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A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Lawrence Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of the most successful terrorist group in history. He follows FBI counterterrorism chief John O'Neill as he uncovers the emerging danger from al-Qaeda in the 1990s and struggles to track this new threat. Packed with new information and a deep historical perspective, The Looming Tower is the definitive history of the long road to September 11.
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A: My wife and I taught English for two years at the American University in Cairo, in the early seventies, and so I had some familiarity with the area. I also spoke a very rusty Cairene Arabic. I was very fond of the time I spent there, which added to the heartbreak I experienced on 9/11.
In addition, I had co-written a movie, The Siege, starring Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, and Annette Bening, which appeared in theaters in 1998. That movie anticipated, in certain eerie ways, the attacks on America by Islamist terrorists and the damage that these attacks would cause to our country and our civil liberties. While researching the film, I had the opportunity to speak to agents in the New York office of the FBI and hear their anxieties about possible strikes against the American homeland. "The Siege" reflects those concerns, which turned out to be so shockingly premonitory. When I watched the attacks on America that Tuesday morning in September, I thought, "This looks like a movie." Then I had the sickening realization, "This looks like my movie."
Because of my previous experience in the Middle East, and because I had already imagined something like this happening, I felt obligated to pursue the story of what had really occurred.
Q: Was The Siege inspired by research you were doing at the time for another project? How did it come about?
A: The Siege began with a lunch with Lynda Obst, the producer, who asked if I would be interested in writing about a woman in the CIA. That was the essence of the idea. But the cold war was over and the CIA seemed irrelevant at the time. For a year, I explored various notions of setting the movie back in time, or somewhere that the agency was still quite active, as in China or Cuba. Finally, I realized that the CIA did have a real-life antagonist: the FBI. Their bureaucratic quarrels were legendary. At the time I began my research they were fighting over which organization would control counterterrorism inside the United States. That's when the plot actually began to cohere. I chose to make the terrorist an Arab because I had had some experience in the Arab world; moreover, there were already precedents with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center by Ramzi Yousef and the plot by followers of Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman to destroy the landmarks in New York, including the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, the United Nations, and Federal Plaza. The screenplay was based on the most likely scenario I could imagine, drawing from research I conducted at the time with members of the New York office of the FBI.
Q: When did you begin working on The Looming Tower?
A: On the morning of September 11, 2001, within an hour of the attacks, I sent an e-mail to David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, saying, "Put me to work." A few hours later, New Yorker writers scattered all over the United States engaged in a conference call, in which David asked us to file reports that he would incorporate into a narrative. I was fortunate to locate a young man, Kirk Kjeldsen, who had slept through his subway stop and was running late to a meeting at the Windows on the World restaurant on top of the World Trade Center. His story of escaping the tower became the centerpiece of the now famous black issue of the magazine.
Immediately after that, I began scanning the online obituaries, looking for a person whose life and death could exemplify in some way the massive national tragedy. On the Washington Post site, I found mention of John O'Neill, the former head of counterterrorism in the FBI's New York office. The brief obituary mentioned that O'Neill had resigned from the bureau under pressure before taking a position as the head of security at the World Trade Center. I thought that, whether he was a hero or a disgrace, he was a pivotal figure. He was our chief Osama bin Laden hunter, but instead of getting bin Laden, bin Laden got him.
Q: What sort of research went into the book?
A: In the nearly five years I have been working on the book, I've traveled extensively to the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, as well as New York and Washington. I've interviewed more than six hundred people, including many FBI agents, CIA officers, intelligence operatives from many countries, and members of al-Qaeda and al-Jihad, Zawahiri's organization. Some of those people I interviewed dozens of times.
Soon after airline travel resumed in the U.S., I flew to New York to prepare a profile on John O'Neill for The New Yorker. In February 2002, I went to Cairo, where I spent three months meeting Zawahiri's friends and family members. A year later, after fourteen months of being refused a visa as a journalist in Saudi Arabia, I took a job in the Kingdom. I was to "mentor" young reporters at a newspaper in Jeddah, bin Laden's hometown. It proved to be a fortuitous turn of events, since I was able to get much more deeply involved in Saudi society than I could ever have hoped as a reporter.
Over the years I've hired a number of translators to help me decipher the primary documents involved making this book; most of those documents were in Arabic, but there were also important books, documents, articles, or other material in French, Italian, Spanish, and German. My interviews filled 78 legal pads—that is 3900 pages of handwritten notes. Eventually, all the translated documents, my interview notes, and my notes from published sources, were reduced to fourteen boxes of 4x6 note cards.
Q: What was the most surprising revelation for you while you were researching and writing this book?
A: Among the thousands of unexpected details I came across during the research for this book, two stand out as the most surprising.
One is the fact that al-Qaeda turned out to be a rather good job, especially for young men who had gone off to fight jihad against the Soviets and were confronted with an uncertain future once that conflict ended. Al-Qaeda offered them housing, health care, a decent monthly salary, and a yearly month-long vacation with a round-trip ticket home. Terror was not just a calling for many of these young men, it was an appealing employment opportunity.
The other revelation, sadly, is that 9/11 could have been prevented if the CIA and the NSA had cooperated with the FBI by providing the information that two al-Qaeda hijackers had arrived in America in January 2000, nineteen months before the attacks. Personal rivalries and bureaucratic turf wars stood in the way. As a result, the hijackers remained in the country unobserved, and the attacks proceeded.
Q: What separates The Looming Tower from other books about al-Qaeda, 9/11, and the intelligence community?
A: More than any other book in English, The Looming Tower explores the Arab personalities who make up the core of al-Qaeda. It examines their backgrounds and explores the evolution of their decisions to attack America and to murder innocent people. Relying on documents that have never been available until now and extensive interviews with jihadis and intelligence figures who have never before spoken to the press, The Looming Tower gets inside the al-Qaeda community and richly describes what the terrorist life is like—not only for the leaders but also for their wives and children. At the same time, The Looming Tower deals with the counterterrorists in America and Saudi Arabia who sought to stop the Islamist threat.
The story is told through the lives of four primary characters: Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian doctor who is the brains behind al-Qaeda; Osama bin Laden, the organization's charismatic leader; Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former head of Saudi intelligence and now the ambassador the United States; and John O'Neill, the former head of counterterrorism for the FBI in New York, who died in the towers on 9/11. Their interweaving biographies create a vast historical saga.
Although there have been many books about al-Qaeda and others that examined the failures of American intelligence, The Looming Tower is the first to tell both sides in even-handed manner, using primary new material. No book has gotten such rich and intimate detail about the primary figures in this immense tragedy.
Q: You include details of bin Laden's life such as what television shows he liked as a child. Why do you think it's important to humanize him and other men behind al-Qaeda?
A: Osama bin Laden is the most famous man in the world and will probably be one of the most famous men in history. Millions idolize him and even those who do not support terrorism often approve of his war against America. In order to understand his appeal, it's essential to understand him as completely as possible, without ever endorsing his actions. Such intimate knowledge also helps to put him into his proper scale—as a human being with his own set of strengths and flaws. We blundered into this conflict because of our ignorance; the more we know about our adversaries, the better we can contend with them.
Q: After such in-depth research, what, in your opinion, is the future of al-Qaeda?
A: Al-Qaeda has already split into several distinct branches. Besides the core group, consisting of bin Laden, Zawahiri, and a few surviving members of the original organization that was formed in Afghanistan in 1988, there are affiliates in North Africa, Europe, and Iraq. Each of these formal branches has a high degree of autonomy, and yet they still pay nominal attention to the demands of the al-Qaeda founders.
Below this second tier of al-Qaeda, there are a number of ad hoc, freelance groups that identify with the organization but may not have any actual relation to al-Qaeda; i.e., they have not trained in al-Qaeda camps, fought with al-Qaeda, or affiliated with senior members of the organization. These groups, the third tier, pose a formidable problem for intelligence organizations, since they are often invisible in the societies in which they are formed, and yet the damage they might inflict is somewhat curtailed by their lack of training.
Finally, there is a fourth tier of al-Qaeda that is being formed from experienced jihadis now coming out of Iraq. Many of them have been highly trained. They are fully capable of carrying out devastating attacks in their own countries and elsewhere. I expect this fourth tier to metastasize over the next few years, drawing recruits from the freelancers and becoming a major source of terror—one that will be all the more chaotic because of their spontaneous nature, the social network they formed in Iraq, and their subsequent dispersal throughout the world. Unfortunately, it appears that there is a substantial potential for a long, bloody struggle against non-state terrorists for a considerable time in the future.
Q: Your screenplay about the life of John O'Neill has been optioned by MGM. What can you tell us about it?
A: The script has been well received by the studio, but MGM was bought out by Columbia, and now we're waiting to see if the new entity will proceed with the filming.
Q: What's next for you?
A: I'm eager to write for The New Yorker again, and I'm working on a one-man play about "my trip to al-Qaeda."


