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Foss died Sunday at his home in New York, according to his wife, Cornelia Foss. No cause of death was given, but Foss was known to have had Parkinson's disease.
American composer Aaron Copland once called Foss' works "among the most original and stimulating compositions in American music."
Foss wrote more than 100 works, passing through three stylistic periods, from tonal, neoclassical writing through experimentation with 12-tone, electronic, chance and other techniques, then returning to complex but more listener-friendly works.
His output includes four symphonies, three string quartets and many choral, chamber, orchestral and stage pieces, embodying almost every style available to a classical composer.
His best-known works are "Time Cycle" (songs with orchestra after texts by W. H. Auden, A. E. Housman, Franz Kafka and Friedrich Nietzsche); "Baroque Variations" for orchestra (deconstruction of Bach, Handel and D. Scarlatti); "Echoi" (for four instruments); two operas, "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (after Mark Twain) and "Griffelkin"; Symphony No. 3 ("Symphony of Sorrows); and "Renaissance Concerto" for flute and orchestra.
"The funny thing is that after all these works, I still don't have a recipe for composing," Foss told the New York Times in 1997.
"I always wonder where the notes are going to come from, and I still beat my head against the wall, as I'm doing now with the string quartet I've just started. It's always a kind of torture at first, until suddenly the door opens, and you get ideas, and you know what you want to do and how you want to do it. Then it's a piece of cake, but until it happens it's quite difficult."
Foss and his impressive portfolio were often overshadowed by his friend and colleague Leonard Bernstein.
"People would always talk about Lukas in relationship to Lenny, and that made people overlook what he was and is, which is a much more disciplined composer," composer William Bolcom told the Detroit Free Press in 2000.
"Lukas has been almost cursed by his ability to do so many different things so well," Bolcom said.
The son of a philosophy professor and a painter, Foss was born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin in 1922. His birth date is usually given as Aug. 15, but the composer wasn't so sure.
"I have no birth certificate," he told the New York Times in 1997. "I have a passport, but the birth date on it was the result of guesswork."
Foss' family fled the Nazis when he was a teenager. He studied music at the Lycee Pasteur in Paris from 1932 to '37 and then at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia from '37 to '39, studying piano with Isabelle Vengerova, who also taught Bernstein; conducting with Fritz Reiner; and composing with Rosario Scalero and Randall Thompson.
In addition to Bernstein, Foss' classmates included composers Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti. Foss was also part of the first class of pre-professional students at what was then Berkshire Music Center.
Although he began composing at 7, Foss' first major success came at 22 with "The Prairie," a cantata based on Carl Sandburg's poem, which won the 1944 New York Music Critics' Circle Award. The piece was heavily influenced by the populist style of Copland.
"I had fallen in love with America because of people like Aaron," said Foss, who became a U.S. citizen in 1942.
Foss succeeded Schoenberg at UCLA in 1953 and taught there for 10 years. He also led the Ojai Music Festivals from 1961 to 1964, '79 to '80 and again in '81.
At Ojai, which underwent a number of financial difficulties, Foss was known as "a stylistic eclectic . . . a genial podium personality, a knowing technician, an imaginative program-builder and a facile pianist," according to former Los Angeles Times music critic Martin Bernheimer.
Foss conducted 12 marathon concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, each devoted to the works of one composer or one theme. The idea behind the six-hour concerts without intermissions was to attract younger audiences who were free to wander in and out as they liked.
"Each time, we drew a great number of young people," he told the L.A. Times in 1996. "They were actually theme concerts years before theme concerts became normal programming devices, and they were designed for the informal entrance and exit of the listeners, for an atmosphere of looseness."
He also served as music director or conductor for the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Jerusalem Symphony and the Milwaukee Symphony.
Foss was a two-time Guggenheim fellow (1945 and 1960) and won the Rome Prize in 1950 and an American Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers award for adventurous programming in 1979. He held more than 20 honorary degrees.
He was often criticized for picking up on compositional trends rather than initiating them.
"What some people don't notice when they call me trendy is that I got there after the trend, and usually out of simple curiosity," he told the L.A. Times in 1987. "Like Ives, who usually got there too early, I did nothing at the right time. I usually got there too late."
In a 2002 Boston Herald interview, Foss elaborated on his composing style:
"Twenty years ago we had this club, the avant garde, and that's no longer really very functional. Now any style is OK. Minimal, aleatoric, 12-tone, these are all just techniques. I use them all -- the more the merrier, the richer your vocabulary. It's wrong to think style is personality. If somebody says, 'I'm a 12-tone composer,' it's like Bach saying, 'I'm a fugue composer.' "
As for the future, "I hope justice will prevail and that my music will get its fair share of performances when I'm gone," Foss told the Miami Herald in 2001. "I think much of it is very good, very important."
Foss is survived by his wife, painter Cornelia Brendel Foss, whom he met in 1949 as a student at the American Academy in Rome; a son, Christopher, and a daughter, Eliza Foss, both of New York; a brother, Oliver, who lives near Paris; and three granddaughters, Olivia, Sabina and Eugenia.
Pasles is a freelance writer.


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Well, now that the new year is well and truly upon us, I think it's high time I put my family history goals "out there" on this blog - especially as I hope it will be a way for me to remind myself later in the year what I plan to achieve for 2012.
Back in 1990, when I started my family history research, I started with the goal of writing a book about my family's history. I now realise, 22 years later, that this goal was not all that achievable. Where does the family's history start? Where does it end? Which family should I include? How would I present it? What type of book? Who would want to read it? Too many unanswerable questions foiled the achievement of my original 1990 goal.
Instead, I now make slightly more achievable goals for myself. Achieving these goals is also more satisfying since it can often produce an item that I can share with others - such as a diary, a calendar, a picture book, a blog, a website or a story. The themes of my goals for 2012 are twofold:
- place-based research; and
- filling in the context gaps.
This year I am planning a few family history visits (details in later blog postings) to places in Australia and overseas, so I hope to not only do some more place-based research but I also hope that some of these visits will fill in part of the context that my collection of names, dates and placenames is currently missing. To be honest, the stories that link the names, dates and placenames together hold more thrills for me than just collecting facts and figures. It's the colour of my ancestors' lives, the dark and the light hues, that really hold fascination for me. Whether they lived on this or that side of the law, what they did at work and at play, why they did what they did ... these are the stories that I long for. I think they're also more interesting to share than just a list of names and dates.
