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Title: Triple 9
Movie: :3.5stars:
Video: :4stars:
Audio: :4.5stars:
Extras: :1.5stars:
HTS Overall Score:77
The corrupt cop genre isn't exactly new and fresh, but Director John Hillcoat ("The Road" and "Lawless") livens it up a bit with this gritty cop drama that is downright brutal and unflinching with its portrayal of different shades of gray. It goes without saying that not everything is black and white. There is usually some darkness mixed in with the light and some source of hope and goodness mixed in with even the most hardened criminal. "Triple 9" is reminiscent of "Training Day" and "Heat" mixed with a few other heist movies and puts a bleak cover over the top like only John Hillcoat can do (just watch "The Road" if you want to see a fantastically bleak film by the same man). The film is not always perfect, and the plot always crystal clear, but the ensemble cast does a great job at making it entertaining and engaging throughout.
Marcus (Anthony Mackie) and Franco Rodriguez (Clifton Collins Jr., "Boondock Saints II") are two dirty cops who have thrown in with a trio of hardened criminals. Lead by ex-special forces Michael Atwood (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and brother Russel and Gabe (Norman Reedus of "The Walking Dead" and Aaron Paul of "Breaking Bad") the trio have to team up with the two dirty cops in order to pull off a series of jobs for Russian mobster Irena (an almost unrecognizable Kate Winslet) in order to break out her husband from a Russian Gulag. Files are needed for his release and these files are in federal hands, so the five men have to steal said information. Michael Atwood is under duress, as his son is actually the niece of Irena and the mother is her sister Elana (Gal Gadot), so with his son Felix being held over his head there is not much he can do but complete the job.
The first job (a bank robbery) goes exactly as planned, but the men don't realize that there is a second job lined up. A job that may not exactly be nearly as easy as the first. To get this job done they need some extra time on the docket before the cops show up and that can only happen if something is distracting them. Rodriguez comes up with the brilliant plan of fabricating a triple 9, which is police speak for officer down. Targeting Officer Chris Allen (Casey Affleck) as the target the cops and robbers start to fall apart at the scene. One by one they fall to greed, stupidity and just plain bad luck with Russel getting offed by Irena, and his brother Gabe giving up crucial information by accident that very well may incriminate them all. With Chris Allen's uncle Jeffrey (also a cop) working the same case from a different angle, all the men are soon to meet in the middle with a violently bloody confrontation that will leave some dead, and some wishing they WERE dead.
[img]http://www.hometheatershack.com/gallery/file.php?n=71097[/img]"Triple 9" is does not exactly blaze new trails in the dirty cop thriller, but John Hillcoat's well-tuned directorial hand at the helm allows the characters to really shine here and allow the film to be better than it has any right to being. No strange to bleak storytelling, Hillcoat keeps the film moving at a brisk pace, and despite some of the clichés and tropes of dirty cop movies, he keeps the audience guessing just what will happen next until the very end (well, despite some standard betrayal and backstabbing that is common in these types of films). After the first job ends and the second starts the audience is clued into the fact that this is about to go sideways, but you're never sure just exactly who is going to bite the bullet.
This really was an ensemble films, which is something that seems to be more common in the film world recently. I swear I've reviewed 4 ensemble films in the last week alone. There was some trouble in the original casting and production values as the film was originally going to have Christoph Waltz, Shia La douche, and Cate Blanchet in the leading role, but the inclusion of Kate Winslet, Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck and the rest of the motley crew do a good job at keeping experience grim and realistic. "Triple 9" was something that I had high hopes for, and was actually a decent movie, but the film also feels a bit convoluted and confusing at times, with scene jumps that make you stop and pause the movie while you wonder how the characters got there or if there was a time lapse of not. It's a solid movie, but the flaws are present and keep it from becoming the next "Heat".
Rated R for strong violence and language throughout, drug use and some nudity
Video :4stars:
[img]http://www.hometheatershack.com/gallery/file.php?n=71105[/img]"Triple 9" is another in a long list of digitally filmed movies, but one that actually looks a LOT like actual film stock at times. Intentionally shot with a gritty look, it captures a great deal of fine detail. Faces look well defined and clothing is tight and cleanly captured, with individual fibers and stitches visible to the naked eye. Colors tend to be a bit dim and lean towards a reddish gold tinge, and always bathed in darkness and shadows. Blacks are good, but do suffer some from black crush and some occasional digital noise in the darkest scenes. The disc itself seems to be free of any major artifacting except for the crush and noise, which gives the intentionally harsh looking film pleasant to look at. While the film may not be digital eye candy, it is a great looking encode that's only flaws are a very intentionally raw and gritty looking texture to the experience.
Audio :4.5stars:
[img]http://www.hometheatershack.com/gallery/file.php?n=71113[/img]The 5.1 DTS-HD MA track on Universal's Blu-ray disc is powerful and aggressive from the get go. Filled with pounding LFE and an aggressive surround mix it adds a lot of raw energy to the track and keeps it bombastic and engaging to the end. The score by Atticus Ross is harsh and sometimes almost deafening, positioning itself around the track to create a nice center of immersion and the ambient noises activate the side speakers with great aplomb. Cars whizzing by on the freeway, bullets plinking over your shoulder and the screaming of civilians during the initial bank robbery pull you in and never let go, while the front sound stage shows some great imaging as it balanced the aggressive score with perfectly intelligible dialog that stays locked up in the center channel. The LFE is a bit hot and sometimes feels overcooked, but let no one say that it isn't there in spades as the track just pulses with bass.
Extras :1.5stars:
• Deleted Scenes
• Authentic World
• Under the Gun
Overall: :3.5stars:
"Triple 9" is not exactly a new and exciting genre of film, but it is as solid entry into the crime genre, blending dirty cops with honest ones and good old fashioned Russian mobsters. The fantastic ensemble cast adds their own unique flair to the film and really is what makes the slightly muddled plot work despite the flaws present in the script. Audio is fantastic and video is rough and raw, but perfectly acceptable considering the aesthetic choices used. As a crime thriller you could do much and worse and is definitely worth checking out at the very least. Even if it's just as a good rental.
Additional Information:
Starring: Casey Affleck, Anthony Mackie, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Directed by: John Hillcoat
Written by: Matt Cook
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1 AVC
Audio: English: DTS-HD MA 5.1
Studio: Universal
Rated: R
Runtime: 116 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: May 31st 2016
Buy Triple 9 On Blu-ray at Amazon
Recommendation: Check It Out
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It's true that a caloric deficit—burning more calories per day than you take in—is a requisite of weight loss. But creating a deficit doesn't have to (and shouldn't) involve deprivation. That goes for calories, carbs, sugar, fat, or any other commonly demonized nutrient. "No one food is responsible for your weight," Langer says, explaining that a good vs. bad mentality sets people up for disordered eating and exercise habits. In fact, caloric deprivation increases how the brain responds to food, setting you up for binge-eating down the line, according to research from the Oregon Research Institute.
2. Boxing: I let my clients do boxing as I feel that it's a great way to pump up your heart rate and increase sweating. Higher the heart rate the more calories they'll be burning. Usually I instruct my clients to do one minute of punches or combinations usually on boxing pads but can also be done on a punch bag followed by 30 seconds rest. Usually I repeat this exercise several times until my clients are fit. Then I let them hold the plank in between rounds as an active rest.