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Donald Rex Rider was born on July 11, 1944 in San Rafael, California, and died on February 19, 2013 in Stockton, California. He was the son of Robert Rex Rider and Ethelene Marie Casey-Rider. Don is survived by his wife, Rose Mendoza-Rider, of Stockton, his children Raymie and Rod Rider, both of Modesto, his stepchildren, Danny Beltran and Sandy Macias, both of Stockton, Mary Molina, of Livermore, and Lisa Guardado, of Tuscan, 16 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. Don is also survived by his three sisters, Janice Maliepaard, of Turlock, Dona Reynolds, of Modesto, and Cindy Miller, of Pacific Grove
Don worked for Rainbo Bread Co. for 36 years before retiring.
The funeral service will be held today at Turlock Funeral Home, 425 N. Soderquist Rd., at 11:00 a.m., followed by an interment in Turlock Memorial Park.

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Freedom of Religion and the Secular State
Nov 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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DescriptionExploring the relationship between religion and the state
Focusing on the intersection of religion, law, and politics in contemporary liberal democracies, Blackford considers the concept of the secular state, revising and updating enlightenment views for the present day. Freedom of Religion and the Secular State offers a comprehensive analysis, with a global focus, of the subject of religious freedom from a legal as well as historical and philosophical viewpoint. It makes an original contribution to current debates about freedom of religion, and addresses a whole range of hot-button issues that involve the relationship between religion and the state, including the teaching of evolution in schools, what to do about the burqa, and so on.
2 A Short History of Religious Intolerance 20
3 Hobbes, Locke, and their Legacy: Models of the Modern State 34
4 Religious Impositions and Endorsements 56
5 Religion-Based Morality and the Secular State 67
6 Persecution, Accommodation, and Conscientious Objection 94
7 Private Power, Religious Communities, and the State 118
8 Religious Freedom and the Interests of Children 141
9 Religious Freedom and Freedom of Speech 169
10 Back to Locke: Concluding Remarks 198
Index 202
"Rare are the books that effectively discuss and connect philosophical background and practical foreground. Russell Blackford's Freedom of Religion and the Secular State is one. Blackford's always and admirably accessible overview covers not only a wide range of prominent controversies, but a number of equally crucial yet commonly overlooked issues such as religious proselytizing and the legitimacy of official church establishments." (The
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"But anyway, even with this, this book is a must-have. It needs to be kept to hand in any discussion of Western secularism." (Steve's Posterous, 28 January 2012)
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"Freedom of Religion and the Secular State offers a comprehensive analysis, with a global focus, of the subject of religious freedom from a legal as well as historical and philosophical viewpoint." (The Richard Dawkins Foundation, 16 December 2011)


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From 1979 to 1986, Dr. Lovejoy was assistant principal trumpet with the Regina Symphony Orchestra (Canada) and also performed as a member of the touring orchestras for the Sadler Wells Ballet and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. While in Canada he also played for the tours of such artists as Harry Belafonte, Della Reese, and Cleo Laine. Dr. Lovejoy has also performed with the South Bend Symphony, Northwest Indiana Symphony, and with various regional orchestras in the Chicago area and has maintained an active schedule as a freelance trumpet player and conductor. He is currently co-principal trumpet in the Winona Symphony and has also performed recently with the LaCrosse Symphony. His principal trumpet teachers have been Vincent Cichowicz, George Vosburgh, and Bart Jones.
As an orchestral conductor, Dr. Lovejoy has been the music director for the Regina Community Orchestra (Canada) and the Monona Chamber Music Society (WI). He has also been an assistant conductor for the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra and the UW-Madison Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra. As a wind conductor, Dr. Lovejoy has been the Director of Bands at Bethel College (IN) and Saint Xavier University (IL) as well as assistant conductor for the UW-Madison Wind Ensemble, Sinfonietta, and Concert Band. His principal conducting teachers have been James Smith, David Becker, John Paynter, Simon Streatfield, and Howard Leighton-Brown. He has also participated in conducting masterclasses with Herbert Blomstedt, Ian Robertson, Allan McMurray, Thomas Lee, and Eugene Corporon. Since 1985, Dr. Lovejoy has been active as a clinician in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, working with both bands and orchestras at the middle school, high school and college levels.
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July 19. 2013 9:10PM
Hot fun in school for summer
Nashua camp looks to make summer science learning sizzle
By BARBARA TAORMINA
Union Leader Correspondent
Sixth-grader Sam Bean checks the progress of rock candy that students made while studying food chemistry at Nashua School District's Summer Sizzlers Science Academy. (BARBARA TAORMINA/Union Leader Correspondent)
— For sixth-grader Sam Bean, the best part of summer science camp is the experiments.
"You get to show what you can do," said Sam, who has been learning how sugar crystallizes into rock candy and how to design a catapult that can potentially outperform a slingshot.
Sam is one of 300 elementary and middle school students spending their hot summer mornings this month in the Nashua School District's Summer Sizzlers Science Academy, a four-week summer camp that challenges students with a range of science and engineering projects.
"We had a summer remediation program that was largely taught in the same way as subjects are taught throughout the year," said Superintendent Mark Conrad, who decided a couple of years ago to add a little excitement to the program.
"We chose science as the vehicle," said Conrad, adding that the summer program still reinforces literacy and math skills but also now generates interest among kids for science and engineering.
Birch Hill Elementary School teacher Randy Calhoun, director of the Summer Science Academy, said the program has grown quickly over the past three years.
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And that's probably because most of the kids in the science academy seem to be having a great time with science.
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They also learned how to make rock candy, how yeast works, how roller coasters pick up speed and how to harness the power of magnets.
"We give students a lot of material and a challenge," said Deb Couture, a science teacher at Fairgrounds Middle School who also works with the summer science campers. "The students experiment and ask their own questions."
Calhoun said that approach is in sync with Nashua's emphasis on inquiry-based science.
"We give a lot more weight to students' questions," said Calhoun. "Teachers are more facilitators than teachers."
And the kids, who are given the opportunity to follow their interests and observations, rise to the occasion.
"Kids have a ton of questions and a lot of ideas — and misconceptions — about how the world works," said Calhoun. The camp offers them a chance to investigate and test their ideas and assumptions according to facts and data.
And according to Bean and other kids in the program, the projects and experiments involve a lot of cool stuff that kids want to know.
"It's really fun because of what we do," said Isabella Vincent, 9, who was loading a ball into a trechuchet, a French version of a catapult.
Calhoun said the camp has been a great way to avoid the summertime backsliding that affects reading and math skills.
"We are still teaching literacy, but the camp is a great way to expose kids to something extra," he said.
Student scientists also have a chance to visit nearby science exhibits and museums such as the Boston Museum of Science and the Ecotarium in Worcester, Mass.
Calhoun said the teachers do an amazing job of drawing kids into subjects.
"The talent of the teachers in getting kids to think and investigate problems is fantastic," he said.
Sam Bean agreed with teachers and administrators that the Summer Sizzlers Science Academy is a good way to keep up in school.
"I'm getting ahead for middle school," he said.
But for Sam and other kids, there are even bigger payoffs from summer science camp.
"I'm meeting new friends, and we're doing things that are interesting and fun," he said.


