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Tour 13
Alexandria -- Falls Church -- Tyson's Corner -- Leesburg -- Purcenville -- Berryville -- Winchester; 71.3m. State 7.
Asphalt-paved roadbed throughout. Washington & Old Dominion Ry. parallels route between Falls Church and Bluemont. All types of accommodations.
Most northerly east-west route in Virginia, State 7 follows in general the eighteenth-century wagon road that became a turnpike in the 1820's and 1830's between Alexandria and Winchester. A hilly, suburban section changes west of Tyson's Comer into rolling pastureland, where prosperous dairy farms and cornfields alternate with wooded stretches. Many large estates, with white fenced meadows for fancy horses, give an air of rural fashion to the area around Leesburg. West of Leesburg the road winds and dips as it rises to a rolling plateau between low Clark's Gap and the Blue Ridge. Stone houses are scattered through this section, and near the Ridge stone fences predominate around fields used for orchards, general farming, and stock raising. West of Snicker's Gap the route drops abruptly to the Shenandoah before rising and falling gently through the horse-raising area around Berryville and stonewalled orchards nearer Winchester.
State 7 branches northwest from US I (see Tour 1 a) at King and Washington Sts. in ALEXANDRIA, 0 m.
At 2.8 m. is a junction with Braddock Road.
Left here about 200 yards to a junction with Quaker Lane; L. here to EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL (R), 0.2 m., occupying a group of brick buildings on a hill from which there is a wide view of distant Washington. The school was founded in 1839 and prepares about 225 boys for college. The central structure, stuccoed like several others near it, is a former residence, built about 1785 by one of the Alexander families. The flat-roofed Doric portico in Greek Revival style must have been a later addition. The drawing room contains excellent woodwork in Adamesque style.
On Quaker Lane is the PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (R), 0.4 m., second in the United States only to the seminary in New York City in age and size. Its large group of buildings in stone or brick, ponderously Gothic and Romanesque and dominated by a pagoda-like tower, stands in a grove of oaks. The seminary was founded in 1823 in Alexandria, largely through efforts of a society organized five years earlier under the influence of DrWilliarn H. Wilmer, the Reverend William Meade, and Francis Scott Key. In 1827 the seminary was moved to the present site. About 70 students are enrolled. At the seminary is kept the alms basin from the church that served Jamestown in the seventeenth century.
BAILEY'S CROSSROADS, 5.6 m., a store-girt intersection, was named for a family one of whose members was the partner of P.T.Barnum, the circus impresario.
At 7.8 m. is a junction with US 50 (see Tour 12).
FALLS CHURCH, 8.8 m. (364 alt., 3,8oo pop.) (see Tour 4a), is at a junction with US 29-211. At 12.9 m. is a junction with State 9.
Right here to SALONA (R), 3.9 m., known locally as 'the Smoot House,' a large red brick structure, with a gabled roof. Built in 18oi for the Reverend William Maffit, the house sheltered President and Mrs.Madison when Washington was occupied by the British in 1814. Fleeing from the White House on the afternoon of August 24, and lugging with her among other things the Declaration of Independence and Stuart's portrait of George Washington, Dolly crossed the Potomac by the Chain Bridge, followed back roads, and stopped at the first large house. Mrs. Maffit took her in, loaded a musket, and ordered slaves to bar the doors. Later the President himself turned up with Mr. Maffit and several cabinet members. The company interrupted supper to watch the fire that gutted the White House and other public buildings in the Capital. President Madison soon left Salona, but Dolly stayed on. From October 1861 until the following April, the house was headquarters for General McClellan.
RIDGELAWN (R), 4.2 m., an ivy-draped stone house in Hollywood style within a walled garden, is the home of Percy Crosby, cartoonist and creator of 'Skippy.'
At 4.7 tn. is a junction with County 604, the old Georgetown Turnpike, in LANC, LEY (114 pop.), a scattered rural community. L. here to SCOTT'S RUN, 2.7 M., cascading toward the Potomac. A dirt road (R), 3.1 m., leads down to a GOLD MINE (dosed to visitors) on Bull Neck Run near the river. Gold was discovered in Maryland opposite this point in 1864, when a regiment of soldiers washing their skillets in the creek found traces of 'color.' Developed soon after the war, it continued in operation until 1896. It still yields a small amount of 'flour gold.'
The DOWER HOUSE (R), 3.2 m., is a simple, two-story structure by the ruins of an older stone building. During the early days of the War between the States this structure was set afire by Confederates who mistook it for the home of James W. Jackson, who had killed the Union Colonel Elmer Ellsworth while defending a Confederate flag flying over his Alexandria hotel. Jackson in turn was shot down by Ellsworth's men.
MISS MADEIRA'S SCHOOL (R), 4.3 m., occupying II neo-Georgian buildings, in the midst of whitefenced woods and meadow, is a finishing school for girls.
The entrance (R) to GREAT FALLS PARK (feefor parking car 250, adm.for hikers ioo) is at 5.6 m. At the end of a dirt road through laurel-dotted woodland are the GREAT FALLS OF THE POTOMAC, a surprising volume of water lashing its way down a great cascade over wild heaps of rock before rushing on through a granite gorge. Near by are the stone RUINS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S IRON FOUNDRY AND MILL. Water continues to flow down the millrace from a section of the old Potomac Canal. Fostered by Washington and opened in i8oo, the canal bore more than $ro,ooo,ooo worth of goods before being superseded by the more ambitious Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in 1825. Four of the five locks, lying three quarters of a mile to the south, are easily reached by trail.
County 604 continues to a junction with State 7 at DRANESVILLE, 11.3 M. (see below).
On State 9, 7.3 m. from State 7, is CHAIN BRIDGE (L), built in 1938 on the site of a series of bridges, the first of which was constructed in 1797. It was from the method of construction used for the third that successors have been named.
The entrance Q to ASH GROVE is at 14 m. Among the remains of a grove of ash trees, stands the cream-painted frame house, with dormers along its gabled roof. A low rear wing is the hunting lodge built about 17oo by Thomas, Lord Fairfax. H and L hinges, brass locks, hand-hewn beams, and the ripple glass of the windowpanes attest its age. The rest of the structure was built a little later. On the lawn, among holly and boxwood dating from the Fairfax regime, is the well-preserved brick kitchen.
DRANESVILLE, 21.6 m. (100 pop.), a vague community of houses in rolling country, wooded and white-fenced, is the area around a junction with the old Georgetown Turnpike (see above). There was a skirmish here on December 20, 1861, called the Battle of Dranesville, in which General E.O.C.Ord forced General J.E.B.Stuart to retire. On June 27, 1863, after an engagement at Upperville, General Stuart led three brigades through Dranesville on their way to cross the Potomac and join General Early in Pennsylvania.
DRANESVILLE TAVERN (L), 22.5 m., close to the highway, is a gray weatherboarded building dating back in part perhaps to 1720. It was a popular stop in stagecoach days.
BROAD RUN BRIDGE, 27.3 m., carrying the highway on its humped back across the stream here, was built in 182o, according to a date on one of the massive stone buttresses. Wooden bridges, frequently repaired or rebuilt, spanned the water at this point before 1759, when the earliest of many similar records tells of repairs. There was an order in 1771 'to build a bridge at the usual place' over Broad Run for X15o. From the garden (open, adm. summer ioo) of the little whitewashed stone TOLL HOUSE (L) there is a full view of the sturdy bridgeside.