On my recent Genies Down Under podcast episode (Episode 4: Planning stuff for genies), I made the commitment to get some answers to a few questions and to create some booklets about the KINGSBURY branch of my family.
In 2012, I want to make some headway in finding out possible answers to these questions:
- Why did part of our Kingsbury family move from Dorset in England to Holywell in Wales in the 1860s?
- What were the conditions in Holywell, Wales when the Kingsburys were working and living there in the 1860s-1890s?
- What places can I visit in Wales and England if I have the chance to visit?
As well as looking for answers to these questions, I also plan to write two 10-20 page booklets about two of my KINSBURY ancestors:
- James Walter KINGBSURY, my great-grandfather; and
- Sarah (aka Sally) KINGSBURY, James' youngest sister.
Sarah KINGBSURY (1881-1967)
James Walter KINGSBURY (1867-1945)
My idea is to write these two books and publish them on Lulu.com so that I can give them for Christmas gifts to family members in 2012. From my experience of using Lulu, they are quick, reasonable in cost and excellent in quality.
Well, there we go. These are some of my goals about one part of my family history research for 2012. Now, I'm off to start achieving them ...
What are your research goals for 2012? Do you have any tips for how to achieve them?

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No love when there's no Kate?
Prince William attended a gala at St James's Palace last night to recognise the 100 Women In Hedge Funds Philanthropic Initiatives. I totally forgot. Because when I did a morning sweep of all the outlets this morning, including The Daily Mail and the UK Sun, there was no mention of it even though, as you can see, there are new photos to be published. It used to be that any time there were any new photos of the future King of England, they'd get printed automatically.
Only now he's not single anymore. And this time, Catherine wasn't with him. They say she was never scheduled to attend. Just William is apparently not that much of a draw anymore. Just Kate however is always a draw. This bothered his father. A lot. I'd like to think that Will is much more secure.
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Busy cooks can develop Carpaccio Tunnel Syndrome, beauty-pageant participants are prone to Sparkle Motion Sickness, and science- and statistic-eschewing right-wingers often fall prey to Reality. But potential buyers of electric vehicles are most often dissuaded from pulling the purchase trigger by something called Range Anxiety, a DSM-5-approved fear of being stranded without go-juice.
This disorder isn't just common among haters and amperphobes. We're big boosters of the incipient electric-vehicle revolution, but in our recent time tooling around L.A. and Palm Springs in the Tesla Model S—a radical E.V. that can travel up to 265 miles on a charge, and garnered a spot on our year-end Top 5 list—we found ourselves constantly checking the charge-o-meter and wondering where we might find our next zap.
Of course, if we were to buy an electric car—whether it's a Tesla, a Chevy Volt, or a DMC EV-Electric DeLorean—we would have a proper charger installed in our garage. That is, if we owned a garage. When we were in the desert, we ran a standard orange extension cord to the driveway from the house we were renting and eked out a few miles of charge each hour. But with our apartment in New York City on the sixth floor and our parking spot on the street, this might prove tedious and Rapunzel-y.
Obviously, there's an app for all this. The folks at Tesla recommend Recargo and PlugShare, and their correlative dot-com-suffixed Web sites, for locating proximate, rapid, and functional charging stations. Our amateur fiddling with these—both of which could be accessed on the Model S's giant, Web-enabled center console—led us, obviously, to the Waldorf Astoria's La Quinta Resort, an elegant, 45-acre, 1920s Spanish-style compound, featuring 41 swimming pools, 23 tennis courts, and five golf courses. Here, while we toured the grounds, ate lunch, and watched our friends order multiple margaritas, our vehicle did its own heavy drinking from the spa's E.V.-dedicated 220V socket. As it was, we downed just enough energy to make it back to Palm Springs, but if we'd added on a few hours on the courts and in one of the property's 53 hot tubs, we could have chugged enough miles to get back to L.A.
Another option was the local Walgreens—and if you've ever walked or driven anywhere in America, you know that there's one local to you. The chain has contracted with "comprehensive electric vehicle ecosystem" provider eVgo (E-vee-go) to place free or pay chargers in 800 of its urban locations. Most of these chargers are like the one we found at La Quinta, providing about 25–30 miles per hour of connection. But some feature high-speed chargers that can spark to this same amount in just 10 minutes. What's in it for the drugstore? Well, eVgo spokesman Terry O'Day told us about "how dedicated E.V. drivers are to the retailers that offer fast charging stations." With a CVS and a Rite Aid selling the same sunscreen and Fiddle Faddle right across the street, this functions as a useful means of differentiation.
In addition to drugstores—and supermarkets, restaurants, and airport parking lots—eVgo is partnering with owners of single-family homes and apartment buildings to create a holistic charging infrastructure. As with cell-phone plans, eVgo gives you the hardware—installing a free charger—in exchange for your signing a three-year, fixed-price contract. In Texas, where the company is based, this means you pay $89/month to cover all your home charging, as well as unlimited access to its retail quick-charging stations. To put it in perspective, that's less than the cost of one fill-up on the Mercedes we were driving last week.
Not to be outdone, Tesla is creating its own charging infrastructure. These solar-powered "Supercharger" sites—designed and developed by company co-founder Elon Musk's SolarCity subsidiary—turn sunlight into high-output current: we're talking 150 miles of charge during your road trip's 30-minute bathroom/coffee/lunch break. And they're free to Model S drivers. We connected to the one at the company's Hawthorne design center near LAX, but there are five other Superchargers in California to "enable the Las Vegas to Los Angeles to San Francisco to Lake Tahoe corridor," Tesla spokesperson Shanna Hendriks told us.
Of course, these work only for current and future Tesla vehicles (the company's stalker-ific Roadster can't take such a big load) and only for those commuting on this lifestyle-specific route. But the plan, like everything on Musk's to-do list, is estimably grandiose. (His SpaceX private rocket recently docked at the International Space Station.) "Last week, we opened two Superchargers in the Northeast to enable the route from New York City to Washington, D.C.," Hendriks told us. "By next year, we plan to install Superchargers in high-traffic corridors across the U.S., enabling fast, purely electric travel from Vancouver to San Diego, Miami to Montreal, and Los Angeles to New York."