text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - My bad experience Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in My bad experience Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> The Strange and Mysterious View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message ela2004Joined: 11 Jul 2004Posts: 303 Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject: My bad experience I have a special bad experience in my life. When I was child, I always felt sick when I walked pass a corpse. That is the most serious event, because I have had a temperature almost 40 degree in the night. My parents was very nervous because no any hospital still open in the night. Finally, my parents found a hospital and took me to saw the doctor. But my ill still not get better until my grandmother took me to the temple. Old men say to my grandmother because I saw the death person picture. I was not respect the death person, so the death persons soul followed me to my house. After that event, I never walked pass a corpse until now. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> The Strange and Mysterious All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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Right now, I am holding my sides - that is with a heating pad. I just finished my first Laughter Yoga class. And that my friends is what sets the Westside apart from downtown.
That part of town is a different kind of nuts.
Yeap. It is so pristine, with such fresh air, and no hassles with parking - that the people there do laughter yoga. I mean what else is there to do when you are bored out of your mind, and you want to release stress without going to a therapist?
Hah. Hah. Hah.
You laugh.
You do the sticky laugh. You do the "ho, ha, ha" laugh. You put a laughter pill in your mouth. You sing a Disney song and you laugh while doing a downward dog. I laughed so much, that I am writing this post with a laughter endorphanized buzz. In other words, I'm stoned on myself.
I went to laughter yoga because I am a searcher. A seeker. Maybe even a Chinese Woman Living in a Jewish Woman's Body. Plus, the woman who teaches the one-hour class has been wanting me to go now for three years! So I went.
And I have since realized that all the street guys on the corner - let's say the ones on Main and 6th, or Broadway and 9th - you know the ones who laugh to themselves out loud - ARE NOT NUTS, and they don't deserve to be taken away in a strait jacket - ever.
They are just in touch with their inner laughter - their stress throttle has been unthrottled - and they unlike myself held on to their $15 bucks.
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STOCKTON - If the McNair High girls basketball team had any chance of beating St. Mary's on Tuesday, the Eagles were going to need a huge game from 6-foot-4 junior standout Mandy Coleman.
STOCKTON - If the McNair High girls basketball team had any chance of beating St. Mary's on Tuesday, the Eagles were going to need a huge game from 6-foot-4 junior standout Mandy Coleman.
When Coleman picked up her fourth foul just 1 minute, 2 seconds into the second quarter, the Eagles were in trouble.
Four Rams scored in double figures in an 87-58 win that handed the host Eagles their first loss of the season. Unique Coleman scored a team-high 15 points for St. Mary's (19-1, 5-0 Tri-City Athletic League), Charise Holloway had 14, freshman Kat Tudor had 13 and Bri Moore had 12 points and 10 steals.
Breanna Wilson led McNair (20-1, 4-1) with a game-high 19 points, Mandy Coleman finished with 14 and Brandi Hornsby had 11.
"I have to look at tonight from a defensive standpoint," St. Mary's coach Tom Gonsalves said. "I just love Maria (Lauron-Ramos) and Onome (Jemerigbe), and then Bri (Moore) was getting a lot of action in the backcourt as a safety.
"Our defense is our constant, which is big because this is a hard gym to shoot in."
The Eagles looked strong through much of the first quarter, but that's when the fouls started to mount. They led 8-7 with 4:22 left in the quarter when Holloway converted a three-point play that gave St. Mary's the lead for good.
St. Mary's led 24-13 early in the second quarter when Mandy Coleman went to the bench with her fourth foul.
By halftime it was 42-18.
"I think we showed when our starting five is in there we can play with anybody," McNair coach Anthony Matthews said. "But when she was in there with four (fouls), she's not blocking shots, she's not going to be aggressive on the offensive boards. It takes a lot out of her game."
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Ortiz knocks in six in Red Sox winBy JOE OBERLE
The Sports Xchange
May 18. 2013 11:51PM
MINNEAPOLIS - When the Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins get together, baseballs often fly, and the teams did not disappoint on Saturday night at Target Center.

Red Sox DH David Ortiz went 3 for 4 and hit two home runs to help Boston outslug Minnesota 12-5.
Ortiz, who was 2 for 18 against the Twins last week, is 6 for 8 in the first two games of the series in Minnesota and is no longer having trouble with Twins pitching.

Both starters threw plenty of pitches, but neither figured in the decision.
Boston's Ryan Dempster put in a long night's work, throwing 127 pitches in 4 2/3 innings and giving up five runs, eight hits and six walks with two strikeouts.

Twins starter Scott Diamond, who gave up three home runs in his previous outing, put the Twins in an early hole, giving up the first Ortiz round-tripper. Diamond's night ended after 93 pitches in 4 1/3 innings, giving up six runs, eight hits and one walk with no strikeouts.
The Twins' usually reliable bullpen did not help Diamond. Minnesota relievers gave up five runs, including two-run homers to Ortiz and Daniel Nava.

The Red Sox had 13 hits to the Twins' 12, but Minnesota's biggest problem was Ortiz, whose six RBI were the difference.
Craig Breslow, who came on in the sixth and shut down a Twins bases-loaded threat, pitched 1 2/3 innings to pick up his first win.

