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In the early 1960s, shopping was such a special occasion for my family that we went on purposeful expeditions only several times a year. One time was during the inevitable "back to school" rush, and another always happened several weeks before Christmas.
My sister and I were never under the care of a babysitter, so on the chosen Friday night we waited for Dad to arrive home from work with great anticipation. We gulped a dinner of something like macaroni and cheese with canned green beans. Afterward, Mom struggled to get a coat and hat onto my fidgety little sister, and then checked for a third time that the shopping list was actually in her purse. Finally, we piled into Dad's red and white '57 Ford Ranch Wagon for a drive into town.
Becky sat sandwiched in the front seat between Dad and Mom, while I held on tight in the back seat and pressed my nose to the window, watching as headlights, taillights, and streetlights whizzed by. The color and sparkle of nighttime and festive lights, magnified through rain drops on the window glass, added to my holiday spirit.
We lived in the Richmond Annex along Carlson Boulevard, which consisted of homes built on landfill during the post World War II building boom. Woolworth's on Macdonald Avenue was the store of choice when Mom came out to Richmond from Minnesota in 1945. Department stores quickly became popular in the post war years, though Macy's was a little too expensive for Mom's taste. Once in a great while, we ventured into Oakland to visit the tall Sears Roebuck building, mostly to pick up catalog orders.
Macdonald Avenue at night, Richmond, 1959. Richmond Street Scenes
For us, Christmas gift-buying usually meant driving through the rain and the dark into downtown Richmond to shop at Montgomery Ward. After Dad found a parking spot, we climbed up the few short steps to enter the store and get out of the rain. Inside, the overheated department store immediately made us feel uncomfortable: our wool coats began to steam and smell, and our wet shoes clicked and slipped against highly polished hardwood floors. The foreign sounds of elevator bells and far-away voices on the intercom captured my attention as we wove around islands of neatly piled clothing, as well as other shoppers. At the back of the store was a special area set up for Christmas, and we made a beeline for that before my sister's attention span had a chance to wane.
Mom had been formulating what to buy for weeks, but she always took my sister and I to have a look at some of the things we'd been drooling over in the catalog, known as the"Wish Book." Though tempted by what we saw, we never begged--we were taught restraint. Even so, my active little sister found it difficult to keep from touching all of the glittery treats among the displays, because she loved everything. But, greedy or entitled? Never! We could point and sigh and smile and hope, and that was all we ever needed
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After World War II, Montgomery Ward had become the third-largest department store chain. In 1946, the Grolier Club, a society of bibliophiles in New York City, exhibited the Wards catalog alongside Webster's dictionary as one of 100 American books chosen for their influence on life and culture of the people. The brand name of the store became embedded in the popular American consciousness and was often called by the nickname "Monkey Wards," both affectionately and derisively.
In the 1950s, the company was slow to respond to general movement of the American middle class to suburbia. While its old rivals Sears, J.C. Penney, Macy's, and Dillard's established new anchor outlets in the growing number of suburban shopping malls, the top executives thought such moves as too expensive, sticking to their downtown and main street stores until the company had lost too much market share to compete with its rivals. Its catalog business had begun to slip by the 1960s...
--Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Ward
Santa was in the store, of course, but after several unsuccessful attempts to get my sister to sit on his lap, Mom gave up. Becky was terrified by certain things, and one of them just happened to be Santa. Santa Claus in storybooks was a grand idea, but the reality of Santa-in-the-flesh was just too unsettling for her. I am reminded of a time when Becky was about three years old and Mom came home with new, dark-rimmed glasses. Oh, how Becky screamed and screamed - she was inconsolable! Poor Mom had to schedule another appointment and select something a bit less scary. You would never think that my sister, as a grown woman, would be into horror movies and collectibles, now would you?
When the tour of the toy department was completed and any grumbles had been quieted, Mom took us to look at clothing--a huge, dubious wasteland that made up most of the department store. That was Dad's cue to sneak back to the toy area and buy what Mom had instructed. I always knew what was happening, but it was more fun to pretend that I didn't.
Mom struggled to keep my sister in tow while searching for the perfect flannel shirt for Grampa, the tights Becky needed to match her cute holiday dress, or linens for Aunt Mabel. After the shopping was completed--or everyone had reached their tolerance limits--we all piled back into the station wagon for the drive home, grateful to be in the cool evening air once again. The purchased gifts were secretly stowed in the back of the wagon, safe in the dark from prying eyes and distanced from curious fingers.
While Mom and Dad recovered from sticker shock and the stress of another holiday buying expedition, the family headed home to the little white stucco house with red wood shutters in the Richmond Annex. We all anticipated another happy Christmas, but, we had made Montgomery Ward even happier, I'm sure.


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The spectacular landscape of Las Médulas resulted from the Ruina Montium, a Roman mining technique described by Pliny the Elder in 77 AD consisted of undermining the mountain with large quantities of water supplied by at least seven long aqueducts tapping the rivers in the nearby mountains. The same aqueducts were used to wash the extensive gold deposits, a precursor of Californian hydraulic mining. The area Hispania Tarraconensis had been invaded in 25 BC by the emperor Augustus, so the mining was initiated some time after the region had been subdued."
