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Bullpen versatility a major benefit for Sox
By Scott Merkin / MLB.com
CHICAGO -- Hector Santiago threw 48 pitches over three innings of relief in Thursday afternoon's loss to the Royals. Matt Lindstrom's middle work out of the bullpen covered 2 1/3 innings behind starter Jose Quintana on Friday night against Seattle.
But the most interesting thing about the White Sox' bullpen is that the next time these two hurlers take the mound, they could be working in a late-inning situation. Pure talent helped the relief crew work 12 1/3 scoreless innings to start the season, but the versatility of the seven relievers gives manager Robin Ventura plenty of options on any given night.
"One day, I can be the long guy. The next day, I can come back and face the lefty and have a day off, and be in the ninth inning and finish the game," Santiago said. "Addison [Reed] has his role and Matt [Thornton] has his role. Everybody has their role, but anybody can throw any time in any game."
"Even Hector being our long guy can go out there and be a setup man or even closer," Thornton said. "We have a lot of versatility out there, and a lot of opportunities for guys that can go out in any situation and pick the team up. We all go down there and are ready to go from the get-go."
Prior to Nate Jones giving up two runs in his second inning of work Friday night, the bullpen had thrown five hitless innings from the fifth to the ninth against the Mariners. First batters are hitless in nine at-bats against White Sox relievers and all 10 inherited runners had been stranded until the eighth inning of Saturday's 4-3 win.
Having this deep bullpen shortens the game for a starter, meaning the relievers can pick up someone such as Quintana, who struggled on Friday, or a pitcher such as Jake Peavy, who can go all out in his last inning knowing he has quality help behind him. Reed clearly has the closer's role and some mix of Thornton, Jones and Jesse Crain work as setup men.
Lindstrom, Santiago and Donnie Veal also can pitch anywhere from the fifth to the ninth, depending on the situation.
"This is definitely a really good group of guys," Thornton said.
Keppinger to remain starter despite slow start
CHICAGO -- There is no dilemma for White Sox manager Robin Ventura in regard to filling third base in his starting lineup.
Yes, Jeff Keppinger has one single in 21 at-bats to start this season and is mired in a 0-for-19 funk. And yes, Conor Gillaspie made an immediate impact with two hits, two runs scored and strong defensive play during Saturday's 4-3 victory over the Mariners.
All of those facts basically add up to Gillaspie potentially getting a start at third base on Sunday against right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma, but Keppinger and his .288 career average are certainly staying as the starter at the position.
"We don't have any dilemmas," Ventura said. "Probably tomorrow, get [Gillaspie] in there and give him a couple at-bats here and there. I think with Kep, it's just a small sample. You know his track record and it'll change."
Gillaspie picked up his first career triple, and first hit with the White Sox, but wasn't pushing for any extra at-bats based on his strong effort against one of the game's best in Felix Hernandez.
"My job is to come in when I'm asked," Gillaspie said. "If guys need a breather or whatever, come in and do the best job I can and contribute. Whether it's getting hits, making plays or hitting a 20-hopper to second to score a run, that's my role on this team. I've got to keep working hard and keep trying to do it."
Cooper not worried about Quintana's start
CHICAGO -- In White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper's estimation, Jose Quintana pitched better than the five earned runs and eight hits he allowed over four-plus innings against the Mariners on Friday would indicate.
"I thought Quintana was very good for the first four innings. The first [hit] is a fly ball. I turn my head, the ball gets up high and carries out. Hello, Cellular Field," said Cooper, referring to Franklin Gutierrez's leadoff homer to right. "If the wind is blowing the same way toward the end of the game, Adam Dunn's is probably a game-winner, I'd like to think.
"But that's the way it goes. I thought he was very good through four, and in the fifth inning OK, leadoff double, no big deal. But the play at first base when the throw was slightly behind him and he had to go bare hand and he took his eyes off the ball for a split second to try and find the bag, it's like a bunt play. We need to get an out on that play, we didn't get it and that opened the door for a bigger inning."
Quintana was a revelation for the White Sox last season, posting a 4-1 record and a 2.04 ERA prior to the All-Star break. But as his innings total grew, the southpaw's effectiveness tumbled to a 5.01 second-half ERA and a 6.75 ERA over six games and five starts in September.
Cooper isn't focused on the 24-year-old Colombian native needing a good 2013 start to erase last season's rough finish.
"The second half of last year means nothing. It means nothing," Cooper said. "Listen, this kid last year, if you remember, came from basically A-ball, he had two weeks in Double-A, pitched his [butt] off, and as the year went on his innings total got as high as it has ever been. There is a big difference from throwing 140 innings in the Major Leagues and 140 innings in the Minor Leagues. There's no rest in the lineup.
"All I look at from last year is, where do we need to go, what do we need to improve on, how do we round out a guy's game and continue to put a guy in a good direction career wise and success wise? In the moment right now, we just have to keep trying to make more pitches and obviously we can't let a ball like that, a little roller like that to first base, that has to be an out."
Sox to debut 1983 throwback jerseys
CHICAGO -- After wearing 1972 throwback jerseys during 13 Sunday home games as part of the 2012 season, the White Sox will turn to 1983 throwback jerseys in honor of the "Winning Ugly" division champions this season. That begins on Sunday, and once again covers 13 home games.
The uniforms feature the red, navy blue and primary white pullover jersey with the block "S-O-X" across the chest, and a vintage patch on the left sleeve, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the All-Star Game, which was played at Old Comiskey Park. The throwback uniforms also include the tri-color White Sox cap.
"We wore them a couple of years ago in a throwback game. I think everybody is excited to wear them," White Sox captain Paul Konerko said. "I think everybody likes them better that the ones last year for some reason.
"It'll be cool. I think the '83 team, you still see those uniforms a lot, fans wear them. I'm sure fans will get a kick out of them and hopefully we can win games like they did in '83 because they won the division."
Manager Robin Ventura joked Saturday that assistant hitting coach Harold Baines, who was part of that '83 team, will wear his actual jersey from that time.
Worth noting
• Dewayne Wise played center field for the White Sox on Saturday and everyday center fielder Alejandro De Aza moved to left. The two feel most comfortable defensively in this particular alignment when they are both in the starting lineup.
• Ventura did not give Adam Dunn the green light for his fourth-inning stolen base on Friday, but understood why the slugger made his break.
"You get to a point where, if they aren't going to pay attention, they can take advantage of it," Ventura said.
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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The native garden located at the Bridge Park parking lot in the triangle surrounding the Jackson County Farmers Market sign provides a mini native plants lesson. On the back of the sign, you will find a map of all of the plants planted in the triangle and an article about native landscaping with a list of a variety of plants to choose from.
The Farmers Market takes place every Saturday morning from 9 a.m. to noon in the Bridge Park Parking lot in downtown Sylva. You can find a large variety of vegetables, meats, some cheeses, baked goods and crafts. All items are locally produced. Also this week Family Art at the Market is offering Splatter Painting with kids from 10 to noon. City Lights Bookstore will have storytime at the market around 11 a.m. Check out the Jackson County Farmers Market on Facebook or call Jenny at 828.631.3033.
