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Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, and special guest Joely Richardson star in the thrilling final season of "The Tudors", the epic drama about the life, loves, and lusts of England's most notorious King. King Henry VIII marries his fifth wife, seventeen-year-old Catherine Howard, a mischievous beauty who ignites the passion of both the King and his chamber groom, setting up a deadly love triangle. Spun into a midlife crisis, Henry remarries and embarks on a war with France to capture Boulogne and symbolically recapture his youth. At home, the battle between Catholics and Protestants escalates when Henry's beloved sixth wife is charged with heresy. Now Henry, in his growing madness, must determine her fate while securing the legacy of his magnificent reign.
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- Illicit Affairs: Secret Romance in Henry's Court
- The Tudors After Henry: The Royal Children of Henry VIII
- Farewell to the King: Michael Hirst on the Tudors Finale
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EDMONTON — In his first speech to Progressive Conservative party members as premier, Dave Hancock apologized to them for the mistakes of the Alison Redford era.
Without mentioning Redford by name, Hancock told about 1,300 party members Thursday that he was sorry the governing caucus lost touch with the grassroots.
"We took Albertans and your support for granted and acted in a way that's contrary to our values," Hancock said at the party's annual Edmonton fundraising dinner.
"I am truly sorry that we allowed government to become a distraction from the vital work that we're doing on issues that matter to Alberta.
"I am sorry that we damaged Albertans' confidence in our party.
"I apologize for losing touch with our grassroots, for not listening to you the way we should have. This behaviour is just not acceptable."
Alberta to review policy for absentee politicians after Alison Redford photographed in California
The province announced a review of Alberta's policy for absentee politicians Monday, after photos surfaced showing former premier Alison Redford biking in a California resort city.
Gene Zwozdesky, a Tory MLA who sits as Speaker of the house, said he has long planned to review the legislature's attendance policy and will set the formal process in motion next week at a meeting with house leaders.
"The [law] is obviously something that is in the power of the government to amend or not, and we need to have that discussion, and we need to ensure that whatever the protocols are that guide MLA attendance or absence are still relevant," Zwozdesky said from London, England, where he is meeting with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
Redford, who remains an MLA for the Calgary-Elbow riding, was not at the dinner.
She has not been seen in the legislature since she resigned more than a month ago ahead of a caucus revolt over lavish spending and allegations of imperious behaviour.
Hancock said while the actions of caucus went off the rails, the core of its character is strong.
"There is a big difference between behaviour and character," he said. "Behaviour can be changed. Character is a different matter.
"We did get some things wrong, but we will demonstrate how we're changing through our policies, our practices and our legislation."
The race to pick a new leader is already underway, with a leader to be selected on Sept. 6, and if necessary, Sept. 20.
Calgary MLA Ken Hughes resigned as municipal affairs minister last month and has already announced he will run.
Former Calgary MP Jim Prentice has signalled through intermediaries that he will run, too, but has not made a formal announcement.
Prentice is scheduled to introduce Hancock on May 8 at the next leader's dinner in Calgary.
Other prospective leadership candidates include cabinet ministers Doug Horner, Ric McIver, Jonathan Denis, Thomas Lukaszuk and Diana McQueen.
We're facing an opposition that believes that everything has a fixed price. An opposition that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
The new leader will have work to do. The PCs, Alberta's governing party for more than four decades, are mired at the back end of recent polls, alongside the Liberals and the NDP.
The opposition Wildrose party leads by a wide margin.
Without mentioning the Wildrose by name, Hancock said the fiscally hawkish right-of centre party is blinkered by its own ideology.
"We're facing an opposition that believes that everything has a fixed price. An opposition that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing," he said.
Hancock spent the balance of the speech lauding the PC government's accomplishments dating back to the 1970s era of former premier Peter Lougheed.
Redford has not spoken publicly since her resignation.
While she has not been in the legislature for question period she has Tweeted pictures of herself meeting with constituents in her riding.
Last week, photos surfaced on social media of her dining out and cycling in Palm Springs, Calif.
She was forced out over reports of exorbitant spending, including using the government airplane for personal trips for herself, her daughter, and her daughter's friends.
Calgary MLA Len Webber quit the PC caucus shortly before Redford's resignation, saying she was abusive to subordinates.
Since her departure, the province released documents under freedom of information rules showing Redford had planned to use taxpayer dollars to build a penthouse suite for herself and her daughter on top of the government's Federal Building.
Thursday's event highlighted the problem the party is having fitting Redford into its narrative.
While Redford's face was on a poster, along with other past leaders, outside the event, the short video played to introduce Hancock flashed pictures of past Tory premiers but not her.
Hancock later told reporters he didn't know why Redford wasn't included in the video.
"Alison Redford played a significant role for this province," he said.
"I would've had her in the video."


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About 50 people attended an event hosted by the Cedar Key Historical Society to hear Lizzie Jenkins, executive president of the Real Rosewood Foundation, talk about Rosewood, a town she's spent much of the last 18 years researching. The talk was held at the Cedar Key Community Center last week.
Haven Hospice, the agency that cares for the tri-counties' loved ones as they face the challenges at the end of life, says it needs the community to make sure the care is the best possible.
Keep your eyes on the water
Although Chiefland hotel owner Jagdish Patel has relinquished control of the Days Inn hotel, the hotel will not be closing, according to Terry Zwirn, the new manager of the hotel.
Zwirn said Tuesday that bankruptcy court has given his company, the Berryfield Hotel Group, receivership of the hotel.
Zwirn said the hotel has no plans to lay off staff and, in fact, expects to hire a few new employees.
City commissioners voted 4-0 Monday night in favor of signing on to a letter from Levy County Sheriff Johnny Smith to state Sen. Steve Oelrich that is aimed at helping the county improve its radio communications.
Johnathan Hart has no recollection of being shocked by a power line on Nov. 17— the power entering at the base of his thumb and exiting on the side of his foot. "I don't even recall going to work that day."
It was in May 2004 when then-Gov. Jeb Bush dedicated a historical marker at Rosewood in honor of the predominantly black community that was destroyed in a 1923 race riot.
U.S. Representative Rich Nugent (R-District 5) has opened his District Office and it has a familiar address.
Sharon Battles was guest speaker at the weekly Chiefland Rotary Club meeting at BubbaQue's on Wednesday. She told the nearly three dozen in attendance about how they could help empower troubled youth in Levy County.
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The new RTS bus routes are set to go but not everyone at Santa Fe college was ready to jump on the bandwagon Friday afternoon. Santa Fe students will pay a new fee beginning this fall that will help fund the service. The idea, modeled after the University of Florida's agreement, is simple. It will charge everybody a small fee to get unlimited bus services. The student led effort made its way to Tallahassee before becoming possible and it seemed everyone has an opinion about it.
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Part I of this review ran last week. You can read it here.Why do Muslim women merely serve a sexual purpose and a way to "feel power over another human being" in Eteraz's relationships in Children of Dust? The answer to this question ultimately lies within the convoluted cultural-religious matrix Eteraz finds himself in as he attempts to form relationships with women. At a young age, he learns a cultural understanding of relationships with women when his mother admonishes him for "playing" w … [Read more...]