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The future direction that the ABS will be taking is to move away from a reliance on a people-intensive learning environment, to one which offers a range of flexible learning options not constrained by geography. The approach will be to make statistical capability development experiences (including training programs) more accessible and relevant to everyone, no matter where they are located.
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Ryan is sick....AGAIN.
No surprise, huh? You would think that he's permanently sick. He practically is. He's had so many ear infections, his doctor wants to put tubes in his ears.
He's been on antibiotics for the last 7 days, and yesterday he shocked us by starting to run a fever...AGAIN. Come on! What kid runs a fever when he's ALREADY on antibiotics??!!
Turns out that he STILL has an ear infection...even AFTER being on antibiotics for a week. Also, it turns out that he now has a DOUBLE ear infection. Which means the antibiotics aren't working.
So they put him on a stronger antibiotic called Augmentin. Now, I'm not sure how many people are actually familiar with that, but if you've ever had a kid on it, then you know that you're going to spend at least a week removing their diapers with kitchen tongs to avoid the diarrhea covering the lower half of their body, running down their legs and puddling on the floor underneath them. Forget wipes. You might as well just hold them under a running faucet in the bathtub.
Sound gross?? Trust me, it's even worse in person!
His doctor also said that if his fever won't go down within 48 hours of the new antibiotic, that something else is probably wrong with him.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Invasion of the yuckies
Ryan is sick....AGAIN.
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Friday, March 27, 2009
An incredible struggle...
I discovered this incredible blog through Ashley's blog. As I started reading about this incredible mother and the extremely tough time her littlest one is going through, I continued to be more and more amazed at the absolutely amazing strength and faith in God that she has.
If I ever had to go through this same situation with Dalton or Ryan, I think I would fall apart! I'm sure there are moments where she is not as calm and collected as she seems, but being able to keep it together enough to be strong for her other children has given me an incredible admiration for her as well as some insight into the wonderful relationship with God she must have.
To say the least, it's been an eye opener, and I appreciate my own family so much more faced with the realism of that I may be in her shoes one day. I hope not though.
Check out her blog, and please, please pray for her little guy, Stellan.
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
B-day Party
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Oh. My. Gosh!
My BABY is FIVE years old!!
As of St. Paddy's Day.
I feel so OLD!!!!!!!!!
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
I am ALMOST...
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Saturday, March 7, 2009
Sunday at the park
These were taken last weekend. I've just been a bit too lazy to post them. lol As you can see, we had a FUN day at the park....even if it was just a bit cold and windy!
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Wee-Wee All the way home!
I was cooking dinner the other night, halfway paying attention to Dalton as he chattered away on the floor next to me.
Generally, I use that time to find out how his day was, if he was having any trouble with the bully at school, if he did anything fun that day, etc.
So, on this particular night, my child decided to shock the hell out of me. Not just once, but twice. Oh yeah. Twice.
You know how it is when you're talking to anyone and cooking at the same time. You're half hearing what they're saying, and half thinking about what you're measuring or chopping, what setting the oven needs to go to, and how long to cook it for, etc.
Well, that's what I was doing, and a little phrase wiggles it's way into my ear..."I have a wee-wee." Well, he does, so I really didn't think about what he was saying, other than the general thought, hmm...he's never called it THAT before....
So, I go on with my cooking, and then that little phrase is followed by another that grabs my brain and puts it into a chokehold.."See? Look!"
And of COURSE, being the obliging mom, I turn and look down to see my child with his pants hiked up his leg, his underwear pulled to the side, and his wee-wee hanging out!
I can't believe I managed to utter a half-way sensible response, "Put that away, baby. That's your private place."
"My private place?"
"Yes, only YOU get to see your private place, ok?"
And that was that. It was put away, and I went back to my cooking with a completely numb brain and most likely a dumb expression on my face.
A couple of minutes later, I hear, "My friend Shane's wee-wee is bigger than mine."
I dropped my spatula.
I didn't even bother responding to that other than, "Uh-huh."
So, now they're comparing wee-wee's at school. Boys. I don't get them.
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
To Hit Or Not To Hit...That is the question
The past couple of weeks, I've started to notice a difference in Dalton. His attitude, his demeanor...everything was....off. He's had more melt-downs and temper tantrums in the last couple of weeks than he's had in his entire 4, almost 5, years of life!
I would take him to daycare in the morning, and notice that all of a sudden he wants to take the baby to his room first. Then he would need to go potty. Then he would just stand there at the door to his classroom without going in. I'd practically have to push him in. When he would go in, he would pick a table or a seat that didn't have anyone at it, and sit down all by himself. He was ignoring the kids that were normally his friends.
I thought it was definitely odd, but I figured he was just going through a phase. Turns out, that a kid at school is bullying him. Which upsets me, of course. I can't overreact though. It's just time to teach him conflict resolution. Then I come to find out that this same kid is not only calling him names and pushing him, but he's also slapping, kicking, hitting, throwing toys, and ROCKS at my child!! At this point, I am absolutely furious!
It is the daycare's job to watch the children in their care. If they had been paying attention, this never would have happened, and it certainly wouldn't have happened more than a couple of times! My child has bruises all over his body from being pelted with rocks. He has a cut on his face from it as well. Now I know it is difficult for one or two people to keep an eye on 15 children on a playground. However, it is their JOB to guarantee the safety of the children in their care.
