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2013-03-07 • Researching Miles & Forepaugh
Start: 12:06:05
Seventies: good afternoon alt.
alt: Howdy Seventies, no 'snow day' LOL LOL LOL Hello Daviss, how are ya today? Hey, what's happening????
Selma: Afternoon alt and seventies
alt: Hi Selma, how ya doing? Seventies cmae & went and Daviss is having login problems. came
Selma: Seventies probably went to get lunch.. Poor Daviss...she sure is having problems
alt: I reckon, yep Daviss is having her share of 'puter problems
Selma: Heard from Bennie this AM..he wanted to know if I made conference at HU this weekend.. But I didn't...a Friend called me at 7 AM that morning she was going to go..not sure if she did make it haven't heard
Seventies: Oh gosh, hey guys sorry stepped away for a moment which turned into like 10 mins.. lol Hi Selma
Selma: Figured you were getting your lunch seventies... Hi
alt: I found a greta probate record on FamilySearch... a NC land partition case for land that was willed in 1881.... this case is filed in 1912 by the descendants living on the land against cousins living in Indiana.
Selma: Nothing like folks fighting in court.. LOL
Seventies: This was in probate records for NC?? or IN??
alt: ah so, haven't tlaked with Bennie in a week or so.. how is he doing?
Selma: He didn't say alt..just wanted to know if I went
alt: okay Selma
Seventies: He's supposed to be another guest on Bernice's show.
Selma: Looking forward to Angela tonite..and Bennie
alt: right Seventies, next week I think
Selma: Do you still have snow alt? We only got rain..but alot of it, had tidal flooding, very windy
alt: do we have snow!!!!! yep, want some??? LOL LOL
Seventies: The snow here is an insult to people who want to get a day off from work... lol Its just floating around in the air... lol
Selma: Told you I only want snow for temporary decoration..then melt quickly
alt: luckily our streets are clear, just on the lawns, in the trees, roof tops, etc.
Seventies: Well at least it looks pretty outside. alt, tell me more about this record you have.
Selma: See someone posted something on the CHASTANG family thread that was started in 2003..a great grandso
alt: Selma & Seventies .. here is page 2 of the 23 pages in the land partition court case... a newspaper notice.... the folks named in the case are living in Indiana (Miles & Forepaugh) my Dad's sisters and the Cherry's are living on the land in NC http://mydatabase.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse zuserid=mydatabase&view=62&randi=470947982&albumid=3&photoindex=67&sort=0
Selma: Can't click from the room alt..will look at later Who was paying the taxes?The folks in NC?
alt: okay Selma... it is interesting how they describe the land and where it is located. Yes, the NC folks were living on and working the property. Hello vkn
Selma: Afternoon vkn
vkn: Good afternoon dear people
Seventies: Hi vkn alt, so all the people in the vs section are working the land and not the Cherry's?
vkn: alt selma seventies. so glad to see each of you
Seventies: Glad to be here.
vkn: Now ain't that da trufe
Selma: LOL
alt: no, juts the opposite Seventies ... Cherry's are living on the land in NC, the other folks are living in Indiana and have been there since 1895... this case is being filed in 1912. just
Seventies: wow...
alt: for sure vkn, Happy & Glad to be anywhere
vkn: lol
alt: What makes this record so interesting is the fact of the land being that which was Willed to the children of a slave owner and his "mistress/wife", a slave.
vkn: Hope we can all give response to Pearl Alice. Glad you shared your thoughts alt
alt: I hope so too vkn. sounds like she has a great project going on.
Seventies: that's what I thought alt. I recognize your Lucy
Selma: How did the case finally end alt?
alt: I hope the link we shared and the experience of Mt. Vernon, Ohio and their project "the community within" is helpful to her.
karoshi8: Good afternoon everyone!
Selma: Afternoon karoshi8
Seventies: hi karoshi8
alt: Selma, the 'defendants' gave up their 'rights' to the land.
Selma: The folks in NC or the folks in Indiana
vkn: I need to respond to her hog killing post. I see the same day clearly. Hello Karoshia8 Glad to see you come in and join the party.
karoshi8: Glad to be here.
Selma: She posted that last month vkn..
alt: vkn, the Mt. Vernon experience is where the family of Robert Goins, who posts on AfriGeneas, is from. the folks in Indiana gave up their property rights Selma
karoshi8: Where in NC are you guys talking about?
Selma: Ok thanks
vkn: I know selma did it is in my 'to respond' pile
Selma: LOL...gosh I got a pile of those..
alt: hello karoshi8 ... Edgecombe Co., NC ... near Tarboro & Princeville.
karoshi8: And where in Indiana?
alt: Greencastle, Putnam Co., Indiana
karoshi8: Hmm interesting story.
alt: here is the beginning of the story... starting with the 1850 Slave Schedules http://mydatabase.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=mydatabase&view=78&randi=136048737&storyid=19834
karoshi8: alt I truly aspire to be like you! I'm in awe of all the work you have done and continue to do.
Seventies: Exactly and alt's so modest..
alt: why thank you karoshi8 !!!!!!!
Selma: Karohsi..alt is "The Man".. LOL
alt: and the check is in the mail to each of you LOL
Selma: LOL
karoshi8: I really appreciate all the help I get from all of you!
vkn: I 2nd that alt emotion karoshi8 & Selma
karoshi8: It is nice to talk to people who know how much work goes into all of this.
Seventies: on a random musical history note, did anyone check out The Whispers on 'Unsung' last night?
alt: well, we learn from each other karoshi8 not me Seventies
Selma: and what time did that come on seventies..
Seventies: lol after your bed time for sure Selma! lol
Selma: LOL
alt: The Whispers... is that Scottie?
Seventies: Yes the Scotty Twins
alt: I 'loved' their stuff
Seventies: I'll send you the link on FB then alt.
vkn: karoshi8 each question raised teaches us all as we scamper to find answers, we learn
alt: okay Seventies
karoshi8: Very true Selma. I'm starting to burn out a bit. Coming here and seeing what you guys are working on helps a lot.
Seventies: I think I'm going to call the National Archives this afternoon.
Selma: Oh seventies..this new singer last name Ocean (OK stop laughing)..is he related to Billy Ocean?
Seventies: No, Both are stage names.. lol
Selma: karoshi..just know that this is a "long term" project.. Sometimes you have to put it down for awhile..
vkn: Seventies and daviss know their stuff
Seventies: long term as in FOREVER.. lol
karoshi8: I know Selma. But I always feel like the answers are just in reach! It drives me crazy!
alt: for sure , it is long term, so don't hurry and take a break every now and then...
