there, two topics dominated just about every conversation I had with the people I met when trying to learn what made the country tick - rugby and kava.
Rugby is easy to explain. As a former British colony, the islanders were exposed to the rough and tumble sport and considering the large number of towering Fijian men, many of whom seem as wide as they are tall, it's no wonder that rugby was so eagerly embraced. If you get a chance to visit the country during rugby season, be sure to take in a local match to see how obsessed Fijians are with the sport. And when the national team, nicknamed the Flying Fijians, is playing, the country comes to a virtual standstill.
As for kava, it's a ceremonial drink which has a long history in the island. Made from the powdered root of a pepper plant, the drink has a relaxing effect on muscles while keeping the brain completely lucid. In olden times, island chiefs, who rarely spoke the same language, would meet and consume the drink together. With both chiefs mellowed by kava, the tribes would agree not to fight each other and peace was maintained.
Today, it's a recreational drink and mostly men, but some women, will consume it in social settings and visitors are often asked to share a kava bowl or two or more. It's good form to accept any such invitation and if you really want to be accepted, don't give up after just one bowl. It may be another explanation behind the widespread friendliness of Fijians.
A popular activity for visitors to Fiji is to visit a rural village, the sort where most of the country's residents live. Kava drinking rituals are de rigueur during these visits, but you'll have opportunities to try it at just about any resort.
For a more conventional drink, Fiji's second biggest industry is sugar. One of the offshoots of sugar cane cultivation is rum and the island has an excellent spirit called Bounty which is not exported so the only place you can try it is Fiji.
On the food front, the island nation is, not surprisingly, a good place for seafood lovers and a traditional cooking method for fish and other foods is lovo which is where meals are cooked in pots buried in a pit with hot coals. The biggest revelation, however, may be the abundance of excellent Indian food as nearly half of Fiji's population is Indian, descended from labourers who were brought there by the British to work the sugar fields.
Most people come to Fiji simply to relax by the sea, but those who are more active like to get out on to the water. Surfing, sailing, windsurfing, and snorkelling are all popular as is scuba diving. There is a multitude of great dive spots throughout the islands, but one notable place is Namena Marine Reserve, located off the coast of the second-largest island, Vanua Levu. It is a location which is frequently visited by L'Aventure, the dive shop operated at Jean-Michel Cousteau Resort. The resort is associated with the son of the famed explorer Jacques Cousteau, inventor of the aqua-lung.
I was lucky enough to meet Jean-Michel during my visit. He's a charming and tireless man in his 70s who still travels the world making documentaries that chronicle nature and mankind's adverse affect on it. He has a lifetime of stories and was happy to share anecdotes with me. It's clear that Fiji and its residents have a special spot in his heart. "These people are, in my view, as pure in their origin as you can find," he said.
He found it somewhat ironic that his globetrotting father never visited the island during his many journeys.
"I made my Dad discover Papua-New Guinea. I wanted to show him a new place on the planet, because he spent a lifetime showing me, but he never got to Fiji -- Fiji is mine!" he joked.
The resort that bears the Cousteau name is a five-star resort with private bures, which are thatched-roof bungalows. Modelled after a traditional Fijian village, the resort prides itself on its green practices which is part of the ethos preached by Cousteau.
He spoke about his visit to the infamous garbage patch that is swirling around the middle of the Pacific Ocean and recounted how he visited one desolate island in the northern part of the ocean and in one small stretch of beach he identified, through product labels, trash from 52 different nations.
"We are using the ocean as a garbage dump and a universal sewer. That's our life support system," he said.
Listening to Cousteau while gazing at the blue waters of Fiji, it's hard to believe that this pristine land could ever become a garbage dump, but those 100 shades of blue might become 100 shades of brown if we aren't more vigilant.
Getting there: Fiji Airways flies to Fiji from Los Angeles and Hawaii. Alaska Airlines has a codeshare agreement for flights from Vancouver to LAX and then on to Nadi. fijiairways.com
Getting around: Frequent bus service, car rentals and private taxis are available when you need to get around. Try Rosie Holidays (rosiefiji.com) or Tourism Transport Fiji (touristtransportfiji.com). To hop between islands you can go by boat or plane. Try Pacific Sun airline (www.pacificsun.com.fj) or South Sea Cruises (www.ssc.com.fj)
When to go: Just about any time is a good time to visit. The best months to visit are from March to December. November to April is the rainy season, but rain is usually brief, although heavy. Year-round temperatures range from 26 to 31C.
More information: Tourism Fiji, www.fiji.travel
- The author was a guest of Fiji Airways and Tourism Fiji, neither of which reviewed or approved this article before publication.


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Nobody outside of his family knew Billy Bye better than Bud Grant.