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Children of Dust, prominent writer Ali Eteraz's recently published memoir, provides an excellent example of a Pakistani-American Muslim in search of his own self-identity. Eteraz's prose is a delight to read—I randomly started reading a segment from the middle of the book upon its arrival and proceeded to read a good chunk before realizing that I should start reading it from the beginning. I found his descriptions of cultural experiences as an immigrant growing up in the United States to be rem … [Read more...]


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Cinch/RCA Sockets for thick Rear Panels (Record Player)
I am looking for Cinch/RCA sockets for mounting in the wooden frame of a turntable (record player) like the Linn LP-12 (LP12).
I want to have such sockets in the kind like that one from follow URLs:
but suited for a greater strength of the wall thickness.
Who know the appropriate socket models ?
The Neutrik NF2D-B-2 could be suitable, but unfortunately the hole therefore is too large in diameter.
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With 'Apocalypse', bassist/vocalist/songwriter Stephen Bruner (Thundercat), who has played with Flying Lotus and Erykah Badu, as well as performed live with the likes of Snoop Dogg and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, well and truly steps out of the shadows. Out on Brainfeeder and co-produced and co-written with Flying Lotus and Mono/Poly, it's an album not afraid to wear its heart on its sleeve.
Made after the death of friend, Flying Lotus band member and keyboard player Austin Peralta's death, it's a bittersweet record - "Tron Song" particularly pulls at the heart-strings, Bruner's softly lilting voice magnetic and bristling with feeling. However, despite the flashes of melancholy, this is mostly an album of soaring colour and sparkling depths. "Special Stage" and "Heartbreaks + Setbacks" are magnificent works of flighty R&B while "Oh Sheit It's X" is unabashedly jubilant. Thundercat has given us a record of highs and lows, and arguably one of the most wonderfully alive albums of the year so far.


text: The Robert De Niro interview everyone's talking about When Radio Times interviewed the Hollywood legend things ended up getting a little bit... awkward ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW By Emma Brockes Tuesday 22 September 2015 at 5:29PM This is an abridged version of an interview that appears in the new issue of Radio Times, on sale now Robert De Niro, the original tough guy, has a hard time with things other actors find easy. Small talk is not his domain; self-publicity irks him, with its requirements to smile and make eye contact and pretend to be interested. One morning earlier this summer, the 72-year-old sits at a conference table next to Ann Hathaway to talk about The Intern, the Nancy Meyers comedy in which he plays a pensioner on work experience to Hathaway's youthful CEO. When the actress starts weeping at what an honour it was to work with him ("excuse me – sniff - I hate when this happens!"), De Niro looks baffled and vaguely appalled. In an interview earlier in the day, Nancy Meyers had said that the young guys on the set had been so excited to work with De Niro they had mobbed him between takes. They must've had lots of questions, I suggest. "No," he says, glumly. "We would talk. You know. I like that, if they do - specially if they ask me questions about things that are concerning themselves in life - that I can give a good answer to." He thinks Meyers is "terrific;" he can't remember if he's worked with a female director before or not, unless you count a short he made with Agnes Varda. He lapses into silence. I ask: how do you preserve against autopilot, when you've done your job for a long time and you know you're good at it? "You know – autopilot is not wrong. At times – I don't even look at it in that way. Because sometimes when you're acting, as people do in life, they're on autopilot, because of the nature of the situation. It's necessary for them to be on autopilot. That's the best thing they can do. It's very effective in the scene, because that's what it is." This strikes me as interesting, but De Niro looks so depressed at this point there's nowhere to go with it. I suggest that the Tribeca Film Festival must have succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. "Yeah, no, I mean it's terrific." The regeneration of Manhattan's downtown area is insane, I say; to the extent that it's all bankers now – De Niro swivels his eyes up from the floor and asks me to pause the voice recorder. "Why?" "Could you just do it?" I do it. He then pops up out of his chair, starts pacing madly and says he's cutting short the interview because of the "negative inference" of what I just said. "What, about the bankers?!" I am genuinely amazed. "All the way through," says De Niro. "All the way through, negative inference." "Er, like where else?" "The whole way through and I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it, darling." "But," I suggest, "all I've been doing is asking you reverential questions about your methods as an actor." "You're probably not even aware that you're doing it, the negative inference, the negative inference." "That's quite a presumption." "I'm a very good reader of character." "So am I." De Niro has paced all the way to the door by this point, and is sticking his head out, looking in vain for an aide to come along and save him. Walking into the corridor alone doesn't seem to be an option. "Hang on," I say, "so where else am I being negative?" "The question about being on auto-pilot - negative inference." "Wait, but I asked that question to establish how it is you manage [ITAL] not [CLOSE ITAL] to be on auto-pilot." "There's a negative inference." "I have to say, now that you're going on about it, it makes me think you [ITAL] were [CLOSE ITAL] on auto-pilot and you're super-sensitive about it." His jaw starts working and he looks wildly around the room as if in search of a window to jump through. "I'm not doing this, darling," he says. "I think you're very condescending." "Oh, you think 'darling' is condescending?" I suppose this is what's called the artistic temperament... Earlier in the day, someone asked Nancy Meyers about De Niro's manner and Meyers, eminently sensible, said, "I don't know if it's shy. I think he's just an artist. I don't think he worries much about being super-entertaining in a situation like this. I think he saves a part of himself for his work. I don't think he wants to expose himself all the time. "And I respected that when we were shooting. I'd see him and – other people you can go up to and just chat. I sort of let him be." Good call. Read the full interview with Robert De Niro in the new issue of Radio Times magazine, on sale now continue reading


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WASHINGTON – Qatar will buy U.S. Patriot missiles for the first time in a major arms deal worth $11 billion, officials said Monday, as Washington awaits a decision by the Gulf state on a lucrative fighter jet contract.
The sale will provide Qatar with roughly 10 batteries for Patriot systems designed to knock out incoming missiles, as well as 24 Apache helicopters and 500 Javelin anti-tank missiles, according to the U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Qatar was investing in missile defense systems to counter what it sees as the threat from Iran across the Gulf, as Tehran has built up its missile arsenal, officials said.
The weapons deal was the biggest for the United States in 2014 and came as Qatar weighs proposals in a fighter jet competition, with U.S. aerospace firm Boeing vying against British BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation of France.
"It's a good sign," said a senior defense official, referring to the arms sale and the prospects for the fighter jet bidding.
"It's a pretty significant step."
Qatar's minister of state for defense, Major General Hamad bin Ali al-Attiyah, committed to the sale in a signing ceremony Monday in Washington after talks with his American counterpart, Chuck Hagel.
"Today's signing ceremony underscores the strong partnership between the United States and Qatar in the area of security and defense and will help improve our bilateral cooperation across a range of military operations," said Hagel's press secretary, Rear Admiral John Kirby.
It was also the first time Qatar had acquired Patriot missiles, which other Gulf countries such as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have purchased in the past.
Qatari Ambassador Mohammed Jaham Al-Kuwari told AFP the missiles and other arms purchased were "defensive" in nature and not directed at any other country.
