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Separately, a close associate of President Kim Young-sam's second son was summoned for questioning by state prosecutors, who are building a case against the younger Kim over his suspected role in the scandal.
The former banker, Park Suk-tae, was an executive director of Korea First Bank, the main creditor of troubled Hanbo Steel Corporation at the centre of the scandal. Hanbo collapsed in January under $5.8bn (pounds 3.6bn) in debts supplied by banks under pressure from politicians.
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25 November 2008Very, very, very nice artwork from Andy J Miller.
Sleeve Art
25 November 2008Sweet sleeve art for Phil Manzanera on K Scope (1978).
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Anyway, Augusto Giovanetti´s illustrations are simply great, do not miss his stuff at prrr.tv
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07 November 2008Nice graphic style of Kate Moross.
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Dates 19 May '12 to 18 Aug '12
Flexible? Somewhat
Est. Cost 5,000 - 12,000 AUD (AUD Australia Dollars)
Type Travel Partners Wanted
Name Backpacking UK and Europe
G'day fellas! Half of my plans are set in stone so you can join me or just meet up along the way. I can give you access to my Google calender for specific dates so we can plan a meet up. I don't work for Google* but the calender is awesome for organising you trip and you can sync it to your phone and update it as you go.
I'll be staying at hostels and couch surfing mostly. I have a two month Eurail pass but I'll also be flying, maybe a ship and buses to get around.
Here's where I'll be:
London 19th May
Glasgow 25th May
Dublin 30th May
Amsterdam 3rd June
-After this I have no solid plans for a while but I'll be going to:
Zurich (I have to book hang gliding 21st-25th June)
Pamplona 5th-10th July for the Running of the Bulls (Tour with the Fanatics)
Valencia 11th July
Madrid 14th-28th July (Teaching English, weekends off)
Ibiza 28th July-2nd August
Barcelona 2nd August
-Then on to Toulouse, Paris and London
Leaving London on the 18th August
This is going to be a blast! Mixing up sightseeing and chatting to locals with partying and crapping on with backpackers.
Backpacking UK and Europe
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Dandy Portraits in The Rake - Boulevardier
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Why were Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Julius Spiegel and other officials dressed as Gen. George Washington, Gen. Nathanael Greene and other Revolutionary War personalities Wednesday?
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Al Harrington and Hedo Turkoglu chimed in about their uncertain futures with the Magic over Twitter on Friday after a reader asked a reporter — and them — when the team will resolve the players' situations.
Harrington wrote: "I hope VERY SOON!!!!"
Turkoglu wrote: "I will be really happy if they can do it as soon as possible."
Harrington and Turkoglu don't expect the Magic to keep them.
If the team cuts Turkoglu now, the team would be obligated to pay him just $6 million of his $12 million salary for the upcoming season, which is the final year of Turkoglu's deal.
If the team cuts Harrington now, it would be obligated to pay him $3.57 million of his $7.15 million salary for the 2013-14 season and $3.8 million of his $7.6 million salary for the 2014-15 season.
The longer it takes to resolve Harrington's and Turkoglu's futures, the more difficult it may be for each of them to sign with another team with an open roster spot.
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A report released today by U.S. News & World Report's 2012 edition of Best Colleges ranked the U.S. Military Academy first in its Top 10 Public Colleges category.We're not ranked as highly in football.
"We are very pleased with U.S. News & World Report's recognition of the quality of the educational experience at West Point," said Dean of the Academic Board, Brig. Gen. Timothy Trainor. "We are very proud of our nationally renowned education program and attribute much of our success to such factors as accessibility of faculty, lively classroom discussions and experiences, and enrichment opportunities outside the classroom."
In the Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs category, West Point was ranked No. 3 overall, with our Civil Engineering Program ranked No. 2.
Education, politics, and anything else that catches my attention.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Second West Point Story of the Day
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- MikeAT said...
Or baseball or basketball...
- Steve USMA '85 said...
But we are in:
2011 Women's Rugby National Champions
2011 Orienteering National Champions (9 years in a row)
2011 Men's Team Handball National Champions (For the 25th time)
2011 Men's Boxing National Title (4th straight year)
2011 Pistol National Champions
2010 Ironman 70.3 Collegiate Champions
2010 College Sprint Football League Title (31st time)
Honorable Mention to the both the Men's & Women's Triathlon teams which were both 2nd at the National Championships this year. - 5:19 AM
- Darren said...
So take *that*, MikeAT!
- MikeAT said...
Damn the ring knocker association is in full force tonight! :<)
And your (and the other academy's credit) football players and others can actually boast of a real degree... - 6:10 PM


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Welcome to the Excellence Framework for Patient Experience
Welcome to the excellence framework, we invite you to be part of this online resource.
The excellence framework is a resource for commissioners, trust managers, senior clinicians, providers, policy leads and other senior personnel with a common sense of purpose and a common language with which to discuss patient experience. The articles forming the framework have been written by thought leaders and experts in their fields, but they are published here to provoke debate and challenge.
Each of the articles in the framework can be read alone, or with the others. Readers are encouraged to share their views and experiences with other users of the framework by using the comment facility. It is hoped that the site will become a lively online community, where those interested in patient experience can debate with each other, share experiences and define good practice for the newly formed commissioning groups. You are encouraged to offer up new articles and insights that will form part of the four journals.
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Attempts to stall increases in federal flood-insurance premiums died in the House and were frozen in the Senate last week, making it virtually certain nothing will happen on the issue until early next year, press reports made clear.
An attempt on Thursday, Dec. 12, to push a standalone bill through the House of Representatives "ran aground without reaching the floor when key Democrats balked," the McClatchy News Service said. Meanwhile, a bid to have the Senate consider the measure was blocked when Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., objected to a request by Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., to bring legislation to the floor by unanimous consent, Houma Today, a Louisiana newspaper, said.
The Senate remains in session this week but isn't expected to discuss the bill again. As for the House, Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said the measure he had pushed won't come to a vote before Christmas as he hoped, but he declared the issue "remains one of my top priorities and I will continue to work with both sides of the aisle to make sure we help those impacted."
The fight concerns the Biggert-Waters Act, legislation passed last year that reauthorized the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and also attempted to put the loss-ridden, loophole-ridden program on sounder financial footing. The bill passed overwhelmingly, but even the legislators who gave Biggert-Waters its name started to protest the measure when it became clear that homeowners in flood-prone areas could see their flood insurance rates skyrocket as a result of the new legislation. Rate hikes too effect for certain properties last Oct. 1, while they won't go into effect for other types of homes until Oct. 1, 2014. Some critics have said the act would make it practically impossible to buy or sell a home in certain flood zones.