The tragic death of Bye, a former great Gophers running back and great booster of the University of Minnesota who drowned when trying to untangle some weeds from the boat he was riding in with friends, came as a shock to everybody. But it struck Grant especially hard. He was close to Bye from the day they both reported as freshmen to the Gophers football squad in 1946.
They were scheduled to do at least one more thing together. Grant and Bye were two of the five captains appointed for the Gophers opening game at the new stadium next year. Now that will be a sad day with Bye being missed.
"I think he's probably the greatest high school athlete that Minnesota has ever had," Grant said. "I think he won 21 or 22 letters at Anoka, in all sports. He was a baseball player, a basketball player. Of course, he played football. He was a track man. He won the state golf championship. I think he won his first letter there when he was an eighth-grader. Great all-around athlete."
"But in addition to being a great athlete he was a great person, and tragically his life ended this week."
Grant talked about how brilliant Bye was academically.
"Well, that was one big difference: He was brilliant, and I wasn't very brilliant," Grant said. "Billy had a great intellect. He's the fastest reader I've ever known. And that usually means you absorb what you're reading. He was a great person to be around. He was always upbeat and brilliant in his personal life and in his association with his friends. He had a great life. Eight-two years old, you know, sounds like it's old, but nowadays it's too soon.
"We're missing a wonderful person. A great friend. A great friend to the university. He left the university and he had a gold stripe down his back, all his life. He was a great contributor to the University of Minnesota. A great supporter of everything that went on at the university. We're all going to miss him, but nobody is going to miss him as much as the University of Minnesota."
Yes, Billy was one of my very close personal friends, too. I broke into the sportswriting business the year before that 1946 group started playing football for the Gophers. The words "conflict of interest" were not invented at that time. I was just a few years older, so Grant, Bye and I spent a lot of time together.
There was a drugstore on the corner of Oak and Washington that was the hangout for a group that hung around together -- Harvey Solon, Vern Gagne, Ralph McAlister, Bye, Grant and others on that team. I had a few more bucks than most of those guys so we had a lot of meals together. It was there that Bye did a lot of the homework for the group because when it came to studies, he was by far the smartest.
Maybe the influence of his father, Morris Bye, who was the longtime superintendent of schools at Anoka, had something to do with Billy's sharp brain.
That was a great football team Bye played on. Six members of that team were No. 1 draft choices -- Clayton Tonnemaker, Wayne Robinson, Floyd Jaszewski, Gordie Soltau, Leo Nomellini and Grant.
Grant, a great sportsman, had a message for everyone about Bye's drowning.
"It's preached all the time, if you're going to go in the water, other than just basically a swimming operation, wear a life jacket," Grant said.
"Have a life jacket on, or available, so that if anything does interrupt your enjoyment of the water, you have a life jacket with you. I think that might have prevented what happened, but that's all hindsight now."
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon at the St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Eden Prairie. Visitation will be at the Washburn-McReavy Edina Chapel from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.Allen better
Jared Allen, the great defensive end who joined the Vikings last offseason and had a great season, looks for things to be even better this year.
"Just try and get better and improve from year to year," said Allen, who had 14 1/2 sacks in 2008 and made the Vikings defense that much better.
"Just like always. Same system, so I'm used to it. Like I said, I'm not learning anything this year. Now I'm just going out playing football and have fun.
"Hopefully, we'll be right up on the top again. I have high expectations for us."
About his activity in the offseason Allen said: "Did a bunch of stuff, traveled a lot. Just been working out and staying in shape and ready to rock and roll. I was over in Africa. Safari, saw a lot of animals, all that good stuff. Left the guns at home. Brought the cameras this time."Jottings
The only negative thing about the Twins moving into the new stadium is that they have been receiving about $20 million a year in revenue-sharing. That number will go way down because the new stadium will bring in a lot more revenue than the Metrodome has.
The recommendation of University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks that beer not be sold in the new campus stadium could cost the school a lot of money and the chance to pay off the stadium debt in a lot less time. ... Gophers athletic director Joel Maturi has decided to raise the price of the basketball tickets. The tickets will cost $1 more, while prices of hockey tickets will stay the same. The Gophers will play three fewer home games this season so the price of season tickets will actually be lower. ... While there has been a lot of speculation about the Big Ten expanding to 12 teams, the consensus of the schools in the 11-school conference is to wait until Notre Dame decides to make a move.
The appearance of the Pirates here for the first time, for a three-game series starting Tuesday, will bring back memories to Twins broadcaster Bert Blyleven, who in 1979 was a member of the team that beat the Orioles in the World Series. Blyleven was 12-5 with a 3.60 ERA that season. In the World Series he made one start and another appearance and was 1-0 with a 1.80 ERA. ... LaTroy Hawkins, the former Twins pitcher who has moved around since leaving here, is a member of the Houston Astros, who play here next weekend, and is 1-2 with nine saves and a ERA of 2.60. He might be the addition the Twins need to the bullpen.