Fiber works its weight loss magic in multiple ways. It helps you feel fuller, longer so eating fiber-rich foods is the dieting equivalent of working smarter, not harder. Plus, fiber takes a long time to digest, so fiber-rich foods don't cause spikes in blood sugar that can send your insulin levels soaring. On the other hand, when you eat the so-called bad carbs (the refined or sugary ones that lack fiber), you may wind up with an insulin response that promotes fat storage. The takeaway: More fiber equals less fat storage.
It's natural for anyone trying to lose weight to want to lose it very quickly. But evidence shows that people who lose weight gradually and steadily (about 1 to 2 pounds per week) are more successful at keeping weight off. Healthy weight loss isn't just about a "diet" or "program". It's about an ongoing lifestyle that includes long-term changes in daily eating and exercise habits.
Drinking several cups of tea a day can help shrink your belly fat. Green tea is a great choice, but tea made from the leaves of Camellia sinensis, such as oolong tea and the unfermented white tea, are just as effective. Catechins in the tea speed up metabolism and increase fat burning by stimulating the liver, especially when combined with exercise. Other fat-burning teas are peppermint tea, which is known for its appetite suppressing effect, and Red Rooibos tea, which has a flavonoid called Aspalathin that lowers the kind of stress hormones that promote weight gain. Here's a list of all the best teas for weight loss.
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In addition to improving your health, maintaining a weight loss is likely to improve your life in other ways. For example, a study of participants in the National Weight Control RegistryExternal* found that those who had maintained a significant weight loss reported improvements in not only their physical health, but also their energy levels, physical mobility, general mood, and self-confidence.
Dr. Smith says the regimented plan involves scheduling meals, mainly of plant-based foods in controlled portions, to create a negative energy balance... where your body extracts energy from stored fat, thereby boosting calorie burn and reducing fat. Most dieters don't realize that simply by cutting back as little as 20 percent at each meal, they can lose a significant amount of weight.
In a way, moderate-intensity physical activity is that "magic pill" a lot of people are looking for, because the health benefits go beyond keeping your waistline trim: Not only can it reduce your risk of cancer, stroke, diabetes and heart attacks, but studies have shown that physical activity can significantly improve the moods of patients with major depressive disorders.


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volume of Chinese
written by Dr. Herbert A. Giles, Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge, formerly British Consulat
that country.
very interesting to compare the tales in the two volumes. They are equally quaint and delightful, butthe national spirit of the Chinese is very different from that of the Japanese, both being reflected in the storiesin a
and wore short clothes, not a long robe like the He took a seat priest and men who read books. near to the priest and the two were soon laughing and talking together. By and by, the young man cast a glance at his own rough dress and said with a sigh, " See, what a miserable wretch I am." " You seem to me well fed and healthy enough," " replied the priest why in the middle of our pleasant chat do you suddenly complain of being a ' " What miserable wretch ? pleasure can I find,";
" in this life of mine, young man, as 1 do from early morn to late working every daythe?
at night
win battles, or to be a rich man and have fine food and wine, and listen to good music, or to be a great man at court and help our Emperor and bring that is what I call prosperity to my family ; I want to rise in the world, but here 1 pleasure.
a poor farm-labourer ; if you don't call that ' He then miserable wretchedness, what is it ? to get sleepy, and while the landlord was began
cooking a dish of millet-porridge, the priest took a pillow out of his bag and said to the young man,
be granted."
and open at each end. When the young man put his head down towards the pillow, one of the openings seemed so large and bright inside that he got in, and soon found himself at his own home. Shortly afterwards he married a He now beautiful girl, and began to make money. wore fine clothes and spent his time in study. In the following year he passed his examination and was made a magistrate and in two or three years he had risen to be Prime Minister. For a long
was round
like a tube,
trusted him in everything, but he was came when he got into trouble;
He accused of treason and sentenced to death. was taken with several other criminals to the place of execution he was made to kneel on both knees, and the executioner approached with his sword. Too terrified to feel the blow, he opened his eyes, There was the priest to find himself in the inn. with his head on his bag ; and there was the land;
the porridge,his
After eating
and bowing to the priest, said, for the lesson you have taught what it means to be a great man took his leave and went back to
one knew;
what bird had laid it, or how it had got there no one ever saw it, for there was nobody there to see. The egg lay all by itself on some green grass, until one day it split with a crack, and out came a stone monkey, a monkey whose body was of shiningBefore long, this wonderful stone surrounded by a crowd of other monkeys, chattering to one another as hard as they could. By and by they seemed to have settled something in their minds, and one of them carne forward and asked the stone monkey to be their This post he accepted at once, having king. indeed already thrown out hints that he thought himself quite lit to rule over them. Soon after this, he determined to travel in search of wisdom, and to see the world. He went down the mountain, until he came to the sea-shore, where he made himself a raft, and sailed away. Reaching the other side of the great ocean, he found his way to the abode of a famous magician, and persuaded the magician to teach him all kinds of magical tricks. He learned to make himself invisible, to fly up into the sky, and to jump many miles at a single jump. At last he began to think himself better and strongerpolished stone.
monkey was
" Have you heard of the new king of the said the Dragon prince to the Lord monkeys ? Buddha one day, as they were sitting together in " the palace of the sky. No," answered the Lord " What is there to hear about him ? Buddha. " He has been doing a lot of mischief," replied the " He has learnt all kinds of' '
magical tricks, and knows more than anybody else in the whole world. He now means to turn the Lord of the Sky out of his place, and be Lord ofthe
help us against this impudent stone you will be good enough to do so,
and the two went together to the Lord of the Sky, where they found the stone monkey misbehaving himself, and insulting everybody who dared to interfere with The Lord Buddha stepped forward, and in him. a quiet voice said to him, " What do you want ? " to be " I want," answered the stone monkey, Lord of the Sky. I could manage things much better than they are managed now. See how I canhis best,
Then the stone monkey jumped a big moment he was out of sight, and in " Can another moment he was back again. you do " he asked the Lord Buddha at which the that ?!
In a
I will
palace with
You shall come outside the you. and stand upon my hand. Then, if
Lord of
the Sky, as you wish to be ; but if you cannot jump out of my hand, you shall be sent down to earth,
and never be allowed to come up to the sky any The stone monkey laughed loudly when more." he heard this, and said, "Jump out of your hand, Lord Buddha! Why of course I can easily do So they went outside the palace, and the that." Lord Buddha put down his hand, and the stone monkey stepped on to it. He then gave one great On jump, and again he was away far out of sight. and on he went in his jump, until he came to the There he stopped and while end of the earth. he was chuckling to himself that he would soon be Lord of the Sky, he caught sight of five great red pillars standing on the very edge with nothing but empty space beyond ; and now he thought he would leave a mark to show how far he had really jumped. So he scratched a mark on one of the pillars, mean;
ing to bring the Lord Buddha there to see it for When he had done this, he took another himself. big jump, and in the twinkling of an eye he was " When back again in the Lord Buddha's hand.are
you going
asked, as
jump:" the Lord Buddha monkey stepped down on to the " When cried the monkey sarcastito begin to'
of the
have jumped, jumped to the If you want to know have been, you have only to get on myI
There are back, and I'll take you there to see. five red pillars there, and I've left a mark on one of them." "Look here, monkey," the Lord Buddha" look at this." The holding out his hand On one of the fingers of the looked. stone monkey Lord Buddha's hand there was the very marksaid,;
which he himself had made on the red pillar. " the whole " You see," said the Lord Buddha You could never have world lies in my hand.