Selma: Jeez seventies..I didn't want to tell her that.. LOL
Seventies: lol you didn't, I did.. lol
Selma: Cause the folks you are looking for aren't going anywhere
alt: some of our best finds come about when we're 'taking a break'.
Seventies: Indeed alt or deep in the midnight hours..
karoshi8: I'm basically done with my grandmother's side the Calloway's and Stevens. I know their story. But my grandfather's side is getting tougher the farther I go back.
Seventies: Wait are your Calloway's related to the Calloway's from Midnight Star?? They are originally from Cincinnati, OH
karoshi8: What is Midnight Star?
Seventies: Ok, let me ask, does anyone know who Midnight Star is?? LOL I forget who I'm talking to sometimes.. lol
karoshi8: :}
vkn: Not I nor me
alt: and Kenny Calloway was a BIG-time basketball player from Dayton, OH who went on to play at Univ. of Cincinnati.
Selma: Finally..Daviss..good to see you
Seventies: To put it in perspective, they are the guys and gal who your kids used to listen to in the 1980's lol
karoshi8: Good afternoon Daviss
Seventies: alt these Calloways went Kentucky state.. the HBCU right across the river.
karoshi8: Lol! I was born in 1983!
Selma: Nope still don't know seventies..humm a tune
Daviss: thanks Selma.. i was in earlier and got booted out
alt: Well hello & Welcome Daviss, great to see ya!!!!!!!!
vkn: Daviss, so glad to c ya. C'mon in and join da party
Seventies: Heeeyyy Daviss
Daviss: hello alt, karoshi, Selma Seventies and vkn
Seventies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9rcOKChT1k OK so this is one of their most popular songs, written by Babyface. A classic from my generation...
karoshi8: Some of my Calloway's are from Troy, Ohio
Seventies: This was the first song I ever slow danced to...
karoshi8: http://www.callawayfamily.org/cfanet/cfanet0904.htm if you scroll down a bit you will see the piece about the Troy Harmonizers.
alt: really karoshi8, I know them!!!!! I'm from Piqua, OH ... 8 miles from Troy.
Daviss: Any Calloways venture out to Ariz
karoshi8: You know Mrs. Janet then alt?
alt: sure do karoshi8, Wow!!!!
Seventies: Oh speaking of websites, have you all seen the Atlas family site? OMG I am so tech jealous right now! lol
vkn: Not to forget AYW will be on BlogTalkRadio tonight y'all
Daviss: yes seventies
karoshi8: Yes, she and my grandmother were cousins I think.
alt: NIcka's site is just too professional Seventies ... she be's BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seventies: They made some serious upgrades since I last visited.
karoshi8: They have the same great grandparents. Aaron and Arminta Calloway.
vkn: Atlas is a super great site seventies
Seventies: Nice formats, content is what I envisioned for my family.
Daviss: vkn I will have to listen later...we may not be back from Taylor's BD dinner
vkn: ohhhhhh yes daviss I forgot birthday celebration
Seventies: Oh Happy b-day Taylor...
alt: and I think she 'manages; the AAGSNC website... that still another super website and their newsletter is outta sight!!!!! Happy B'Day to Taylor!!!!
Seventies: I mean they have a team and all, something that I'd been envisioning for a good number of years...
Daviss: thanks much, I will tell her
Seventies: But its all been done now...
alt: yes Seventies, NIcka seems to have excellent organizational skills to go with her technical savy.
Seventies: No longer cutting edge.
Selma: Nice site seventies..Atlas
Seventies: She doesn't do the website mangement.. they have a cousin who does that..
Selma: Happy, Happy Birthday to Taylor
Daviss: thanks Sel Do you know that her family lives a couple blocks from my brother
Seventies: Awesome Daviss
alt: is that right Daviss
vkn: aaahhhhh sooo daviss
Daviss: we learned that in a convo concerning a talk re dna
alt: small world & there's the 6 degrees of separation thing.
Seventies: Yes indeed
vkn: small world makes us closer together
alt: speaking of a small world... I was doing a time and distance thing on Africa.... and just how large it is.... WOW!!!! the distances are amazing .. like over 5,000 miles from Cairo to Cape Town.
vkn: I see that FB is making major changes again. Hard to keep up and so many think country and not Continent
alt: and locations .. I didn't realize that Kenya is southeast of Nigeria, I thought it was just east.
Seventies: Yes, Africa is the 2nd largest continent and definitely the wealthiest.. I gotta run, deadlines to meet. Y'all have a good day!
alt: so when we talk about our ancestors from Africa they could have been as far away from each other as those in San Francisco to New York City & even further away.
karoshi8: alt I never saw where you can access the Kentucky archives online. Do you have to order them?
vkn: take all care
alt: karoshi8, try some of these links https://www.google.com/search?q=kentucky+genalogical+archives&aq=f&oq=kentucky+genalogical+archives&aqs=chrome.0.57j0.36021&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Selma: Folks..have to run Have a great day
alt: bye Selma
karoshi8: Thank you.
alt: yw karoshi8
karoshi8: I have some calls to make so I'll be going too. Thanks for your help!
