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Domaine Jules Desjourneys Fleurie Les Moriers 2010
About the Region
Known for its bright, fruity, easily drinkable red wines, the Beaujolais region, south of Burgundy proper and just northwest of Lyon, specializes in gamay, though a small amount of pinot noir is also grown. The simplest wines of the region are labeled Beaujolais, with the next tier designated as Beaujolais Villages. Ten select villages, known for the quality and distinctiveness of their wines, are classified as crus, and are permitted to label themselves as Burgundy: Brouilly, Côte de Brouilly, Chiroubles, Chénas, Fleurie, Saint-Amour, Juliénas, Morgon, Moulin-à-Vent, and Régnié. Beaujolais nouveau, or new Beaujolais, bottled and released two months or so after harvest, became something of a cult in the latter 20th century. Though this style of wine is ancient, the term beaujolais nouveau is recent, having been invented by the most famous producer and bottler in the region, Georges Duboeuf. Released on the third Thursday of November every year, the wines — according to many connoisseurs — should be consumed before the end of the year. About a third of all beaujolais production is nouveau. A small amount of white beaujolais is made, principally from chardonnay, but with aligoté, pinot gris, pinot blanc, and melon de bourgogne also permitted.


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I frequently hear words to this effect from a lot of people,
"alaa..yes, i do this and that, but at least i still pray and fast"
"i don't think that's applicable in this age, that's all medieval"
"i believe capitalism is the way forward"
If you're Richard Dawkins then i wish you all the best sir. but if you're muslim and you say you're a muslim and you identify with the muslim culture, then uh-oh maybe we need to reflect a bit.
Is the frequently touted 'middle way' permissible? can you do little bits here, little bits there, and create a mixed collage?
see this verse and decide for yourself;
"Verily, those who disbelieve in Allâh and His Messengers and wish to make distinction between Allâh and His Messengers (by believing in Allâh and disbelieving in His Messengers) saying, "We believe in some but reject others," and wish to adopt a way in between.
They are the true disbelievers. And We have prepared for the disbelievers a humiliating torment." (An Nisa':150-151)
And even when translated into english, that's pretty strong stuff. The people we usually brand as 'kafir totok', at least they're clear in their disbelief. What about us? if we believe in some aspects but reject others? Do we like being 'true disbelievers'? *shudder*
Believing 'there is no god but Allah' has major implications for your actions, your way of life. It entails that your systems, your laws, your etiquette, and your conduct all come from Him.
And we're not branding anyone here but ourselves, cause it ain't right to point at others. When you point one finger, another 3 point back at you *taken from a mural at SK Seksyen 7 Kota Damansara*
Are we accepting Islam as our way of life?
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The Middle Way? You're kidding me
I frequently hear words to this effect from a lot of people,
Posted by The Author at 7:21 PM
2 comments:
- Inche gabbana said...
"Ya ayyuahal ladzi na a-manu fil-silmi kaa-fah..."
- December 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM
- The Author said...
inche gabbana: teringat zaman2 mkn smbal ikan bilis ramai2 smbil tersentap dgr ayat quran.. T_T
- December 1, 2010 at 9:57 PM


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Lady Liadrin is the leader of the Blood Knights and is currently located in Shattrath City. The Blood Knights are an order of former priests and warriors who use the Light magics from the enslaved naaru M'uru. Liadrin herself, a former elven priestess, became disillusioned with the Light following the Fall of Quel'Thalas. She had long forsaken her Light-given powers when M'uru was transported to Silvermoon following the capture of Tempest Keep. Magister Astalor Bloodsworn proposed using the naaru's powers to bestow certain blood elves with the powers of paladins. Liadrin was the first to volunteer to make use of these powers, and thus she became the first and leader of the Blood Knights.
Prior to patch 2.4, she was a level ?? quest giver located in Farstriders' Square in the blood elf capital of Silvermoon City. The quests she previously offered are now available from Lord Solanar Bloodwrath.
See Silvermoon City NPCs and Shattrath City NPCs.
Fury of The Sunwell
In patch 2.4, Kael'thas Sunstrider attacks Silvermoon with his felbloods and takes M'uru from the chamber beneath Blood Knight headquarters, transporting the darkened naaru to the Sunwell Plateau on the Isle of Quel'Danas.
Liadrin travels to Shattrath City and goes before A'dal, expressing regret for the deeds of the Blood Knights, and realizing that Kael'thas had lured the blood elves down a false path and had betrayed his people to the evil of the Burning Legion. A'dal then says that M'uru had known full well what would happen, and had accepted his path. Liadrin is confused, until A'dal reveals that the events had been prophesied by the Prophet Velen of the draenei.
Upon this revelation, Liadrin renounces the House of Sunstrider and embraces A'dal and the Sha'tar. She pledges her allegiance and her Blood Knights to the Shattered Sun Offensive, the combined force sent from Shattrath to end Kael'thas' mad bid for dominance and prevent Kil'jaeden from entering Azeroth. Lord Solanar, one of Liadrin's lieutenants, now trains aspiring Blood Knight masters at Blood Knight headquarters in Silvermoon.
Meeting with A'dal
This is the conversation that takes place when Liadrin meets with A'dal in Shattrath.
- General Tiras'alan says: Why do you suffer the presence of this despicable Lady Liadrin? She and her followers distort the Light and make a mockery of all we stand for!
- A'dal says: Patience, general. The Light embraces all who enter Shattrath in good faith. You are welcome in Shattrath, Lady Liadrin. We have long awaited your arrival.
- Lady Liadrin says: Thank you for allowing me to speak, A'dal. I know many of your allies despise me and my knights for our treatment of M'uru. When he was given to us by 'Prince' Kael'thas, we believed his power would help lead our people into a new age. I've come to realize our path was a false one. We were betrayed by the man we called our prince. In his lust for power, he sent the felblood to attack us, and spirit M'uru away to the Sunwell.
- A'dal says: Both our peoples suffered greatly at the hands of Kael'thas and his agents, Lady Liadrin. Your people were not the authors of their own fate, but they will die if they do not change. M'uru accepted his role long ago, knowing full well what would happen to him. Will you accept your own?
- Lady Liadrin says: I... I don't understand. You -- and M'uru -- knew all along that this would occur?
- A'dal says: It wasn't I who foretold it, but Velen of the Draenei:
- A'dal says: 'Silvery moon, washed in blood, / Led astray into the night, armed with the sword of broken Light. / Broken, then betrayed by one, standing there bestride the sun. / At darkest hour, redemption comes, in knightly lady sworn to blood.'
- Lady Liadrin says: I see it clearly now. I renounce my loyalties to House Sunstrider and its false prince. I pledge the blades of my Blood Knights to the defeat of Kil'jaeden and the restoration of Silvermoon. We will fight beside you, A'dal.
- A'dal says: The Shattered Sun Offensive will surely benefit from the addition of your knights, Lady Liadrin. The battle for the Sunwell is but the first step on your new path, Lady Liadrin. Shattrath is open to you and all who follow you.
Deceiver's end
- Main article: Sunwell Plateau epilogue
After Kil'jaeden is defeated in the Sunwell Plateau, Liadrin will accompany the Prophet Velen to the Sunwell and congratulate the players.
The Path to RedemptionThis section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.
When players of both factions enter The Sunwell to cleanse Quel'Delar in its sacred waters they can find Lady Liadrin among the other leaders of Silvermoon in The Sunwell's chamber. There Lady Liadrin can be seen preaching to Blood Elf pilgrims much in the way that Martik Tor'seldori preaches to pilgrims at Thrallmar. However, unlike Martik, Lady Liadrin preaches of redemption for the Sin'dorei rather then a path to power and glory.
Randomly, Liadrin makes a statement to some gathered Pilgrims:
- Lady Liadrin says: My brothers and sisters, words cannot describe what I felt upon seeing the Sunwell rekindled.
- Lady Liadrin says: In that moment, the Light revealed to me the truth of the terrible things I had done.
- Lady Liadrin says: Our people had walked a dark path and mine was among the darkest of them all.
- Lady Liadrin says: But the Light showed me that I was not lost. It helped me to find the strength to survive in spite of all that had happened and all the evil I had wrought.
- Lady Liadrin says: It is a strength that we sin'dorei all share. It is a strength we will need to free ourselves of the addiction ravaging our people.
- Lady Liadrin says: It will be the most difficult battle we have ever faced, but our resolve and the power of the Sunwell will sustain us until we have been restored to our greatness.
- Blood Elf Pilgrim says: Well said, my lady. We sin'dorei will be free and we shall be great again!
Battle with Lady LiadrinThe subject of this section has been removed from World of Warcraft.
