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A walled, sea-battered city lying at the foot of a grizzled mountain, Dubrovnik is Croatia's most popular tourist destination, and it's not difficult to see why. An essentially medieval town reshaped by Baroque planners after a disastrous earthquake of 1667, Dubrovnik's historic core seems to have been suspended in time ever since. Set-piece churches and public buildings blend seamlessly with the green-shuttered stone houses, forming a perfect ensemble relatively untouched by the twenty-first century. Outside the city walls, suburban Dubrovnik exudes Mediterranean elegance: gardens are an explosion of colourful bougainvillea and oleanders; trees are weighted down with figs, lemons, oranges and peaches.
For the Croats themselves Dubrovnik serves as a powerful metaphor for freedom, having spent much of its history as a self-governing city-state independent of foreign powers. The city played a more than symbolic role in the war of 1991–95, when it successfully resisted a nine-month Serbian-Montenegrin siege. Reconstruction was undertaken with astonishing speed, and the fact that conflict took place here at all only reveals itself through subtle details: the vivid orange-red hues of brand-new roof tiles, or the contrasting shades of grey where damaged facades have been patched up with freshly quarried stone.
The success of Dubrovnik's tourist industry has brought a certain degree of complacency and self-satisfaction. The city's museums are the most disappointing of any major Croatian city, and – despite a few honourable exceptions – the local restauranteurs are focused on raising prices rather than culinary horizons. Certain aspects of the city's appeal remain immune to tourist numbers, however; most notably the uniquely beautiful setting and the unjaded straightforwardness of the Dubrovčani themselves.
Dubrovnik is worth a visit at any time of year, although spring and summer – when life spills out onto the streets and café tables remain packed well into the night – bring out the best in the city. Croatia's cultural luminaries visit the town during the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in July and August, bringing an added dash of glamour to the streets, while the main event in winter is the Feast of St Blaise on February 3, when the patron saint of the city is honoured by a parade and special mass, followed by much drinking and eating. Be warned though: Dubrovnik's popularity with cruise liners can lead to big crowds during the day, when the Old Town can resemble a vast theme park-cum-souvenir shop for ship-borne day-trippers. And though Dubrovnik is increasingly an all-year-round destination, note that a good half of the city's hotels are closed from November through to March, and a lot of restaurants take the whole month of January off.
With a population of a little over 49,000, Dubrovnik isn't as large as you might think, and although it sprawls along the coast for several kilometres, its real heart is the compact Old Town. Doing the circuit of the city walls is the one Dubrovnik attraction you really can't miss, and it's worth doing this early on in order to get the feel of the place. The rest of the Old Town can easily be covered in a day and a half – although once you begin to soak up the atmosphere you'll find it difficult to pull yourself away. Running above the town to the east is the bare ridge of Mount Srđ, the summit of which provides expansive views of the town and the coast. The best place for swimming and sunbathing is the islet of Lokrum, a short taxi-boat ride from the Old Town.
The main tourist resorts south of Dubrovnik, Župa Dubrovačka and Cavtat, are within easy reach of the city by public transport. In addition, Dubrovnik's port is the natural gateway to the southernmost islands of the Croatian Adriatic, with the sparsely populated, semi-wild islands of Koločep, Lopud and Šipan providing beach-hoppers with a wealth of out-of-town bathing opportunities. Slightly farther out to sea, the green island of Mljet is one of the most beautiful on the entire coast – you'll need a day or two to do it justice.
Brief history
Dubrovnik was first settled in the early seventh century by Greco-Roman refugees from the nearby city of Epidauros (now Cavtat), which was sacked by the Slavs. The refugees took up residence in the southern part of what is now the Old Town, then an island known as Laus – a name that later metamorphosed into Ragusa. The Slavs, meanwhile, settled on the mainland opposite, from which the name Dubrovnik (from dubrava, meaning "glade") comes. Before long the slim channel between the two was filled in and the two sides merged, producing a symbiosis of Latin and Slav cultures unique in the Mediterranean. Ethnically, the city was almost wholly Slav by the fifteenth century, although leading families consistently claimed Roman lineage, and the nobility actively preserved the use of both Latin and Italian in official circles, if not always in everyday speech.
Initially subject to Byzantium, the city came under Venetian control in 1204. The Venetians stayed until 1358, when they were squeezed out of the southern Adriatic by Louis of Hungary. Officially, Dubrovnik became a vassal of the Hungaro-Croatian kingdom, although it effectively became an independent city-state.
The Ragusan Republic
The emergent Ragusan Republic was run by an elected senate – fear of dictatorship meant that the nominal head of state, the Rector (knez), was virtually a figurehead. However, the republic was by no means a democracy: the city's nobility was the only section of society allowed to vote. Civic peace was ensured by allowing the rest of the citizenry full economic freedom and the chance to grow rich through commerce. Dubrovnik's network of maritime contacts made it one of the major players in Mediterranean trade, but the key to the city's wealth was its unrivalled access to the markets of the Balkan hinterland. The Ottoman Empire, having absorbed the kingdoms of both Serbia and Bosnia, granted Dubrovnik this privileged trading position in return for an annual payment. Dubrovnik established a network of trading colonies stretching from the Adriatic to the Black Sea, from where wheat, wool, animal hides – and, for a time, slaves – could be shipped back to the mother republic before being re-exported to the West at a fat profit. As commerce grew, so did the need to protect it, and the republic extended its borders to include the whole of the coast from Konavle in the south to Pelješac in the north, as well as the islands of Mljet and Lastovo.