alt: bye & take care


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9:30 am
Best of the Joy of Painting "Twin Falls" Enjoy a peaceful half-hour as Bob Ross paints a scene with not one, but two! happy little waterfalls. D
10:00 am
Coastal Cooking with John Shields "Coastal Crab Festival" Crabs from East to West. Tom Douglas, master chef of the Pacific Northwest, will share the secrets of Dungeness Crabs. Recipes also include Miss Shirley's Eastern Shore Crab cakes and Jo-Jo's Curried Crab Dip. D
10:30 am
P. Allen Smith's Garden to Table "Back to Basics" P. Allen Smith makes a visit to the Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire. There he tours the vegetable garden and teaches us about the art of broom making. D
11:00 am
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "La Misma Sonrisa" This episode features a look at the folk ballet of Mexico. Roberto rapidly recovers in the hospital and meets with Raquel and Arturo.G
11:30 am
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Entre La Espada Y La Pared" This episode introduces some phrases one might use as a tourist. Fernando is transferred to a hospital in Guadalajara where he will see a specialist.G
12:00 pm
Arts In Every Classroom: A Workshop for Elementary School Teachers, The "Workshop 8. Building On New Ideas" More documentary segments show further work by the team members with their students, among themselves, and with colleagues. The end-of-year discussions continue, with team members reflecting on how their new initiatives in the arts have affected them and their schools, and offering advice for other teachers who want to bring the arts into their own classrooms. D
1:00 pm
Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Gravity, Electricity, Magnetism" Shedding light on the mathematical form of the gravitational, electric, and magnetic forces. D
1:30 pm
Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Millikan Experiment" A dramatic recreation of Millikan's classic oil-drop experiment to determine the charge of a single electron. D
2:00 pm
Biography of America, A "Civil War" As the Civil War rages, all eyes turn to Vicksburg, where limited war becomes total war. Professor Miller looks at the ferocity of the fighting, at Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and at the bitter legacy of the battle -- and the war. D
2:30 pm
Biography of America, A "Reconstruction" Professor Miller begins the program by evoking in word and picture the battlefield after the battle of Gettysburg. With the assassination of President Lincoln, one sad chapter of American history comes to a close. In the fatigue and cynicism of the Civil War's aftermath, Reconstructionism becomes a promise unfulfilled. D
3:00 pm
SciGirls "Insulation Station" Cold weather, hot science! SCIGIRLS Greta and her sixth- grade pals use passive solar heat and bubble-wrap insulation to warm up an ice shanty on a frozen Minnesota lake. D
3:30 pm
Biz Kid$ "Money Moves" When money moves between individuals or groups it is called a transaction. Join the Biz Kids and you'll follow a single dollar bill as it moves from a depositor's hand across the counter, down to the vault, over to the Federal Reserve, and finally out to a project the bank is financing. Visit the branch of a real credit union inside a high school where the students are the tellers. D
4:00 pm
The Electric Company "Franscent" Francine ruins both her science project and Lisa's. The two rivals need find a way to work together on a new project or they'll both fail. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "All The Right Angles" Motherboard mistakenly sends a treasure map to Hacker. The treasure is the secret to the legendary cyber-pirate Ivanka the Invincible's invincibility. If Hacker finds it, cyberspace is doomed! To help Motherboard, the kids must find the secret treasure before Hacker does, and use their skill with angles to read the strange map that contains only riddles about twists and turns. D
5:00 pm
Quilting Arts "Experimental Quilting and Surface Design" This episode introduces some experimental concepts using both thread and paint. Ellen Anne Eddy starts out with a demonstration of free-motion bobbin work with hand-dyed and metallic threads. Then, meet Marcia Derse as she shows us resist dyeing techniques for creating unique fabric designs with infinite color combinations: first is monoprinting, and then she shows over-dyeing with thickened dyes. D
5:30 pm
Best of the Joy of Painting "Twin Falls" Enjoy a peaceful half-hour as Bob Ross paints a scene with not one, but two! happy little waterfalls. D
6:00 pm
Chef John Besh's New Orleans Stuffed Crab Shells, Breaded Red Snapper with Shrimp, Fennel and Oranges, and Hollandaise Sauce. D
6:30 pm
Martha Stewart's Cooking School "Vegetables" Blanching, steaming and roasting - these three simple methods are the best for highlighting vegetables' flavors and retaining their nutritional properties. Let Martha guide you through these techniques and show you how you can use them to prepare an endless variety of perfect vegetable dishes in your own home. D
7:00 pm
Hometime "Built-In Gas Grill" The HOMETIME crew resets an outdoor natural stone island, covering it with granite and setting a new built-in gas grill. D
7:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Heart of England and South Wales" After King Arthur country at Glastonbury, Rick goes to prehistoric Stonehenge. He meets an eccentric lord in the Cotswolds, and visits an evocative ruined abbey in South Wales.G
8:00 pm
Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions "Luzern for Fun and Profit" NULL
8:30 pm
Essential Pepin "Sweet Endings" Chocolate Mint Truffettes; Quick Almond And Plum Cake; Tuiles A L'orange; Summer Cornets Susie. D
9:00 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Chili and Stew Go Vegetarian" Host Christopher Kimball travels to Foxy Farms in the Salinas Valley to see where the nation's produce is grown. Then he heads into the test kitchen with test cook Becky Hays to learn how to make the Best Vegetarian Chili. Next, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his top pick for vegetable peelers in the Equipment Corner. D
9:30 pm
Caprial and John's Kitchen: Cooking for Family and Friends "Chocolate Alchemy" Caprial visits one of the only organic chocolate producers in the country and comes home with chocolate-infused ideas for connoisseurs. Smokey Black Bean Soup with Chocolate; Chocolate Truffle Tart with Chocolate Nib Crust. D
10:00 pm
Coastal Cooking with John Shields "Coastal Crab Festival" Crabs from East to West. Tom Douglas, master chef of the Pacific Northwest, will share the secrets of Dungeness Crabs. Recipes also include Miss Shirley's Eastern Shore Crab cakes and Jo-Jo's Curried Crab Dip. D
10:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Heart of England and South Wales" After King Arthur country at Glastonbury, Rick goes to prehistoric Stonehenge. He meets an eccentric lord in the Cotswolds, and visits an evocative ruined abbey in South Wales.G
11:00 pm
Great Conversations "Stephen Breyer and Pete Williams" Stephen Breyer (Supreme Court Justice, author of Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution) and Pete Williams (NBC News Justice Correspondent). D


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FROM THE FRONT | Kaia Gerber (Cindy Crawford's kid) starts modeling...
She looks older.
She reminds me of Brooks Shields in those Calvin Klein ads in the '80s (Google it if you're so young you think the '80s are just a fashion trend from 2009) in terms of how sophisticated her beauty is for someone who only a decade ago was in her mom's belly! Whoa...
Which leads me to sort of thinking that 10 is still very young to start modeling.
Most models you meet will reflect on their early days of modelling as a young teenager and regale with horror stories of lecherous photographers, degrading casting calls, starving, lecherous men at clubs, lecherous men, well, everywhere, etc.
But something in me thinks that Cindy surely won't just let her daughter go into it with blinders on. That would be reckless and I'd bet that Cindy's not a 'roll the dice with my daughter's sanity and well-being' kinda lady. Not even for a few bucks from Versace... you know, because she's hurting so bad for the cash, right?
Kaia is wearing flats and sensible (ish) clothing. And she is the daughter of the first real supermodel (Slurring something into a camera lens enough times doesn't make it true, Janice Dickinson)... and a smokin' hot man so she can't really help that, even at 10, she's quite beautiful.
And, let's be honest, the poor lamb's been photographed her whole life by the smarmy paparazzi.