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text: I went to the Notre Dame game in South Bend this weekend. It was a great time. I wore ND colors (went with a friend who is a huge ND fan). Game was a nail biter; BYU's defense looked every bit as good in person as it appears on paper. Hard to believe they're a 4-4 team. It'll be interesting to see how ND stacks up against OU this coming weekend. It was kinda nice for once watching a team play that you weren't sure if they'd win the game or not... being an Alabama fan sometimes gets a little boring. Hopefully Florida keeps it up, and we'll get round 3 of the SEC championship games from 08 and 09.


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Crossroads students explore health-care careers
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June 18, 2011 at 1:18 a.m.
Fifteen high school students from the Crossroads spent this past week exploring health-care careers at local hospitals, Victoria College and the University of Houston-Victoria.
Boys and girls entering grades 10 through 12 who participated in the "Encouraging the College-bound into Health Care Occupations" program during the past year had the opportunity to attend the program. Sponsored by the Pecan Valley Area Health Education Center, this annual program introduces students to a variety of career choices within the health care industry.
The ECHO Program is a grant funded through the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and provides another line of support for students who are interested in pursuing a career in health care. In conjunction with participating high school counselors and school Health Occupation Student Associations, the ECHO Program requires students to complete career-related meetings, projects and other hands-on activities throughout the school year.
"As a reward for successful completion of the ECHO Program, students were invited to attend this program," said Pecan Valley AHEC Senior Program Coordinator Jody Sanders. "Now that they have participated in the program, they will each have the opportunity to apply for one of five $1,500 scholarships, also funded by the coordinating board as part of the ECHO grant program."
During the week, students are given the opportunity to speak directly with healthcare professionals and learn about their careers in a variety of settings. The program gives students the information they need to develop a plan for reaching their career goals and encourages them to explore beyond the basics.
To begin the week, students observed activities in various hospital departments such as physical therapy, radiology and the pharmacy at both Citizens' Medical Center and DeTar Healthcare System.
At the end of the week, program activities included participation in hands-on health labs in nursing, medical lab technology, physical therapist assistant and respiratory therapy at VC. Students also got a first-hand look at the state-of-the-art facilities in VC's Health Sciences Center. Students then spend a day at UHV exploring advanced level nursing programs and receiving program advising and financial aid information.
Refugio High School graduate Stephanie Ordaz plans to attend Texas A&M University at College Station to study biomedical science on her way to a career in forensics.
"I thought the program was extremely informational, it made me even more confident about my career choice," said Stephanie. "I liked the lab activities at Citizens Medical Center and in VC's medical laboratory technology program presentation."
Reynaldo Castro, who will graduate from Goliad High School next year, plans to complete a nursing degree at VC first, then transfer to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi to complete a bachelor's degree in nursing. His plans are to work as an emergency room nurse.
"I feel like the program really opened some doors for me," said Reynaldo. "It was interesting to see medical and training facilities first hand. I especially enjoyed hearing from the ER nurse at Citizens Medical Center. He told us very interesting stories about what it takes to be an ER nurse."


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by Eli Katz » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:41 am
But Cap fought Hitler in World War 2. I said, in my review, that I acknowledge that contemporary events sometimes intrude Marvel comics.
I'm not crazy about Renaissance Italians suddenly being alive and acting as a big players in the Marvel Universe. This is something new and it doesn't really fit with the way Marvel works as a fictional world. What's next? Will Spidey being fighting time-traveling Napoleon? Will Red Skull be teaming up with resurrected Nero or Cortez to conquer the world? I hope not.
But I will say it again: I could look past this use of historical figures if the rest of the book was good. Unfortunately, the rest of the book is not entertaining, and so the use of historical figures is just one more element for me that detracts from the story.
by Amoebas » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:41 am
But the Hitler in Captain America was just Hitler. Now if we find out that Adolph suddenly fought Thanos in 1939, then he's not 'just Hitler' anymore.
by Rockman » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:43 am
Kurt Busiek just wrote a Spider-man story where him and Captain America fought a team called the Rogue scholars, which consisted of Tesla, Darwin, Marie Curie and one other I cannot remember.
by thefourthman » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:44 am
I get that you don't like the rest of the book... that's cool. Did you read the first issue? Cause that is the set up for why Da Vinci is involved. There is some time hokum going on. Not gonna say that makes it better, but in a world where Steve Rogers can play Quantum Leap with himself and the Avengers travel to the future on a regular basis or SPider-Man and Wolverine can time travel to the caveman period, it seems odd to take issue with Da Vinci travelling to the fifties.
by Eli Katz » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:46 am
One more reason I don't read Spidey anymore.
by BlueStreak » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:48 am
Isn't Hate-Monger a clone of Hitler or something like that?
I personally don't mind historical figures popping up in fiction. The Star Trek episode featuring Lincoln was awesome.
by thefourthman » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:48 am
So in time travel stories, it is only okay for the fictional characters to time travel and do things? As such, you will run into problems, because every time travel story ever has the time traveller run into an important figure of the travelled to time.
It's okay to say I hate time travel. It's okay to say that I hate historical figures.
It's not okay to say that in a universe that has used historical figures and time travel since the dawn of its inception, that it is not okay to use time travel and historical figures or worse yet to put crazy ass arbitrary rules on the use of time travel or historical figures.
by Rockman » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:49 am
[spoiler]In the issue Darwin created a situation where Sandman would become a giant monster, and he would somehow come out looking like a hero. The whole excercise was a ploy by Darwin so he could mack on Marie Curie.[/spoiler]
by thefourthman » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:49 am
and it was AWESOME.
by Rockman » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:50 am
I did not hate it so much, but it was rather odd.
by Eli Katz » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:51 am
It's one thing for fictional characters to travel time in a fictional world; it's another thing completely for real people to time travel in a fictional universe. It fundamentally changes the boundaries and logic of the Marvel Universe.
by Rockman » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:53 am
I think that wall was breached long ago with the likes of Sinister, Apocalypse, Kang, etc.. All of which operated all through out world history. I think at that point you take away the fact that marvel u was normal up until the 1950's, to the fact that is a place where all this crazy stuff was always going on. Given that I can accept that DaVinci was some kind of super genius who could create personal flying machines.
by Eli Katz » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:54 am
When it comes to time travel stories, I follow Roger Ebert's advice: don't think too much about the implications of time travel and just accept that it happens for the sake of the story.
by Rockman » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:55 am
It is hard to do that though. Which is why I generally hate time travel stories period. If they do not subscribe to the "whatever happened, happened" thing then I do not care for it.
by Eli Katz » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:57 am
I don't like time travel stories, either. They are usually retarded.
I do like The Terminator, though.
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"where should I go next season and why"
If that doesn't spell the end I don't know what does.
First post here, welcome to me.
Bye Chris!
"where should I go next season and why"
If that doesn't spell the end I don't know what does.
First post here, welcome to me.
Bye Chris!
If true...he must be terribly bored. To tweet such a message is pretty lame brained. Maybe Riley or Wade will reply.
Welcome kuba.
Bye Chris.
I say Orlando.
- They will loose vs Clevland this year and looking for another solution to overcome next year.
- They are not wholly new constructed team.
- They will be one of the contenders.
- Everybody wants to play with D12.
- Nice girls and beaches are waiting you over there Chris.
