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Skip to comments.(OBIT) Defendant in landmark sodomy ruling was not motivated by politics (Lawrence v. Texas case)
Posted on 09/14/2006 8:53:47 AM PDT by weegee
Defendant in landmark sodomy ruling was not motivated by politics
The key civil liberties victory for gays was 'fight against all odds'
Tyrone Garner, whose arrest in violation of Texas sodomy laws led to a challenge before the Supreme Court and an eventual victory that struck down such statutes across the country, died after a lengthy illness, friends said Wednesday. He was 39.
Garner, who died Monday of meningitis in a Houston-area hospital, was openly gay but not politically active when he chose to fight his arrest in court, said his lawyer, Mitchell Katine.
"He was very shy and did not like to speak publicly," Katine said. "But privately he was very happy to be part of the civil rights fight for gay and lesbian people."
One of the greatest civil liberties victories for gay Americans began with a petty grudge.
On Sept. 17, 1998, Garner was in the home of John Lawrence in defiance of the wishes of his partner at the time, Robert Eubanks. Eubanks called the Harris County Sheriff's Office and told authorities that a crazed gunman was in the house.
"I think he was jealous," Garner said of Eubanks in a 2004 interview with the Houston Chronicle.
Two deputies arrived and found the door unlocked and Garner and Lawrence having sex. The pair was arrested and charged with "homosexual conduct," a misdemeanor that made it a crime for same-gender couples in Texas to have sex, even in private. They spent several hours in jail before posting $200 bond.
Lawrence and Garner were approached by Katine and the New York-based Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. Lawrence wanted to challenge the arrest, but Garner was initially reluctant.
"I didn't think we'd win," Garner told the Chronicle. "I didn't enjoy being outed with my mugshot on TV. It was degrading to me."
They pleaded no contest in criminal court and took their case to the state appellate level, where they lost. In 2002 their case landed before the U.S. Supreme Court.
"He decided to fight against all odds," Katine said of Garner. "We lost at every level in Texas, and the only place we won was the Supreme Court."
The court ruled 6-3 in favor of Lawrence and Garner, deciding that the Texas law violated the Constitution's privacy guarantee. The decision also struck down the remaining similar laws that were still on the books in 13 states.
In the opinion for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote:
"The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives. The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime. Their right to liberty under the Due Process Clause gives them the full right to engage in their conduct without intervention of the government."
Paul Scott, the executive director of Equality Texas, a gay rights advocacy group based in Austin, said that Garner's victory set the stage for the battle over same-sex marriage.
"I think sometime people don't realize how great a victory it was," Scott said. "In many states sodomy laws were used to deny people custody of their children, it affected employment and sometimes was used to prevent people from seeking legal redress because they were considered criminals."
Scott said that a great debt was owed to Garner.
"Anyone having to be the public face of this issue would have had to go through some hard times," Scott said. "It took a lot of courage to fight."
Gee, I wonder how he got that "lengthy illness." And, what, exactly, was this "lengthy illness?"
Fine. I just wish they'd keep their "private lives" private, and quit trying to make us think they're "normal" and we're all homophobes.
Here the thread from earlier today.
***Garner had been suffering from meningitis***
And just how did he get meningitis? Nevermind, I don't think I want to know...
Men whose sodomy case led to Supreme Court ruling keep low profile(Lawrence Garner Texas) (Dallas Morning News via Philly.com Thu, Jun. 26, 2003)
The secrecy served the interests of the movement, said Ray Hill, a pioneering gay rights advocate in Houston, who knows both men. "They are not the kind of people that the lawyers want to comment on this case," Hill said. "They were never a couple. . . . They are not articulate."
It was neither man's first brush with the law when a Harris County sheriff's deputy, responding to a romantic rival's false report of a man with a gun, entered the apartment at the Colorado Club on Sept. 17, 1998, and found the men engaged in sex.
For Garner, Harris County court records list arrests for assault, drunken driving and possession of a small amount of marijuana. Department of Public Safety records show only two convictions for assault, in 1995 and 2000.
Lawrence has two convictions for drunken driving and one for murder-by-automobile in 1967.