Culture and diplomacy
Mercantile wealth underpinned an upsurge in culture, producing a fifteenth- and sixteenth-century golden age when the best artists and architects in the Adriatic were drawn to the city. It was during this period that many of the urban landmarks of present-day Dubrovnik were completed: Juraj Dalmatinac and Michelozzo Michelozzi worked on the town walls, Paskoje Miličević drew up plans for the Sponza Palace, and Onofrio della Cava designed the Rector's Palace, as well as the two fountains that still bear his name.
Suzerainty over Dubrovnik had passed from the Hungaro-Croatian kingdom to the Ottoman Empire by the early sixteenth century, but shrewd diplomacy and the regular payment of tributes ensured that the city-state retained its virtual independence. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Dubrovnik enjoyed the protection of both Spain (Dubrovnik ships sailed with the Armada in 1588) and the papacy, but usually avoided being dragged into explicitly anti-Turkish alliances. In fact, wars between the Ottomans and the West usually led to increased revenues for Dubrovnik, which exploited its position as the only neutral port in the Adriatic.
Decline and fall
Decline set in with the earthquake of 1667, which killed around five thousand people and destroyed many of the city's buildings. Bandits from the interior looted the ruins, and Kara Mustafa, Pasha of Bosnia, demanded huge tributes in return for keeping the robber bands under control. Kara Mustafa's death during the Siege of Vienna in 1683 allowed the city the chance to rebuild, producing the elegantly planned rows of Baroque town houses that characterize the centre of the city to this day. However, the Austro-Turkish conflict of 1683–1718 seriously affected Dubrovnik's inland trade, a blow from which it never really recovered. By the eighteenth century Dubrovnik's nobility was dying out, and commoners were increasingly elevated to noble rank to make up the numbers; anachronistic feuds between the Sorbonnesi (old patricians) and Salamanchesi (newly elevated patricians, named after the universities of Sorbonne and Salamanca, where many young Ragusans studied) weakened the traditional social fabric still further.
The city-state was formally dissolved by Napoleon in 1808. The French occupation of the city provoked a British naval bombardment, while Russian and Montenegrin forces laid waste to surrounding territories, destroying much of suburban Dubrovnik in the process. In 1815 the Congress of Vienna awarded Dubrovnik to the Austrians, who incorporated the city into the newly formed province of Dalmatia. Political and economic activity was henceforth concentrated in towns such as Zadar and Split, leaving Dubrovnik on the fringes of Adriatic society.
The modern era
The symbolic importance of Dubrovnik long outlived the republic itself. For nineteenth-century Croats the city was a Croatian Athens, a shining example of what could be achieved – both politically and culturally – by the Slav peoples. It was also increasingly a magnet for foreign travellers, who wrote about the city in glowing terms, save for Rebecca West, for whom it was too perfect and self-satisfied: "I do not like it," she famously wrote. "It reminds me of the worst of England."
Already a society resort in West's time, Dubrovnik enhanced its reputation for cultural chic with the inception in 1949 of the Dubrovnik Festival, one of Europe's most prestigious, while the construction of big hotel complexes in Lapad and Babin kuk to the north, and Župa to the south, helped make Dubrovnik one of the most popular tourist destinations in Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s. After repairing the damage done during the 1991–92 siege with remarkable speed, Dubrovnik quickly recovered its position as Croatia's premier vacation spot.Read More
Food and drink in Dubrovnik
Food and drink in Dubrovnik
The choice of fish and seafood in Dubrovnik is as fine as anywhere in the Adriatic, with the waters around Mljet and the Elaphite Islands particularly rich in squid, lobster and shells. Oysters from nearby Ston also feature heavily on local restaurant menus. Among the dishes associated with Dubrovnik in particular are Šporki makaruli ("dirty macaroni"), tubular pasta served with a goulash sauce; and rozata, a vanilla-flavoured custard dessert similar to crème caramel.
The vineyards of the Konavle produce respectable red wines of the Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Plavac varieties, as well as Kadarun, an autochthonous light and fruity rosé.
The siege of Dubrovnik 1991–92
The siege of Dubrovnik 1991–92
Few thought that Dubrovnik would be directly affected by the break-up of Yugoslavia: no significant Serbian minority lived in the city, and its strategic importance was questionable. However, in October 1991 units of the JNA (Yugoslav People's Army), supported by volunteers from Montenegro and Serb-dominated eastern Hercegovina, quickly overran the tourist resorts south of Dubrovnik and occupied the high ground commanding approaches to the city. The bombardment of Dubrovnik began in early November and lasted until May 1992. Despite considerable damage to the town's historic core, Dubrovnik's medieval fortifications proved remarkably sturdy, with the fortresses of Revelin and St John (more familiar to tourists as the site of the aquarium) pressed into service as shelters for the civilian population.
The logic behind the attack on Dubrovnik was confused. Belgrade strategists unwisely considered it an easy conquest, the fall of which would damage Croatian morale and break the back of Croatian resistance elsewhere on the Adriatic. The attack on Dubrovnik also presented an effective way of dragging both the Montenegrins and the Serbs of eastern Hercegovina into the conflict, not least because it seemed to promise them ample opportunities for pillage. Attacking forces employed a mixture of bad history and dubious folklore to justify their actions. Dubrovnik's links with medieval Serbia, and the fact that so many leading Ragusan families had originally come from the Balkan interior, were unconvincingly offered up as evidence that the early republic had been part of the Serbian cultural orbit. In a particularly twisted piece of cultural logic, opportunist Serbian intellectuals painted modern-day Dubrovnik city as a cesspit of Western corruption that could only be purified by the macho values of the Balkan hinterland. A special edition of the Montenegrin magazine Pobjeda published in November 1991 and entitled The War for Peace argued, with startling mendacity/hypocrisy, that Dubrovnik was under the control of Croatian ustaše (World War II fascists) and therefore deserved to be conquered.