Ortiz continued his hot-hitting series against the Twins with a three-run homer in the first. Jacob Ellsbury (single) and Dustin Pedroia (walk) scored ahead of Ortiz, who now has six homers on the season.
Dempster had some control troubles in the second inning, walking the first two batters he faced. He forced a couple groundouts, but Pedro Florimon hit a two-out single up the middle to score Oswaldo Arcia and put the Twins on the board.
Ortiz got to Diamond again in the third with an RBI single after Diamond walked Jonny Gomes and Pedroia reached on an infield hit.

The Twins returned fire in the fourth with a two-out double by Joe Mauer and an RBI single by Justin Morneau. The Sox had put a severe shift on Morneau his first two times up, but not this time, and he laced a liner to right.
The Sox responded with two doubles to open the fifth - Gomes scoring on Pedroia's second hit of the game. Pedroia scored on Nava's sacrifice fly and Ryan Lavarnway's single to left scored Napoli's to break the game open at 7-2.
Ryan Doumit opened the fifth with a double off the wall and scored after two groundouts. Aaron Hicks walked, stole second and scored on Florimon's single. Florimon then scored on Jamey Carroll's single to right and the Twins scratched their way back in the game at 7-5.
NOTES: Coming into the game, Boston batters ranked second in baseball with an OPB of .340. ... The Red Sox are 7-3 (.700) in Minnesota since the opening of Target Field in 2010. ... Mauer returned to the lineup as DH after missing one game with back soreness. Mauer hit .381 In his previous 10 games as DH.


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John Habib's City Sports: Big concerns about the Little LeaguesBy JOHN HABIB
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 28. 2014 8:49PM
American Legion and Babe Ruth organizations are not the only baseball leagues in Manchester facing a shortage of players.
Registration numbers are down this spring compared to last year at four city Little Leagues, while the fifth league, Manchester North, reported its enrollment is holding steady.
According to the league presidents earlier this week, Manchester Central (down 100), Manchester East (50), Manchester South (45) and Manchester West Side (30) had fewer registrants than they did at the same time last year.
While every league was optimistic that more kids would be signing up soon — mainly because spring has arrived — the overall picture in Little League compared to only five years ago remained discouraging.
Compared to 2009 — when, the league presidents said, their program were serving between 300 and 325 kids — the numbers are down anywhere from 75 to 100 kids per league.
League presidents John Ryan of Manchester West Side, Kim Roy of Manchester South, Patrick Landroche of Manchester East and Sally Dreckmann of Manchester Central all said AAU baseball, soccer and lacrosse are making an impact on Little League baseball.
South, which had 306 total participants in its Major, Minor, Farm and Tee Ball divisions two years ago, had 266 last year. So far this year, 219 kids have signed up.
"We're living in a different era from the one I grew up in," said Roy. "We now live in a high-tech age where kids want to play video games instead of hitting baseballs. I can remember a time when kids would play their Little League games, go home to eat and then play more baseball in their neighborhood sandlots until it was time to go home. You don't see that happening much anymore, and it's very unfortunate."
Roy — in her 22nd season at South, including 10 seasons as president over two separate terms — said her league isn't giving up on registering more kids.
"Communication is the key," she said. "We rely on social media and e-mails, and we even send out newsletters. We want kids to play Little League baseball. We want kids out in the fresh air and exercising."
South and Central are celebrating milestone anniversaries this season — the 60th for South, No. 65 for Central, the oldest Little League circuit in the state. Central enters its landmark season with good news.
"We won the bidding to host the District I tournament this summer," said Dreckmann, the league president.
Last season, Central hosted the state tournament, which Little League District I commissioner Don Kirkland deemed an "overwhelming success."
"The job Sally, her entire staff, Mayor (Ted) Gatsas and the city did to renovate that field was phenomenal," Kirkland said.
According to the commissioner, Manchester isn't alone in experiencing declining Little League registration numbers.
"I'm not sitting here saying I'm fat and happy, because there's a decline in most communities around the state," Kirkland said. "But we're still doing well. In District I, we have 17 teams, two more than we had last year. I know Manchester is down in numbers, but I'm confident more kids there will sign up soon. It's a strong baseball city, and they have a rich tradition. Remember, we're just coming off a long, hard winter season, and with warmer temperatures coming, kids will begin thinking baseball soon."
Dreckmann, needing 100 more kids to register to match last year's total of 267, said she's confident her league will close the gap.
"We're making every effort to sign up kids, and I'm confident we'll have better numbers to report soon," she said.
Landroche said three years ago East LL was serving 325 kids. He had 200 by the middle of last week and was confident a late push for the Farm and Tee Ball divisions will get that number up to 260.
Ryan said Manchester West Side is off by 10 percent compared to last season. He, too, was expecting more to sign up soon.
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RYAN and Landroche agree that if American Legion and Babe Ruth programs want to raise their registration numbers, they need to talk to the Little League kids at the end of the season.
"I would welcome coaches from Babe Ruth and American Legion to come and speak to our kids," said Ryan. "Some kids don't think they're good enough to play at the next level, and they just lose interest. That's where a Babe Ruth or Legion coach can come in and encourage them to continue playing. Those coaches can tell a Little League player that they'll work with them to make them better players next season. Something like that makes a difference."
Landroche agreed, saying, "It really breaks the ice. A face-to-face meeting where you're encouraging a kid to continue to play goes a long way. Now that kid goes home and realizes he does have a chance to play at the next level. All they need is a little encouragement. If Babe Ruth and Legion want their numbers to go back up, they really need to take the time to reach out to our Little League kids."
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THE LATE Brian West served Manchester East as umpire director and league president for many years. The league, which named its Major Division field after him now plans to induct him into the East Little League Hall of Fame.
Along with West, Bill Trombly Jr. and longtime sponsor East Side Club will be inducted during the annual Hall of Fame Dinner at the Yard Restaurant next Saturday, April 5, in a program that begins at 6 p.m.
Trombly is a longtime volunteer who coached in all four divisions and was a member of the league's board of directors as president and treasurer. Along with being a team sponsor, East Side Club has hosted fundraising events for the league for many years.
Tickets can be purchased online at manchestereastll.org or, from 5-7 p.m. on April 3, at the East Clubhouse on Tarrytown Road. Tickets, $30 per individual guest or $50 per couple, also will be sold at the event next Saturday. Guests will enjoy a buffet dinner, dancing, a silent auction and raffles.
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A rising country music star is the featured act at this year's Wayne County Fair.
A rising country music star is the featured act at this year's Wayne County Fair.
Justin Moore will be performing in concert at 8 p.m., Friday, Aug. 2, to kickoff the 151st annual fair.
Tickets are $30 for track seat reserved and $20 for general admission grandstand. Tickets can be purchased in advance by logging on to waynecountyfair.com.
About the artist
When Justin Moore tells his fans at all of his shows that he's "proud to be from small town USA," it is from the heart.
The Poyen, Ark. native grew up in a town with a population of 272, the sign with that declaration sits in his grandparents front yard. He graduated from high school with 37 classmates.
So how does a kid from a town that small work his way up to Music Row, a record deal and eventual stardom as a country music singer touring with the biggest acts in country music today?
How does it happen that one of the first songs he writes in Nashville winds up hitting number one on the country charts? How does the kid from the small town follow that up with a top five hit, a top 15 hit and his second number one and fastest rising single from his second album "If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away?"
How does he get voted "2009's Best Male Country Artist" by Billboard Magazine?
He starts by being true to himself, in the way he lives and in the songs he writes. When he sings about growing up in Poyen in his number one hit, "Small Town USA" and that "some people called it prison when I was growin' up, but these are my roots and this is what I love," he means every word of it.
When he sings about a "rifle in a gun rack hanging in the back glass" from his top 5 hit "Backwoods," that's the way it is in his home town, where he learned how to hunt and fish from his grandpa, "PawPaw," Tom Moore, and how to tend to the cattle and work the fields from his grandpa "Paw," Charles Webb.
He had the type of childhood most people would envy, loving grandparents on both sides of the family tree, aunts and uncles, cousins, best boyhood and lifelong friends, Sunday meals after church with family and friends, summers on the lake fishing with his buddies, ball games on Friday nights and supportive and nurturing parents who taught him wrong from right and the importance of being a good Christian.
His parents, Tommy Ray and Charlene Moore, first noticed he could sing on key and memorize songs in almost an instant when he was two years old. They had the "scratching the head" moments of "is this real or do we think he's good because he's our son?" But once he started being asked to sing all the solos in church on Sundays and people started noticing, Tommy Ray and Charlene realized he had a special gift.
As Justin moved through high school as an outstanding athlete in both basketball and baseball he was undecided about a career path, music or sports.
With a sports scholarship offer he decided to give college a try. Two weeks at college told him that his true calling was in music, and with his parents support and blessing they all decided to give it a try.
He made the move to Nashville at the very young age of 18, buoyed by the urging of his now manager Pete Hartung of L3 Entertainment.
They met with up and coming producer/songwriter Jeremy Stover, and Justin and Jeremy realized that they had both found the perfect fit. Jeremy became Justin's writing partner and producer and when they had written the songs they thought they needed for an album they took it to Scott Borchetta, President of the Big Machine Label Group.
The record deal was forthcoming and in August of 2009 Justin released his first album, "Justin Moore" on The Valory Music Company label. That album is fast approaching Gold status.
It was an exciting time for Justin as he spent all of 2009 and 2010 touring with the biggest names in country music, including Trace Adkins, Hank Williams Jr, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Brad Paisley, Brooks and Dunn, Miranda Lambert and Darius Rucker.
He signed on for the 2011 summer "Flatts Fest Tour" with Rascal Flatts. He finished 2011 with Miranda Lambert and then with Darius Rucker. He started January 2012 touring with Blake Shelton.
His headlining shows have sold out in clubs across the country and his loyal fan base continues to grow at a rapid pace. His music resonates strongly with the blue collar, hard working Americans who break their backs just to earn a buck and never get ahead but wouldn't have it any other way, to paraphrase the lyric from his #1 hit, "Small Town USA."
Justin's sophomore album "Outlaws Like Me" debuted at number one upon its release nationwide on June 21, 2011 and quickly landed him his second Number 1 along with a top 15 and a current single and his first ever love song "Til My Last Day" sitting at number 12 on the charts and headed upwards.
Justin's fans have found his new album filled with songs that stay true his roots, some hard rocking, kick-ass cuts and some that show a slightly softer side, a sign of kind of a musical maturity, so to speak, brought on no doubt by the three greatest joys in his life, his daughter Ella, born in February 2009, his daughter Kennedy born in November 2011, and his beautiful wife Kate.
Justin is currently working on his third studio album is now is his first headlining tour.