Garner "punched me on my left eye two times" in January 2000, said Robert Royce Eubanks in an affidavit. Garner also beat Eubanks with a hose in 1999 while "using crack and drinking" and beat him with a belt in 1998, the affidavit said.
In May 1998, Garner "stabbed me on my right ring finger with a box cutter" and "grabbed a hot iron and burned me" and "then sexually assaulted me," Eubanks charged.
A temporary protective order was granted, but the case apparently was dropped after Eubanks' lawyer withdrew, saying she could not locate him for a scheduled trial.
And the city has redesigned their website so the old link to the HPD case on Eubanks death (one of two names he used) is broken.
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Would have burned my eyes out.
A little squeamish? Shopping cart, door handle, anything someone with a bacterial infection might have touched and deposited germs on. Or possibly as a secondary infection following an upper respiratory infection or ear infection.
Maybe a weakened or non-existant immune system??
Possibly, but a weak immune system doesn't suddenly magically appear bacteria on you. You asked how he got it, I told you.
you didn't say anything about the most obvious route of transmission or does fecal stew kill meningitis?
Well, when the article says he had a "lengthy" illness, I wouldn't call that "suddenly magically appear(ing) bacteria." Anywho, we're all speculating, one way or the other. Thanks!
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Your ignorance regarding medicine is duly noted.
How about a little lemonade on the porch?
It wearies me when people are so knee-jerk emotional that they make silly comments like supposing meningitis is transmitted through anal sex. It was a silly comment. If you don't like having your silly comments pointed out, perhaps you should hit the web and find out what bacteria cause meningitis and how it is transmitted before making wrong medical pronouncements.
In that case, why didn't Texas try them for resisting arrest instead of for the crime of sodomy?
Do people have meningitis for long periods? I thought death was pretty quick.
Yep, he probably had AIDs, but he certainly didn't catch the meningitis from anal sex!
That may have just finished him off if he indeed had AIDS.
I remember something like that too. I think the officers stated that they thought it was staged, and they were set up.
Walking into the residence, the caller stood out of the way to let the officers thru and witness the episode. It was something screwy like that. The whole thing was contrived to get a case before the courts.
The folks at lonestartimes.com should probably have the info on that. Houston based blog. They started as watchdogs of the Houston Chronicle.
I always thought the Chronicle just followed thru with mindless reporting without giving the inside information.
This is just another instance where the courts have been used to advance a specific cause thru illigitimate cases.
1.) 1930s ruling restricting the 2nd amend.
2.) Roe V Wade
3.) this one comes to mind..
Yes, bacterial meningitis is bad enough if your immune system's intact. :-p
I want to apologize. I've noticed recently I've been irritable with people here when I normally wouldn't be. I think I'm letting stress in real life carry over into my virtual interactions. I ought to have just explained how meningitis is transmitted instead of being rude to you. I will keep an eye on myself for a while so I don't myself make knee-jerk judgments of people I haven't spoken to before. I'm sorry I was rude to you.
I assume that they were arrested for not obeying the officers since the "crime" itself carried a fine but no jail time.
Matters not, the men pleaded no contest to the sodomy charge and then appealed to overturn the law.
And DA Chuck Rosenthal said that he didn't necessarily support the law (against same sex sodomy) but that he "had" to enforce the laws of the state (of course he'll still prosecute you as a felon if you are LEGALLY driving with a gun in your car as approved by the legislature).
Chuck Rosenthal (R) hasn't gotten my vote in years.
He also had a history of drug use (abuse) and that may have also compromised his body's ability to deal with toxins.
What's unusual is how political correctness makes it okay to identify someone as having meningitis (and when a student has spinal meningitis, the school is rapidly identified and people are encouraged to seek testing in they may have come in contact with him) but we had a couple people die of a particularly nasty strain of West Nile Virus (this one attacks the central nervous system) and the authorities said that because of medical confidentiality, we could only know the county (not even the location) even though 2 people have died already and the disease can be spread by mosquittos.
You are assuming it was bacterial meningitis. I don't think I have ever heard of bacterial memingitis lasting 6 months.
I assume it was bacterial meningitis because it is much more deadly than viral meningitis. I don't assume that he was sick with meningitis for 6 months.