What, if anything, is the downside to all of this emergent infrastructure? Well, following from eVgo's cell-phone paradigm, every car company seems to be sticking with its own proprietary charger design, leaving us with ports that don't fit every electric storm. The situation is only going to worsen, says our friend John Voelcker, editor of Green Car Reports, "now that the U.S. and German car-makers have settled on a separate, incompatible standard called S.A.E. combo." And depending on where the juice in that cord comes from—filthy coal, fracked-up natural gas—your charge might be dirtier than a tankful of premium.
On the flip side, according to Voelcker, these new facilities may offer a remedy to our contemporary tendencies for distracted driving. "The superchargers all seem to be in places with 4G coverage, so you can play with your mobile device for the half-hour it takes to fast-charge. Of course," he went on, "unless you're in a Tesla, you'll be doing this every 50 to 75 miles. That's a lot of time to check your e-mail."


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This series would be an omnibus; if, I publish it separately. Technically, it is a 5 volume series to save time I'll add it as one big volume series.
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By all accounts, Lewis was a very successful man. In the 1851 census, FHL Film #174827 (shown below), taken at Plumstead, Kent, England, he lists his occupation as a Landed Proprietor, Brick maker, Auctioneer and Builder. All of his children, with the exception of his oldest, Frank Israel were living with him, as were 6 servants.
At the time of the 1861 Census, FHL film #542555(shown below), taken in Paddington, he had added Brewer and Farmer to his occupation. However only 4 children were still with him, but a cousin Rosetta Sampson had joined the household.
From the fact we find him in the 1861 census, we know that Lewis the father died after 1858, but because of the fact we don't find him in the civil registration indexes, we don't know when exactly he died. However, dying after 1858, would place any probate under the Principal Probate Registry. Searching the indexes to the Principal Probate, which can be found at Ancestry.com, we find an entry to a 14 November 1868 probate for Lewis Davis, Esq.
First, the two addresses given for him are the homes we he was residing at the time of the census records above. Second, the son listed here is indeed his oldest child, Frank Israel. Also, the fact that his is listed as dying in Paris, France, would help explain why his death is not registered in England. This record does however add a new question, who is Henry Meyers, who is listed as an executor?
Index, in hand I was able to look at the original probate, which was in on Film #1850503, in the collection of the Family History Library. That document, a 3 page will with 4 codicils, quickly answers that question. In the probate various people are mentioned. They are;
Jane Lewis, my present wife
Frank Israel, my son
Hyman, my son
Lewis, my son
Robert George, my son
Richard Abraham, my son
Julia, my daughter, the wife of Henry Meyers
Fanny, my daughter, the wife of David Joseph
Emma, my daughter, the wife of Hyman A. Abraham
Rose, my daughter, the wife of Bennett Levy
and my daughter Anne.
He further adds;
Joseph, my brother
Elizabeth, my sister
and Rose Samson, my cousin.
After the mention of family members, Lewis is very gracious and leaves remembrances to his clerk as well as the St. Alban's Synagogue. Using the names of the spouses, it is possible to also follow the daughters through the various census records. Not surprisingly many of the children and grandchildren can also be found in the records in France. Perhaps, Lewis died their while visiting family.
Perhaps, the most intriguing questions involves Lewis, the son. He was not as easy to follow through the records and I also had a hard time finding his death being registered. The answers, and more questions seem to take us to Japan.
Finally after much aggravation in trying to find him, I resorted to the most basic of genealogical searches, Google. I didn't real expect to find much, with the name Lewis Davis not exactly an uncommon name, however I was very surprised with one entry.
Located in the Jewish section of the Yokohama, Japan Foreign General Cemetery is a burial with the following inscription;
Lewis Davis
Fourth son of Lewis Davis of Plumstead, Kent, England.
Born 16 May 1843
Died 4 Jun 1895.
Aged 52As with most of the research we find, one answer leads to many questions. Why was Lewis in Japan? what was his life like? etc. Maybe the search will continue.


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Last year I reflected on the intersection of Earth Day and Sunday. I noted how fitting it was to focus on our life-giving ecosystems on the day when Christians celebrate the victory of love and life over sin and death.
But what significance is there for celebrating Earth Day on a Monday? Quite a bit.
While many Earth Day events were held this weekend and while many of us will be keeping Earth Day somewhat in mind today, it is nevertheless the reality that today is, well, Monday. And Monday's are often the day we return to work and to the busy routines of the week.
But if we are to truly make every day Earth Day—if we are, as Benedict XVI had once said, to change our "inner attitudes" to be better users and tenders of God's creation—then what we do on Mondays, Tuesdays, and so on is just as important as those moments on transcendence during Earth Day cleanups, rallies, and tree plantings.
My friend Robert Baxter wrote a great little book, "The Sunday/Monday Paradox." He has spent many years in the corporate business world. His book applies his experiences and observations about the way we work with the message of the Gospel. It turns out that those who live by the Gospel and maintain a graced, sacramental relationship with God are often better, team-oriented workers that make organizations excel. It also turns out that many of us keep the lessons and grace of our Sunday sacramental worship confined to that day.
In seeing Monday and the rest of the work week as offering their own encounters with God—and in acknowledging what that requires of us—we become disciples of Christ even when we're not in Church. And that simple rethinking of our lives can change businesses and the world.
"The deterioration of nature is in fact closely connected to the culture that shapes human coexistence," wrote Benedict XVI in Caritas in Veritate. He went on that "when 'human ecology' is respected within society, environmental ecology also benefits. Just as human virtues are interrelated, such that the weakening of one places others at risk, so the ecological system is based on respect for a plan that affects both the health of society and its good relationship with nature."
The pontiff continued with these essential thoughts (with all emphasis original):
In order to protect nature, it is not enough to intervene with economic incentives or deterrents; not even an apposite education is sufficient. These are important steps, but the decisive issue is the overall moral tenor of society. If there is a lack of respect for the right to life and to a natural death, if human conception, gestation and birth are made artificial, if human embryos are sacrificed to research, the conscience of society ends up losing the concept of human ecology and, along with it, that of environmental ecology. It is contradictory to insist that future generations respect the natural environment when our educational systems and laws do not help them to respect themselves. The book of nature is one and indivisible: it takes in not only the environment but also life, sexuality, marriage, the family, social relations: in a word, integral human development. Our duties towards the environment are linked to our duties towards the human person, considered in himself and in relation to others. It would be wrong to uphold one set of duties while trampling on the other. Herein lies a grave contradiction in our mentality and practice today: one which demeans the person, disrupts the environment and damages society.
