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Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don't know beforehand what roles we'll ask them to talk about.
The actor: Best—and probably forever—known as The Wire's dogged Detective Lester Freamon, Clarke Peters has a stage and screen career that spans three decades. In London, where the Englewood, N.J. native has lived since the early '70s, he's a regular in West End theater, best known before The Wire as the creator and co-star of the musical revue Five Guys Named Moe. And since The Wire, he's made his mark on Treme—as Mardi Gras Indian Albert Lambreaux—Damages, and Life On Mars, most recently turning up as the pivotal character in Spike Lee's Red Hook Summer.
Red Hook Summer (2012)—"Enoch Rouse"
Clarke Peters: Spike gave me a call in the middle of a week last summer or last spring, and he said, "I'm coming to New Orleans and I want to show you something." He showed up about 9 o'clock at my house, he put a script in my hand, and then went away and said that he'd see me in about six hours and we would discuss it. Well, after about an hour and a half or two hours, I read the script and I called him back immediately and said, "Why wait?" He came back and we talked about this, and about the issues that are being pointed out in the—well, I don't want to reveal exactly what it is for those who aren't here—but the issues that are being addressed in the piece itself, and how important it is for us to discuss these things. And after having that discussion with him, I said, "Well, what do you want me to do?" Because I didn't realize he was offering me a job. And he said, "I'd like to have your blessing on that." And I said, "Well, you've certainly got my blessing on that, because it's a statement that needs to be said." And he said, "You don't understand what I'm saying." I said, "No, you've got my blessing." He said, "I want you to play the part of the bishop." Well, I've been wanting to work with Spike for a couple of decades now, so for this to come up like that was… accurate in one of those spiritual kind of ways, I guess. So he said, "It'll be a very quick shoot," and he left me with the script and I put it aside and said, "Okay, well, if it happens it happens, if it doesn't it doesn't." And then it got close to the day and it was happening and I thought, "Oh, shit. I'd better learn all this stuff!" [Laughs.] I was shooting Treme at the same time, and I was preparing to do Othello in England, so this sort of dovetailed right in the middle of that. And it was good working with him. We knew what we had to do and we got down and did it.
The A.V. Club: You have an extensive history in musical theater, and although Red Hook Summer isn't a musical, it has elements of the form: not just the singing in the church, but the bright colors, and the fact that the score is much higher in the mix, more present, than it usually is.
CP: Well, there was no music, obviously, when we were shooting it. The only music that was present was the music that [organist] Jon Batiste pulled into the church. So music was never discussed, and what you saw the other night for the first time was what I saw for the first time. The way that the music was used, in some places it was just wonderful. It wasn't gratuitous, but there are a lot of layers to the film, and music is definitely one of them. It's all commenting on something. It's not there just to take you from one scene to the other. If you listen to the lyrics while you're watching, you're thinking, "Oh, my gosh." It was a little bit more profound than I anticipated.
AVC: The Wire and Treme, among other things that you've done, are much more about a community than individual characters, and that's true of Red Hook Summer as well. Is that something that attracts you particularly?
CP: It seems to be happening in both ways. It's something that I'm interested in, and it's also what's just been coming to me. To go back onto your previous question, I did a lot of musical theater in England, but even that is a part of this type of brief where the roles I was playing were roles that were traditionally for white actors, and I think if I was on any kind of mission—as it appears I'm on a mission now with all of these works here in America—it was just to open up people's minds to this whole cross-cultural thing, because we're living in a multicultural society in the West now. We have to be prepared to allow everyone to participate in harmony, and in order to do that we have to understand ourselves. So The Corner, The Wire, Treme, all of David Simon's pieces are pieces that afford an opportunity for us to hold a mirror up to ourselves and to really look and scrutinize—and he's not offering any answers. That's what I was doing in London as well in theater. Just saying, "Wait a second. Why does Sky Masterson have to be a white guy from Colorado when he's just the outsider? He could be a Japanese guy from Minnesota." But somewhere along the line in life, you find that you're in a chorus and you look around and you're in the company of people singing the same song, you know? And I've been blessed to do that with David and with Spike.
Treme (2010-present)—"Albert Lambreaux"
AVC: Big Chief Lambreaux seems to be a character that New Orleanians have taken especially close to heart. Some parts of the culture travel better than others—jazz, for one—but the complexity of Mardi Gras is hard to grasp outside the city.