And don't you think the above shot is better than dressing up your underage spawn as jailbait:
Noah Cyrus, younger sibbling of Miley Cyrusimage cred
Jesus... costume or not, I'd vomit a little in my mouth if I saw a grown woman wearing this out on Slutoween, let alone a child. CHILD.
There seems to be a bit of discontent on the interwebs about the Kaia thing. I don't think I see any huge problem of judgement on Cindy's behalf, considering where and who her daughter comes from (supermodel+hot dude in SoCal already in the spot light thanks to the telephoto lens) and, realistically, what trajectory her professional life was going to take.
Probably wasn't going to be a barista after a 6-year stint at ASU, was she?
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MONTREAL - Everyone goes around saying how much they looove pie. "Are you a pie person or a cake person?" was a question making the rounds on social media a while ago, and most people came up pie lovers. Be it a fancy French tarte au chocolat noir or good ol' lemon meringue, most of us have yet to meet a pie we don't want to immediately plow our face into.
Back in my pastry chef days, the first station I was plunked into during my summer stage at Patisserie de Gascogne was the "tour," the French term for dough central. The bulk of my day was spent preparing pies, tarts, and quiches big and small. Back then, Gascogne sold many gorgeous tarts that have since disappeared off its shelves. I recall a great apple and almond tart, spiralled apricot tarts, and a fantastic peach and cherry tart that took forever to make but was worth the effort. So many of their jewel-like fresh-fruit tarts are history — as well as a blueberry, cherry and raspberry clafoutis that was so good we used to "accidentally" break one daily at coffee break time to get a taste. Gone, gone and gone!
Thing is, tarts may be scrumptious, but they're trying to make. And then there's the dreaded issue of rolling dough, a task even the most skilled cooks I know tend to dread.
The key with dough is to keep it cold, give it time to rest, and to find a good recipe. If your dough is too dry, it will be a pain to roll out, but if it's too wet, the resulting crust will be tough. I have several favourite dough recipes, but for beginners I highly recommend a pâte brisée made with vodka, which apparently tenderizes the dough.
I'll have to contact Dr. Joe Schwarcz on the science of that one, but what I like about this recipe is that it's easy to roll, easy to handle, tastes great and has the perfect texture. Sold! And as for the booze, don't worry, the alcohol cooks out in the oven.
I do have one requirement, however, for you dough makers, and that is for best results, you really must use shortening. Flakiness is key for fruit pies and you just don't get that kind of lightness in standard pie dough unless you use some shortening. And for all the talk of trans fats I have two points to make: 1) you probably don't eat pie all that often and 2) my grandmother used Crisco in almost everything she baked and she lived until the age of 96. So there.
I also have a few other rules when it comes to making a delicious fruit pie: don't overdo the fruit part. I don't know who got the mile-high fruit pie trend off and running, but it's high time to ram a stick in the spokes of that one. No matter how glorious your fruit, once baked it turns to mush, and a mouthful of mush is never pleasant. I prefer instead to keep the crust to mush ratio intact, so I diminish the quantity of fruit, which also means you don't end up with that crevice between dough and fruit as the crust bakes before the fruit shrivels. I'm also not big on mixing fruit. Let your peach pie be a peach pie, your blueberry pie be a blueberry pie and so on. Purity, people. Purity.
A word about the top crust. It's a given that the bottom crust will be smooth but thanks to the Martha Stewarts of this world, that top crust has gone from a regular smooth topping into all sorts of kooky pastry leaves, basket weaves, star-shapes and polka dots. That said, the lattice topping is kind of fun, but that's my limit.
And finally, like all good baking, pie making should be precise. I have added gram measures to this recipe to assure success. Kitchen scales are everywhere these days and it's worth picking one up to be sure your amounts are perfect. With pie dough, even an extra tablespoon of flour or water can make a difference.
Here's a recipe for peach pie, made with fresh Ontario peaches, with just the right amount of juiciness, crispness and the right fruit to crust ratio. Feel free to play around with the filling, using plums or apricots instead. But creative types be warned: no loosey-goosey with the crust!
August Peach Pie
Makes one 9-inch pie
The dough recipe here is from Cook's Illustrated and the filling was adapted from a recipe from the great baker Rose Levy Beranbaum, a woman famous for her cakes who also makes a mean pie. If you really go bonkers for cooked fruit, the filling recipe here can be doubled, but you'll need about 10 minutes longer cooking time. I like this pie served with either a scoop of vanilla ice cream or some lightly whipped cream. Heaven.
Foolproof Pie Dough
Makes enough for one 9-inch double-crust pie
2 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup or 165g) cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/4-inch slices
1 stick (1/2 cup or 110g) cold vegetable shortening, cut into small bits
1/4 cup cold vodka
1/4 cup cold water
Process 1½ cups flour, salt, and sugar in food processor until combined, about two, one-second pulses. Add butter and shortening and process until homogeneous dough just starts to collect in uneven clumps, about 15 seconds (dough will resemble cottage cheese curds and there should be no uncoated flour). Scrape bowl with rubber spatula and redistribute dough evenly around processor blade.
Add remaining cup of flour and pulse until mixture is evenly distributed around bowl and mass of dough has been broken up, four to six quick pulses. Empty mixture into medium bowl.
Sprinkle vodka and water over mixture. With rubber spatula, use folding motion to mix, pressing down on dough until dough is slightly tacky and sticks together.
Divide dough into two even balls and flatten each into four-inch disk. Wrap each in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 45 minutes or up to two days.
Peach Filling
Makes enough to fill one 9-inch pie
1.5 lbs. peach slices, about 8 medium-sized peaches
1/3 cup sugar
Pinch of salt
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 vanilla bean
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
Blanch the peaches to remove the skins: Cut an X in the bottom of each peach and drop them one by one in rapidly boiling water for 20 seconds. With a slotted spoon, immediately transfer them in ice water. Slip off the peel, then slice in half and remove the pit.
Slice each peach half either into thin slices, or cubes, or simply roughly cut-up pieces (but keep them chunky). Place the peaches in a bowl and toss with the sugar and salt. Cover and set aside for at least an hour (or up to 12 hours). Refrigerate the mixture if you steep it longer than an hour.
Drain the peaches in a colander, reserving the liquid. Set 1 tablespoon of the juices aside, and place the rest in a small saucepan along with the split and scraped vanilla bean. Reduce the juices on medium-high heat until they have thickened to a syrup consistency and have darkened in colour (you should end up with about ¼ cup). Set aside to cool slightly, then remove the vanilla bean. Whisk the cornstarch together with the reserved tablespoon of juices, and then mix that into the drained peaches followed by the reserved peach/vanilla syrup and the almond extract.