And so the challenge before us in the matter of ecological protection is the same we hold in all matters of morality and faith: giving our entire lives to Christ and living His truths every day. This is not some simple platitude that sounds fitting for an Earth Day blog posting—it is a necessary reality if we are to slow the present and rapid global ecological decline.
The work of ecologists, then, is first the changing of hearts. Our task is the offering of Christ into the everyday. It is the reorientation of the human heart toward a culture of temperance, peace, and life rather than of consumption and conflict—which both slowly kill the world, one soul and one ecosystem at a time.
May our Earth Day Monday make us mindful of this truth: that only in rooting our everyday decisions in Christ will we see the elevation of who we are and what we do. After all, it is He who takes away the sins of the world. All we need do is keep Him close by every day and hour of the week.


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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Chicks Dig Jerks, Version 5,799
Chicks dig jerks. Sad, but true. The most beautiful women often choose the most jerky of men. Including violent, dangerous men. the Daily Mail has a story of another woman, killed by an ex-boyfriend/husband. Laura Ackerson, 27, was found dismembered in a creek, 1,200 miles from her North Carolina home. Her ex-boyfriend and his new wife have been charged with the crime.
This is nothing new. You can find an example of brutal murder of a young (or not so young) woman by a husband, boyfriend, or ex of that category any day of the week, in any major metropolitan area. The question is, why? The standard feminist answer is, that all men are scum, and evil, and murderous killers of women. The more accurate answer is that violent behavior even directed towards women is a turn on. As Theodore Dalyrmple noted, in "Life at the Bottom," but did not address fully, women prefer mostly violent men, even his educated, professional nurses. They'd stick by men who would physically abuse and humiliate them. Why? Because they craved that violent dominance.
It is the role of any society to rein in, control, and harness properly sexuality. Because un-channeled sex is destructive. We don't want 13 year olds having sex, even though biologically it is possible. We as a society understand the great harm, not just to the child involved but society as a whole, when that happens. We take great effort to shield adolescents from sexual activity, or at least society used to (that effort is under continual assault by Hollywood's leftists).
In the same manner, female preference for dark, dangerous, bad boys was usually not a problem, because older women, aunts, mothers, grandmothers, co-workers, neighbors, etc. had a hand in reining that behavior in. Don't be stupid, don't be slutty, don't make a mistake, don't ruin your life. Desire is what it is, but control over primal urges for women roughly paralleled the teachings over desire pushed by adult men for boys: be a man, straighten up, hold your horses, be stronger than your desire, avoid the bad girls, be a gentleman, etc.
One wonders who a guy like the accused, managed to have a kid with a very attractive woman, and then marry another woman, who while not looking good in her mugshot, is probably hotter than any office nerd beta male intermittent girlfriend. The answer of course is obvious. It was the danger and brutality itself that attracted the women in the first place.
That's just unsustainable in the long-run. A society cannot run on women, bad boys, and illegitimate kids. Most beta males, around 99.999999% of them won't do anything harmful. They just won't work. They won't go around shooting kids on some youth retreat. But they will do the absolute minimum at their jobs. Why should they work hard? To give over taxes to this guy's kids:
Or maybe this woman's kids:
You cannot get blood from a stone. Ultimately wealth is created, for things like health care, good roads, clean water to drink, safe food to eat, power flowing through the grid, by beta males. No they are not sexy, but they keep the lights on. All over the West, the lights are going out. Not just light-bulb bans (which is part of the delusion that you can mandate "sexiness' and not pay a concrete price) but the society that produces light bulbs. America and the West are doomed to be miserably poor, violent, and chaotic, as the White middle and working class joins what the Black and Latino classes have already embraced: single motherhood and bad-boy addiction.
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Here you go again with your emphasis of beta males as a good tax base, ignoring the fact that without transfer of wealth from betas to the welfare system, skanks would face real life consequences for being skanks. Stop the transfer of wealth. Not sure why you don't seem to get that.
- July 26, 2011 at 6:19 AM
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Anymore my attitude towards this kind of thing is: Screw 'em, they made their bed, let them bleed black and blue in them. Don't like getting beat up? Choose better men!
One partial solution is for normal men to stop caring what happens to women who crave the bad boys.
It's not just the welfare that enables this kind of pathology (though that helps) but normal men being wanting to save women from the consequences of their choices.
- July 26, 2011 at 6:23 AM
The one thing you're overlooking is he had two kids by an attractive white woman, in the South. If she was 27 at her death, with two kids, then she was 23 or 24 when he met her, if you account for 9 months of pregnancy for each kid. She was hotter when he met her.
Women care less about the racial makeup of their kids than men do. You are attached to it, if it spends 9 months inside your body. Prove me wrong (Caylee Anthony?)!
The lesson white guys can learn is direct game is the best way to go. This guy, good or bad, and I assume he is innocent until proven guilty, didn't dither around, talking about coffee shops, "a quick bite to eat", etc.
He got these two girls because he has a baseball players mindset. "I might strike out 3 times, but I'm putting the other two balls into the seats".
- July 26, 2011 at 7:08 AM
- OhioStater said...
She looks like an 8 in her LinkedIn picture.
- July 26, 2011 at 7:11 AM
- DR said...
Again, Whiskey I've got to disagree with you about female behavior. You seem to imply that attractiveness is positively correlated with attraction to criminal and thuggish behavior.
In fact attractiveness is highly correlated to socio-economic background. Women from wealthy upper class families on average are much more beautiful and attractive than women from trailer parks and the ghetto.
And socio-economic background is highly correlated with women's desire for stable, non-violent, law-abiding men. Not to say that they don't desire dominant men, but the form of dominance that they desire is something like wanting a badass alpha business executive, investment banker or cardiac surgeon, rather than a badass alpha gang leader.
This is clearly witnessed by the drastically lower rates of domestic violence and illegitimacy of women from upper class backgrounds. Not saying there isn't occasionally a hot girl from the trailer park (look at Brittney Spears or Lindsay Lohan), nor am I saying that sometimes an attractive girl from a wealthy family will fall in love with a criminal (Patty Hearst comes to mind).
