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Like most Americans, I was encouraged about race relations in America when Barack Obama was elected president in 2008.
The United States closed its last detention facility in Afghanistan and transferred all remaining prisoners to Afghan custody, U.S. officials said Thursday, ending a controversial chapter in America's war against terrorism.
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A Los Angeles-area man suspected of killing his wife was taken into custody Thursday after police cornered the man in his vehicle on a freeway in San Diego County.
CIA Director John Brennan, responding to the Senate torture report, acknowledged Thursday in a rare televised news conference that "abhorrent" tactics were used on terror detainees and said it was "unknown and unknowable" whether the harsh treatment...
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San Antonio, TX (SportsNetwork.com) - Tony Parker led six San Antonio players in double figures with 16 points in the Spurs' 92-79 rout of the Washington Wizards on Wednesday.
Boris Diaw added 15 points, Kawhi Leonard chipped in with 13 and Tiago Splitter finished with 12 points and nine boards for the Spurs, who won their sixth straight game to improve to 8-1.
Manu Ginobili and Marco Belinelli added 10 points apiece in the win.
Martell Webster scored a game-high 21 points to go with 10 rebounds and Bradley Beal scored 19 for the Wizards, who dropped their third straight game.
John Wall had 14 points and eight rebounds, but went 5-for-19 from the field in the setback.
"We knew we had to stop guys like John Wall and Bradley Beal because they had been playing very well," said Parker. "I thought our team did well overall on pick-and-rolls and transition defense. I think this is where we want to be defensively."
The Spurs raced out to a 14-3 lead and led 25-17 after the first quarter.
San Antonio's lead swelled to 19 points following a Parker runner, but the Wizards managed to cut the lead to 52-42 following Beal's jumper as time expired in the first half.
Washington continued to chip away, slicing its deficit to three, 60-57, with 3 1/2 minutes left in the third, but the Spurs closed the frame on a 10-0 run for a 70-57 lead entering the final frame.
"We worked our butt off to get (the 19-point deficit) down to three. And then we just made dumb mistakes on both ends of the floor. We got away from what got us there," said Beal.
San Antonio led by as many 25 in the fourth quarter en route to the lopsided win.
Game Notes
The Spurs outscored the Wizards 52-30 in the paint ... San Antonio's bench outscored the Washington reserves, 49-30 ... The Spurs shot 50.6 percent (39-77) from the floor and limited the Wizards to just 36.3 percent (33- for-91) efficiency ... The Wizards failed to score 100 points for just the second time this season.


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Lewis Hamilton reckons he gained more satisfaction by clinching pole position in tricky conditions in China that he usually would...
Lewis Hamilton reckons he gained more satisfaction by clinching pole position in tricky conditions in China that he usually would.
The Mercedes driver made history in Shanghai on Saturday afternoon, as predicted by bookmakers Paddy Power, when he set a new record for the most pole positions for a British driver.
Amassing his third of the season and a career 34th, Hamilton edged ahead of Jim Clark in the British standings while he is now fourth in the all-time stats.
But it's the fact that he claimed that pole position in trying conditions that really put a smile on Hamilton's face.
"Definitely the most satisfaction is getting this result when it is raining," Hamilton revealed.
"It was so slippery out there, trying to find the grip and not make mistakes.
"It was a tough session, I really enjoyed it, the car was feeling great.
"There's always stuff we can improve but the team has done a good job and I hope we can follow through tomorrow."
The 29-year-old posted a best time of 1:53.860 to comfortably beat Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo by 0.595s.
However, Sunday will be a very different day.
With the Chinese GP expected to take place on a dry track, Hamilton, who is the odds on favourite to take the win, reckons he should be able to edge the Red Bull drivers who could be closer if it rains.
"I was told it was going to be a good day tomorrow," he said. "It is always hazy here so you don't know what will happen with the weather.
"I hope it is a dry race, I'd see these guys [Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel] a little closer in the wet."
Hamilton is chasing his first successive hat-trick in F1 in Sunday's Chinese GP having won the most recent Malaysian and Bahrain GPs.
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|Vermont Ski Furniture
Most likely you have seen those chairs or tables made out of old skis but did you know that there is a company in Vermont that makes those products?
Vermont Ski Recyclers is a 12 year old, Morrisville Vermont company making furniture from outdated ski equipment that otherwise would have ended up in a landfill.
The furntiture is often used indoors but naturally the skis can hold up to many many years of outdoor use.
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The Tennessee Conservationist features More Great Hikes from Tennessee State Parks in each issue of the magazine. This tradition was begun in 2005 by Fran Wallas, an accomplished trailblazer and trailbuilder with a gift for sharing her experiences from a variety of pathways crisscrossing Tennessee State Parks. The More Great Hikes series continues Fran's legacy by sharing first-person encounters with state park hiking and walking trails, and by offering helpful insights into the types of unique natural features one should expect to find along that hike.