"As you know our region is going through a lot of instability. What we bought are weapons to defend Qatar," he said.
He said the sale conveyed the importance of Qatar's relationship with the United States adding there were other negotiations that would produce new deals "very soon."
US officials and commanders have long urged their Gulf partners to set up a coordinated missile defense network to counter Iran, but cooperation has been slow in coming.
The weapons would enhance America's security and diplomatic ties to Qatar, the U.S. official said, despite disagreement over Syria and Qatar's assistance to some rebel groups deemed too radical by Washington.


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KLAQ's Guitar Shredder for the Week – Balloonfest's Mark Tremonti Trading Licks [VIDEO]
This week, I want to feature the guitar skills of Mark Tremonti. He's kind of an underrated guitar player, since he tends to play more for the song instead of the shred, but when he cuts loose, he can really cut loose! I found these videos a while back, with guitar shred king Rusty Cooley and Mark trading off licks.
Check out some great playing with Mark and Rusty, jamming to some warm up tracks. It's funny when Rusty breaks a string early on…
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Homeby Toni Morrison
America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic
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America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he's hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again.
A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood—and his home.
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"Morrison writes about psychological violence with an engineer's precision and a poet's expansiveness." —Tyrone Beason, The Seattle Times
"Morrison packs a powerful narrative punch. . . . [Her] depiction of the delightful ways black men engage in verbal banter to exchange personal and collective memories, and the poignant ways black women stand on their faith to deploy survival strategies only they could design, makes this a novel that begs rereading. She movingly describes people who survive and thrive, even when life deals them painful, mean blows. . . . [T]he beauty of Morrison's language and her profound truths about life and living compel one to run the page and keep reading. This 10th novel shows that the author is still questioning what we think we know when we think we know someone." —Marilyn Sanders Mobley, Ms. Magazine
"Home showcases a writer at the height of her powers in evoking a moment and its historical counter-currents. And it ranks among [Morrison's] most readable stories. It is also, like so many of her novels, a book certain to reward rereading: you can go Home again. And you should." —Jim Cullen, History News Network
"Gorgeous and intense, brutal yet heartwarming . . . like a slingshot that wields the impact of a missile. . . . Home is as accessible, tightly composed and visceral as anything Morrison has written. . . . [Her] shorter, more direct sentences have the capacity to leave a reader awestruck. . . . Devastating, deeply humane, ever-relevant." —Heller McAlpin, NPR
"The story of the warrior's struggle to return home is classic, but Nobel laureate Morrison imbues her tale with twists that make the journey more challenging and Frank Money's success less certain. . . . As usual, Morrison's writing is both lyrical and earthy and, although spare, dense with hints and meaning. This is a book that can be read in one long sitting, and probably will be . . . [A] satisfying, emotional . . . textured, painful and ultimately uplifting story." —Anne Neville, Buffalo News
"In this slim, scathing novel, Morrison brings us another quintessentially American character struggling through another shameful moment in our nation's history. . . . Home is as much prose poem as long-form fiction—a triumph for a beloved literary icon who proves that her talents remain in full flower. Four stars." —Meredith Maran, People
"Beautifully wrought . . . [Home] packs considerable power, because the Nobel Prize-winning author is still writing unflinchingly about the most painful human experiences. There's nothing small about the story she's told with such grace in these pages." —Steve Yarbrough, The Oregonian
"Short, swift, and luminescent . . . The music of Morrison's language, with its poetic oral qualities, its ability to be both past and present in one long line, requires a robust structure, a big space; a small auditorium simply does not suit it. Home, then, is . . . a remarkable thing: proof that Morrison is at once America's most deliberate and flexible writer. She has almost entirely retooled her style to tell a story that demands speed, brevity, the threat of a looming curtain call." —John Freeman, The Boston Globe
"Part of Morrison's longstanding greatness resides in her ability to animate specific stories about the black experience and simultaneously speak to all experience. It's precisely by committing unreservedly to the first that she's able to transcend the circumscribed audience it might imply. This work's accomplishment lies in its considerable capacity to make us feel that we are each not only resident but co-owner of, and collectively accountable for, this land we call home." —Leah Hager Cohen, The New York Times Book Review
"Powerful . . . Home, the latest novel by Toni Morrison, is almost eerie in its timeliness. Set in the 1950s, it does not evoke the martini and pinched waist nostalgia of Mad Men. Rather, it calls to mind the plight of today's veterans returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. . . . A hallmark of Morrison's magic is the way that her imagination engages critically with several subjects simultaneously, but Home is particularly intriguing because it also seems to be a reflection on the author's previous works. . . . . The writing reads like a love letter to a generation that took the English language, lubricated its syntax and bent meanings as the situation required. . . . The result is not poetry, exactly, yet the characters communicate in such a way that there are subtle metaphors in every exchange. The events of this narrative are striking and arresting in the manner that one expects from Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in literature. Family secrets are revealed, brutal truths about the history of race in America are displayed without sentimentality or animus. As always, Morrison's prose is immaculate, jaw-dropping in its beauty and audacity. . . . In addition to her reputation for gorgeous sentences, Morrison is known for a certain brutality in her plotting, and this wrenching novel is no exception. But Home also brims with affection and optimism. The gains here are hard won, but honestly earned, and sweet as love." —Tayari Jones, San Francisco Chronicle
"Morrison writes without airs. In Home, even the most painful and devastating moments are told head-on, not prettified to make them more palatable [or] heightened to create a stronger impression. She builds trust with the reader at every step; the events may be imagined, but Morrison is speaking her truth, and we believe her. Here, as in her previous books, Morrison's characters carry their histories heavy on their backs, a burden that defines them and influences everything they do today. The past, she says repeatedly, is always with us. It can't be ignored or shunted aside because to be truly home in the present, we must confront the past." —Amy Driscoll, The Miami Herald
"[Home] is compact, a novella really, and filled with Morrison's signature style—clear, razor-sharp, poetic writing and layered storytelling. . . . This story isn't about taking responsibility for others. It is a tale about taking responsibility for yourself. . . . The journey home, then, is not to a physical place. It is an internal destination that each of us must find." —Karen M. Thomas, The Dallas Morning News
"If you are familiar with Toni Morrison's work (who isn't?), you will want to read her new novella, Home, in one sitting. It will take only two or three hours, and that one sitting will help you keep in mind the story's beautiful symmetry. Home is a reverse journey, a return to an earlier place, a going back instead of forward—at least physically—though it can just as easily be argued that the protagonist (Frank Money) advances as much as he retreats. And that metaphor of advancing is especially suitable, given the fact that Frank has recently returned from the war in Korea. He's been traumatized by horrific events but is equally unsettled when he realizes that he's returned to the same racist country he left before he departed to fight for America. . . . Above all, Home demonstrates a sense of community, not just within the physical environment of one's origins but also with the assistance that total strangers offer Frank Money. The poorest people in the country extend a hand, share, and rehabilitate others when necessary. These values are shown to be so redemptive that they cancel out what many people believe to be natural instincts of revenge, of payback, of an eye-for-an-eye and a tooth-for-a-tooth. . . . Home is an engaging narrative, full of surprises and profundities." —Charles R. Larson, Counterpunch