Contrary to Serbian–Montenegrin expectations, Dubrovnik's hastily arranged defences held out, and in the end the siege was broken in July 1992 by a Croatian offensive from the north. Once Dubrovnik's land links with the rest of Croatia had been re-established, Croatian forces continued their push southwards, liberating Cavtat and Čilipi.
Sea kayaking in Dubrovnik
Sea kayaking in Dubrovnik
Sea kayaking is a popular pastime in Dubrovnik and shoals of orange-bibbed paddlers pulling into Banje beach has become one of the city's most characteristic sights. A trip usually involves a group excursion in one-person kayaks, led by an instructor, and is an exhilarating way of seeing the walled city and its surrounding islands from a maritime perspective. Previous experience is not necessary, and the pace is gentle enough to suit most people of average health.
The most common excursions are a half-day trip round Dubrovnik's walls and the nearby island of Lokrum (around 260Kn per person), or full-day tours to the slightly more distant islands of Koločep, Lopud and Šipan (around 400Kn per person).
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Perla Adriatica Frana Supila 2, just outside Ploče Gate t 020 422 766, w perla-adriatica.com.
Dubrovnik beaches
Dubrovnik beaches
The daily trip to the beach is a way of life for Dubrovnik folk, and locals discuss their favourite bathing spots in the same way that British people talk about the weather. What follows is a list of beaches that offer something special in terms of atmosphere or fine views.
Busiest of the town's beaches, a mixture of fine shingle and sand just east of the Old Town, backed by trendy cafés, and with good views of the island of Lokrum. It holds a special place in the heart of Dubrovnik folk, as almost all of them spent at least part of their childhoods here. With much of the beach now covered in sun-loungers for hire, Banje has lost a great deal of its egalitarian bucket-and-spade charm.
Unlike its Brazilian namesake, this is a small crescent comprising pebbles and imported sand on the northwest side of Babin kuk (bus #6 from the Old Town). Owing to its proximity to Gruž's port facilities the water here is not the cleanest, but the combination of enjoyable cafés and good views of coastal mountains make it a good place to hang out if you're in the area.
Boulder-strewn stretch of coast popular with the locals, a few minutes' walk southwest of the Lovrijenac fortress. Great if you like frying on top of a rock.
Hotel Bellevue
A lovely crescent of mixed shingle and sand immediately below the hotel, with good views of rocky Boninovo bay. As an east-facing beach it loses the sun by late afternoon/early evening. Free to residents of the hotel, a small charge for everyone else.
Shallow bay on the southwest side of Lapad peninsula, with a shingle beach that soon gets overcrowded owing to the proximity of Lapad's package hotels. The beachside buildings are somewhat ugly, but it's the safest beach for kids and there are a lot of facilities round about. To reach it, take bus #6 (destination "Babin kuk") to Lapad.
Sveti Jakov
A smallish stretch of pebble at the bottom of a cliff, reached by steps which descend from the coastal path midway between St James's Monastery (Samostan svetog Jakova) and the Belvedere hotel – a good twenty minutes' walk east of the centre. Fantastic views back towards the Old Town. West-facing, so catches the afternoon and evening sun.
The Dubrovnik Summer Festival (Dubrovačke ljetne igre; July & Aug; w dubrovnik-festival.hr) stages classical concerts and theatre performances in the courtyards, squares and bastions of the Old Town. The emphasis is very much on high culture: the festival usually includes plays by Shakespeare and Marin Držić, a major opera, symphonic concerts and a host of smaller chamber-music events. Seats for some of the more prestigious events often sell out well in advance, but it should be possible to pick up tickets for many performances at fairly short notice. The full programme is usually published in April; for details and ticket booking information check the website. Once the festival starts, tickets (30–200Kn) can be bought from the festival information points, usually located on Stradun or outside Pile Gate.
The festival is followed almost immediately by Julian Rachlin and Friends (w rachlinandfriends.com; Sept), a short season of classical concerts featuring the world-renowned violinist and a host of other big-name guests, with events taking place in atmospheric venues such as the Rector's Palace and Revelin Fortress. Lastly, the Mali Glazbeni Festival (w parkorsula.com; June-Sept) is a season of rock, jazz and ethno concerts in Orsula Park, on the hillside east of town.


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The announcement of the Millennium Reserve is drawing positive attention to the Calumet Region and The Calumet Outdoors Series provides an exciting opportunity for people to experience these beautiful places first-hand. This series of free guided hikes, paddling excursions, and biking trips is offered throughout 2013 in Northwest Indiana and Southeast Chicago. A collaboration among several Calumet Stewardship Initiative (CSI) organizations, the Calumet Outdoors Series focuses on connecting people to the natural assets across the region. Building on ECCo's commitment to Calumet, ECCo scientists will lead several interpretive hikes as a part of this initiative.
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In the summary of Cameron Russell's talk it reads "...she takes a wry look at the industry(fashion) that had her looking highly seductive at barely 16-years-old." The first time I read this I didn't think much of it. But the more times I read it, the more second thoughts I have. The statement might as well read "the fashion industry had a high school student looking highly seductive." Something about that is uncomfortable. What do other people think about this?