Legislation introduced in both chambers sought to delay most flood insurance increases for four years; compel the Federal Emergency Management Agency to complete an affordability study mandated by Biggert-Waters; address issues found within the study; and allow Congress time to review those findings and revisions.
It's no coincidence that Louisiana's Congressional delegation has been among the most active in this effort, given how much of the state lies in flood zones. Florida is similarly affected; the Sarasota Herald-Tribune notes that about 40% of all homes in the flood insurance program are in Florida; about 30,000 policies are in Sarasota and Manatee counties alone.


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CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether a body discovered in the waters off Chatham is that of a 37-year-old Rhode Island woman who has been missing for several days.
Massachusetts state police say a passerby reported seeing a woman's body shortly before noon on Wednesday. The body was recovered and taken to the Chatham Coast Guard station. A medical examiner will determine identity and cause of death.
Rachel Collins, a psychiatric nurse at Rhode Island Hospital, has not been seen since she finished her shift at Rhode Island Hospital on Friday. Police believe the West Warwick woman drove to Cape Cod after leaving the hospital. A search began after her car was found Saturday in the parking lot of Nauset Light Beach.
The Cape Cod Times reports that Collins was a native of Eastham and has relatives on the Cape.
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Sole Survivor
by Dean KoontzA year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She holds out the
Editorial Reviews
Los Angeles crime reporter Joe Carpenter (ah, those initials) needs resurrecting. One year ago his wife, Michelle, and two daughters, Chrissie and little Nina, actually did die in a devastating plane crash over Colorado: no survivors. In a dive, the plane had rocketed straight into millennial rock, leaving only two pieces larger than a car door. Joe, locked in unbearable grief, has quit work, sold his house, moved to a studio apartment over a garage, and is gnawing himself to death with weight loss. Meetings with a compassionate survivor group haven't helped. Rage and anger with an unjust God in whom Joe doesn't believe takes up all his energy. Then visiting his wife and children's graves, Joe finds Dr. Rose Tucker, a black Asian woman with great presence who's taking Polaroids of his family's burial sites. She tells him she survived the crash! But suddenly two men appear and start shooting at her as she races off. Joe soon finds himself involved in unraveling a suicide plague that has struck relatives of the plane's dead. Rose has taken Polaroids of the graves of other relatives as wellbut whoever gets one of her pictures first sees a blissful image of the afterlife, then commits suicide, often horribly. As Joe tracks Rose down, he hears that a little girl survived with her, a girl named Nina. Has mankind reached a turning point, as Dr. Tucker avers, at which science has now proven the existence of the afterlife? Funded by a multibillionaire, a secret but massive scientific effort larger than the Manhattan Project has made fantastic strides in the paranormal and revealed a breakthrough into . . . but some baddies want to use this discovery for their own ends, and thus Joe and Roseand Nina!must be killed.
Masterfully styled, serious entertainment. These are Koontz's great years.
"Dean Koontz is one of the best suspense writers operating today, with unfailing narrative drive."—The Dallas Morning News
"[A] fast-paced masterpiece . . . impossible to put down."—Lansing State Journal
"Taut plotting, stark terror, and sweet redemption."—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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- Publisher:
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- Publication date:
- 10/28/1997
- Product dimensions:
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SOLE SURVIVOR: Excerpt
Chapter Two
Later Saturday morning, driving to Santa Monica, Joe Carpenter suffered an anxiety attack. His chest tightened, and he was able to draw breath only with effort. When he lifted one hand from the wheel, his fingers quivered like those of a palsied old man.
He was overcome by a sense of falling, as from a great height, as though his Honda had driven off the freeway into an inexplicable and bottomless abyss. The pavement stretched unbroken ahead of him, and the tires sang against the blacktop, but he could not reason himself back to a perception of stability.
Indeed, the plummeting sensation grew so severe and terrifying that he took his foot off the accelerator and tapped the brake pedal.
Horns blared and skidding tires squealed as traffic adjusted to his sudden deceleration. As cars and trucks swept past the Honda, the drivers glared murderously at Joe or mouthed offensive words or made obscene gestures. This was Greater Los Angeles in an age of change, crackling with the energy of doom, yearning for the Apocalypse, where an unintended slight or an inadvertent trespass on someone else's turf might result in a thermonuclear response.
His sense of falling did not abate. His stomach turned over as if he were aboard a roller coaster, plunging along a precipitous length of track. Although he was alone in the car, he heard the screams of passengers, faint at first and then louder, not the good-humored shrieks of thrill seekers at an amusement park, but cries of genuine anguish.
As though from a distance, he listened to himself whispering, "No, no, no, no."
A brief gap in traffic allowed him toangle the Honda off the pavement. The shoulder of the freeway was narrow. He stopped as close as possible to the guardrail, over which lush oleander bushes loomed like a great cresting green tide.
He put the car in Park but didn't switch off the engine. Even though he was sheathed in cold sweat, he needed the chill blasts of air conditioning to be able to breathe. The pressure on his chest increased. Each stuttering inhalation was a struggle, and each hot exhalation burst from him with an explosive wheeze.
Although the air in the Honda was clear, Joe smelled smoke. He tasted it too: the acrid mélange of burning oil, melting plastic, smoldering vinyl, scorched metal.
When he glanced at the dense clusters of leaves and the deep-red flowers of the oleander pressing against the windows on the passenger side, his imagination morphed them into billowing clouds of greasy smoke. The window became a rectangular porthole with rounded corners and thick dual-pane glass.
Joe might have thought he was losing his mindif he hadn't suffered similar anxiety attacks during the past year. Although sometimes as much as two weeks passed between episodes, he often endured as many as three in one day, each lasting between ten minutes and half an hour.
He had seen a therapist. The counseling had not helped.
His doctor recommended anti-anxiety medication. He rejected the prescription. He wanted to feel the pain. It was all he had.
Closing his eyes, covering his face with his icy hands, he strove to regain control of himself, but the catastrophe continued to unfold around him. The sense of falling intensified. The smell of smoke thickened. The screams of phantom passengers grew louder.
Everything shook. The floor beneath his feet. The cabin walls. The ceiling. Horrendous rattling and twanging and banging and gong-like clanging accompanied the shaking, shaking, shaking.