"Garner, 39, died early Monday at a Houston hospital, said Mark Roy, a spokesman for Lambda Legal in New York City. Garner had been suffering from meningitis and had been in his brother's care for the past six months.
"Over the last few months, he lost the use of his legs from meningitis," Roy told The Associated Press. "
The differential diagnosis would be viral (ie HIV), TB or Fungal.
I read "died Monday of meningitis," didn't see it was long duration.
You might want to reread your post 18 and reflect.
Sorry, make that 20....
Kudos. Nice to see honorable behavior.
Thanks, I prefer it when it's not necessary. ;-)
Kozak points out that he suffered with meningitis for six months, so it wasn't bacterial meningitis but possibly viral meningitis caused by the HIV virus, so he may actually have caught meningitis by this route in a circuitous fashion, making me doubly wrong!
TB and fungal meningitis are also high on the list of things people get as secondary infections from AIDS.
No problem and thank you.
From the web, Medical Microbiology:
Human immunodeficiency virus can cause acute and progressive CNS disease. HTLV-I causes chronic spastic paraparesis in a small number of infected persons."
One of many possibilities along with other STDs or simple bacterial infection.
I would think TB would be the least likely just because TB is not very common in the US. From my reading HIV meningitis is very common in people who are HIV positive and often kind of comes and goes multiple times. Cryptococcal meningitis is common and often fatal. My guess is that would be the most likely, what do you think?
Baacterial menigitis is rather quick if not treated immediately; retroviruses can linger on.
AND - they had tried to get cops to come before and witness their sodomy just to get a case going. This was not their first attempt.
The article is a lie.
I wonder about the writer of this article...
(I'd do some research but we're super busy right now...)
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That includes defending champion Martin Reader of Comox, B.C., and Chaim Schalk of Red Deer, Alta., for the men and Liz Maloney and Heather Bansley of Toronto for the women; pro tour regulars Richard Van Huizen and Christian Redmann of Toronto and Marie-Andrée Lessard of Ville LaSalle, Que., and Annie Martin of Sherbrooke, as well as world junior champions Garrett May and Sam Schachter, both of Toronto.
More details on the competition are still to come. Visit www.volleyball.ca to stay updated.MARIÈVE MILLAIRE
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The "fear gauge" climbed 24% last week, the most in nearly four months. But these days it takes more than a commodity selloff and weak data in China to get investors genuinely worried.
At slightly less than 15, the CBOE Volatility Index would still need a rally of more than 33% just to reach its long-term average. You can argue that volatility is subdued even by the placid standards of the last year. From Bloomberg News' Nikolaj Gammeltoft and Cecile Vannucci:
Even after last week's surge, the VIX is still 9 percent below its average for the past year, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Stock volatility will remain subdued until the Fed pares its stimulus policy, according to Steve Kilcullen of Nomura Holdings Inc. in New York.
"The trading is very defensive, but it has a short focus," Kilcullen, head of flow derivatives sales for the Americas at Nomura, said in an April 19 phone interview. "Equity volatility won't go higher until we see policy change or a reduction of policy effectiveness in the U.S." …
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For half a century, Bob Dylan's music has sparked the creativity of generations, motivating and inspiring some of the most influential people of our time.
We asked a collection of artists and titans of various industries to share their thoughts on the man who — even as he turns 70 — continues to blaze a remarkable path.
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Maya Angelou
The truth is, Bob Dylan is a great American artist. His art, his talent, is to speak to everybody, and so when I say American, I think he's a great African American artist, he's a great Jewish American artist, he's a great Muslim American artist, he's a great Asian-American artist, Spanish-speaking artist — he speaks for the American soul as much as Ray Charles did.
There was a time when Bob Dylan was the young kid on the block. We all sang at the Purple Onion and the Hungry I and at folk-music clubs. When Bob came along, everyone loved him because he was what we all had meant to be; he spoke for all of us. And he was known to be honest, which is what a great American artist is. It may not be expedient, but the audience can trust the artist who is honest, and Bob Dylan followed what he said in his lyrics by his actions. He supported the human being, the spirit of being an American — of knowing that the mountains and the rivulets and the voting booths belong to all of us, all the time.