But these are the rules not the exception. The reality is the gang leaders probably do have hotter girlfriends than the other residents of the ghetto (and certainly a lot more of them). But my conjecture would be that relative attractiveness of the wives of even nerdy Harvard graduates is far higher than those of urban gang leaders.
- July 26, 2011 at 7:42 AM
- OhioStater said...
"But my conjecture would be that relative attractiveness of the wives of even nerdy Harvard graduates is far higher than those of urban gang leaders."
Absolutely not.
- July 26, 2011 at 7:56 AM
(Rolls eyes and sighs hard) This dude just won't give it up. His feelings of inadequacy and inferiority with regards to Black men is just to deep.
- July 26, 2011 at 7:59 AM
Just one note on betas and work. Anywhere I have found some research on truly matrilocal and matrilinear societies (no stable role of biological fathers - women fuck whoever whenever they want) there were those symptoms:
- in all cases men barely work or do anything constructive
- in most cases they are unable to form any organized defense forces on raiders or protect in general, but sometimes they could form into gangs
- those societies are usually primitive agrarian, productive just enough to sustain such society
- July 26, 2011 at 8:06 AM
There is one point usually not discussed re the bad boy society: The alpha male,non-supportive,DGAF(Doesnt Give A F---) possibly violent guy is the black male's biological blueprint. He cant and wont be anything else.Thats the Normal.Thats his evolutionary history,200,000 years of it.(Unles you're a Creationist wacko,then its 6000 years,heh heh heh) The white guy is by nature supportive and wants to be a father.Thats HIS evolutionary history. The white child is damaged by the badboy set-up.The black child is NOT.(In fact as Oprah would agree,having a male relative around can be dangerous to your health)So if whites devolve into bad boyism,we'll be living a lifestyle that we arent cut out for. Its hard for me to believe that the white woman--brainles tho she may be--really wnats the bad boy life,the way a Mexican or Nigger does. I dont know...
- July 26, 2011 at 11:02 AM
BTW look at the Daily Mail link,the pictures are almost pornographic,theyre so ugly,of Ackerson and the other broad with their darkie babies. UGH! Sooo sickening.
- July 26, 2011 at 11:05 AM
Chicks dig jerks when jerks are dominant. They are dominant now because good men don't have any power or authority, individually or as a group. So naturally women shun them.
Life has become too safe and comfortable so masculinity has become an accessory. It isn't productively anchored. Women want the stupidest, biggest, most tattoed hulk of a man like they want the flashiest pair of shoes. Men are not needed so they've become accessories. Since there is nothing productive to do any more, men are not judged on character and productive ability but on how extreme a caricature they are of masculinity.
Women are reactive and unthinking, they won't want a safe and dependable man until fear and danger are prevalent and palpable. Which is not the case in the micro-managed white nanny culture.
White culture in the west is sanitized, safe and rigidly structured while you have a subset of minorities and losers who don't have to act like they give a fuck because they don't want to fit in anyway.
People are stupid. When they're safe they want some danger, and when they're in danger they want safety. Women are that to the nth power.
- July 26, 2011 at 12:05 PM
@ modernguy
You are partially right, but also wrong. Assholes and violent men have more appeal in dangerous times. The analogy is people carry guns in rural America, since the police aren't near, whereas relying on the police works better in a big city or suburb.
If there are budget cuts to the police force (which may happen), a woman living with dangerous man has protection from other dangerous men. You see this dynamic in inner city America.
Where you are right is white beta males do the heavy lifting to ensure America has plenty and that no one starves.
So there are alpha producers and alpha protectors. In a well ordered society this is one and the same. In our society, if production is taken for granted, then women are free to focus on other things.
- July 26, 2011 at 12:32 PM
This is clearly witnessed by the drastically lower rates of domestic violence and illegitimacy of women from upper class backgrounds.
That's rich DR. If anything the upper-middle class with it's SWPL (white liberal) elite is pretty dysfunctional due to their moral liberalism.
The lower and middle classes are dysnfunctional mostly due to racial liberalism and being flooded by minorities.
The only ones keeping society afloat in the West are European working and middle religious class conservatives. No I don't mean libertarians, capitalists and the GOP.
And in turn this same group (the European conservative middle class) is preyed by the lower classes, the minorities present in the middle class due to the artificial creation of it (of their middle class status) and the upper-class.
You're very pretentious DR. Another upper-class white liberal displaying their enlightment.
- July 26, 2011 at 12:39 PM
Modern guy has many good points. The average guy has lost so much power over the last 40 yrs and with not 1 shot being fired. The liberals have succeded where Nikita Kruschev "We will bury you." could not.
The guy from Norway is only the first...
- July 26, 2011 at 12:48 PM
This black guy is not a "thug." He appears to be well off, played acoustic guitar as a performer and probably could fit in in white society.
- July 26, 2011 at 3:16 PM
To summarise the majority of modern feminist viewpoints: let us change the world so women like me(fat, ugly, whatever) have greater access to alpha males.
To summarise the message of Whiskey's blog: let us change the world so that beta males like me have greater access to hot women.
- July 26, 2011 at 5:06 PM
"Anonymous said...
This black guy is not a "thug." He appears to be well off, played acoustic guitar as a performer and probably could fit in in white society."
I agree, in fact my first thought when I saw the mugshots was that new wife(blondie) had the psycho look about her.
Possible that ex-wife went into crazy ex-wife mode and blondie wasn't playing that shit.
Possible that blondie went all ghetto on ex-wife, beta who happens to be black helped her clean up the mess and implicated himself.
- July 26, 2011 at 5:11 PM
Wealth isn't created by "Beta Males" it's created by white people. This is racial Holocaust, not a sex problem. FUD merchant Whiskey's goal is to support the Holocaust (and all the mass-murder and rape that go with it) by sewing division among the victims with his bullshit about "It's the White Females! It's the White Females!" His secondary objective is to steer blame away from a certain group of people who claim origins in the Middle East who are at the top of this policy of genocide as its chief funders and ideologues.
- July 26, 2011 at 7:15 PM
- July 26, 2011 at 8:11 PM
White women have a lot to answer for, whatever the crimes of other groups. Most white nationalist sorts, by mindlessly heaping praise on white women, are making things worse, not better. Simple as that.