When you jumped, and thought my hand was under you all
and learn
STEALING PEACHESWHENdrumsI was a little boy, I went one day to the fair. There were crowds of people there, and the noise,
with everyone talking at the top of their voices, beating, and music playing, was enough to make a man deaf. In the middle of it all, I saw He was a man suddenly walk into an open space.leading a boy by the hand, and cried out that he would do any trick anyone asked him to do. Now it was a cold day, with snow lying on the ground, and when one of the crowd asked him to get some peaches, the magician didn't seem to like the idea
He grumbled and grunted for a bit, but all. Of course suddenly cheered up, and cried: "Done I can't get peaches here, in this frosty weather. But I know where they grow, up in the Great Skyat!
must try to fetch them from there." saying, he took out of his box a huge ball of unfastened a good length of this, and threw cord.
to hook on to Quickly the man unrolled and unrolled the ball, and all the time the end of the cord that was in the air kept on going higher and higher, till it reached the clouds, and went right out of sight. By this time only a short end of rope remained in the man's hand, and this he threw across to his son, telling him to go up it at once, as he himself was too heavy. The boy begged
make him go, lest the rope should break, and he should fall from a height and get killed; but his father wouldn't listen to a word, and
So up went the only told him to be quick about it. boy, hand over hand, until he too disappeared in theclouds.
few minutes passed, while I, and all the people round, stood open-mouthed, looking upwards. Then, all of a sudden, down fell the hugest peach I have ever seen. It was quite as big as a basin.
father picked it up with a smiling face, and showing the men nearest him that it was a
real peach,
on the he shrieked out, " what will my son do The words now ? How will he get down ? were scarcely out of his mouth, when something else fell with a bang. It was the boy's head Then the poor father began to weep, and tears ran " The down his cheeks. gardener up there must have caught him, poor lad. Why did I send him!
inviting them to taste it, when down a run, and fell, yards and yards " ground close to him. Ai-yah'
up ? Why did you ask me for peaches ? My poor boy, my poor boy, I shall never see you While he was speaking, and hugging the again." dead boy's head, first the arms, then the legs, and last of all, the body of the lad, fell down from the We were all filled with horror at the sight, sky. and the father, gathering the limbs together, put them and the head into his box, and turned to us, " He was my only son. Wherever I used saying,I am left alone, to to go, he went. bury him. lost his life for your peach ; will you not give me some money to help pay for his funeral ? " By
STEALING PEACHESthis
time nearly everyone was snuffling or actually weeping outright, and as the father went round, most of us emptied our pockets into his hands. When he had got the money, the father went back to the box, which was lying on the ground, and " " he called out, rapped on it hard. Sonny, sonny " don't you come and thank these gentlemen why!
for the
of the box I heard, quite a thump. The lid opened by itself, and out jumped the boy, alive and well. The nextinsideclearly,
his father
had disappeared
CERTAIN Mr. Wang was out walking one day, when he saw a young Jady who was carrying a bundle and trying to make as much haste as she
She couldn't really walk could along the road. and fast, because her feet were all cramped very bound up ; and as she didn't seem to know her way about, Mr. Wang asked her if he could be of any For she was a very pretty girl of about use. herself. sixteen, so he was surprised to see her out by " I'm much afraid you can't help me," she very answered, and went on to tell him that she had run and had no away from her master and mistress, " friend to take her in. home to go to, norparents,"cruel
any "sold
Mr. Wang felt so master and mistress." her to come and hide sorry for her, that he invited in his own house, and as he was afraid lest the servants and his wife would let out where she was,he hid her in his library, which was quite separate from the rest of the house, and into which nobody went but himself. After a few days, when he thought matters werequite safe,
Mr. Wang
Mrs. Wang didn't like the idea of keeping her at " because," she said, "this girl probably belongs all, to a very rich and great family ; sha'n't we get
into trouble if they find out she is here ? But her husband laughed at her, and said, they had better short time afterwards, keep her a little longer. however, as Mr. Wang was walking about in the town, he met a priest, who looked at him very hard indeed. "What have you met? " asked the priest. " Nothing in particular," answered Mr, Wang. " What do " you mean ? Why," the priest " are in the power of a witch ; fancy replied, you ' And away he telling me you have met nothing
Mr. Wang felt dying." frightened when he heard this, and then he remembered the strange girl at his home ; but again it seemed to him absurd to think she could be a witch and want to harm him. By this time he had got to his house, and thought he would go to his library, and sit and think it over. But when he tried to open the outside door, he found it bolted ; so he had to climb over the wall to get to the inside door, which he also found shut. However, the window was close by, and he crept very softly up to And there, in full sight, it, and looked through. was a hideous witch, with a green face and teeth as The witch had spread a girl's jagged as a saw I skin upon the couch, and she was painting it with ais
a fool
Next moment she threw the paintpaint-brush. brush into a corner, took up the skin and gave it a
good shake, threw it over her shoulders, and Mr. saw that it was the girl again Off ran Mr. Wang as fast as his shaking legs would allow him, and searched the town from end!
he found
himself upon his knees, and cried out "Save me! save me " telling him what he had seen. The priest
Wang " At
your bedroom door, and meet me by and by a*; the temple over there." So Mr. Wang went home He didn't, dare to go into the with the fly-brush. but he hung up the brush at his bedroom library, door, and calling his wife, went into the room and
" Peep out," Mr. they heard footsteps outside. She did so, and to his wife. Wang whispered there stood the girl, looking at the fly-brush as though she was afraid of it, and grinding her teeth To Mrs. Wang's relief, she then in a great rage.but almost directly back she came, went away and crying out, " Don't think I'm Mr. Wang belongs to frightened, you priest. Mrs. Wang me, and I won't give him up had quickly bolted the door, but they heard the and in a moment girl tearing the brush to pieces, She smash went the door, and in she walked. marched straight up to the bed, on which Mr. Wang was lying, ripped open his body and tore out his heart, and went off with it, taking no notice of Mrs. Wang, who was screaming at the top of her;
had scarcely
what was the matter, and found Mr. Wang horrible gash in his lying dead with a most body, and Mrs. Wang trembling all over with fright. " Fetch your master's brother," she said, for luckily Mr. Wang's brother lived in the same house, though he and his wife had their own servants and rooms,see
Mrs. Wang sent him off directly to see the priest and tell him what had happened. The story put the into a great rage, for the witch had got the priestbetter of
him, so off he came to the house to punish when he got there the girl had disappeared, However the priest, when he no one knew where. had taken a good look round, said, " She's quiteher;
close ; she's in this house, in those rooms over "No, there," pointing to Wang's brother's rooms. no, surely not," said Wang's brother in a terrible fright ; but when he went and asked his wife, shetoldpriest, a
that while he had been away fetching the poor old woman had come to her, and offered to be their maid-of-all-work, and she had engaged "That old woman is the witch," her on the spot. said the priest, and out he went into the courtyard, where he stood with a wooden sword in his hand, evil witch, give me back my flyand cried out, " ' When she heard the priest's voice, the brush old woman shook all over with fear, and tried to but he hit her with his run away past the priest sword and down she fell in a heap. The painted skin dropped off her, and they saw a hideous witch,
Then the priest chopped oft grunting like a pig. her head, and she turned into a thick column of smoke which seemed to curl up from the ground. Into the middle of the smoke the priest threw anuncorked gourd, and then they heard a curious noise, and saw the column of smoke being sucked into theAfter this gourd, the priest quickly corking it up. he rolled up the painted skin, and was quietly walkrushed forward, ing away, when Mr. Wang's wife and threw herself on the ground at his feet, crying " Bring my husband back Pray, pray, help me !
i8to life'!