Jimmy Buffett
From the man who never grew up: I would simply like to say that Bob Dylan's music has kept me forever young.
Senator Bill Bradley
I've been a fan of Bob's since the mid-'60s. His lyrics had an appealing complexity to them that spoke on many levels and allowed one's imagination to flow, in addition to the music and his distinctive voice. I was very pleased when Princeton gave him a Ph.D.; I even wrote the president when they nominated him that it was the greatest thing the university has ever done. I've followed Bob through his various permutations and I think his latest stuff is some of the best stuff he's ever done. It's his personal reflections on age and relationships and it's quite different than earlier, because he's lived a life, had a near-death experience and he's seen it all. I love that line where he says he's going down to see Alicia Keys, let me show you what I got.
His voice is pretty much gone, but that's who he is. I don't think he's ever really tried to be somebody else; that's the key. You see a lot of these musicians, they want to be actors or they want to do this or that, and then ultimately they'll come back to being who they really are. I think Bob's always been who he is. He's still out there doing it and that means that his public, in this case me, will never be deprived of hearing where he's coming from at a particular time in their lives.
Harry Belafonte
Bob Dylan has lifted the spirits of millions of people in the world. He has inspired great numbers of artists, and has made those of us who have met him come to be rewarded by the encounter. I admire him, I respect him, I am honored to have this moment to express my deep appreciation for who and what he is.
Bruce Dern
About five years ago, the director Larry Charles called me up and asked me if I would be interested in being in this movie Masked and Anonymous that was starring Bob, and he was getting a bunch of people together that Bob admired to do vignettes in the movie. And I said, "Sure, I'd be honored." So I went to work and I met Bob, and immediately was struck by a few things. First, his size. I thought, somehow, he was bigger. The cowboy hat and the cigar added to his height and stature, however, and that I liked. Second, I was extremely taken by the lack of ego in his demeanor. His feeling that there's no "I" in the word team, his knowing that his movie was teamwork, and that he had to rely on those of us who he felt were really good actors, more than he relied on his own talent.
Bob is about having your heart and everything else in the right place and going for it irregardless, and that irregardlessness and throwing caution to the wind is what excited me about the man and his music and his spirit. If you want to talk about what makes stars, stars to me are people that dominate decades. I can't think of any one individual, other than Bob, who has dominated multiple decades. What can I tell you, man, he's unique.


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The Letter a CIA Chief Wrote to His 3-Year-Old Son on Hitler's Personal Stationery
On the day Germany surrendered in 1945, legendary CIA chief Richard Helms—then an officer serving overseas in the OSS—somehow laid hands on some of Adolf Hitler's personal stationery. So naturally he jotted a note to his toddler back in the states about the nature of evil.
Helms' son Dennis recently donated the 67-year-old note to the CIA Museum, which has placed it online. Here's what Helms—who would go on to run the CIA under Presidents Johnson and Nixon, overseeing some of the agency's most spectacular acts of criminality before being convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about his engineering of a coup in Chile—had to say to his three-year-old boy:
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The man who might have written on this card once controlled Europe—three short years ago when you were born. Today he is dead, his memory despised, his country in ruins. He had a thirst for power, a low opinion of man as an individual, and a fear of intellectual honesty. He was a force for evil in the world. His passing, his defeat—a boon to mankind. But thousands died that it might be so. The price for ridding society of bad is always high.


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Te'o's plight circled by media sharks
January 18, 2013
Growing up in Nevada County, when I wanted to catch a catfish, I used chicken liver as bait. My father and I would get the liver from Holiday Market in Penn Valley, go over to Lake Wildwood and reel in giant catfish from the small man-made lake.
Fast forward about 20 years and "catfishing" has taken on a whole new meaning.
According to Urban Dictionary, a "catfish" is someone who pretends to be someone he is not online by creating false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive online romances.
In former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o's situation, the "catfish" was the one who put out the bait, and Te'o chomped down hard.
Now the All-American linebacker has been ripped from the warm waters that his on-the-field heroics and off-the-field iconic stature had afforded him and is left to flop around like a (cat)fish out of water in the public eye for everyone to ridicule.