CP: Well, you have a couple of different Mardi Gras. You do have Mardi Gras, or Carnival, throughout South America. But what you have in New Orleans traditionally came out of two cultures that melded together for the mutual protection from the oppressor: enslaved Africans and the Native American Indians. So unfortunately—and really, it is very, very, very unfortunate, that a lot of the men and women who mask today do not know their history. But hopefully, in moments like this, we can talk about this and maybe they'll pick up on it. The reason they masked as the Indians to begin with, was because, I think it was either the Spanish or the French stopped the Native American Indians from coming into the city during the holidays. And so the Africans that were there dressed as Indians to pay homage, to remember them, to make sure that their presence was there. That happened long before this Wild Bill, whatever his name is, that some historians want to say is where the Indian masking came from. They were doing that long before Buffalo Bill's thing. Long before that, you know. So hopefully, for those who are interested, when you go down and see the Mardi Gras Indians, you'll know that this is the confluence of two cultures being represented during Mardi Gras. And that what you get in that beadwork is some African styles of beading that are still prominent today in Central Africa, as they are in New Orleans. But if we're ever to realize the American dream, we've got to really begin to start understanding each other and really changing how we view things on this continent now.
AVC: The problem of not knowing your own history comes up in Red Hook Summer, as it does in Do The Right Thing, and it turns out to have a very specific meaning in Red Hook with regard to your character that's not just about appreciating the richness of your culture.
CP: That's right, that's right, yes. And even for Enoch, him not knowing the recent history. How did he know his son-in-law was killed in Afghanistan—you know? And how that reflects on all of us.
AVC: So what has your experience been in terms of the way people from New Orleans react to Lambreaux and that representation of their culture?
CP: What I've felt, finally, is that cliché—you can feel the love, you know? What a crap thing to say, "You can feel the love." But you know what? In New Orleans, because of Lambreaux, and because of how David has written him and I've been allowed to play him, the residents feel compelled to express some love because of the representation. And it's not just in the black community. He's the voice of resistance of everybody who suffered at the hands of FEMA and Road Home and all of those social-assistance government organizations that were supposed to help the people—black, white, rich, poor, it doesn't matter—and who got shafted and are continuing to be shafted by them. So we wound up being a voice for them. And some people don't want to see it, don't want to see the show because it's too painful, and for others it's a cathartic, healing experience.
Damages (2009)—"Dave Pell"
CP: Glenn Close is a fantastic actress. Oh, I love this woman. And a clown. I mean, she and Judi Dench—real actors. Real actors, yeah. Of quality. I love them. I really love them. Yeah, I would like to work with Glenn again, I really would. Our brief moment together was all too brief for me. We only had that one scene together. But it was so much fun.
AVC: It's a great portrayal of how, for someone that high up the ladder, the exercise of power can be almost casual, in a way that's hard to fathom for people who don't have that kind of power.
CP: [Laughs.] Well, I didn't know—I guess if I knew who the character was when I started, I might have approached him differently. But I never knew who that man was. I thought I was just doing that first episode. I was expected to do that one episode and that was it. And then they called me back for another episode, and by the third time I was saying, "Who is this? Give me some history." Nobody knew who he was. And it probably served the piece well in performance, because no one knew who he was. Least of all himself! [Laughs.] So nothing could be telegraphed, which is good.
AVC: Having had the luxury of inhabiting a character for five years on The Wire and three on Treme—let alone a stage production, where you play the same role for a year or more—how does it compare doing something like Red Hook Summer, where the shoot is so brief?
CP: There's no comparison. I guess the only comparison is that you know you have a job to do, and you put the blinkers on and you just run toward the goalposts and do as much as you can. Which is kind of what you do in life. You're carrying your whole biography with you, but you're not thinking about it. It just naturally informs what you do. Shooting Red Hook, there wasn't a lot of time to do a bunch of research. Fortunately, there was a good story arc. He had the beginning, middle, and end. That's something you always get in theater, but you don't always get immediately in a television series. You just never know where David Simon's going to take you next week, so you don't have time to settle into anything. But with Red Hook, I said before, what needed to be said was part of the motivation, and where he came from, our sense of what our history is here in America—and I say "our history" [meaning] African-Americans. And us being on the same page facilitated how quickly we could get this thing done and find the nuances that needed to be exposed.
AVC: How important is it to you that the piece be saying something worth saying. That seems to be coming up a lot.
CP: It's becoming more and more important, because of the influence of music, of theater, of media, television, cinema, but also because it takes us back to what an artist is supposed to do. We're not commodities that you just put up on the shelf and you bring down when you need to. Art is just as important in your society as economics is and as politics is. And if it's not serving that purpose, then it's just a wank thing. It's just your own personal self-gratification. It should be there to inform, to educate and to open up vistas for other people. We're standing on the shoulders of people who came before us trying to do something. Television is nowadays just a vehicle for another company to put a commercial on to sell some shit that you don't need. So it is becoming more important. Fortunately, the Lord has put some really nice stuff in my path, and I hope that she continues to do so. But yeah, I don't want to do any crap. I don't want to do crap.