"This haunting, slender novel is a kind of tiny Rosetta Stone to Toni Morrison's entire oeuvre. Home encapsulates all the themes that have fueled her fiction: . . . the hold that time past exerts over time present, the hazards of love (and its link to leaving and loss), the possibility of redemption and transcendence. Once again we are introduced to characters who must choose between the suffocating but sustaining ethos of small-town life and the temptations and pitfalls of the wider world. Once again we are made to see the costs and consolations of caring too much—for a family member, a lover or a friend. . . . Whereas Beloved mythologized its characters' stories, lending their experiences the resonance of a symphony or an opera, Home is a lower-key chamber piece, pitched somewhere between straight-up naturalism and the world of fable. In these pages Morrison eschews the fierce Faulknerian prose and García Márquez-like flights of surrealism that animated some of her earlier novels, adopting a new, pared-down style that enables her to map the day-to-day lives of her characters with lyrical precision. . . . Morrison has found a new, angular voice and straight-ahead storytelling style that showcase her knowledge of her characters, and the ways in which violence and passion and regret are braided through their lives, the ways in which love and duty can redeem a blighted past." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Another dazzling journey with Toni Morrison as tour guide into America's slippery psychological, cultural and political terrain. In Home, Morrison has given us another triumph of beauty and brutality both in tone, language, and characters. Like her slim volumes The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Jazz, the Nobel Laureate's tenth offering reminds you of riveting tales told by a wise stranger—not kinfolk, not on any official business—that remain with you for days—sometimes longer. . . . Morrison proves there is no writer who can craft, shape, twist, and bend the English language quite like she can. . . . Home calmly lays out the horrors of war, abroad and domestic, with the understanding that peace is sometimes negotiable." —Patrik Henry Bass, Essence
"Cinematic, poetic and profound. . . . Home, is, at its heart, the tale of a man enslaved (in mind, body, and spirit), on an uncertain journey to freedom. . . . The concept of home in Home becomes a metaphor for the cultivation of an inner strength and dignity independent of external factors, shielded from the vicissitudes of an unjust society. In Morrison's assessment, it seems that country can be difficult to navigate alone, and relies not only on our self acceptance, but also on the relationships and communities we build. . . . [She] continues to beg the reader to reflect critically on notions of identity, race, gender and class, and, perhaps most importantly, to examine what me mean when we talk about freedom, and the role we play as a community and as individuals, hand and hand, and in a solitary way, in emancipating ourselves." Chase Quinn, The Grio
"Nobel Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison begins her newest novel, Home, with a question: How does a man rebuild himself while the world chips away at his soul? That is the problem posed to Frank Money, a Korean War veteran returned to the United States after witnessing the horrors of combat on the front lines. Now a shell of a man, Frank finds himself on a journey to rescue his medically abused younger sister and return to his home in small-town Georgia. . . . The problem goes deeper than race or politics. It is not limited to questions of black or white (or gender or economic status, for that matter), though those things inform the issue. But the problem, ultimately, is personal in nature. It's downright spiritual. . . . Immediately, a reader senses in Morrison a seeker. Her prose reaches out for answers to very difficult questions, feeling its way through the possibilities of the story it presents. She has the psychological acuteness to move beyond the realm of parable and into the realm of tragedy. The writing is easy and flowing but still elegantly constructed. And it doesn't settle for easy answers. We do not know if and how Frank and his sister will ever find redemption. In the end, we only know that home is a good place to start. . . . A wonderfully pleasurable and rewarding literary experience." —Gerard Martinez, San Antonio Express-News
"Within its pared-down limits, [Home] tells a compelling story, and the man at the center, Frank Money, is such a strong and convincing character that we are not taken aback when Frank himself, speaking in italics, interrupts the narrative a couple of times to set the author straight on some details she got wrong. The novel is leanly poetic, at times is very funny and is skillful in using symbols without turning them into clichés. One of the best things about the book is that it functions as a cultural and historical travelogue, a fascinating commentary on crossing the country while black in the middle of the 20th century. . . . A tale fit for an epic." —Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"In her characteristically breathtaking prose, rich in all the contradictions that make us human, Morrison transforms unthinkable suffering into incomplete but believable redemption." —Pam Houston, More Magazine
"Stunning . . . A masterfully written novella that uses alternating points of view, swift characterization-by-action and metaphorical symmetry with a compression which is simultaneously a tour de force and a tantalization. . . . . Regardless of narrator, the vividness of the chapters and their concise accumulation of experiences give Home a broader scope than would seem possible in so few pages. Morrison unleashes her most lyrical language upon the foreshadowing and depiction of Home's most brutal events. Her technique is indelible." —Holloway McCandless, Shelf Awareness
"Toni Morrison doesn't have to prove anything anymore, and there's artistic freedom in that calm. Her new novel, Home, is a surprisingly unpretentious story from America's only living Nobel laureate in literature. . . . This scarily quiet tale packs all the thundering themes Morrison has explored before. She's never been more concise, though, and that restraint demonstrates the full range of her power. . . . Home is unusual, not only in that it features a male protagonist but that it's so fiercely focused on the problem of manhood. . . . Are acts of violence essentially masculine, or are they an abdication of manliness? Is it possible, the novel finally asks, to consider the manhood implicit in sacrifice, in laying down one's life? What [Frank] Money eventually does to help his sister and to quiet his demons is just as surprising and quietly profound as everything else in this novel. Despite all the old horrors that Morrison faces in these pages with weary recognition, Home is a daringly hopeful story about the possibility of healing—or at least surviving in a shadow of peace." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"The title of [Morrison's] new novel, Home, refers to Frank Money's Georgia hometown, which lies at the end of a long, tortuous journey. Traumatized by atrocities in Korea and the Deep South of his childhood, Frank races back to save his sister from a sadistic white doctor. It's an archetypal postwar homecoming story, reminiscent of The Odyssey. But it's really about the upheavals that took Frank away from home in the first place, along with a generation of Korean War veterans and southern black migrants, during a supposedly tranquil and homey decade that was, for them, anything but." —Boris Kachka, New York Magazine
"A bona fide literary event . . . an emotional powerhouse that more than lives up to his pedigree. Told in the stark, economical tone of a short story, with all the philosophical heft of a novel, . . . Home is a moving testament to taking responsibility for your own life—especially the parts you'd like to look away from. Grade: A-" —Melissa Maerz, Entertainment Weekly
"Triumphant." —Marie Claire
"Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is known for novels in which female protagonists struggle to wrest control of their lives from an establishment bent on their destruction. Home, by contrast, tells the story of Korean War vet Frank Money, who returns from the battlefield plagued by visions of his friends' deaths and a disturbing episode that cuts at the roots of his sexual and moral identity. . . . Salvation awaits, however, in his tiny Georgia hometown." —Tim McDonnell, Mother Jones
"Home's slim spine belies a fertile narrative imbued with and embellished by Morrison's visionary scope and poetic majesty. These traits expand on her long exploration of the suffering and striving born of slavery and segregation that are unique to the history of blacks in America. Conjoined in all her stories and richly illumined are the culture, traditions, talents, and triumphs of African-Americans as well." —Lisa Shea, ELLE
"Profound . . . Morrison's portrayal of Frank is vivid and intimate, her portraits of the women in his life equally masterful. Its brevity, stark prose, and small cast of characters notwithstanding, this story of a man struggling to reclaim his roots and his manhood is enormously powerful." —Stephan Lee, O, The Oprah Magazine
"Morrison's perfect prose [is] immaculate . . . Beautiful, brutal." —Publishers Weekly (boxed and starred review)
"A deceptively rich and cumulatively powerful novel." —Kirkus (starred review)
"The Korean conflict is over, and soldier Frank Money has returned to the States with a disturbed psyche that sends him beyond anger into actually acting out his rage. From the mental ward in which he has been incarcerated for an incident he can't even remember, he determines he must escape. He needs to get to Atlanta to attend to his gravely ill sister and take her back to their Georgia hometown of Lotus, which, although Frank realizes a return there is necessary for his sister's sake, remains a detestable place in his mind. Morrison's taut, lacerating novel observes, through the struggles of Frank to move heaven and earth to reach and save his little sister, how a damaged man can gather the fortitude to clear his mind of war's horror and face his own part in that horror, leave the long-term anger he feels toward his hometown aside, and take responsibility for his own life as well as hers. With the economical presentation of a short story, the rhythms and cadences of a poem, and the total embrace and resonance of a novel, Morrison, one of our national literary treasures, continues to marshal her considerable talents to draw a deeply moving narrative and draw in a wide range of appreciative readers. . . . bound to be a big hit." —Brad Hooper, Booklist (starred review)
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They rose up like men. We saw them. Like men they stood.