All it took for the latest sports icon to be humiliated and disgraced was an attractive profile picture coupled with an elaborate and completely fabricated back story.
Since the news broke Wednesday, there has been non-stop speculation about Te'o's involvement in the hoax and how much he really knew. Some believe Te'o was in on it from the start in efforts to bolster his Heisman hopes. Others believe he found out somewhere along the way and chose to continue the charade. Any way it shakes out, I imagine ESPN and every other sports media outlet will continue to dig through and devour the multiple-award-winning athlete for months and possibly years to come. This hoax, whether he was in on it or not, will follow him well past the NFL Combine in February, the 2013 NFL Draft in April and likely into the first years of his professional career.
But this type of sensationalistic and non-sport-related story is becoming common place in sports journalism.
"Catfishing" isn't the only thing that has changed its meaning in the last 20 years. Sports journalism is a different beast than it used to be — a beast that likes to feast on the frauds, fakes and philanderers.
It's a beast that gobbles up drama and regurgitates it over and over ad nauseum.
From Lance Armstrong, see story on bottom of B1, to Spygate, Bountygate, Tiger Woods' infedelity, Penn State's cover up, Barry Bonds' gel and Roger Clemens' old syringe, the sports media world has turned to tabloid journalism in an effort to grab audiences.
It's not that the off-the-field stuff shouldn't be reported. It should. It often has something to do with what happens on the field (i.e. steroids). And as a society, we look up to athletes, not as much as we used to and rightfully so, but we still look up to them as role models. So when they mess up, it's the sports media's job to let the public know what kind of person they are cheering for.
But the tabloid-style reporting that has saturated sports news is overshadowing the positives sports present and shining a big bright light on the negatives.
That's what's so troubling about Te'o's case. Te'o is by all accounts a fine upstanding young man who volunteers his time to charities and youth groups. Nothing illegal was perpetrated by or against him, no money was stolen, and the only person who got truly hurt is Te'o. So why must sports journalists continue to dig and speculate?
The seemingly bored, yet incredibly ambitious sports media make this hoax seem like the scandal of century, and it will be — that is until the next one breaks in a week or two. But for Te'o, lasting damage has already been done to his reputation, and some say it will hurt him in the draft.
In hindsight, Te'o should have known something fishy was going on, but a trusting nature is not something to be frowned on or vilified on a national stage.
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There are as many ways to make this as there are to make fried chicken, and they're all pretty good. This version is stripped to its bare essentials: onion, chicken, and rice. You can add peas, red pepper, tomato, seasonings like bay leaves and allspice—well, see the variation for a more complex version. Stock makes the best cooking liquid, but the commonly used water works well, because as it simmers with the chicken they combine to produce a flavorful broth, which is in turn absorbed by the rice.
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Anyone compiled or want to suggest a graded list of essential reading on Koine Discourse Analysis/Discourse Grammar? It would be a real help to a newbie like myself who has read a fair chunk of S. Runge's DGGNT but wants to get a more rounded picture of the field and a little understanding of some of the theoretical differences and the practical out-workings of kinds of DA/DG. I'm especially interested in word order and evaluating claims about 'emphasis' in some Pauline texts. Runge seems helpful but others in the forum have offered alternative perspectives etc... Works mentioned in the forum include a paper by Iver Larsen, books by Levinsohn, Runge, H. Dik, theses by Bailey and Kirk, and other work by Lambrecht, S. Dik and others. Not seen much on Relevance Theory, SFL??? Have noticed some posters seem to have well thought out approaches but not sure where they have either put their thoughts in print or where they may have derived them (e.g. S. Carlson). Any help appreciated!


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Every holiday is precious for cancer survivors, and Lee County Relay for Life plans to celebrate them all May 13.
"When someone is diagnosed with cancer, it stays with them for the rest of their life," said Emily Blount, community representative with the American Cancer Society. "Survivors should always be celebrated just as we always celebrate the holidays."
The annual event which recognizes the work of teams around the county on behalf of the American Cancer Society will be held at The Mall at Barnes Crossing in Tupelo.