Five Guys Named Moe (1990/2010)—"Four-Eyed Moe"/"Nomax"
AVC: You wrote the book for and starred in the stage musical Five Guys Named Moe, which uses songs by Louis Jordan to dissect a broken man's relationship. Originally, you were one of the singing Moes, and then in the 20th-anniversary production, you played the jilted Nomax. You said that in revisiting the piece you felt freer to explore aspects of Nomax's character, especially ones that weren't so positive. What did that mean?
CP: Well, when Five Guys first came on it, we were really under the clock. I presented at the National Theater one evening, and then put it away. And then out of nowhere, Philip Hedley says, "Would you like to do that again?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Can you be ready in about three weeks?'" I thought, [strained] "Yeah!" So I flew to New York to find my musical director, sort out my choreographer, I spent three weeks trying to get people together without going back to addressing the original script, which we wound up doing in rehearsal. So when it hit the stage, you're sitting there looking and thinking, "Oh, gosh, I wish I could have done that." And very rarely do you get a chance to do so. This time I had. And I was able to put some other nuances in there, some other points of view into it. So I think it was that that I was addressing in that particular interview.
AVC: What were those nuances?
CP: Well, [Barry White voice]: black love. What it feels like, what any man who really digs his lady goes through, man! We're full of the bravado and ego and shit, you know, when there's sometimes you just feel like, "Hey, I wish I had someone I could just talk to about this shit, because I really don't know what to do." There haven't been a lot of great role models anywhere, in any society. So these five guys, I was able to put more in their mouths in terms instruction, and it came up more in how a song was introduced, how they used the song to inform his situation. So it gave me more time to do that, and it was 20 years since we did it, so I'm that much older.
AVC: There must be a lot more life experience going into it now.
CP: Now there is. And we did something different. Before they came out of the radio. In this production, he was absorbed into a gramophone. And even that has certain information about it, because those gramophones are gone now. You know, where is that shit?
AVC: Part of the underpinning of the show is that he's being surrounded by the songs, being taken into their world, which is not always the real world.
CP: That's right, so sometimes some things are ironic. [Laughs.] Like "[I Like 'Em] Fat Like That." What a sexist song. It really is, you know? But if the man that is singing it is honest about who he digs, whatever his penchant is, that's valid. And don't mess with him. Don't be influenced by the little lie, the things you see in the adverts. Yeah, a healthy, buxom lass, you know.
AVC: Sexism isn't an admirable part of the human character, but it is undeniably a part of it.
CP: Yes. So let's address all that. It's time. I was listening to a thing by Deepak Chopra, and he's talking about the metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies. He was saying that the caterpillar gets so greedy it eats what its metabolism can't keep up, and so what happens is that things begin to liquefy, and in liquefying it releases a gene, and in this particular gene is the code for wings. And he was using that analogy saying that society's kind of like that today. We've become so greedy that we want to move away from a lot of this stuff, but somewhere inside of us there is that gene for change. So things are looking really miserable out there—the sexism, the racism, the corrupt politics, the pollution, and all of it is the soup that we need in order to release that gene inside of ourselves. And I thought that was just a wonderful, wonderful metaphor.


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Alice Hoffman, author of Survival Lessons, will chat with Ann Leary, author of The Good House on some of the life experiences that have led them to their current successes and what kinds of choices they've made for themselves along their individual journeys.
Praised by Toni Morrison as "..a major contribution to twenty-first century literature," Alice Hoffman's The Dovekeepers presented a tour de force of invention and careful detail. Now Alice, whose short fiction has been featured everywhere from the New York Times to The Kenyon Review, is releasing a volume of personal insights called Survival Lessons, which she says she wrote in order to remind herself of the beauty of life and the fact that even in the most adverse situations, a person still has choices to make.
Ann Leary, is the author of The Good House; An Innocent, A Broad; and Outtakes From a Marriage, an exceptional novel that is at turns hilarious and sobering. There's a scandal, some mysticism, babies, old houses, drinking, and desire—and a love story between two craggy sixty-somethings that's as real and sexy as you get.


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For decades domestic Chardonnays have often been disregarded as nothing more than oak-flavored butter-bombs, but times are changing. Thanks to a growing number of winemakers throughout Oregon, Washington and California, U.S.-grown Chardonnays are once again finding favor with light to no oak, so there's no better time to get reacquainted with this wine. Together with writer Sarah Karnasiewicz we've pulled together 10 great options.