So now, it is WAY past the point of just teaching Dalton how to deal with a bully. Both his father and I are teaching him to defend himself. We are also telling him that it is ok to hit back if he is being hurt. I don't like it. I've never believed in teaching a child something like that. It is a fine line between teaching a child defense and teaching him to turn into a bully himself. How do you balance it? How do you tell him it's ok to hit back, but turn around and tell him it's not ok to hit people? It seems confusing. He's almost 5, but at that age, they don't grasp the concept of different situations.
He knows right from wrong. But when you've been teaching them their whole life that it's not ok to hit, kick, or bite people, it's confusing to turn around and tell them it's ok to hit back! I am comfortable with my decision to teach him to defend himself, but I am also nervous about the future. What if I'm creating a monster, so to speak?
I am going to have a LONG talk with the daycare director in the morning. She will absolutely need to guarantee his safety, or I will pull him out immediately and file a complaint with the state. I hate to be "that mother" who never lets the child work out situations on his own. But I draw the line at letting my child come home with numerous bruises and cuts.
Sure, I understand that in school he will have to eventually deal with bullies. However, he is FOUR years old! And in daycare...not school. This should not be happening.
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In the final fatal moments of his lethal Presidency, claiming he was acting to preserve his place in history as well as his legacy as a Compassionate Conservative, Bush-Wah pardoned a rough and ready gang of what his livid critics characterized as "some of the worst evildoers who ever existed in life as well as literature, on the planet, or on the page"– 1,549 past, present, and future villains in all, recipients of executive clemency.
Among the beneficiaries of GWB's last-minute legalistic largesse, to say nothing of his reanimating the dead and revitalizing the (sometimes) barely living, were Lizzie Borden, Adolf Hitler, Dr. No, Josef Stalin, Goldfinger, Adolf Eichmann, "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Atilla the Hun, Sherman Adams AND his Vicuna Coat, Raskolnikov, Mussolini, Shylock, the Unabomber, Iago, Lavrentiy P. Beria, Margaret Thatcher, Leopold and Loeb, Falstaff, Cruella De Ville, the Iceman, Carlos the Jackal, Tony Blair, Al Capone, Lyndon Johnson, Jack the Ripper, Norman Bates, and yes, even Saddam Hussein and The Joker. But never Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, or anyone else who really deserves to be pardoned like most of those currently imprisoned for crimes they did not commit, you can bank on that.
And yet, revealing a surprising depth and breadth of insight long obscured by his image as a generic booze-coke-and-pretzel-loving-upside-down-children's-book-reading-911 plot-machinations-country-hijacking-good-ole-boy, GWB's solid, sophisticated deconstructive Shakespearean analysis of heroes and villains is worthy of a Lifetime Chair in Criminal Psychology at Harvard, let alone the last gasps of the Ultimate Lamer, er, Lame Duck:
"While a Hero represents 'the perfect man,' I don't know any, except maybe my brothers and my father. Sure, Shylock's an outsider not only because he's actually Jewish and the rest of the town's Christian, but also because he has a different value system. Like me, in Washington, only in reverse. Shylock makes it clear he enjoys his role as an outsider when he tells Bassanio. 'I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you' (I.3.33-35). In Shakespeare's play, Shylock's both victim and villain. Like, he's a decider and a people person, like me. See, he gets betrayed by his only daughter when she elopes with a Christian and loots his house of all the gold and jewels. Although he's angry about the loss of his prize material possessions, he's devastated when he learns his daughter also sold a memento which was very important to him, you know, a sentimental thing. This shows Shylock's definitely not just motivated merely by financial gain. Let's face it, he could have been an ordinary Texas oilman, who ran a baseball team, and somehow, through an accident of fate, or family connections, or the right folks pulling the strings of the election machines, became President instead."
However, Bush 43's misplaced generosity with this deluded avalanche of pardons, exceeding even Bill Clinton's megalomaniacal excesses, seems to have spurred a seriously contentious fissure in his own family, with his wife Laura tearfully calling a global press-conference at 3 AM on the eve of the Inauguration. "My fellow Americans, and our overseas friends, I'm here to tell you I'm creeped out," she admits. "I know my George has a big heart. I know he secretly roots for the bad guys, I mean, underdogs. But the notion of all those freed miscreants roaming the defenseless streets of our afflicted nation, well, I swear I'll never sleep again, so help me, Lord. And I don't know how my dear sweet husband, who had his own two darling daughters to protect until they managed a flimsy pretext to escape his clutches, I mean, leave home, could ever do that to Obama's little girls, exposing those adorable darlings to all that potential danger of a pent-up Norman Bates suddenly let loose. As for me, I'm afraid to take a shower ever again. Oh, George!"
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The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today that it has signed forwards Cody McCormick and Brian Willsie each to a one-year contract.
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The re-signing of McCormick is just another by a team that will be very tough to play against next year. With McLeod, McCormick, Parker, Ledin, Laperriere, and Tucker, there should be no easy win for opponents against the Avalanche.