BELMONT (L), 30.7 m., a red brick mansion half overgrown with ivy, stands on a tree-shaded hill surrounded by rolling white-fenced fields. With a formal porch centered on the facade below a small Palladian window and flat stone arches heading the other window openings, the gabled main section is linked gracefully by long passages to a pair of low dependencies. This house was built about 18oo bv Ludwell Lee (1760-1836). During a reception for La Fayette here in 1825, when Coton, the home of Thomas Ludwell Lee, stood near by, slaves in a double line with flaming torches lighted the way between the two houses. A marble mantel at Belmont attests the gratitude felt by the Marquis after his return to France. Sold soon after 1836 and turned into a girls' school, the mansion became a residence again about 1905.
GOOSE CREEK BRIDGE, 32.3 m., is another of the few stone spans in Virginia more than 100 years old.
LEESBURG, 35.8 m. (330 alt., 1,640 POP.) (see Tour 3a), is at a junction with US 15.
CLARK'S GAP, 39.1 m., affording a view of the Blue Ridge Mountains northwestward beyond wide, rich lowlands, is at a junction with State 238.
Right here to County 662, 0.7 m., and R. to WATERFORD, 3.6 m. (256 pop.), the oldest settlement in Loudoun County, dozing between low hills that roll down to meadows along a lazy creek. Old houses -- white frame or red brick -- are set along anelike streets. A stone Mill that has produced waterground meal for more than 100 years stands at the edge of the village, which was named for Waterford in Ireland, the native town of Asa Moore, who built his house here in 1733.
Right from Waterford 0.3 m. on County 698 to the abandoned FAIRFAX MEETING HOUSE, in fork with County 665 (L), a barnlike structure of roughhewn stone. The building was erected about 1868 and replaced a meeting house built here in 1740.
HAMILTON, 42.6 m. (500 POP.), is a settlement of trim white dwellings in broad yards-shallow barriers that hold back the fields. The village was named for James Hamilton (1720-75), one of the first local landholders.
A TOLL GATE LODGE (R), 43.8 m., a little stone hut at the road's edge, is one of a few surviving stations at which tolls were once collected.
At 44.3 m. is a junction with County 722.
Lef t here is LINCOLN, 1.7 m. (101 pop.), a few frame houses and a store that form a hamlet begun in the 1730's by Friends from Pennsylvania. Here is Goose Creek Meeting, the only Quaker meeting to survive in Loudoun County, which grew out of the prayers Jacob Janney's wife, Hannah, offered up twice weekly under the trees in the forest. The first meeting house, built shortly after 1736, was replaced in 1765 by the SECOND GOOSE CREEK MEETING HOUSE (R), a stone building, now a dwelling, beside a stone-walled cemetery. The THIRD MEETING HOUSE (L), a large red brick structure in use today, was erected in 1817.
PURCELLVILLE, 45 m. (700 POP.), with rather standoffish houses behind hedge-bound lawns, is a marketing center with a crowded little block of stores. Here every October is held the Loudoun County Fair. At the town's western edge (L) is the LOUDOUN GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB (9 hole course; greensfee $I, Sun. $1 .50).
Right from Purcellville on County 690 is HILLSBORO, 5.2 m., its one street curving among scattered houses, white frame alternating with gray stone. Here in 1831 was born Susan Koerner, mother of Wilbur and Orville Wright, whose experiments with heavier-than-air craft made aviation practicable.
Left from Hillsboro 5.3 m. on State 238, through pleasantly remote farm lands, to KEY'S GAP (987 alt.), where the highway crosses the West Virginia line 8 miles east of Charles Town (see West Virginia Guide). This was called Vestal's Gap in Colonial times for John Vestal, who ran a ferry across the Shenandoah below the ridge. Near by lived 'Edw. Thomson, ye Quaker,' whose home was a welcome stopping place for weary travelers jouncing over the rough road. On April 6, 1754, Major George Washington with his troops passed here, setting down 'expences of the Regt. at Edw. Thomson's marching up' and 'Bacon for do. of John Vestal & Ferriages.' In 11755 Sir Peter Halket, leading a detachment of Braddock's troops on the ill-fated expedition against the French at Fort Duquesne, stopped here, and noted, 'Mr.Thomson's, the Quaker, wh. is 3,000 wt. corn.' The present name honors Francis Scott Key of Georgetown.
ROUND HILL, 47.9 m. (557 alt., 359 POP.), overlooks the prosperous scene of trim farming country. The village, with a few stores in its middle, is strewn about the highway beneath the shade of plentiful trees.
At 51.5 m. is a junction with State 245.
Left here steeply to BLUEMONT, 0.4 m., a handful of houses and a store or two at the foot of the mountain whose slopes are covered with hepatica in the spring. Until 19oc, the hamlet was called Snickersville. Glimpsed through the trees on the mountainside are many summer homes of Washington's official and diplomatic set.
SNICKER'S GAP, 52.5 m. (I,I5o alt.), is on the crest of the Blue Ridge. A trail (L) leads into BEAR DEN PARK (open 9-5, May to Oct.; caretaker's fee 15 0), a rocky ledge, from which there is a wide view westward of mountains and the Shenandoah Valley and River.
Snicker's was first known as Williams' Gap, and a grant made in 173 1 notes 'the road that leads to Williams Cabbin in the Blew Ridge.' Williams, who was a squatter on the Fairfax lands, had a ferry here, which by I 76o had passed to Edward Snickers.
At 53.1 m. is a lookout (R) with a good view northwestward across the valley. .
AUDLEY FARM (R), 59.3 m., centers around a rambling old house, stuccoed white, and a vast collection of outbuildings. In the house, built by Warner Washington in 17 74 and later enlarged, lived Nellie Parke Custis after the death of her husband, Major Lawrence Lewis, until her death in 1852. Today the estate is a large horse-and-stock-farm.
BERRYVILLE, 60.5 m. (568 alt., 1,200 pop.), has a peaceful, antique charm. Nondescript commercial buildings huddle along the little main street, but round about cluster attractive houses amply interspersed with old trees and lawns. This center of a prosperous farming and apple country is a contrast to Battletown, as the tavern community at the crossroads here was known in the days when the foregathering of lusty frontiersmen led frequently to brawls. In 1798 a town was properly laid out on land belonging to a Benjamin Berry. Between 1835 and 186o the community prospered greatly. Several skirmishes took place near by in 1862-64, but no important engagement. Part of Lee's army camped here on the way to Gettysburg.
The CLARKE COUNTY COURTHOUSE (R), built about 1840, is a red brick rectangle with a portico in Roman Doric style, and an arcaded wing, added in 1933. The county, an area of country estates, producing wheat, horses, and cattle, was carved in 1836 from Frederick County and named for George Rogers Clark, conqueror of the Northwest Territory. The extra letter, a slip in the incorporation papers, has persisted. The Clarke County Horse Show is held in Berryville every August.
THE NOOK (R), near the courthouse, a little frame house with low wings, was built sometime before 1800, by a Major John Smith.