Channing Daughters Scuttlehole Chardonnay 2011
Fermented entirely in stainless steel and bottled without undergoing a second malolactic fermentation (the process that converts tart malic acid into buttery lacid acid), this nimble, hand-harvested offering from New York state's Long Island AVA exudes notes of tart apple and pear, fresh citrus and flinty minerality on the finish. $18, channingdaughters.com
Chehalem Ian's Reserve Chardonnay 2009
Released just this past January, this barrel-fermented Oregon reserve finds a fresh-flavored middle ground on the spectrum of oaked American Chardonnays with notes of fresh flowers, lemon curd and ripe peaches. Bright acid balanced by a splash of residual sugar on the finish makes it a good match for heartier dishes and spicy foods. $33, chehalemwines.com
Davis Family Russian River Valley Chardonnay 2010
Winemaker Guy Davis crafts this balanced, medium-bodied Chardonnay from biodynamic fruit and with attention to both New World technique and Old World tradition. At harvest, grapes are hand-picked and cluster-pressed and the juices divided for aging in 70 percent French oak and 30 percent stainless steel. The magic happens in the blending, resulting in a wine with some soft funk and the round curves that come with malolactic fermentation and oak—but tempered by a green apple bite and refreshing minerality. $36, daviswines.com
Dusted Valley Vintners Boomtown Chardonnay 2010
Part of the wallet-friendly Boomtown portfolio from Walla Walla, Washington's Dusted Valley Vintners, this all-stainless, slightly effervescent Chardonnay is crisp and lemony and has a leanness that reflects its high-altitude roots. $17, dustedvalley.com
Jordan Russian River Valley Chardonnay 2010
A classic Chardonnay for the holiday table, this cool climate-grown California Chardonnay balances subtle oak aging with fresh fruit flavors, and a bright, food-friendly acidity. Pair with a Thanksgiving turkey with all the trimmings. $29, jordanwinery.com
Melville Estate Chardonnay Clone 76 Inox 2011
Another impressive project from winemaker Greg Brewer, this delicate yet precise Chardonnay is built on ripe fruit grown on a carefully selected small parcel of sandy soil on the west side of the Melville Vineyards in California's Santa Rita Hills. Slow, chilled fermentation in petite stainless tanks and later, cold storage to block malolactic fermentation, result in a crystalline wine with alluring notes of camellia and apricot on the nose and a peppery finish. $36, melvillevineyards.com
Pellegrini Unoaked Russian River Valley Chardonnay 2009
Gleaming and gently golden, this Sonoma County Chardonnay is fermented entirely in stainless steel and has the bright, clean profile to prove it. Juicy with green apple flavors and slightly herbal, it has light, palate-cleansing effervescence that makes it an especially great match for food. $18, pellegrinisonoma.com
Simi Sonoma County Chardonnay 2010
Combining grapes harvested from some of Sonoma County's top appellations—think Russian River Valley, Alexander Valley and Carneros—this barrel-fermented Chard offers flavors ranging from lush tropical fruits to Meyer lemon to almonds. $18, simiwinery.com
Sleight of Hand The Enchantress Chardonnay 2010
Since launching in 2007, Walla Walla's Sleight of Hand Cellars has established itself as one of the most exciting up-and-coming wineries in Washington State. This Chardonnay is made from well-established vines in the Yakima Valley, aged in neutral French oak and rested on the lees for nearly a year. Lively and lean, with a soft note of lemon curd and a spicy edge, it more than lives up to its name. $28, sofhcellars.com
Williams Selyem Unoaked Russian River Valley Chardonnay 2010
This pale, pretty Chard is the product of a cool season and aging in 100 percent stainless steel without malolactic fermentation. Ethereal without being simple, it gives off a whiff of peaches, a pleasantly zesty note of lime and a clean, almost piney, finish. $37, williamsselyem.com
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Nesbitt's story begins this way:
"There's an old house on the north side of Fort Street, just west of Cook, and around it is wrapped more glamorous Hudson's Bay Company history than any other residence on the island.
"It is the old Charles home and it's been standing since the mid-seventies [mid 1870's, of course]. In it lived William Charles, one of the widely known HBC figures of the province in early days.
"He was the son of a Hudson's Bay man, too, and his wife was the daughter of James Birnie, one of the outstanding HBC officials in Oregon and whose works are now a definite part of that state's history books."
Well, this last sentence is an exaggeration; I think the writer never knew James Birnie well.
He continues: "The Charles' home once stood in a acre of ground, extending back to View Street.
"Fort wasn't so wide in those days, and in front of the house was a high fence and a hedge of acacia trees that hid it from the street. It had fine gardens. Mrs. Charles had a way with flowers and her friends said she could make roses grow in cement blocks if she felt so inclined.
"History of the northwest -- that was the chief topic of conversation in the Charles home, but little did Mr. and Mrs. Charles know then that they would become part of the history.
"Both had traveled widely and as they grew older reminisced of trips they had made by canoe on wilderness waters and of frontier days in the vast Interior of this Province."