"Please," he pleaded.
Without opening his eyes, he lowered his hands from his face. They lay fisted at his sides.
After a moment, the small hands of frightened children clutched at his hands, and he held them tightly.
The children were not in the car, of course, but in their seats in the doomed airliner. Joe was flashing back to the crash of Flight 353. For the duration of this seizure, he would be in two places at once: in the real world of the Honda and in the Nationwide Air 747 as it found its way down from the serenity of the stratosphere, through an overcast night sky, into a meadow as unforgiving as iron.
Michelle had been sitting between the kids. Her hands, not Joe's, were those that Chrissie and Nina gripped in their last long minutes of unimaginable dread.
As the shaking grew worse, the air was filled with projectiles. Paperback books, laptop computers, pocket calculators, flatware and dishesbecause a few passengers had not yet finished dinner when disaster struckplastic drinking glasses, single-serving bottles of liquor, pencils, and pens ricocheted through the cabin.
Coughing because of the smoke, Michelle would have urged the girls to keep their heads down. Heads down. Protect your faces.
Such faces. Beloved faces. Seven-year-old Chrissie had her mother's high cheekbones and clear green eyes. Joe would never forget the flush of joy that suffused Chrissie's face when she was taking a ballet lesson, or the squint-eyed concentration with which she approached home plate to take her turn at bat in Little League baseball games. Nina, only four, the pug-nosed munchkin with eyes as blue as sapphires, had a way of crinkling her sweet face in pure delight at the sight of a dog or cat. Animals were drawn to herand she to themas though she were the reincarnation of St. Francis of Assisi, which was not a far-fetched idea when one saw her gazing with wonder and love upon even an ugly garden lizard cupped in her small, careful hands.
Heads down. Protect your faces.
In that advice was hope, the implication that they would all survive and that the worst thing that might happen to them would be a face-disfiguring encounter with a hurtling laptop or broken glass.
The fearsome turbulence increased. The angle of descent grew more severe, pinning Joe to his seat, so that he couldn't easily bend forward and protect his face.
Maybe the oxygen masks dropped from overhead, or maybe damage to the craft had resulted in a systems failure, with the consequence that masks had not been deployed at every seat. He didn't know if Michelle, Chrissie, and Nina had been able to breathe or if, choking on the billowing soot, they had struggled futilely to find fresh air.
Smoke surged more thickly through the passenger compartment. The cabin became as claustrophobic as any coal mine deep beneath the surface of the earth.
In the blinding blackdamp, hidden sinuosities of fire uncoiled like snakes. The wrenching terror of the aircraft's uncontrolled descent was equaled by the terror of not knowing where those flames were or when they might flash with greater vigor through the 747.
As the stress on the airliner increased to all but intolerable levels, thunderous vibrations shuddered through the fuselage. The giant wings thrummed as though they would tear loose. The steel frame groaned like a living beast in mortal agony, and perhaps minor welds broke with sounds as loud and sharp as gunshots. A few rivets sheered off, each with a piercing screeeeek.
To Michelle and Chrissie and little Nina, perhaps it seemed that the plane would disintegrate in flight and that they would be cast into the black sky, be spun away from one another, plummeting in their separate seats to three separate deaths, each abjectly alone at the instant of impact.
The huge 747-400, however, was a marvel of design and a triumph of engineering, brilliantly conceived and soundly constructed. In spite of the mysterious hydraulics failure that rendered the aircraft uncontrollable, the wings did not tear loose, and the fuselage did not disintegrate. Its powerful Pratt and Whitney engines screaming as if in defiance of gravity, Nationwide Flight 353 held together throughout its final descent.
At some point Michelle would have realized that all hope was lost, that they were in a dying plunge. With characteristic courage and selflessness, she would have thought only of the children then, would have concentrated on comforting them, distracting them as much as possible from thoughts of death. No doubt she leaned toward Nina, pulled her close, and in spite of the breath-stealing fumes, spoke into the girl's ear to be heard above the clamor: It's okay, baby, we're together, I love you, hold on to Mommy, I love you, you're the best little girl who ever was. Shaking down, down, down through the Colorado night, her voice full of emotion but devoid of panic, she had surely sought out Chrissie too: It's all right, I'm with you, honey, hold my hand, I love you so much, I'm so very proud of you, we're together, it's all right, we'll always be together.
In the Honda alongside the freeway, Joe could hear Michelle's voice almost as if from memory, as though he had been with her as she had comforted the children. He wanted desperately to believe that his daughters had been able to draw upon the strength of the exceptional woman who had been their mother. He needed to know that the last thing the girls heard in this world was Michelle telling them how very precious they were, how cherished.
The airliner met the meadow with such devastating impact that the sound was heard more than twenty miles away in the rural Colorado vastness, stirring hawks and owls and eagles out of trees and into flight, startling weary ranchers from their armchairs and early beds.
In the Honda, Joe Carpenter let out a muffled cry. He doubled over as if he had been struck hard in the chest.
The crash was catastrophic. Flight 353 exploded on impact and tumbled across the meadow, disintegrating into thousands of scorched and twisted fragments, spewing orange gouts of burning jet fuel that set fire to evergreens at the edge of the field. Three hundred and thirty people, including passengers and crew, perished instantly.
Michelle, who had taught Joe Carpenter most of what he knew about love and compassion, was snuffed out in that merciless moment. Chrissie, seven-year-old ballerina and baseball player, would never again pirouette on point or run the bases. And if animals felt the same psychic connection with Nina that she felt with them, then in that chilly Colorado night, the meadows and the wooded hills had been filled with small creatures that cowered miserably in their burrows.
Of his family, Joe Carpenter was the sole survivor.
He had not been with them on Flight 353. Every soul aboard had been hammered into ruin against the anvil of the earth. If he had been with them, then he too would have been identifiable only by his dental records and a printable finger or two.
His flashbacks to the crash were not memories but exhausting fevers of imagination, frequently expressed in dreams and sometimes in anxiety attacks like this one. Racked by guilt because he had not perished with his wife and daughters, Joe tortured himself with these attempts to share the horror that they must have experienced.
Inevitably, his imaginary journeys on the earthbound airplane failed to bring him the healing acceptance for which he longed. Instead, each nightmare and each waking seizure salted his wounds.