Her solitude can be an underestimate of her power. Once you enter battle, her speed is immense and her attack power is high enough to take a well-geared level 70 player down in a matter of seconds. Although, with a well-geared healer with a high amount of mana per 5 seconds, you can take Liadrin down with three people. A tank, a healer, and a dps or two. Be aware that with three people it is a very long fight, around 15-20 minutes, but the reward is great. She drops anywhere from 60 gold to 100 gold.
The being M'uru, also in the chamber, is a friendly unit to Alliance members and will not aid in the attack, even if the beams from the magi are broken.
- Lady Liadrin is probably named after Liandrin from Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time series.
- She will change her tabard from the Blood Knight Tabard to the Tabard of the Shattered Sun during her conversation with A'dal. Few NPCs change their appearance in such a way.


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I. Correspondence and Papers
Academic Tribute and California Jubilee and San Joaquin Sketches (commission)
American Bandmasters, National Endowment for the Arts
ASCAP - Former correspondence, supportive material for awards
Biographical Materials
Boosey and Hawkes
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (opera) - N.J. Performance. Photographs and correspondence
Correspondence - library staff
Correspondence - misc. 1 & 2
Correspondence - S.F. State files 1-4
Correspondence with composers, conductors, musicians, and organizations
Festival Mass
Carl Fischer Inc.
Golden Crest Records and Baylor University Project - corres.
The Goldman Memorial Band
Grants and Awards 1 & 2
Neil A. Kios Music Co.
List of Performances
List of Works
Misc. publishers correspondence, catalogues, info.
Music Educators National Conference, 1986 -- Program
Music for a Civic Celebration, J. C. Penney Bicentennial Project
NPR notes: "Meet the Composer"
Newspaper articles 1, 2, and 3
Nixon - David Boyden
Nixon - Aaron Copland 1 ALS
Nixon - Andrew Imbrie 2 MLS
Nixon - Roger Sessions 3 ALS
Nixon - Schoenberg
Nixon to Ernst Krenek
Presser Co. Correspondence
Program information, lists of works, lecture notes (1976 on)
Publisher correspondence and catalogs
"Raw" notes for lecture given in Ann Arbor (Univ. of Michigan). A Perspective on Composing for Band / with cassette tape used for demonstration
San Francisco Symphony Stagebill (1/31/87)
A Solemn Processional Southern Music Company
Twelve piano preludes and Opus Music Publishers
US Air Force Band - Arnold Gabriel, cond.
University of Michigan and Univ. of Illinois Bands1
Viola concerto
A dissertation: "The Published Band Compositions of Roger Nixon," by Anthony P. Mazzaferro
Additional Note
Academic Tribute: for concert band (1987)
Air for Strings; with notes from a lesson with Schoenberg / Summer 1948
Arises the New Flower (1985)
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Opera in 4 scenes -- piano-vocal score (1967)
By-By-baby -Lullay! (1965)
California Jubilee (1987)
Centennial Overture (1995) score and parts
Ceremonial piece for brass (1980) score and parts
Chaucerian Visions: for mixed voices (SATB) [and piano] (1987)
Chinese seasons : song cycle (1942)
Christmas perspectives for mixed voices, another score marked "set 1." (1980)
Concert Prelude: for brass (no date)
Conversations for violin and clarinet in B flat (1981)
Festival mass [SATB, organ] (1980)
Firwood: for four part chorus (SATB) a capella (1960)
Flower of Youth [Concert Band, Grade 4] Score and parts (1992)
Four duos for flute or oboe and B flat clarinet (1966)
From The Canterbury Tales for mixed voices (no date)
Love's secret: four-part chorus, SATB (1967)
Music for a Civic Celebration, score and parts (1975)
Music for Clarinet and Piano. Score and part (1986)
Music for Piano (1994)
Music of Appreciation: for band. Score and parts (1944)
A Narrative of Tides. Vocal score. (1984)
Nocturne: for concert band. Condensed score and parts (1965)
Pacific Celebration Suite (1979) 1 score and parts
Psalm: for band (1972) 1 score and parts
Three duos (flute & B flat clarinet) (1983)
To the evening star (William Blake): for mixed voices a cappella (1967)
Twelve Preludes for Piano (1984)
Two Elegies for solo cello (1984)
Variations for B-flat bass clarinet (1983)
Variation for Clarinet and cello (1991) 2 scores and 1 facsimile (facs. in Box 6)
Variations for bassoon (1983)
Viola concerto (1969) Study score, Viola and Piano version (score and part)
Wonders of Christmas: for chorus of mixed voices unaccompanied (4 pieces) (1993)
III. Programs
Additional Note
Academic Tribute -- SF State University
Academic Tribute -- USA
Air for Strings -- Bay Area
Air for Strings -- California
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky -- SF State University
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky -- Bay Area
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky -- California
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky -- USA
By-By Baby, Lullay -- Bay Area
California Jubilee -- International:Japan
California Jubilee -- SF State University
California Jubilee -- California
California Jubilee -- USA
Centennial Fanfare March -- SF State University
Centennial Fanfare March -- Bay Area
Centennial Fanfare March -- California
Centennial Fanfare March -- USA
Centennial Overture
Ceremonial Fanfare Nos. 1 and 2 -- SF State University
Ceremonial Fanfare No. 1 -- Bay Area
Ceremonial Piece for Brass -- California
Chamarita! -- International: Japan
Chamarita! -- SF State University
Chamarita! -- California
Chamarita! -- USA
Chanticleer -- International: South Africa
Chanticleer -- Bay Area
Chanticleer -- USA
Chaucerian Visions
Chinese Seasons -- SF State University
Chinese Seasons -- Bay Area
Chinese Seasons -- USA
Christmas Perspectives -- SF State University
Christmas Perspectives -- Bay Area
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra -- Bay Area
Conversations for Violin and Clarinet -- SF State University
Conversations for Violin and Clarinet -- Bay Area
Dialog -- SF State University
Dialog -- Bay Area
Dialog -- USA
Duo for Flute and Alto Flute
Elegie -- Bay Area
Elegy for Band -- Berkeley
Elegy and Fanfare -- International: Istanbul
Elegy, Fanfare and March -- SF State University
Elegy, Fanfare and March -- Bay Area
Elegy, Fanfare and March -- USA
Festival Fanfare March -- SF State University
Festival Fanfare March -- Bay Area
Festival Fanfare March -- California
Festival Fanfare March -- USA
Festival Mass -- Bay Area
Fiesta del Pacifico-- International: China
Fiesta del Pacifico-- International: Japan
Fiesta del Pacifico -- SF State University
Fiesta del Pacifico -- Bay Area
Fiesta del Pacifico -- California
Fiesta del Pacifico -- USA
Firwood -- SF State University
Five Pieces for Two Instruments -- Bay Area
Five Preludes -- International: Bruxelles
Five Preludes -- USA
Flower of Youth
Four Duos -- Bay Area
Four Duos for Flute and B-flat Clarinet -- SF State University
Four Duos for Violin and Viola -- USA
Four Preludes -- SF State University
Four Preludes -- Bay Area
Four Songs -- Bay Area
From the Canterbury Tales
Gliding All Over -- SF State University
Green Growth the Holly -- Bay Area
How Sweet I Roamed -- SF State University
Love's Secret -- Bay Area
In Memoriam Adlai E. Stevenson -- USA
Modesto Centennial March -- Bay Area
Mooney's Grove Suite -- SF State University
Mooney's Grove Suite -- Bay Area
Mooney's Grove Suite -- California
Movement for Clarinet and Piano -- SF State University
Movement for Clarinet and Piano -- Bay Area
Music for A Civic Celebration -- SF State University
Music for A Civic Celebration -- Bay Area
Music for A Civic Celebration -- California
Music for A Civic Celebration -- USA
Music for Clarinet and Piano -- California
Music for Piano
Music of Appreciation
A Narrative of Tides -- SF State University
A Narrative of Tides -- California
Nocturne -- International: France
Nocturne -- International: Germany
Nocturne -- SF State University
Nocturne (for flute and piano) -- Bay Area
Nocturne -- California
Nocturne -- USA
Now Living Things -- California
Pacific Celebration Suite -- International: Japan
Pacific Celebration Suite -- SF State University
Pacific Celebration Suite -- Bay Area
Pacific Celebration Suite -- California
Pacific Celebration Suite -- USA
Preludes -- SF State University
Preludes -- Bay Area
Preludes -- California
Prelude and Fugue -- International: Taiwan
Prelude and Fugue -- SF State University
Prelude and Fugue -- Bay Area
Prelude and Fugue -- California
Prelude and Fugue -- USA
Preludes VIII and IX -- California
Preludes VIII and IX -- USA
Psalm for Band -- California
Psalm for Band -- USA
Psalm 60 -- Bay Area
Psalm 60 -- California
Qaurtet No. 1 -- SF State University
Reflections -- International: Japan
Reflections -- SF State University
Reflections -- Bay Area
Reflections -- California
Reflections -- USA
San Joaquin sketches -- USA
Six Moods of Love -- SF State University
Six Moods of Love -- Bay Area
Six Moods of Love -- California
Six Moods of Love -- USA
Six Preludes -- SF State University
Six Preludes -- Bay Area
Slowly the Music -- Bay Area
A Solemn Processional -- SF State University
A Solemn Processional -- USA
Songs, from "The Children's Garden of Verse" -- SF State University
Summer Rain -- California
The Tempest -- SF State University
Testimonial -- USA
Three Dances for Orchestra -- California
Three Duos -- Bay Area
Three Preludes -- International: The Philippines
Three Preludes -- SF State University
Three Preludes -- Bay Area
Three Preludes -- California
Three Preludes -- USA
Three Settings of William Blake
Three Songs -- Bay Area
Three Transcendental Songs on Poems by Walt Whitman -- USA
To the Evening Star -- SF State University
Twelve Preludes
Two Dances for Orchestra -- USA
Two Duos for Flute and Piccolo -- SF State University
Two Duos for Flutes -- SF State University
Two Songs --California
Two Transcendental Songs -- Bay Area
Variations for Bass Clarinet -- Bay Area
Variations for Bass Clarinet -- USA
Variations for Clarinet and Cello -- SF State University
Viola Concerto -- SF State University
Viola Concerto -- Bay Area
The Wine of Astonishment -- Bay Area
The Wine of Astonishment -- California
Wonders of Christmas
SF State University -- Nixon Concerts (Multiple Pieces)
Arrangements by Roger Nixon
Miscellaneous Stuff -- Bay Area


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Another day, another fantastic start from a Cubs pitcher. Chris Volstad was stellar again for the Cubs, going 3 innings allowing just two hits, and striking out one. Volstad has now gone 6 innings this Spring and has yet to yield any runs. The Cubs also got solid performances from Jay Jackson, Scott Maine, and Alberto Cabrera. Andy Sonnanstine was roughed up a bit but the Cubs managed to hang on with Cabrera earning the save.