William Charles, fur trader and HBC employee, was born March 5, 1831 in Edinburgh when his father was on furlough, and was the son of John Charles and Jane Auld, mixed blood daughter of William Auld -- hence both he and his brothers were Metis.
William was descended from prominent HBC families: his father and maternal grand-father were both Chief Factors.
Like his brothers, he was educated in Edinburgh at the Hill Street School and at the University of Edinburgh.
Nesbitt says: "As a youth he had heard his father talk of his days in faraway Rupert's Land, and it was but natural he should decide his life would be spent in the great wilds of America."
Of course William lived with his father in Rupertsland, and so that sentence was not entirely true -- his familiarity with the fur trade must have come from more than his father's stories.
But Nesbitt writes of some interesting background on the Charles family, that I did not know:
"In 1854 [a different date is given below] he joined the Hudson's Bay Company and was eagerly welcomed, for it was recalled his father was among the members of the Hudson's Bay Councils -- those fur trading parliaments -- and sat at Red River in 1835 and 1839 when Duncan Finlayson presided, and again at Norway House in 1840 when the powerful Sir George Simpson was presiding officer.
"The name of Charles was a magic one in the annals of the company -- it is no wonder William Charles was doubly welcome.
"His grandmother, Charles, was a daughter of one of the high officials of the company at Fort York or Churchill, and it is believed today she was there at the time of the French invasion of Fort York, and it is said she was taken prisoner to France, but later returned to her family."
Well, that's interesting -- if anyone can confirm that I would like to hear the story!
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography online [author: Richard Mackie] tells us that William Charles left Scotland for the HBC's Columbia district and worked first for a merchant in Portland, Oregon.
Then in 1853 he joined the HBC at Fort Vancouver, as an apprentice clerk.
That autumn he was posted to Fort Hall on the Snake River, and in January 1855 he took charge of Fort Boise -- also in the Snake River country.
William Charles was forced to abandon Fort Boise in the fall of that year because of hostilities between the United States Army and Fort Vancouver, and he was transferred to Fort Vancouver.
In 1858 he arrived at Fort Victoria; soon after his arrival he married Mary Ann, one of 13 children of James and Charlot Birnie.
Mary Ann's sister, Betsy Anderson -- wife of Alexander Caulfield Anderson -- had already arrived in Victoria and in 1858 lived on a large piece of property only a short walk from the place where Mary Ann's house would later stand.
By the way, Betsy was born in 1822 and Mary Ann in 1839 -- Mary Ann was almost twenty years younger than Betsy.
From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography again:
"After being charged with Fort Hope (Hope, BC) in 1860, he was made chief trader in 1863 and the next year he was moved to Fort Yale. He remained in command there until 1866, when he returned to Fort Victoria.
"From 1868 to 1870 he ran Thompson's River post [Kamloops], which, he wrote, was "about the dullest place" he had ever been in.
The article continues: "Charles' work at Hope, Yale and Thompson's River is of considerable interest. In the 1850's the HBC abandoned the Columbia River route to the interior in favour of the Fraser River system."
Of course we know why that happened, and that it actually happened in 1848 and 1849.
"This reorganization was hastened by the Fraser gold rush of 1858, which turned obscure HBC posts into thriving settlements.
"The company placed steamers on the lower Fraser and on Kamloops Lake and entered the retail trade, selling hardware and food at all its posts in the gold districts. Joseph William McKay and Ovid Allard worked with Charles on these projects. The gold-rush thus transformed the HBC in British Columbia from a fur-trading to a retailing company decades before a similar charge was instituted in Rupert's Land."
Dates again differ in the two articles I have on hand -- one says that Charles returned to Victoria in 1870; the other states the year was 1874.
1870 is probably the correct date, as Richard Mackie, in his Dictionary of Canadian Biography article, says that William Charles "returned to Victoria, where, from 1872 to 1874, he was second in command of the Western Department under his brother-in-law James Allan Grahame..." whose wife was also one of James Birnie's daughters.
"He was promoted factor in 1872 and chief factor two years later.
"In July 1872 he had been sent to the upper Skeena River when the Kitseguecla blocked non-Native traffic; his job was to ensure that the HBC's new Skeena route to the interior remained open.
"After some time the blockade was lifted."
This is what Bruce Watson has to say of William Charles, in his Lives Lived West of the Divide:
"William Charles, who was born into the fur trade, was sent by his father to be educated at Hill Street School in Edinburgh, and subsequently, Edinburgh University.
"In 1852, at the age of twenty two he came to the Pacific coast via Panama and for a short time was employed by Breck and Ogden of Portland, Oregon, before joining the HBC on June 14, 1853.
"A man known for his integrity, he spent the rest of his career in the Oregon/Western Department and British Columbia from 1858.