The Willsie signing, however, is just a bit puzzling. With Joe Sakic, Marek Svatos, and possibily Peter Forsberg still to sign, I would think that Francois Giguere would try to conserve as much cap space as possible.
I mean, wasn't it Giguere himself who said
"I'm operating under a budget that allows for a competitive team," Giguere said. "If you look at last year, we were probably $3 million below the (salary) cap up until the trade deadline, and on trade deadline, we spent almost $2 million. I'm a big believer that you leave some flexibility in your budget to be able to do things if things happen during the year.
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If that's the case, why is he giving money to a guy whose breakout season was a 41 point, -19 stint with Washington in 2006? Even after that season, his point totals dropped to 21 and then to 12 in just 53 games last season.
And if that's not enough, consider the amount of money the Avs have potentially wasted. Assuming Willsie makes about 550,000, he and Scott Parker will account for 1.5 million worth of cap space.
Gee, maybe that money could have been used to lure Andrew Brunette back to Colorado?
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We just added two shows to the calendar for Thursday and Saturday. The last nights of a run of shows called A Series of Dangerous Fools features improv from Thomas Fowler & Mary Carpenter, with special guests. Produced by Figment Theater and running at the Vox Populi gallery on 11th Street between Vine and Callowhill, Fools is $5 bucks at the door and has different featured improvisers each night.
On Thursday night, check out The Chain w/ Erin Pitts (Pitts invites a fellow improviser to play, who in turn invites another, initiating a chain of invites creating a one-night-only ensemble) and Slasher Sorority (sorority sisters Cait O'Driscoll, Corin Wells, Kate Banford, Kristen Schier & Kristin Finger are stalked by mysterious killers Joel Sumner & Thomas Fowler).
On Saturday, it's John Hughes High Minisode 1 (the fictional world of John Hughes High is explored when Lucy [Kristin Finger] and Principal Hines [Kevin Regan] meet with an admissions recruiter from OSU [Thomas Fowler]), John Hughes High Minisode 2 – (Ox [Frank Farrell] and his father [Thomas Fowler] sit down for a meeting with Coach [Eoin O'Shea] to discuss some worrisome poetry that's been uncovered), Fowler-Roney-O'Shea – (Thomas Fowler, Steve Roney & Eoin O'Shea unite for a special one-night-only set), and Origin Story – (Alli Soowal, Brian Ratcliffe, Eoin O'Shea, Joe Sabatino, Kelly Jennings, Kristin Finger, Mary Carpenter and Steve Roney and Thomas Fowler trace the origin of how a superhero is born).


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Energy Future Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in a Delaware court on Tuesday after agreeing with key financial stakeholders to keep its power-producing businesses operating in Texas while it reduces roughly $40 billion in debt.
The company owns TXU Energy, a retail electricity provider, and Luminant, the state's largest power generator, but the bankruptcy is not likely to have a short-term impact on consumers because the distribution and production will continue normally. In the long term, however, analysts and experts have suggested the company's reliance on coal could diminish as it becomes more costly to meet federal clean air regulations, which could lead to the shutdown of old facilities.
Future Holdings has been struggling to pay the interest and loans taken to acquire TXU Energy in 2007 and the company's bankruptcy has been expected for months. It had bet on a rise in natural gas prices, helping to repay the debt, but a glut of U.S. shale production has led prices to plummet, hurting Future Holding's bottomline and its ability to fulfill its debt obligation. Recently, the company skipped a deadline to pay $109 million in interest.
The latest news from around North Texas.
State agencies, including the manager of Texas' power grid and the Railroad Commission, the agency that awards mining permits, have been closely monitoring the company in recent months as the bankruptcy filing loomed.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, which manages the state's grid and the flow of power to 23 million customers in Texas, said in a statement Tuesday it is focused on maintaining system reliability and market efficiency as the restructuring moves forward. It said it understands operations will continue as normal and it does not have "immediate concerns."
"It is our understanding that EFH and its affected subsidiaries expect to continue operating generation assets and serving retail customers in Texas," ERCOT said in its statement, noting that the company's transmission business, Oncor, is not included in the bankruptcy filing. "Therefore, ERCOT sees no immediate concerns related to system reliability or market efficiency associated with this filing."
A Texas' Public Utility Commission statement said it did not foresee any power generation and distribution issues resulting from the bankruptcy.
The Railroad Commission, meanwhile, announced that once the filing occurred, Luminant Mining Co., the arm that scours the earth to remove the soft, lignite coal used for power generation in several Texas plants, would no longer be allowed to participate in a self-bonding reclamation program. This program allows companies that have $10 million and other assets not to put up cash in advance for required restoration of mined land.
Now, though, Luminant will have to set aside nearly $1 billion to restore land to its original condition.
"The era of self-bonding by Luminant Mining appears to be over and rather than the taxpayers of Texas having to rely on a promise and a wink and a nod, there will actually be over $1 billion set aside in the Railroad Commission for restoration, so it's a good first step," said Al Armendariz, Sierra Club's Beyond Coal senior campaign representative. "You're already seeing some environmental benefits from the restructuring."
The Railroad Commission did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment. It remains unclear whether the company has already set aside the reclamation funds.