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In his own words: living with multiple myeloma
Mike was married with 3 children and a partner at a leading management consulting firm when he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1990 at age 37. He has spent the past thirteen years fighting a personal battle with myeloma, raising a family, pursuing a challenging career, and working as a volunteer and advocate with the International Myeloma Foundation, the National Cancer Institute, the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, and the FDA.
What was your first sign that something was wrong? What symptoms did you experience?
Traveling to Hong Kong on business, I got off the plane after the long flight and found I was limping badly. When I got back to the US, I went to a sports medicine doctor who diagnosed it as sciatica and put me in physical therapy, which made me feel better. Six months later, I felt a crack while dancing, which turned out to be a plasma cell tumor breaking through the back of my pelvis.
What was the diagnosis experience like?
It was mind numbing. The initial shock was the need for major orthopedic surgery, involving removal of diseased bone and replacement with a donor graft, to be followed by radiation therapy. Once past that, there was the reality of myeloma, characterized as incurable with a median survival of 3 years.
What was your initial and then longer-term reaction to the diagnosis?
At first, I was overcome with grief and horror, as much for the upcoming surgical ordeal as the gloomy prognosis. Once through the surgery, though, I shifted my focus towards getting my life back, going so far as commuting daily between New York and Toronto to allow me to get my daily radiation treatments while working on a critical client assignment.
How do you manage multiple myeloma?
My approach to dealing with the disease has been vigilance and conservatism. I am very diligent about diagnostic tests (blood, urine, bone scans, etc.) to make sure that it doesn't sneak up on me again and cause major bone damage. And, I've been very conservative about treatments, avoiding the "hit it early, hit it hard" approach in favor of a minimalist strategy to knock the disease down when it rears its ugly head. That has meant using radiation repeatedly over the years in lieu of systemic therapy. It has meant selective use of low-dose systemic therapy (some chemo, some steroids, some thalidomide.) I harvested stem cells seven years ago but have not had a transplant. I'm in this for the long-term and trying to keep my options open, playing for time, because there is so much promising research—and I don't have time to be sick!
Did you have to make any lifestyle or dietary changes in response to multiple myeloma?
I went through a phase where I was taking all sorts of vitamins, exotic mushrooms, and even shark cartilage. That ended when the next lesion appeared. I have endeavored to take better care of myself and live a bit more for the moment.
Did you seek any type of emotional support?
I did get some benefit from stress reduction and meditation classes. But working to help other myeloma patients has been the most rewarding experience. The support I received from the International Myeloma Foundation led me to make a serious commitment to volunteerism and advocacy to help others battling the disease. I lead two in-person support groups and an Internet listserv for myeloma patients and caregivers. Using the knowledge I've gained to help others deal with the disease helps me focus on the positive.
Does multiple myeloma have any impact on your family?
My wife and I decided early on that as long as I was able to function normally and not in immediate danger, we would not tell the children until they were older (the youngest was 7 when I was diagnosed.) We told them almost ten years later, which was quite a relief--hiding it was getting harder and harder. And, they've dealt with it well. We try to live our lives as if there was no myeloma. And, the "kids" (the youngest is now 19) seem to take their cues from us.
What advice would you give to anyone living with multiple myeloma?
There is no known cure for myeloma, but the disease is highly treatable, and there are more treatment options today then ever before, with many more in the pipeline. It's possible to live many years with myeloma and to have wonderful quality of life. With the progress that has been made and the new treatments being researched, the day may soon come where myeloma can be managed as a chronic disease like diabetes. There is much reason to be hopeful and there's no reason to put your life on hold.
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Colridge was Kenridge: And Rinehart's gold left a mixed legacy
While Colridge estate has most recently been the site of bitter feuding between Kappa Sigma "brothers," its origins are in a father's love for his sons. That father: Hollis Rinehart Sr., a turn-of-the-century Charlottesville scion whose complex history includes some of this area's most notable structures. A less happy legacy is a West Virginia tunnel where hundreds of migrant workers died, many of them buried unnamed in a mass grave.
One need only walk the Downtown Mall to see evidence of Rinehart's local impact. In addition to the four Ivy Road estates he built for himself and his sons, he built both the Paramount Theater in 1931, and one block away, the Mall's only "skyscraper," the National Bank building, which now houses Wachovia Bank's regional headquarters.
Born in 1871 near Roanoke in Botetourt County, Rinehart, son of a successful railroad contractor, married Fluvanna-born Lena Thomas in 1893. But the small-town boy had big-town dreams, says his now-77-year-old grandson Rodger Rinehart Jr.
"He told my grandmother he was going away, and he wouldn't be back until he had $10,000 in the bank," laughs Rodger. While $10,000 was nothing to sneeze at in the late 19th century, it was mere pennies compared to the fortune Rinehart eventually amassed in the early part of the 20th century.
For several years, Rodger says, Hollis would go to Washington and bid on jobs to carry water on the railroad tracks for construction projects up and down the East Coast.
But in the days before air conditioning, "it got hot up there," says Rodger, so his grandparents rented Birdwood, the Ivy Road estate built by gentleman farmer William Garth between 1819 and 1830.
"They loved it so," says Rodger, "that my grandfather bought it." There, Hollis and Lena raised their four boys: Hollis Jr., Jack, Rodger, and William Alonza.
Having settled in Charlottesville, Hollis started Rinehart Dennis Construction in the early years of the 20th century with partner P.F. Faulconer (who also founded Faulconer Construction). The company thrived and won high-dollar government contracts during WWI.
When the Rinehart boys were grown, says Rodger, Hollis decided to build homes for his sons across the street from Birdwood so the family could continue to live close to one another. Between 1921 and 1924, construction began on the four sprawling estates.
For himself, Hollis built "Kenridge," which a subsequent owner called "Colridge" and which later became the Kappa Sigma headquarters; for his son William, he built "Boxwood," which became best known for housing the Institute for Textile Technology, now a lab and electronics division of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO); Jack Sr.'s unnamed home was demolished in the early '80s to make way for the structure now occupied by the Legal Research Center; and Rodger's father, Rodger Sr., took up residence in "White Gables."
White Gables, says Hollis' great-grandson and local developer Randy Rinehart, was built in 1922 for $22,000. Recalling documents he once perused, Randy says White Gables was built by a contractor from Staunton who'd come over four or five days a week, using "mules and dragpans" to excavate the foundation. (It sold in 2003 for $2.85 million and is now being developed into 76 luxury condos.)