"Beginning in 1869, while he was in the North Thompson/Campbell Creek area, about ten miles east of Kamloops, Charles pre-empted several hundred acres of land which was eventually to become Harper's Ranch, named after the purchaser, Thaddeus Harper, who eventually took out the Crown Grant.
"William Charles was allowed furlough in 1870-71, was appointed inspecting Chief Factor around 1874 and spent many years touring HBC forts in B.C."
Bruce Watson also tells what places William Charles served and gives us more accurate dates:
Apprentice clerk, Fort Hall and Fort Boise, 1853-1856; Clerk, Fort Vancouver, 1855-1858; Clerk, Fort Victoria and Fort Langley, 1858-1860; Clerk, Fort Hope, 1860-1863; Chief Trader, Fort Yale, 1863-1864; Chief Trader, Fort Victoria and Fort Yale, 1865-1866; Chief Trader, New Caledonia, 1866-1867; Chief Trader, Fort Victoria, 1867-1868; Chief Trader, Fort Kamloops, 1868-1869; Chief Trader, Fort Victoria, 1869-1874; Chief Factor, Fort Victoria, 1874-1879; Inspecting Chief Factor, Fort Victoria, 1879-1885.
Nesbitt's article tells more of the Charles' family life in Victoria:
"It was a happy home as the sons and daughters grew up and often friends from the Interior were guests.
"Mrs. John Goodfellow, who was Florence Agassiz (the Agassiz and Charles families were close friends in Yale and Hope days), and her interesting memoirs, recalls visits she paid to the Charles' home on Fort Street.
"In 1876, Mrs. Goodfellow wrote, she was a guest at the Charles' home when the then Governor General, the Earl of Dufferin, and his Countess, came to town.
"Mr. and Mrs. Charles, as leading citizens, were invited to all the festivities, and the housee was in a turmoil of preparation for many gay events.
"Mrs. Goodfellow says: "The Earl and Countess held a drawing room. For months before all the ladies had been in a state of excitement about their dresses and court trains. Mrs. Charles, who was a beautiful woman, wore a beautiful black velvet with white lace...."
William Charles was a man of fine education and an artist of considerable ability.
He was an amateur naturalist and he loved to sit for hours in his garden watching the birds and studying their habits; he often drew them.
In 1865 he had noted the arrival at Yale of the first meadow larks and bluebirds -- do these birds still arrive in Yale?
He also had an interest in history and like his brother-in-law, A.C. Anderson, he helped American historian Hubert Howe Bancroft prepare his History of British Columbia in 1876.
When William Charles died at age 72 in May, 1903, the Colonist obituary said this of him:
"Another tie binding the present with a past generation has been broken, and it is with feelings of sadness we view the decimated ranks of that old band of pioneers in the fur trade to which in a large measure we owe our present political existence and organization as a province.
"Although the deceased did not participate prominently in public affairs and was comparatively unknown to many persons of more recent arrival, to those who knew him well in early days and had social and business intercourse with him, he appealed most strongly, and the warm ties of friendship were never broken and personal respect never abated.
"His name was synonymous for honour and personal integrity. He preferred a quiet, retired life -- a man whose allegiance was to his old friends, endeared to them as he was by sterling qualities of mind and character."
You will recognize many of the names of the men who acted as his pallbearers -- Hon. J. S. Helmcken; Hon. Mr. Justice Drake; Hon. Peter O'Reilly; Robert Edwin Jackson, K.C.; Mr. James A[llen] Grahame; Mr. Alexander Munro; Mr. C.W.R. Thomson; Captain Herbert G. Lewis; Hon. Edgar Dewdney; John A. Mara; James Lawson Sr.; E. Crow Baker; Arthur W. Jones; and Frank S.. Barnard.
Mary Ann Charles stayed on in her Fort Street home but sold it in 1912, and moved to Richardson Street. She died in 1921.
Nesbitt's article ends with a lovely personal story about the Charles' Fort Street home:
"Though parts of it have been demolished, the Charles' home today is much the way it was when the family lived there.
"The long drawing room has two marble mantled fireplaces, with a wide bay window between, and there is another deep bay -- almost a conservatory -- on Fort Street.
"In the old days there was a conservatory at the back, and a big dining room which after dinner each night, was turned into a family living-room, for the drawing room was much too formal except when there were parties and distinguished visitors from out of town and for the ladies of Mrs. Charles' "at home" days.
"The master of the house in those days didn't often sit in his drawing-room; it was reserved for church teas and "morning room" calls and for the daughters to entertain their beaus.