Remembering Fran Wallas: trailbuilder, trailblazer and state parks advocate
The Tennessee Conservationist family lost a dedicated contributor, tireless trailbuilder and stalwart for Tennessee State Parks when Frances Fran R. Wallas passed away on October 20, 2010. One of the many ways Fran shared her love of trails, state parks and the outdoors was through her "Great Hikes" series offered in print and online. Our thoughts, prayers and best wishes go out to Frans family and many friends. We will always remember Fran and the tremendous contributions she made for our great state and the great outdoors. Indeed, we pledge to continue the "Great Hikes" series with her zeal for trail building and exploration in mind.
|March-April 2011
by Louise Zepp
Harrison Bay State Park
This native pink azalea was seen blooming trailside at Harrison Bay State Park.
|May-June 2011
by Bob Richards
Bledsoe Creek State Park
Trailhead sign for the Mayo Wix Trail, a 0.75 mile long paved trail at Bledsoe Creek State Park.
|November-December 2011
by J.R. Tinch
Tims Ford State Park
Second suspension bridge on Lost Creek Overlook Trail at Tims Ford State Park.
|January-February 2010
South Cumberland St. Park
Upper Greeter Falls on Stone Door Trail in South Cumberland State Park.
|March-April 2010
Norris Dam State Park
Yellow Trout Lily found on TVA's River Bluff Trail at Norris Dam State Park.
|May-June 2010
Cedars of Lebanon
Glade Cress, seen along the Hidden Springs Trail at Cedars of Lebanon State Park.
|July-August 2010
South Cumberland Rec. Area
Brianna Millar climbing bluffs at Foster Falls in South Cumberland Recreation Area.
|September-October 2010
Cumberland Trail
Rock escarpment on the Possum Creek Segment of the Cumberland Trail.
|November-December 2010
Rock Island
Twin Falls is a popular kayaking spot at Rock Island State Park.
| January-February 2009
Fort Pillow State Hist. Park
An overnight backpacking campsite in Fort Pillow State Park.
| March-April 2009
Edgar Evins State Park
Toothwort is one of the white blooms seen on a spring hike at Edgar Evins State Park.
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Cumberland Trail
Gaywings bloom along the Piney River section of the Cumberland Trail.
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Long Hunter State Park
An Eastern Prickly Pear cactus along the trail at Couchville Cedar Glade at Long Hunter State Park.
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Pinson Mounds
The wetland along the boardwalk at Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park.
|November-December 2009
Tims Ford
The evergreen Ground Cedar, of the Clubmoss family, can be seen at Tims Ford State Park.
| January-February 2008
Cumberland Mtn State Park
The narrow passage on Pioneer Trail at Cumberland Mountain
State Park in Crossville.
| March-April 2008
Meeman-Shelby Forest SP
Cypress knees on Pioneer Springs Trail at Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park.
| May-June 2008
Old Stone Fort
Virginia Bluebells in bloom March-May at Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park in Manchester.
|July-August 2008
Fall Creek Falls State Park
The trailhead of the Gilbert Gaul Trail at Fall Creek Falls State Park.
|September-October 2008
Warriors' Path
Patrick Henry Lake at Warriors' Path State Park in Kingsport.
|November-December 2008
Cumberland Trail
Gary Ruetenik of Crossville gets a great view on his hike at Black Mountain on Cumberland Trail.
| January-February 2007
Long Hunter State Park
Three Ways to Hike The Perfect Winter Trail at Long Hunter State Park
| March-April 2007
Standing Stone State Park
The Lake Trail's in Bloom at Standing Stone
| May-June 2007
Burgess Falls SNA
The butterfly garden at Burgess Falls State Natural Area.
|July-August 2007
Cumberland Trail
Sandstone rock house at the beginning of the Obed Wild and Scenic River Segment.
|September-October 2007
Roan Mountain
Chestnut Ridge Trail at Roan Mountain State Park in Roan Mountain.
|November-December 2007
Savage Gulf
A view from the Savage Creek Overlook in Savage Gulf.
| January-February 2006
Pickett State Park
Pickett State Park's Hidden Passage Trail is a Wonderful Winter Trek
| March-April 2006
Radnor Lake State Park
Radnor Lake State Natural Area Offers an Easy Hike for People Wild About Wildflowers
| May-June 2006
Frozen Head State Park
Frozen Head State Natural Area Offers an Overnight Hike With Scenic Detours
| July-August 2006
Carter Natural Area
Buggytop Cave-A Cool Hike for a Hot Day
| September-October 2006
NB Forrest State Park
Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park - A Colorful Woodland Loop
| November-December 2006
Montgomery Bell State Park
A Six-Mile Overnight Hike For Beginners of All Ages
|January-February 2005
Mousetail Landing State Park
Intermediate Overnight Loop Trail at Mousetail Landing State Park
|March-April 2005
South Cumberland
Beginner Backpacking Hike to Horsepound Falls
|May-June 2005
Cumberland Trail
Rock Creek Segment Offers A Shady Hike for a Hot Day
|July-August 2005
Fall Creek Falls State Park
Fall Creek Falls Cable Trail - The Shortest Hard Hike
|September-October 2005
Big Ridge State Park
Big Ridge State Park - A Haunted Hike For the Halloween Season
|November-December 2005
Big Hill Pond State Park
Wetlands, Wilderness and Wildlife at Big Hill Pond
Totaling nearly one thousand miles, Tennessee State Parks' trails reflect the state's great natural diversity and offer an incredible array of outdoor recreational opportunities.