1. Left from Berryville on State 12 to a junction with County 633, 2.7 M.; R. here through patches of woodland to ANNEFIELD (R), 4.1 m., a bluish-gray mansion of stone, solitary and severe on a low hill. The graceful bulk is topped by a broad deck roof. Openings are treated simply, but a double-decked portico has slender Ionic columns, and the cornice is deep. The interior woodwork is rich and well proportioned. Among the few mansions constructed of stone in formal style, Annefield has a beauty and distinction that has been undeservedly neglected by connoisseurs. The house, on land settled by Robert Carter, son of the 'King,' and later a Carter home, was built in 1790 by Matthew Page and named for his wife, Anne Meade, Bishop William Meade's sister.
2. Right from Berryville 0.3 m. on a lane to the entrance (L) Of SOLDIER's REST, a long frame T, painted white, on stone foundations. About 1762 Daniel Morgan, the spectacular Revolutionary figure, married lovely Abigail Bailey and began construction of his house here. After 1781 he lived for a time at Saratoga near by but returned to Soldier's Rest, where he remained until 18oo.
On this farm is so-called WASHINGTON SPRING (R), gushing from rocks at the foot of an old elm. According to a tradition, Washington used a log cabin that once stood near by as an office while surveying adjacent lands.
3. Right from Berryville 3.8 m. on US 340 to FAIRFIELD (R), a gray stone mansion among trees on a knoll. The mid-section, two stories beneath a hip roof with dormers and stone chimneys, is extended by lower wings. The house was apparently built about 1770 by Warner Washington, who had settled here with his second wife, Hannah Fairfax, about 1765. The vast barn of brick and stone and other outbuildings date from Warner Washington's time.
ROSEMONT (L), 61.4 m., a modern, rambling, stuccoed frame structure with an eight-columned veranda across the front, is the home of Harry Flood Byrd, Governor of Virginia (1926-30), United States Senator since 1933. In his career Senator Byrd has emphasized efficiency and economy in government.
From this point west to Winchester the highway has an excellent macadam surface and passes through orchards, crossing a patch of rocky land and, between Opequon Creek and the city, a strip of shale that extends down the valley from the Potomac to Staunton.
At 71.3 m. is WINCHESTER (725 alt., 10,855 POP (see Winchester), at a junction with US I I (see Tour 5a).

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From gun-toting grannies to death and divorce to a family who can't say "I love you," this year's winning stories pack a wallop. And there's a strange coincidence as well: the first and second place winners are tour guides at TJ's Monticello, while our third place winner attends his university. We had no idea our celebrity ghost judge had so much pull!
Anyone who's ever started a sentence with "I'm too old to..." should take a few pointers from first-place winner David Ronka.
"I was 49 or 50 when I went back for the MFA," says Ronka, a long-time government worker who earned his graduate degree from University of Massachusetts-Amherst where he studied fiction under famed novelist John Edgar Wideman.
These days, Ronka, 61, is a historic interpreter at Monticello, but writing remains a passion.
"It's something I can be doing when I'm 90," he says.
His winning story, "What Can't be Cured," explores death through the eyes of a man whose marriage has also expired– but just might be resurrected.
Judges offered glowing praise.
"By putting an interesting twist on some recognizable male emotions, the author delivers present conflict and resolution in a light, but sincere vision of a man willing to admit his mistakes and try again," they wrote. Ronka's compliance with the contest rules, they said, earned him high marks as well.
So just how does one come up with the idea for a winning story?
"By observing, listening, asking myself constantly, 'What if?'" says Ronka, whose inspiration for this story– originally a 61-page novella– came when a good friend passed away.
So what's his favorite part of the story?
"The opening line is a pretty good hook, if I do say so myself," he laughs. Getting readers interested immediately is "pretty essential," he explains, "so I'm pleased with that."
David Ronka PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO
For architect Bonnie Holmberg, writing began with tragedy. Diagnosed with an incurable form of leukemia, Holmberg's first husband, Miami Herald reporter Robert Liss, had written most of Fading Rainbow, a book about his experience with a terminal illness. When he died before the book was finished, Holmberg completed his last few chapters in 1983, and the writing bug bit.
As the head of corporate design for now-defunct Eastern Airlines, she wrote her next book, Cruising at 30,000 Feet, aboard planes, writing about her life as a new widow and mother of three school-age boys (two of whom are now writers).
These days, Holmberg, 60, is remarried, retired, and a guide-in-training at Monticello, working under first-place winner David Ronka. Neither knew the other had entered.
Her winning entry, "Felonious Monk," she says, was inspired by a friend who had put her home in her son's name.
"I thought, 'Oh gosh, what could go wrong there?'" she says. Fortunately for that friend, nothing terrible happened, but the thought stayed with Holmberg– and a recent Charlottesville bank robbery offered further inspiration.
The judges were drawn to her "felonious but strangely empathetic central character," suggesting that the story's only flaw was "a sense that the ending may best serve as the end of a beginning!"
They must have ESP (or else Jefferson really was whispering secrets from beyond). It turns out that "Monk" is her first short story, and it's actually a part of her third novel. The first two, she laughs, "no one seems to want."
She keeps her spirits up in a writing support group– an idea she suggests to anyone who wants to get into writing.
"It's really given me a lot of encouragement," she says, "kind of like AA."
Bonnie Holmberg PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO
Once again, Jefferson's influence over the contest is obvious– Shi Shi Wang is a 19-year-old first year at UVA, whose story "The Inarticulate Speech of the Heart," reveals that love exists even when it isn't spoken.
Like her protagonist, Wang is Chinese, though she lived in Germany, where her father was earning his Ph.D., until third grade.
Upon arriving in the United States, she honed her new English skills on her very first literary effort, "The Living Doll," which she recalls as a "very scary story about this doll who came alive and started killing everyone."
Wang laughs recalling her use of a short story writer's "biggest no-no."
"She woke up and it was all a dream," she laughs. "It's a total cop out, but I was in third grade..."
These days, judges say, she's left cop-outs far behind.
"As the little girl in this story searches for love between her parents," they wrote, "her sorrows and joys become ours, too, and that spark of story magic is no simple thing."
Wang says this particular story is "autobiographical," and says the experience of living away from home for the first time was her inspiration.
"College has helped me reevaluate my relationship with my parents," she says. In college, she adds, "you're not really independent, but you think you are."
Wang says she'll continue to write– she contributes to several literary publications at UVA– and she plans to declare a major in foreign affairs later this spring. This summer she'll get her U.S. citizenship. Sounds like fodder for another story!
Shi-shi Wang PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO


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Just when I was getting so jaded by federal education politics that I could have been displayed as part of this exhibit, the Sunshine State comes along and brightens my day.
It's not just that the Florida Assembly voted to strenghten its k-12 scholarship tax credit program yesterday, it's that the vote was 94 to 23. In addition to almost universal Republican support, the bill garnered the votes of half the entire state Democratic caucus!
As I wrote on this blog last year, "the [school choice] times they are a changin'."
Democrats in Washington don't understand that yet. Perhaps they spend too much time with DC's NEA lobbyiests. Whatever the reason, the long term health of the Democratic Party depends on its celebration of its pro-school-choice state-level leaders. If the DNC embraces those state leaders and their policies, it will grow a heart, a brain, and a spine all at once, and secure its viability for the long term.
If they don't, the national party's current wretched treatment of poor families and cowtowing to education establishment special interests will drag it down to an ignominy from which it will not soon recover.
And as someone who prefers a balance of power between the two major political parties to the dominance of either, I really don't want to see the DNC ride the NEA's bandwagon off a cliff.