For the remaining local members of the Rinehart clan– and there are many– a drive down Ivy Road is a trip down memory lane.
"That house brings back many memories of being there every Sunday for lunch," Randy says of Kenridge. "I was fortunate enough to have memories of running around the house playing, taking the elevator up and down. That was neat."
Though Hollis Sr. died in 1943, three years before Randy's birth, Randy's older brother Jack, now 70, has memories of his grandfather's mansion.
"It was certainly the focal point of our family all during the '30s, '40s and early '50s," he says. His grandfather, he reports, was a "big tall powerful looking man." But he had a soft side. "I remember sitting on his lap," he recalls. "I was nine; he used to hand out white peppermints from his pocket."
Rodger, the oldest living grandchild, has perhaps the most specific memories of his grandparents' home.
"We spent a lot of time at Kenridge," he says, recalling riding ponies and swimming in the pool– "one of the first pools in the area."
Pools in the '20s and '30s were not the filtered, chlorinated marvels they've become. "They filled it once a month," says Rodger. "By the end of the month, it was so black you couldn't see anything when you dove in. We all had ear trouble by August."
But though the remaining Rineharts remember only an idyllic Charlottesville childhood with a doting grandfather, Hollis Sr. was dealing with issues far more disturbing and complex than pony rides and dips in a pool.
In 1930, Rinehart Dennis Construction won a contract from a Union Carbide subsidiary to drill a three-mile tunnel through Gauley Mountain as part of a hydroelectric project that would reroute the New River in West Virginia.
When the company first advertised for workers, thousands of the most destitute men in the country– migrant workers and African Americans from the deep South– traveled great distances for the chance to earn money to feed their families, according to Jennifer Jordan in the West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly.
Many workers would never go home.
Dubbed the Hawk's Nest tunnel, the project still stands as an engineering marvel, along with other Depression-era projects like the Hoover Dam. But it also stands as one of the greatest industrial disasters of the 20th century.
That mining is a dangerous occupation has never been disputed. But it wasn't industrial accidents that took the most lives at Hawk's Nest; it was an insidious disease.
As the Cowboy Junkies famously sang: "Two years and the silicosis takes hold, and I feel like I'm dying from mining for gold."
While the Hawk's Nest workers weren't digging for gold, in less than two years, hundreds of them had succumbed to silicosis, with some estimates putting the mortality figure as high as 2,000. (By contrast, during the five years of construction on Colorado's Hoover Dam, from 1930-35, there were officially 96 industrial fatalities.)
Hawk's Nest victims and their families filed nearly 500 lawsuits totaling $4 million against the Union Carbide subsidiary and Rinehart Dennis, which ended up bearing legal responsibility for the disaster.
But perhaps even more horrifying than just the deaths was an alleged cover-up, as Martin Cherniak writes in his 1986 book The Hawk's Nest Incident.
According to Cherniak, "It was alleged that Rinehart and Dennis had paid a large sum of money to Hadley C. White, an undertaker from Nicholas County, to dispose of an undetermined number of unclaimed corpses of workers who had died on the job. The burials, so the story went, were carried out in great haste and with no medical evaluation."
That allegation, however horrifying, could not be verified in court– in fact, Cherniak reveals that many of the so-called "facts" of the case were misunderstandings or exaggerations.
For instance, the figure of 476 deaths was inadvertently made by a witness who added the number of men whose lungs had been x-rayed to the alleged number of victims buried in the mass grave. That figure stuck.
Though industrial safety standards were virtually non-existent in the early years of the 20th century, even then the risks of inhaling silica dust were known. But acute silicosis, the disease that killed so many of the tunnel workers, was not recognized officially by the American Medical Association until after the Hawk's Nest incident.
Was Rinehart Dennis responsible for the tragedy?
Cherniak says that if the New Kanawha Power Company, the Union Carbide subsidiary which subcontracted the work to Rinehart Dennis, was aware of the risks of silicosis, it likely kept mum.
"It is well established that neither the staff of Rinehart and Dennis, nor its workers wore respirators," he writes, suggesting they themselves were exposed to the risk and were therefore probably unaware of the danger.
But the question of the company's guilt never went to a jury. After the State Department of Mining began its investigation, Rinehart Dennis settled with the victims and their families for $130,000– three percent of the amount originally sought. The company finished the project and kept a lower profile from that point on. In fact, writes Cherniak, Hawk's Nest essentially marked the end of Rinehart Dennis.
"The company would never again compete for a major project," he wrote. "Within five years, its assets were largely liquidated, its successors being purely local firms in Charlottesville."
While history may remember Rinehart Dennis for Hawk's Nest, the surviving members of the Rinehart family say the tragedy is not a topic of conversation.
"We were just children then," says Rodger. "The only thing I know about that is it was the first lawsuit of its type."
Rinehart Dennis, he says, "had subbed out that part of the drilling to local people" and didn't know the danger they were in.
And as Randy points out, Hollis Sr. and the rest of the Rinehart family have left their marks– from Farmington's Kenridge Golf Tournament to the Paramount Theater to the landmark water tower at Birdwood– in positive local ways that will endure for years.
"I'm very proud of my grandfather and father and uncles," says Randy, "who have made such an impact on Charlottesville so quietly."
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No. 8 Penn State holds off No. 11 Purdue for Big Ten lead
- Penn State withstood Purdue%27s second-half rally to reclaim first place in the Big Ten
- The Lady Lions held the Boilermakers without a field goal for five-plus minutes late in the second
- Penn State then closed the game on a 12-6 run to put away Purdue
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Maggie Lucas swaggered and shimmied at midcourt after hitting a jumper at the elbow during No. 8 Penn State's late-game surge to finish off Purdue.
The Big Ten's top two teams traded nudges and defensive stands in a chippy game before the Lady Lions raced away for a 69-61 victory to reclaim sole possession of first place in the conference.
Lucas scored 17 points, Alex Bentley added 13 and Penn State clamped down defensively in finishing the final 6:39 with a 12-6 run to hold off the 11th-ranked Boilermakers.
"Alex makes a pretty big jumper late in the shot clock, Maggie comes down and knocks a huge pull-up jumper and then our defense was able to make them take tough shots in the last minutes," coach Coquese Washington said.
Courtney Moses (21 points) scored six points in a 13-second span to get within 67-61 with 1:05 left. But Bentley helped Penn State hold on with a bucket with 51 seconds left and the shot clock winding down before dribbling out the clock after getting a steal.
After five straight wins in Happy Valley, Purdue missed out on its only chance to beat Penn State (18-3, 8-1) in the regular season this year.
Maybe Purdue (18-4, 7-2) will get another shot at the Lady Lions in the Big Ten tournament.
"I knew it was going to be a great basketball game tonight," Boilermakers coach Sharon Versyp said. "The key to this game was at the end. They made shots and we didn't."
After struggling in the first half, 6-foot-4 center Nikki Greene (six points, nine rebounds) gave the Lady Lions an interior presence late, while Bentley menaced ball-handlers in the backcourt.
The Lady Lions rebounded nicely from a 63-61 upset loss on the road last week to Wisconsin, one of the worst teams in the Big Ten.
"To come off that last loss and come into this game prepared and ready to execute, it was a big win for us," Lucas said. "We've got to keep it at that level and keep improving."
This one almost got away too after Penn State went cold from the field midway through the second half.
Trailing by as much as 12 with 15 minutes left, the Boilermakers beat Penn State at its own game and outraced their opponents for easy shots down the floor in a 7-0 run over a three-minute span to get within 50-48 with 9:23 left.
The Big Ten contenders traded buckets until the Lady Lions pulled away late. Purdue had narrowed a 12-point deficit to 57-55 before going the next five-plus minutes without a field goal.
"We certainly played with a lot of energy. I thought we played a pretty good game offensively," Washington said. "For the most part, we did a good job of making them take some tough shots."
Purdue missed nine buckets and committed three turnovers during a five-minute stretch without a field goal until Moses ended Purdue's scoreless stretch with a 3 with 1:28 left.
Too little, too late.
The Boilermakers couldn't recover from a 32-31 halftime deficit after committing 12 first-half turnovers.
"The second half we executed well," Moses said. "We didn't do those things well in the first half. We started seeing the slips and hitting the deep corners."
Moses ended the night shooting 5-of-8, including 4-of-5 in the second half from the 3-point arc after taking just one shot attempt before halftime.
Penn State relied on pressure defense and interior play, with Mia Nickson (11 points) and reserve Talia East (nine points, six rebounds) giving the Lady Lions energy in the lane before halftime until Greene stepped up in the final few minutes.