"We think it will bring more people together," because the mall is such a community gathering place, said Brandy Clark, chairwoman for the Lee County Relay for Life.
The evening will kick off with a 6 p.m. reception for survivors followed by the 7 p.m. opening ceremonies.
"The survivors are so inspiring," said Clark, who works as the ward secretary on the oncology floor at North Mississippi Medical Center. She loves seeing survivors connect with each other. "When the survivors walk the first lap, it's an emotional time."
Families attending the mall's family night from 7 to 9 p.m. will be encouraged to come out to the Relay's site outside in the Sears parking lot. Children who complete and bring coloring sheets provided during family time out to the Relay will receive a special prize.
There will be plenty of family-friendly activities such as inflatables, face painting and meeting firefighters. Relay hulu hoop and kite contests will be open to teams and the public. Teams will have drinks and food to help raise additional money for the American Cancer Society. Parents can take advantage of therapeutic massage for $1 a minute.
"We want to encourage families to come out," Clark said.
Entertainment planned for the evening includes John Milstead and Tara Nolan Priest. Anyone can join a Zumba session or the Tupelo Film Festival midnight screening for $1 admission.
At 10 p.m., the Relay will host the traditional luminary ceremony. Lights are lit to honor those fighting cancer and remember those who have lost their battles. Luminaries can be purchased for $10 up until 10 p.m. May 13.
This year, people also will be able to purchase torches of hope that will be lit during the ceremony as well, Blount said. Because the torches, which cost $100, incorporate a plaque that has to be pre-made, the request for torches are due by Monday.
In case of inclement weather, the Relay will move indoors to the mall's food court.
Where the money goes
The funds that flow from the Lee County Relay for Life and other Relay events across North Mississippi makes American Cancer Society programs possible.
"Over the past 10 years, the American Cancer Society has given over $9.2 million to the University Of Mississippi Medical Center in research grants," Blount said. "Money raised through Relay For Life funded these grants benefiting cancer patients not only in Mississippi but across the nation."
On the local level, the American Cancer Society provides programs such as Look Good, Feel Better – a program for women with cancer to help them with their appearance during cancer treatment – and support groups like I Can Cope and Man-to-Man. The society's Reach to Recovery program brings together longtime breast cancer survivors and newly diagnosed cancer patients.
Grants to hospitals like North Mississippi Medical Center and Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi help provide transportation to and from treatment.
On a national level, the Relays help fund the American Cancer Society's research and outreach programs. The cancer society maintains an extensive website that provides evidence-based information on cancer types, treatments and statistics and a call center, where cancer patients and their families can access information and community resources.
For a look at other events check out Friday's NEMS Daily Journal newspaper.
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The University of Florida IFAS Shellfish Extension Program and Florida Sea Grant invite you to a presentation at the Cedar Key Library on Saturday, Feb. 18 from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
The talk, by Dr. Jennifer Seavey, a landscape ecologist with the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville, will focus on the analysis of oyster reef changes over time in the Big Bend.
The beginning of the new year marked the end of a year-long project for Cedar Key resident Michelle Pearson.
Sarah Bartholemy, a freshman FFA member in Cedar Key placed first in the FFA District Creed Speaking Contest. Sarah advances to the State Finals in June in Orlando. The State Champion in this event will represent Florida in the National Creed Speaking Contest in October. Good luck Sarah!
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hi darlin, how are you hopefully the shoulder is doing good talk later.
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I sorry this is the first time I heard you had surgey Yopu hang in their and get well. Don't answerme back I know how difficult it is to type. Get better and we will talk later when you can type. God bless and have a blessed recovery. You friend K.
glad to hear from u I was worried, sorry about the pain, it will take some time to heal take it easy, easier said then done I know, me just doing my studies for criminal justice.
I can empathize with you. There was a time that I had to have my left arm in a sling because the arm was broken with a hairline fracture. They wanted to put pins in it, but asked if they could fix it some other way and they did! Went to rehab for weeks and this was while I was working as an MA! You'll do fine, but at least you get to see Mariposita and talk to her. She likes you to visit. Well, talk with you later, will pass the word. Have you talked to Larry lately? It seems that he may go to Afghanistan! Don't know when, he has some red tape to take care of. Good to see you! Sending you the semi-truck back filled with hugs, too!