As part of the restructuring, Dallas-based Energy Future Holding said it will separate its Texas Competitive Electric Holdings Co. subsidiary, which includes TXU Energy, and give preferred lenders complete ownership in that reorganized business. It also will give lenders cash proceeds from new debt in exchange for eliminating about $23 billion of Texas Competitive Holdings' funded debt.
Energy Future will still own Energy Future Intermediate Holding Co. and keep its interest in Oncor Electric Delivery Co., a power transmission business, which is not part of the reorganization.
It said it expects day-to-day operations to continue during the reorganization. That includes provision of power to customers, the payment of wages and benefits, and payments to vendors. Energy Future expects to leave its restructuring in about 11 months.
The holding company was acquired in 2007 by private-equity firms KKR & Co., TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners.


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Sunday, October 05, 2008
Grampa was a Bootlegger?
Duane is a generation older, and so, of course, we had been prodding him with many questions about our family history. As Duane pulled the car out of the driveway and proceeded down the road toward Grampa's farm, the place where our mothers were born, he mentioned that our grandfather used to keep a still out in the woods for a short time.
A still? Cousins Cheryl and Craig and I quickly looked back and forth at each other.
"Did Grampa ever tell you about that?" I directed my question at Craig, knowing that Grampa shared far more stories with his grandsons than his granddaughters (it had to do with the male bonding thing).
"Not about that," Craig said, with subdued amazement. A history teacher turned counselor, he was always ready for a good yarn.
During the Prohibition years of the 1920s, it was difficult for new, solitary farmers to make any profit. Clearwater County was not the only area in Minnesota affected, let alone the nation. It was actually a Minnesota congressman, Andrew Volstead from Granite Falls, who came up with the idea of making alcohol sales illegal, and thus promoted the start of Prohibition with a bill he sponsored. Ironically, Granite Falls, Minnesota was also the birthplace of my grandfather.
Grampa became a young widower in 1921. His two little girls (my mother and aunt), were sent to live with their paternal grandparents, Ole and Malla Johnson, so that Grampa could give all of his attention to farming and make a go of it. Proud and stubborn, Grampa would never have given in and sold his farm only to work on someone else's--it would have negated the reason his grandparents emigrated from Norway to America in the first place. But flax, alfalfa, potatoes, and corn yielded little cash then, and many farms continued to struggle for years to come. Some locals saw an opportunity with the arrival of Prohibition and tried their turn at making illicit liquor, whether they drank it themselves, or not.
Grampa kept his still well hidden in the woods behind his farm. Duane said that a bear damaged it once. Grampa fixed the damage, but he gave up on the idea of making liquor altogether after one of his brothers blew up the still.
"Blew it up?" we all chimed in unison.
It was not meant as an act of kindness to keep Grampa on the straight and narrow. As it turned out, Grampa had refused a brother's request to take part in the bootlegging. Feeling vengeful or playfully mean, or both, the brother sneaked back to the still when Grampa was away, along with a cousin or friend, and some dynamite: WHAM! No more still.
"What happened after that?" we asked Duane, our ears straining like tots listening to a ghost story around a campfire.
As kids, my cousins and I never had an inkling of such an event, in spite of all the hours spent with Grampa and our great uncles and aunts. Evidently, some family lore was quickly squelched, especially when repeating it meant a revival of some festering old wound. Cousin Craig said he could always tell there was a certain tension between Grampa and one of his brothers, in particular, but he was never sure what it was all about.
It was a good thing the still was done in, however suddenly, because Duane mentioned that the authorities had already taken steps to control the widespread bootlegging problem within the district. A few bachelor farmers had been arrested and sent to jail for breaking federal law. The U. S. Marshal had not planned to come after Grampa or certain others right away because they had families to feed, so they chose instead to make an example of a few select others. So, Grampa's hidden still was not such a secret, after all, especially to those who mattered.
I will never hear Grampa's side of the story, or his brother's, if either of them ever would have talked about it. My guess is that they would have avoided it, scoffing and laughing off any inquiry, like soldiers coming home from the war who wanted nothing more than to forget certain parts of the past. But, anyone can understand the frustrations of a farmer living in fear of his property being repossessed, or worrying about being deemed a failure in the eyes of his family and neighbors. Grampa never failed to help neighbors in need, and frequently let neighbor kids ride to town with him on the back of his dray whenever he headed to the bank or to get supplies. He also proved tolerant whenever young nephews successfully raided his cookie jar down to the last crumb, or showed up on an almost daily basis to hang out at Uncle Ernest Johnson's because they could ride horses bareback without the disapproving clucks of female relatives.
It is clear that bootlegging of illegal liquor during the 1920s was carried out not just by gangsters sporting machine guns. There were many everyday folks, including normally law abiding Norwegian-American farmers like my grandfather, who out of necessity and a unique brand of assertiveness (pioneering spirit, if you will), took part in creating illegal supplies for an ever-thirsty demand.
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- Terry Thornton said...