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Former AFL player and now NFL punter Saverio Rocca has scored a narrow victory in the opening Lexus Celebrity Challenge race.
Rocca's strategy was akin to a seasoned professional, working himself into a nice rhythm in the early laps before eventually dislodging polesitter Corbin Harris to hit the front.
From there Rocca showed plenty of defensive flair, eventually recording a 0.2518-second victory over Harris, with a late burst by Luke Ricketson getting him up into third at the end of the five-lapper.
Ross Stevenson also came home with a wet sail to nail fourth, ahead of Andrew Scifleet and Shannon Eckstein.
"That was pretty exciting stuff," said Rocca. "I took advantage of a small mistake by Corbin to hit the lead, and then three corners from home I was so busy looking in my rear vision mirror that I forgot to brake.
"Then it was a bit of the old 'Fred Flintstone' paddle to try and get the car back up to speed to hold off Corbin! Great fun."
As usual, the celebrity race produced its fair share of 'love taps' with Bondi vet Dr Chris Brown the most obvious casualty after he was hit from behind by Ricketson, leaving the mudguard on his Lexus CT200h dragging on the circuit.
Brown soldiered on to finish ninth, behind Brian McFadden and Chris Mulvey in seventh and eighth.
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The Making of an Exhibit "Granite Frontiers"
Granite Frontiers will be shown at the Autry National Center from June 12th - October 4th. A lot of work goes into making an exhibit. A special thanks to the proffesional staff at the Autry. They have been a real pleasure to work with. The following photos reflect some of that work. This exhibit is made possible by grants from the Yosemite Fund and the Autry National Center. Lots of pictures.
Installing the banners with the classic Greg Epperson photograph of "Big Wall Pete".
Andi hard at work.
After the items have arrived, the first step is to lay them out in Collections and make labels for each item so that they can be identified.
Patrick the chief exhibit designer and Andi the collections specialist. These two people are a lot of fun to work with and among the best in their field. They obviously work well together.Patrick arranging with the required white gloves and Andi looking on to make sure nothing is getting moved without her knowledge.
Patrick hard at work. Patrick has done some climbing but, has never seen a lot of this gear before. The rest of the Autry crew seems to be enjoying the challenge of this exhibit more and more.
Some of the 1930's goodies that belonged to Jules Eichorn and Bestor Robinson.
Now we're getting serious. Jonathan the Curator is making sure the text corresponds with the items. Patrick is behind him and someone else double checking in the background. The Autry is a first rate organization and they have experts for every thing needed to put together a quality exhibit. I am fortunate to have the chance to work with them. I apologize for forgetting the name of the woman that is in the background. I will edit when I remember her name. I love her expressions in the next few pictures.There are so many experts in their field at the Autry that it is hard to keep up with everyone. What an experience!A sample of the piton ware exhibited. What workmanship! Every time I look at this stuff it gets easier to know who made it.
Jonathan working with Sarah over his shoulder. Sarah is the unknown but appreciated workhorse in the collections department. She caught and corrected some of my cataloging mistakes. My hat is off to her. Thank you Sarah.
What do you think?
Everything is laid out tagged, labeled and ready for layout in the cases.
Sarah and Lauren working with the framed photos in the collections area.
Sarah the collections specialist extrordinaire hard at work.
Meanwhile, upstairs the former exhibit has been removed and the new exhibit area is being prepped. The mandatory rock wall. This formation has hand, fist and finger jams for the public to try out.
Katherine is painting the newly installed walls.
Everything is good!
Crew Leader Julia is doing what ever needs to be done. She works tirelessly, the first one to work and the last to leave. She is very good at her profession and an employee that any employer would love to have.
Here she is again.
The painting is getting close to being done.
Some of the cabinets are being built in place. All the cabinets have no hardware showing.
Patrick checking out some of the modern gear that was donated by Black Diamond, Petzl and Mammut.
Nice and shiny!
Time to get down to business.
Sequence is crucial.
Things are starting to happen now.
See that little picture, I want a big picture.
O.K. Patrick! I get the big picture. These guys did a great job.
Do we have time? Working on the Timeline.
Even Royal looks tired.
Taking special care with the Lynn Hill poster.
We need more time. Adjusting the timeline.
I would like it like this!
Beautiful custom cases made by Antonio are being installed and leveled. They have the right tools to ease back strain.
The writing is on the walls. Lynn is looking on.
A happy place to stick your hands and figure out how it is done.
Black Diamond portaledge donated by Conrad Anker. Yes, you can try it out if you want. Gayle did. [IMG]http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i170/chickenskinner/Autry-40.jpg[/IMG]
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Andi and Anne are overseeing installation of the artifacts.