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1. A child under 18 who is being promoted in a "sexual" manner; which is because people under 18 are soo called 'immature'.
2. A young adult who is doing what she likes and does it well.
I personally would go with option 2. Its her life and her decision to model and the media might have used a wrong set of words which provoke various thoughts, I say we are no one to judge her.
Its the perspective in which we choose to think about her. Make that right and the world is a happier place.
Also she's 16 and she might have looked seductive, so what? My ex last year was 16 (i'm still 17) and she used to wear super sexy clothes and i don't think anyone should be judged on it or by the words of someone else. You feel uncomfortable because most people presume anything seductive or whatever for people below 18/21 is wrong as you know it can be considered as CP or maybe because its social convention that a young person should be modest in looks and appearences. Anyway, the person we are talkin about here is a model, what do you expect?
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A 12-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy were stabbed multiple times in the attack.
Christmas Eve thieves who took off in a car got more than they bargained for.
It started when a babysitter went into the McDonalds on Hanging Moss road and left the car running with a three-year-old little girl strapped in the back seat.
A thief shattered the window of the car, entered it and then drove way, with the little girl still onboard.
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He took her to a dark street two and a half miles away and left her there.
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The little girl got out of the cold and was able to tell the Weathersby family what happened to her.
"When I got home the little girl was sitting in my living room and I asked her name and she told me. And I asked her what happened and.... she said 'The man dropped her off that broke Shay's window'," said Weatherby's wife Ora White.
"She's very smart, very intelligent. We just thank God that she is safe and back with her family for the holidays," added White.
Meanwhile, the police are still searching for the car.
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The missing vehicle is a tan 2012 Nissan Altima, tag number HQC218.
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The Shattered World: Book Two
Abduction was the only thing that could bring Selena out of hiding, and now, love is the only thing that can keep her that way. In a lawless world after the fall of civilization, most survivors band together, but even life in a community can be dangerous for a woman without a good man's protection. For Selena, Dan is that man.
Despite their love, she battles a persistent instinct to disappear again. At the height of her struggle, Jack, a charismatic and clever trader arrives and sets his keen sights on Selena. His dangerously bold efforts to seduce her turn her world upside down, and she finds herself powerfully drawn to his free spirited nature. While Jack promises Selena the life she craves, Dan pursues an opposite ambition that sends a shockwave through the lives of everyone in Brian's Crater. Meanwhile, someone is working in secret to sabotage his efforts, placing the community in mortal danger…
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From her own frightening experiences, Selena has learned just how dangerous men are. Now, she avoids them at all costs, mastering a thoroughly elusive lifestyle, until she meets her match. After a chance encounter, Selena's life is swept on a tide of chaotic involvement with Dan, an intense but disciplined leader who clashes with her approach to survival on every level. Through her wild experiences with this frightening but captivating man, Selena learns that the human animal loves as passionately as it kills.
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Friday afternoon, Newsline Nine spoke with Bucki's close friend of eight years, Julie Zietlow about the case.
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2011 Winter Issue 1 (January 14, 2011)
Editorial: Ducks
Last Monday, every lounge across campus was full of students watching the BCS championship game. It was an emotional roller coaster to watch for any football fan, regardless of loyalties. But for those of us who are die-hard Oregon fans, it was the capstone on what has been a tumultuous couple of years. What Carleton, and the rest of the country, saw on Monday was only part of the story. Oregon coach Chip Kelly has done a remarkable job of filling Autzen Stadium for the past two seasons, so performance clearly isn't the problem. It's the off-field catastrophes that have had the small town of Eugene, Ore., enraged at our normally deeply beloved Ducks.


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Louisville Water Company Receives National HonorsThe American Water Works Association has recognized Louisville Water Company's (LWC) efforts to protect ground water supplies. At the Association's annual meeting in San Diego this week, LWC received the Exemplary Source Water Protection award for large cities. LWC developed a plan to protect the ground water supplies near the B.E. Payne Treatment Plant in Prospect as part of the company's Riverbank Filtration program. Riverbank Filtration uses the earth as a natural filter to draw water from the aquifer next to the Ohio River. LWC is currently expanding the program by constructing a mile-and-a-half tunnel and well system at the Payne Plant.
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Metropolitan area employment, July 2010
September 08, 2010
From July 2009 to July 2010, nonfarm employment decreased in 25 of the 36 metropolitan areas with annual average employment levels above 750,000 in 2009.
The large metropolitan area that reported the biggest over-the-year percentage increase in employment was Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, Texas (+2.5 percent), followed by Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, Virginia-D.C.-Maryland-West Virginia. (1.4 percent) and Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (+1.1 percent).
The largest over-the-year percentage decreases in employment in large metropolitan areas were posted in Las Vegas, Nevada and San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, California (‑2.3 percent each), and Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, California, and Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Roseville, California (‑2.1 percent each).
These data are from the Current Employment Statistics (State and Metropolitan Area) program. July 2010 employment data are preliminary and subject to revision. To learn more, see "Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment — July 2010" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-10-1210.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Editor's Desk, Metropolitan area employment, July 2010 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2010/ted_20100908.htm (visited September 19, 2014).