What an interesting family history --- and a story that has far reaching implications. The South, too, is full of tales from this time frame where struggling farmers found it more profitable to covert their corn into liquid --- and an entire sub-culture evolved. Most of the information from that period is still hush-hush in these parts --- and some get miffed at just the mere questioning about the possibility of bootlegging in the family. History, is, however, history and the "tell but don't dwell rule" seems to cover most folks! Thanks for telling this wonderful family story. Bootlegging and other issues are often greeted with "Shhhhhhhhhhh. Let's not talk about this" here in the Hill Country.
- October 06, 2008
- Chery Kinnick said...
Hi Terry,
Although my grandfather dabbled briefly, it was quite funny finding out about the still. I'm sure that isn't the only thing those boys got up to!
- October 07, 2008


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To find free stock photography, the first address you might want to visit is flickr, at flickr what you want to do is make an advanced search with creative commons - some rights reserved license, remember to mark commercial usage. Most of the images require a credit to the author, so the image above is by flickr member jerine.To be able to make a comparison between sites that offer free stock images and photographs, I searched for the term colors. Definitely, flickr has the most number of choices, however due to the number of choices available and due to fact that the contributions are made often by non-professionals, you will see that images are pixellated, blurred or in low resolution. 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The lawsuit, announced last Friday, "seeks to halt a brazen, and unconstitutional, power grab by the Queens Borough President, with the aid of the State Legislature, to transform the Queens Borough Public Library from an independent, private, nonprofit corporation into an organ of City Government controlled by the Queens Borough President and Mayor," the complaint submitted by the plaintiffs states.
Katz removed the six board members after they voted not to remove QPL President and CEO Thomas Galante after accusations surfaced of his misuse of library funding and job negligence, as well as their refusal to provide necessary financial documents to Comptroller Scott Stringer for the audit.
According to the plaintiffs, however, Katz does not have the right to remove board members. Library by-laws state that a trustee can only be removed by a two-thirds vote of the board.
Recent legislation, developed in part by Katz herself, changed that rule. The new law states that the BP and the mayor may remove board members that have been appointed by their respective positions.
Board members then have seven days to appeal the decision, which is what the set of six BP-appointed members have chosen to do. The two mayoral appointees that were removed are not plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
The plaintiff's complaint also stated that City Comptroller Scott Stringer has "no even arguable jurisdiction" over the financial records that he requested from the board for the audit.
While the board members do not address any of Katz's stated concerns over their support of a potentially corrupt CEO, they do accuse the BP of trying to sway their votes on various issues.
"She began dictating to the independent Trustees how she 'expected' them to vote on matter of management and administration, and when they deviated from her agenda accused them — in a highly public smear campaign — of violating their duties and misusing taxpayer funds," the complaint reads.
Before the charges had been announced, a spokesperson from the BP's office said that they were certain of the legality of Katz's actions.
"We're very confident that the way we went about making these removals is in full compliance with the law," the representative said.
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Thick smoke traps residents inside Uniontown senior high-rise
Firefighter, 3 residents treated for smoke inhalation after fire at Marshall Manor
All residents were accounted for at a Uniontown senior high-rise after several people reported being trapped by smoke when a fire ignited Thursday evening.
"I started screaming (and) had to get outside," a resident said. "I lost everything I own, and I don't know where I'm going to sleep."
The resident, a woman, said she's lucky to be alive after the fire. She said she awoke to smoke in her bathroom and became frantic.
"I woke up, and my bathroom is on fire," the resident said. "I have nothing plugged in except for a night-light."
Uniontown Fire Chief Charles Coldren said the fire started in the bedroom of a seventh-story apartment at Marshall Manor in the 100 block of East Main Street and appeared to be accidental in nature, but the cause remains under investigation.
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"These high-rises are a real problem, because they're mostly elderly, and they get excited (and) worried about their dogs and their cats," said Coldren.
Smoke was reported on the seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th floors of the 10-story high-rise where about 90 residents live.
Eighth-floor resident Ibeda Jones, who had her leg amputated six weeks ago, said the residents saw smoke billowing down the hallway and tried putting a blanket along the bottom of the door, but the smoke still managed to get inside.
"We started choking, and his windows wouldn't open, and he finally got a tool kit and forced them open," said Jones. "We wore masks, and I was really starting to burn bad. My throat and eyes hurt."
Coldren said one resident inadvertently allowed smoke to spread throughout one of the floors by leaving an apartment door open.
"If she would have closed the door, it would have been contained to that one apartment," said Coldren. "You go in, you knock the fire down, and we all come home, where this time it just compounded."
A firefighter and three residents were taken to an area hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation, but they were expected to be OK, Coldren said.
The Fayette County Housing Authority is assessing the property, which includes checking for water damage on the fourth, fifth and sixth floors.
As soon as the floors are cleared, residents -- except for those on the seventh floor -- will be allowed back inside. Those who live on the seventh floor are being assisted by the Salvation Army to find housing.
"There's a good possibility it could be a few months before they can get back in," Salvation Army representative Chris Williams said.
"I didn't get my medication. I didn't even get time to grab a winter coat or anything," said Jones. "I'm alive. I'm OK, but I'm in a lot of pain. I want to go home."


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With the release of "Get Him to the Greek" just a day away, the first five minutes of the film have been made available for your viewing pleasure.
"Greek" stars Russell Brand reprising his role of rocker Aldous Snow from "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," and Jonah Hill as a record company lackey who has 72 hours to get Snow from London to the Greek theater in LA for a concert.