Kathy is cleaning plexi bonnets.
Andi adjusts Lynn Hill's tiny little shoe so that it is just right.
The mother ship of all tool carts "the Death Star".
Sarah and Joanne dress up the mannequin in the Bat Tent.
Patrick, Andi and Sarah look on as Joanne puts the finishing touches on the mannequin.
Time to hang the Bat Tent.
Bat Tent is up and now it is time to hang some of Chuck Pratt's gear.
The view looking down from the interactive portaledge.
The Big Wall area is coming together.
In fact, the whole exhibit is coming together.
The Salathe case is nearly done.
Patrick and Kathy discussing what needs to be done.
Installing the dirt and pine needle colored flooring in the Camp 4 section.
Steve Grossman swaging the shiny gear to the authentic redwood table in the Camp 4 section.
TM herbert sitting on a ledge above the Timeline.
28' panorama of Camp 4.
The other Sara, Andi and Lauren working near one of the satelite tool carts called "the Sputnik".
Lots going on now. We have a deadline.
Gary Colliver on Leaning Tower. This is a large Glen Denny photo that is in the entrance to the exhibit.
Antonio the Master cabinet builder.
Installing the interactive rock walls.
Positioning John Muir.
Joanne fixing the heel hooking climber.
Sara putting the finishing touches on the entry panel.
Cleaning the plexi bonnets.
Steve tightening down the rock walls.
Working on the lighting.
The gear table in the Camp 4 section.
Zak working on the video.
Installing the gear tethers.
Steve hanging decorations for the opening reception.
The piton tethers are in place.
Sara helping with the lighting.
The Clean Cart and the crew scrambling to get the exhibit ready for the public.
The sport climbers near the entrance.
Putting Centra behind the portaledge to save the wall.
Lauren and Sarah appear to be pleased with the results.
The portaledge.
Fitting the covers on the cases.
It is looking good.
Putting the final touches on one of five video monitors.
Some of the Autry crew at the opening reception. Left to right: Antonio the master of cabinet making, Anne the senior designer, Julia who can focus on a hundred things at once and get it done, Katherine the sweetheart that was working all over the exhibit, Jim that worked many long days to get it done is with his son and Ken with the hat on.
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Michael Dinsmore has turned his love of the outdoors into a career with the Bureau of State Parks. The Dagus Mines native was recently named the manager of Little Pine State Park Complex, based in Lycoming County.
St. Marys native Brad Heigel recently became the guy who ensures that Commonwealth residents have a smooth ride when they travel the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Heigel, was recently named as the chief engineer for the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC).
The Rev. Paul R. Taylor, O.S.B., is a very busy man. The St. Marys native has served in many capacities at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe and was recently named the institution's executive vice president.
Over the past 10 years, Elk County native Aaron Dush has been involved in the field of anticoagulation medicine, also known as blood thinners. It is within the past three years Dush was recruited to begin his own practice from the ground up at The James Cancer Hospital at The Ohio State University, where he works as a Clinical Pharmacist Specialist in Anticoagulation.
General George S. Patton once exhorted, "Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."
And, William Decker is primed to experience that exhilaration, as is evidenced by his recent promotion to the position of programming department manager at Wyoming Women's Center. According to Decker, the challenge was a welcome one.
"I'm constantly challenging myself," Decker said.
Burkina Faso sounds like a girl's name--and maybe somewhere it is--but it's also the Land of the Upright People, a small country in West Africa. Nestled snugly amid such better-known neighbors as Ghana, Cote d'ivoire, Mali, Togo, Niger, and Benin, Burkina Faso is home to the Burkinabe people and, for the last two years, Shannon Wachter. A glance at the World Almanac could tell you much about the country's people, history, and land, but all it offers are statistics. As any traveler can tell you, to truly know a place, you have to live there.
From performing roots canals while on a swaying U.S. Navy warship to repairing a bomb-sniffing dog's broken canine tooth, endodontist Gregory Engel, DMD, MS has seen many things in his 16 years of practicing dentistry.
As the owner of Beach Endodontics in Virginia Beach, Va., Engel, 42, specializes in root canals and although some may view the procedure as unpleasant, Engel strives to ease patients' fears, especially those with dental phobias.
Assisting the state's growers in raising healthy crops is just a portion of what St. Marys native Emily Pfeufer Kelly, 26, is working on toward her way to becoming a plant pathologist.
People often look up to their older siblings and follow their lead, but St. Marys native Melissa Flacinski said it was her younger sister Jessica who influenced her to become a speech-language pathologist.
Flacinski is currently employed as a speech-language pathologist (SLP) in a high/middle school in New Holland, Pa., working mostly with students in the life skills, learning support, autistic support and multiple disabilities programs.
Earl Nightingale is credited with saying, "The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment."
Thursie Stroup Rigard, a Westline native and former Kersey resident currently in her mid-80s, epitomized this as she recently accomplished her goal of writing and publishing an account of a murder she witnessed in Westline as a child.