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John Brown (abolitionist)
John Brown (9 May 1800 – 2 December 1859) was an American abolitionist. This meant that he wanted to get rid of slavery. He believed that it was acceptable to use violence to end slavery.[1]
Brown was a white man, born in Torrington, Connecticut. He strongly believed in Christianity. He believed that Christians should treat people the same no matter what color their skin was. Many white Christians in America at this time did not agree with this.[2] He always tried to make his churches allow African-Americans to be members of their churches, too.[3]
Brown lived mostly in Springfield, Massachusetts before moving to the Kansas Territory. This would later become the state of Kansas in 1861. Several of his sons were already living there. Brown's sons wanted his help to fight people from Missouri. The people in Missouri wanted slavery to be legal in Kansas. On 24 May 1856, Brown and his sons killed five people in Kansas who wanted slavery to be legal. They dragged the people out of their homes and killed them with swords. This was called the Pottawatomie Massacre.[4] Many people in Kansas were shocked and upset about this, even including other people who thought slavery was wrong. More violent things happened after this. Some people started calling the Kansas Territory "Bleeding Kansas".
In 1859, Brown went to Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He went there to attack a federal arsenal (a place where the government kept a large collection of weapons). He was planning on giving the weapons to slaves. The slaves would use the weapons to fight against their masters and become free. (Harpers Ferry is now part of West Virginia instead of Virginia). Brown attacked the arsenal in October 1859. His sons and several other men, including several black men, helped him with the attack. His attack did not work. He was captured, and was executed by hanging for treason on 2 December 1859.
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People had strong feelings about John Brown. Some people thought that he was crazy or evil. Other people thought that he was a hero. His attack on Harpers Ferry helped lead to the American Civil War. The war would start in 1861.[5]
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- ↑ Carola, Chris (4 December, 2009). "Pro-Violence Abolitionist John Brown Studied in New York". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/04/proviolence-abolitionist-_n_379905.html. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
- ↑ Reynolds, D (2005). John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, Knopf.
- ↑ "THE WEST - John Brown". PBS. 2001. http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/brown.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
- ↑ Walter, Bob (13 April, 2001). "Pottawatomie Massacre". Blue Skyways. http://skyways.lib.ks.us/history/khmlane.html. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
- ↑ McNamara, Robert. "John Brown, Fanatical Abolitionist Whose Raid at Harpers Ferry Led to Civil War". About.com. http://history1800s.about.com/od/americanoriginals/p/johnbrownbio.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2010.


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Into The Fire
Mazda Motorsports' 2012 Season Makes Its Stretch Run
Mazda is in the thick of North American road racing like no other manufacturer. In fact, in 2012 the automaker will be involved in more than 200 races, in more than a dozen series at three-dozen tracks across the U.S. and Canada. So for Mazda the season does not end with a bang but with a series of booming explosions that rival most Fourth of July firework extravaganzas. In the next few months a missed shift, poorly cut apex or a gutsy pass may be make-or-break moves for championship contenders. Here is what's in store as these Mazda-supported series come down the stretch.
In a great omen for 2012 one of the season's first series has wrapped up campaign and Mazda has claimed another championship. The 2012 Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car Drivers Championship belongs to Michael Cooper and his Atlanta Motorsports Group prepared Mazdaspeed3. Cooper hot-shoed his Mazda to six wins out of 14 races and was recognized as the 2012 rookie of the year.
NASA Championships
Enjoying its seventh year, the NASA Championships will play host to more than 300 racers in 25-plus classes of racing September 6th to 9th at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The most populous class is expected to be Spec Miata. Any Mazda-powered championship winners from the NASA Championships will be eligible to compete in the Mazda Club Racer Shootout in November.
Cooper Tires USF2000 National Championship Powered by Mazda
The USF2000 has contested 10 of its 14 races for 2012 and the finale is slated for September 14th to 16th at Virginia International Raceway (VIR). With four races to go the series will be at the second annual Baltimore Grand Prix next but the season hinges on the final double-header run over VIR's 3.27-mile Full Course. It's pretty much a two-way fight. Matthew Brabham, son of IMSA legend Geoff Brabham, and grandson of three-time F1 Champion Jack Brabham, leads the points with three wins. In second place is Spencer Pigot who is a former Skip Barber/Mazda karting shootout winner. Pigot has five wins. In third place, with two wins in the last four races is 2011 Skip Barber National Champion Scott Anderson.
SCCA National Championship Runoffs
The big dog of club racing runoffs, the SCCA National Championship Runoffs, will be celebrating its 49th running in 2012. The biggest class is often Spec Miata, which set the all-time Runoff record with 60 starters in 2010 but the B-Spec racers from the Pirelli World Challenge and numerous other Mazda rides will also be gunning for glory. Expect to see anywhere from four to eight Mazda-powered champions who, like their NASA Championship counterparts, will also earn the right to compete in the Mazda Club Racer Shootout. The Runoffs will be held September 18th to 23rd at Road America.
Continental Tires Sports Car Challenge
Mazda is in the running for the ST Class championship and the series will hit Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca before the show closes at Lime Rock Park on the weekend of September 27th.
Its crowded in the ST class with nine competing makes in the mix but with two races remaining in the 10-race series three have broken away from the pack. Mazda, BMW and Honda are in a scramble.
In the drivers and team championships, it is Mazda in first and third. Pierre Kleinubing and i-Moto Racing lead the points tally with 188 while with Freedom Autosport drivers Tom Long and Derek Whitis in a statistical tire for second with 170 point but the tiebreak is currently going against them so they are scored in third. Kleinubing has one win, a pair of seconds, and a pair of fifths. Long and Whitis have been a model of consistency with six top-10 finishes in the first eight races.