Assembling the pie:
1 egg
2 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons sugar or sanding sugar
Remove one disk of dough from the fridge and roll out into about a 12-inch round (about -inch thickness) on a lightly-floured surface. Rub a tiny film of cold butter on to a 9-inch (preferably glass) pie plate (this will help the dough stick to the plate) and then transfer the dough to the plate, pressing it well into the corners but leaving the overhang.
Fill with the peach filling.
Roll the second ball of dough into a circle of the same size and then slice it into equal-sized ribbons, about one-inch wide, using either a knife, a pizza cutter, or a fluted cutting wheel.
Brush the rim of the tart lightly with water and then lay over the strips in a lattice pattern (over and under, over and under, being sure not to make it too tight or the lattice will shrink when baked). When the pattern is complete, make sure all the ribbons are stuck to the rim, and then lift up the pie in one hand to eye level and, using a knife, slice off the overhang of pie and dough ribbons. Refrigerate the pie one hour.
After 30 minutes, preheat your oven to 425 F, and place a parchment-lined baking tray in the oven.
When the pie has chilled an hour, whisk together the egg and milk and brush it evenly over the lattice crust and the rim. Sprinkle over the sugar or sanding sugar.
Bake for 45 minutes in all, placing a sheet of aluminum foil loosely over the pie after 20 minutes to make sure the crust doesn't get too dark or burn. The pie is baked when the crust is a deep golden brown and the peach juices are bubbling. Let cool completely before slicing.
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To stand out in the crowded, tradition-bound wine industry, independent wineries often invite visitors to their wineries to take a tour, get a taste, and take home a memorable experience – as well as a bottle or two (or 12).
Quirky back-stories, historical locations, and breathtaking scenery can all charm first-time buyers. And in some cases, it's a virtual visit that hooks in a winery's fans. Here's a tour of 10 unique wineries and the eccentric wines they've created. We'll leave the tasting part of the tour up to you.
By Joan Voight, Special to CNBC.com
Posted 5 Dec 2011


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Listen to Hishki hizki by Abraham Carceres, Portuguese Synagogue, Amsterdam, 18th century repertory. Ensemble Texto, album Musiques juives baroques.
Europeana Publishing Framework
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The Judaica Europeana network
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in association with
Judaica Sammlung der Universitätsbibliothek
der Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/Main
National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
and 30 other partners
Alliance Israélite Universelle, Paris
Ben Uri Gallery – The London Jewish Museum of Art
Center for Jewish History, New York
Center of Judeo-Moroccan Culture, Brussels
Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives, Budapest
Institut français des musiques juives, Paris
JDC Archives, New York
Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
Jewish Museum in Prague
Jewish Museum London
Europeana Collections
Schönberg family by Richard Gerstl, 1907, from MUMOK – the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna, is a portrait of the composer Arnold Schönberg, his wife Mathilde and their children. Public Domain.
Virtual exhibitions continued
125 Years of the Rothschild Collection in Frankfurt The Rothschild Library was opened in Frankfurt on Main 125 years ago. Founded by Hannah Louise von Rothschild (1850-1892) in memory of her father Mayer Carl von Rothschild, it was created on the English model of the free public library and offered free access to academic literature and modern fiction for all. More about the Rothschild collection and virtual exhibition.
The Star of David and the Tricolore: a crowd-sourcing initiative Stella di David e Tricolore was developed by MiBAC/ICCU by inviting users to provide archival material, publications, stories, videos and photographs relating to the history of the Jews in Italy in the 150 years since Italian unification.
Images of Greek Jews is a virtual exhibition from the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens. It is a small selection of 20th century photographs from the Museum's extensive photographic archive currently being digitized in the framework of the Judaica Europeana project. Family portraits, school children, scouts and others groups from Athens, Chania, Corfu, Ioannina, Thessaloniki and Volos before and after World War I and II, capture Greek Jews at formal occasions, school trips or simply at leisure. They convey a sense of a flourishing and well integrated community.
150 Years of Achievement in Education A virtual exhibition from a Judaica Europeana partner in Paris celebrates 150 years since the establishment of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, an educational institution which created a vast network of schools in Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Ottoman Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Syria and other countries. Hundreds of thousands of children have benefited from a broad-minded education provided in the French language and informed by the Jewish tradition. The Alliance helped enrich culturally the lives of generations of men and women while providing them with social and economic opportunities in wider society. Today, the Alliance does its work mainly in France, the United States, Morocco and Israel. It takes an active role in promoting Jewish culture across the world.
Jewish postcards: Networking in Europe. This exhibition presents a selection of the Hungarian Jewish Archive historic collection of postcards from East-Central Europe and the main destinations of Jewish migration. The postcards were the first popular media representations of Jews and Jewish life as they were seen.
From Dada to Surrealism: Jewish Avant-Garde Artists from Romania, 1910–1938 virtual exhibition hosted on Europeana unveils some of the works on show from 1 June to 2 October 2011 in the Jewish Historical Museum, a Judaica Europeana partner in Amsterdam. The exhibition confirms the importance of Bucharest in European avant-garde art and sheds light on the relationship between Jewish identity and radical modernity.
Judaica Europeana is a network of archives, libraries and museums working together to integrate access to the most important collections of European Jewish heritage and make them discoverable to more people.
Inspired by the vision of EUROPEANA―the digital platform and interface for Europe's archives, libraries and museums, we link the data in the collections of our partners to this central repository of digital heritage which currently holds 45 million records. To date, Judaica Europeana has integrated collections from 22 institutions in Europe, Israel and the US including:
- books, early prints and manuscripts
- archival documents
- newspapers and periodicals
- photographs and postcards
- music recordings
This exceptional digital resource continues to grow. Full story
The Judaica Europeana network has been involved in the Digital Manuscripts to Europe (DM2E) project and in AthenaPlus, a best practice network, which has developed tools for digital exhibitions and tourism.
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Main square, Venetian Ghetto
by Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 3.0
In this newsletter we pay a visit to the Venice Ghetto and explore its historic records. Collections from the Venice State Archives and other partners bring history to life and help us understand the hold of this unique place on artistic imaginations. Now online.
Refugees © estate of Josef Herman,
Ben Uri Collection
Priceless resources for historians¸ curators and family history researchers. Photographs of Jewish urban life in Eastern Europe from YIVO; communities' archives from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and from the Leo Baeck Institute, a collection documenting Jewish Life in Morocco, World War I era photographs and documents from the JDC Archives. We also feature tools for interactive mapping, exhibitions and a terminology platform. Now online.