"At the bend of the staircase is an oval shaped window, of multi-coloured glass -- and through it small boys and girls in the long-age watched for Grandmama Charles coming along Fort Street, and then there were shrieks of laughter -- for one minute Grandma was red and then she suddenly turned purple and then amber and then green. It was all very wonderful, the way Grandma changed colors, and that window to those bright, eager eyes was the most fascinating in all Victoria."
Today the old Charles' home is an antique store, and the woman who owns it told me there were eleven staircases in the house.
It is hard to know which part of the house is original and which not.
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No Ballet and Lots of Israeli Dance
Sisters by Michal Hersonski and Shira Ben Zeev. Photo by Günter Krämmer.
Ballet is verboten at the No Ballet competition in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and applicants are encouraged to present innovative, adventurous choreography that speaks to the future rather than to traditional aesthetic sensibilities. So it's no wonder that Israel, with its growing field of contemporary dance, contributed a record six participants to this year's select pool of competitors: Dafi Altbeb, Tami & Ronen Yitzhaki, Nadar Rosano, Reut Shemesh, Nadine Bommer, and Michal Hersonski & Shira Ben Zeev.
Michal Hersonski and Shira Ben Zeev. Photo courtesy of the choreographers.
It is a tribute to the strength of Israeli contemporary dance that two of these entries walked away with awards from this prestigious festival in October. Michal Hersonski and Shira Ben Zeev were marked as exciting emerging choreographers when their duet, Sisters, debuted as part of Israel's biennial Gvanim (Shades of Dance) Festival in 2007. Now, though, the pair has clearly arrived: Sisters took third place on the international stage at No Ballet. "We were thrilled to get the third prize because there were many countries, and there were good groups with very interesting and intelligent works," Michal reflects. "It was a very nice surprise for us."
Manimation by Nadine Bommer. Photo by Günter Krämmer.
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HOUSTON — After months of scouting for a potential impact player, the Houston Dynamo announced on Thursday they have signed Honduran international forward Carlo Costly.
Despite reports that Costly had been released by Atlas last week, the forward comes to Houston as part of a loan deal with Mexican first-division side. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but MLSsoccer.com has confirmed that Costly will not count as a Designated Player.
"We've talked all year about improving the squad with international signings or in the league," head coach Dominic Kinnear said. "[Carlo's] proven himself and I think he's someone who will be good for us on and off the field."
The Dynamo have been keen on signing Costly since the forward scored in an international friendly against El Salvador at Robertson Stadium on May 29. The club also scouted the striker throughout the CONCACAF Gold Cup, in which he tallied a hat trick on June 10.
Though Costly was a long sought-after target, the timing of the deal couldn't be better as forward Will Bruin will be out four to six weeks because of a left knee injury.
"We have been trying to bring our forward line more depth all along, but the timing of the deal obviously helps," Kinnear said.
The 6-foot-3 Costly adds another big striker to a Houston front line that already has three players — Brian Ching, Cam Weaver and the injured Bruin — that stand taller than 6-feet. While similar in size, the newcomer has the footwork and pace to slot in next to any of Houston's target men.
Though his skill and size stand out, the aspect that excites Kinnear is Costly's knack for scoring goals — and nowhere has that been more evident than during his time with the Honduran national team. The 29-year-old has tallied 18 times in 48 appearances for los Catrachos, whom he will join next early next week for a friendly against Venezuela on Aug. 10.
"If he can play for Honduras, which is a good team in this region, I think that says a lot," Kinnear said. "His goal-scoring record speaks for itself. He has good size and pace and attacks the ball well. We're sure he can be a good forward in this league."
Costly arrived in Houston on Wednesday and is working to obtain his P-1 visa and international transfer certificate that will allow him to train with the club and be available for selection. He will be officially introduced on Friday.
More help on the way?
In addition to signing Costly, MLSsoccer.com confirmed Wednesday that the Dynamo are primed to make another move as the club is in serious talks with a central midfielder. The club has declined to confirm the identity of the player but are hopeful a deal will be done soon.
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com. Follow him on twitter at @Dynamoexaminer.


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A big thank you to Laurel, Tara, and Alana for taking pictures!!
It all looks magical and completely descriptive of you over what I've learned about you the past few weeks. The cake is beautiful and I love that dress! Looks like a very festive time and happy 1 year anniversary!! <3
Thanks for sharing these lovely photos of your important day(s)! Happy Anniversary!
Congratulation on your first wedding anniversary. You dress you wore was amazing. Your grandmother had great taste I would love to raid her closet.
The cake just looks so delicious and I'm very impressed by the marzipan embellishments. Happy Anniversary.
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Congratulations! you both look gorgeous! love the pictures! have a blissful life!
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It was such fun! Glad I could contribute to the day :)
PS I ate more than my fair share of candy.
Oh my goodness that dress is stunning and so absolutely perfect for the occasion! I'm so happy that you didn't do a "traditional" wedding or reception. Yours inspires me, whenever mine may occur... Thanks for sharing these photos!