We shouldn't have been anywhere near that place. Like most farmland outside Lotus, Georgia, this here one had plenty scary warning signs. The threats hung from wire mesh fences with wooden stakes every fifty or so feet. But when we saw a crawl space that some animal had dug—a coyote maybe, or a coon dog—we couldn't resist. Just kids we were. The grass was shoulder high for her and waist high for me so, looking out for snakes, we crawled through it on our bellies. The reward was worth the harm grass juice and clouds of gnats did to our eyes, because there right in front of us, about fifty yards off, they stood like men. Their raised hooves crashing and striking, their manes tossing back from wild white eyes. They bit each other like dogs but when they stood, reared up on their hind legs, their forelegs around the withers of the other, we held our breath in wonder. One was rust-colored, the other deep black, both sunny with sweat. The neighs were not as frightening as the silence following a kick of hind legs into the lifted lips of the opponent. Nearby, colts and mares, indifferent, nibbled grass or looked away. Then it stopped. The rust-colored one dropped his head and pawed the ground while the winner loped off in an arc, nudging the mares before him.
As we elbowed back through the grass looking for the dug-out place, avoiding the line of parked trucks beyond, we lost our way. Although it took forever to re-sight the fence, neither of us panicked until we heard voices, urgent but low. I grabbed her arm and put a finger to my lips. Never lifting our heads, just peeping through the grass, we saw them pull a body from a wheelbarrow and throw it into a hole already waiting. One foot stuck up over the edge and quivered, as though it could get out, as though with a little effort it could break through the dirt being shoveled in. We could not see the faces of the men doing the burying, only their trousers; but we saw the edge of a spade drive the jerking foot down to join the rest of itself. When she saw that black foot with its creamy pink and mud-streaked sole being whacked into the grave, her whole body began to shake. I hugged her shoulders tight and tried to pull her trembling into my own bones because, as a brother four years older, I thought I could handle it. The men were long gone and the moon was a cantaloupe by the time we felt safe enough to disturb even one blade of grass and move on our stomachs, searching for the scooped-out part under the fence. When we got home we expected to be whipped or at least scolded for staying out so late, but the grown-ups did not notice us. Some disturbance had their attention.
Since you're set on telling my story, whatever you think and whatever you write down, know this: I really forgot about the burial. I only remembered the horses. They were so beautiful. So brutal. And they stood like men.
What People are Saying About This
"Haunting . . . [Morrison] maps the day-to-day lives of her characters with lyrical precision. . . . Home encapsulates all the themes that have fueled her fiction, from the early novels Sula and The Bluest Eye, through her dazzling masterwork, Beloved." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Gorgeous and intense, brutal yet heartwarming. . . . Accessible, tightly composed and visceral as anything Morrison has yet written. . . . [A] devastating, deeply humaneand ever-relevantbook." —Heller McAlpin, NPR
"Luminescent. . . . There is no novelist alive who has captured the beauty and democracy of the American vernacular so well." —The Boston Globe
"Powerful. . . . Jaw-dropping in its beauty and audacity. . . . Brims with affection and optimism." —San Francisco Chronicle
"This scarily quiet tale packs all the thundering themes Morrison has explored before. She's never been more concise, though, and that restraint demonstrates the full range of her power. . . . A daringly hopeful story about the possibility of healing — or at least surviving in a shadow of peace." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"A fertile narrative imbued with and embellished by Morrison's visionary scope and poetic majesty." —Elle
"A bona fide literary event . . . an emotional powerhouse. . . . Told in the stark, economical tone of a short story, with all the philosophical heft of a novel." —Entertainment Weekly
"A short, swift, and luminescent book. . . . A remarkable thing: proof that Toni Morrison is at once America's most deliberate and flexible writer. She has almost entirely retooled her style to tell a story that demands speed, brevity, the treat of a looming curtain call. . . . There is no novelist alive who has captured the beauty and democracy of the American vernacular so well." —The Boston Globe
"Profound . . . Morrison's portrayal of Frank is vivid and intimate, her portraits of the women in his life equally masterful. Its brevity, stark prose, and small cast of characters notwithstanding, this story of a man struggling to reclaim his roots and his manhood is enormously powerful." —O, The Oprah Magazine
"Perhaps Morrison's most lyrical performance to date. . . . Home has a sparer, faster pace than earlier Morrison novels like Beloved or Jazz, as though a drumbeat is steadily intensifying in the background and the storyteller has to keep up." —The New York Review of Books
"In a mere 145 pages, Morrison has created a richly textured, deeply felt novel. "Home" has a sense of the real with a touch of magic. After 10 novels and a Nobel prize, Toni Morrison certainly isn't resting on her laurels." —Louisville Courier-Journal
"Her themes—identity, community, the resoluteness of both good and evil—are epic, and her language uniquely her own. . . . Taut and muscular, Home wastes not a word. . . . In sentences balanced like proverbs, the Nobel Prize winner conjures up the community of country women Frank asks to help save Cee." —The Plain Dealer
"In this slim, scathing novel, Morrison brings us another quintessentially American character struggling through another shameful moment in our nation's history. . . . Home is as much prose poem as long-form fiction—a triumph for a beloved literary icon who proves that her talents remain in full flower. Four stars." —People
"A short, urgent novel, polished to the essential themes that the Nobel Prize-winning author has explored for decades." —The Columbus Dispatch
"Beautifully wrought . . . [Home] packs considerable power, because the Nobel Prize-winning author is still writing unflinchingly about the most painful human experiences. There's nothing small about the story she's told with such grace in these pages." —The Oregonian
Meet the Author
Toni Morrison is the author of ten novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to A Mercy (2008). She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She lives in New York.