Virtual exhibitions
See the page on Judaica Europeana listing virtual exhibitions about Jewish heritage in Europe and digital resources for creating virtual exhibitions.
Below are links to virtual exhibitions based on our partners' collections.
© Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Frankfurt am Main
A Virtual Tour of Jewish Frankfurt This online exhibition was produced by Frankfurt University Library in cooperation with the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, associate partner of Judaica Europeana. It will be disseminated jointly with the Tourist Office of the City of Frankfurt.
Frankfurt has been a home to an important Jewish community which contributed greatly to the city's development. The history of the community is embedded in the city's architectural heritage. This exhibition takes the visitor to many sites of Jewish life today as well as historic buildings and monuments.
© JDC, New York
Everything Possible: JDC and the Children of the DP Camps Following World War II, around 250,000 European Jews who had survived the Holocaust made their way to the displaced persons (DP) camps established by the Allied Armed Forces in Germany, Austria and Italy. Supplementing the relief supplied by the US Army and the UN relief agencies, JDC provided critical services that nourished both body and soul. JDC placed special attention on the needs of the growing population of children in the camps.
© Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens
Jewish Neighbourhoods of Greece This photographic exhibition from the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens depicts mostly pre-war Jewish life in 12 communities around Greece: Athens, Saloniki, Volos, Larissa, Ioannina, Trikala, Verola, Chalikida, Corfu, Rhodes, Xanthi and Zakynthos.
© Jewish Museum London
Jewish Britain: A History in 50 Objects showcases highlights from the collections of the Jewish Museum in London. Each object tells a story about the history of the Jewish community in Britain from medieval to modern times. The themes include: working lives and trades, family life and home, growing up, military service, religious life and politics.
© Jewish Museum London
Yiddish Theatre in London is a virtual exhibition hosted on Europeana showing a unique collection of photographs, documents and objects held at the Jewish Museum London. The exhibition explores the rich theatre form brought by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe in the late 19th century which resulted in the heyday of Yiddish theatres in London in the early 20th century.


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L+M, union reach tentative agreement
New London — Weeks of acrimony between Lawrence + Memorial Hospital and the union representing about 800 nurses and technicians came to a sudden resolution Friday, when both sides announced a tentative agreement on a new contract and a federal labor law dispute.
A ratification vote on the agreement, which would cover the AFT Connecticut bargaining units for registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and technicians, will take place from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday. The hospital and the union scheduled a joint news conference for 6:30 p.m. Monday to announce the results.
Both sides agreed not to discuss details of the contract or the steps that led to the tentative agreement with the media until the news conference.
"We'll talk then about how we got to this point," hospital spokesman Mike O'Farrell said Friday afternoon. "The agreement encompasses both the issues before the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) and the collective bargaining agreement."
Nurses and technicians reached Friday afternoon said they are eager to find out the details.
"I'm excited, but I'm anxious to find out what it actually entails," said one technician, who asked to remain anonymous. She said the union and L+M invited staff to meetings over the weekend to learn about the agreement.
The tentative deal was announced after six weeks of near-silence on the contract impasse following the end of the three-week lockout of nurses and technicians on Dec. 18. The lockout came after a four-day strike by workers.
Leading up to and during the strike and lockout, both sides engaged in charged rhetoric. Media outlets and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other state officials kept the public's attention on the dispute. It was the first strike and lockout in the history of the 101-year-old nonprofit hospital, the largest in southeastern Connecticut, and the first hospital strike in Connecticut in more than 25 years. During the lockout, L+M continued to operate with replacement nurses and technicians.
The agreement came as the third week of a hearing at the NLRB offices in Hartford ended. The central issue in both the hearing and the contract dispute was the union's contention that the hospital was violating labor law by eliminating union jobs in the process of relocating hospital-based outpatient services to affiliated nonunion physician practices in the community. The union was seeking "follow the work" protections in the new contract so that union workers could keep their jobs in any services transferred in the future.
Last week, Raymond Green, the administrative law judge in the NLRB case, urged L+M and the union to settle the case. He indicated that he would support an agreement pertaining to possible contract violations involving seven union workers who lost their jobs when the obstetrics and gynecology and outpatient mental health clinics were moved out of the hospital, but did not agree with the union that broader violations had occurred.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., preempted both the hospital and the union Friday in announcing the tentative agreement, issuing a statement about 10 minutes before the two sides released their joint statement.
"I commend the hospital and the workers' union for working together to achieve a mutually beneficial agreement — a victory for common sense and community," Blumenthal said in the statement. "I'm pleased this agreement will enable a longer-term path to fair, positive professional relationships. The ultimate beneficiaries will be the patients and people in Connecticut who will receive world-class medical care from dedicated, skilled professionals and cutting-edge facilities."
One technician, who did not support the strike and asked to remain anonymous, said she is "annoyed" that the tentative agreement was announced without providing the nurses and technicians with information about the terms. She said she was "blown away" by the suddenness of the announcement.
Since she and other nurses and technicians returned to work after the lockout, under the terms of the contract that expired Nov. 16, there has been a friendly atmosphere among workers regardless of whether they supported the union's decisions or not, she said.
"But with the management, there's definitely been a divide where there never was one before," she said.
One nurse who was strongly supportive of the union throughout the strike and lockout said she is taking a "wait and see" attitude about how she'll vote on the proposed agreement.
"I'll wait until Monday when I read what's in it," she said.
Union official: L+M administrators said physicians opposed unionized offices
L+M chief Cummings will testify Thursday in hearing on labor dispute
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Last spring, Inhabitat did a story on up-and-coming Swiss auto company GreenGT's plans for a fully-electric vehicle. The supercar was billed as the "the most powerful and cutting-edge electric race car ever built," with the vehicle designed to race in the world famous Le Mans race. Back then the Twenty-4 vehicle boasted two 100-kw electric engines that would provide 350-400 horsepower and a top speed of 171 mph, but now the company has unveiled its working prototype, and they've certainly upped the ante.
Apart from the new color scheme, the prototype is much more powerful than the model that was unveiled last year. The rear motors have been upgraded so that they can now produce a maximum of 408 horsepower (300 kW), which in turn gives the car a top speed of 180 mph (290 km/h). The Green GT prototype also offers software-controlled torque vectoring which helps the driver manage tight bends without any hassle.
The car's energy storage system has also undergone an over-haul. The battery has been redesigned to a more powerful, liquid-cooled battery that sits in a flameproof, crash-absorbing enclosure made from aerospace composites. It also can maintain 31 kilowatt-hours and boasts a fire-suppression system.