Lucas finished 6-of-13 shooting, but hit just 1-of-6 from 3-point range after being guarded tightly on the perimeter. She chipped in with six rebounds and three steals. Bentley was 6-of-15 shooting.
Drew Mingo added 13 points for Purdue, while Sam Ostarello had 13 rebounds including 12 on the defensive end.
"This was a huge game for first place in the standings, and we only Penn State once on the schedule," Ostarello said, "so this was a big game for us."


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With his choice of Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., as his running mate, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has managed to make Medicare the campaign's red flag issue.
If Social Security is the third rail of U.S. politics, Medicare could be the electrical transformer -- and it's about to blow.
There is no question action must be taken to shore up both the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. The most recent report from the trustees indicates if no action is taken, Medicare will run out of money by 2024; Social Security less than a decade later.
Ryan has become a lightning rod on the issue as a result of the budget he crafted and pushed through the GOP-controlled House earlier this year -- twice.
The Ryan plan raises the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67 by 2034 and caps spending for the program at a half-percentage point higher than gross domestic product growth.
For those younger than 55 now, Ryan would phase out the current system, which pays providers directly, and instead beginning in 2022 issue vouchers that would allow seniors to apply the money toward the premiums of policies -- either private or a government-run program -- they find for themselves.
The problem, opponents of the Ryan plan say, is the government program would attract the sickest seniors, pushing up costs to untenable levels, while relatively healthy seniors would go into cheaper, private plans.
The Ryan plan would repeal President Obama's signature healthcare reform law, the Affordable Care Act, which closes the so-called "doughnut hole" in prescription-drug coverage, an issue that affects current Medicare recipients.
By contrast, Obama would restrain Medicare cost growth through an Independent Payment Advisory Board, which would not be able to propose anything that smacks of rationed care, change benefits or reduce subsidies for drug coverage. The cost controls would be placed largely on providers.
Senior fellow Robert Moffit of the conservative Heritage Foundation, however, said placing constraints on providers will inevitably lead to cutbacks in care, citing in particular the looming 31 percent cut in doctor reimbursements.
"All Medicare reform proposals differ in details. While details are vitally important, they are less important than the economic incentives at the core of the reform: a fixed dollar payment with enrollee freedom to purchase above or below that amount in an intensely competitive environment," he said in a recent lecture. "This would create a program that is sustainable for seniors and taxpayers."
Seniors take their Social Security and Medicare seriously. Remember what happened to former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., the once-powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, when he suggested in the early 1990s reforming the two entitlement programs by increasing Social Security and Medicare payroll deductions and reducing benefits. Angry seniors surrounded his car during a Chicago district office visit, demanding he leave their benefits alone and refusing to allow him to leave.
Will something similar happen during a Ryan campaign stop? We'll see.
A Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll released earlier this month indicated 58 percent of all adults and 59 percent of registered voters say they think Congress should not tamper with the current Medicare program while 36 percent of adults and a like proportion of registered voters would opt for the voucher system.
During a press briefing last week, White House spokesman Jay Carney took a swipe at Ryan's proposals, saying the "Republican approach to Medicare is one that ends it as we know it over time." Moffit argues so does the ACA.
Carney noted the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated Ryan's budget proposals will cost seniors $6,200 a year in additional healthcare costs.
"And what happens when you voucherize the program, as a matter of policy, is that, as [campaign spokeswoman] Jen [Psaki] mentioned, younger, healthier seniors take advantage of private plans, ... and private plans don't want older, less healthy seniors, and they remain in traditional Medicare creating a situation where traditional Medicare is not financially stable, and it creates what's called in the business a 'death spiral' for Medicare. That is not a happy message, I think, to take to America's seniors," Carney said.
Psaki told the same briefing, the Ryan plan would push Medicare into insolvency in four years rather than the 12 estimated by the annual trust fund report.
"After the Ryan plan kicks in, Medicare would be completely destabilized," she said.
During a campaign stop in Iowa, Obama contended: "My plan already extends Medicare by more than a decade. Their plan ends Medicare as we know it."
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel threw its editorial support behind Ryan as Romney's vice presidential choice, praising the Janesville congressman as a man of ideas, but qualifying its support by acknowledging the Medicare voucher scheme likely "would not be enough to keep up with ever-increasing healthcare spending."
Romney has said he and Ryan are "on the same page" when it comes to Medicare.
The Romney campaign released a television ad last week warning the ACA takes money from Medicare and will contribute to its demise. The ad warns those who have paid the most into the system won't see the benefits they were promised because Obama's plan trims Medicare by $716 billion.
"The Romney-Ryan plan protects Medicare benefits for today's seniors and strengthens the plan for the next generation," the ad says.
"And my campaign has made it very clear: The president's cuts of $716 billion to Medicare, those cuts are going to be restored if I become president and Paul Ryan becomes vice president," Romney pledged on a CBS "This Morning" interview.
"The president, when he was campaigning in Denver ... four years ago, said that Medicare was on a pathway to become bankrupt. And yet, he's taking $716 billion from the Medicare trust fund to finance Obamacare, a new risky federal takeover of healthcare.
"My commitment is, if I become president, I'm going to restore that $716 billion to the Medicare trust fund, so that current seniors can know that trust fund is not being raided and we're going to make sure and get Medicare on track to be solvent long-term on a permanent basis."
Ellen Shaffer, co-director at the Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health, a left-leaning research group based in San Francisco, said, however, Ryan's "new plan to end Medicare is basically the same old plan to end Medicare, exposing seniors to enormous financial instability at a time in life when our incomes and our health are already risky.
"It would slash federal financial contributions to Medicare from 6.5 percent of GDP to 4.5 percent of GDP, and make up the difference out of our individual pockets. Instead of improving the guaranteed coverage we now enjoy at age 65, Ryan would roll back eligibility to age 67, and then set us loose with limited dollars to negotiate individually with insurance companies. This isn't 'patient-centered' anything; it's a direct attack on seniors, a financial austerity program dressed up with a fantasy of creating a free market in healthcare," she said in a release.
Robert Kraig, executive director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin, said Ryan's voucher plan would put seniors at the "mercy of the health insurance industry."
"The result would be millions of seniors in their early retirement years forced to go without coverage when they are likely to need it most, greatly increasing their risk of early death or losing all of their hard earned retirement savings to medical bills," Kraig said. "This is much too high a price in freedom and security to pay for unnecessary and undeserved tax cuts for the wealthiest among us."


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He's very lucky. Mum and I got him a Phantom 3 Professional.
He's not as lucky as me though because I got a box within a box!
The more I've learnt about the Phantom, the more I've realised how PAWESOME it is! The humans took it to a furiends house to take it for its first flight and the footage they got was absolutely spectacular!
The long green strip of lights you can see in the distance of the photo is the runway at Rome Fiumicino airport! I've decided that the Phantom would be absolutely purrfect to make some brilliant video's for Film on Friday…
…so I've claimed it! It's mine now! I can't wait to get you some aerial footage of our marina and some of the beautiful places where we will be anchoring this summer!
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Mets cut eight from camp
The New York Mets optioned RHP DILLION GEE to minor league camp. The club also re-assigned seven players to minor league camp, including INF RUSS ADAMS, OF JASON PRIDIE and RHP RYOTA IGARASHI -all of which spent significant time with the Bisons a season ago.
Also re-assigned today were RHP BOOF BONSOR, LHP TAYLOR TANKERSLEY, C DUSTY RYAN and C RAUL CHAVEZ.
Gee, 24, was the Mets 2010 Sterling Award winner as the organization's top Triple-A player. With the Herd, the righty was 13-8 with a 4.96ERA and a Bisons modern era single-season record 165 strikeouts (161.1IP, 89ER). Gee's strikeout total was 28 more than the previous record of 137 set by RHP Vicente Palacios in 1990.
Gee's 165 strikeouts were 23 more than any other pitcher at the Triple-A level in 2010. He also finished second in the International League with his 13 wins. After the conclusion of the Bisons' season, Gee was promoted to the Mets where he was 2-2 with a 2.18ERA in five starts.
Adams, 30, spent the entire 2010 season with the Bisons and led the club with 28 doubles, 46 extra-base hits, 58RBI and 58 runs scored. In 108 games, Adams hit .264 (101-383) with 16 home runs while splitting time in the infield and the outfield.
Pridie, 27, played 40 games with the Bisons in 2010 until a pair of hamstring injuries shortened his season. The outfielder hit .280 (46-164) with three home runs, 19RBI and nine stolen bases.
Igarashi, 31, made 15 appearances with the Herd last season, posting a 2-1 record and two saves with a 3.31ERA (16.1IP, 6ER).


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A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, in Hoboken, NJ.