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I've mentioned art:21's current film William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible a few times already, but I wanted to bring art:21's project to your attention once again in order to point out the website that accompanies the film, which offers a range of educational resources that help flesh out the film's explorations. I've contributed an essay to the site, too – I tried my hand at writing about opera – Kentridge's production of The Magic Flute, to be exact. It was really hard to write! But satisfying. There are a bunch of really fantastic pieces on the site that address Kentridge's prints, his tapestry projections, his production of Shostakovich's opera The Nose, and the proverbial much, much, more, including an essay providing background on the making of the film Anything Is Possible itself. You can also watch the full, feature-length film in its entirety on the website.
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History of Curling in the Local Area
Curling is thought to have been invented in medieval Scotland, with the first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire in February 1541. Further evidence that curling existed in Scotland in the early 16th century includes a curling stone inscribed with the date 1511 when an old pond was drained at Dunblane, Scotland.
The sport of curling also features heavily in the history of Kinross, with curling having been played on Loch Leven from the 16th Century. Kinross Curling Club, which has been based at our Curling Rink since it opened in 1977, is believed to be the oldest Curling Club in the world, tracing its formation all the way back to 1688. The Kinross Club played a very important role during the formation of the 'Grand Club' – later to become the Royal Caledonian Curling Club.
In addition to the Kinross Curling Club, there are about 35 other local clubs who either use our Curling Rink as their 'home' rink or who stage many of their club competitions here.
Outdoor Curling Rink
Although nowadays, nearly all club curling is staged indoors, no opportunity is lost to curl outdoors if the weather is cold enough. There is an outdoor curling rink (2 sheets) situated beside the golf course car park opposite the hotel which was recently renovated by Kinross Curling Club. Rarely a winter goes by without some curling on the outdoor rink.
The photo opposite shows players from Kinross & Dunfermline taking part in an evening 2 team bonspiel in December 2012. Unlike with indoor curling, whisky plays a big part in keeping everyone warm!
Curling on the Loch
However, the highlight of any local curler is being able to curl on Loch Leven, taking ther sport right back to its origins. Several decades of warmer winters have meant that chances to do this are few and far between because it requires a long cold spell to get ice of sufficient quality and thickness for curling to take place safely (ranging from about 4 inches thick for a small bonspiel to at least 7 inches for a Grand Match).
The last time any curling took place on Loch Leven was on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day 2010. Snow was cleared away and eventually 3 sheets were produced and there was some fabulous outdoor curling under azure blue skies. An outdoor broadcast unit from Sky TV turned up and beamed pictures of the outdoor bonspiel live around the world!
However the Holy Grail for Scottish Curlers is The Grand Match which is an outdoor curling game arranged between the North and South of Scotland. An imaginary line is drawn between the River Forth and River Clyde to decide the two sides. The last three Grand Matches have had in the region of three hundred rinks on each side, making 2400 curlers on the ice at one time.
The first Grand Match was held on Penicuik Loch on the 15th January 1847 with three hundred curlers taking part. It was last staged on Loch Leven in 1959 when a rink from Kinross Curling Club emerged as winners of the gold medal (the photo to the left shows David Montgomery, the Kinross Skip).
Nowadays, Health & Safety regulations are so demanding that most possible venues within Scotland, including the Lake of Menteith which staged the last two Grand Matches in 1963 and 1979, have now been ruled out of contention. Only two venues, Loch Leven and Piperdam (near Dundee), are considered as viable going forward. Now we just have to wait for the next Ice Age!


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The wind was blowing hard and cold through Manchester, New Hampshire, the first week of April when I paid a visit to the newly renovated Currier Museum of Art, now re-opened after two years of construction. The stiff wind was enough to set the curls of scrap metal atop the Currier's new hood ornament, a 35-foot black-and-red-steel sculpture by Mark di Suvero titled Origin, turning slowly but perceptibly, as though the kinetic abstraction somehow possessed the power to reduce the forces of nature to slow motion.