First post and already duped, huh?
He has said all season he hates how everywhere he goes people ask him what he's doing and how he should go to such-and-such a place and you seriously think he's using twitter to ask that question?
he's f'ng with the brain of retards
I'm looking forward to Bosh leaving. It's exactly what this franchise needs.
I'm not sure that we should give up on Hedo yet. With Bosh gone, he'll be able to get the ball in his hands more. Sonny Weems has shown surprising flashes this year, but nobody, including his opponents expected anything from him (See: Jamario Moon 2007/2008 season).
... See MoreBargnani can be our post scorer, and of course he can go long range too. His defense really improved this yea, and he's probably more of a natural power forward anyways. But we need someone to provide energy and defence down low. Amir Johnson (or someone like him) will be enough, though I'm sure that Colangelo will be shopping for someone better (they'd better resign Amir though).
Hedo at the 3, Jack/Calderon at the 1 (We've got the luxury of two starting point guards - why break that up).
What we REALLY need is what we've been missing since VC left town (and what the fans have been crying for for YEARS) - an athletic, scoring, allstar caliber shooting guard/small forward. Demar DeRozan needs someone to look up. We also need someone who can come off the bench and eat other teams' backups alive - like Jamal Crawford this year or Manu Ginobli five years ago.
Most importantly, we need to bring people into this organization who are winners, who have experienced winning organizations, and who won't accept anything less from their teammates. I mentioned a bunch of names above, but that's only because I don't think the roster should be blown up again. Let's add and subtract a few pieces.
Bosh is an awesome player, but he could be like a David Lee - putting up all-star numbers on a bad team. But Bosh doesn't pass, he doesn't involve his teammates, and he settles for jumpshots too often. If that's his playing style fine. But if he's leaving, I'm not going to miss him. If he stays, there needs to be changes to the way this team plays. If he wants to be Batman, then he needs to LET one of his teammates be Robin, instead of wondering why the same thing keeps happening year after year. Coincidence? I think not!
hes rephrased that statment
"Ok... Let me rephrase the question. Should I stay or should I go? "
-Chris Bosh
Guys, I think you're being a little too negative about Bosh leaving or about the guy in general. He is hands down one of the best people and players to ever wear a Raptors jersey. Instead of being childish, why not show a little appreciating for all the effort he put in during his time here? A lot of people have wronged this franchise over the years but he did nothing of the sort. Players come and go, it's part of the game. There is nothing wrong with a player wanting a change if he goes about it the right way. Bosh has done it the right way. He had to endure a lot of crap in Toronto. I hope no one boos him next season when he comes back because I'll be embarrassed to call myself a Raptors fan at that point.
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Help Bosh decide A, B or C? Where should he go?
It's Friday night. Is he really that bored?
Hm, maybe I should be asking myself that question.
If only Hedo was on Twitter:
""Been wanting to ask. Double cheese or bacon/pepperoni?"
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He should stay until BC can find someone desperate enough to open the vault to get him. A Cuban/Buss bidding war would be FANTASTIC.
I'll only boo him if stubbornly only picks one team and forces BC to shovel shit back into the raps organization. If he just walked for less money i'd be pissed, but would respect leaving money on the table.
Oh and i'll boo if he retrospectively says shit like he coulda come back and led the team to the playoffs or told opposing players what play they were going to run.
If Bosh comes back in a different uniform, I will boo him; Not because he's a bad person, but because he's on the other team! We cheer for laundry people, we cheer for the red & white, not the 'contributions to the franchise'...give him a plaque or something, but after the tip, it's game on.
B, and I like this response, hope you tweeted him on this
Ah well, is everyone really surprised? I mean, asking the public surprises me, but him leaving this summer for another team I have accepted. I'm not too terribly upset with this revelation. He just could of handled it a little better.
Get ready Raptors fans, because it would appear as though Andrea is our future and "franchise".
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Phone Call today (Sunday 6 Feb 2011) from Wendy Carter in the UK who wished us well and passes on her best wishes to all at KHS.
KHS News > Thursday Evening Events > 50th Anniversary MESSAGEs >
From Wendy Carter (in the UK)posted 9 Feb 2011, 19:45 by Kununurra Museum [ updated 9 Feb 2011, 19:46 ]
Site Owners
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Main Links
308days since
"Wirraway Challenge Week"
Kununurra Museum
March 20th to March 26th 2017
RAAF 12 Sqn. CAC Wirraway A20-62
On March 20th 2017 it will be...
75 Years...
...since the forced landing of RAAF 12 Squadron CAC Wirraway A20-62, on coastal saltmarsh, just inside the WA/NT border, by Pilots Lew Dwyer and Warwick Carmody. Watch the Digital Videos (DVs) from the KHS - "A Story of Survival & Rescue in the far north-east Kimberley"
Read & see more from the KHS "Wirraway - Challenge" Research Page (has links to all 8 parts of the DVs on the "Kununurra Museum" YouTube Channel OR See the permanent display at the Kununurra Museum. Also see the KHS Events Page.
1942 (Dry Season)
75 Years Ago in 2017
Establishment of Experiments at Carlton Reach
Ord River Experimental Station
On March 31st 1941 Kim Durack published his paper, 'Developing the North - Proposed Research Station for the Kimberleys', and before the end of that year the
"Ord River Experimental Station," was established at
Carlton Reach using the waters of the Ord for irrigation. In 1942 agricultural experiments began with the first irrigation in June that year. The station would operate on the Carlton Reach Site for five years and all would be moved to the Kimberley Research Station site in 1946.
information is available about the 36 HP Petters "Atomic" diesel pump
engine, used to raise the water for these first major experimental
attempts at irrigation, at the twenty acre farm site. available from the Carlton Reach Pump Engine (On this site)
In April 2013 the 36 HP "Petters Atomic Diesel Engine" was donated to the Kununurra Historical Society by the Department of Agriculture and Food WA - Frank Wise Institute of Tropical Agriculture (formerly the Kimberley Research Station, where the engine was also in use until the 1950s), KHS now has the original pump engine by the entrance gate of the Kununurra Museum.
In 2017 it will be 75 years since the Petters Pump Engine was first utilised for irrigation at Carlton Reach and it will be 70 years since the first experiments by the CSIRO and Department of Agriculture WA got under way at the Kimberley Research Station in 1947.
231days since
Events in 2016
Wyndham and Hall's Creek (aka "Kimberley") were established.
130 Years Ago
(In 2016)
50 Years Ago - 1967
What was happening 50 Years Ago in Kununurra during 1967?
A new page under Research - 1967 in KHS Archives, hilights some indexed records from the KHS archive as listed by former dedicated KHS Hon. Archivist for many years, Margaret Lawson. The index listing, made many years ago, does have some more recent KHS corrections and additions.
The first Government run hospital opened on the present hospital site. We have the Opening Plaque at the Kununurra Museum, as well as from the first, Australian Inland Mission hospital.
WA-NT Border Determinations
In May and June 2016 It was 95 years & it will be..
