New Trinity coach John Barrick worked his girls' volleyball team hard through the first few weeks of the season. Hard enough to have one player say she didn't want to get out of bed the next morning.
Barrick questioned if he pushed them too hard, but after a quick sweep of Lower Dauphin Thursday night at Trinity High School, it seemed like the Shamrocks' legs were still fresh.
Remember our story about Google and its Green Blog post that detailed how carefully it scopes out projects that it supports with its carbon offsets program? Well, one of the projects mentioned in that post is taking advantage of its time in the big Google spotlight, noting the search giant’s support and sharing details about the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while turning hog waste into energy.
Dear Fanny:
I recently paid for some items at a convenience store with $1 coins, and the cashier reacted as if they were play money. After I told her I had nothing else smaller than a $20 bill, she reluctantly accepted the coins.
I'm one of the few people who actually uses the gold-colored presidential dollar coins. The U.S. Mint began turning them out in 2007, starting with George Washington and continuing with each president in the order they served. The president's portrait is on the obverse (front) and the Statue of Liberty is on the reverse.
Howie’s Hamper is back again with the Top Five games to watch live and in person this weekend.
The theme here is rivalries, and that’s going to make the atmosphere all the more electric.
1. Alberta at UBC (Saturday, 2 p.m., Thunderbird Stadium)
The Thunderbirds have not won a game on the field of play (they were awarded one by forfeit) since beating the same visiting Golden Bears in the first home game of its 2008 campaign. If you’re a fan of the blue-ajnd-gold, that’s simply too long to wait. So damn the impending rain and head on over to the Point Grey campus and watch one of the best UBC teams in the past few years as they play their home opener. ‘Birds quarterback Billy Greene comes in with 600 yards passing and no interceptions and UBC has looked good in botha win over Regina and a loss to Calgary, both on the road.
Trial began on Monday for three men accused of murdering Alrick Peddie on the afternoon of 24 March 2010 in West Bay.
Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryll Richards said the Crown’s case is that Roger Deward Bush, Jose Guadalupe Sanchez and Robert Aaron Crawford were involved in a joint enterprise to shoot and kill Mr. Peddie, also known as Bling.
It was fashionable at the end of the 1970s, after a dreary parade of presidential failures punctuated by Jimmy Carter, to say the presidency had grown too unwieldy. The historian Barbara Tuchman spoke for all the academic and journalistic believers in the theory of the impossible presidency when she mused, “Maybe some form of plural executive is needed, such as they have in Switzerland.”
A total of 36,278,332 Americans or 11.9-percent of the population reported Irish ancestry in the 2008 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The only self-reported ancestral group larger than Irish Americans is German Americans. Of more than 3,500 Irish surnames, Smith is the most popular in the U.S.
This year marks the Sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary of the American Civil War and this month is Women’s History Month.
Therefore, to commemorate these two facets of American History, Top Secret Writers would like pass along the story of Wild Rose , the Civil War spy.
With some 50,000 books published on the American Civil War – and many more in the pipeline this year as 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the war’s beginning – you can be forgiven for asking, “Another?” But David Goldfield’s America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation is a riveting, comprehensive, and delightful piece of historical writing.
-"The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood," by James Gleick; Pantheon (531 pages, $29.95)
Partway through "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood," author James Gleick describes a technological innovation so transformative that it was heralded as "one of the grand way-marks in the onward and upward march of the human intellect" by the New York Times. "What was the essence of the achievement?" Gleick asks. "'The transmission of thought, the vital impulse of matter.' The excitement was global but the effects were local. ... Information that just two years earlier had taken days to arrive at its destination could now be there - anywhere - in seconds. This was not a doubling or tripling of transmission speed; it was a leap of many orders of magnitude. It was like the bursting of a dam whose presence had not even been known."