The Currier is Manchester's mini-Met, a very fine regional museum with an important survey collection of American and European art. The $21.4 million expansion, designed by Ann Beha Architects of Boston, which also designed the New Britain Museum of American Art, adds 33,000 square feet to the Currier's residential side street art palace, giving it now 90,000 square feet to exhibit its collection of some 11,000 objects.
The chief attraction of the renovation, however, is the wonderfully light and airy Winter Garden Cafe, which now occupies the heart of the museum, with galleries arrayed around it. The enclosed courtyard space was jammed with visitors, as was the museum proper. After two years without the Currier, Manchester seemed hungry for art, museum-goers taking advantage of free admission during opening week to check out the new design and the newly installed exhibitions.
The dramatic skylit cafe is enlivened by Wall Drawing #1255: Whirls and Twirls (Currier), a festive color square abstraction by Sol LeWitt that appears to be a sister piece to his Wall Drawing #1131: Whirls and Twirls (Wadsworth), which graces the central staircase of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford. The Currier's LeWitt, designed just before the artist's death last year, covers the wall on either side of the grand glass entry doors to the galleries. The combination of the di Suvero sculpture on the entrance plaza and the LeWitt drawing in the Winter Garden give the Currier a lively new contemporary accent to update its classical 1929 building and eclectic collection.
It's fun to visit a museum when the galleries are packed shoulder to shoulder with visitors, but it's not really the best way to take a serious look at the art. Still, even distracted by the crowd and the attractiveness of the new design, I did manage to find some old friends and new acquaintances among the work on display.
I find there are two ways I tend to approach a museum visit. I can try to look at everything, which runs the risk of viewer fatigue. Or I can look selectively for works that speak directly to me. In the latter case, I either look for art that's known to me or for art that's new to me. Wandering through the crowds at the Currier, I found myself drawn to paintings by Rouault, Picasso, and Hartley in the modern galleries and Motherwell, Rothko, and Albers in the contemporary galleries. I didn't really stop to look at the colorful collection of glass paperweights in the hallway gallery, but these beautiful baubles did draw a lot of admirers.
One gallery is devoted to "Celebrating New Hampshire Artists," an exhibition that includes works by Granite Staters such as James Aponovich and Gary Haven Smith. Aponovich's 1987 self-portrait in studio seemed a particularly apt signature piece, as the Currier sometimes seems a museum stuck in the 1980s — museum time not often coinciding with an artist's lifetime, especially where small provincial museums are concerned.
That sense of aesthetic stop-time was reinforced by seeing Gregory Amenoff's 1980 expressionist abstraction Down by the Pylons, Jonathan Imber's strong 1984 self-portrait, and my old friend the late Neil Welliver's 1980 landscape Blue Pool. Poor Neil! Even in death his methodical approach to modernizing the art of landscape paintings is misunderstood. "Paint by numbers," one gentleman quipped as I walked by.
Among the Currier's recent acquisitions are a bravura print by pop-art star James Rosenquist and a sculpture installation by Marisol Escobar. Rosenquist's 1989 print House of Fire, with its arsenal of lipsticks and bag of groceries, speaks to the go-go years of the 1980s, now alas given way to the desperate years of the early 21st century. Marisol's (she went by only her first name until recently) mordant 1963 The Family, a blocky wooden construction of father and mother with children and baby carriage, was wonderfully apropos on a day when visitors to the museum were kept busy dodging strollers.
No complaints, though. It was great to see the Currier come back to life, full of art lovers, sightseers, and the just plain curious. I made a mental note to return to Manchester in a few months when the hoopla has died down and the art can be properly seen and contemplated. Folks from out of town once again have a good reason other than cheap flights at the airport to go to Manchester.
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The Dolls House is a Sindacco Family-run casino and bordello on the eastern edge of the Red Light District of Portland, Liberty City. Little else is known of the building, and it doesn't feature any interiors.
In Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, protagonist Toni Cipriani destroys The Dolls House building in Joseph Daniel O'Toole's mission Blow Up 'Dolls'. The building remains in shambles for the rest of the game. A molotov cocktail will also spawn one the skeletal remains of the building after the mission.
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