It will be interesting to see how this car contends in the Le Mans race, but for now GT Green's car could be one of the most interesting green supercars on the market.
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John Adams must be at his last wit's end. The NCAA coordinator of referees graded out all NCAA Tournament games and hand-picked what he said were the nine best referees to call the Final Four games.
And then he sat courtside Saturday night, helplessly watching his both crews in the national semifinals miss call after call -- erring in almost every block/charge situation, according to ESPN analyst Jay Bilas -- altering the way Kentucky, Louisville, Ohio State and Kansas played the game.
In the end, Adams could only say, "You saw what I saw."
It wasn't just block/charge calls that were missed. There were missed out-of-bounds calls, erroneous traveling calls, whistles on phantom fouls and then no whistles on hard contact.
Tom Eades, Jamie Luckie and Pat Adams called the Ohio State-Kansas game. Doug Shows, Les Jones and Joe Derosa were in charge of the Kentucky-Louisville game. Their work Saturday night wasn't an anomaly; it simply continued the trend of this season and this NCAA Tournament, in particular. It's an epidemic.
"There's nothing to say about it," Adams said. "What happened, happened."
The referees were most noticeable in the last 30 seconds of the Ohio State-Kansas game.
Everyone appeared to see something different, but it was the officials who were on the hook for a series of questionable calls in Kansas' 64-62 win at the Final Four. Fans sent seat cushions flying from the stands onto the floor after the game ended.
The sequence that prompted that reaction began when Kansas center Jeff Withey thought he was about to convert a three-point play to possibly put the game away with 27 seconds to go. He caught the ball in the lane, absorbed contact and flicked the ball into the hoop.
"I was getting really excited. I thought I was going to go up, hit a free throw to go up by six or seven," he said.
Instead, Luckie blew the whistle and called traveling.
"It was crazy. I don't know, I didn't think it was a walk. The ref might. He must have saw something," Withey said. "After that, it was a little frustrating."
With just under three seconds left, Ohio State guard Aaron Craft stepped to the line with his team trailing 64-61. He made the first free throw, then attempted to miss the second by firing the ball at the rim as soon as Pat Adams handed him the ball. Craft grabbed the ball and attempted a layup, but was whistled for a lane violation.
"There is no explanation. Apparently I crossed before it hit the rim. I just knew I had to miss it. I thought that would be the best way for us to get the ball back," Craft said. "They've called it all tournament with guys going in early. It's not about that one call. That's not what lost us the game."
But the Buckeyes never got a chance to foul to extend the game. Pat Adams handed the ball to Kansas, and Ohio State was caught out of position as the Jayhawks inbounded and ran out the clock.
"It was a lane violation. Ohio State, I guess was arguing about it and Kansas was ready to put the ball in play," John Adams said. "You saw what I saw."
John Adams listened to the final moments of the broadcast, then got up and headed directly to the officials' locker room, as he does after every game. He also said it was standard procedure to review every game tape and assign scores for each referee's performance.
At the 18-minute mark of the first half, a foul charged to Kansas' Travis Releford was changed to Thomas Robinson. Officials went to the monitors, but John Adams said that the call involved a "miscommunication" between the official and the scorer's table and was within the rules to be corrected.
When pressed on what his thoughts were about the officiating in closing seconds, John Adams declined to comment.
The good news is that none of the semifinal referees will be officiating for Monday night's Kentucky-Kansas championship game. Roger Ayers, Verne Harris, Mike Stuart and Mark Whitehead are all eligible to call the game, and John Adams will select three of them.


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The Krasnoyarsk Dam is a 124-metre (407 ft) high concrete gravity dam located on the Yenisey River about 30 kilometres (19 mi) upstream from Krasnoyarsk in Divnogorsk, Russia. It was constructed from 1956 to 1972 and supplies 6,000 MW of power, mostly used to supply the KrAZ (Krasnoyarsky Aluminievyy Zavod, Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant). Both power and aluminum plants are controlled by the RUSAL company.
Just in case you mistakenly heard that it was all ice and snow in Russia, take a peek at the Big Bikini Exposition. This is right on the river Moskva in Moscow!Moscow has been the capital of Russia for almost its entire history. The exception is during the period of the Russian Empire, which lasted from 1721 until the Russian Revolution 1917. For these two centuries the capital was St. Petersburg. The Russian Empire was the second largest contiguous Empire in world memory; only the Mongol Empire had been greater.Check out what's happening north of Mongolia these days, in ChitaAlthough you may not have heard of Sochi, on the Black Sea, they're building up quickly and hope to host the 2014 Olympics.Other periods of Russian history include the Tsardom of Russia, from Ivan IV to Peter the Great, and the Grand Duchy (14th-16th centuries).The earliest period of Russian history was ruled by the Novgorod Republic and Kievan Rus, which was the first Russian state dating back to 800AD in Kiev.Modern Russia remains one of the world's superpowers. They launched the earth's second satellite, called Sputnik 1, and were the first country to put a human being into orbit around earth. (The first one is called the Moon.)After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia became a federal republic of 83 states.Text by Steve Smith.


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500m 1:05.92
800m 1:52.27
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800m 1:53.15
1600m 4:21.72
2011-2012: Won the 800-meter run at the Yale Collegiate Invitational; fourth at the Giegengack Invitational…Competed in the 800-meter run at indoor Heps…Did not compete outdoors.
2010-2011: Outdoors, helped qualify 4x800m relay for IC4As … Competed in 800m at Heps … Finished sixth in 800m at Harvard-Yale … Capped off indoor season with All-East honors for distance medley relay and PR of 1:52.27 in 800m at indoor IC4As to set No. 11 all-time Yale indoor record … Helped distance medley relay finish second at indoor Heps, earning All-Ivy Honors, and setting No. 7 all-time indoor … Won 500m at Giegengack Invitational.
2009-2010: Competed in 800m at outdoor Heps … Ran season best of 1:53.46 at Harvard-Yale … Indoors, competed in 800m and helped distance medley relay end on season best at Heps, also IC4As in both events … Winner of 800m at Dartmouth-Columbia and 1000m at season opener.
High School: Won the Mt. Sac Invitational in the 800m and was a California Southern Section Masters Meet Qualifier in the 800m.
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Writing gurus tell us to read books in the genre that we want to write. Before I started my novel, I was reluctant to do that because I didn't want to copy anybody, even unintentionally. Now, I realize that not only is my story unique, but its specific genre has even changed since I started. Reading other books has not only taught me techniques, but has also helped me define what my future book is.