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Jane SlayreIt's the sign of the times. Postmodern literature (with its main focus on irony, scepticism, metafiction, deconstruction in Derrida's sense where any text is open to repeated and not coincident interpretations...) is coming to an end and the current paradigm is shifting again to what has been called post-postmodernism characterised, according to Mikhail Epstein, by the re-birth of utopia after its own death, after its subjection to postmodernism's severe scepticism, relativism and its anti-utopian consciousness(1). And it is a current trend in any change of paradigm that the dying model play its last card taking no hostages. Giving it all it's got and burning its bridges. Mashup literature is as much a symptom as the logical conclusion of the most extreme and literal interpretation of postmodernism. In recent years we have lived an ecclosion of dozens of titles starting with the seminal work of Seth Grahame-Smith Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and continuing with many others: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, Android Karenina, Alice in Zombieland, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim, Little Vampire Women...(2)
by Sherri Browning Erwin and Charlotte Brontë
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
(13 April 2010, US / 29 April 2010, UK
It's a phenomenon that is not exactly new as we can trace many other examples of mashup in comics and cinema (and quite obviously in music and art). Jess Nevins's League of the Extraordinary Gentlemen, Paul Di Filippo's Steampunk Trilogy... William Beaudine's western-meets-horror films of the sixties: Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter or Billy the Kid versus Dracula, the Universal monster mashup movies of the late 1940s, etc(3).
Mashup literature (when it uses classics like Austen, Brontë, Twain, Alcott, etc...) is obviously quite related to fan-fiction but should not be considered a legitimate version or a mass market version of fanfic. The audiences are quite different. Fan-fiction is created and addressed to a public who knows by heart the original works and enjoys creating imaginative (or not) deviations. Mashup literature is addressed to a general audience, particularly the ones that will never read a classic. We don't really think that the vast majority of the audience that reads the new version will feel the need to read the original. In this sense its (legitimate) purpose is unlike, for instance, the different comic adaptations that from time to time spring up.
In this context we have the recent publication of Jane Slayre by Charlotte Brontë and Sherri Browning Erwin. Of course the double authorship gives caché and is sellable but we are not talking here of the original novel with a few suppresions and several additions(4), the novel is a complete rewriting of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. There are fragments that are kept identical (not the most iconic, which are quite modified) but the general impression is that the narrative has been abridged or trivialised, the language simplified and the structure shifted to increased dialogued parts at the expense of the meticulous descriptions of Charlotte Brontë which are systematically axed. Nonetheless, the language and tone of the novel are consistent and the two authors are in harmony with no recognisable changes of style.
On the whole, Jane Slayre follows the events of Jane Eyre quite faithfully, changing several circumstances, introducing fantastic elements some of which work better than others. The Gateshead episodes with the vampire Reed family turn out surprisingly well(5), the Lowood zombie splatstick section (which Peter Jackson would have loved in the days of Braindead) is great fun or the St John stake-o-matic moments which are gloriously silly. Nevertheless, the lycanthropy topic in Thornfield Hall is not so successful and particularly the proposal scene of Rochester and Jane is very badly handled. Not only are the passion and emotion of the original lost but the fantastic elements do not accomplish any purpose and do not add anything but subtract a lot. This scene signals the worst moments of a novel which sometimes presents an annoying tendency to introduce an alien element (usually a vampire attack) with methodical periodicity which turns the initial surprise and interest into a routinary appearance of vampires which are quickly disposed of by our heroine(6).
The character of Jane Slayre is altered, modernised (this causes no few creaks in the novel where her reactions and actions cannot be acommodated in the sociohistorical context of the novel) becomes a sort of Victorian Buffy. It will not present any problem for a new reader which does not know the original novel (as the character is well delineated) but it gives a few troubles to the Jane Eyre connaisseur as sometimes Miss Slayre behaves in a way that Miss Eyre would never do. This is a Jane who guesses what is going on in the third storey in the wedding scene, who has few ethical problems when it comes to thinking of disposing of Bertha. A Jane who does not say 'I will scorn your idea of love' to St John. A Jane who does not need to explain to her readers that 'women feel just as men feel' maybe because this is a Jane from the 21st century incarnated in a 18th century heroine.
We would have preferred it if the novel had renounced to the co-authorship of Charlotte Brontë and the retained fragments had been reformulated as a reinvention in an alternate Britain full of strange and dangerous creatures fought by the terrible aliance of the Slayres. Without Charlotte Brontë's self-imposed corset it is likely that Sherri Browning Erwin's narrative would have been freer and more fluent. But, of course, we know what the imperatives of the market are.
Next step: Wuthering Bites.
(1) Mikhail N. Epstein, Alexander A. Genis, Slobodanka M. Vladiv-Glover (Editors), Thomas Epstein (Introduction), Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture, Berghahn Books, 1998
(2) The Brontës are not immune as apart from Jane Slayre, Sarah Gray's Wuthering Bites or Wuthering Heights and a Werewolf...and a Zombie by Ralph S. King are scheduled to be released this month.