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[January 07, 2014]
SPRINGFIELD — The Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will thank community groups
striving to better the lives of children by giving them free
admission on Jan. 20, Martin Luther King Day.
To honor that
service, and to help children appreciate another great American who
prized liberty and equality, community organizations can bring
groups of children to the Lincoln Presidential Museum at no charge
on the King holiday. Reservations are required.
"Dr. King encouraged everyone to do their part in making America
a better place," said Gov. Pat Quinn. "Community groups that follow
his example deserve our admiration, and the Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Library and Museum is proud to offer them a little bit
of help by making a visit more affordable."
The usual admission price is $6 for children age 5-15 and $12 for
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"We support the movement to make Dr. King's birthday 'a day
ON, not a day off,' said Amy Martin, director of the Illinois
Historic Preservation Agency, which operates the presidential
library and museum. "Educating children about a fascinating
figure in American history is a great way to achieve that goal."
The groups must consist of 15 or more people, with one adult
chaperone for every 10 children. (Extra chaperones above that ratio
will have to pay for their tickets.) The children can range in age
from fourth grade to high school seniors.
Groups must make reservations through the Springfield Convention
and Visitors Bureau at 800-545-7300 or
www.visit-springfieldillinois.com. In addition, they'll need to
provide a letter confirming they are organized and operated for
charitable purposes.
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file received from the
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency]
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This article or section contains lore taken from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the manuals, and official bonus maps.
The Oracle is chapter 7 of the Warcraft III orc campaign, The Invasion of Kalimdor.
Journeying into the depths of Stonetalon Peak, the Horde forces came to a cross roads. Thrall suggested they split up to find the end of both passages. Thrall and a party of Orcs and Trolls took the right path, while Cairne and his Tauren warriors took the left. Cairne warned Thrall to be careful, since all manner of creatures dwelled within the mountain's depths.
The Orcs journeyed through the winding tunnels of the mountain, coming under attack from undead, quilboars, kobolds and other monsters, as well as parties of humans, dwarfs and elves ordered by Jaina to delay their advance. Eventually, they came to a sealed chamber containing a statue of a Night Elf princess. The statue communed with Thrall, identifying itself as Aszune, and that none could pass until her 'heart' was returned to her. Returning into the tunnels, the Orcs came upon a band of harpies attacking a red dragon. The Orcs waited until the harpies had killed the dragon, then fell upon the harpies, killing them all and recovering from the dragon's hoard the gem known as the 'Heart of Aszune'. Thrall returned the gem to the statue of Aszune, freeing her spirit and opening the way to the chamber beyond; the lair of the Oracle. However, there was no way to cross; Thrall reasoned a spectral bridge was present, but there was no way to access it. Thrall hoped Cairne might find a way to activate it...
Cairne and his tauren kin meanwhile proceeded down their path, encountering similar resistance from the denizens of the mountains. At a junction in the tunnels, they came to an outcrop overlooking a pit full of Quillboars; too many for the Tauren to defeat. However, Cairne noticed the pit was in fact a spiked trap, and triggered the device, killing all the quillboars in the pit. Sifting through the bodies, Cairne recovered a strange gem which he recognised as the spirit stone required to activate the spectral bridge to reach the Oracle. Proceeding through the caverns, Cairne and his men rejoined with Thrall in the chamber and activated the bridge, crossing into the Oracle's chamber...
Jaina and her forces were already present; upon seeing the Orcs had caught up to them, Jaina and her forces prepared to fight to the death, but a stern voice rang out, demanding that there would be no violence in the place. Thrall recognised the voice; they were not speaking to an oracle, but the Prophet. The Prophet confirmed this, and stated he had brought them to the place for a purpose. The Prophet explained that the Burning Legion had returned; having already annihalated Lordaeron, Kalimdor would be next to feel their wrath. Only by uniting would the humans and Orcs be able to resist the oncoming shadow.
Jaina dismissed such an idea as madness, but the Prophet impressed upon her the severity of the threat posed by the demons. He told Thrall that the demons had already corrupted Grom Hellscream and that if they didn't act soon, he and the entire Orc race would be lost to the demons forever. Thrall refused to let this happen, insisting he would die before he let such a thing occur. The Prophet explained that Hellscream was key to the destiny he had promised the Orcs, but that Thrall would need help to free Grom. Jaina tried to back out, but the Prophet was adamant; for the sake of all Azeroth, the Alliance and the Horde must ally together.