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Venezuela's Chavez criticizes US over Syria policy
In his first press conference since winning reelection Sunday, President Hugo Chávez said he was willing to work with the opposition even as he doubles down on his socialist reforms.
After a vitriolic campaign characterized by insults, Chávez, has been extending olive branches to his adversaries. On Tuesday, he invited them to contribute to his "Second Socialist Plan," which will be the roadmap for his next six-year term, from 2013-2019. But he accused the opposition of acting in bad faith in the past and asked them to take a realistic look at the accomplishments of his administration, which include free healthcare and government housing.
"They [the opposition] have a catastrophic vision of the country. They deny everything the government does and every achievement the people make," Chávez said. "This is the best Venezuela we've had in our 200-year history."
Speaking at the Miraflores presidential palace, Chávez lamented that there are still people who think he's a "tyrant" or don't believe the nation's democratic credentials.
Chávez won his fourth consecutive presidential bid Sunday with 55 percent of the vote, versus 44 percent for opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. The National Election Council said almost 15 million people voted — a record turnout for this nation of 30 million.
On Monday night, a few hundred opposition sympathizers closed down a main Caracas street to protest the results.
Capriles said his team had found no evidence of fraud. And the watchdog group Venezuelan Election Observer said it had audited 300 voting centers and found no problems.
Even so, Capriles said he was always at a disadvantage as the government handed out money and houses to win votes as state-run media pumped up the Chávez candidacy.
"What we had to deal with on Sunday was brutal," he said.
Chávez will get to put his political prowess to the test again in December, when his hand-picked candidates will be running for governors posts.
Nodding to Vice President Elias Jaua, who sat in the front row of the conference, Chávez assured him he would win his race for Miranda — the country's second-largest state, which includes part of greater Caracas.
But that could be a tough fight. Capriles on Tuesday said he had resumed being governor of the state and was considering running for reelection. If he does run, it could produce a dramatic opposition-government showdown.
Wearing a suit and tie and often sitting behind a desk, Chávez joked with reporters and doodled on sheets of paper as he provided his typical meandering answers.
Asked about the crisis in Syria, Chávez responded in halting English: "short question, long answer."
Chávez condemned the United States and others for supporting Syrian rebels, whom he qualified as "terrorists," as they try to topple President Bashar Assad.
"It's a shame that the world has entered a new era of imperialism," he said. "The government of the United States is one of the most responsible for this disaster. Hopefully, if Mr. Obama is reelected, he will reform and reflect."
He likened the months of violence in Syria to the ouster and killing of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya in 2011.
"They killed thousands of innocents just to kill a president," Chávez said.
Chávez, was a friend of Gadhafi, and said the man's last message to him was that he was prepared to die a "martyr" like Cuban revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara.
Chávez also said that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been trying to congratulate him on his win but the phone call kept dropping.
Syria and Iran face U.N. and other sanctions, and the United States has often condemned Venezuela for cozying up to those regimes. Venezuela is also a supporter of Cuba, sending the island subsidized oil in exchange for Cuban doctors and other services.
Weighing in on the U.S. presidential race, Chávez repeated his claim that he would vote for President Barack Obama if he could, but lamented the country's polarization. He said Obama had been called a "communist" just for shaking his hand.
But he said the U.S. leader he would have really liked to have worked with is former President Jimmy Carter, who he called a man of peace. A few weeks before the election, Carter had called Venezuela's voting system "the best in the world."
"We would have really accomplished things for this world," Chávez mused, "and it wouldn't involve dropping bombs."


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Sunday, July 21, 2019
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Attempts to limit Gulf Coast oil spill penalty money to coastal restoration in the Louisiana Constitution failed to gain legislative passage for a second year, while disagreements continue over just how tightly the dollars should be restricted.
Rep. Simone Champagne, R-Erath, says she wants to make sure the billions of dollars that Louisiana will receive because of the ecological damage from the 2010 BP oil spill can't be diverted to fill budget gaps.
"I'll continue trying to make sure that we protect our coast. It's about the people who live there and the economic engine. It's about the entire state," she said.
Others say the constitutional protection is overkill because the spending already is restricted by federal law to coastal recovery.
"The majority of that funding that's going to come down that's tied to any BP settlements or fines has been stringently put together by the feds and the various groups involved," said Sen. Norby Chabert, R-Houma. "For the state to further handcuff itself into what it can and cannot do, we all believed was counterproductive."
Champagne's constitutional amendment dealt with money Louisiana will receive from BP and its drilling partners for violations of the federal Clean Water Act.
Gulf Coast states are estimated to split penalties ranging from $4 billion to as much as $18 billion. The exact amount will be determined in a federal trial set to resume in September.
In Louisiana, the Clean Water Act dollars are earmarked for coastal restoration and hurricane protection in statute, but Champagne wanted the language added to the Louisiana Constitution so lawmakers couldn't easily change it.
Lawmakers in the House unanimously agreed to Champagne's bill. But the proposal didn't even get a hearing in the Senate, where it languished in the Finance Committee until the session ended earlier this month.
Environmental groups supported Champagne's legislation. But they also acknowledge a federal law called the RESTORE Act, pushed by U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu of New Orleans, locks up how the dollars can be spent, leaving Louisiana only modest wiggle room — and no ability to just plow the money into budget shortfalls.
Steven Peyronnin, executive director of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, said in a statement that a state constitutional amendment would have strengthened national confidence that Louisiana would be a good steward of the money.
"But the federal legislation is very specific in limiting how those dollars can be spent, and there are quite a few advocacy and oversight organizations that are determined to ensure those limits aren't tested," Peyronnin said.
The RESTORE Act sets aside 80 percent of the Clean Water Act penalties to environmental and economic restoration projects along the Gulf Coast. The remaining dollars will go into a federal trust fund to cover costs tied to any future oil spills.
With the confines of the RESTORE Act in place, Landrieu's office didn't push state lawmakers to pass Champagne's bill. Neither did Gov. Bobby Jindal.
"We remain committed to spending 100 percent of the money on hurricane protection and coastal restoration," Jindal spokesman Sean Lansing said in an email.
Chabert, who represents a coastal southeastern Louisiana district, said the RESTORE Act provides more flexibility for the spending than Champagne's bill.
He said the federal law allows some economic development projects and other types of coastal work beyond the state's coastal master plan, a multiyear project list that provokes disagreement among coastal community leaders like Chabert.
"The intention is certainly not to build a bridge in Bossier with coastal money," Chabert said, referencing northwest Louisiana.
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Chicago Bulls Team Report – November 8
=== Chicago Bulls Team Report – November 8 ===
(Sports Network) – The Bulls were crushed Friday by Allen Iverson and the
Philadelphia 76ers, 106-85, at the United Center.
Eddy Curry paced the Bulls with 21 points and nine rebounds. Jamal Crawford
added 19 points and Jalen Rose finished with 16 for Chicago, which has lost
three of its last four contests.
Chicago converted 11-of-22 free throws and 4-of-10 three-pointers. The Bulls
made 43 percent of their shots.
Bulls forward Tyson Chandler left in the second quarter after getting hurt
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MERRIFIELD, VA. - One person was hurt and 9 people were displaced from their Fairfax County home after a fire Tuesday night. Fire officials now say the fire was accidental and caused by an overloaded extension cord.
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue officials say crews responded to a townhouse fire at approximately 6:10 p.m. in the 3000 block of Southern Elm Ct. in the Merrifield area. Smoke and fire were coming from the basement, according to officials, and firefighters battled the fire from inside.