I'm sorry to
So the priest said, " Down in the worst of the town, there lives a madman. He spends part all his time You must go rolling about in the mud. to him, and kneel before him, and ask him to help Don't mind how rude he is, don't mind what you. he tells you to do above all things, don't lose your With these words, he went out of the temper.' gate, and was soon out of sight. Mrs. Wang hurried off as fast as she could, and He was a great deal more easily found the madman. filthy and disgusting-looking than she had imagined, but she knelt down before him as she had been told to do, and begged him to help her. But instead of listening kindly, he treated her shamefully, saying all manner of rude and wicked things, until his loud shouting brought a crowd of people to see what was happening. They found the madman beating Mrs. Wang as hard as he could with his stick, while she stood still and didn't When he was tired of say a word. trying to make her angry, he gave her a perfectly loathsome pill, which she had very hard work to swallow, and then up he got, with a nasty last word, walked into a temple close by, and left her alone with the crowd. Nor could any of them findthing.;3
dead man live again, but I know someone who can. Mrs. Wang, Only he must be asked properly." weeping all the time, said she was ready to do any-
when Mrs. Wang saw that all her good temper and endurance had been useless, she ran home, feeling so ashamed of what her neighbours This had seen that she wished she too were dead.
her remember that Mr. Wang must be got ready for his funeral, and as the servants were too
frightened to go into the bedroom, she went in, and began to try to close up the terrible gash in his But she couldn't help sobbing all the time, body.that shook her whole body, and seemed to Not only bring a lump right up into her throat. into her throat, but into her mouth then out of
her mouth,
was his heart As she stooped down over it, she saw it begin to throb, as though it were coming to life. Trembling with joy and fear, she quickly closed the flesh over the heart, and then bound the wound up, heaping the bed-clothes over her husband, and rubbing his hands and feet to get him warm. By and by she heard a gentle breathing from his nose, and before long Mr. Wang opened his eyes, alive again and well, except for a slight pain in his heart, and a tiny scar where the In a few days even the frightful wound had been,It!
scar disappeared.
though he did also ask an extra high price. while he was crying up his fruit, a poor, old, ragged, hungry-looking priest stopped just in front of the barrow, and very humbly begged him to give him one of the pears. But the countryman, who
was very mean and very nasty-tempered, wouldn't hear of giving him any, and as the priest didn't seem inclined to move on, he began calling him all '* the bad names he could think of. Good sir," said the priest, " you have got hundreds of pears on I only ask you for one. You would your barrow. never even know you had lost one. Really, youneedn't get angry." " Give him a pear that;
make him happy," said one of the crowd. " The old man is quite right you'd never miss it."won't, and I won't!' cried the countryman : and all the people close by began shouting, first one thing, and then another, until the constable of the market, hearing the hubbub, hurried
going bad
that will
"I've said
matter, pulled
and when he had made out what was the some cash out of his purse, bought a
For he wastheears
of thethe
who was
and held
old priest took the pear with a low bow, " You it up in front of the crowd, saying,thatI
no clothes of
So it gave everything up when I became a priest. puzzles me how anyone can be so selfish and so Now stingy as to refuse to give me one single pear. I am a different sort of man from this quite I have got here some perfectly countryman. 1 most deeply shall feel exquisite pears, and honoured if you will accept them from me." ** Why on earth didn't you eat them yourself, instead of begging for one?" asked a man in the crowd. "Ah," answered the priest, "I must So he ate up the pear, only grow them first." Then he took a pick whicli leaving a single pip.was fastened acrossgroundcoveredatall
his feet,
dug a deep hole in the and planted the pip, which he " Will some one fetch over with earth.his back,
me some
water this
round, thought ,The people, he was only joking, but one of them ran and fetched a kettle of boiling water and gave it to the priest, who very carefully poured it over the place where he had sowed the pip. Then, almost while he was pouring, they saw, first a tiny green sprout, and then another, come pushing their heads above the ground; then one leaf uncurled, and then another, while the shoots kept growing taller and taller;
few branches with a few leaves then more leaves then flowers and last of all clusters of huge, ripe,; ;
sweet-smelling pears weighing the branches down to Now the priest's face shone with ground!
and the crowd roared with delight when he picked the pears one by one until they were all gone, handing them round with a bow to each man Then the old man took the pick again, present. hacked at the tree until it fell with a crash, when he shouldered it, leaves and all, and with a final bow, walked away. All the time this had been going on, the countryman, quite forgetting his barrow and pears, had been in the midst of the crowd, standing on the of his toes, and straining his eyes to try to make tips But when the old priest out what was happening. had gone, and the crowd was getting thin, he turned round to his barrow, and saw with horror that it was quite empty. Every single pear had In a moment he understood what had gone The pears the olL priest had been so happened. they generous in giving away were not his own What was more, one of were the countryman's the handles of his barrow was missing, and there was no doubt that he had started from home with He was in a towering rage, and rushed as two but just as he hard as he could after the priestpleasure,!
turned the corner he saw, lying close to the wall, the barrow-handle itself, which without any doubt was the very pear-tree which the priest had cut
All the people in the market were simply their sides with laughter; but as for the no one saw him any more.
Empress of China, who was a very bold and She thought she was powerful obstinate woman. One day, she even gave enough to do anything.orders that every kind of flower throughout the country was to be out in full bloom on a certain day. J J Being a woman herself, she thought that women
would govern the empire much better than men so she actually had examinations for women and This made a gave them all the important posts.;
many men extremely angry especially a young man named Tang, who was very clever and had He said he couldn't live in such taken many prizes. and sailed away with an uncle a country any moregreat; ;
another friend, on a long voyage to distant parts of the world. They visited many extraordinary nations ; in one of which, the people
of his and
in another, they flew about ; another, they had enormously long arms with which they reached down into the waterall
Then there was the country of tall men, where everybody was about twenty feet in the country of dwarfs where the people height were only one foot in height, and their funny little In children were not more than four inches. another place, the people ail had large holes in the and rich persons were middle of their bodiesto catch fish.;;
carried about by servants who pushed long sticks After a time, they came to a through the holes. land which they were told was the Country of Gentlemen. They went ashore, and walked up to the capital. There they found the people buying and selling, and strange to say they were all talking the Chinese language. They also noticed that
everybody was very polite, and the foot-passengers in the streets were very careful to step aside and make room for one another. In the market-place they saw a man who was buying things at a shop. Holding the things in his hand, the man was saying " 1 to the cannot dearsir, really shopkeeper, take these excellent goods at the absurdly low price If you will oblige me by doubling you are asking.