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- Princeton, New Jersey, and Manhattan
- Date of Birth:
- February 18, 1931
- Place of Birth:
- Lorain, Ohio
- Education:
- Howard University, B.A. in English, 1953; Cornell, M.A., 1955
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Toni Morrison's latest novel (or novella) is a compact tale tackling the broad subject of "home". Frank Money is a veteran returns to the US after serving in the Korean War. Like most Black soldiers of that time, he's returning to a country that could care less about his service and the trauma that he's experienced. Frank works hard at trying to achieve some level of normalcy and overcome the memories that he can't escape. He receives news that his younger sister, Cee, is in trouble and must pull himself together enough to come to her aid. As usual, Morrison's writing is beautiful and descriptive, making even the smallest detail appear paramount to the story. It's hard to believe that a book that is only about 160 pages long could contain a wealth of storytelling. The plight of Black people in the 1950's is fully explored here: returning soldiers, travelling the country under Jim Crow laws, medical research exploitation, and much more. Morrison's incredible talent assures that no matter how many physical pages there are, her stories are always fully told.
As usual, Toni Morrison does not disappoint in this her latest novel. I was pulled in immediately and unable to put the book down. So engrossed I was that I actually finished it in one sitting. It is not a long novel but it backs a great deal in its pages. Absolutely loved it.
I had finished reading the latest novella by Toni Morrison titled "Home". Short reading but she tells a good story. An interesting and engaging plot that provides an exciting description of the main characters. Toni Morrison's stories are getting shorter but quality of writing still exists in her fiction. The plot engaged me from the start. I had finished reading this novella in three sessions. It goes on for 105 pages or so, not a very long story. Succinct and colorful, descriptive and enticing, draws you in from the very beginning. A well spent time reading this book. The twists and turns surprise and enchant. What happens at the end? I wanted the story to go on, but the writer decided to end the story. There is nothing we can do but carry on the plot in our own minds.
Great read, compelling narrative, beautiful language.
I was excited to read this book because I had heard of Toni Morrison but had never read any of her books. While the story was good, I found it at times hard to follow. The character's names changed, as well as the setting, without me being aware. It wasn't until I read the summary at the end that I understood that. Maybe upon reading again, I would enjoy it more, but I was disappointed.
Toni Morrison is a literary genius. "I can be miserable if I want to. You don't need to try and make it go away. It shouldn't go away. It's just as sad as it ought to be and I'm not going to hide from what's true just because it hurts." (from page 131) Why is it so hard to write about books that are so amazing? I always seem to have this issue with my favorite books. This is definitely the case with Toni Morrison's Home. Even though the novel is shy of 200 pages, the story inside it is so artfully crafted and brilliantly executed. The varying points of view and switch between first person and third person gives the reader different versions of the 'truth'. I've learned about eugenics in my women's studies classes. It's a horrible dark secret in American society that often gets overlooked or ignored. In a way, I am glad that Morrison decided to talk about this piece of history in her latest novel. I am disgusted that it happened, don't get me wrong, but I strongly believe in learning about any sort of discrimination. That's another reason why I admire Morrison so much. She links together all of the oppressions and shows how racism exists right along with sexism and classism. The voices of minorities have always been silenced, and there is great power in learning from the past. The other choice is to ignore it, but what does that do to a person? Frank is a perfect example of this. He may not be a perfect person, a perfect brother or boyfriend, but he is still human. He tries to ignore the past and it just haunts him and pulls him into a downward spiral. His post-traumatic stress is clear through his hallucinations and 'abnormal' reactions. When he finally says the truth, though, he is freed from that poisonous denial. I can't recommend this novel highly enough. If you love happy, care-free novels, then this isn't for you. You might say it's too depressing, too dark, too somber. But to her fans (like me) it is empowering and hopeful. The message here is really strong and inspiring. Nobody should make you feel like you're worth nothing. You might get discriminated against because of the color of your skin, or your gender, or the lack of money in your pockets, but those oppressors aren't better than you. No one is better than you. It takes a lot of courage to see that and accept it, but it's true.
She was in her office
Ms Morrison never fails! Gotta love it!
If you're like me and have already read you fair share of Toni Morrison's work, you won't be disappointed with "Home." It is yet another wonderful book that is complex and rich in it's brevity. Morrison has always written as if she wrote 400+ pages and then edits down to 100 making the reader really have to immerse themselves into the text to really see what Morrison is trying to say.
Highly over-rated in my humble opinion. Dis-jointed and fairy-tale like ending. Disappointed.
Makes you realize that theres no place like home.
Toni Morrison hits you over the head with 1960's segregation, in this country, after the Korean War. She slowly pushes it on you then starts pounding the point home every chance she gets. This story would have been much better if she had made the point gently rather than in your face.
This is one of my favorites by Morrison it is short but you understand each character and what they have gone through. You feel for them and want them to learn and deal with life on their own terms.


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• The New York City Marathon has created the Alberto Salazar Award, to be given annually to the top U.S. men's and women's finishers in the annual race in November. The Portland resident and former University of Oregon great was a three-time New York City Marathon winner (1980-82) and the last American male to rule the event.
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Salazar's 'Oregon Project,' which provides high-altitude training for U.S. runners through a retrofitted house in Northwest Portland, is going well, he says. Four of the five runners will be competing in major marathons this fall, including West Linn native Dan Browne, who will compete in the 10,000 at the World Championships in August, and Chad Johnson, who might be the top U.S. contender in the New York City Marathon.
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'We have a past champions clinic on the driving range (on Aug. 26),' Jacobsen says. 'Maybe I'll do something there. But this isn't about Peter Jacobsen, it's about the Champions Tour. Listen, when I turn 50 (next April), I'll stick my big nose in there. Right now, I'm not.'
Here's one vote for doing it somewhere. Jake's takes on such players as Craig Stadler and Fuzzy Zoeller are classics. They never get old.
• A group in Seattle is now pushing to land a Champions Tour event, which would be scheduled the week before the Jeld-Wen Tradition.
• Patrick Dennehy, the troubled 6-10 center missing and presumed dead in the strange case at Baylor, played his first two college seasons at New Mexico under Fran Fraschilla. Fraschilla was succeeded by former Oregon State coach Ritchie McKay, who dismissed Dennehy from the Lobos squad after the big man walked off the court during one of his first practice sessions last fall. Dennehy subsequently transferred to Baylor, and now is the focus of one of the nation's biggest sports stories of the summer.
• Seattle Mariners ace Jamie Moyer can become the third left-hander in major league history to win his 20th game in a season after turning 40. The others: Warren Spahn (Milwaukee Braves, 1963) and Eddie Plank (St. Louis Browns, 1915).


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That does happen on occasion. I was at a charity golf tournament and during the briefing someone asked for a pocket knife to cut off a lanyard. I produced my CQC7 and got a similar response as you.