Smoke alarms warned residents about the fire. Only one person, an adult, was injured. The adult suffered non-life threatening injuries and was taken to INOVA Fairfax Hospital.
Seven adult and two children have been displaced and the Red Cross is assisting them.
Fire officials say the damage is estimated at $40,000.
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Tim Oris joined the Duke athletic staff in October of 2000 and serves as the department's Assistant Director of Ticket Operations. Oris is the primary contact for Duke's online ticketing operation and also assists with ticket sales, player-guest tickets and office student coordination.
Before joining the Duke Ticket Office, Oris was the program coordinator for the Duke Sports Performance Program for two years. In that role, he handled marketing and assisting professional athletes who were enrolled in the program during their stay in Durham.
A native of Schroon Lake, N.Y., Oris resides in Durham with his wife Mary. They have three children - twin sons Chad & T.J. and daughter Abigail.


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Diners Kicked Out of Shuttering Marie Callender's Mid-Meal
Over the weekend, bankruptcy-declaring restaurant chain Marie Callender's sent some of its elite squadrons of corporado commandos to at least one of its Seattle area locations to kick out everyone inside—including longtime employees and customers who hadn't finished eating yet. Hard times demand even harder hearts!
Some diners had barely dug into their savory Heartland Chicken Pot Pies and perfecto chicken piccatas (we imagine) before The Suits came in and started telling them to leave the premises immediately:
Manager Mapp Chhim says he was told to get everyone out and lock the door. The restaurant was shutting down immediately, "I thought it was a big joke. Because I was like, I still had people in the restaurant. They're like, they need to leave."
Yeah that's right. Fuck you, hungry families. Fuck you, birthday party of 25, who had to stop their reveling and am-scray; here's a birthday you'll never forget.
In addition to the customers, people who stopped by to pick up food orders were also screwed; when they arrived at the restaurant, nobody home. But the most-screwed of all, of course, were the employees, who now have no jobs:
Chhim said about 50 people worked at the Northgate location, in addition to about 50 employees in Federal Way and several dozen more in Spokane. Together, the restaurant's closing leaves more than 100 people without a job in Washington state.
"Some of them have two kids and somehow they have to find alternative income to keep living. It's a big shock," he added. "I love working here. I love the people I work with."
A company spokeswoman calls the chain's method of shuttering its restaurants "a well thought-out but a very difficult decision." Oh that's weird, because actually it does not seem very well thought-out at all. Now, I am no seasoned restaurant-closure technician, but it seems quite feasible that Marie Callender's could have both given people 30 minutes or so to finish their meals and then shut down.
Today Perkins & Marie Callender's Inc., the restaurant chain's parent company, announced its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing. The plan is to close 65 stores and cut 2500 jobs. Reports say that other Marie's locations nationwide are also getting the shock-and-awe treatment, so if you're planning to dine there then pack some Tupperware.


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daftbeaker wrote:black bart wrote:Did you know that James the IV of Scotland was the last Scottish King to die in battle?
[pedant]Technically, the Union of England and Scotland didn't happen until 1603 when Liz the First popped her clogs so Jim (who died in 1513) was a Scottish king, not a British one.[/pedant]
Edit - It turns out technically Great Britain didn't exist until 1707, I have outpedanted myself
You're talking cobblers, so the Scots aren't Britons? I think you'll find my statement is correct.
Did you know also that although Henry VIII's forces defeated James IV at the battle of Flodden and poor James died (very nastily), it was James IV's genes that won in the end...James IV is an ancestor of Elizabeth II whereas Henry VIII is not?


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by Nathan Lerner
Did you know that an estimated three million Americans suffer from celiac disease? Those afflicted with the disorder cannot tolerate gluten, a common protein that is found in countless over-the-counter and prescription medications, wheat, barley and rye products and even lipstick. When celiac disease is present, the body's immune system attacks gluten molecules and destroys the lining of the small intestine, which makes it difficult for nutrients to seep through the small intestine and into the rest of the body.
Lamentably, despite the prevalence of celiac disease, the syndrome often goes undiagnosed. Alice Bast, 52, a Fort Washington resident who previously resided in both Chestnut Hill and Flourtown, is the founder and president of the Ambler-based National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA).
Like most other people, Alice ate breads, pastas and other foods with gluten for much of her life. The microscopic molecule was telling her body to self-destruct, but she didn't feel the consequences until she was 29. Clueless to what was consuming her, Alice suffered through migraines, wrenching abdominal pain, a full-term stillbirth, multiple miscarriages, weight loss, hair loss and a number of other symptoms over the next seven years.
Alice knows better now. She knows better than the 22 doctors who misdiagnosed her that she has celiac sprue, the only auto-immune disease with a known trigger: gluten. She described the challenges in raising awareness about the disease: "There is no cure or drug treatment for celiac disease, so we haven't had the support from the pharmaceutical industry that typically drives awareness of other conditions."
In 2003, Bast started the NFCA with a $100,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health and funds from private donors. She organized a medical advisory board and an army of volunteers, set up her base of operation in Ambler, not far from her then-home in Flourtown, and began to educate food and drug manufacturers, government officials and citizens about celiac disease and gluten-free living.
Bast reflected, "Finally getting diagnosed with celiac disease changed my life completely. It gave me the chance to restore my health and reclaim my life by adopting a gluten-free diet. It also gave me a new passion and calling.
"Since I started NFCA, the undiagnosed rate has dropped from 97 percent to 83 percent. We now not only focus on diagnosis, but we also listen to our community and work to improve the quality of life so that people can live full and healthy lives after diagnosis. We provide a voice for our community, and we work directly with the health care and food industries so that voice is heard."
To mark the milestone of their 10th anniversary, the NFCA hosted an event on Oct. 10 at Arts Ballroom, 1324 Locust St., at which it honored 10 individuals. Bast elaborated, "Our 10th anniversary comes at a time when everyone is talking about gluten-free food, but not everyone knows that it is tied to celiac disease. We hope that this event will help the public make that connection and want to learn more about celiac disease. With many people still undiagnosed, there is plenty of opportunity to get that message out there to people who have celiac disease but don't know it."
Dorothy Binswanger, Chestnut Hill resident, Alice's long-time friend and one of the 10 people honored at the 10th anniversary event, told us in an earlier story about NFCA, "Alice is working with local and major food companies to make gluten-free products available to everybody. It's not just rich people who have celiac. A huge market is opening up."
STARR Events, Stephen Starr's catering operation, catered NFCA's 10th Anniversary Celebration. Bast noted, "A number of STARR chefs have participated in our public events over the years and have been trained in gluten-free safety through our GREAT Kitchens program. The 10th Anniversary Celebration featured an all-gluten-free menu."
Bast acknowledged the challenges of mounting the 10th Anniversary Celebration. "Whenever you plan a big event like this, you still have to take care of the day-to-day tasks and other long-term projects that advance the organization's mission. You can't put everything on hold for a few months while you plan the event. With a staff of only 11, that's a big undertaking.
"As a nonprofit, we also work with a limited event budget. Ninety-one percent of our funds go directly to our programs. We take great pride in that and are able to maintain that number by minimizing the costs of our events.