(3) There are also plans for a movie version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies or low budget films like Bonnie & Clyde vs Dracula (2008).
(4) Other recent mashups rely too much on the original text limiting themselves to a cut and paste work that transforms the novels into a sort of Frankenstein-like product. Curiously, Mary Shelley's novel is explicitly referenced in Jane Slayre.
(5) What doesn't work so well is the fantastic landscape of this Britain plagued by vampires and zombies where depending on the moment everyone is alert to their dangers or thinks that all these creatures are nothing more than superstitions. Suspension of disbelief needs also coherence.
(6) One has to admit that Jane Slayre's first meeting with St John is much more believable in its context in Sherri Browning Erwin's take than in Charlotte Brontë's original. Nevertheless we cannot but regret that opportunities given by the narrative are not used. The Gytrash myth is curiously not mentioned and possible jokes are overlooked (for instance, the tombstone of Helen Burns with its Resurgam engraving...)
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This spacecraft, of the Ye-2A class, was the first Soviet probe designed to take pictures of the far side of the moon using the Yenisey-2 imaging system (replacing the Yenisey-1 used on the abandoned Ye-2 probe).
The TV system consisted of a 35-mm camera with two lenses of 200-mm (wide-angle) and 500-mm (high-resolution) focal lengths and a capacity to read up to 40 images. Strictly speaking, the probe was not meant to reach escape velocity; instead, the launch vehicle inserted the spacecraft, called the Automatic Interplanetary Station (AMS) in the Soviet press, into a highly elliptical orbit around the Earth at 48,280 x 468,300 kilometers, sufficient to reach lunar distance.
During the coast to the moon, the AMS suffered overheating problems and poor communications, but the vehicle eventually passed over the moon's southern polar cap at a range of 7,900 kilometers on 6 October before climbing up over the Earth-moon plane.
At a distance of 65,200 kilometers from the moon, on 7 October, cameras began taking the first of 29 pictures of the far side of the moon. The exposed film was then developed, fixed, and dried automatically, after which a special light beam of up to 1,000 lines per image scanned the film for transmission to Earth.
Images were finally received the next day (after a few aborted attempts). Seventeen of the images were of usable quality and showed parts of the moon never before seen by human eyes. The spacecraft, named Luna 3 after 1963, photographed about 70 percent of the far side and found fewer mare areas on the far side, prompting scientists to revise their theories of lunar evolution.


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Maryland Department of Transportation Secretary James T. Smith insisted Tuesday that Charles County retains control over its comprehensive plan update during an annual meeting between county and state transportation officials, but stood by his letter sent last month questioning whether the draft plan supports the county's long-term goal of bringing a light rail line to Waldorf.
Smith was cordial in assuring the county commissioners that his Aug. 23 letter "was not intended to tell you what to do with your zoning," but to suggest the low-density residential designation given to large swaths of the county in the draft plan could conflict with federal standards for transit projects.
"What it was intended to do was to let you know that depending on what your land use plan is, [it] could seriously impact, and probably would seriously impact, your vision and your top priority of getting the mass transit to Waldorf," he said.
Smith noted that construction of the Baltimore Red Line and Purple Line connecting Bethesda and New Carrollton each depend on $900 million in federal funding.
"Land use policies that don't support the densities that are necessary to attract federal transportation dollars really prevent the opportunity to pursue those projects," he said. "So I wasn't telling you what to do. I was just suggesting that you look at the full picture of what you have going for Charles County, and kind of decide how are you going to address your No. 1 priority for mass transit against your rural residential land use policies, and are they compatible? Do they work together to get you all that you want?"
Given that the state is set to pay $5 million for a study on transit options linking Waldorf to the Branch Avenue Metro Station in Marlow Heights, Smith added that "it would be irresponsible of me" to not raise the issue with the commissioners.
Nonetheless, "the decisions to be made are yours, not the Department of Transportation's," he concluded.
Commissioner Ken Robinson (D) thanked Smith for his "candor" on the matter, while board Vice President Reuben B. Collins II (D) said the county remains committed to the light rail project after making it a priority for the last five years.
Smith's letter came a couple of weeks after Maryland Department of Planning Secretary Rich Hall called the Charles County Planning Commission's Aug. 5 approval of the draft update "pitiful" on his personal Facebook page. A similar letter from Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Secretary Raymond A. Skinner followed on Sept. 11, and 13 members of the Maryland Smart Growth Subcabinet — including Hall, Smith, Skinner and 10 other agency heads — signed a Sept. 20 letter expressing "serious" concern with the draft plan.
DHCD Assistant Secretary for Neighborhood Revitalization Carol Anne Gilbert was the only subcabinet member to not sign the Sept. 20 letter, but she wrote in an email Wednesday that her signature wasn't needed since Skinner represented the department.
"I certainly support the letter," she said.