100 Years
...in 2021
Since the WA and SA Government Astronomers came to the Kimberley in
to determine the position of the WA/NT Border on the ground by using the new technology of the day (in 1921), of radio time signals. (Yes!, the pips you used to hear before the news! :^) This expedition in 1921 would determine the border position from time signals girdling the earth, from Greenwich UK, Annapolis USA, Applecross WA, SA Observatory & Lyons France - as in how many hours minutes and seconds east of Greenwich they were.
1927 - 95 Years ago in 2017
A WA Survey crew would come back in 1927 to build the Kimberley Obelisk, which still determines the border on the ground today.
Read More about the 1921 WA/NT Border Determinations
Township of Kununurra
Resumption of Ivanhoe Stn. Land
February 10th 1961
Town of Kununurra Declaration
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Open fight for anyone.
Decide the rules,my only rule is that I want someone to have fun not to win,if you want to fight to win please consider yourself won already.
Hashirama biography.
Decides who ever will begin.
I will limit myself to Water,Earth,Taijutsu,Ninjutsu and Wood.
I am just trying to be my character and have fun with it.


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1. San Quentin State Prison, mug books 1889-1920.
Scope and Content Note
2. Index to discharged prisoners from San Quentin 1888-1907.
Scope and Content Note
3. Folsom State Prison, mug books 1891-1901, 18-20
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4. Topical Mug Books Ca. 1916-43
Scope and Content Note
a. Bunco
b. Burglary
c. Counterfeiters
d. Fraudulent checks
e. Holdup, stick-up
f. Lewd and Lascivious conduct
g. Pickpocket, highbinders (Chinese Tongmen), and shoplifters
h. Robbery
i. Safe burglars
a. Hindus
b. International Workers of the World
5. The Detective, official journal of the police authorities and sheriffs of the United States, vols. xxxl, no 361- (XL) xxxx, no. 480 (Nov. 1915-Oct. 1925). Broken series
6. Journal of the American Bankers Association vols. IX, no. 7 - XXII, no. 6 (Jan. 1917-Dec. 1929) Broken series.


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ATHENS, GA. | The suspect in a hit-and-run that left a 19-year-old Kennesaw State University student in a coma has turned himself in to police, police said.
William Wilson Heaton, 22, of Rydal faces several charges after surrendering early Wednesday evening to authorities at the Clarke County Jail. The charges include drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident, The Athens Banner-Herald reported.
A judge set his bond at $50,000 during a Thursday court hearing.
Emily Bowman of Woodstock was walking in the grass next to an Athens road on Feb. 16 when a pickup truck left the road, hit her and then fled, police said.
Officers spent dozens of hours reviewing video from about 10 surveillance cameras during their investigation, police said.
Heaton's attorney, Anthony Perotta, declined to say whether Heaton was driving the pickup when it struck Bowman.
Bowman remains unresponsive, but has made significant progress in her recovery, her father told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She's now breathing on her own and her family is hopeful she'll eventually be able to move to the Shepherd Center in Atlanta for continued rehabilitation, Dale Bowman said.
"That's all we want is baby steps," Bowman told the Atlanta newspaper. "We've got plenty of time to get her better. But it's going to be such a long process. What a big interruption in her life."


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I think madara and obito will mainy get defeated and killed because of plot no jutsu.ok before stating my theory i wud like to point out 3 possible reasons why the theory i am going to give might happen.
1.there's a high possibility that guy and kakashi will die in this war.
2.no one want's to kakashi and guy to die without doing nothing.i i mean they are favourites of many fans so both of them dying without doing anything will not be so good.so i think kishi will kill them after they have done something big.
3.there is no one alive who can defeat madara and obito.
first part:gai attack's obito and he transports his left side to the other dimension and naruto sees it tries to attack but obi transports back into the real world and naruto is brought back too.kakashi has an idea and they split up and naruto, bee takes on madara and kakashi gai vs obito.
obito's defeat
ok for madara to die i think its essential for obito to die first.so here is how it's gonna happen.gai goes 8 tails and becomes so fast that it is the same as telapotation.so like minato was able to hit obito gai also becomes able to hit him .so gai catches obito andtells kakashi to hit him with a kamui. Kakashi tells guy that it will hit gai too if he does it while gai is holding obito still.gai tells kakashi that he will die any way because he alredy opened the 8 gate.so kakashi tougens up and kamuis right on onito's head.....split. .obito and gai dies.
madara's defeat
after the defeat of obito. Gai falls of to the ground but kakashi already too tired doesn't have any time for a before dead cool talk with gai because on the other hand naruto and bee is holding off madara and pretty much getting stomped by him.kakashi comes top help naruto and tells him that he got an idea.madara makes a perfect susano.naruto fires 2 tbb to the susano and pushes madara back whil stepping back to be out if reach of madara's susano sword.madara realise's that he dosent have time to play and needs the 2 bijju's fast.so madara turns off susano and comes foward for naruto and bee.naruto and bee also charges foward with kakashi a little behind.when madara is close enough to make contact he tries to make susano but kakashi quickly kamui's whole madara in to other dimension like he did it with narutver.
Ok some of u might tell madara is an edo but since he broke the contract with kabuto the edo powers might not be active and even if he is an edo this works too because i did tell that obito had to die first for this to work.so with obito dead no one can bring him back.


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This afternoons press conference was again a joke....Rex...I have not watched any tape on the Jags so I don't know who at this time will give us the better chance to win??....Hey Rex I didn't watch any film on them either but it is pretty clear they suck...When he tells the press I only want to talk facts and not "what ifs"...I was waiting for someone to have the balls to say ..The facts are Mark sucks, Tebow is a ****ing joke..So why don't you have the balls to name G mac..the starter...Wtf Rex...would you just for once lay it out there and top worrying about little Marks feeling...Geez the ****ing guy has taken more undeserved money from this organization..and now you are gonna tip toe around the facts that he is not a starting QB in this league.
hopefully this is just more of rex' buffoonish gamesmanship to keep the Jags "guessing". McElroy has to be the starter Sunday or the lockerroom will revolt and the fans will burn down Metlife stadium
What's the point in naming the starter today? To make you feel better? What's the rush.
Sit down, talk with the coaches, see the practice...go from there.
I hate Rex Ryan. I loved the guy but he is clueless and I will be thrilled when he is fired in 4 weeks.
Even herm came right out after benching vinny and said Chad Pennington will be the starting qb. We need a spark etc. Great press conference.
Herm > then what rex has become
Rex will start sanchez next week but there will be a quicker hook. Thats what I think this means.
You would hate being a Patriots fan. Belichick hasn't given away an ounce of information in a press conference in 12 years.
But when Rex doesn't say anything... the outrage! the audacity! fire him now!
PC's aren't for giving fans answers.
Rex may be (I would guess almost definitely is) getting pressure from Woody to start Tebow.
He may be pushing back and doesn't want to name someone before he and Woody had a chance to talk.
1. Its 12:00, he has had time to watch the tape of yesterday in case there was any doubt at all, that sanchez is a completely broken player from a confidence standpoint.
2. Today the players are in early for treatment, he has had time to address the team, BEFORE the media gets a hold of the story.
3. He would have had time to meet with the players privately as well.
4. He can stop/control all media speculation, second guessing etc that will go on now until wednesday as they are off tmrw.
5. He can prevent any player from being asked "who do you think should start". You would think they would all know how to dodge those questions, btu this is the jets lockerroom.