"The best part of the 10th Anniversary Celebration was bringing so many people together to celebrate all that we have accomplished. It's our chance to stop and look at the way things were 10 years ago versus how things are now and know that NFCA played a direct role in driving that movement."
For more information about NFCA, visit www.celiaccentral.org.
Nathan Lerner is the director of Davenport Communications. He welcomes feedback at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Within Zilker Park's 358 acres lies one of the crown jewels of Austin - Barton Springs Pool. The pool itself measures three acres in size, and is fed from underground springs with an average temperature of 68-70 degrees, ideal for year-round swimming. Over the years, Barton Springs Pool has drawn people from all walks of life, from legislators who have concocted state laws there to free-spirited, topless sunbathers who turned heads in the 1970s. Robert Redford learned to swim at the pool when he was five years old while visiting family in Austin. Today, Barton Springs still attracts a diverse crowd of people and has seen record setting numbers of visitors nearing 800,000 in recent years.
The Springs serves as home to the endangered Barton Springs Salamander, and is listed as a federally protected habitat. The pool is closed to the public from 9a-7p every Thursday to allow for the vigorous and methodical cleaning methods required to help maintain the pool area for wildlife and guests alike. Depths of the pool range from 0' to 18' with surrounding grassy areas for patrons to lounge upon. Adjacent to the pool bathhouse is Splash!, an educational exhibit were patrons can learn about the history and biology of Barton Springs and the Edwards Aquifer which feeds it.View Map
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Homecoming parade will bring multiple traffic, parking changes
Homecoming parade will bring multiple traffic, parking changes
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State University Parking Office is advising travelers of multiple traffic and parking changes associated with the 2013 Homecoming parade Oct. 11.
The parade route will be closed to vehicular traffic from 6 p.m. until the conclusion of the parade and parking along the route will be restricted. Motorists must remove parked vehicles on College Avenue and in some University parking lots prior to the start of the parade. Free parking will be available in specific lots for visitors who wish to watch the parade.
The annual parade will wind through the streets of campus and State College Borough, beginning at 6 p.m. The parade will include more than 200 student, community and alumni organizations as well as the Blue Band, the Nittany Lion and a 40-foot long lion cub balloon.
Participants will organize in Lot Orange B (softball) and the fields north of the Intramural (IM) Building and south of Medlar Field. From these areas, the parade units will form on Curtin and Porter roads; proceed west on Curtin Road to Bigler Road; turn south on Bigler Road to Pollock Road; west on Pollock Road to Shortlidge Road; south on Shortlidge Road to College Avenue; west on College Avenue to Burrowes Road; and north on Burrowes Road. The parade will disperse at the Burrowes-Pollock road intersection.
Porter Road will be closed to all northbound traffic from Hastings Road to Curtin Road from 5:30 p.m. until the parade units clear the roadway forming on Curtin Road. Curtin Road will be closed from University Drive to Porter Road until the last parade unit is clear. The Curtin Road exit and Porter Road exits No. 2, 3 and 4 out of Lot 44 will be closed until the roadways are open. The No. 5 exit from Lot 44 to Porter Road will be open. No traffic will be allowed to exit onto Porter Road northbound until the parade clears. All traffic exiting lot 44 will need to use the exit to University Drive south of the Bryce Jordan Center; vehicles will be allowed to turn north or south on University Drive. Northbound traffic on University Drive can expect some delays at the Curtin Road and University Drive intersection as the parade crosses University Drive.
Yellow H (IM Building): Due to the formation and movement of parade units through the lot, Parking Lot Yellow H (IM Building) will be closed beginning at 3 p.m., and all vehicles must be removed from the Yellow H (IM) lot by 5:30 p.m.
Faculty, staff and students who do not wish to remain until the conclusion of the parade, should make plans to remove their vehicle from the following areas before 6 p.m.: Yellow H Shields Building, Yellow H (IM Building must be clear by 5:30 p.m.), Yellow H (Wagner Building), Orange J (McCoy Natatorium), Lot 81 (at Ritner/Wolf halls and Pollock Building) HUB Parking Deck, Yellow J (Atherton Hall) and Yellow N (College Avenue in front of the Health & Human Development Building).
Lot Brown A (access to Burrowes Road) will be closed during the parade. Pollock Road access will remain open to Burrowes Road for vehicles exiting Lot Brown A.
University Police will be stationed along the parade route at 5 p.m. to help facilitate rush-hour traffic flow and begin closing the route.
Free parking will be available from 4 to 9 p.m. in:
-- Lot Red A (west of North Atherton Street)
-- The Nittany Parking Deck (next to the Nittany Lion Inn), East Parking Deck (located near the corner of Bigler and Curtin Roads), Eisenhower Deck (next to Eisenhower Auditorium) and the HUB Deck (next to the HUB-Robeson Center).
Vehicles entering prior to 4 p.m. or remaining past 9 p.m. in the East, HUB or Nittany parking decks will be charged $1 per hour.
Parade parking is not permitted in any parking lot designated for resident student parking (Lot 22 Eastview, 42 Nittany Apartments, 81 South/Pollock Halls, 82 East Halls, Lot 83 and P43 on Hastings Road).


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Get help if you're a victim of crime abroad
Find the nearest British embassy, commission or consulate to get help if you're the victim of crime abroad.
In most countries, you must report the crime before you leave the country if you want it to be investigated. You might need to report the crime to make a claim on your travel insurance.
You must report a lost or stolen passport as soon as possible.
How the embassy, commission or consulate can help
You can get help to:
- understand local police and legal procedures
- find an English-speaking lawyer or translator
- find medical treatment or an English-speaking doctor
- contact your relatives and friends to let them know something has happened to you
They won't be able to:
- give you legal advice
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- influence the outcome of any trial
- give you financial help, eg for travel costs to a trial abroad or to replace stolen property
- accept any lost or recovered stolen property, except for passports (which are cancelled and returned to HM Passport Office) and driving licences (which are returned to DVLA)
You may be able to claim compensation if you're the victim of crime abroad.
Rape and sexual assault
You can also get specific help if you've been the victim of rape or sexual assault abroad.
It's your choice to report a rape or sexual assault to the local police, but doing so quickly can help with any investigation or gathering evidence.
The British embassy, commission or consulate will support you and help you to:
- arrange for someone to accompany you to a local police station
- arrange a medical examination or find an English-speaking doctor
- get advice on sexually transmitted infections, abortions and pregnancy, according to local laws and customs
- get advice, professional help or counselling - both abroad and in the UK
They will deal with your situation in a sensitive, confidential and non-judgemental way. You can ask to deal with a male or female member of staff, whichever you prefer, at any time.
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Title: All The News Thats Fit To Post (published Summer 2010)
They've won countless awards for their graphic work, but now it's time to dive behind what makes America's most venerated general interest newspaper stand a world apart. Graphics director Steve Duenes and his team of 30-some journalists at The New York Times turn around images at a breakneck daily, if not an hourly, pace, sorting and sifting through reportage to provide the clearest visualization of data possible.
How the information is manifested – through diagrams, charts, or interactive media – is up to them, though we've grown to trust their authority on all stories, from the sensitive (9/11) to the scientific (a perfect triple axel at the Olympics). In Gestalten.tv's latest podcast, we speak with Duenes and graphics editor Archie Tse on location in their New York headquarters to learn a few tricks of the trade.