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Cover Shot! is a regular feature here at the Café. I love discovering new covers, and when I find them, I like to share. More than anything else, I am consumed with the mystery that each new discovery represents. There is an allure to a beautiful cover. Will the story contained under the pages live up to promise of the gorgeous cover art?
Yum! I love this cover for I Own the Dawn by M L Buchman! I hope none of those guns are loaded!
Kee Smith battled through a difficult childhood to work her way up the ranks of the U.S. Army. When she finally makes it into the elite Night Stalkers, she feels thrilled, honored, and vindicated…until she finds out she's been assigned to the "girlie-chopper" piloted by the only other woman in the regiment.
Kee is determined to show Lt. Archie Stevenson, one of the male co-pilots, that she is just as tough as the guys. Throughout their special mission, Archie doesn't know whether to make love to her or plant her face-first into the dirt. But he'll do whatever it takes to break through that shield Kee wears around her heart.
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Sitting in a small meeting room in a Unitarian Universalist church slightly north of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, people of different races and age groups have gathered. Between bites of doughnuts and sips of coffee, they strategize about their next move, every now and then scribbling ideas with red and green markers on white paper flip charts. "Tie riot in with September 11 as an act of terrorism," reads one line on the "Objectives" list. "Circumvent local politicians and officials by filing a class-action lawsuit," reads the line below it.
Members of the Tulsa Reparations Coalition had hoped they wouldn't be at this place again–square one. After all, the State of Oklahoma had put together a commission to study the matter nearly five years before, and in 2001 it recommended that the state make reparations to the 130 survivors of what some call the worst race riot in US history–the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. More than 300 blacks were killed and 10,000 left homeless after a mob of white deputies and Oklahoma National Guardsmen descended on the all-black Greenwood section of Tulsa, burning everything in sight. "Reparations were promised by civic and city leaders of the time but did not come through," says State Representative Don Ross, whose district encompasses Greenwood.
Instead, last spring the state decided to establish committees to establish a race riot memorial, as well as a scholarship and a community development fund for this underdeveloped, mostly black area known as North Tulsa. "Those were the concepts that were politically possible," Ross says. But the state didn't put any money into any of the committees, Ross confirms, adding that "some private funds have been raised."
Subsequently, the state denied that the report assigned it any responsibility–even though the report made it clear that city sheriffs deputized people who participated and implied that a unit of the state militia was involved in detaining blacks. "I have carefully reviewed the finding of the Tulsa Race Riot Commission and, contrary to the statement in your letter, I do not believe that it assigns culpability for the riot to the state," wrote Governor Frank Keating in an October 2001 letter to the Tulsa Reparations Coalition. He further noted that a state law prohibits Oklahoma from making reparations for any past mass crime committed by its officials or on the state's behalf.
What's left to do? "Sue," says Mark Stodghill, the head of the Reparations Coalition. To that end, Stodghill's group has organized a legal committee, which is exploring the possibility of filing a lawsuit against Tulsa that would challenge the existing law and seek reparations. "Time has run out and the survivors are dying," says Stodghill, a Tulsa native who works as an investigator in the city's human rights office. He says that people in Oklahoma don't talk about reparations, because it comes too close to broaching the topic of racism, one that many Tulsans stay as far away from as possible. But blatant racism is exactly what Stodghill and the group want to bring to the table. While members believe a memorial will help Tulsans remember the riot, they say it won't pay the debt Tulsa owes the black survivors. Ironically, a memorial probably won't help any of the white citizens remember the riot, because very few of them ever set foot on the north side of Interstate 244, the dividing line between the white and black parts of town.