This is a discussion on Those Big, Bad, Black Knifes within the Defensive Knives & Other Weapons forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I spent the whole day with a bunch of other moms and kids at a pumpkin farm today and around lunch time we all settled ...
I spent the whole day with a bunch of other moms and kids at a pumpkin farm today and around lunch time we all settled in around a picnic table with our kids and sack lunches.
I was making my son a ham sandwich as I heard another mother asking around for a knife with which to cut an apple. I didn't respond thinking that maybe someone else was equipped with a more food-friendly cutlery device than I.
When everyone else answered in the negative she turned to me and said, "Do you have a knife?"
To which I responded, "Yes, I do," and quickly pulled my K-Bar TDI from it's sheath that I have begun to stealthily carry just to the right of my belly-button.
"Oh.. Whoa!" she said as her eyes popped open. "You certainly do."
A few of the other mothers paused and stared.
She looked from the knife to me with a very worried look on her face and then said, "Umm.. no thank you," and started to attempt to cut the apple with a spoon and avoiding looking at the knife.
"You really can use it," I said. "It will certainly work better than a spoon and it's very clean. In fact, I don't think it's ever been used."
She looked back at the knife and then at me and back again before she gingerly took it in her hand and held it as far down the hilt and away from the blade as she could, which of course put the blade at an even more awkward angle.
She cut up the apple and handed it back to me and watched with those same popped eyes as I wiped it off and slipped it back into its sheath beneath my shirt before I went back to feeding my son.
There was that awkward pause around the picnic table before someone else decided to talk about school sports.
I thought it was rather funny. Most kitchen knives are longer-bladed than my TDI but because its black and curved and most certainly more geared toward a "combative" appearance it was something to be avoided like the plague.
Or maybe it was the fact that it suddenly became clear I had been carrying this fixed-blade knife all day on my person and was able to produce it so quickly on demand that just set the mood of unease.
Either way, I wonder if anyone is going to ever ask me for a knife again in playgroup.
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That does happen on occasion. I was at a charity golf tournament and during the briefing someone asked for a pocket knife to cut off a lanyard. I produced my CQC7 and got a similar response as you.
Haha nice reaction, I would have probably laughed at their reactions.
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I guess because you "steathily" carry it, that was a pretty big surprise for her. If you simply wore it on a belt, in sight, it might have been more readily accepted. If I was wearing a hidden knife I can't say I would produce it for cutting an apple. Well, maybe at deer camp ;^)
I am soooooo taking the Hissatsu to the pumpkin patch next year...
I've carried a locking folder or a compact fixed-blade since I had a paper route as a kid. In college, the guy next door asked if anyone had a knife; my roommates' replay was "Does Smitty have a knife? Does the Pope wear little red shoes?" These days I'd be up on charges at that school in New England.
Because the knives I typically carry are dark, have half-serrated blades, and are one-thumb openers that flick open in a flash, I've gotten about the same response at social events like church picnics and birthday parties (always a package to open, right?) that Lima did. Wide eyes, the "WHOA" response, and a very gingerly passing of the knife to and fro. I can only imagine the reaction is even more profound when a young mom whips one out!
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Funny. Next time someone will ask, "Does anyone have a knife?" and everyone will point to you and say, "she does".
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I went back to school a couple years ago to finish a degree I started in the 70s and never finished for a variety of reasons. One class I had to take was an art history class taught by a professor who was about to retire and had probably been using the same slides since he started; which frequently jammed in the projector and he had a little 1" Swiss Army Knife he used to free up the projector. One day he couldn't get a slide freed, looked around the class and asked if anyone had a bigger knife, I waited to see if anyone else produced a "friendlier" knife than mine. No one else offered one so I pulled my 4" Spyderco Endura from my pocket, opened it with a flick of the wrist, reversed it in my hand and offered it to him butt first, the operation took about 1 second. His eyes nearly bugged out of his head, he took it, looked at it and handled it like it was a venomous snake ready to bite him. He freed the slide and handed it back, I closed it with another wrist flick and put it back in my pocket; he looked at me a little strangely the rest of the semester.
P.S. I worked at the university, had been heavily involved in Missouri's CCW voter referendum in early 90s, having at least 2 lengthy letters to the editor published a month for nearly a year and frequently afterwards for about 10 years, so I was a well known conservative on campus.
I love moments like that...I really do think it spooks them more that you are carrying it undetected. Than the actual knife its self. Good for you for not backing away. LOL
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I can just about picture that scenario in my mind.
LOL cute story. Just wondering: Do you fully conceal it? I've often wished I could legally conceal a blade where I live.
I carry a CRKT M16 clipped to my pants every day and apparently no one has ever noticed the black clip against my khaki pants. One day I was with a few other people and we needed to open a box, people a fumbling for keys or their badges, I flip open the M16. I get stares. I just cut the tape, fold it back up and put it back in my pocket. "Don't worry, I was a Boy Scout" I said, which got some chuckles and lightened the mood. Good thing they haven't seen the knife the telephone guy carries!
What you should have had, just for the effect is one of the new Emerson UBR Commanders. Emerson started making them this year, and for a folder the thing is HUGE!!
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It has to be evil, it has the shoulder thing that goes up... wait that's the other evil black thing...
Seriously, I keep a Kershaw Chive(the rainbow one 'cause it's "so cute!") on me at all times so I don't have to FlashII anyone when I need a knife for mundane use.
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Thats not bad, I carried a Benchmade LFK black blade with serrations and go riding to my dads, at a diner we were eating lunch, a guy was fidling with his knife and asked him to put his knife away and he got kind of cocky/loud/verbal about his right to carry a knife, blah blah. He had a simple little 2 inch 3 blade bone handle knife. My dad and I started laughing (the owners of the diner are good friends and knew what was comeing) My dad looked at him and said
"put away the tooth pick" The other guy didnt like that, my dad carries the same knife non serrated, silver blade, he pulled out his and I pulled out my knife, ended the conversation there. He left, we left and noticed he was still around "admiring" out scooters. (Rigid custom, 86 sportster) he saw us and walked off. :D Some days it pays to carry a big knife. lol
I bought the boker magnum Lady for work. its roughly 2 inches total (closed) and a good EDC for small chores, now I carry my Kabar Mule G10 for SD and a Mtech "micro?" or something of the sort.
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I had a P40 and a friend the PM40. Both will take any and all ammo with no problems.
From what I've read the P/PM9's are just as reliable.
Good luck with your new pistol.
Well, I was at a large gun sale yesterday and happened upon my next pick for a CCW. The PM9 two tone standard sights NIB for $550 tax included. The wife and I talked it over last night and I just got done ordering it over the phone. They didn't have it in stock so, it will be about a week. It is odd that the stainless slide costs less than the blackened slide version. Oh well, both look good to me so I got the cheaper one. I think I did okay, based on the MSRP of about $750. I already got a holster coming and everything. Next is, what do I feed this little pocket rocket? Ball ammo shouldn't be a problem. I like/prefer Remington Golden Sabers for my .380. Will the PM9 like this load, either the 124gr. or the 147gr.?