- July 26, 2011 at 11:10 PM
Myabe all the colorful US criminals need prison Norweigan Style:good looking female guards, sun tanning facilities that appear quite private,and full guest houses to spend quality time with the inmates family. LMAO!!!
- July 28, 2011 at 7:12 AM
I am a fair-skinned guy with blond hair and blue eyes, and, to put modesty aside, I'm fairly good-looking.
One amazing thing I noticed recently is that there is a discernible difference between how women react to me, especially White women, now compared to before Anders Breivik brutally and unjustifiably killed a lot of red diaper babies.
Women are much more flirty with me. It's weird. They look at me a little longer and smile. I almost get the sense that they respect me more, probably because they now view Nordic males as not being as weak, passive, and unable to dominate. They associate my features with the micro-display of violent dominance. Tangentially I think a reason why a lot of White women think Black guys are attractive is because violence and Black men has been a real reoccurring narrative.
So my question is, have any other Nordic-looking guys here noticed that women respond to them differently after Breivik received all the notoriety?
- July 28, 2011 at 12:29 PM
"This black guy is not a "thug." He appears to be well off, played acoustic guitar as a performer and probably could fit in in white society."
And yet, involved in a violent murder.....
- July 29, 2011 at 1:59 AM
Its all about the gina tingle. That black guy gave it to her, as much as a wealthy man would have---its for different reasons, but if she gets it, for whatever reason, she will mate with him and have his baby.
I take BR dance lessons and there is a male teacher there who is short and skinny white guy...probably no more than a 6 in terms of looks, who lives with his mother. But he is in a constant rotation of LTR's with female 8's and 9's. One of the 8's told me because he is such a great dancer.
Its all about the gina tingle for women these days.
- July 29, 2011 at 4:40 AM
you wrote:
"There is one point usually not discussed re the bad boy society: The alpha male,non-supportive,DGAF(Doesnt Give A F---) possibly violent guy is the black male's biological blueprint. He cant and wont be anything else.Thats the Normal.Thats his evolutionary history,200,000 years of it."
---->so that would make white "badboyz" acting black then, right?
"The white guy is by nature supportive and wants to be a father.Thats HIS evolutionary history."
---->oh nooooo! that is "beta"!!!!!!
"The white child is damaged by the badboy set-up.The black child is NOT."
---->i can just feel all the "alpha" types who allegedly "don't give a fuck bro" start to cringe at the implications of that statement. am i right baaaaadboyz?
"So if whites devolve into bad boyism,"
---->already have
"we'll be living a lifestyle that we arent cut out for"
---->already are. but if you notice it then....you are "BETAAAAAAAAA"! right baaaadboyz?
- July 29, 2011 at 2:34 PM
So my question is, have any other Nordic-looking guys here noticed that women respond to them differently after Breivik received all the notoriety?
Not me. I've always liked Nordic guys and I'm half Nordic, half-African. I want to have Nordic babies since Europe is in demographic decline and all.
- July 30, 2011 at 11:17 AM
I also want to add that my skin colour is like that of women like Tatyana Ali and Sanaa Lathan. Ever since I was a little girl I've always liked Nordic guys. I just don't care bad boys, assholes, thugs, losers and the stupid.
- July 30, 2011 at 11:19 AM
i am white but not nordic. i noticed always the nordics as being demure. they are subdued and let others speak. the are what game worshippers call beta. they support, in large measure, the society that these vermin live in who never thank them for it.
- July 30, 2011 at 1:36 PM
by the way, the vermin i was meaning specifically were the gamers.
- July 30, 2011 at 4:11 PM
White women prefer black guys. This is just another example.
- August 1, 2011 at 11:25 AM
and why does what women prefer even matter? worrying about what they prefer is pointless. small children prefer to eat sugary cereal and stay up all night.
- August 2, 2011 at 1:29 PM
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- mick said...
Life is an art. There is a very vast complex system to it but it is so large that the human brain at this time cannot comprehend it. Signs are everywhere if you look hard and feel for it. Its like a perfectly spinning ball on its axis that someone kicked and has been rolling ever since. The yen and the Yang, the black and white, the dark and light, the devil and god. Our flawed organization of society, government structure, and history is a series of cycles that seem impossible to gain insight from until we look back on the past. Societies rise and fall, there's no doubt about it and I believe we are at the beginning of a down phase. Our countryside grown too fast too quick, we've become united but still divided. I see mixed society and no understanding and no feeling of importance of the many from the ladder widening more to the bottom of the hierarchy. Evelution is real, we are physically formed for the envir we habitated from white from north hemisphere and blck from south and brown around the equator. There is global warming, we've come out of the bushes to a now industrial lazy age of soaking up the tropics, because of this there is a Browning of the U.S. that sits in the mid of the earth. We will all change according to the balance of life. Don't feel remorseful, embrace, embrace the in-controllable or nah keep trying to control it, its human nature.
- October 16, 2011 at 8:21 AM
anyone see the movie "gangs of new york"?there were a lot of Irish thugs in NYC in the mid 1900s
from Wikipedia :
The 1834–44 decade saw more than 200 major gang wars in New York City alone.
and by the way black people(freed slaves) were not welcome there and many where killed.for fear that they would take JOBS.not for fear that they would ruin the welfare system.black people and gina tingle?come on!gina tingle is gina tingle and thuggery is thuggery they have gone hand in hand all over the world as long as time..
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Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Infants are born bowlegged because of their folded position in the mother's womb. Bowed legs begin to straighten once the child starts to walk and the legs begin to bear weight (about 12 to 18 months old).
By around age 3, the child can usually stand with the ankles apart and the knees just touching. If the bowed legs are still present, the child is called bowlegged.
Bowlegs may be caused by illnesses such as:
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Rickets, which is caused by a lack of vitamin D
- Knees do not touch when standing with feet together (ankles touching)
- Bowing of legs is same on both side of the body (symmetrical)
- Bowed legs continue beyond age 3
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A doctor can often diagnose bowlegs by simply looking at the child. The distance between the knees is measured while the child is lying on the back.
Blood tests may be needed to rule out rickets.
The child is 3 years old or older
The bowing is getting worse
Bowing is not the same on both sides
Other test results suggest disease
No treatment is recommended for bowlegs unless the condition is extreme. The child should be seen by the health care provider at least every 6 months.
If the condition is severe or the child also has another disease, special shoes, braces, or casts can be tried. It is unclear how well these work.