He opened his eyes and stared at the traffic speeding past him. If he chose the right moment, he could open the door, step out of the car, walk onto the freeway, and be struck dead by a truck.
He remained safely in the Honda, not because he was afraid to die, but for reasons unclear even to him. Perhaps, for the time being at least, he felt the need to punish himself with more life.
Against the passenger-side windows, the overgrown oleander bushes stirred ceaselessly in the wind from the passing traffic. The friction of the greenery against the glass raised an eerie whispering like lost and forlorn voices.
He was not shaking any more.
The sweat on his face began to dry in the cold air gushing from the dashboard vents.
He was no longer plagued by a sensation of falling. He had reached bottom.
Through the August heat and a thin haze of smog, passing cars and trucks shimmered like mirages, trembling westward toward cleaner air and the cooling sea. Joe waited for a break in traffic and then headed once more for the edge of the continent.
From the Audio Cassette (Unabridged) edition.
Meet the Author
Dean Koontz, the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers, lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirit of their goldens, Trixie and Anna.
Brief Biography
- Hometown:
- Newport Beach, California
- Date of Birth:
- July 9, 1945
- Place of Birth:
- Everett, Pennsylvania
- Education:
- B.S. (major in English), Shippensburg University, 1966
- Website:
- http://www.deankoontz.com
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I just could not get into this book. I bought it the day it came out and read it straight through. It felt rushed and had a horrible ending. I have never read it again and i have read and reread every dean koontz book at least 3 or more times.
Let me first preface this by stating that I am an avid Dean Koontz fan. I grew up reading most of his work and some of my favorites include Watchers, Phantoms, Lighning, The Bad Place, The Taking, and the Frankenstein series. That said, this book was the least entertaining of any I've read by him. It was slow, uninteresting and had no Wow! factor anywhere. The ending was another complete let down. There are so many other fantastic Koontz books to choose from so do yourself a favor an look elsewhere for a book worthy of the Koontz name.
Another A+ dean koontz is amazing! If i didnt know better i
would say he was obe scfy creations....lol brillant
Kept me on the edge
This story touched me deeply. Dean Koontz is by far one of the best in his field.
This has all the ingredients of every other Dean Koontz book. That might sound negative, but if something works, why change? Strong, beautiful women; the average Joe who is almost superhuman in the face of adversity; bad guys from shady companies/agencies; mysterious and maybe supernatural forces at work; etc, etc, etc. It's a great recipe, and the stories are always different still. It's a recipe that I find very satisfying and full of flavor.
Great story
Dean koontz is my favorite by far, and this book was a delight to read. However, it was not this one was not my favorite. Usually i am gripped to read what may come next but i felt myself having to pull towards the end. I can also say i have never disliked the main character but in this one i did. Still a very good read but not one i will picking up again.


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It was not just any country, but the Papacy, at a particularly low point in its history. Sergius III got himself elected Pope by one faction in Rome in 898 but a rival faction prevailed and John IX got in. John lasted till 900, Benedict IV lasted till 903, and two rival popes Leo V and Christopher emerged then. This was Sergius III's big chance, and he deposed both of them and had them strangled. No, we haven't come to the low point yet.
Pope Sergius III lived until 911. One of his leading supporters Theophylact had a 15-year-old daughter Marozia, who was Sergius's lover. Their son in later years became Pope John XI, reigned 931-936. Actually all this was pretty much standard fare for the Popes of those days. Mistresses and nepotism were nothing.
The bit that galled church historians and made them dub this and the following decades the pornocracy was not that, nor that Theophylact was effective civil ruler of Rome, but that his wife Theodora and daughter Marozia were said to use sex freely to wield power.
Personally I think the hypocrisy is the low point. Or another candidate is the Cadaver Synod, just before, in 897, when Stephen VI accused his predecessor but one, Pope Formosus, of crimes against church law and put him on trial. This involved digging up the corpse and putting it in the dock, finding it guilty, dragging it through the streets, and flinging it in the Tiber. Anyway, Stephen lasted one year and was then strangled. They got through another two popes that year.
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There are 13 comments on the Sentinel & Enterprise story from Jan 16, 2013, titled Ashburnham panel recommends former school be razed. In it, Sentinel & Enterprise reports that:
The Veterans Memorial School Building Use Committee voted 4-2 to recommend tearing the old building down at Tuesday night's meeting.
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Jan 16, 2013
I have never been to a committee meeting where after a deadlock twice, two members were allow to go speak outside privately about the others vote. As a committee member and for public record for the taxpayers of Ashburnham, I believe all comments and discussions should take place in the public and I am very concerned that the Chairman allowed this private meeting between two Parks and Rec committee members to take place and ending with a switch of position.
Jan 16, 2013
It is possible they broke the law. This one might be a tough call though because their private meeting was held during an open meeting with a Chairman presiding. http://www.mass.gov/ago/government-resources/... |
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Jan 22, 2013
No laws were broken. There was still a quorem... It happens all the time. Is it safe to assume it didn't go your way...
Jan 22, 2013
Regardless if it goes my way or not- deliberations took place outside the meeting and meeting minutes should have been taken during those deliberations. Check out the law on open minutes- which strongly recommend that this type of behavior doe not exist.I don't care if the vote goes 4-2 but it needs to go fairly and ethically. When a member comes back in to vote and changes her vote because she said her other committee- the Parks and Rec-- wants to demolish the building and she needs to vote this way- a red flag should go up. I don't care that I was in the minority- I care about the fact that this is an issue of lack of transparency and bottom line is minutes should have been taken during that private deliberation since we were still in a open meeting that had not been adjourned. keep up the drama and next time use your real name- stand up for what you believe in!!
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Jan 22, 2013
Um, hopefully someday the town will change and go a positive direction, not the way it has "always been" so therefor its fine. Downtown is a basic indicator of town health. for those in power - that is the benchmark - when you say - it happens all the time - well - that is why this town has no biz, no nothing. Good for you 'Drama' for thinking its ok? I am sure - Drama - that you have lived here you whole live and this is your world. Have you ever seen the ocean? Ever been to Paris? Look outside the box - think differently, unless ofcourse, you are status quo - go along to get along - so in that case, downtown is a success for you. Wow - great job.
Jan 28, 2013
As long as the town doesn't come looking for money to put up another building, fine. If they need space - they had better use what they have.