Rolex GRAND-AM GT Championship
Things are tight in the Rolex GRAND-AM GT Championship. After 11 of 13 races the top five in the manufacturers' standings are all within 32 points of each other with Ferrari leading Chevrolet, Porsche, Mazda and BMW. The #70 SpeedSource RX-8 team has been the top Mazda with one win, four podiums, and nine top-7 finishes. The SpeedSource team, series driver and team champions in 2010, is fourth in points. Like the Sports Car Challenge racers the Grand-Am combatants will visit Mazda Raceway prior to the finale at Lime Rock on September 27th.
Skip Barber Summer Series Formula Cars & MAZDASPEED Challenge
After the first 12 of the long 20-race summer campaign it's a Jack versus Jack proposition in Formula cars. Jack Mitchell Jr. leads Jack Eidson in points 297 to 290 and Andrew Hobbs is still within striking distance in third with 271. There is still plenty of season left. The series will have double-headers at Mid-Ohio, Autobahn Country Club, and Mazda Raceway before concluding at Lime Rock. The top drivers from both the Winter and Summer series will be competing in a post-season shootout for a Mazda Road to Indy seat in the 2013 USF2000 Championship.
Over in the Miata-based MAZDASPEED Challenge Kenton Koch and his 280 points leads Bryan Hixon, 271, and Brett Hawkins, 248, for the championship after 10 of 16 races. The series will have double-headers at Mid-Ohio and Autobahn Country Club before concluding at Lime Rock October 5th.
Formula Drift
Where road racing relies on grip Formula Drift looks for slip. Mazda is represented by two RX-8 teams in Formula D, the premier drifting series in the U.S. Kyle Mohan Racing and Team Bergenholtz will be heading to Irwindale Speedway in Southern California, aka the House of Drift, October 12th to wrap up the season on a high note.
Skip Barber/Mazda Karting Shootout
Perhaps the lowest wrung on Mazda's Driver Development Ladder the Skip Barber/Mazda Karting Shootout puts 50 of the top kart racers from across the county on the track with a chance to grab the brass ring; a seat in the 2013 Skip Barber series, the gateway into the Mazda Road to Indy program. Karters will converge on VIR for four days of intense competition October 15th to 18th.
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With eight wins from the first 10 races, Tristan Nunez leads the L1 Mazda-powered class championship by 22, 184 to 162 over rookie Mikhail Goikhberg. The series will race at VIR before concluding at Road Atlanta during the Petit Le Mans weekend October 17th to 19th.
Star Mazda Championship Presented by Goodyear
The oldest continuously run road-racing series in America is the Star Mazda Championship. Now in its 21st season, the Star Mazda series gives many racers their initial exposure to open wheel racing. With six wins from the first 12 races, series rookie Jack Hawksworth is batting .500 and leading the championship by 41 points over a surging Sage Karam, Gabby Chaves, and Connor De Phillippi. The series will have double-headers at Baltimore and Mazda Raceway before heading to Road Atlanta for the season finale October 17th to 19th.
SCCA Pro-Racing Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup & Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Pro Challenge
The competition in the MX-5 Cup has been fierce with four different winners in the first seven races. As the series turns for home with four events left on the calendar, four drivers have broken away from the pack as Stevan McAleer leads John Dean II, Ara Malkhassian and Christian Szymczak with only 46 points covering the lot. Before the double-header Road Atlanta finale, the Cup cars will race at VIR, and Coronado Island (San Diego) and the standing should be even more stacked as the line up on the grid at VIR.
The competition within the Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Pro Challenge class has been strong with four different winners. The three drivers leading the points chase are Zachry Lee, Bryan Hixon, and David Knight.
American LeMans Series Presented by Tequila Patron
LMP1 has been a straightforward, stand in the middle of the ring and swing two-car battle between the Mazda-powered Dyson team and the Muscle Milk HPD with a scant 12 points of separation. The Dyson team Victory Lane at the season opener at Sebring, and won again at Road America in the closest finish in ALMS history. The team plans to stay frosty because with three races remaining, Baltimore, VIR, and the season ending Petit Le Mans Powered by Mazda October 17th, they expect even more on-track theatrics. Dyson Racing is no stranger to late season intensity as they are seeking to repeat their 2011 season championship.
Mazda Club Racer Shootout
Another Ground Zero stepping stone and the biggest prize in all of club racing for road racers is a full ride in the Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup. That's what's up for grabs at the Mazda Club Racer Shootout. To be eligible for the shootout, a driver must win a recognized club racing championship with Mazda power. This year, for the first time, Canadian racers are eligible for the prize, valued at $75,000. It all goes down November 12th at California's Buttonwillow Raceway.
Skip Barber Racing School Champions Shootout
The Skip Barber Racing School Champions Shootout promises intense competition and a healthy dose of late-season drama. Held December 14th to 16th at Road Atlanta the shootout mixes the top racers in the Skip Barber Winter and Summer Series for Formula Cars with a fully funded season in the 2012 USF2000 Championship for the drive that comes out the other side on top.
Mazda pays it forward with its innovative MAZDASPEED Motorsports Ladder and the Mazda Road to Indy that rewards star-bound drivers who win one of its series by sponsoring them in a more advanced racing series. The ultimate wrung on the ladder is Indycar and the Indianapolis 500.


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Robert (Bobby) Donovan, 62, passed away on Friday, Jan. 4, 2013.