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A playground apparatus stands surrounded by water pushed up by Hurricane Sandy in Bellport, New York, Oct. 30.
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A general view from Exchange Place shows the skyline of lower Manhattan in darkness after a preventive power outage caused by giant storm Sandy in New York on Oct. 30.
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Burned down houses after a fire caused by Hurricane Sandy, in Breezy Point, Queens, New York City on Oct. 30.
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The Empire State Building towers in the background of an apartment building in Chelsea, New York City, with the facade broken off on Oct. 30, the morning after Hurricane Sandy.
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Cars floating in a flooded basement following Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 30 in the Financial District of New York City.
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The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel is flooded after a tidal surge caused by Hurricane Sandy, on Oct. 30, in Manhattan, New York.
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Kim Johnson looks over the destruction near her seaside apartment in Atlantic City, N.J., on Oct. 30, Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.
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Deputy Cliff Tice of the Dare County Sheriff's Department walks down damaged and impassable NC 12 leading into Mirlo Beach in Rodanthe, N.C. on Oct. 30.
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A street sign is partially buried in sand Tuesday morning, Oct. 30, in Cape May, N.J., after a storm surge from Sandy pushed the Atlantic Ocean over the beach and across Beach Avenue.
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A boat floats in the driveway of a home in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, Oct. 30, in Lindenhurst, N.Y.
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Looking out the high water in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on Oct. 29 in New York City.
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A keep off the dunes sign is buried Tuesday morning, Oct. 30 in Cape May, N.J., after a storm surge from superstorm Sandy pushed the Atlantic Ocean over the beach and into the streets.
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The University of Pennsylvania Press, with support from The Mellon Foundation, announces the launch of our new journal, Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development.In recent decades, the traditional contest of left and right has been displaced by a politics of humanity. In both domestic and international contexts, the languages of human rights and humanitarianism are often marshaled as moral claims that bolster diverse global enterprises of governance, intervention, and reform. And development—a Cold War project—has evolved beyond economic or institutional concerns. Now encompassing matters once targeted in human rights activism, it has also expanded to address the acute humanitarian crises once treated as episodic and temporary.
This convergence of the concepts of human rights, humanitarianism, and development within a larger politics of humanity is one of the signature phenomena of our time. The global politics of humanity legitimates itself not on the old foundation of settled international law but on new promises to generate new legal and political orders, to shape new social realities and relations, to forge new cultural connections and values. Human rights advocates find themselves involved in the rebuilding of political regimes, economic structures and the very social fabric of societies. Political advisers and academics of various persuasions engage in nation-building. Embedded anthropologists reengineer traditional social structures in the midst of military occupations. More than ever, politics aims at generating specific forms of life, and the celebrated decline of state sovereignty seems to coincide with the rise of biopower.
This new journal provides a single forum for the dispassionate, analytically focused examination of these trends. Humanity will explore the transformations in political understandings that have reshaped the terms of liberation and idealism as well as the practices of domination and control. While the global politics of humanity is emphatically a politics with an urge to mend, ameliorate, or even transform circumstances of disorder and atrocity, its very aspirational quality often immunizes it from critical inquiry. For a number of years now, scholars have been analyzing this convergence -- its formative history and future implications. Many powerful insights about these transformations have emerged from fields as diverse as anthropology, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology. Too often, however, this work has remained cloistered from scholars in other fields (and the world of practice), even though much of it shares a common intellectual genealogy; and the centripetal force of the disciplines has tended to perpetuate the divide between the social sciences and the humanities, even though both have a common stake in the world. As it welds these diverse enterprises in one space, Humanity will not offer skepticism for its own sake about various projects on the terrain of human rights, humanitarianism, and development. It will, however, prize analytical distance from them.
Humanity welcomes contributions from all disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences but also seeks to publish visual interventions – notably photographic material – as well as occasional interviews shedding light on the contested politics of humanity.
Contributions (which are peer-reviewed) should generally run 8,000 to 11,000 words, including apparatus, but both shorter and longer pieces are potentially viable. Also invited are thematic essay reviews, combining at least two recent books, between 5,000 and 7,000 words. Anyone interested in pursuing publication in the journal can write to the editors at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Samuel Moyn, Editor
Nehal Bhuta, Coeditor
Nils Gilman, Coeditor
Joseph R. Slaughter, Coeditor
Joseph R. Slaughter, Coeditor
Miriam Ticktin, Coeditor
In the first issue, look for…
Michel Agier on the politics of refugees, asylum, and camps
Isaie Dougnon on global humanitarianism and African child-trafficking
Lynn Festa on the distance, empathy, and the origins of "humanity"
Martti Koskenniemi on mainstreaming human rights
Andrew Lakoff on two regimes of global public health
And other texts, Nincluding a war photography dossier and an essay review


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Nordic walk (16+)
This weekly Nordic Walking group will meet at the Technology park and venture on different routes each week.
Meeting point is the small carpark at the end of Mariner Drive.
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Technology park (Mariner Drive)
Tuesday 21st January 2020
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- Duration: 60 minutes
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Location: Meet at the small car park at the end of Mariner Drive
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|System: Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Vita
|Dev: Criterion Games
|Pub: EA
|Release: October 30, 2012
|Players: 1
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Of course, with the Most Wanted title comes a whole boatload of cops. Yes, breaking the law will result in being chased down by squad cars. And these guys are relentless. I once spent over a half hour trying to shake them, though I was told afterward that your Wanted meter cools much faster when your car is at rest. Apparently my strategy of trying to outrun them at top speed wasn't such a good one after all. Initially, I was a bit frustrated by how much of my time I spent trying to escape the hands of the law, but after being taught how to properly avoid them, I'm antsy to get back into the game and test out my new police-dodging skills.
I was also able to try out the multiplayer portion of the game with some fellow journalists. Here, you are allowed to roam freely, but any player is able to start a sequence of tournaments. These involve standard races, team races, free-for-all smash-ups, objective-type modes, and more. Of course, once players get a taste for wrecking each other's cars, pretty much every event will ultimately deteriorate into a demolition derby. But if you happen to find a group of players who don't drive like sadistic maniacs (I was among professional journalists and found no such thing, so good luck with that), the multiplayer races are a ton of fun. Also, you won't have to deal with cop chases here.
Ultimately, my first six hours with Need for Speed only got me hungry for more. It'll be interesting to see how many of the game modes and features have long-term staying power and how many of those will get old and repetitive before all ten of the Most Wanted cars are collected. Well, I'll know for sure later this month when the game hits shelves, and you can bet your transmissions that Cheat Code Central will have a review.
Josh Wirtanen
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Date: October 12, 2012
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Welcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Curbside Classic, Racer and New Republic.
VW Scirocco Mk1 – Irreplicable, Although VW Keeps Trying — Curbside Classic
Scirocco: Awesome since 1974.
Volkswagen has endlessly tried (and still is) to replicate the brilliant success of the gen1 Scirocco. Ironic too, since they can't really take full credit for its existence. Success has many fathers, but VW's paternity is limited to lending its new Golf's genes; a sperm donor of sorts. It took a bit more to actually develop and put the Scirocco into production, some major risk taking on the part of its progenitors. The result was well worth it.
IndyCar: Bourdais bringing new attitude to KV — Racer
IndyCar news and notes that matter.
Every racing driver has a reputation of some sorts – the diva, the motivator, the whiner (or worse). And while those tags aren't always fair or accurate, they're hard to shed once they've made the rounds in the paddock.
The Loneliness of Vladimir Putin — New Republic
On December 19, Maria Baronova met me on the steps of the Nikulinsky courthouse, a squat Soviet-era building lost in a construction zone somewhere in Moscow's eternal sprawl. Against the once-white building and dull pewter sky, Baronova was the sole splash of color, her puffy magenta jacket open to the cold afternoon.


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Comment: On Memorial Day
Last Monday, the nation observed another Memorial Day.
With the country bogged down in a war of attrition in Iraq, the American people need to think long and hard about its legacy regarding war. For what do memorials mean if the bloody mistakes of history aren't learned?
Memorial Day--once called Decoration Day--was first observed after the end of the Civil War. Waterloo, New York—once a part of the great Iroquois Indian Confederacy —was where the first Memorial Day was observed in 1866. The holiday was first meant to commemorate the Union soldiers who fought in the Civil War, then, after World War 1 it memorialized those who died in any military engagement.
These days Memorial Day is looked upon as a day to remember fallen "heroes." Politicians give addresses filled with platitudes, while preaching "patriotism", sometimes, amid the backdrop of miles of tombstones. All of this is done to make the people feel good, while indoctrinating them into blind national obedience. Some, like George Bush talk about the "sacrifices" that the "brave" soldiers have made for the nation. However, what has this "president" and his "base" sacrificed?