Each fall Maryland's transportation agencies meet with local jurisdictions to present the state's Consolidated Transportation Program, which accounts for every project planned over the next six years. The latest CTP calls for $15.4 billion in transportation funding through fiscal 2020, the most in state history, Smith said.
Smith credited 2013 legislation enacting a gas tax increase with a needed $4.4 billion "infusion of funding" needed to repair and add to the state's aging infrastructure. Included in the funding is $34 million for Charles County projects — the transit study, two $12 million allotments to expand the county's commuter bus service and purchase rights of way for a future interchange at Route 5 and Accokeek Road in Brandywine, plus another $5 million to complete federal environmental surveys required to build Waldorf interchanges along U.S. 301 at Berry Road and Mattawoman-Beantown Road.
The CTP also includes $6 million in toll revenue for preliminary engineering work on a Gov. Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge replacement, the total cost of which is estimated at $850 million.
Collins thanked Smith for the transportation funding coming to Charles County.
"I think we've come full circle to the extent that, in last year's CTP we had a designated page, but on that page there was," Collins began, but Smith finished the sentence for him.
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First, it's "Super Series", MLB's official highlight film for the 1975 World Series between the Reds and the Boston Red Sox. Narrated by former NBC color commentator Joe Garagiola, it features all the great moments of one of the most exciting seven-game Fall Classics ever played: Carl Yastrzemski's headlong diving catch, and Luis Tiant's mastery in Boston's 6-0 Game 1 shutout; Fred Lynn's diving catch, and Cincinnati's ninth-inning comeback off Bill Lee and Dick Drago that evened the series in Game 2; Joe Morgan's 10th-inning game-winning hit in Game 3; Tiant's gutsy 163-pitch complete game victory for Boston in Game 4; Tony Perez' two homers in a Game 5 Reds victory; three days of rain before the legendary Game 6, when Bernie Carbo's game-tying homer, Dwight Evans' miraculous 11th inning catch, and Carlton Fisk's classic 12th-inning body-english Home Run saved the Red Sox from elimination; and the Reds' comeback from a 3-0 6th-inning deficit to win the game and the series, thanks to a hanging-slow-curve from Lee to Tony Perez, a blister that took Lee out of the game, and clutch hitting from Pete Rose and Morgan in the 9th.
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Beginning with tonight's Gatorade football scrimmage in Corning, it's time to cheer on the black, silver and teal of the Southwest Valley Timberwolves.
There are no more red and black Corning Red Raiders, nor Villisca Bluejays. The Timberwolves, under former Corning head coach Kent Bass and a staff assembled from both former programs, takes the field for real next Friday at Thornburg in a week zero contest against Tri-County before opening district play at home (Corning) against Stanton the following week.
With whole grade sharing commencing this school year, the merged football program was granted one more year of Eight-Man football before switching back to 11-man football in Class A next year because of enrollment. This year's squad, filling the second year of Villisca's district schedule, has 36 players.
When we were covering all of the Corning regional softball games, I wish someone had come up to me and mentioned the Red Raider Retired festivities that took place July 26-28 in conjunction with the annual Lazy Days of Summer observance.
The advertisement in our newspaper about the Lazy Days schedule had "RRR" references, but it wasn't registering with me what was going on. I was busy that weekend with state softball wrap-up duties, but it would have been fun to have head over for the Red Raider Pride Parade on Saturday.
Several activities were held as the community officially retired the Corning School District Red Raider mascot. Many alumni came back for the observance, and there was a parade with more than 50 entries. There were performances by the alumni band, and a program officially proclaiming the Red Raider mascot "retired."
My very first high school event to cover for a southwest Iowa newspaper after graduating from college was the Corning Wrestling Tournament in 1980, which of course, later became the John J. Harris Invitational after its dedicated founder.
I was in the old Armory for the Atlantic News-Telegraph, and later made several more trips to Corning after joining the News Advertiser staff. Percy Stielow and Bob Myers were among the iconic coaches I met over the years there. There are stlll many longtime Red Raider coaches I enjoy working with.
And, of course, there was the tragic and untimely death of athletic director Greg Andrews, a good friend, in 2008.
There have been many terrific memories covering the Corning Red Raiders. Now, it's time to start building new memories at the scene of Southwest Valley Timberwolves events.
Mat Beu, Southwest Valley athletic director, said in most sports a home game or two will be held in Villisca, which is the home base of the district's middle school sports. Geographically, it would make sense to have those be the games scheduled against western opponents like Stanton or Red Oak.
As for conference play, the new school just takes over Corning's spot in the Pride of Iowa Conference. Villisca was formerly in the Corner Conference.
Southwest Valley's emergence is one of many changes in the southwest Iowa athletic landscape this year.
The Hawkeye 10 now has 11 members with Council Bluffs St. Albert joining Atlantic, Clarinda, Creston, Denison-Schleswig, Glenwood, Harlan, Kuemper Catholic, Lewis Central, Red Oak and Shenandoah this school year.
St. Albert, which was already playing many H-10 schools, has a strong athletic tradition and should be a contender for a top spot in just about every sport.
