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The apparition of the Virgin de Guadalupe on December 12, 1531 on the hills of Tepeyac, Mexico signaled the beginning of a new spiritual era in the Americas. Raul Servin. “The 4 Ladies” From the Mexican Legends Series. Courtesy of Centro Cultural Aztlan. Photo by Ricardo Romo.   With the visitation of the Virgin, natives who had resisted Catholicism turned to the Brown Madona as their predominant symbol of inspiration and proof that God listened to them.

I have never shopped at Walmart.  I have taken my mother there several times as she refused to heed my advice about why she should not shop there.  She pointed out that I never heeded her advice either, so I guess we are even. I refused to shop there because of the abysmal factory conditions under which their products are produced and because of the negative impact on local economy especially in small towns from which I came.

If you've been reading about the Wankel engine in general magazines you've probably seen many uniformly glowing claims for spectacular advantages in size and weight. Said one, “Wankel-type power plants are only half the size of normal ones...” Wrote Prof. David Cole in Scientific American, “For equivalent horsepower a Wankel engine is only about half the size and weight of a conventional engine.” There doesn't seem to be much disagreement on the subject.

I have been attempting for several days to collect my thoughts on the Russo-Ukrainian War and condense them into another analysis piece, but my efforts were consistently frustrated by the war’s stubborn refusal to sit still. After a slow, attritional grind for much of the summer, events have begun to accelerate, calling to mind a famous quip from Vladimir Lenin: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

This summer, a Colorado resident, attention-glutton, and sponsored jogger named Erin Ton claimed to have summited, in record time, all 58 of the state’s “fourteener” peaks (summits 14,000’ or higher above the ocean of one’s choosing, typically Danny or Billy). Her Strava data, however, revealed that Ton had skipped the southernmost of these peaks, which is on private land and requires a permit to access. Before commencing her endeavor, Ton had already established an inimical history with the management of that omitted summit, Culebra Peak.

Follow along on Twitter @ToddCordell | @InfernalAccess Be sure to join the Discord channel to talk hockey with our writers and subscribers. Get 35% off for 1 year In the coming weeks I’m going to zero in on free agents I think the New Jersey Devils could, or should, pursue come July. Up first is Yakov Trenin, who I wrote about last August as a potential deadline target…had the Devils actually been good. Trenin is a 6’2’, 200-pound forward who would bring tenacity and versatility to the table while contributing at both ends of the ice.

It has been dawning on me that this blog is, in a sense, about evolution vs. intelligent design. Usually this opposition shows up under a different guise. For instance,the simplicity of (designed) dystopias and utopias, vs. the complexity of (evolved) real life. Or the benefits of having a diversity of world cultures to find solutions to civilizational problems compared to the dangers of putting all your eggs in the same basket of monoculture.

There’s a scene early in Martha Kehoe and Joan Tosoni’s 2019 Gordon Lightfoot documentary If You Could Read My Mind, in which the movie’s subject, spotting a Drake billboard while driving through Toronto, remarks, “All you have to do is listen to his records and you know why he’s doing so well.” Likewise, Lightfoot’s best records—especially his ‘70s collections of sturdy and smooth folk rock—demonstrate everything you need to know about the man: his impossibly propulsive 12-string strum; his miles wide voice; and most of all, his sensitive songs, which strip back the bark, exposing the very heart of things.

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