6. This is most important....a decision needs to be made by the start of practice Wed morning because mcelroy deserves the opportunity to have as many first team reps as possible. So any press present for the start of practice will see who takes the first snap, tweet it, and then rex will be on the defensive in the press conf after practice.
There should not be ANYTHING at this point, that mark can do to get back rex's or the teams confidence. Rex should have manned up, made a decision, and moved forward.
Cue two unecessary days of media speculation that could have been avoided.
Yes, lets say rex has the same rights as a guy with 10 division crowns and 3 super bowl wins. Brilliant.You would hate being a Patriots fan. Belichick hasn't given away an ounce of information in a press conference in 12 years.
But when Rex doesn't say anything... the outrage! the audacity! fire him now!
PC's aren't for giving fans answers.
The odds are Sanchez will start this weekend. I just feel that's the way he'll go. But like someone just said this week he'll have a quicker hook. I'd start Mac but Sanchez is Rex's guy and has stuck by him since day 1.
I have no problem with Rex being coy. Why not keep the Jags guessing who will start ??? I'm sure he has his mind made up, just as Harbaugh did a few weeks ago. But to come out and say right now who the starter is and give the Jags a full week to prepare would be foolish.
Rex gets blasted (and rightfully so) when he talks to much. But now some are blasting him for keeping quiet ??? I guess he just can't win with some of you around here.


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The collections at Fashion Week are always a major source of DIY inspiration, as we love scouting out the upcoming trends and thinking of ways to create them ourselves. This season definitely didn't disappoint, as there were plenty of over-the-top embellishments, leather accents, and bold accessories. We rounded up a few of our favorite shows and the different ways they're inspiring us. Which collection did you like the best?
Gucci – We loved the bright necklaces at Gucci, which mixed together flowers, gems, and spikes for an incredible combination. We'd love to recreate one with flowers and gems from our store. The embellished collars were also to die for.
Alexander Wang – This collection was full of sleek leather accents, strategically placed cutouts, and clothing that seemed to float in mid-air. You could easily DIY these looks by adding long leather straps to your favorite pair of shoes, or by cutting apart a t-shirt and adding a transparent panel.
Rodarte – The leather fringe accents are definitely DIYable, but we especially loved the elaborate chain belts. Secure some chains together, add a few brooches, and you've got a chic, Rodarte-inspired belt!
Dolce and Gabbana – Like always, Dolce and Gabbana showed an incredibly elaborate, intricate collection. The shoes were detailed with bright braided raffia, and we adored the fun earrings. You could definitely DIY these looks by stitching some bright thread onto a natural bag, or by adding braided cord to a simple pair of wedges.
Jason Wu – This collection was especially lovely, with sweet little embellishments on some shoes and tops. But there was a bit of added edge with sleek leather harnesses and metal accents.


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Newsday hurting Islanders perception
Of course for those who recall the actual article this was one issue with some free agents after the gm was shutout on day one of free agency despite Garth Snow making up for it quickly signing Bill Guerin, Mike Comrie, Andy Sutton, Ruslan Fedotenko, Josef Vasicek, shortly after those comments and Brendan Witt, Mike Sillinger, Tom Poti ect signing the previous year.
Now we have Kristian Huselius not being able to sign within seven minutes as more proof free agents want to come to New York.
What gets lost in all the negativity and spin is going back through team history in unrestricted free agency it's more than fair to write the last two summers have been the clubs best ever compared to the days Mike Stapleton or one of the Ferraro twins were all Mike Milbury could find using his corporate bicycle.
If no one wants to sign with the New York Islanders as Newsday pushes on the fans as often as possible after four playoffs in six years of course there must be a lot of team beatwriters printing the same thing about those teams being that many of them have not even approached the Isles marginal success on the ice?
I thought I would take a look.....
Lets start with the Buffalo News because here no doubt John Vogl or Bucky Gleason (if he still updates on a regular basis) somewhere will tell us that after the team lost almost all its star UFA players last summer and missed the playoffs this year the Sabres as a signing destination is about as attractive today as the old Buffalo Aud which is now set for demolition to begin in October 2008?
Carolina Hurricanes beatwriter Luke DeCock in the News observer after an epic collapse where they failed to make the playoffs that here would never have been forgotten come July 1st here must be telling his readers it's highly unlikely anyone would be interested in signing with the Canes?
Sorry, not quite.
How about the Los Angeles Kings, a team that made it's management changes the same summer Charles Wang hired two general managers and Ted Nolan, who already fired Marc Crawford and seem no closer to contention? Surely Eric Stephens or Lisa Dillman will report to it's readers no one will want to sign and be part of a club like that here.
Afraid not.
Ok, so no doubt the Atlanta Thrashers who traded Marian Hossa when they could not apparently resign him, had a terrible season from beginning to end with Bob Hartley's firing who just hired the Isles AHL counterpart to Steve Stirling in John Anderson will not be an attractive destination for free agents as Mike Knobler will report here especially especially after Don Waddell took an even bigger gamble than Garth Snow when he traded for Keith Tkachuk and lost Braydon Coburn?
Nope. Mr Kobler even apologized to his readers for only a few days off from blogging while our newspaper blogger................back on topic.
All right, so in Florida there is absolutely no doubt after Olli Jokinen had to be traded to Phoenix and with years of the prospect movement plan not producing a single playoff spot since the Clinton administration with a general manager/coach tandem who has done a terrible job (Jacques Martin) who just hired an inexperience coach (Peter Deboer) that just bought out Jozef Stumpel beatwriter Brian Biggane
here must be telling his readers signs have been posted for future generations warning fans no one will sign with the Panthers at any point much less come July 1st 2008?
Sorry, not here.
In fact, Mr Biggane reported a few days ago in his blog former Leaf Wade Belak was trying to get Mats Sundin to come down and work on his tan year round here and sign with the Panthers.
All right, so Steve Gorten in the Sun-Sentinel broke the bad news to Panther fans here because Mr Biggane did not have the heart to right?
Our friends in Columbus who signed Michael Peca last summer who have never seen a playoff game and even were criticized a little for drafting Nikita Filatov who just had Adam Foote escape from Columbus quicker than Kurt Russell absolutely would have beat reporters Aaron Portzline, Tom Reed, and columnist Michael Arace telling Blue Jacket fans in the paper/blog here here that there is no chance any major free agents will be signing with Columbus on July 1st, right?
Wrong again.
All right, here's one team for sure, the one that just lost one of it's owners who did his John Spano impersonation and has been a club rumored to leave for several years and had to give away some of it's players to Philadelphia a year ago
here absolutely no doubt John Glennon told his readers given the circumstances unrestricted free agents will not be signing to play for the Nashville Predators any time soon?
No dice.
So there we have it folks, lots of clubs, all with some very tough circumstances on and off the ice and not one of those beatwriters have been pushing on the public the view point no one wants to sign there. In fact, I could not find anything this week where anyone came close to making that point.
Only our friends at Newsday.
It just begs the question what's going on at Newsday with their coverage of the New York Islanders?
Wonder if Mr Wang sent in the check for advertising at Newsday early for all the staffs good job keeping people away?