myself the
honour offor certain
otherwise I shall
you do not wish to do business with me The shopkeeper replied, " Excuse me, I am sir, already very much ashamed at having asked you so much for these goods ; they really are not worth more than half. If you insist such a high price, I must really upon paying beg you, with all possible respect, to go and At this, the man buy in some other shop." who wanted to buy got rather angry, and said that trade could not be carried on at all if all the the other, profit was on one side and all the loss on adding that the shopkeeper was not going to catch him in a trap like that. After a lot more talk, he put down the full price on the counter, but only took Of course the shopkeeper would half the things. not agree to this, and they would have gone on arguing for ever had not two old gentlemen whothat
happened to be passing stepped aside and arranged the matter for them by deciding that the purchaser was to pay the full price but only to receive three-
Tang heard this sort of quarters of the goods. It was thing going on at every shop he passed. always the buyer who wanted to give as much aspossible, and the seller to take as little. case a shopkeeper called after a customer
In one
away with
Sir, sir,
have paidthe
you have paid me too much, you much/' "Pray don't mention'*
but obligeI
me bycome
keepingagain to
" No, buy some more of your excellent goods." " don't catch no," answered the shopkeeper you old birds with chaff, that trick was played upon me last year by a gentleman who left some money with me, and to this day I have never set eyes upon him again though I have tried all I can to find out where he lives." But soon they had to say good-bye to this wonderful country and started once more upon their voyage. They next came to a very strange land where the people did not walk, but moved;
for another
day when
about upon small clouds of different colours, about half a foot from the ground. Meeting with an old asked priest, who seemed rather a queer man, Tang him to be kind enough to explain the meaning of thelittle
said the priest, " these clouds show what sort of a heart is inside the persons who are riding on them. clouds People can't choose their own colours ;
"Ah sir,"
best ; yellow are the striped like a rainbow are the second best, and black are the worst of all."
blue andriding
dirty beggar
** the old rascal had a cloud himself." Just then the people in the striped street began to fall back, leaving a passage in the middle ; and by and by they saw a very grand officer pass along in great state with a long procession of servants carrying red umbrellas, gongs, and other things. They tried to see what colour his cloud
the old priest had told " I see was the best.
was, but to their disappointment it was covered up with a curtain of red silk. "Oho!" said Tang,
gentleman has evidently got such a bad colour he is ashamed to let it be seen. I wish we had clouds like these in our country so that we could tell good people from bad by I don't think there would be just looking at them.this
many wicked men about then." Soon after this, news reached them that the Empress who had been so troublesome in their own country had been obliged So they went no further on to give up the throne.sotheir travels but
their families
LEARNING MAGICMANY years ago, there was a man named Sung, who was not very fond of work but longed to be a So magician and do all kinds of wonderful tricks. one day off he went to a temple on a mountain, anddowna
there he found an old priest, with long hair flowing his back, and sitting on a rush mat. Making
priest if
he would be
kind enough to teach him magic. "Ah," replied the priest, "I am afraid you are not strong enoughfor try;
Sung begged the priest to let him and so he was allowed to stay in the temple
and join in with the other pupils. Very early next morning the priest sent for him, and giving him a This hatchet told him to go out and cut firewood. he went on doing every day for a month, until his hands and feet were so sore that he secretly began to One evening, when he wish himself home again. came back, he found two strangers drinking wine It was already dark, and as no with the priest. candles had been brought in, the old priest took a pair of scissors, and cut out a round piece of paper which he stuck upon the wall. Immediately it became bright as the moon, and lighted up the whole room. Then, one of the strangers took a kettle of wine, and told the pupils to help themselves. Sung
wondered how they would all get enough to drink out of such a small kettle, but to his astonishment
Then the other stranger said, Lady of the Moon to come and
So he seized a chopstick and threw it moon, and at once a lovely young girl At first she was only a foot high; stepped out. but on reaching the ground, she became as tall as an She sang a pretty song, with a ordinary woman. voice like a flute, and when she had finished she danced round and round, and at last jumped up on the table, where to the astonishment of everybody she " became a chopstick again. Very good," said one of the strangers, " now we must bid you good night, as we are going to drink a glass of wine in the The strangers then picked up palace of the moon." the table and walked into the moon, where they couldjoin us?' into the
be seen quite plainly talking and drinking together. By and by the moon suddenly went out ; and whenthe pupils brought lighted candles they found the priest sitting in the dark alone, with the piece of
him no magical tricks, he went to him and said, " I have been here three months, doing nothing but chop firewood, work to which I was never accustomed I now wish to go home." before. "Well," said the priest, "I told you that you were not strong
The priest then sent them to paper on the wall. bed, so that they should not be late with their woodBut after a time, Sung could cutting in the morning. not stand this any longer ; and as the priest taught
come all this long way for nothing." " What trick would you like to learn?" asked the priest.
You can go home to-morrow." " Sir," enough. said Sung, ** I have worked for you a long time some little trick that I may not have please teach me;
I have noticed that Well," answered Sung, whenever you walk about anywhere, you are not Teach stopped by walls ; you walk through them. me this, and I shall be satisfied." The priest laughed and told him to say, Hobbery jibbcry snobbery snoo, at the same time walking through the wall. Sung walked up to the wall, but couldn't so the priest said, " Don't go get through it ; so slowly put your head down and run at it." Sung did as he was told, and the next moment found himself outside the temple. Delighted at this, he went in to thank the priest, who told him to When be very careful and not show off too much. Sung got home he went about bragging of what he could do ; but as people disbelieved his story, he determined to prove to them that he was telling the In order to do this, he put his head down truth. and rushed at a wall, but he only hit the bricks very hard and was knocked down flat on the ground. When he was picked up he had a bump on his forehead as big as an egg, at which everybody;
THEFT OF A DUCKIN a country village, there livedan honest oldfarmer, named Chang, who had a large flock of fine One day, a good-for-nothing fellow fat ducks. named Lin who lived near by, stole one of these
off to his
home and
In the middle of the night he began to itch violently all over ; and when morning came, he found to his horror that he was entirely covered
with feathers which were growing out of his skin and now began to smart terribly. He was in great pain all day but at night he managed to get off to sleep, and then he dreamt that a man appeared to him andsaid,
are being punished for stealing that and you will never get well until you go to ' Mr. Chang and make him say, 'You dirty thief! much troubled at this, but he soon Lin was very thought of a plan by which he hoped to escape. He went to see Mr. Chang and said to him, " Sir, I Your duck have something to tell you privately, was stolen by old Wang who lives down the road he doesn't like being called bad names, and if you he will be go and say to him You dirty thief sure to pay you for the duck and will take care At this, Mr. Chang never to steal any more." " I haven't got time to go laughed loudly, and said, about calling people bad names, all for the loss of a Just duck; I won't do anything of the kind."
" You
then Lin's skin began to smart so dreadfully that he had nothing left but to fall on his knees and own
he himself had stolen the duck, and implore " to him. To dirty thief that he had never been in the habit of using bad language and that he certainlythat
was not going to begin doing so. However, when Lin opened his shirt and showed Mr. Chang the feathers which had grown all over his body, and told him with tears in his eyes what pain he was said to suffering, Mr. Chang at last consented, and " You From that moment the thief!'
his body, and he took disappeared care never to steal ducks again.