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Feb 11, 2013
I know how to pick my battles. Some people like and live for battling and I think that holds true in this case. I would rather spend my time making a difference and live in a positive way and not waste my time LOOKING for issues and targeting people just because. From what I gather you weren't involved in this "deliberation" so how do you know a deliberation took place. Whatever it was, it didn't take place in the meeting so therefore has no place being included in the meeting minutes. I agree this practice shouldn't be encouraged but crap happens. Learn to roll with the punches sometimes. Not everything has to be a fight. And also from what I see in the papers it seems that the Parks & Rec. people are doing a lot of great things in the town. Why Meredith are you bashing people that are trying to make a positive difference in your community? Shouldn't you be supporting them instead of publicly attacking them? I'm curious What have YOU done for your town Meredith besides bring negative publicity?
Feb 11, 2013
Drama, Small towns will always have to live with and deal with negative and argumentative people like Meredith. Maybe her personal life is so boring she needs to make an issue to ruffle some feathers to get some excitement. The committee voted, it has gone before the BOS for review and the towns voters will ultimately make the final decision. Don't waste your time on people like Meredith, she obviously is not worth it. Sometimes ignoring the troublemakers makes them go away.
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Feb 12, 2013
Wow - I wonder who Drama and Jesse are??? Not to hard to guess. The one thing people like you miss - is dialog and the importance of seeing both sides - which you clearly lack - as I have seen before. The only ones making a negative fuss is you and your gossip and your accusations and attempts to divide people. You are haters and negative, etc. nothing better to do. But it is a small town and you are simple. Just because someone disagrees you dont shy away you appreciate diverse points of view. In the case of the VMS most of Ashburnaham is for keeping it as they were not promised a P&R office in the soccer field. You see when you trade off with the Town admin vote my way and you get office space that is corrupt thinking. But ofcourse you are used to it. Same deal with South Station corrupt way of thinking. Oh and Merediths home live is not boring at all but thanks for being curious. She is doing just fine thank you. And finally in closing it is cowards like you that go along to get along. That doesnt change anything that creates a corrupt and paranoid environment which clearly you are creating. Good luck with your life.
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Feb 12, 2013
I have no clue who any of you are, so you know nothing about me. The fact that you think you do is sorta funny... a bit cocky don't ya think but very telling that you've made some enemies along the way. With your attacking, contradicting and very hostile attitude its no surprise. This seemed like an interesting subject so I thought I'd comment but clearly its gotten way off track and not really interesting anymore. It really just reminds me of my high school days.. haha. WOW you write...Just because someone disagrees you dont shy away you appreciate diverse points of view. I totally agree but your a hypocrite! You have not appreciated my point of view at all. I simply stated facts and asked Meredith how she would want this situation rectified, what would be her ideal solution but in turn have been attacked personally by say I'm simple, a hater and negative. Clearly this is a case of Adult Tantrums. How old are you? Are you in High school still? I think you must be. Your picking fights. Why would anyone start this forum and then maliciously attack anyone who has a difference of opinion. I'll tell you why ADULT TANTRUM with a very serious issue! Seriously seek some help for that or it will put you in your grave pre-maturely. South Station, P&R (I assume that's Parks & Rec)... I have not followed either except for the parks and rec people doing events for the community which sounds good to me but I guess that makes me nuts and simple again.. oh well. IN CLOSING It's clear no deals should be worked behind the scenes... that's just obvious. Do you have any proof? Perhaps you could address that in a different blog in a more mature NON-HOSTILE manner. |
Feb 13, 2013
FYI- stating the facts of what went down at a meeting does not equal bashing people- where is this coming from? Not sure how I have brought negative publicity to the town by voting a certain way and calling out "questionable" behavior???? who knows - who cares..looks like I have one supporter.. |
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Feb 13, 2013
re-read I didn't say that.
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Feb 13, 2013
Why Meredith are you bashing people that are trying to make a positive difference in your community? Shouldn't you be supporting them instead of publicly attacking them? I'm curious What have YOU done for your town Meredith besides bring negative publicity? ummm... looksy like you did?
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May 15, 2013
Last week's Weekly Recap can be found here.
This week we anoint a new NCAA men's 1,500 favorite, try to move Abbey D'Agostino up to the 10k (or marathon), wonder if the PAC-12 is better than the SEC at track, declare the US women's 1,500 medal chances are over unless your name is Jenny Simpson, ask if Kenyan star Faith Kipyegon is on drugs (not unless Alan Webb was), and give kudos to Brittney Reese, Garrett Heath, and the Dartmouth and Oregon State women.
The big news of the week was of course the the start of the Samsung Diamond League last Friday in Doha, Qatar. This is the equivalent of the pre-season games ending and the regular season beginning in the NFL.
There was some great action in the first huge international pro meet of the year in Doha. Now of course we assume you come to LRC every day and know what happened, as we broke it down in great detail when it happened. But just in case your Internet was down last Friday and were therefore prevented from coming to LetsRun, here are the highlights:
Men: LRC Men's 3,000:Hagos Gebrhiwet Makes A Statement With Impressive 3,000 Win – 18-Year-Old Phenom Seems To Be The Man To Beat In 2013
*LRC Men's 800: David Rudisha Has To Work For It But He Opens 2013 Season With World-Leading 800 Win Rudisha put on a clinic on how to control an 800 from the front. The entire field was right behind him with 200 left but he closed faster than he did in London to win.
*LRC Men's 1,500: Asbel Kiprop Is Back – Kenyan Dominates 2013 Diamond League Opener In Doha
*LRC Women's 1,500:Sweden's Abeba Aregawi Wins As Three Women Run 3:57.54 Or Better!!!
*2011 World Champ Amantle Montsho Wins 400 In WLing 49.88 Over Allyson Felix And GB's Christine Ohuruogu
*IAAF Full Meet Recap
Tyson Gay > Usain Bolt?
Two of the bigger names in the sport on the men's side, Tyson Gay and Usain Bolt, competed last week but not in Doha.
A week after running 9.86, Gay blitzed a wind aided 19.79 at the obscure NTC Classic. We're being generous when we call it obscure. Watch the video below. Every high school meet we participated in had more spectators. It's pretty cool he ran 19.79 at such a meet. It would have been better for the sport if he did it at a high school meet. Seriously. Why not have all the pros at the obscure NTC Classic run at a high school meet on the same track? At least try to bring in a few fans.