I had a P40 and a friend the PM40. Both will take any and all ammo with no problems.
From what I've read the P/PM9's are just as reliable.
Good luck with your new pistol.
Good luck with your new gun there Mr Nuke. I have looked them over several times and I might get one some day. Standing by for pictures and a range report.
PM40 in my right front pocket as we "speak"... Mine has been flawless, after break-in. Put 200-300 through it before depending on it for carry. It WILL malfunction in the first 200. This is NORMAL.
Armalaser makes a great, and inexpensive addition. Look that up too... sorry if it screws up your holster selection. Mine sits in an Uncle Mike's pocket holster when carried in the rear pocket. Usually without in the front.
Have fun!
Seeing as how you will be away for a while, soon, make sure the Mrs. refreshes her "protection" skills. Now she'll be responsible for both herself and the baby.
Has she checked this site? It's for women, written from a woman's point of view. http://www.corneredcat.com/
BTW There's no reason she can't stop by and chat once in a while. We'll be interested in how you're doing, when you can let us know.
I carried a Kahr for a little while as a sort of experiment with DAO guns. I personally like 124 gr. +P, but any modern premium JHP should be just fine for defense. 147s do thump the hand a little more than lighter bullets, which may be a control concern in a small/light gun like the PM9.


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Calling this castle our home away from home was an incredible experience! The grounds and view are absolutely beautiful. We were warmly welcomed and really enjoyed our stay.
We have just completed a wonderful 15 days living at the castle. Our hosts, the very kind, generous, and caring sisters, Rita Meiners and Rosita Ricci, are an absolute delight and made our holiday very special.
Our apartment had fabulous views over the rolling Tuscan hills and valleys, the nearby flourishing vineyards and olive groves, the assorted farmhouses with their stately pencil pines and cypresses forming part of the architecture, and an ancient walled hilltop town in the distance. It was a great joy to awaken each day to this beautiful and tranquil landscape. The apartment was spacious and catered to all our needs. The local market town of Greve-in-Chianti with its charming piazza and a history dating back to the middle-ages is a half hour walk away, or a five minute drive. We visited daily for coffee and treats.
There is so much to see in the Chianti region, the heart of Tuscany. Despite plans to explore widely we enjoyed the locality so much that we rarely ventured more the 30 km from the castle. Every day in this beautiful setting was filled with the pleasure of immersing ourselves in the traditional landscape and learning from Rosita some of this area's history, traditions and legends added to our appreciation. Not to be missed is sitting in the castle's beautiful garden gazing out across the Tuscan landscape. It is peaceful and soothing environment. We regularly ate lunch in the garden and it also quickly became our favourite space to relax at the end of a day's exploring.
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Our group of 4 stayed at Castello di Cologne from 9/1 to 9/9 and we hated to leave! It was truly our home away from home. When we arrived Rosita Ricci greeted us with a warm greeting that made us feel that we had made the right decision in choosing the castle for our stay. We had chosen the Bacco apartment with two bedroom, two baths, two sitting rooms, dining room and a kitchen that opened up onto a magnificent garden. The apartment was clean and nicely appointed and had all the appliances we needed. The garden was gorgeous and overlooked the valley, the vineyards and olive groves. The other wonderful woman we met was Rosita's charming sister, Rita. Rita prepared dinner for us on our second night at the castle. What a cook! Vegetables were fresh from her garden and the wine from their vineyard. She made the best tiramisu we had ever eaten. From the castle we would go on day trips to Florence, Siena, Volterra, etc. And, we were there for the beginning of the Greve wine festival. Area restaurants were very good, especially the one in Montefiorelle. Greve is a charming town, where we have stayed two other times. However, the castle outdid all the previous places where we have stayed before. I would definitely not hesitate to recommend Castello di Cologne to a friend, relative or anyone wanting to visit Greve. Our thanks to Rosita and Rita Ricci for being magnificent hosts and for making us all feel like family.
Wow, Staying in a place origins dating act to 826 is pretty amazing The 12th century charm were enhanced by Rosita and RIta Ricci. We were a family of 6 traveling together and had three nights. Our last we had Ritta prepare our meal for 8, as I also booked a small apartment for my sister and brother in law to join us for our last night. It was simply amazing. The views, the sunsets, and Rita cooked a beautiful dinner. Rita created a risotto from castelle gardens produced a zucchinin flowers, and assorted vegetables, absoultly the best! it was a perfect night thantks to Rita and Rosita! The castello is great if you plan to stay a week or two, but the three nights we had were some of the best of the entire vacation. The castelle can accomidate family gatherings as there are mulitple apartments ! We shall return, and stay for longer next time!
My family of four enjoyed our stay at Castello Di Colognole, our teenagers were fascinated by the idea of sleeping somewhere over 1000 years old. The gardens are quiet and peaceful, the views amazing and Rosita & Rita fantastic. The location is great, and the town of Greve in Chianti is very charming.


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I built the whole thing for about $400
Great job, but a little pricey?
I've had mine since i was 14 they are amazing guns. i've put 3in magnum slugs through it no problem. even without rifle sites you can still just point, shoot, and hit central mass at where you were aiming. nice nice gun.
Green you can make it cheaper leave of the laser/light combo save yourself about $100.00
Southernshooter, How does it handle with high brass and mags with the stock? I tried mags when I first got mine. Dam'd near broke my wrist. I am not a small guy. My thumb on up swelled up. A tear?perhaps. I keep mine loaded with low brass.
Green I think of it like this "If it hurts me that bad I know it hurt the other guy " but seriously it kicks like a mule on steriods. My only complaint is when the stock is folded out it is a bit tricky using the front pistol grip but I very seldom use the stock folded out.
Well, one of these days maybe i'll pick up one of those front grips. Thanks for the info Southern.
I've owned an 88 smoothbore for about 15 years now. If memory servs I paid about a buck-sixty for it. Ugmo takes not only 500 barrels but that means accu-chokes & winchoke (thread) fits. The weaver convert-a-mount also fits.
I've put alot of miles on this gun. It ain't purty but it still works, and patiently awaits next season. Yes that's the hunting side of it, but considering the use and weather it's seen I'd say yeah - they're good.
Not a problem Green.
Do you know what parts you would need to put on the forend pistol grip on the Maverick 88?
My main gun is a Maverick 88. I also have a 870 and a 500 and a 590. And I still REALLY like the 88. Was my first pump shotgun. 5+1 can't be beat for home defense or SHTF.
If they ever come for my guns they will find the rest before my 88.
The difference bwtween the 88 and 500 is that 4 parts are made in mexico and the it's a t bolt safety. Still a great shotgun.
mav 88 aint nuttn but a mossberg 500..
I have a Maverick 88 6 round security model with the 18'' barrel and have 5000+ rounds through mine without as much as a hiccup out of it. I picked mine up for $165.00 5 years ago and I love it, I would trust my life with it. It was made by Mossberg in Eagle Pass Texas with foreign parts mostly from Mexico, most parts will interchange with the Mossberg 500 but the trigger assembly I believe.
Here is mine with the 5 round shell holder and paracord sling.