I thought it was going to be "historical" and I read Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower — all 480 pages of nonfiction. Hmm, maybe a little too historical. I've always aspired for my multigenerational story to be like Roots by Alex Haley. I read that and The Peaceable Kingdom by Jan de Hartog, and learned a lot from those two sagas. They seem to fall under historical fiction.
Today, as my manuscript has evolved and my reading list lengthened, I would call my work "Christian historical fiction" with elements of romance. So, the first half of this year, I've sought out a few Christian romance books to read — and been a bit disappointed. This seems to be a popular genre, but when I asked for recommendations, the bestsellers were set in modern cities. I needed historical. And the ones I picked off the shelves were...O.K.
One that I had owned for years and finally read was so disappointing I finished the first of the four stories in it and then gave it away. Yes, there was a bad guy, but most of the crises were caused by the MCs just acting stupid. Like falling in love with each other and then getting engaged to other people for no realistic reason. A more recent book that I got at the library was a little better, but terribly — or comfortably — predictable. And the denouement (the way they got out of a jam and into a happy ending) was too convenient and not very believable. However, I learned how Christian genre authors bring God into the plots and subplots, an aspect I had forgotten to include. I learned something from every book I read, even the bad ones.
I just picked up another Christian historical romance, set near the era I'm writing. I had seen the cover several times and a blurb on the author's blog (one of my Twitter and blog acquaintances — there's another lesson), but in light of the recent disappointments, I checked it out from the library instead of buying it. I didn't have time to read it right away since I'd committed to writing that afternoon, but I glanced at the beginning as I fixed lunch, to get a sense of the style.
I devoured four pages by the time the microwave rang off. The pace moves quickly but historical touches seep through. I have immediate concern for what's going to happen to that poor baby. I can identify with the frustration of people who are too proud to let you help. Yes, yes, this may be what I'm looking for! Something to learn from and enjoy! I'll let you know.
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Writers Read. Period.
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- TheNormalMiddle said...
If you've never read Naomi Ragan you really should. She writes Jewish fiction that is AMAZING.
- George Taylor said...
Hear! Hear!
I am shocked at the differences in my voice and grammar over the past five years of blogging and reading blogs. Not to disregard the fiction and nonfiction titles I have consumed over the past 35 years. All that work does pay off!
Have you read the Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell? I bet ytouy would enjoy it.
- Elizabeth said...
Thanks for the recommendations. So many books...!
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Video: Gay Man Brutally Beaten Following Hookup App Ambush
Stranger danger!
24-year-old Aaron Keahey met his alleged attacker, 18-year-old Brice Johnson, after speaking with him on the social networking mobile app, MeetMe, in Texas.
According to San Antonio's KENS5:
The Labor Day attack left Keahey with broken facial bones that required plastic surgery. He also suffered nerve damage and had some teeth knocked out.
Keahey is gay, and said he went to the teen's house in Springtown thinking he was either gay or bisexual. He said the ambush happened immediately.
"He started getting all frustrated and talking all angrily," Keahey said. "I don't remember anything after that."
Police said they received a 911 call from 18-year-old Brice Johnson, who told officers he found Keahey outside his house in the trunk of a car. Johnson said he drove Keahey to get medical help.
Police later arrested Johnson and charged him with aggravated assault, causing serious bodily injury.
"I've been up here altogether 10 years, and this is the first hate crime or possible hate crime that I've investigated," said Springtown police Lt. Curtis Stone.
The victim showed us photos of the marks left on his neck and wrists. But he and the suspect say they both remember little about the actual attack.
"Unfortunately, with him not being able to recall anything that happened, and the suspect claiming that he doesn't recall, I don't have any answers why those are there," Lt. Stone said.
Police are treating the incident as a possible hate crime. Keahey is convinced it was just that.
"Why would they have you under the belief that they're gay or bisexual or whatever they say you are, and have them show up and do what they did?" Keahey asked.
Weird that the alleged attacker (you know, the one that wasn't beaten in the face) also claims to have such a shaky recollection of what went down.
Be careful with your meet-ups, Instincters! We never know what kind of crazy is on the other end.
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There are many more of these "Looking for Mr. Goodbar"-ish instances than we are aware of. Sadly, but understandably, like cases of rape and domestic violence, whether gay, straight or bisexual, they are consistently underreported.
I believe these violent instances will continue and cases will go unreported as long as we rely on laws alone to keep us safe. Laws are important. Unfortunately, they are much less effective in changing behavior if we do not, ourselves, become part of the solution and change the hearts and minds of those living around us. Again and again we hear people state they weren't happy about the gay family moving in next door but as they got to know them they cannot imagine the neighborhood without them. We hear about people who have committed, like Mr. Johnson, horribly violent crimes despite laws against them only later to have a change of heart because of one simple experience with and exposure to a gay relative, neighbor, acquaintance, coworker, fellow Marine, couple or family that changed their mind. And that change of mind is powerful. It is the greatest influence leading to the desired changes in behavior.--Jay in Seattle
@Alex Alfaro I am just wondering, who are the "you people" you refer to that need to take a hard look at themselves? Americans? Gay men like the victim? From your comment, "take a hard look at yourselves as a society and get it together!" I am under the impression those you refer to do not include yourself. I am just interested.--Jay in Seattle
Hi Aaron my names Tyrese. I'm on Facebook and I saw this and instantly felt horrible inside. I'm a bisexual half black half Sicilian 26 year old man and I use chat sites myself and don't kno what I would have done in this situation. Not really much you can do. I am so so sorry about this attack an even more sorry we still live in a time where things like this happen. My heart goes out to you and to your family and if there is ever anything I could do, even if you just want a friendly voice to speak to, please do not hesitate to contact me via email or my cell phone (7743643304). We as a people need to be more understanding and loving and tolerant of others. Not enough people embody those traits which is extremely sad in 2013. I jus pray you make a speedy recovery and full recovery and I hope justice is sought out and achieved. God bless you and please be strong, he is there for you.
This is why I seldom do online hook-ups, and when I do, I chat with the person for awhile before we meet. I'm the type of guy that does the "back and forth" emails that some guys loathe. It's not a fail-safe plan, but it's a hell of a lot better than the quick, "Ooo, you're hot! Wanna fuck?...Good. Come over" or "Ooo, you're hot! Wanna fuck?...Good. I'm on my way." For this way I have some idea of who I'm letting into my home, or whose home I'm going to.


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