Usain Bolt, meanwhile, was making his 100m debut at the Cayman Invitational, where he won in a very modest 10.09 (with a .3 mps tailwind) over training partner Kemar Bailey Cole. And if you watch the video below, many people were left wondering if Bolt won at all. Bolt's and Gay's opposite early season form is making 2013 very interesting. Worlds are 3 months away and right now Gay's got the upper hand.
*More On Bolt's Run With Video And Photo *Message Board Thread On Bolt's Run
*Message Board Thread On Gay's Run
NCAA News & Notes: New NCAA Men's 1,500 Favorite; Elijah Greer Impresses; Move Abbey D Up To The 10k
Can we take back what we said last a while back about Oregon's Mac Fleet and Oklahoma's Pat Casey being co-favorites for the NCAA 1,500 title? At the PAC-12s, Arizona's Lawi Lalang beat Fleet by more than 3 seconds as Lalang ran 3:38.53 in a conference meet. Ridiculous.
Fleet (3:42.20) was actually third in the race behind Washington State's Todd Wakefield (3:41.83).
Given his NCAA meet records at the mile and 3,000 indoors, Lalang is the 1,500 favorite if he runs it. The only problem is we don't think Casey, who is a true miler, will let Lalang gap the field like everyone did indoors, and the finish could be interesting.
Oh yeah, one more thing – Lalang's 3:38 came after he won the 10,000.
Up until PAC-12s, Lalang, who seemed to be a bit burned out by the time NCAAs rolled around last year (3rd in 5k, 11th in 1,500), has been taking a low-key approach to outdoors. His only other outdoor meet was a 13:40 5,000 in Arizona, so he should be firing on all cylinders when NCAAs come next month.
One other thing about the NCAA 1,500. 2013 NCAA indoor runner-up Ryan Hill will be going for that title as well. He'd missed all of outdoors with a foot issue but got an NCAA regional qualifier last weekend at 3:42 in his 2013 outdoor opener.
Speaking of NCAAs, we found it impossible to find an NCAA schedule. It literally took us about 30 minutes to find the schedules for the NCAA finals in Eugene and preliminary rounds in NC and TX. So if you are looking for them yourself, enjoy: 2013 NCAA Outdoor Track And Field Championship Schedules
After last week, the NCAA men's 800 favorite is certainly indoor champ Elijah Greer of Oregon. Greer dominated the PAC-12 meet as he won by 1.40 seconds – an eternity in an 800 (Rudisha only won last year's Olympics by .82 seconds) – and his principal rival in 2013 indoor NCAA runner-up Cas Loxsom failed to win the Big 10 title as Minnesota's Harun Abda got the win.
If you needed evidence as to why Jordan Hasay moved up to the 10,000 after being a 1,500 star as a teen, you got it last week at the PAC-12 meet. Hasay was just 5th in the 1,500 in 4:15.53. She simply doesn't have the wheels for the 1,500.
Speaking of not having wheels, what we are going to say is a bit blasphemous by LetsRun.com standards as we have been pumping the prospects of Abbey D'Agostino throughout the entire calendar year. In our minds, she's a virtual lock for the 2013 Moscow World Championships team at 5,000. That being said, she ran a twilight 800 last week and "only" ran 2:08.11.
That's in line with what she's run in the past (2:09 split at Heps) and that means to us at the world class level, if she's ever going to be in the medal hunt, we think it's more likely to be at the 10k/marathon distance than at 5k.
We view this positively – look for her to sort of be the next Shalane Flanagan, not Regina Jacobs.
Flanagan has a 2:09 800 PR according to tilastopaja. And while she had the American record at 5,000 at 14:44.80, 2:08 runners generally aren't sniffing medals in the 5,000.
Former NCAA star Sally Kipyego (2:08/4:06 PRs) did get fourth in the Olympics at 5,000 with similar speed, but Kipyego is much better at 10,000 (two-time silver medallist) than 5,000.
Typing the above about D'Agostino is the perfect reason why everyone is salivating over Mary Cain. She's running 2:01 as a junior in HS. You can't coach that kind of speed.
More on D'Agostino near the bottom of this piece.
National-Leading Marks In College Last Week
For a long time, we said the SEC was the biggest and baddest track and field conference in the land. We don't have time to figure out if that's true currently, but you certainly wouldn't realize it in comparing national leading collegiate marks set last weekend at conference meets. The PAC-12 had six, the SEC had four and Mountain West one.
NCAA D1 National-Leading Marks Set Last Week
Oregon's Phyllis Francis's 51.57 in 400m.
Stanford's Kori Carter's 54.21 in 400H.
Arizona's Brigetta Barrett's collegiate record of 6'6.25″ (1.99m) in HJ.
USC's Bryson Nellun's 44.76 in 400m.
USC's Reggie Wyatt's 49.17 in 400h.
Arizona's Lawi Lalang's 3:38.53 in 1,500.
Arkansas' Makeba Alcide 5968 in Heptathlon .
LSU's Kimberly Duncan's 22.35 in 200m.
Mississippi's Isiah Young's 20.20 in 200m.
Florida's Omar Craddock's 54'00" (16.46m) in TJ.
Mountain West
San Diego State's Shanieka Thomas 46'5.25″ (14.15) in tj.
Speaking of NCAA conferences … after last week's note about how the Big 12 conference only had two sub-1:50 guys, we got an email asking that we give out some sub-1:50 800 love to D2 Ashland University. The emailer points out that "Ashland University a D2 school has 3 guys under 1:50 outdoors so far which is more than the entire Big 12 and equals the Big East. Maybe you could include a tidbit giving them some props?"
No problem – it's well deserved.
The US Women's 1,500 Medal Chances Take A Big Hit
Over the last few years, one of the most entertaining things for US track fans has been cheering on the studly group of US women in the 1,500 as they dreamed of bringing brought home some serious hardware.
Well, we are the bearer of bad news for US fans. Last week, in our minds, the medal chances of everyone not named Jenny Simpson basically were extinguished in Doha when three women – Abebe Aregawi, Faith Kipyegon and Genzebe Dibaba ran 3:57.54 or faster. As we stated in our Doha recap, coming into the race, in the last 10 years only two women not implicated in doping had run 3:57.54 or faster. And now three did it in the season opener.
The US women not named Simpson are very good but they aren't really capable of competing with 3:57 people without some help this year. But we guess they could get some help, and as a result, we technically shouldn't say the US chances were eliminated as one can always hope that there are falls or that people burn themselves out. Anyone remember last year what happened in the men's and women's 1,500?