For, while they brazenly use the treasury of the people like their personal ATM, soldiers still don't have sufficient body armor. Moreover, they continue to swindle the soldiers and their family out of health services. Does any serious person think that the neglect of U.S. Servicemen exposed at Walter Reed is but an aberration?
Also, according to the Veterans Administration on any given night there are at least 200,000 homeless veterans. In recent years, the figures have been counted as high as 500,000. Is this how they "support the troops?"
Many Americans have been taught that the wars started by their politicians are done in defense of "Democracy" and as acts of American benevolence. But does that sentiment really hold up under the scrutiny of history? No.
Since 1945 America has been involved in several military conflicts. There was North Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Somalia, Grenada, and so forth, along with two military operations in Iraq. In most of these cases the bogeyman excuse of fighting communism—terrorism is the 21st Century Red Scare—was used to a fever pitch to scare and incite the American people into supporting war.
American politicians seem to feel that they have the right to decide what forms of governments are acceptable around the world. This reality has led to tragic consequences where masses of innocent people, often women and children have been killed by bombs marked "Made In The U.S.A."
For example, we know now with the results of the John HopkinsLancet Study, that the number of Iraqis that have been killed in this war-for-profit by the Bush White House far exceeds the "thirty thousand give or take" figure that Bush flippantly gave. In fact, the John Hopkins figures put it over half a million people. Many of whom, were no doubt just regular citizens trying to live their lives. But the humanity of the Iraqis is denied here, because their stories are largely omitted by American journalism.
After 9-11, Americans were asking "why do 'they' hate us?" Of course in classic denial mode the chant of "they hate us because of our freedoms" reverberated through the nation. Once again fantasy is sold as history, because, the truth is often much less than the noble tales many tell.
Some like to talk about America being largely a force for good in the world; but this is nothing more than empty rhetoric devoid of any historical basis. For America has always used her military might to protect imperial interests. And the rogues list of despots she has propped up and or protected in doing so reads like a who's who of dictators: Cuba's Fulgencio Batista, Guatemala's Rios Mont, Chile's Augusto Pinochet, Congo's Mobutu, South Africa's P.W. Botha, Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos, Indonesia's Suharto, and the Saudi Royal Family, are but a fraction of these enemies of democracy that American foreign policy has shamelessly promoted.
At the present time the nation is mired in the quicksand that is Iraq. Last November, the people gave the Democrats a mandate by bouncing Republican after Republican from office. The people are obviously fed-up with this war. However, the Democrats have just given this Administration more money for the war.
This nation was embroiled in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975. Nearly 60, 000 American soldiers lost their lives, with nearly a million Vietnamese casualties. Now a similar situation is unfolding in Iraq, because of arrogance and imperialistic greed.
What will it take for this country to realize that war isn't a video game and that not only American lives matter? How many more have to die because of America's romanticized view of war? Philosopher George Santayana once said "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." America must ask herself why she refuses to own up to hers.
Benjamin is a member of The Black Star News's Editorial Board.
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- The legendary Pathfinders have taken their final jump and the Red Devils aren't too far behind.
The two paratrooper units -- formally known as the 5th Battalion, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division and the 508th Infantry Regiment -- are closing out long histories as a result of the U.S. Army's reconfiguration and budget cutting. Among the changes being made is a reduction in the number of parachute positions across the service.
"You have to make the best use of resources across the Army to make sure we're using tax dollars as best we can," said Jim Hinnant, a former 1st lieutenant and paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg and spokesman for U.S. Army Forces Command.
The military is capping parachute positions at 49,000 as part of the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance, a plan detailing the development of military forces through 2020. The plan calls for some units, including paratrooper units, to change their focus.
Lt. Col. Don Peters, the team chief for Operations, Intelligence and Logistics with Army Public Affairs, told The Associated Press the reductions are being made in part because of reduced budgets and to reach the mandated maximum number of paratrooper slots 49,000. Peters said 24 units accounting for 2,600 soldiers across the country were removed from jump status. That includes 12 units with the 18th Airborne Corps and the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg, N.C., and the Company F (Pathfinder), 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 159th Aviation Brigade at Fort Campbell, Ky.
"However, paratroopers continue to train and maintain readiness to execute airborne operations should a mission arise, and the impact on the reduction of paid parachute positions will not degrade the capability of the Army," Peters said.
The Army kept three standing pathfinder companies: Company F (Pathfinder), 5th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault); and Company F (Pathfinder), 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 159th Aviation Brigade, both at Fort Campbell, Ky.; and Company F (Pathfinder), 2nd Battalion, 82d Aviation Regiment at Fort Bragg, N.C.
The Pathfinder units are dropped into place in order to set up and operate drop zones, pickup zones, and helicopter landing sites for airborne operations, air resupply operations, or other air operations in support of the ground unit commander. They also handle rescues of downed pilots and helicopters.
In the case of the Pathfinders at Fort Campbell and the Red Devils at Fort Bragg, their units trace their history back to being among the first to drop into Nazi-occupied France at Normandy on D-Day during World War II, helping set the stage for the allied siege that eventually drove the Germans out of the country.
Current soldiers are aware of that history and what the loss of jump status means to their roles in the Army's future. Some are dismayed by the changes, but generally believe the units can still carry out the missions.
"History is history. Being on jump status is history. It's out of my control," said Sgt. 1st Class Bryan Beville of Cheyenne, Wyo., a member of the Pathfinders. "We'll continue to fine-tune what we do."
Staff Sgt. Ryan Savage, an Elk Rapids, Mich., native and Pathfinder member, said soldiers prepare for every scenario imaginable and while no longer jumping in ahead of ground troops, they'll be ready to tackle their duties without helicopters.
"It's a real fancy and pretty way to do it," Savage said of jumping from helicopters. "But, for every soldier, you still have to train and prepare to do the same mission."
The cutbacks have some airborne alumni worried about the future of paratroopers at various posts. Kenneth "Rock" Merritt, a retired Command Master Sergeant Major with the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, N.C., said the military's focus on special forces could be detrimental to units such as the one he served with until retiring in 1977.
"My big concern is ... I just wonder how long they're going to keep the 82nd Airborne on airborne status," Merritt said. "I'm wondering if some day, somebody's going to get the bright idea and the 82nd Airborne is going to go back to the 82nd Infantry."
Army officials haven't publicly spoken about pulling units from airborne status. Current soldiers hope one day they'll be allowed to return to making air jumps.
"We're ready for anything," said Sgt. Shea Goodnature of Clarksville, Tenn.


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It's all new at the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra announces its
2013–2014 season
A Season of Orchestral Tales & Legends
Ireland's national symphony orchestra, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, today (Tuesday 14 May) unveils plans for its new season at a free lunchtime concert under Principal Conductor Alan Buribayev at the National Concert Hall, broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm.
With in excess of 50 concerts between September 2013 and May 2014 the series will welcome over 50 international conductors, soloists and singers to Ireland and will profile some 20 Irish soloists and conductors. Six world premieres will be heard throughout the season including three new RTÉ commissions.
2013–2014 sees a range of Main Season and Beyond the Season concerts at the National Concert Hall – including Late Night concerts, educational concerts and concerts focusing on new music, concerts in celebration of Culture Night and RTÉ Big Music Week – as well as performances around Ireland in Castlebar, Cork, Kilkenny, Limerick, Navan, Tullamore and Waterford.
Many of the works in the Main Season have been inspired by stories, tales and legends ranging from fairytale depictions (Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Suite and Ravel's Mother Goose) to characters in music (Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé, Khachaturian's Gayane, Copland's Billy The Kid and Britten's Saint Nicolas) and from storytelling themes (Mussorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique) to the influence of Shakespeare on classical music (Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tchaikovsky's Hamlet and Berlioz's King Lear).
Speaking about the new season, the orchestra's Principal Conductor Alan Buribayev says: 'I look forward to celebrating with you some of the greatest stories ever told in classical music in the season ahead. Prokofiev is one of my most favourite composers and his film music for Lieutenant Kijé which we will perform on 4 April is full of orchestral colour and narrative. It's important and very fulfilling for me to work with Irish artists and I am particularly looking forward to collaborating with singers such as Anna Devin in Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Celine Byrne in the Four Last Songs as well as premiering a new work by Ed Bennett to open our season.' In the new season, Alan Buribayev will continue his Prokofiev complete symphony cycle and will conduct symphonies by Beethoven, Brahms and Dvorak.