They mixed up all kinds of things together, and boiled them for a long time over the fire, and Some of them were soon then drank the juice. poisoned, while all the rest made themselves very ill, and did not live any longer than other people. One man sent a bottle of his mixture to the king, only it never reached his Majesty, because it was stolen and drunk up by the door-keeper of the At this the king was very angry, and sent palace. for the door-keeper and ordered his head to be cut But the door-keeper said, " Please, off on the spot. if you kill me, it shows that the your Majesty, medicine I drank cannot make people live for ever; so that it would have been of no use to your The king laughed at this, and let him Majesty."off.
years in trying to
had mixed up every kind of drug and plant it was possible to get hold of, and he had tried his mixture on a great number of old people but all of them had died, some perhaps sooner than Well, one day they would otherwise have done. as he was sitting at a table in his garden, workingmedicine.;
at his mixtures, he was so pleased with a new kind he had made that he felt positive he had found the secret at last. So he determined, before givingit to anybody else, to make sure of some for himself, and there and then he drank off nearly a cupful. Immediately, he felt himself rising slowly from the ground, and soon he began going faster and faster, until he was quite high up in the air. This seemed to frighten him, for he dropped the cup with a lot The cup fell in his backyard, of the mixture in it. and the cocks and hens ran at once to get a sip of the mixture, thinking it was probably something good to eat. His dog too ran to take a lick, and even the cat had a taste. Very soon they were all sailing after their master up into the sky, and gradually passed out of sight, and were never heard of again.
FOOTBALL ON A LAKETHE twomiles
Even up to the time he was forty the players. father went on with the game, and might have beentill sixty if he hadn't come to a sad end, Now, being drowned in the great lake near by. about eight years afterwards, young Chai had to go
a long journey which took him across this same lake, and as it was already evening, he determined to anchor his boat for the night. It was a lovely
moonlight night, when suddenly, as he the view, he saw a very strange sight.
enjoying out of
the lake came five men carrying a huge mat, which Next they they spread on the top of the water. brought up bowls of food, and wine in kettles, they could scarcely have been ordinary bowls and kettles, because when the men knocked them together there was no sound of crockery or metal, but a funny, When the wooden-like sound difficult to describe. food was all spread on the mat, three of the men sat down to eat, while the other two, one a grown man and the other a boy, handed the dishes round. Chai couldn't see their faces, but he noticed that thethree
who were
upon were
dressed, one in yellow and two in white, with big black turbans on their heads ; as for the servants, While he watched black serge robes. had
FOOTBALL ON A LAKEthe
supper party, it struck Chai that the older servant was decidedly like his own father, so helistened
and by,
when he found it quite different. By when the three men had eaten and drunk as' ;
as they could, Chai heard one of them say, Let's have a game of football and while he was wondering what they could possibly mean by this, he saw the boy dive into the water, right out**
moment with
a monster
was so large that he could scarcely carry it, and it seemed full of quicksilver, and it glittered inside and out so that Chai's eyes were quite dazzled with it. The three men got up from their supper, and called to the older servant to come and join the game. Up went the ball, ten, fifteen feet high in the air, sparkling and shining down it came up again, until at last, when the game had got to its most exciting point, down it fell in quite the wrong place, in fact, right in the middle of Chai's boat This was more than Chai could bear, and in an instant he had kicked it as hard as he could. But there was something queer about the ball too. It was as light as a feather, and as soft as rice-paper, and Chai's foot went right through it. Still, heIt;;!
it up into the sky, many-coloured lights streaming from the hole he had made, until at last down it fell in a big curve like a comet, touched the
water, fizzed, and then went out. cried the players in a rage, "
this miserable?
man who
" Well
said the old servant. kicked, well kicked indeed " Why, that's a favourite kick of my own." But the other players only got twice as angry when they
and cried
when we have
Look out for yourself, or you'll get a touch spoilt ? of the bamboo. Go at once, and take the boy with you, and bring back this man, or it will be the worse for you Now when Chai heard these words, and saw the two coming for him, with swords in their hands, he didn't feel a scrap frightened, but picked up his sword and stood ready for them in the very middle of the boat. By this time the old man and the boy were on the boat, and Chai saw at once that his father stood before him. So he called out, " Father! father! look at me. I'm your son, young Chai." The old man was startled almost out of his wits, and was so overjoyed at finding his son that he didn't notice for an instant that the boy had slipped away, and had But next moment he gone back to the players.'!
remembered the danger they were in, and was just calling to young Chai to hide when the three players jumped on board the boat. Seen close, they wereabsolutely terrifying, with faces as black as pitch,
and rolling eyes as big as pomegranates. They pounced upon the old man, and were just going to carry him off, when young Chai who had untied his boat from her moorings, wheeled round with his sword, cut off one man's arm, and chopped oft another man's head, so that his body fell splash into When the third man saw what had the water.happened to his friends, he disappeared in a moment and Chai and his father no one could tell how;
FOOTBALL ON A LAKEin the lake.
It was as big and as deep as a well, blew a roaring wind, which lashed the water into monster waves, and made the other boats On it came, nearer and and junks pitch and toss. nearer, and in a moment more Chai's boat would have been swallowed whole, had he not seized one of two huge round stones which were kept to use as anchors, and thrown it into the huge mouth, which After this Chai heaved immediately shut upon it. the other stone overboard, and in an instant the wind died down, and the water became calm again. Then,|as they were sailing quietly along, Chai's
and out of
father told
" I was never him his story. drowned," " All the men who were with me whenlostI
were eaten by the fish-goblins was spared because I could play What do you think that football was football. made of, the one you broke ? It was part of a fish. And that arm you cut off, look at it. It is a fish's fin and the men you saw playing with me are thethe boat was
down below.
let fish-goblins who serve the Dragon King. us make haste, and get away from this place before he catches us,"
HIGH up on
This she got up and wished him good night. however next appeared to Hwang as very strange day a visitor came, who, after wandering round the garden, was much taken with a white peony which;
he dug up and carried away with him. Hwang now that the white girl was a flower spirit, and became very sad in consequence of what had Later on, he heard that the peony had happened.only lived a few days after being taken away, at which he wept bitterly and going to the hole from which it had been dug up, he watered the ground V\ hile he was with his tears. weeping over this loss he suddenly saw the young lady of the red clothes standing beside him, and wiping away her tears. "Alas!' she said, "that my dear sister should be thus torn awav from me but the tears, s sir, which you have shed may perhaps be the means of restoring her to us." That night he dreamt that the red girl came to him again and said that she also was in trouble, begging him to try to rescue her. In the morning he found that a new house was to be built close by, and that the builder, finding a beautiful red camellia in his way, had given orders that it should be cut down. Hwang managed to O tj and the same prevent the destruction of the flower evening the red girl came to thank him, this time; ;;
red girl
touchedgirl to
Hwang'sback to
when he grasped
Hwang greatly rejoiced, but the white girl's hand, his fingers
seemed to go right through it, and to close only on The white themselves, not as in the days gone by. " When I was a flower I girl said to him, spirit,had a body but now I am no longer a real person, only a kind of ghost as seen in a dream, though I still have my home in the white peony, beside the red camellia, my sister." Hwang, however, was;
so grieved at the loss of the white girl, that soon was buried by his he fell ill and died.
alongside of the white peony, and before long another white peony grew up, straight out very
own wish
of Hwang's grave.
which he taught
of travelling about with him all over the This went on for some country as his companion. he found himself far away from years, until once home with all his money spent and without means He was in a great state of of getting home.get me into the prince's palace ; I ought to fetch a good sum, and To then you will have enough to get home with."perplexity, " not
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to live here
Very much
indeed," replied the bird; "give my master ten The prince ounces of silver for me, not more." was delighted with the bird, and immediately gave orders for the ten ounces to be weighed out and
prince had a long conversation with the bird, and by and by sent for some meat for it After this, the bird said, " Please, your to eat.
bad luck.