Last year, the three Kenyan men, who were under 3:30 on the year, got it all wrong in London as they did not medal and the top women in the world didn't get it much better. Last year, Aregawi and Dibaba both ran fast early in the year and by the time London came around, Aregawi barely beat 2009 World Championships bronze medallist Shannon Rowbury (Aregawi was 5th, Rowbury was 6th) and Dibaba was out with injury in the first round. But we don't expect that to happen again this year with Dibaba and Aregawi as the two 22-year-olds are more experienced and unlikely to get it wrong two years in a row (the 19-year-old Kipyegon is the one most likely to get her peak wrong).
With or without help, there's legitimate hope for Simpson as she has run 3:59 in the past and seems to be in great form given her 4:03 win at Drake. Is it conceivable to think she could get into 3:58 or even 3:57 shape? Yes it is. But Rowbury only ran 4:09 at Drake. She's got 12 seconds to make up. 2011 world #1 Morgan Uceny ran 4:17 at Drake and has 20 seconds to make up.
Teen Prodigies/Is Faith Kipyegon On Drugs?
We briefly mentioned Faith Kipyegon above. The 19-year-old was the big surprise of the week as she lowered her PR from 4:03.82 to 3:56.98 and set the Kenyan national and national junior records in the process.
After her spectacular run, we received an email from a LetsRun visitor from Germany. The email said the following:
We thought the email was thought provoking and wanted to share it with you so we can use it to make a point. Kipyegon's certainly been knocking off a lot of time each of the last three years – 7.6 seconds, 5.6 seconds and now 6.9 seconds. But to us, improvement like that at the ages of 16-17-18-19 doesn't raise "questions" (we are assuming he means drug questions).
To us, seeing a teen prodigy improve in a fairly consistent pattern raises way less questions than we have about your average pro (and particularly your average pro who drops a huge chunk of time later in life).
There are tons of young athletes across the globe who have improved 20 seconds in three years from 2010 to 2013 like Kipyegon, just no one is talking about them as they are running in obscurity in the collegiate ranks.
Take a look at NCAA 4th placer in the mile Carly Hamilton of Georgia. The 20-year-old is one year older than Kipyegon and has improved even more than Kipyegon since 2010. In 2010, Hamilton ran a 4:54.58 for 1,600 in Ohio, so that's basically a converted 4:34.4 for 1,500. Her PR this year? 4:12.15 – an improvement of 22 seconds since 2010.
That's looking at 3-year improvement. What about looking at the last two years? In the last two years, Kipyegon has come down 12.50 seconds. How much did Alan Webb improve from his sophomore to senior year in HS? 13.61 seconds (4:06.94 to 3:53.33).
Does that mean she and other teens prodigies aren't on drugs? No (we remember actually a few years back listening to a fan tell us he thought a prominent HSer (who went on to get an AR) was on drugs), but in general we are way less suspicious about child prodigies than other pros.
And talent doesn't get any more prodigious than it does for someone like Kipyegon. She won the world junior cross title in 2011 running barefoot. That summer, wearing shoes, she won the 2011 world youth 1,500 title in 4:09.48 with a 64-second last lap.
Last summer, she showed she was at a new level as she won the world junior 1,500 title by a ton in 4:04.98. Her last lap? 60.76. In that race, she absolutely destroyed US phenom Mary Cain and it's not like Cain ran poorly, as Cain set the then-US junior record of 4:11.01 in the race, but it was no contest as shown by the following photo:
Then in April, Kipyegon defended her world junior cross title in Poland.
With three big young talents like Aregawi, Dibaba and Kipyegon, the women's 1,500 looks like it could be very exciting over the next few years. Let's hope they turn out to be track and field's version of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic in men's tennis.
US Pro News – Garrett Heath And Brittney Reese Impress
It wasn't surprising to us that last week an in-form Nick Willis won the Medtronic TC 1 mile in Minneapolis, as we'd expect the 2008 Olympic silver medallist to defeat a collection of American men's milers who have never made a World or Olympic outdoor US team. However, Nick crushed them just like he did at the Drake Relays.
Top 6 At 2013 Medtronic TC 1 Miler
1 51 Nick Willis Ann Arbor MIC 30 M 3:56.2
2 57 Garrett Heath Winona MN 29 M 3:57.3
3 62 MacKlin Chaffee Boulder COL 26 M 3:58.1
4 52 William Leer Wayzata MN 28 M 3:59.3
5 60 Craig Huffer Boston MAS 23 M 3:59.4
6 50 Craig Miller Colorado Sprin COL 25 M 3:59.7
As you can see, the runner-up was former Stanford man Garrett Heath. The 27-year-old Heath is having a fantastic season so far. Prior to last week's runner-up finish, Heath had already secured a US road title in Iowa and a huge 13:20.01 PR for 5,000 at Stanford. It will be interesting to see if Heath, who set a 3:36.03 1,500 PR last year, can get the "A" standard of 3:35.50 this year. We may start to find out at the USATF high performance meet at Oxy this weekend.
More: Nick Willis And Sarah Brown Win Over Competitive Fields At Medtronic TC 1 Mile In Minneapolis *Elite Results *Longer Medtronic Recap From DownTheBackStretch
Kudos to US long jumper Brittney Reese, who set a PR last week in Doha.
Reese, the 2012 Olympic gold medalist and 2009 and 2011 world champ, set a PR of 23 feet, 9 1/2 inches (7.25 meters, previous PR 7.19 meters outdoors, 7.23 indoors). The last time a non-doper American jumped farther (we say non-doper so we can ignore Marion Jones)?
July 31, 1994, when Jackie Joyner Kersee matched her American record of 7.49 meters.
Reese is #3 all time in the US (#2 in our book, as Marion Jones is currently at 2nd).
How good is 23'9.5″ for the long jump? Damn good. Reese would have scored in the Big 10 men's meet and just missed scoring in the PAC-12 men's meet by 1 centimeter.
Quote Of The Week I (That Wasn't Quote Of The Day)
"When we competed at school I was average."
– Quote from 2:05:25 runner Albert Matebor, who devoted himself to running late in life and only made his marathon debut at age 25. Before becoming a pro runner, Matebor sold potatoes is his brother's "farm shop to earn some money."
Last week, Matebor was indeed average by pro standards as he was fourth at the 19th Volkswagen Prague Internatoinal Marathon in 2:10:56.