He was born in Germany and grew up traveling there until his family moved to the United States when he was 12. Here, he lived in several states: Massachusetts, Kentucky and Texas. He was proudest of his time in the military, the Marines, where he served in Viet Nam.
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Honorary pallbearers will be Southern Breeze Motorcycle Club of Tallahassee, Florida.
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Thanks to Minden Medical Center for the great care they provided for Bobby and our family. The staff showed much love, respect and compassion and will always be remembered.
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Bobby is preceded in death by father, Robert C Donovan of California; stepfather, Lou Johnson of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and a very special friend, Bro. Jim Morgan of Baytown, Texas.
Bobby is survived by his wife, Susan Terral Donovan of Heflin; his mother, Nadine Johnson; his sister, Marianne Hastings and her husband, Paul, all of Colorado Springs, Colorado; Special MOM, Isabelle Lee of Minden; his stepbrothers, Floyd and Will of Texas; nephew, Jay Hastings and his wife, Kimberly of Arizona; special daughter, Tela Dooly Smith and her husband, Nathan of Ringgold; special daughter, Amanda Dooly Rust and her husband, Brian of Dubberly; son, Thomas Dooly of Louisiana; daughters, Deonna Sutton and Deana Sutton both of Tallahassee Florida; and 14 grandchildren.
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GAIN Founding CEO Dr. Juan José Daboub and Chief Scientist Dr. Noble highlighted the necessity for private sector leadership in adaptation in a July 11 ClimateWire article, "Companies begin to see necessity and profits in adapting to climate change." Author Lisa Friedman quotes GAIN leadership alongside other business leaders including AECOM's Gary Lawrence and Swiss Re's Mark Way.
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ClimateWire is led by veteran Wall Street Journal reporter John Fialka, and the reporting crew includes award-winning writers who worked at the Houston Chronicle, Denver Post and LA Daily News. ClimateWire also serves up compelling content from our bureaus in New York and California and from our highly talented newsroom at our Capitol Hill headquarters.
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A company in Ghana sells weather forecasting text messages to farmers. A Colorado-based environmental consulting firm specializing in hydrologic forecasting helps countries from Bangladesh to Romania identify and map flood hazards. And in the United Kingdom, the makers of a popular fruit juice are developing new strains of black currants to keep local farmers in business as milder winters shrink harvests.
From real estate to reinsurance, the private sector is beginning to take unusual new steps to protect communities — and itself — from the impacts of climate change.
In what was once the domain of governments, nonprofits and occasionally the charity wing of a major corporation, businesses are increasingly eager to shield their assets as well as the countries in which they work from the risks of rising temperatures, analysts say. Known in climate policy parlance as "adaptation," the field is seeing an uptick of interest from CEOs who find they can build resilience to climate change in a way that also generates profit.
"For a long time, the private sector was missing in action in the space of adaptation," said Juan José Daboub, CEO of the Global Adaptation Institute (GAIN), who was tapped yesterday to chair the Global Agenda Council on Climate Change of the World Economic Forum. His organization pioneered an index last year aimed at helping the private sector rank its investments in adaptation by measuring countries' vulnerabilities as well as their ability to improve resilience.
"People have started to realize there are water shortages and droughts, and energy is not being efficiently used and is being wasted. Not only are their businesses in jeopardy, but there is a business opportunity to provide solutions to these problems," Daboub said. "The interest is growing as the urgency to adapt is becoming more evident."
Adaptation itself is a relatively young field. For years, environmental groups resisted focusing on helping communities cope with climate change, for fear it would distract from the challenge of reducing the man-made greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are to blame for large-scale changes in the Earth's climate systems.
By 2007, though, experts acknowledged that the impacts of climate change were already being felt. The poorest countries, which rely more heavily on farming, fishing and other natural resources, are hit the hardest and are most in need of measures to protect their populations from harm.
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To that end, nations agreed two years ago through the U.N. climate negotiations to launch the Green Climate Fund to raise billions of dollars for adaptation measures as well as clean energy development and protecting tropical forests. With that, experts say, began the sometimes controversial and still-nascent discussion over what role businesses should play in adaptation.
"There had been this view of adaptation being very much a government- or public-sector-led activity, which I think is a mistake," said Michael Mullan, an economist and adaptation expert with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. "A country's success at adaptation is going to be crucially linked to what the private sector does."
Indeed, conventional climate policy wisdom has dictated that protecting populations from flooding and cyclones, the changing patterns of malaria, shrinking crop yields and other problems is the government's responsibility. Moreover, while the making and selling of wind turbines, solar panels and other tools of reducing emissions is clearly a money-making venture, few have seen profit potential in adaptation measures like planting mangroves or developing small-scale irrigation systems.
Yet increasingly, leaders are trying to bring business to the table on adaptation. Earlier this year, the U.N. climate change secretariat launched the Private Sector Initiative, aimed at catalyzing the involvement of companies. The initiative's database now includes 80 case studies of business adaptation projects. Together, groups are working to help businesses understand risks to their supply chains, what benefits companies might reap by assisting communities and how public policy could capitalize on private-sector work. Slowly but surely, experts said, executives are starting to view adaptation as a business venture.
"I think we're just now at the tip of the iceberg in terms of companies saying, 'Hey, this is not just a CSR [corporate social responsibility] issue. We need to be taking this seriously throughout our operations," said Heather Coleman, a senior climate change policy adviser at Oxfam America. She argued that while the overarching responsibility for climate adaptation will rest with governments, it's critical to also give businesses the tools to help bolster the communities in which they operate.