Updated 10:30am
It looks like I found another beatwriter in North America who will say their club is not an easy sell to free agents here as Ed Willes in the Vancouver Province reports.
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Of course you can bet Mr Willes does not do articles like this as often as Newsday.
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Maybe you should start emailing them directly for opinions instead of guess work and goggling. The Isles brass themselves even admit this off the record. It's really time, Bill, for you to start putting away your halfass opinions and cheerleading pom poms and start to dig for truths which ever way they lead.ReplyDelete
You'll be a better blogger for it.
If you do not like my viewpoint or agree with what I write you are welcome to tell me but insults are not appropriate.ReplyDelete
I have been often crtical of the club but what I will never do here is present a viewpoint (positive or negative) based on rumor/gossip or unnamed sources.
New York Islander Fan Central is not about that kind of coverage and I feel my readers deserve the highest standard.
This blog is not being done as someone who wants scoops or inside information, it never will be.
I'm also not interested in breaking news nor do I want anything from the team or it's media. I also do not play the rumor, gossip, insider or off the record game.
I blog based on what's reported and in my estimation no paper has been more unfair with it's teams fans than Newsday.
In this particular blog I took a good look at other clubs who did not paint as dismal a picture as Newsday constantly does.
I feel it's more than a fair question to present this to my blog readers and ask fair questions.
One other thing.ReplyDelete
Too bad you did not include how many times I have praised Newsday/Mr Logan's work since last summer when the reporting has been fair and informative which I also did during the draft weekend.
If you going to write to me about my blogging please make sure you include that little fact which you seemed to forget about as you start to dig for truths which ever way they lead.
Thank You
First of all, I cant believe you claim to be a fair judge of question Logan's tactics. Yes, as you constantly say, you do on occasion, point out Logan's good work. For a sentence or two. However, your smackdown on Logan has turned into a 24/7 thing. Lame. It hurts your blog tremendousely. Didnt it ever occur to you that Logan may be intentionally fueling a propaganda machine, mind you, originally started by Snow himself, as an attempt to put some pressure on the Board members to approve the light house project? Maybe he's trying to help the Isles' cause.ReplyDelete
The only thing that would hurt my blog is not being honest with my readers, regardless of where the news takes my viewpoint.
I can also appreciate Islander fans wanting to like the only person giving them practically any news outside of the teams website and have some loyality for that voice after three years or coverage.
If you have read my blog from the beginning I had nothing but praise for Mr Logan's work going into last season.
But this is nothing new and even Alan Hahn was ripped by Mr Botta on the club's website in the past as Newsday coverage was questioned.
Having written that the work at
Newsday has not been very good lately therefore I have not been able to be positive about it here.
I wish I could be, I absolutely promise you and everyone who reads this blog that or I would not waste my time or anyone's writing this in June when I could easily ignore all of it.
Unfortunately Newsday's viewpoint on this team starting with it's beatwriter has been very questionable on too many levels to count even going back to the season where Mr Logan seemed to start a one man campaign against Rick DiPietro for playing hurt to help the club and even called him hardheaded on 3/20 but did not take the same stance with other veterans who were hurt and struggling.
That to me is a double-standard in reporting and fair game for me to ask here.
1. Retractions about Yashin resigning made big headlines after an earlier retraction about Nolan threatening players with trades?
2. A guest amateur column after the draft that was so unfair against the club Newsday pulled it from it's website?
2. Incorrect reports of Nolan taking issue with Garth Snow's comments about Wade Dubielewicz early season conditioning where neither agreed with what was reported when Katie Strang interviewed them together.
3. Mr Logan making public issue of the club's injury policy on a day he interviews Mark Gandler and did not even tell us about Bergenheim's contract status until a fan last week asked him about it in a chat?
4. Reports of friction between the coach and general manager that amounted to nothing over the infamous raised eyebrow comment about starting Dubielewicz against the Rangers back in March.
5. Making Ted Nolan's contract such a big issue where it was so important to our beatwriter game day coverage was missed for Nolan to tell us it has not been discussed.
I could go on and on, I do not want to, other teams do not have this going on with their beat reporting?
I do not care to smack down anyone as you call it but these are things reported that raise more than fair questions in my view about this papers coverage of our team that I feel obligated to blog about here.
Here we are the days before free agency and our beatwriter is the only one out of anyone in North America covering hockey reporting players will not sign here?
Are you really telling me that Newsday and Mr Logan has been writing all this because it's to help them get the Lighthouse project approved or because the gm a year ago mentioned the condition of the Coliseum as one reason a player or two decided not to sign here?
Do you really think Mr Logan who could not even be bothered to be around and blog when DiPietro started the all-star game (and got hurt) or on Al Arbour night is doing this now so Kate Murray approves the Lighthouse project?
I'm sorry but I respectfully disagree if you feel that way or that I'm being unfair here but hope you do not hold it against me.
Thank You.
I agree with every word written in this blog about Newsday and Logan, great read.ReplyDelete
This coverage is going to land the club in another city.
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25.2104 Danger of human or rodent plague on vessels-Precautionary measures.Cite as [A.S.C.A. § 25.2104]
Whenever any vessel or other watercraft arriving from any port infected or suspected of being infected with human or rodent plague lies alongside any wharf or dock, or whenever any vessel or other watercraft was docked at any port at which, in the opinion of the Director there existed the danger of human or rodent plague, the following requirements must be fulfilled:
(a) Immediately upon docking, and during the entire time a vessel lies at a wharf, it shall be fended off at least 6 feet.
(b) All connection lines shall be properly fitted with rat guards of such design as shall be approved by the Director.
(c) Gangways and other means of access to the vessel or watercraft shall be well lighted or separated from shore at night by a minimum of 6 feet.
(d) All cargo nets and similar devices extending between the vessel and shore structure shall be removed at night unless in actual use.History: 1972, PL 12-44 § 9.


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Poster Presenters with Lightening Talks - this information is for you! The following information is important for all poster presenters. This information will assist you in planning and preparing for your oral poster presentation and your physical poster presentation.
Important Points:
- January 17, 2014 - Deadline for all Presenters to be registered for the conference or risk being taken out of the Program
- February 21, 2014 - Deadline for papers to be submitted for the conference proceedings
- March 14, 2014 - Deadline for Poster Presenters to provide their PowerPoint slides to the Poster Presenter Moderator for the Oral Poster Sessions
- Poster Presenter Moderators will contact all presenters prior to the Conference
- Please submit a valid email address with your poster submission
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Back by popular demand, all poster presenters will be given the opportunity to present their poster in an oral technical session format as well as display their research visually on the poster presentation boards.
Each presentation should make a unified, coherent statement. Materials, both textual and visual, should be of professional quality and be clearly legible from a distance of four feet (4'). Graphic materials will be displayed on a 4' x 8' poster board supplied by the ASPRS.
Text should be limited to brief statements. Presentations consisting mostly of text are most appropriate as paper presentations.
- Posters are displayed for informal browsing with opportunities for individual discussion with poster authors
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A room will be available on a first come basis and will be equipped with an LCD projector and screen for any presenter to practice their presentation prior to their scheduled technical session. The location of this room will be announced in the Final Program that will be included with the on-site registration materials you receive when you check in at the ASPRS Registration Desk.