The clip, which comes equipped with an age verification thingymabob to protect the kids from dirty words, comes from the guys at Funny or Die, and features Snow and his wife, Jackie Q (a piping hot Rose Byrne), promoting their laughably offensive single, "African Child."
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It's definitely worth checking out. We saw the film on Monday (the review is almost ready) and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a rollicking good road film that, despite going off the rails a bit towards the end, had the audience laughing its collective ass off. And lest you think we're shilling for our corporate partners at Universal, trust us, we're not, we don't do that.


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State of the RSBS Union, Take 2
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. There is nothing there. That whole thing about the White Sox winning the AL Central and the Tigers nose-diving at the unlucky hands of my delirious and oft thwarted colleague, Mr. Krause? I know not that of which you speak.
Also, please don't hate me 'cuz I was wrong.
And don't get used to it… me, being wrong that is. It doesn't happen often. Of course, you already know this.
It's just that this baseballing… it's a fickle pastime. One day you're up, the next day you're the White Sox.
(Seriously though, the White Sox tanking like this? WTF? How can one team be so bad at fundamental baseball so quickly? I don't get it.)
Naturally, by falling back into the trend, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Tigers lose three in a row as the Sox win three in a row. If that happens, just shoot me — but wait until AFTER the one-game playoff.
Meanwhile, bring on the Bravos…
And don't hate me 'cuz I'm (usually) right.


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Long Island Lutheran girls' Federation Class A championship is quite a feat
Boy, did the Long Island Lutheran girls basketball team look out of sorts.
There were players misinterpreting the rules and not following directions; the trash talk was persistent, and others griped about the officiating. In fact, a few of them looked as if they hadn't even played the game before.
"There were some exceptions -- Nani [Redford] did well, but some of them disappointed me," coach Rich Slater said. "It was a hot mess."
That, of course, was the kickball game the girls played a day before heading north for the state Federation championships.
As for the basketball stuff? The Crusaders dominated in Albany, capturing their second state title in three years, this time in the Class A bracket.
"We had a blast," star point guard Lauren "Boogie" Brozoski said. "It wasn't always pretty, but we came through in the end and won. I was pretty clutch, if I do say so myself."
She was talking about the kickball game.
After LuHi's last shootaround, Slater said that in lieu of running, he had the players split into teams for a "friendly" kickball game in the school gym.
"It really lightened the mood and brought us even closer," said Taylor Byrne, who eventually scored the winning run. "Even though it was all in fun, we're super-competitive people. So regardless of anything else, my team won."
Her actual team has done a lot of that in recent years. Lutheran finished this season ranked 25th in the country. The Crusaders (20-4) ran the gantlet with a grueling schedule and earned their coronation with a 62-45 win over Troy in the Federation Class A final.
"It's the same feeling for us, but I think people on the outside will respect an 'A' championship more," said Brozoski, who scored 14 points in the championship game a year after Lutheran lost in the "B" final. "We stepped up a level and won, so this meant a lot to us."
Katie Lavelle had 13 points, Staci Barrett added 12 points and 11 rebounds, Taylor Byrne (seven points) brought defense and hustle, and freshman Kaela Hilaire dished four assists.
"Being on a team with such high standards is awesome," said Byrne, a sophomore. "There's constant pressure to uphold the standard, but I thrive off it, and that makes it even more fun when you succeed."
The Crusaders beat Nazareth, 44-36, in the semifinal a day earlier after a layoff of nearly a month from the end of their regular season.
"It's the best thing ever because we know the work that went into it," said Barrett, a senior. "We started prepping for basketball in the second week of school."
Lutheran rebounded from a rough stretch in December that included three consecutive losses and finished by winning 14 straight. Late in the season, they were without Brozoski, who missed two weeks with a broken nose after taking an inadvertent elbow from a teammate.
The losses, Barrett said, forced the group to up its intensity. And the broken nose gave Brozoski "a chance to rest and recharge my whole body," she said.
It showed upstate.
And as it's been for this program, the destination remains beyond. The plan, Slater said, is for LuHi to eventually jump to Class AA, as its boys basketball team did.
"Five years ago, I wouldn't have thought we'd be where we are now," Slater said. "We've come a long way quickly, and we take huge pride in that."
You could say they get a kick out of it.