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Maintenance as a profit center
If you increase uptime, you increase capacity. That's only possible if you develop a strategic approach to maintenance.
The Oreo. On the surface it seems pretty black and white: two chocolate wafers separated by a cream filling. But in today's global marketplace fueled by increasingly diverse consumer preferences, it's not quite so simple. The filling could be chocolate, vanilla, or mint flavored. Or maybe it's dyed red and green for the holidays, or it's "double stuffed," or half the fat. The possibilities are seemingly endless—and that doesn't even consider the packaging options.
While all these choices help generate consumer interest in hopes of growing profits, they also make production—and maintaining the technology it requires—much more complex. Other challenges, such as regulatory requirements and workforce skills shortages, further complicate the landscape.
Unfortunately, adding complexity in production processes doesn't mean more budget is available to maintain efficient operations. The opposite has happened in many organizations. Manufacturers are being pressured to reduce operational costs while increasing productivity. At the same time, resources for activities like maintenance that are traditionally viewed as an overhead cost and a liability have been cut to the quick in recent years.
In many organizations these cuts are actually moving profitability in the wrong direction. With fewer resources, bare-bones maintenance staffs spend most of their time in firefighting mode reacting to unplanned maintenance crises.
The average impact of unplanned downtime in process industries is $20 billion, or almost 5% of production, according to a 2011 ARC Advisory Group report. As productivity demands seem to get more intense each year, maintenance departments, like every other business function, cannot escape the demands to be more efficient while still curbing the rising costs of production downtime.
With every 10 workers retiring, only five will take their place, which means fewer skilled people will be trying to support ever more advanced and technically interconnected plants. A strategic plan is in order, and it is in order right now if any facility is expecting to survive the continued national and international competitive pressures.
A strategic plan for maintenance
Establishing a holistic maintenance plan to survive this new reality is the best way to cope with increasing budget and skilled labor challenges while improving production KPIs. Just as any effective business plan would, a maintenance plan should include an assessment of the current situation, clearly defined objectives, and an outline of metrics that will gauge results. The maintenance plan must align with the overall facility business plan, as well as objectives such as accurate production forecasting.
The maintenance plan should have two primary areas of focus:
- Assets: The equipment running in your facility
- People: The staff keeping the equipment running
These two areas are interdependent and must be addressed holistically to effectively optimize costs through sustained adoption and facility improvement. Taking a disciplined approach gives flexibility based on the facility's business plan, maintenance needs, and ability to invest.
There are a number of steps needed to optimize your assets:
1. Implement a criticality-and risk-based approach
Implementing an asset management program will improve equipment utilization and performance, reduce capital and asset-related operating costs, extend asset life, reduce spare parts inventory, and improve RONA, MTBF, and MTTR. With budget and people resources stretched to the max, prioritization is the key. In today's plants, at least 60% of preventive maintenance tasks are considered unnecessary. Defining equipment criticality and risk can help reverse this trend.
A risk-based approach should also be taken to not only understand hierarchy, but also to determine risk of failure. Defining criticality is fundamentally a question of economics. To determine which equipment is critical, consider the financial impact of downtime on production, such as costs associated with lost data, lost product, and loss of visualization. Also consider the impact of replacing or repairing equipment, and potential hazards associated with downtime.
|A risk-based approach should also be taken to not only understand hierarchy, but also to determine risk of failure. Defining criticality is fundamentally a question of economics.
Addition of a risk-based approach also can help determine hierarchy of equipment and risk of failure. To get started, an experienced reliability engineer should perform a failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) to determine possible failure modes. For mission-critical equipment, this type of investment is necessary to put true reliability-based maintenance processes into place. Additional lower-cost risk mitigating activities should also be completed across the enterprise for less critical equipment that has the potential to wreak just as much havoc on productivity.
2. Assess the installed base
Simply developing a complete understanding of the installed base of components can drive immediate risk reduction and financial gain. But many facilities still do not have a complete understanding of their installed base. This is dangerous to both production and finances.
Understanding its installed base allows a staff to make prioritized decisions to mitigate or eliminate risk on obsolete equipment and identify spare parts gaps.
Obsolescence risk can be mitigated through reserve repairs from an automation provider or eliminated by migrating the technology. Lack of spares can usually be cost-effectively overcome with vendor-managed inventory. As a financial benefit, understanding the installed base in a facility as well as in the storeroom presents an opportunity to remove excess and inactive inventory from the books immediately.
Defining equipment criticality and understanding the facility's installed base, including obsolescence risk, is the best start toward taking control of a facility's assets and command of equipment reliability. This leads to confident prioritization of investments, preventative maintenance, and other risk-mitigating activities that can drive adoption of sustainable maintenance processes. At a minimum, select the most critical equipment to drive this end-to-end approach, and collect the quick win and productivity gains before moving on to other areas.
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DVD alert: Enjoy the delightful (and moving) backstage antics of 'Slings & Arrows'
The strike by Hollywood writers may be over soon — and hooray for that. But there's been one benefit to this otherwise frustrating TV drought — it's given us a chance to catch up on some worthy programs via DVD. And "Slings & Arrows" may be the ideal viewing choice for these waning days of the strike.
Each season of the Canadian series, which concerns the backstage drama at a Shakespeare theater festival, is only six episodes long, and all three seasons were released in one boxed set by Acorn Media on Feb. 5. The handsome and handy set includes a brand-new disc of extras, but never mind them (the extras aren't great, though the extended versions of some episodes are a nice plus).
The play's the thing, or rather the New Burbage Festival's often-hapless attempts to stage the Bard's classics — that's the main attraction. (There's more on the show here.)
"Slings," which has given showcases to actors such as Rachel McAdams ("The Notebook"), Sarah Polley (the writer/director of "Away From Her") and Canadian stage legend William Hutt, is set in New Burbage's rehearsal spaces, offices and pubs. And no TV show has ever done a better job of demonstrating why otherwise sane people are willing to risk their relationships, their financial health and their sanity, all for the love of the theater.
Those who wrote and performed "Slings" show a palpable love for language and the magic of the stage. And there are fascinating insights into what goes into creating a terrific performance. Director Geoffrey Tennant (Paul Gross) spends opening night of his troubled "Macbeth" doing all he can to terrify and destabilize his lead actor, who's too dependent on technique and his own puffed up self-regard. The result of Tennant's perceptive attempts to shake the lead actor from his predictable routines leaves everyone — including the actor — stunned and euphoric.
One small caveat: Each "Slings" season takes a while to really get into gear (but the last couple of episodes of each season are invariably terrific). Another warning: The show spends too much time on the relationship of Tennant and neurotic leading lady Ellen Fanshaw (Martha Burns). The idea that a slightly deranged director and a self-absorbed actress would have a difficult relationship should come as a surprise to no one.
But those are small quibbles, and shouldn't prevent you from enjoying this backstage chronicle, which is based, in part, on the experiences of the show's creators at Canada's Stratford Festival and elsewhere in the entertainment business (co-creator Mark McKinney was in "Kids in the Hall" and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," and some of the show's creative personnel were also behind the hit Broadway musical "The Drowsy Chaperon").
Despite all the hijinks and intrigue and diva behavior, what "Slings" does best is communicate the idea that art can move the soul -- which is why this motley collection of semi-lunatics sticks with it despite every imaginable setback.
What I recall most about the three seasons of "Slings" are the magical moments of comedy mixed with knowing pathos:
- In Season 1, Tennant, who's struggling with visions of his dead mentor, gives a surprisingly lucid pep talk to the young Hollywood action star who is about to go onstage in "Hamlet."
- In Season 2, jittery theater administrator Richard Smith-Jones (McKinney) hires an ultra-hip branding firm called Frog Hammer. The firm, led by a whacked-out creative executive played by the great Colm Feore, comes up with an insulting publicity campaign that prompts most of the theater's most loyal patrons to cancel their subscriptions.
- One of my favorite characters (he pops up in all three seasons) is ultra-pretentious director Darren Nichols (Don McKellar), who manages to annoy Tennant at every turn, especially with his cold production of "Romeo and Juliet," which puts the title characters into costumes that are more metal cages than clothes.
- With Smith-Jones' unlikely help (he's a musical fanatic), in Season 3, Nichols manages to turn a musical workshop about heroin addicts into a runaway hit, much to Tennant's chagrin.
- The program's finest hour is undoubtedly the latter half of Season 3, which features Hutt playing Charles Kingman, an aging actor whose antics make for an incredibly fraught staging of "King Lear." Kingman terrorizes his Cordelia (Polley), has multiple health scares and otherwise creates chaos, even as he crafts a ferocious performance, with Tennant's help. In Kingman's closing scenes as the aged king, Hutt offers a spine-tingling Lear that will leave you gasping.
Here's one final worthy thing about "Slings & Arrows": Its creators knew when to stop. The entire run of the show totals a mere 18 episodes. As Hamlet said, "brevity is the soul of wit."
Photos: Paul Gross, Don McKellar, Mark McKinney; Gross, William Hutt, Sarah Polley.