This room is provided as a courtesy to all presenters, please be mindful of your time in the room and other presenters practice time.
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All poster presenters will be giving a short five minute oral presentation in addition to hanging their posters in the poster area. All oral Poster Presentations will be held on Tuesday, March 26th along with the Technical Sessions.
Each presentation room will consist of an LCD projector, screen and podium. The Poster Presenter Moderator will provide one laptop to use for your presentation. Poster Presenters must provide their PowerPoint slides to the Poster Presenter Moderators prior to the conference.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A smokers' rights groups is challenging New York's smoking ban in state parks, pools areas and beaches that begins this year.
Smoking in banned areas could result in a violation of disorderly conduct.
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Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1998
Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history.
Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology. Diamond also dissects racial theories of global history, and the resulting work—Guns, Germs and Steel—is a major contribution to our understanding the evolution of human societies.
©1997 Jared Diamond (P)2011 Random House
"Controversial and Judgemental"
I really enjoyed this audiobook, my wife, who studied anthropology did not! As with so many debates, the lack of accessible specialist literature on a subject of widespread interest leads to other specialisms filling the void, from an anthropologists view this happened here.
The mashing of the huge historical period and the geographical themes is understandable here, Diamond is a Geographer, and sees life in those terms, much as Acemoglu and Robinson in Why Nations Fail, examine life as economists. Obviously, real life is more complicated, but by simplifying the discussions and applying a consistent paradigm,I felt I understood more about development than before.
Yes, I can see why Survival International don't like some of Diamond's narrative, there is certainly less sympathy for native peoples, but so what? If you download this you'll possibly move on to others of this type.
If anthropologists would suggest something to broaden my views I would be happy to access it, otherwise my reading list includes: Ian Morris, Niall Ferguson, Charles C. Mann, and David Landes!
"The definitive Audible purchase"
I was defeteated by the text version of this listen despite finding the topic interesting and generally being happy to stick with challenging reads. I don't know whether it was Diamond's prose style or the relatively slow start but for whatever reason I just couldn't get past the first 50 pages. The audible version though was an entirely different proposition. It's well narrated; I stuck with early sections that did a good job of scene setting but gave me problems in print and by the end I was so fascinated by the combination of detailed research and sweeping vision that I listened to it again. Can't recommend this too highly for fans of non-fiction
"A Magnum Opus - in every sense."
This is a "magnum opus" in all senses of the phrase, and deserved winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The question at the centre of the book is one asked by a New Guinea tribesman "How did your culture and peoples come to dominate us?", and the book opens with the defeat of several thousand Mayan warriors and their God-King, by a few hundred Spanish Conquistadors, armed with guns. Diamond rightly rejects the 19th Century explanation that white Europeans are innately superior, citing examples of the often greater inventiveness, adaptability and intelligence of "aboriginal" peoples. Dismissed too are notions of superior culture (e.g. Niall Fergason's 6 "killer apps" in his book "Civilisation"). Diamond instead looks to geography, and natural history for explanations. We conquered other continents, because we carried more lethal diseases (germs), and had better technology (guns & steel). This in turn was because the continent of Eurasia has many more animals and plants that could be domesticated, carried more diseases (to which we developed immunity) and that both of these, along with cultural advances, spread more easily East-West along similar temperate zones, leading to our earlier abandonment of hunter-gatherer lifestyles, in favour of farming, specialisation and technological advancement. Though the book paints a broad brush history, it delves very specifically into details of the development and clashes among numerous world cultures, and the evidence left to us today in language, technology, lifestyle, diseases and diet. Sometimes, the level of detail he goes into becomes almost overwhelming. The narration is very clear and concise, but the intonation is sometimes flat, and I found myself drifting off at times. It would have been great if the author had narrated it himself. In summary, this is a major and important work, but a long and sometimes difficult book. It is hard, but well worth the effort, if you, like me, seek to understand how and why we got here.
"An excellent work slightly spoilt"
As a scientist myself I have always like Jarad Diamond as he opens up areas I have an non-professional interests. In this work Diamond deals this the differences between the various levels of development between various groups of peoples. Why is European/Asian culture so dominate? Diamond lays out his evidence and arguments well and does not fall into to the trap of push one reason for our current situation over another. However, the audio book is let down with poor narration with almost no inflection in his voice, which made it unpleasant and dry to listen to.
"Really interesting take on World history"
Jared Diamond approaches World History in a refreshing and entirely original way in this work. Rather than looking simply at what happened or even why it happened, he goes right back to first principles to examine why the circumstances arose that led to peoples of one part of the World essentially dominating the others. I think the macro view is a little simplistic but it is undeniably compelling and a strong counter-argument to more reductionist arguments of racial superiority or cultural differences.
I listen to a lot of history books on Audible and few, if any, have brought to light as many new realisations about the World. Not so much telling me things I didn't already know but highlighting the importance of facts that I was already aware of.
It has to be said that it is not a perfect work and Jared Diamond's ego does get in the way somewhat. He simply can't resist interposing his personal experience and special insights into the narrative rather than simply let the story stand on it's own. A certain number of these personal anecdotes would be fine but it feels at times like he is desperate for the reader/listener to acknowledge just how special and clever his insights are and how uniquely positioned he is to draw them.
Overall a really interesting and engaging listen but I can see how the writer's style might really grate with some.
"Interesting in parts, too repetitive, some bias"
I felt like the author started off by a) telling me what he thought I believed (that 'westeners' were more intelligent than non westerners) and b) then telling me how I was wrong. I didn't actually believe the thing that I felt the author was accusing me of so that was a bad start. The book was extremely repetitive. It was very much, tell them what you are going to tell them x10, tell them x10, tell them what you just told them x 10. There was no need for all the repetition. I got it the 1st, 2nd and 3rd time. Some of the analyisis seemed quite flawed when compared with other books like Chip Walters' Last Ape Standing, and Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene. Overall some interesting snippets of information within spoiled by a biased writer who writes as if his readrer has the memory retention of a goldfish. Disappointing!
Performance was OK
Much of the repetition
"Fascinating insights into long-term history"
The ambition of this book is immense, crisscrossing the globe, and human societies throughout history and prehistory. It's one of those rare mind expanding books that changes the way you look at the world.
Scientific but at the same time easy to understand overview on human history with non obvious insights. A must
"Read it and share its insights everywhere!"
This is a book that explodes so many of the myths propounded by ignorant racists. It should be on everyone's reading list. And - once you've understood the arguments - use them to undermine racism wherever it exists.
Beautifully argued, with an abundance of evidence and an awe-inspiring breadth of knowledge.
A brilliant, brilliant book.
A friend recommended this to me. The arguments are poorly formed and the book is terribly boring. Good for insomnia.
"Compelling pre-history and emergent history"
This is a fascinating and foundational work that takes a topic (for me) shrouded in obscurity (how and why did civilization emerge in the pattern it did around the globe), and provides a vivid, detailed, and substantially convincing explanation. Thanks to GGS, I see world and cultural history with new eyes. That is pretty much the highest praise I can think of for a book.