Outstanding Artists
The new season will feature major international artists including the widely travelled Swedish cellist Torléif Thedeen (20 September); a return visit by the outstanding young Finnish pianist Antti Siirala performing Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 (8 November); the flamboyant Portuguese pianist, and a previous winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition, Artur Pizarro (22 November); the outstanding Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey (29 November); the young Bostonian violinist Stefan Jackiw (31 January) and a welcome return by the ever-popular Russian pianist Nikolai Demidenko, performing Liszt's Piano Concert No.1. Three internationally acclaimed British tenors make appearances with the orchestra this season: John Mark Ainsley (Britten's St Nicolas, 29 November), James Gilchrist (Bach's Easter and Ascension Oratorios, 18 April) and Kim Begley (Hiawatha's Wedding, 16 May).
Irish artists include the young Belfast-born pianist Michael McHale performing the Gershwin Piano Concerto in F (10 January); Miriam Murphy, soprano, and Imelda Drumm, mezzo-soprano in Verdi's Requiem (27 September); Cork-born soprano Cara O'Sullivan in the New Year Gala concerts in Dublin and, in 2014, also in Cork; the Dublin-born soprano, Anna Devin performing Barber's Knoxville with Principal Conductor Alan Buribayev (4 April); Sarah Power, soprano and Paula Murrihy, mezzo-soprano in Bach's Easter and Ascension Oratorios (Good Friday concert, 18 April); and rising star Claudia Boyle whose international career sees her working with artists including Joseph Calleja, Ricardo Muti and James Conlon, with Regina Nathan and Cara O'Sullivan in, for the third year running, The Three Sopranos Christmas Gala in association with the John Murray Show on RTÉ Radio 1.
Conductors include Alan Buribayev, now in his fourth season as Principal Conductor, conducting eight concerts; the young American conductor Jayce Ogren, described recently by the New York Times as 'pulsing, sensitive, and brilliant'; the Japanese-American conductor Eugene Tzigane, described by the Berlin Morning Post as 'a poised orchestral leader with fluent, elegant movement'; the outstanding pioneer of new music, David Atherton; the highly regarded choral specialist David Hill; and the early music conductor, Roy Goodman. The ever popular Barry Douglas also features in the season as pianist and conductor.
New Initiatives
The Main Season features some new ventures such as the Taster Concert on 6 September, featuring highlights from the new season and Inside the Music, a Sunday matinee on 3 November delving deep into the scores of two contrasting works (Beethoven Fifth Symphony and Hindemith's Violin Concerto), presented by the internationally acclaimed musicologist and broadcaster Stephen Johnson. Younger audiences and their parents will have an opportunity to venture into the world of orchestral music with a first-time focus on family film favourites by presenter Paul Rissmann on 24 May. Soundings, the regular free pre-concert talks at 7pm, will focus mainly on visiting soloists and conductors with some variation in format along the way, for example, Barry Douglas exploring the score of Benjamin Britten's Piano Concerto from the stage of the National Concert on 4 October as part of RTÉ Big Music Week which runs from Monday 30 September until Sunday 6 October.
Big on Britten
The orchestra will mark the centenary of one of the most iconic and distinctive composers of the 20th Century, Benjamin Britten, in a mini-season of concerts in October and November, including his masterpiece of orchestration, the Four Sea Interludes from his opera Peter Grimes on 18 October and his deliciously eclectic portrait of Saint Nicolas, with the RTE Philharmonic Choir and the outstanding tenor John Mark Ainsley, on 29 November.
New Horizons
New music by Irish composers Rhona Clarke, Marion Ingoldsby, Seán Clancy and Brian Irvine, and the composers they admire, features in the Horizons series of free lunchtime concerts in January and February. Presented by RTÉ lyric fm's Bernard Clark, the concerts will feature a world premiere each week including two new RTÉ commissions. The new concert format will include an 'insight segment' where audiences are introduced to the new works with the composer on stage talking through some excerpts from the work. All concerts will be preceded by the Composer in Conversation talks, presented in association with the Contemporary Music Centre. The Tuesday concerts will be broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm's Nova on Sunday evenings at 8pm.
New Collaborations
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is delighted to join forces with Ireland's national theatre for two matinee performances at the Abbey Theatre celebrating Shakespeare through words and music on 15 December. In March, the orchestra welcomes the ground- breaking composer Harrison Birtwistle to the stage of the National Concert Hall in association with Trinity College Dublin's Music Composition Centre as part of the New Music Dublin festival. Following on from the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra's focus on Raymond Deane earlier this year in which the orchestra performed three works including Ripieno, Deane's largest orchestral work, to mark his 60th birthday, the new season will see a collaboration with Wide Open Music, The Arts Council and the National Concert Hall in the world premiere of his concert-staged opera The Alma Fetish on 17 September.
RTÉ Philharmonic Choir
Following on from highly acclaimed performances in the 2012–2013 Season, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra looks forward to further collaborations with the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir under the direction of Mark Hindley. Verdi's Requiem (27 September) marks the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth and a welcome return to Dublin for the Belfast-born conductor Kenneth Montgomery. Bach's Easter and Ascension Oratorios on Good Friday will see the choir and orchestra work with the acclaimed period music director, Roy Goodman, and the season's storytelling theme is reflected in The Song of Hiawatha by the 19th Century Anglo/African composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. The work was one of the most popular choral works of its time following its premiere performance which was conducted by the Dublin-born composer and Professor of Music, Charles Villiers Stanford. The concert opens with the European premiere of a newly discovered work by Stanford, Song of the Soul, composed a century ago for the Norfolk Festival in Connecticut.
Early Evening and Late Night Events
Surrounding the season concerts are a series of music and speech events. Pipeworks, in collaboration with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the National Concert Hall, continues its popular run of free organ concerts at the new time of 6.45pm (with the exception of Culture Night on 20 September which starts at 6.10pm) and reflects the season theme of storytelling in music through five compelling concerts. Soundings, the free pre-concert talk series, continues at 7pm before most Main Season concerts and four Late Night concerts (free with evening concert tickets) feature outstanding soloists in 20-30 minute recitals after the 8pm concerts: the Dutch cellist Peter Wispelwey and pianists Barry Douglas, Joanna MacGregor and Nicolai Demidenko.
Out and About
It is important for the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra to perform throughout the island of Ireland and highlights in the new season will include a tour with the Scottish/Italian violin star Nicola Benedetti in December (Tullamore, Castlebar, Kilkenny and Navan), a March tour with the highly acclaimed Swedish trumpeter and conductor Håkan Hardenberger (Limerick, Waterfront and Dublin) and a New Year performance in Cork on 3 January.
New Leader
This season is the inaugural season for the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra's new Leader, Helena Wood. The orchestra is delighted to welcome Helena to this important role and looks forward to developing its artistic strengths in the years ahead with an artist and leader who brings considerable international experience and artistic prowess to the role.
Radio broadcasts
Main Season, Horizons and other selected concerts will be broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm.
Price and Value
Tickets from €10: Ticket prices for Main Season orchestral concerts (excluding New Year's Day), once again start at €10 with five price options available. Student stand-by tickets are €5 (subject to availability) and discounts (subject to availability) are available for senior citizens, students and the unwaged.
Free events: Early Evening concerts and pre concert talks continue to be free to all and Late Night concerts are free to main concert attendees. 100 free tickets will again be available this season for the main evening concert on Culture Night on Friday 20 September.
Discounts and savings: Savings are available for those who buy 3–12 concerts with discounted Main Season concert package deals starting at €28.50 and savings of up to €253 available on the Full Main Season package of 24 concerts.
Booking: Priority booking for current subscribers is now open. Full public booking opens on Saturday 18 May. Full details on www.rte.ie/nso
The Story Begins…
Speaking ahead of the season launch, Declan McGovern, General Manager, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra says: 'I look forward, on behalf of the musicians and staff of the orchestra to welcoming our concert and radio audiences to our new season of classical concerts, insight events, family programmes, 'out and about' concerts, world premieres, pre- and late-night concerts and new explorations! Our Principal Conductor Alan Buribayev will display his versatility across a broad palette of music this season including Stravinsky's Petrushka, an evening of Hungarian music, the continuation of his Prokofiev symphony cycle and Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs with the ever-popular Irish soprano Celine Byrne which brings the season to a close. I am delighted to welcome our new orchestral Leader, Helena Wood, and look forward to the artistic strengths she will bring to the orchestra in the months and years ahead. We are grateful for the support and collaborative spirit of our partners in the arts community and look forward to welcoming new and existing audiences to concerts in Dublin and throughout the country. Special thanks to our loyal customers, particularly our Subscribers, for their valued support. We hope that audiences will enjoy our orchestral journey over the year ahead as we 'visit' some 15 countries spanning three centuries of music, with some compelling orchestral tales and legends along the way.'
View season brochure online here