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Re-view of the Preview: Chicago White Sox
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Predicted record: 85-90 wins
Actual record: 79-83
Here's to another completely wrong prediction. I really have no explanation for why this happened besdies the underacheiving of Adam Dunn among others. They didn't lose anyone THAT important to the any part of their team. I know Dunn not perfoming was indeed a big part of their underacheiving, but one man does not 15-20 make, even if he seemed horrible enough.
I conceed to the fact that I got this prediction completely wrong, whateve the reason behind this mal-prediction may be. I think I may have just been a bit too optimistic. I guess I added the value of Pierzinski and Konerko to the team even though they had already been on the team the year before. I think I made so big of a deal in the fact that Ken Williams kept both of them that I lost the fact that they weren't going to add wins to the total, but maintain the total at where it was. After all, they did only really add two impact players, one of which turned a spot in the lineup into a black hole of nothingness where hits against lefties go to die.


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Gerstner Named to Orbitz Worldwide Board• March 8, 2010 Share:
Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. has announced the appointment of Wabash alumnus Brad Gerstner '93 to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Gerstner is CEO of Altimeter Capital Management, a Boston-based investment firm.
"We are delighted to have Brad Gerstner joining the Orbitz Worldwide board," said Barney Harford, president and CEO of Orbitz Worldwide. "Brad brings a deep online travel background, and we look forward to working closely with him."
Gerstner is CEO of Altimeter Capital Management, a Boston-based investment firm, which he founded.
As an undergraduate at Wabash, Gerstner was a political science major and member of Sigma Chi. After graduating from Wabash, Gerstner earned a law degree from Indiana University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Previously he served as Vice President at PAR Capital Management from 2005 to 2008. Before PAR he served as Co-CEO of National Leisure Group and also worked at General Catalyst, a Boston-based venture capital firm.
Brad has also served as Deputy Secretary of State of Indiana.
He currently serves on the boards of directors of Silver Rail Technologies, Inc. and Expert Media, Inc.
Orbitz Worldwide is a leading global online travel company that uses innovative technology to enable leisure and business travelers to research, plan and book a broad range of travel products. Orbitz Worldwide owns a portfolio of consumer brands that includes Orbitz CheapTickets, ebookers, HotelClub, RatesToGo, the Away Network, and corporate travel brand Orbitz for Business.


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DIOR BLOSSOM BAGCategories:Other Brands
All the designer brands are working hard to match their design with the current season – the summer. So they decorate their bags with bright colors and different flowers. But unfortunately, no brand is going to shine above what Dior is about to release. Dior is going all-in on the flowers. Meet the Dior Blossom Bag.
Not much information has been released about this fresh design. But you know what they say right? A picture is worth a thousand words.
So most of these bags are going to be made in single colors. The bags are crafted with a sleek body. Oh, I love the shape – its curvy and feminine.
Perfect for the summer, the Dior Blossom Bag is made as minimalistic as possible. And we love the minimal design because it represents modern and can easily match with any outfit in your wardrobe.
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Thats much better! He's still a ninja though, right? We might need him on this mission!
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Thats much better! He's still a ninja though, right? We might need him on this mission!
Yeah, Cody's still an assasin though, so I can hire him and I'll have to give him some credits.
"Cody, we might just need you for this mission, so come back to the camp now."
Sgt.Maverick looked at Sgt Clay and they laughed."We were like that once,hey?I guess when Cody meets his first battalion of Elite stormtroopers,he'd wished he was with us!"The gunship landed.All the troopers asssembled near Sgt.Maverick and Sgt. Clay"Okay Commandos,we're here!Now all we have to do is to find the highest tree and begin the attack.Any suggestions,Sgt. Clay?"
"Well," Said Clay as he studied the huge tree. He focused on the big platforms making a stairway along the edge of the tree. Native huts were sitting on each platform. "....We might need a grapple, thats for sure.............I say we climb from platform to platform." Sgt Clay looked back at the Deltas. "I have some rope in my pack, as for the grapple, anyone?"
"Me,sir"Said the Delta who was responsible for the equipment."Ok,let's start" said Maverick.They put the grapples and started to ascent.They finally reached one of the top platforms which gave an excellent view of the fort."CT-31,give me the binoculars."CT-31 gave them to Maverick."Here you are sir."Maverick zoomed at the entrance of the fort."There are 15 sentries at the entrance.9 are basic infantry,3 are heavy troopers and 3 are snipers."Shall we start unpacking?"Maverick asked Clay.
"Eh, we can takem." Sgt Clay crouched behind a small hut along with the rest of the team. "We just need to work as a team." Clay looked back at Sgt Maverick. "I'll take two troopers over to the east hut." Sgt Clay whispered to the Deltas in the back. "I need two troopers, quickly!" as Clay commanded, three troopers volenteered, but one held back. "Right then, everyone ready?" "Yes, Sir!" the troopers quickly responded. "GO!" Sgt Clay rolled out into veiw. The troopers followed with heavy fire. "Enemy fire! ENEMY FIRE!!" The imperials had just noticed Sgt Clay and his troopers. Sgt clay had already taken down two or three sentries by surprise. They made it to the hut on the side of the platform. The inner base had been only a couple meters ahead. But running, Sgt Clay only counted 12 troopers at the foot of the heavily armed base with a clear window in the front. "The snipers must be inside , lookin out....."
What? wait,wait, wait a minute..............we werent supposed to be seen!?
LOL,LOL!HA,HA,HA!We screwed up!
no, I screwed up!!! DANGIT!!! Im sorry.......I-I seriously didnt know. I was writing it like I was playing the republic commando game.
AHH!! No.....NOW he tells me! *SIGGHHH!!!* I really screwed up this time. But seriously JCT, could ya tell me next time? Or could the IMP officers just NOT have communications this ONE TIME???? PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
*sigh* Okay *Rewinds back to when SGT. Clay snipes an Imp* go on then
THANK YOU!!! I dont wanna be the high ranking one that screwed everything up for everyone!
Ok, I think its actually supposed to be SabreMandalorian's turn. But I guess DMC could go too.
"Gunship.05 has been sent to your aid, an extra trooper is in the gunship to fill the commandos place, any more extras needed Mav(<-----New nickname )?
If you dont want to post it, just delete it and start over. Its not too late.
I delete it but I keep the injured part.
Alrighty then, go ahead.
Cody zooms in on his speederbike and comes to Sgt. Maverick and Sgt. Clay's help.
"Duck!" yells Cody, as he trows a thermal detonator at a squad of Imperials.
The explosion sends all the enemy troops skyward.
Cody jumps off his speederbike and fires at the remaining Imperials.
"We should wait for the gunship to arrive, sirs!" suggests Cody as he's covering both Seargeants' troops.
Oh, whoopdi doo.... A freakin clone that can do everything and sweep us off our feet. yaaay.......
Now now.
Gunship.05 arrives with two more clone medics to help the injured trooper. "Okay men, reinforcements are coming in, thanks for the help, report back to the destroyer now."
*Sigh*.....Im sorry. really I am. Its just that this is WAY too confusing to even go along with.......SabreMandalorian didnt even follow your orders.
{MW} tw
"Hey I'm just reacting on instinct," explained Cody,"I just helped you out buddy."
Cody held out his hand.
he,he,he......Ok, Im sorry SabreMandalorian!
Sgt Clay firmly shook the hand handed to him in peace. "Thanx for that anyways......I really screwed up back there...."
"No problem," said Cody,"I admit I was a bit too heroic."