I have a personal policy of ignoring (or at least trying to ignore) negative narrator reviews, as I find them always overstated. This reading is on the dry/flat/dull side, but it is still professional. The book is great and one of the most stimulating I have ever listened to. It is dense, but if you don't like fact, analysis, and theory, you wouldn't seek out this sort of book. Extremely highly recommended. It will change the way you see the world.
"A story all should know, not all can endure"
What a wealth of information! So amazing to think about the inevitabilities and chance occurrences that shaped our world. I wish I could recommend this book to all since it should be standard reading(listening). The down side is that its a bit of an endurance challenge to get through. There are a lot of numbers lists and .. vocally read charts. I doubt most could make it through this entire book. An abridged version might be more digestible.
Regardless, give it a try. You'll think about the world in a completely different way. But take your time, or else you'll burn out on this anvil of a book.
"Informing, Interesting, and Boring all in one"
His point of view is compelling, and gives definite weight to the view that all men are created equal, and 'Whites' for example aren't 'better' than anyone else, but that they had a better deck of cards than other peoples and cultures at a time when it mattered. I have heard others talk on the same issues and topics and make it much more engaging however. And while he titles the book "Guns, germs and steel", given what takes up the majority of the book it should be titled, "Grains, Vegetables and Domestic-able animals".
"interesting but dry"
I had some difficulty staying focused on the subjects due to the fact that the narrator was a bit on the side of sleep inducing. A soothing voice but dry in the reading, often coming across as methodical and like a recitation of facts. Much of the information is interesting but it was hard to stay focused. I think I got about 50% of what the author was saying just due to the dry expression of the narrator.
"So much potential, so little craft"
With all the field work and research available to him Diamond stands at the brink of what could be the most fascinating and significant popular science book of the era. He brings together so many disciplines to show macro trends, chaos theory, the power of germs in fashioning human history. It could all havee been absolutely mind changing. Sadly Diamond is not Bill Bryson. He has a scientific mind and a scientific compulsion for being comprehensive. Where Bryson can spin a story out of a proton, Diamond gets mired in a repetitive catalogue of insights applied meticulously yet tediously to every possible place, time and civilisation. I would really love someone else to re-tell this - someone who has the ability to convert the linear into the prosaic. I gave up after about 50%.
"not the biggest fan"
such a dry read. It was pretty difficult for me to finish. Im used to history themed books but this was hard to ge through
"Anthropology? Compelling? This book is!"
The Fates of Human Societies is the subheading of this book and it grabbed me. I've recently listened to histories of several societies and I thought this might be interesting in doing some comparisons. What I wasn't ready for was a gallop through the history of man from our first bands of hunter gatherers wandering out of Africa to detailed explanations of why Eurasia was by its geography destined to be more successful than either the Americas and Africa.
If you had told me I was going to be left gaping by linguistic analysis, natural experiments or the result of reviews by evolutionary biologists I wouldn't have believed you but I am agog as what I've heard and the implications it has meant for all the histories of different societies.
I am still digesting what I've heard and I know I shall be back to listen to parts if not all of it again. This book is highly recommended if you want to know why Eurasia came to dominate the world and to understand early civilisations destinies from their geography and biology. It really is compelling listening.
"Location, location, location..."
"In short, Europe's colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography—in particular, to the continents' different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate."
- Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel
This is one of those books that once you finish, you sit back and say "yeah, um, duh". Since I'm reading this about 18 years after it was first published and probably 14 years since I bought and first perused it, it never seemed very shocking to me. Look, certain civilizations came to dominate based on a couple random, accidental, and nonracially based situations that combined to give the Eurasian people a slight advantage once these civilizations came into contact with each other.
First, the domesticated food and animals of Eurasiaa contained more protein and more varieties of domesticated animals (pigs, cows, goats, etc) that allowed the people on the Eurasian continent to achieve a certain population density that allowed them to move from band > tribe > chiefdom > state > empire first. This density also allowed for more technological advances, more exposure and protection against herd diseases, so that when cultures collided, the more advanced societies were able to dominate. End of book. Q.E.D.
Is it still worth reading? Certainly. Just because you get the basic premise of Natural Selection does not mean you shouldn't read Darwin's classics. I'm to going to compare Jared Diamond to Charles Darwin. This book isn't that good, but the apparent simplicity of the book's premise only appears simple. The argument that Diamond delivers is tight and simple but hides a lot of work.
** Just a note. This audiobook does NOT include the newer edition's chapter on Japan or the 2003 author's Afterword.
"Dreadful presentation"
Any joy that might have been found in the knowledge of this audiobook was completely removed by the performance. My husband and I enjoy listening to nonfiction while we take long car rides, and we had a five hour trip to New York State coming up, and nabbed this title. We barely made it an hour before he asked me to pick something else to play, since the dull monotonous performance was actually making him tired at the wheel.
It's unfortunate. The information is interesting, and though the author is perhaps a bit dry and academic in his delivery, it could have been presented much better by someone with a more engaging range of voice. It took a very long time to struggle our way through this one, in tiny bites, and I often found myself drifting away from it, completely disengaged from the uninspiring performance.
"Brilliant! "
Incredible analysis of human civilization! While it can be repetitive or dry in some areas, this could be improved with access of maps or Wikipedia as an adjunct to the audiobook.
The narration is a little off -- with sometimes jarring transitions in narration and a very annoying regional pronunciation of 'W's -- but is workable.
Strongly recommend for anyone with a curious mind.
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Tevfik Arif, New York real estate developer and Donald Trump pal, was arrested this week aboard the famed Turkish yacht Savarona during a police helicopter raid for allegedly running expensive pleasure cruises for rich guys and underage prostitutes.
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Officials believe a lightning strike caused a small fire near Lake Nighthorse reservoir early Wednesday morning.
The fire started about 5:20 a.m. It burned about 2 acres, but no structures were threatened, said Dan Bender, spokesman for the La Plata County Sheriffs Office.
The fire was between Animas Airpark and the reservoir. It was not accessible by vehicle, so firefighters had to hike in about a mile to reach it, Bender said.
Durango Fire & Rescue Authority responded to the call and had about 10 firefighters battling the blaze until the Lightner Creek Fire broke out on Lightner Creek Road (County Road 207) at about 12:45 p.m.
Firefighters dug a containment line around the fire and have it 100 percent contained.
A helicopter dropped water on several hot spots within the fire line.
Due to remoteness (of the fire), we called in the helicopter to drop water to help us control the fire, said Dan Noonan, DFRA fire chief.
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Los Pinos Fire Protection District responded to 12 lightning strikes and spent Wednesday making sure each of them were extinguished, said Tina Naranjo, administrative assistant for the district.
The Upper Pine River Fire Protection District responded to two strikes. One of the strikes started a quarter-acre fire that firefighters were able to extinguish and mop up Wednesday, said Randy Larson, deputy chief of operations.
The biggest concern as the area transitions into monsoon season is ignition from lightning strikes, Noonan said.
Because there is no moisture in the ground, a fire is able to run along the ground instead of staying in the trees when there is a lightning strike.
The National Weather Service in Grand Junction has put a red-flag warning in effect from 11 a.m. today until midnight for dry thunderstorms that will be capable of producing erratic wind gusts up to 40 mph.
As we transition from no moisture to getting some moisture, lightning becomes a great concern because we can potentially have hundreds of strikes, Noonan said.