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A libertarian who views the abolition of the state as necessary for a free society. Unlike anarcho-capitlaists, an anarcho-libertarian does not seek anarchy as the ultimate goal, but rather as just one facet of a free society.
Libertarians come in all sorts of varieties. Some see the state as necessary for liberty and others see it as a direct violation. Followers of anarcho-libertarianism think the state must be dissolved as part of the process towards freedom.
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June 9, 1924 - June 24, 2013
White Sulphur Springs, NY
Myrtle C. Wehner, 89, a lifetime resident of White Sulphur Springs, NY, died Monday, June 24, 2013 at Skilled Nursing Unit at Catskill Regional Medical Center.
She was the daughter of Wilbur and Freda Houghtaling Wright, born in Loch Sheldrake, NY on June 9, 1924. She was married to the late Howard W. Wehner, Sr. They were married for 71 years.
Myrtle was a waitress at the Madison Restaurant in Liberty, a homemaker and retired farmers wife.
She is survived by her daughter, Carol A. Ellmauer and her husband, Leo of Youngsville, NY; her daughter-in-law, Barbara A. Wehner of Lancaster, NY; her grandchildren: Dawn Zweck (Jim) of Durham, NC, Greta Spring of Newfane, NY, Mary Morgans (Shawn) of Chelsea, MI and Wendy Smith (Jobe) of Lancaster, NY. She also leaves her great-grandchildren: Kristen, Ryan, Meagan, and Kaitlyn Zweck, Jessica and Jennifer Spring, Brian Morgans, and Chelsea Smith; one sister, Katherine Brenner of Norman, OK and sister-in-law, Doris Wehner of Hartwick, NY, also several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her loving husband, Howard W. Wehner, Sr. and by her son, Howard Wehner, Jr.
Friends may call June 26, 2013 at the Stewart-Murphy Funeral Home, Jeffersonville, NY from 12 noon to 1 p.m. Services will be at the funeral home at 1 p.m. Burial will be in Callicoon Center Cemetery, Callicoon Center, NY.
Memorial contributions may be made to the White Sulphur Springs Fire Department.
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You know, I'm really trying to make the complete mindshift towards libertarianism, or something close to it, and your site has been helping a lot, but I have to admit that two of the hardest things for me to give up are NASA and National Parks. I'm a nerd so I'm very entranced by basic research, even if it's basic research with no possibility of a financial return.
And as far as parks, I've visited many national parks, and also private parks like Meteor Crater. At Meteor Crater, you can't go "hike the rim" without hiring one of their off-duty tour guides to take you. If all the parks and open space were privately owned, I'm afraid they'd all be like this -- their liability insurance would require them to keep all patrons supervised so they could keep their rates as low as possible. But sometimes being at risk of death (changing weather, no cell phone coverage, difficult terrain) is what makes being in the outdoors enjoyable and rewarding.
I don't want to have to sign a 10-page release form every time I want to go hiking the way I have to now to go skydiving! [and yes, I realize I've just given you the perfect setup to ask why I don't demand government-supplied skydiving as well....]
But seriously, in the libertarian world, what becomes of missions to impact asteroids, large hadron colliders, and Arches National Park?
And I wanted to share my response with all of you:
Hey I totally feel the same way you do. For instance, my four years at a public high school were positively wonderful. I wouldn't trade them for anything. I learned a ton and grew a lot in that public school. I also love driving on the government-created interstate highway system- like, really love it.
But I can do without these things when I remember their existence is morally outrageous. I won't have my pleasures at someone else's expense. While my school experience was great, landowners in Nashville were made- by threat of force- to pay for it.
And other children haven't had good experiences in our public school system. In addition to the ones who are unable to read or find America on a map, sexual abuse of students in public schools is reaching horrendous proportions (though it's never reported).
And our highways were likewise built with money looted from people by threat of force (if they didn't pay their income tax, they got hauled to jail). And for all my good experiences and pure joy when I sail down I-40, it crushes my heart to consider the literally millions of people who have died on government roads in the last century, a situation that would not have been tolerated from or ever arisen in a privately-run transportation industry.
As for all those fun things like hadron colliders and space exploration- wealthy capitalists will always fund the ideas of enterprising innovators and curious scientists. In fact, imagine the kind of unprecedented, explosive wealth and prosperity of a truly unregulated, open market. Imagine the kind of Golden Age that would be?
The Apple iPod would never have been invented in Soviet Russia- and even if it did, who would be able to afford it (or a loaf of bread for that matter)? That's one of the main beauties of a free society- it's not just enlightened, it's fun.
PS: You only need to sign a 10-page release because of frivolous lawsuits, which are a result of poor government policy. Pass a "loser pays" bill for civil suits, and that should clear things up.