More: Globe Runner: A Late Convert To running: Albert Matebor
*Qatar's Nicholas Kemboi (2:08:51) And Kenya's Caroline Rotich (2:27:00) Win Prague Marathon Rotich won Cherry Blossom and the NYC Half earlier this year.
Quote Of The Week II (That Wasn't Quote Of The Day)
"At the 2008 Trials, I barely made it out of the first round – advancing on time. In the second round, I won. But I knew, 'I'm in trouble.' I knew I had nothing left … I was literally on the line right before the final asking myself what I was going to do when I finally thought to myself, 'I'm going to make everybody run a PR if anybody's going to beat me today. I'm gonna go for it.'"
– Khadevis Robinson talking in a great profile on him by Dave Hunter in RunBlogRun and showing why we here at LetsRun have always viewed him as one of the best – if not the best – interviews on the circuit.
More: Khadevis Robinson – A Very Fine Vintage
Photo Of The Week/What About The Sport?
This was actually from a few weeks ago but we didn't get to it.
What you are seeing is the Oregon State seniors celebrating Senior Day at home for the first time in a long time, as Oregon State has a new outdoor track this year – the Whyte Track and Field Center – and now has home meets for the first time since 1988.
At the Beavers' final home meet, the University of Oregon showed up and competed at Oregon State for the first time since 1988. WIth so many schools de-emphasizing track and field with it's large roster requirements, it's good to see someone is pushing the sport forward.
More: *OSU Track And Field Program Moving Forward
*Stoddard Reynold's Photos Of Meet
*Kinsey Gomez Calls Racing At Home "An Incredible Feeling"
*Sam Crouser's First Impression A Positive For New OSU Track
What About The World?
We often focus on things that benefit the sport of track and field. However, at the end of the day, we'll admit that track and field isn't the most important thing because people ultimately are running in circles.
So here are two great stories.
1) Above we talked about pushing the sport forward, well there is one Oregon State track and field senior who may be pushing humanity forward. 1500 meter runner Lauren Graebner and a classmate are finalists for a nationwide contest to design a modern Islamic hijab. Their "Unity scarf" might win the "American Hijab Design Contest."
2) The Dartmouth women's track and field team, including star Abbey D'Agostino have adopted a local middle school where twice a week they participate in a Girls on the Run program, an after-school gathering. The goal of the program is to build "build teamwork, confidence and fitness" and they get participants able to do a 5k run while talking about various topics.
Two great articles on the stories below.
More: Hijab For Every Kind Of Woman
*The Road To Confidence: Dartmouth Women's Track Athletes Commit To Girls On The Run
Recommended Reads
Western State's Ian Butler On Remarkable Run In Life's Goal To Succeed
RunBlogRun Looks Back At The Career Of Khadevis Robinson And Talks To Him About His Plans For 2013
Religion Blog: What Truths Does Iconic Image Of Boston Marathon Truly Capture? "
Quotes Of The Day & Last Week's Homepages:
Note: To see a particular day's homepage, click on the hyperlink of the date. The hyperlink below the date on the quotes will take you to that particular article – not that day's homepage.
– World Anti-Doping President John Fahey talking about the changes to the WADA code which will increase the minimum ban for first time dopers from two years to four.
– Excerpt from a piece in The Standard on the great Sammy Wanjiru as the two-year anniversary of his tragic death (May 15) approaches.
– Alberto Salazar, talking about African distance running dominance and how he tries to combat it. We're sure that they will be doing things extra perfect today after seeing Hagos Gebrhiwet's dominant 3,000 win in Doha yesterday.
"Hopefully I will find the way to beat David Rudisha again. I have a plan but I am not going to reveal it. You will see me on track!"
– Ethiopia's 800m World Junior Record Holder, Mohamed Aman, talking ahead of today's Doha Diamond League about the prospect of beating David Rudisha. Aman is the only person to have beaten Rudisha in the last two years; he did so twice and both times it was raining. Unfortunately for Aman, today's forecast for Doha is clear skies.
– Intro to Jamaica Gleaner article by Hubert Lawrence talking about the world-leading 9.86-second 100m Tyson Gay ran last weekend at the Jamaican Invitational. We're sure that Usain Bolt's less than impressive 10.09 opener didn't do much to lessen that concern.
– Khadevis Robinson talking about dealing with the disappointment of not making the 2008 US Olympic team in the 800 and the positives he took from it to use as motivation to continue on and make the team again in 2012. Read our recap from that race, where KD took it out in a "punishing" early pace, but tied up just missing an Olympic spot in 4th.
– Dai Greene, the 2011 400H world champion but 2012 Olympic 4th placer, talking in a great article where he admits the pain of 2012 will never go away but he's proud of his effort to come back from injury. He could have just sat on his "arse" and done nothing.


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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The romance between Mariana Alcoforado, a Portuguese nun, and Nöel Bouton de Chamilly, an officer of the French Army, took place in the mid-17th century. Chamilly abandoned Mariana in 1667, after which they exchanged a series of letters. The Portuguese originals were never recovered, but a French translation was published by a Count of Guillerages and became an instant bestseller, much in the way that The Sorrows of Young Werther would a century later. There has been much controversy about the authorship of the letters. Did she really write them, or were they forged by the Count of Guillerages? It seems like it all began as a prudish attempt to dismiss the possibility that a Nun could have had an affair with a soldier - and written him letters! Love letters, of all things! The more I read, the more convinced I am that Mariana Alcoforado did write those letters. In those days, it wasn't unusual for love letters to be publicly read in fashionable salons and reunions – in fact, when these were published, people merely complained about the cowardice of mentioning Mariana but keeping her lover's name a secret. Life in a 17th century convent was far from austere – these women had their own servants and private quarters inside the main enclosure, and it wasn't unusual for soldiers to visit and flirt with them more or less openly. Those behaviors were tolerated, but still had to be kept secret. So it's not at all implausible that the affair happened, and that the letters were written and made public. But if there's something that makes the story more convincing it's the letters themselves. There's no way these were written by a man and meant as entertainment. They have the consistency of tone of a person in terrible pain, and all the little incoherencies in content that come with it. Which is to say, these are over the top. It's so sad to think about this woman, buried alive because her family wouldn't take care of her, living in such a small world. No wonder she went all "Fatal Attraction" on the guy. For me, the initial feeling of "Whoa – get a grip, crazy lady" slowly became sort of a "What a waste. What a sad, fucking waste." Poor girl. no reviews | add a review
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