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A study that Oxfam, along with seven companies, released yesterday sets out for the first time guidelines for companies interested in understanding coming climate risks. The report notes that last year alone, businesses suffered more than $60 billion worth of weather-related insured losses globally. The drought in Texas cost the agricultural sector an estimated $7.6 billion, while the 2010 heat wave in Russia led to $15 billion in losses from related wildfires.
Louisiana-based Entergy Corp. was spurred into action by Hurricane Katrina and its lesser-known sister, Hurricane Rita. Together, the two cost the electric utility company nearly $2 billion in losses and prompted senior managers to start preparing for potential future climate impacts. The company relocated important business centers and put together a business continuity group to look at the implications of climate change in the context of other business threats. One study of the Gulf Coast's vulnerabilities found that, on average, the 70 miles of coastline faces annual losses of $14 billion from wind and storm damage.
"The bottom line is, we felt it was really important to reach out and work with our communities and build more resilience," said Jeff Williams, director of climate consulting for Entergy Corp. Increasingly, he said, other companies are coming to similar conclusions as they assess their ability to preserve their assets and continue providing services.
But, Williams added, businesses still need to be educated on how to approach thinking about risk management in the face of climate change. "All too often, we use the uncertainty of climate change to ask ourselves, 'Is it happening or isn't it?' I think the uncertainty isn't that. It's how big the impact is going to be."
Ian Noble, chief scientist with GAIN and the former lead climate change specialist at the World Bank, was asked to speak at a U.N. climate conference side event on the role of the private sector in adaptation. Speaking at the GAIN conference a few days earlier, he noted that of the eight speakers, including himself, "not one of them was from the private sector, which I think is indicative of the problem."
"The private sector wants to know, where do we get advice and guidance on how to address climate risk and develop projects or models?" he said.
Awakening in the insurance industry
The reinsurance industry is one sector that has been making business decisions in adaptation for some time.
Mark Way, head of sustainable development with Swiss Re, said the company has been working on adaptation since 2007, focusing on insurance policies to manage the consequences of severe weather. The company put together a team to study how to work with governments to deal with new climate risks to understand emergency liquidity in different countries.
"How can we improve access to insurance in part of the world that has little or no insurance and through that build resiliency?" Way said. "How do we use insurance as a climate adaptation tool?" Asking those questions led the company into a number of projects like one in which it teamed up with Oxfam to integrate insurance mechanisms in development projects in Ethiopia.
But Way stressed that SwissRe's involvement in adaptation is not purely altruistic. And, he added, over the years, he has seen a growing number of companies start to understand that their bottom line is intimately connected with the climate. Last year's flooding in Thailand alone resulted in a $30 billion economic loss, costing the insurance industry about $12 billion and affecting more than 4 million properties, he noted.
"What is changing for sure is that the private sector is getting the message that they are vulnerable to severe weather impacts. People see their supply chains are vulnerable to climate impacts. I've spoken to a number of corporates about this recently, and they see this as something that's in their interest to address this."
Yet a slice of the environmental movement is skeptical and resistant to the private sector's involvement in adaptation precisely because such efforts mix altruism with a healthy dose of commercial interest. Many activists argue that adaptation is a matter of compensation: Poor countries are suffering because of the emissions spewed by wealthy nations — and those governments must pay up, not allow companies to pick up the tabs.
Janet Redman, co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, said she is concerned that businesses will merely pay for projects in their own financial interest instead of those that governments prioritize as critical. She and others also objected to making money off of countries' vulnerabilities.
Green groups remain suspicious
"The private sector should certainly be concerned about adaptation, but I don't think that the private sector is the most appropriate way for financing to be mobilized," she said. When it comes to things like infrastructure, land-use planning and designing of food systems that communities will need, she said, "I don't think these are appropriate places for the private sector to be thinking about profit motive, which is the definition of the private sector."
It's the kind of thinking Gary Lawrence, vice president and chief sustainability officer with AECOM, said he's been battling. Lawrence, a senior adviser to former President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development and a U.S. negotiator to the United Nations' second conference on human settlements, said he thinks the business and environmental communities are still learning how to relate.
"I think we have just never figured out how to have a conversation about how the business community wants to solve these problems and recognizes that our futures are tied to solving these problems, but given our nature, we have to make money at it," Lawrence said. He recalled speaking last year to the U.N. General Assembly on disaster resilience — the only person invited to do so from the business community — and acknowledged that the desire for profits certainly holds dangers.
"I wouldn't suggest that they not take great care, but being paralyzed from action because of suspicion is not going to get us anywhere," he said. "Government doesn't have any money of its own. It has the money it extracts from the institutions that create wealth. If we're going to really have the resources necessary to focus on both mitigation and adaptation and risk reduction, then we're going to have to have some wealth creation associated with it, and it doesn't have to be at the expense of anyone else."
Lawrence said he sees opportunities in particular for businesses in moving key infrastructure out of coastal zones, building structures for urban agriculture, and getting food production closer to wastewater locations and to consumers. That's an area he said AECOM is working in, trying to figure out how to align the business to help regions where traditional food sources may soon no longer be available.
Daboub argued that in the absence of an international climate treaty — and with little hope that any agreement will materialize until the next decade — it becomes all the more important for businesses, environmental groups and policymakers to focus on ground-level changes to make countries more resilient to climate change.
"We can no longer wait for a bureaucrat in a dark room somewhere in Belgium or the U.K. or Washington to decide for us. We have to start making practical and pragmatic decisions," he said.


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