Cody then jumped onto Gunship 1 and left for the starship.
"Okay commandos report back to hangar bay, let my legion sort out those Imps." Fox said.
"He's a tough one,isn't he?"Sgt.Maverick approached Clay."But I don't think his luck will last for ever...What do we do next Commander?"he asked.
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Hi Titus, I find it so hard to find time to attend any meetings also, but would sure love to meet the people in our area. If you like James Gleick you should read Chaos, if you haven't already. The Portable Atheist is great, also like god is not Great by Hitchens.
Hi Titus, hope you were able to try the meeting that Oliver mentions, I think there are hundreds or more atheists in Tucson.
Hi Titus, just finished the book "God and the Atom" by Victor Stenger, really like his books, and just started reading "A Universe from Nothing" by Lawrence Krause.
Hi Titus Carus, I live in NW Tucson and also like to bike and hike. I'm retired so get plenty of time to do both. I also workout and read alot. I also know few atheist in Tucson and just moved back here from Minnesota.
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What could be more embarrassing than having to release a bug fix to protect users from a bug that can destroy their data? Having to release a bug fix to protect users from the first bug fix! Apple was embarrassed in just this way last week, when they realized that System 7 Tune-Up 1.1 was defective, and needed to be replaced. System 7 Tune-Up 1.1.1 was released at the end of last week to fix the problem.
According to an anonymous source, when the final version of System 7 Tune-Up 1.1 was compiled, a previous version of a header file was used. As a result, the Tuner accessed the wrong Process Manager globals, creating a potential crash hazard in the application purging routines. The problem apparently would only appear in certain kinds of low-memory situations, so it went unnoticed until after Tune-Up 1.1 had been released.
Apple is currently recommending that all users of System 7 (both 7.0 and 7.0.1) install the System 7 Tune-Up 1.1.1 package. Previous versions of the Tune-Up package will be replaced by the Installer.
In addition to using the Installer, which comes with the Tune-Up, users have the option of dragging the "Tuner Parts" folder from the distribution disk to their System Folders. An undocumented feature of Finder 7 will automatically install the contents of any folder that's dropped on the System Folder. (Try it! It works!)
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Bully Prevention Week officially gets under way today at Galax High School. It is assumed that football players are excused from the anti-intimidation stuff, at least until after the Maroon Tide's meeting with Alleghany, N.C.
Galax will try to open the season with two wins for the first time since 2002 when the Maroon Tide hosts the Trojans in a nondistrict game set to kick off at 7:30. A week after giving Northwood a 45-0 wedgie, Galax will try to make sure Alleghany (0-2) gets stuffed in a locker for the second week in a row, the Trojans having taken a 34-14 defeat last Friday at Grayson County.
Scouting the Tide last week may have been an exercise in futility for the Alleghany staff, which never really got a good look at what would stop Galax. The Maroon Tide scored six touchdowns on its nine offensive possessions, with each scoring drive lasting an average of 1.8 plays and 18 seconds. Galax's one sustained march, a 12-play, 50-yard effort, was one of only three possessions that produced no points.
But even that drive started with a touchdown on its first play, a 51-yard Jordan Vaughan scamper that was called back on a holding penalty.
Despite the offensive output, Galax coach Mark Dixon was frustrated with his team's penalty totals – nine flags for 70 yards.
"It's going to cost us big," Dixon predicted after the Northwood game. "I don't know what we've got to do to get the message across, but what we're doing now isn't working."
On the bright side, Galax played turnover-free football, featured a balanced offensive attack with 171 rushing yards and 146 passing, and had one back (Vaughan) with 100 rushing yards by halftime.
Alleghany will be led on offense by the duo of Kyle Hoffman and Luke Hampton. A 6-foot-4, 215-pound junior quarterback, Hoffman is throwing for about 70 yards per game, with Ryan Billings and Hunter Greene his top two targets.
Hampton is a 6-foot, 192-pound junior runningback averaging 98 yards per game after last week's 15-carry, 116-yard effort against Grayson County.
Defensively, Adam Gambill is a 6-3, 220-pound lineman leading the team with 17 tackles. Hoffman isn't far behind with 14 tackles.
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Alleghany lost to Grayson County 34-14
Galax defeated Northwood 45-0
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L to Grayson Co. 34-14 8/27 D Northwood 45-0
at Galax 9/3 Alleghany, N.C.
at N. Wilkes NC 9/10 at E.Montgomery
Open 9/17 at Radford
Wilkes Central NC 9/24 Craig County
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E. Wilkes NC 10/8 Grayson County
at Ashe County NC 10/15 at Fort Chiswell
Elkin NC 10/22 at Covington
at Starmount NC 10/29 Bland County
W. Wilkes NC 11/3 at Narrows
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Johnny Manziel Named 2012 Davey O'Brien Award Winner
The Davey O'Brien Foundation today announced Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel as the 2012 Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award® Winner. Todd Blackledge, the 1982 Davey O'Brien Winner, presented the award to Manziel during The Home Depot College Football Awards at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. He will be honored at the 36th Annual Davey O'Brien Awards Dinner on Feb. 18, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Manziel was named a finalist for the Davey O'Brien along with Kansas State's Collin Klein and Ohio State's Braxton Miller. The Davey O'Brien National Selection Committee selected the winner with the Fan Vote accounting for five percent of the total vote. The committee was asked to consider the following criteria: quarterback skills, athletic ability, academics, reputation as a team player, character, leadership and sportsmanship.
During Texas A&M's first season in the SEC, the redshirt freshman guided the Aggies (10-2, 6-2 SEC) to their best final BCS ranking since 1998, while notching a berth to the AT&T Cotton Bowl against former Big 12 opponent Oklahoma. Manziel also helped lead the Aggies to a signature win on the road against the then top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide. After the impressive performance, during which Manziel accumulated 345 total yards and two touchdowns, Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin stated "No moment is too big for him."
The explosive signal caller from Kerrville, Texas has had a record-setting season. Manziel has passed for 3,419 yards and rushed for 1,181 yards, becoming just the fifth NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision player and first freshman to throw for 3,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in the same season. He ranks second in the nation in points responsible for (21.50 points per game) and total offense with 383.33 yards per game. Manziel also leads the SEC with 1,181 rushing yards and 43 total touchdowns while setting the conference record for total yards in a season with 4,600.
Manziel, is Texas A&M's first Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award winner. The last player from the SEC to win the award was Cam Newton in 2010.


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The following relates to reports of a man arrested in Stamford Hill for alleged child abuse (or for buying tzitzis for a child, if you believe local reports). I picked this up on facebook and I can't vouch for its veracity. We do mass produce urban myths round here but it's still a nice one.
There's no big news in this one, but it does have an interesting twist... There's a little scandal going on in (Stamford Hill) London, since yesterday afternoon. A chasidisher 'kollel' yungerman was arrested for molesting young kids/kid. The police arrived at the Kollel and asked the Rosh Hakolel if he knows 'ploini ben ploini'... the Rosh Hakolel said "No" (of course he wouldn't be a musser and give over a fellow jew to the police...). So the police told him "We know that you do know who he is... but it's o.k." Then they had two policemen block the entrance of the Kollel from both sides so no one would escape, and they placed a phone call to the yingerman's cell-phone, when the phone rang they knew exactly who the guy was and they took him away... I guess now there's more proof of the 'danger' of having a cellphone...!