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prince told the servants to bring water in a golden bowl, and he opened the cage door for the birdto
and when
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|Ashina Xian
|Xingxiwang Khagan
|708 - 717
|Ashina Huaidao
|Ashina Zhen
|Ashina Zhen
|Ashina Yuanqing
Ashina Xian was a Western Turk khagan, also a general of Protectorate General to Pacify the West from 708-717, appointed by the Tang dynasty.
When his father was executed by Lai Junchen in 692, he was exiled to Yazhou. However, he was recalled to court in 703.
In 708, he was appointed Xingxiwang Khagan (Chinese: 興昔亡可汗; literally: "The khagan who makes fallen to rise again") by Zhongzhong. However, Suoge was appointed as his subordinate[1], who was going to appointed Shisixing Khagan (Chinese: 十四姓可汗; literally: "Khagan of Fourteen Tribes") later.[2]
In 714, after the death of Suoge in the Battle of Bolchu, Xian was created Qixi (碛西) Military Commissioner and sent to Suyab to fill in the power vacuum.
Nevertheless, when Suluk rose to prominence, the Tang appointed Ashina Xian as the Shixing Qaghan in 716 and appointed Suluk as his deputy, to appease Suluk. Suluk's growing ambition over Xian's overlordship resulted in war and defeat of Xian in June and July in 717.[3]
After defeat he left for Changan and died sometime during the Kaiyuan era. His successor was his son Ashina Zhen.[4]
- ^ Moriyasu, T. 1984, L'Expansion des Tu-fan (Tibétains) en Asie centrale. Studies and Essays (The Faculty of Letters, Kanazawa University): pp 24-25 (in Japanese).
- ^ Naito 1988: History of the Western Turks. Tokyo (in Japanese) pp. 352–354
- ^ Saito, T. 1991 Rise of the Türgish and Tang's Abandonment of Suiye. Shiteki 12: 34–53 (in Japanese). pp 40-43
- ^ Theobald, Ulrich. "Tujue 突厥, Gök Türks (www.chinaknowledge.de)". www.chinaknowledge.de. Retrieved 2018-08-21.


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12/7/19 – PoK-e-Jo's is Open in Georgetown Tx.
11/15/19 – PoK-e-Jo's Opens Wednesday December 4th! We were invited to a private event at PoK-e-Jo's this week. The food was really good! We learned that this store has a different concept than any of the other PoK-e-Jo's around the Austin area.
This store has a station for ordering, and then table service. They have a full blown bar and the Georgetown store has it's own Menu.
Here are some shots of the menu board above the order stations. You can tap either image for a larger more readable view.
11/11/19 – We have heard from the fine folks at PoK-e-Jo's and we have an official Opening Date!
The Opening of the PoK-e-Jo's in Georgetown will be Wednesday December 4th! See you there! More Info and Map Below.
9/29/19 – Pok-e-Jo's is building their new smoke house. It's located beside the building.
Here's a shot we got Friday. Tap for a larger view.
9/11/19 – We went by the new PoK-e-Jo's location today and they are hard at work on the inside. They have also put some nice looking wood on the front of the building.
Here are some pics we took yesterday. Tap any image for a larger view.
7/23/19 – The new store has a really great looking permanent sign now, and they are hiring!
We can expect to see construction of an outdoor smoke house along the side of the building any time now.
Tap any image for a larger view and slide show.
7/6/19 Update – It was good to see the PoK-e-Jo's Food Truck at the 4th of July Celebration.
We also have learned that the new target opening date is Mid-September.
Tap image for a larger view.
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6/15/19 Update – They have their construction permit and will be doing some work getting the inside of the store ready.
Plus they will start construction on the new Smoke House, with multiple smoke pits, that will be on the side of the building.
There's a temporary sign on the building, here's a pic of it, tap the image for a larger view.
. . . .
6/3/19 Update – We learned today that PoK-e-Jo's is doing some work on the inside of their store while they wait for Final Permits for their construction phase.
And..they will be building a Smoke House on the side of the building with multiple smoke pits.
Target opening date is late July. Find location map and more details below.
We will keep you posted.
. . .
4/16/19 Update – We caught up with the folks from PoK-e-Jo's and got an update from them about their opening. They are expected to open early to mid July of 2019.
They also shared the possibility of bringing their food truck to the Georgetown 4th of July Celebration this year.
Here's a pic we got from their website, this is an actual picture of PoK-e-Jo's brisket. 🙂
2/18/19 – Austin based Texas Barbecue; PoK-e-Jo's is coming to Georgetown Texas.
They now have 5 locations; 4 in Austin and one in Round Rock.
We have learned today, 2/18/19, that PoK-e-Jo's is indeed coming to Georgetown and that they will occupy the space where La Playa Mexican Restaurant used to be located. 610 N Austin Avenue (behind McDonalds.) Map Below
"PoK-e-Jo's has been serving Austin unbelievable BBQ since 1979. We know tender, melt-in-your-mouth BBQ, fresh sides, and Texas hospitality…and that's exactly what we deliver.
"Stop by any one of our five Austin area locations and see for yourself! We won't disappoint! We've got the best BBQ Austin has to offer!
Smokin' it slow…servin' it up fast. There ya go." A little from PoK-e-Jo's Website.
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The names have changed at the old store on Floyd's Locust Street, even the business name. Pickers, singers and dancers have come and gone. Owners have, too. But no matter the situation, the Friday Night Jamboree has remained an institution at the Floyd Country Store.
On Saturday, the community that has gathered around old-time music and dance at the venue will celebrate the jamboree's 35th anniversary.
What started as an after-hours bluegrass jam at a general store has become a family-friendly tradition of dancing, socializing and old-time music that packs the Floyd Country Store to its capacity of about 270, and when it's nice outside, a couple hundred more are outdoors, listening to other bands that have set up in the country store's gravitational pull.
The venue will celebrate its anniversary Friday, naturally, with acts including the jamboree's founder, Freeman Cockram. As usual, it will be a mix of ages — elementary, middle and high school-age children will be on the floor, along with millennials, generation Xers and Baby Boomers, even the occasional octogenarian.
"You watch people that don't know how to dance and they go out there for the first time, and everybody brings them in and spends some time with them," the venue's co-owner, Dylan Locke, said. "It's a really nurturing, welcoming group of people."
Locke and his partner, Heather Krantz, last week celebrated five years since they bought the store. Locke, a bassist, and Krantz, a banjo player and singer, often perform on the jamborees, and were onstage Oct. 25 with Mac Traynham and Friends.