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Cristina Orozco Cuevas-Lasso Decorative Textile
At Design Interviews
Interview with Cristina Orozco Cuevas : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : Experimenting on industrial jacquard machines with yarns and mixing techniques. Always looking to do something different, never repeat myself. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : I wanted to make a textile with little bags to keep out little tools or jewelry. But on my way to discover the bags I came with another design: floated yarns with frayed appearance, but very strongly moored to the fabric. My aim for doing this kind of fabric experiments is to get something out of the blue. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : Publish it and share it with my clients in order to get more work and more business opportunities. Embrace the chance to get global exposure with my design studio and get clients worldwide. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : It took me months to finally get the design indeed from the thinking and experimenting to the actual manufacturing. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : I totally pursuit a risk experimenting on techniques half industrial and half hand made. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : I already have a deal with one company in Mecico. It has already been commercialized on some catalogues and for other clients with pillows on department stores. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : Take challengues and new risks even when mills say no. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : This particular work was a serendipia, so maybe indirectly some previous designs influenced just because of the acknowledge of diverse techniques helped me to solve this design. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : Decoration Professional Market: hotels, architects, designers, interior design studios. Decoration Massive market: Department Stores .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : I have never seen a afbric like this before. It is strange, different, friendly to touch, if there is any light behind it fells very soflty, tenuous and nice. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : I came with the idea that once I have these loose yarns woven horizontally which where cut at some point of the process. I thought about shoe lacing or something similar. I named it Lasso, which means a long rope with a running noose at one end used especially to catch horses and cattle. This names fits perfectly because the yarns look like very long but knotted by themselves, into the fabric and the released when they are cut. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : I have to make with some engineers a special tool we named shutter kinfe of recycled metal parts of old looms; to cut the loose yarns on both ways: vertical and horizontal. In order to make a viable and affordable product. I made the design on CAD special textile Sofware because I worked it on electronic industrial jacquard looms, which sometimes is kind of difficult beacuse when you design it into the computer as a drawing, the result specifically on this fabric has nothing to do. It was difficult to visualize how it would come out. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : The loose yarns which give different visual, feeling and functional aspects. It is rare to see products half industrial and half hand made. Normally these two things seem to be opposed. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : I worked with the help of a textile engineer with the "shuttlle knife" to develop a special tool. Because as part of a finish, the cut part was difficult to do without taking costs very high, so we developed this special tool to get the efficiency and low cost of production. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : It is has practically a lot to do. this fabric cannot be woven without technology. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : This design has to do with technique, weaves behavior and experimentation on woven jacquard fabrics. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : Getting the fur aspect I wanted, be affordable to produce with a fair price, persuading the textile mill it would work on the looms and on the new finish process, plus into the decoration market get the interest in possible buyers. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : Because I wanted my design to meet global competition. I already had taken some designs nationally and in Iberoamerican competitions. Now I think this is an opportunity to compete with the world, cause now we are designing for everyone. Also prove myself that my work is really valuable and works. This a big challenge for me. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : I have learnt that there no impossibles if you take risks and of you do things, take actions instead just thinking them. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Cristina Orozco Cuevas : Being on this competition and getting two awards is another big watershed on my textile career. .
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It's not the first time I eat something in a restaurant and instantly think "how can I recreate this at home?". In fact, this happens to me most of the time if I'm having something that is really nice, but at least seemingly easy to make at home. I had one of these moments after having the Burnt Orange Cafe's walnut bread with avocado, and I couldn't wait to try making my version of it.
In Finland I used to bake my own bread all the time. Somehow the flour there was easier (for me) to work with, there was more flour varieties available, and I always had fresh yeast to use for making bread rolls or other bread at home. After moving to Australia I not only mostly stopped eating bread (because I couldn't quite find rye bread I was happy with), but I also stopped baking it. During the years of living here I've of course baked bread many times, but never in the same scale as in Finland where I used to bake bread almost every week. Nowadays I mostly make loaves, sweet or savoury, and in my opinion they really are the easiest and quickest way to enjoy freshly baked goodies at home.
This avocado and walnut bread will definitely become a new favourite of mine. Walnuts are by far my favourite nut and avocado just adds another level of goodness to this bread. I'm so happy my version of the bread worked, so you can imagine I'm quite excited to share this recipe with you ;-)
(Recipe adapted from NY Times)
1 cup organic white, unbleached spelt flour
3/4 cup organic whole spelt flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
pinch of salt
4 large free-range eggs
1/2 cup organic fat-free yoghurt
1 avocado, mashed
3 tbsp walnut oil
1 cup walnuts, chopped
Preheat oven to 180C and prepare a standard size loaf tin.
In a medium bowl, sift together the flours, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt. Beat the eggs in another bowl and beat in the yoghurt, avocado and oil. Fold the dry ingredients into the egg mixture, add the walnuts and fold to combine. Bake for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.


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Arthur Brisbane is stepping down from his job as public editor of the New York Times. In his final column, Brisbane addresses the issue of political and cultural bias at the Times (the emphasis is mine):
I. . .noted two years ago that I had taken up the public editor duties believing "there is no conspiracy" and that The Times's output was too vast and complex to be dictated by any Wizard of Oz-like individual or cabal. I still believe that, but also see that the hive on Eighth Avenue is powerfully shaped by a culture of like minds — a phenomenon, I believe, that is more easily recognized from without than from within.
When The Times covers a national presidential campaign, I have found that the lead editors and reporters are disciplined about enforcing fairness and balance, and usually succeed in doing so. Across the paper's many departments, though, so many share a kind of political and cultural progressivism — for lack of a better term — that this worldview virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times.
As a result, developments like the Occupy movement and gay marriage seem almost to erupt in The Times, overloved and undermanaged, more like causes than news subjects.
Brisbane also notes that a just-released Pew Research Center survey found that The Times's "believability rating" has dropped drastically among Republicans compared with Democrats, and is an almost-perfect mirror opposite of Fox News's rating. He asks, "Can that be good?"
Not for Fox News.


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