Jeff Bevins, Creston athletic director, said there will be no north and south divisions anymore in the conference.
"In basketball, the finish is based on how you do against the other 10 teams, the first time you play them," Bevins said. "We still play some of those teams twice, but you are not required to anymore. So, there will be a 10-game conference schedule."
Schedules are being rearranged to allow each school to still play twice in softball and baseball. Each school meets once in volleyball and wrestling, and there will still be a wrestling conference tournament.
Bluegrass grows
Perhaps the biggest change in the area is the end of the Rolling Hills Conference. From that league, Orient-Macksburg, along with Iowa Christian Academy, Ankeny Christian Academy and Grandview Park Baptist joined the Bluegrass Conference, which now has 13 schools.
The other six schools from the disbanded Rolling Hills Conference join five from the former Western Valley Conference to form a new league called the Rolling Valley Conference. The RVC is made up of Adair-Casey, Ar-We-Va, Boyer Valley, Charter Oak-Ute, Coon Rapids-Bayard, CAM, Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton, Glidden-Ralston, Paton-Churdan, West Harrison and Woodbine.
Kim DeJongh, Orient-Macksburg athletic director, said the size of the Rolling Valley Conference and Bluegrass Conference are such that trying to schedule nonconference games against former rivals like Adair-Casey and CAM have been difficult in most sports. Scheduling is still "a work in progress" except for the fall, she said.
In the Bluegrass, divisions are set up for volleyball that limits travel requirements in the vast geographical area of the league that stretches from Orient-Macksburg to Moulton-Udell in southeast Iowa, a 124-mile trip that could take nearly three hours.
Imagine driving from Creston to Iowa City for a high school game, and that's the time span for these kids on a bus for basketball, baseball and softball contests.
The good thing is, only one league game per year is scheduled between conference foes, so you would make that trip every other year, not annually, in a given sport.
In volleyball, besides the divisional games, two triangulars are scheduled to bring together teams from cross divisions. O-M hosts such an event Oct. 1 involving Twin Cedars and Diagonal.
While O-M ventures into the other division for a "nonconference" volleyball match at Moravia on Aug. 27, the Bulldogs' first-ever official Bluegrass Conference event will be at home Sept. 5 against Diagonal. Other west division opponents are Ankeny Christian Academy, Iowa Christian Academy, Lamoni, Mormon Trail and Murray.
"It's mostly made up of smaller schools near our size, so we hope to be competitive," DeJongh said. "Travel is the downfall. We don't have Interstate 80 to most of our games like we've had in the past."
The last change in southwest Iowa is the addition of two teams — IKM-Manning and Logan-Magnolia — to the Western Iowa Conference, which is now a 10-team league.
Area conference memberships in 2013-14:
BLUEGRASS — Ankeny Christian Academy, Diagonal, Grandview Park Baptist, Iowa Christian Academy, Lamoni, Melcher-Dallas, Moravia, Mormon Trail (Garden Grove), Moulton-Udell, Murray, Orient-Macksburg, Seymour, Twin Cedars (Bussey).
CORNER — Clarinda Academy, East Mills, Essex, Fremont-Mills (Tabor), Heartland Christian, Nishnabotna, Sidney, South Page (College Springs), Stanton.
HAWKEYE TEN — Atlantic, Clarinda, Creston, Denison-Schleswig, Glenwood, Harlan, Kuemper Catholic (Carroll), Lewis Central, Red Oak, Shenandoah, Council Bluffs St. Albert.
LITTLE HAWKEYE — Dallas Center-Grimes, Grinnell, Knoxville, Newton, Norwalk, Oskaloosa, Pella, Pella Christian.
PRIDE OF IOWA — Bedford, Central Decatur (Leon), East Union (Afton), Interstate 35 (Truro), Lenox, Martensdale-St. Marys, Mount Ayr, Nodaway Valley, Pleasantville, Southeast Warren (Liberty Center), Southwest Valley (Corning-Villisca), Wayne (Corydon).
RACCOON RIVER — ADM (Adel), Ballard, Bondurant-Farrar, Boone, Carlisle, Carroll, Perry, Winterset.
ROLLING VALLEY — Adair-Casey, Ar-We-Va (Westside), Boyer Valley (Dunlap), CAM (Anita), Charter Oak-Ute, Coon Rapids-Bayard, Exira-EHK, Glidden-Ralston, Paton-Churdan, West Harrison (Mondamin), Woodbine.
SOUTH CENTRAL — Albia, Centerville, Chariton, Clarke (Osceola), Davis County (Bloomfield), Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont.
WEST CENTRAL — Des Moines Christian, Earlham, Guthrie Center, Madrid, Ogden, Panorama (Panora), Van Meter, West Central Valley (Stuart), Woodward Academy, Woodward-Granger.
WESTERN IOWA — AHST (Avoca), Audubon, Griswold, IKM-Manning, Logan-Magnolia, Missouri Valley, Riverside (Oakland), Treynor, Tri-Center (Neola), Underwood.
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