At times, surgery is performed to correct the deformity in an adolescent with severe bowlegs.
Expectations (prognosis)
In many cases the outcome is good, and there is usually no problem walking.
Bowlegs that does not go away and is not treated may lead to arthritis in the knees or hips over time.
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if your child shows persistent or worsening bowed legs after age 3.
There is no known way to prevent bowlegs, other than to avoid rickets. Make sure your child has normal exposure to sunlight and appropriate levels of vitamin D in the diet.


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My grandparents had concord grapes growing in their backyard. One giant vine grew over the arbor where we would hang out for garden visits or family parties, and another group of vines grew along the whole distance of their side yard. The grapes they grew were called Concord Grapes and they are very special and distinctive grapes.
Concord grapes are super round like perfect marbles. The skins are a deep, dark purple and when you bite into one, the skins slip right off to expose a sweet, light green fruit inside. Also, they have big seeds that you have to spit out. The skins are tart and the insides are sweet, but together they are perfect. For as long as I can remember, I've had a special process for eating a Concord grape:
1. take a little nibble off the end to break the skin
2. hold the grape up to my mouth and pinch the squishy grape into my mouth
3. eat the insides and spit out the seeds
4. eat the skins
5. repeat as necessary
When the grapes would start to ripen in my grandparents' backyard, we would stand out there and snack and munch to our hearts' content. My aunt's dog Princess used to go along the grapevine and eat the grapes right off the grapevine (since then, I've learned that dogs aren't supposed to have grapes, but we didn't know that then, and she was fine - so all's well that ends well!). It was super cute. She also used to pick the raspberries. She was really good at it!
The year that my grandmother died, we were all busy caring for her, and then thinking of her and planning her memorial... and I recall that at some point after she had died, I was visiting my grandpa and he said that the grapes were going to go bad and that we should pick them. The grapes had been a little neglected, in favor of more important things. So, he and I went out into the garden and picked until we filled two 5-gallon buckets. It was an odd time, and we had heavy hearts, but it was also so refreshing to be out in the garden together, tending and caring for the bounty of the grapes. I took all those grapes home, and thought of these two people I loved so much, and made loads of grape juice and grape jelly.


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There's no doubt that excitement about BlackBerry 10 has been mounting. Those who already have a BlackBerry Z10 in their hands have given us hugely positive feedback. Well, our partners are hearing this loud and clear, and I'm happy to let you know that we recently received our largest ever single purchase order in BlackBerry's history.
"An order for one million devices is a tremendous vote of confidence in BlackBerry 10," said Rick Costanzo, EVP Global Sales, BlackBerry. "Consumers are ready for a new user experience, and BlackBerry 10 delivers. With strong partner support, coupled with this truly re-invented new platform, we have a powerful recipe for success."
BlackBerry unveiled the new BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 smartphones on January 30th. BlackBerry Z10 is now available for purchase in a number of markets around the world and will be available in the United States starting this month.


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Raising HIV awareness, decreasing stigma in South Sudan
Alice* was recently widowed, left on her own with four young children. She was also pregnant and had fallen ill, so she visited her local hospital. There, testing revealed she had both HIV and tuberculosis (TB). While her father took care of the children, Alice received three months of treatment at the hospital, and today is healthier, stronger and energetic.
It is estimated that more than 100,000 people are living with HIV in South Sudan, but only about 4,678 people access anti-retroviral therapy (ARTs). For people living with HIV, contracting TB adds to their challenges, as health services and treatment are limited. Moreover, with both HIV and TB heavily stigmatized, those affected are often reluctant to seek treatment, even where it is available.
Through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, a joint project targets people with HIV who are at risk of TB. The project provides information on prevention, surveillance, testing, counselling — and, most importantly, hope — to those living with HIV and TB.
As Principal Recipient of the Global Fund, UNDP has administered six rounds of funding since 2004, delivering an average of US $25 million per year.
- With the assistance of the Global Fund, 9 centres providing anti-retroviral therapies (ARTs) were established across South Sudan
- 3,757 people living with HIV are accessing treatment from these centres
- Between 2005 and 2012, the number of TB patients offered HIV diagnostic counselling and testing rose from 1 to 12,753
- Health services have been provided to more than 155 health care facilities
Alice received treatment through this collaborative programme. In 2012, almost 1,500 TB/HIV co-infected patients received ART treatment, and 4,882 people with tuberculosis received TB treatment. Of those who received the TB treatment, 94 percent have positively reacted to treatment and 76 percent were successfully treated.
Alice has also become instrumental in raising awareness in her community about available health services and the link between TB and HIV.
"I want to tell people about HIV and TB so the community is not closed to TB and HIV patients," Alice said.
As a peer educator, she speaks to her family, friends, neighbours and community members in church, the market and their homes to encourage them to get tested. She also provides resources and education on the diseases' symptoms and prevention methods, raising awareness that TB can be cured and HIV managed.
According to Alice, the outlook is positive.
"With time, there will come an understanding," she said.
The Global Fund is currently the only source of funding to address HIV, and the major source of funding for health services to fight TB and malaria in South Sudan. By collaborating with sub-recipients and implementing partners, needed health services have been provided to more than 155 health care facilities throughout the country. UNDP is also ensuring that clinics have the capacity to offer those services by providing on-the-job coaching and training to staff who provide diagnostic counselling and testing.
As a result, the number of TB patients offered HIV diagnostic counselling and testing rose from just one person in 2005 to 12,753 in 2012. At the same time, because of the training in inventory management, in 2012, no TB facilities experienced out of stock medicine and all new TB patients were registered and notified to the National Tuberculosis Programme.
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|Donald Rumsfeld papers, 1888-2008
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|(bulk 1963-2007)
|ID No.
|Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-
|345,000 items ; 947 containers plus 50 classified and 2 oversize ; 398.8 linear feet ; 35 microfilm reels
|Collection material in English
|Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
|Secretary of defense, United States representative from Illinois, White House official, ambassador, and business executive. Correspondence, memoranda, cables, reports, notes, briefing books, minutes, agenda, appointment and scheduling files, confirmation hearings, legislative files, polls, campaign files, constituent casework and issue mail, service academy appointment files, press releases, newsletters, speeches, statements, testimony, interviews, oral histories, writings, photographs, financial records, genealogies, memorabilia, news clippings, and printed matter documenting Rumsfeld's career in the public and private sectors.
