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Death of Jim Rubush saddens community
Editors note: Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corp. assistant superintendent Jim Rubush died Saturday morning. Reporter Andy Graham last visited with Rubush Wednesday for this story.MARTINSVILLE
Jim Rubush, 59, seemed pleased to have visitors. He would have been even happier to have taken them fishing.
It was a gloriously crisp and sunny Wednesday afternoon, a cold front having chased away the customary July humidity the night before.
Rubush was at home, on the shores of Lake Edgewood in Morgan County, rather than at his Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corp. office.
With a good fly rod cast through an open door, Rubush probably could have reached the water from where he lay in the hospital-model bed his hospice provider had delivered a couple of days earlier.
Latin America with high hopes for World Junior Championships in ...
Havana, Cuba - After a successful performance at last years IAAF World Youth Championships in Marakech, Latin American and Caribbean athletes have shown a great potential to shine at the upcoming IAAF World Junior Championships in Beijing, China, August 15-20.As Beijing will host the 2008 Olympic Games, the future stars of the region want to make their possible first trip to China a memorable one. Many of them may come back in two years to represent their respective countries at the Summer Games.
Jamaica, Cuba and Brazil have confirmed the talent of their younger athletes, but there are other individuals from South America, Central America and the Caribbean ready to leave their mark in the Chinese capital.
Sprinters and hurdlers lead Jamaican squad
As usual, Jamaica counts on its sprinters, including four medallists from the previous World Junior Championships in Grosseto, Italy.
NRDC Press Archive: Facing Lawsuit, Navy Declares Itself Above the Law in High-Intensity Sonar Fight
LOS ANGELES (June 30, 2006) - With the U.S. Navy facing a lawsuit to stop its illegal use of high-intensity sonar in a massive practice exercise that began this week, the Pentagon today took the unprecedented step of declaring the military exempt from the basic law protecting whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals. The drill is taking place in a 210,000 square nautical mile area near the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument, created just two weeks ago by President Bush. The suit was filed on Wednesday by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and other conservation groups after the Navy ignored requests for a safe resolution of the problem and forged ahead with its sonar plans for the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) maneuvers. High intensity, mid-frequency sonar is a technology that has been directly associated with mass strandings of marine mammals around the world.
'True Caribbean Pirates' lands on History Channel
Willing to jump into a pirate adventure lacking Johnny Depp? Consider History Channel's "True Caribbean Pirates," which tells dead man's tales about Blackbeard, Black Bart and other pillagers and plunderers.According to the two-hour program debuting 1 p.m. today, piracy had its roots in the practice of "privateering," in which nations lusting for New World riches used freelance private sailors instead of navies to counter dominant Spain in the Caribbean.
The lure of wealth tempted some to cross the line into piracy, but it was peace that really swelled the pirate ranks. With thousands of privateers and sailors out of work, the age of outlaw pirates was under way; even women (Anne Bonny and Mary Read, among them) joined in.
Among the more colorful details in the program: Blackbeard intimidated foes by placing burning rope beneath his heat to create a fearsome cloud of smoke; Nassau, Bahamas, became the site of a sort of all-pirate resort; the iconoclastic Black Bart Roberts conducted religious services but hanged an official from a ship yardarm.