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Let's do something different this year
Summer vacation is often a dilemma for many families. The "Where should we go?" question always ends up in a big fracas.
Mom wants to go to a place that isn't going to turn her into a slave with fewer conveniences than she has at home. After all, she is entitled to a little time off just like everyone else.
Dad is easy to please. He just doesn't want to be bankrupt at the end of the ordeal.
Little kids want a beach, a pail and a shovel. Hose 'em down at the end of the day, give 'em a hot dog and they're set.
Teenagers . . . they can be difficult. They want a social life. The girls want a summer romance, and the boys want to hang out with the guys and do guy things. This often involves death-defying feats on boy toys invented to test the cardiovascular system of most sane parents.
Things like riding up the sides of mountains on ATVs, racing dirt bikes, jet skis, and flying skate boards down the sides of mountains at speeds just short of breaking the sound barrier are among the most desired activities.
These indulgences always take place in areas where hospitals are few, communication is iffy, and transportation is less than dependable. You know the places - cell phones don't work there. Enough said.
Yes, finding a vacation destination that will please the entire family can be problematic.
This year, as a service to our loyal and adventurous readers, we have asked our crack research team, the Googlamaniacs, to take nanoseconds out of their busy day to find interesting places to go that will please the entire family.
Mind you, some are a bit unusual, designed to expand the horizons of even the most broadminded. If nothing else, they will give the entire clan a greater appreciation for what they have left behind at the old homestead.
The first place on the list has an interesting concept. Take the family on a tree house vacation at a place called Wild Canopy Reserve at Masinagudi, Karnataka. It is situated at an altitude of 950 meters (as I understand it, that is really high) in a natural scrub forest somewhere in India.
Here, socially and ecologicallyconscious practices are followed. This private wildlife reserve is an excellent place for breeding wild animals in their natural habitat. The Malabar squirrel, Sambar deer, wild dog (Dhole), Gaur (Bison), elephant, leopard, tiger and porcupine can be found here.
They forgot to mention that it is also a favored vacation destination for the world-renowned king cobra and other exotic critters that will kill you. Also, I do not believe tree houses offer a great deal of space, indoor plumbing or air conditioning. Let's try another one.
How about staying on a working farm in Pennsylvania Dutch Country? For families looking to do something different with their children this summer, consider a stay at one of the many working farms in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Guests can participate in everything from feeding the farm animals to collecting eggs and growing crops in the fields. And you'll enjoy the big farmhouse breakfasts.
The people who own these places are Amish. They are strong, healthy, and work very hard on their farms. They will expect you to do the same. If you go there, do not pass up breakfast. You will need the energy. Hmmm . . . looks like free labor to me.
Here's one that could prove useful in these uncertain times. Randall's Adventure and Training (RAT). Apparently, this organization is the recognized leader in Latin American jungle and survival training. As a professional survival training team, RAT understands the unique needs of personnel operating in jungle environments. If you and your family or group are interested in learning how to survive under adverse conditions, then Randall's Adventure & Training is your answer to a unique vacation.
RAT has led numerous expeditions and jungle survival training classes in the Amazon jungles of Peru. Their clientele has ranged from military and law enforcement teams, to professional adventurers.
Somehow, this one does not seem ideally suited for anyone looking to develop social skills. However, mom will not be a kitchen slave. I do not believe a kitchen is offered as one of the options. Nor do I believe that reservations in a restaurant of any kind are necessary or available. Although dad might like this one because there is nowhere to spend actual cash, the chances of being eaten, poisoned, or dying from unknown diseases are probably good. I rate any organization that uses "RAT" for its acronym as highly suspect.
Offer a few of these ideas to your family and I assure you, staying at home will look more than attractive. Spend the summer with friends. Sleep in your own bed. Take a bike ride or walk to the beach. Summertime in Jamestown leaves little to be desired. Going to some unknown destination to spend a hard-earned vacation among strangers is part of that system I can't even begin to understand.


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Students can apply to the Council
for American Students in International Negotiations
(CASIN) to be a delegate to attend the June 26 - July
7, 2006 Unied Nations Conference to "review progress
made in the implementation of the programme of action
to prevent, combat, and eradicate the illicit trade
in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects"
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Eligible candidates will participate
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The Circle of Legal Studies, Jatinangor
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As the nation is in transition to democracy, the group
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April 21. 2014 11:16PM
NHIAA Baseball: Mundy outduels Duffley as Exeter tips Central
By ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
— The pitching has been outstanding. The offense? Not so good.
That pretty much sums up Manchester Central's first four Division I baseball games this season. Central received a complete-game pitching performance from Collin Duffley — the fourth complete game the team has received in as many outings — but dropped to 2-2 following a 3-1 loss to Exeter on Monday.
Central has scored eight runs in its four games.
"Our starter has gone seven in each of our games. Our problem has been run support," Central coach Kevin O'Leary said. "It doesn't matter how good our pitching is. If we don't get the run support, we're not going to win games."
Central ran into a good pitcher in Exeter's James Mundy, who collected the win when Exeter upset top-seeded Londonderry in last year's Division I championship game. Mundy held Central to four hits and struck out six.
Mundy didn't allow a run in his first start against Nashua North. He struck out 12 and walked one, but didn't earn a decision in a game Exeter won 1-0 in 11 innings.
"He's been pretty good both his starts," Exeter coach Kevin McQueen said. "He got it done against a pretty solid team. Central is going to win a lot of games, I think."
The victory raised Exeter's record to 3-1.
Left-fielder James Peel, Exeter's leadoff hitter, collected three of the eight hits Duffley allowed. Peel drove in Ryan Kelly with a single in the second, and doubled home Kelly in the sixth. The Blue Hawks also received an RBI single from Dylan Fandrich in the second.
Central scored its run in the sixth, when Nick Makris singled with two outs, moved to second on a throwing error and scored on Duffley's triple. It was the first run Central had scored in 18 innings.
Central was coming off Friday's 1-0 loss to Dover.
Central's other hits came from Andrew Leiter and Mike Plentzas, both singles.
Central brought the tying run to the plate with one out in the seventh, but Mundy collected the second out on a strikeout and the final out on a fly ball to center.
Central even had some bad luck at the plate. After putting its first two batters on base in the second, Kyle Adams popped out to the pitcher, which was the first out in a 1-6-3 triple play.
"It's nice to see our pitching is doing well," O'Leary said. "We just have to hope our bats come around sooner rather than later."


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One thing about using doe or buck pee is trying to not spill the little bottle or have it drip down the side, and then you stick that back in your pack or jacket pocket.
It's just pee, but it's not what you want on your gear or clothes. You want it on a mock scrape, on a scent drag, on a wick hanging in a tree … not dribbling down the side of a bottle in your jacket. So, you either have to be very careful or maybe you don't mind smelling like deer pee.
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So, instead of urine and whatever else you may have in some others, with the Hot Shot mists you'll get nothing but buck or doe urine in the air. Aim the can any direction including upside down for a quiet, powerful mist. Additionally, with the bag and separate pressurizing agent, you'll be able to use all 3 ounces of the #69 Doe-in-Rut Mist or Trophy Buck Lure Mist and not have any remaining in the can.
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The life of a priest, founded upon daily prayer and works of sanctification, must be supplemented with serious reading and study. The Sacred Scriptures and writings of the Fathers should, of course, hold first place; but other materials pertaining to the life of the Church and contemporary social issues can also aid the priest immensely in his apostolate.
We are happy to present here a selection of key texts which we hope will aid priests to sanctify their own souls and those entrusted to their care.