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It seems almost beyond reason that a single U.S. agency could so hate America that it was prepared to ignore the Constitution, distort a Supreme Court decision, and impose its will on the nation in the name of totally discredited science.
That, however, is what the Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to do while Americans are distracted by the Christmas celebrations.
The agency's objective is to regulate so-called greenhouse gases (GHG) on January 2, 2011. More specifically, it would regulate emissions from power plants and other large emitters, but in reality it would end the role of coal as the provider of 50% of the electricity Americans require.
It is essential to understand that the primary GHG is carbon dioxide (CO2) and it was this gas, naturally produced by the Earth and vital to all vegetation and life on Earth, that was falsely identified as the "cause" of "global warming." Humans individually exhale some six pounds of CO2 every day.
First, there was no "global warming"; only the normal and natural warming that had been in effect since around 1850 when a 500-year "little ice age" ended in the northern hemisphere.
Second, the Earth is now in a normal and natural cooling cycle, though with the added concern that it is also at the end of an 11,500 year interglacial cycle between the last major ice age and the next.
Third, the data put forth by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been almost entirely discredited, based as it was on rigged research by corrupted university centers and governmental agencies. Some people need to go to jail, but it is unlikely because the fraud was so vast in its extent.
On November 22nd, The Wall Street Journal published a lengthy editorial, "The EPA Permitorium" noting that "The scale of the EPA's current assault is unprecedented, yet it has received almost no public scrutiny. Since Mr. Obama took office, the agency has proposed or finalized 29 major regulations and 172 major policy rules."
It can be said that, in terms of its original mission, cleaning the nation's air and water, that the EPA succeeded, but like any government agency, the EPA has also sought to constantly expand its powers and has, from its beginning, also seen as part of its mission the restriction of virtually all chemicals—invariably called toxic—with a particular emphasis on pesticides that protect human health and property.
Too much exposure to any chemical is inherently toxic. The proper use of any chemical is beneficial.
The reason there is a nationwide infestation of bed bugs after a half century or more in which this insect had been virtually eliminated is that the EPA has restricted the use of almost every pesticide that might exterminate bed bugs. Now multiply that against EPA restrictions on a host of chemicals vital to the manufacture of thousands of products.
The effort of the EPA to regulate CO2 and other GHG gases has no basis in science and none in law. The Clean Air Act does not authorize it.
Moreover, by its own admission, restricting GHGs would only reduce global temperatures—if that were even possible—by 15 ten-thousandths of a degree Celsius in the next century.
The EPA has also proposed new rules calling for a reduction in the national ambient air-quality standard for ground-level ozone, a precursor of smog, from 75 parts per billion to between 60 and 70 parts per billion, a cut of up to 20%.
To most people that means nothing, but the reality is that hundreds of U.S. cities and counties don't meet the current standard and compliance would destroy what is left of an ailing U.S. economy. If you think unemployment is bad now, it would increase as so-called "emitters" of GHG either undertook costly measures to reduce their emissions or just closed their doors.
Along with those who tried to impose a Cap-and-Trade Act on the nation in order to limit so-called GHGs and profit from it by creating a bogus exchange for the sale of "carbon credits", the EPA is seeking to exercise a totalitarian control over every aspect of the provision and use of energy in America and it is all based on lies.
Congress can put an end to this nightmare by overturning the EPA's "Endangerment Rule" and with it the GHG regulations. A new Congress can and should defund as much of the EPA as possible.
The use of fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas—accounts for 85% of America's energy sources. The EPA proposes to limit or end their use. As such it is an enemy of the people and Congress must act to stop this insane agency before it destroys the nation.


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A corporate stranglehold on how a local franchisee can run two popular Steak 'n Shake restaurants has pushed them to the brink of failure, mostly because it costs more to operate in Denver than elsewhere, according to court papers filed in a federal lawsuit Friday.
Franchise owners Kathryn, Larry and Christopher Baerns of Aurora also say in court papers that executives of the Indianapolis-based restaurant chain made a number of alleged misrepresentations about the potential success of the business, mostly just to get their money.
Now, less than a year after they've invested more than $350,000 into the SnS chain with an exclusivity promise to operate 13 restaurants in the Denver area, the Baernses claim they were misled and their efforts to succeed were thwarted by the chain's iron-fisted requirement of uniform pricing.
The family's allegations come in its response to a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court by SnS to stop the Baernses from operating under the chain's famous logo. The chain says it terminated its 20-year franchise agreement last month when the family refused to follow corporate policies that its 500 stores offer identical prices, no matter their location nationwide.
Claiming they were "fraudulently induced" into investing, the Baernses ask that the efforts to shut them down are stopped.
The Baernses say in a counterclaim that it became clear Denver was an anomaly, that food prices were higher than SnS franchisees paid in other parts of the country, and that SnS not only knew this but disregarded the information when projecting the potential of the Denver market.
The chain operates primarily in the Midwest and South. Neither Steak 'n Shake officials nor attorneys for the chain could be immediately reached for comment Friday. The company has typically refused to discuss lawsuits.
The Baernses say they first approached SnS about franchise opportunities in early 2011 but eventually bought out Tom and Connie Caruso of Littleton about 10 months after the Carusos opened the chain's inaugural Colorado restaurant in Centennial in November 2011, followed by one in Sheridan.
SnS's initial projections were for net profits in Denver to exceed 21 percent per location, according to the Baernses' complaint, an estimate later changed to say Denver locations should "easily achieve" more than 25 percent.
Those profits would fuel development of the additional locations required under the agreement, the Baernses say SnS told them.
But problems with the projections and corporate promises of success surfaced quickly, they said. Sales projections of more than $2 million annually were half that amount. Food costs that were "deliberately understated" were 20 percent higher, and labor costs were nearly double the projections, the Baernses say.
Christopher Baerns says he told SnS last November that the two restaurants "were not profitable and the only way to make them such was to raise prices," which SnS said was imminent.
Financial troubles peaked when SnS imposed a $4 menu nationwide, which "was a significant decrease" in prices, contrary to what the Baernses said was needed to save their shops.
Then, a mandatory computer system prevented them from offering a la carte purchases. Finally, in June, the lender for real estate earmarked in Northfield for the next restaurant backed out because of the poorly performing restaurants, the Baernses said in their complaint.
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