"We're super excited that people turn off their TVs and get away from a lot of that sort of thing, and come be in a space together," Locke said as Krantz and Traynham continued to pick after their set, on a truck bed outside the store. "We're focusing a lot on … in these times, [that] there is a place that really is safe and friendly and people are happy. Seems like the right thing to do."
Locke and Krantz are the store's fifth owners in these 35 years. The century-old building was called Cockram's General Store when its namesake owner kept the business open on Friday evenings for people who wanted to hear the music that was going on inside. Janet Turner, 78, from Floyd, was among the first musicians to join in, singing and playing autoharp. Turner still plays the jamboree regularly.
"I didn't have a band back then; I just played with different ones," Turner said. "We didn't play out on the street. We just mainly played in the store. It kept growing and growing as time went on."
The music and dancing on Fridays wasn't enough to keep the store going, and Cockram declared bankruptcy. Hubert Roberson, who was among the pickers, bought the store in 1994 and named it the Floyd Country Store, stocking work boots, dry goods, sodas and novelty cans of potted possum, according to a 1998 story in The Roanoke Times. He kept Cockram on as manager, but let him go when Roberson put the store on the market in '98.
Early the next year, a pair of North Carolina-based lawyers, Bill Morgan and Mike Brough, bought the store, with plans to continue the jamboree and add even more events. By the time they sold it in 2005, the store was only open on Fridays, for the jamboree, Locke said.
Roberson, then Morgan and Brough, had bought the place to keep the music and dancing going. When Woody and Jackie Crenshaw bought it in the spring of 2005, they recognized that it would need more TLC and a better business plan to survive. Parallel to the store's newfound status as a major venue on The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail, the Crenshaws got a community development grant from Virginia and oversaw long-needed improvements.
They bought the site next door and used the expanded space to build a new, acoustically tuned stage set farther back from the storefront, where they sold clothes, kitchenware, books about the area and its music, CDs and other items that weren't just for the typical store consumer, but for the tourists coming in from around the world. They added a soda fountain counter where customers could order food, and they built a small kitchen. And in a change that had been years in coming, they improved the restrooms.
Locke and Krantz came from the concert promotion world, running DLP Concerts. Locke was artistic director at Jefferson Center, and Krantz, who had worked at the country store for the Crenshaws, was facility administrator at the nearby June Bug Center when they took over Floyd Country Store. In their five years of ownership, they have expanded the kitchen, added a soda shop in the space they owned next door and bought County Sales, which they moved to a building they rent right across the street, further solidifying their section of Locust Street as a core of Appalachian old-time and bluegrass music and culture.
Traveling visitors
With the work that the Crenshaws, then Locke and Krantz, put into the business, "it's just been wonderful to have such a good place to come and play and get together," Turner said. "The dancers, they have such a good time. Most of them don't have to go too far to come to the store. It's such a wonderful thing to have in Floyd."
Many do come from far away, though, every week, Locke said. Each Friday, Krantz takes the microphone to ask who has come from farthest away to visit the jamboree. On Oct. 25, 73-year-old Max Robb and 71-year-old Lyn Robb, from Christchurch, New Zealand, received a cap with the store logo, over people from Turkey and Florida.
The pair and a couple of friends from New Zealand had been in the states for weeks, hitting such spots as Clarksdale, Mississippi, and Nashville, Tennessee, hearing lots of regional music styles along the way. Driving up the Blue Ridge Parkway in a rental car headed toward a D.C. area airport that would start them toward home, they made a visit to another Crooked Road destination, the Blue Ridge Music Center. There, an employee told them about the Floyd Country Store.
The music, Lyn Robb said, is "fantastic. Very, very good." And the dancing is wonderful. "We've never seen anything like it before," she said.
Friendly locals were a bonus. "We've been very impressed by how nice the people are," Max Robb said.
They made friends with the leader of the Mark Templeton Band, which played a set of gospel bluegrass to start the night, as is the jamboree tradition. They wound up scheming to bring Templeton's band to Christchurch, Max Robb said.
As Traynham and his band began playing, a young woman took to the floor. She stayed there as the band played a square dance number, following the calls with other dancers. A group of her friends had walked into the store and were pointing her out, cheering her on as she danced.
"Country queen! Country queen!" they said as she joined them after the song.
It was 19-year-old Sidney Munk's first time there. The Virginia Tech student from Chesapeake said that a couple of friends had turned her on to the old dancing styles, and a professor had suggested she go to Floyd Country Store.
"If I hadn't met them, I'd have no idea what I was doing right now," Munk said. "This is like another level, I guess. It's a lot of fun."
One of the dancers asked if she was new, as he hadn't seen her before, she said. Soon, she was making new friends on the dance floor.
"Oh my gosh, I really want to come back," she said. "It's such a small town tradition, it seems like. ... It's very homey, small town, and I love that stuff."
Before Traynham's set was done, Munk's friends were on the dance floor with her.
Growing up Floyd
Ben Harman, 82, of Floyd, used to dance a lot, but these days, he dances a little and listens a lot, he said. He's been coming to the jamboree since Cockram got it started, but he's been coming to the store since he was a boy.
"When you were a kid, you got that one pair of shoes each year, and one pair of bib overalls, and this is where you got 'em," Harman said.
It was quite the scene in Floyd when the jamboree started, he said.
"I used to could dance over here a little while, then I'd run over to the fire department, and they'd have a band," he said. "I was young enough to run someplace then. It was something. It's been quite interesting through life, really."
As bluegrass music styles moved away from dance music, old-time bands that kept driving tempos became the dominant performers at the jamboree. Aside from that, not so much has changed on Friday nights, he said.
"It seems like they've got it better, some way or another," he said, trying to describe an intangible feeling. "It's actually better right now."
Locke, in an email conversation, said they haven't changed much, aside from small tweaks to the sound quality, and giving the musicians a raise.
"I think the main thing is that we listen to what the regulars want," he wrote. "We have an annual meeting, with food and music, where we spend time making sure everything is going well. And if it isn't, they are able to voice their concerns. I think that goes a long way towards ensuring the Friday Night Jamboree stays strong and folks have confidence in us. We also love it deeply and have fun being there on Friday, playing music and hanging out with everyone."
Friends and family
Hanging out with friends, watching the dancers and listening to the music are what draw Gloria Housman, 78, and her husband, Bill Housman, 81, to the store almost every week from their home in Rocky Mount. A friend of theirs with a band that played the jamboree inspired them to check out the event about 10 years ago, Gloria Housman said. The couple loves old-time and bluegrass music, and though they don't dance, they wanted to socialize.
"When we first started going, we just fell in love with everything about it and everybody," she said. "Now, Fridays, that's our thing."
She particularly appreciates the gospel music hour.
"So I feel like I'm worshiping the lord on Friday night," she said. "A lot of [bands] … they'll tell us to sing along with 'em, and I love that, because I feel like I'm a part of it."
The old-timey dance music brings her closer to the songs she grew up hearing in Franklin County. And the friendships have been valuable, too, she said. The Housmans have befriended at least 25 other couples over the decade. There may well be more of them to come, because they'll keep making the two-hour round trip every Friday, "long as we're able to get there," she said.
Turner, whose music has fueled many a dance over the years, feels the same way.
"Everybody's just so friendly," she said. "It's like a big family."


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