Dear Catie, what a beautiful wedding!
Loved every detail: the cake, the dress, flowers,
everything was beautiful, very different and unique!
You looked beautiful and her husband too!
I love weddings! I did not marry in church
but my husband and I have plans to do a ceremony
celebrating 10 years of marriage (which have been together for seven years)!
I loved the pictures!
Today there on the blog has the outfit that I wore over the weekend and
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I hope your visit!
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Anniversary is the beautiful day in one's life. You look perfect together. Best wishes to both of you and hope your love remains the same.
Your dress was beautiful! Love the pictures as well! Happy anniversary:)
How absolutely charming! I love how non-traditional your wedding look and your photos are -- love the last pic with your wedding party!
Happy Anniversary :) Here's to many more wonderful years.
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Dynamo Charities has announced Rob Denton as the Houston Dynamo's Community MVP for the 2012 season. Denton will now compete in a nationwide vote against 18 other representatives from around Major League Soccer to be named MLS W.O.R.K.S. Community MVP. The winner will receive a $10,000 donation from MLS W.O.R.K.S. to a charity of their choice and a trip to the 2012 MLS All-Star Game against Chelsea FC at PPL Park in Chester, Pa.
"It's an honor," Denton said. "The amount of great work and good people in Houston has an amazing impact on the community. It shows the 'Forever Orange' family that we are more than just a great team on the field."
Since 2010, Denton has been an active contributor to Dynamo Charities, the charitable arm of the Houston Dynamo. Denton has raised more than $4,200 through the Bald is Beautiful Campaign benefiting the Curing Children's Cancer Fund and has served as project lead for the annual Dynamo Charities Fire Sale, which has raised more than $65,000 since its inception.
In addition to his work with Dynamo Charities, Denton works with Junior Achievement, an organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness and financial literacy. He has also has participated in fundraisers for Pints for Pups, Special Friends and March of Dimes. He has averaged 100 hours of community service each year for the past three years through Dynamo Charities and CenterPoint Energy. In 2011, Denton was chosen for the Jefferson Award for Public Service for the Houston area.
If Denton wins the national award, his prize money will be donated to Dynamo Charities and the Bald is Beautiful campaign. Fans can vote at MLSsoccer.com/CommunityMVP. Voting runs until July 13 at 4 p.m. CT. The grand prize winner will be recognized during the MLS All-Star Game halftime ceremony on July 25.


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Senator Joe Robach Announces Collegiate Scholarships
New York State Senator Joe Robach announced today that the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators is now accepting applications for four $2,500 scholarships, which will be awarded in June at their Annual Legislative Conference Day.
"Given the high costs of college, every opportunity must be made by students and their families to meet their required expenses with scholarships, student loans, financial aid and personal contributions," said Robach. "Our conference is very proud of our role in promoting higher education and assisting students in reaching their academic goals and full potential for future success."
This year, the Italian-American State Legislators Conference will be awarding four $2,500 scholarships to four current or future college students from New York State. Eligibility will be based upon the student's grade point average, interest in pursuing a higher education, involvement in the local community as well as individual financial need.
The Conference is a bipartisan organization of New York State Assembly and Senate members who are actively involved in promoting and celebrating the state's Italian-American community. The Conference mission is to work hard to elevate and highlight Italian-American contributions to the State of New York and beyond, in all aspects of society, including literature, the arts, architecture and politics. The conference also tries to dispel negative stereotypes of Italian-Americans.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Sept. 4, 2003) - East Tennessee State got a stellar performance from redshirt freshman quarterback Carl Meadows (Cummings, Ga.) in a 44-0 victory over Concord in the Bucs home opener in front of 5,481 fans at Memorial Center in Johnson City, Tenn.
The shutout is ETSU's first since a 26-0 victory over Charleston Southern on Nov. 3, 2001 and their first at home since a 61-0 win over West Virginia Tech on Sept. 11, 1999.
East Tennessee State (1-1) was silent on their first two drives, but got on the board following a fumble recovery by redshirt freshman linebacker Mike Cullen (Roswell, Ga.) at the Concord 10-yard line. On second and goal, senior running back Gaven Varner (Summerville, Ga.) rumbled ten yards for the first score of the game.
Just over three minutes later, the Bucs got back on the board after a three-play, 51-yard drive. The drive culminated with a 44-yard touchdown strike from Meadows to senior wide receiver Andrew Nuckolls (Tunnel Hill, Ga.).
The Bucs put three more points on the board in the first half, taking a 17-0 lead into the locker room. Junior place-kicker Jonathan Godfrey (Johnson City, Tenn.) booted a 48-yard field goal with just four seconds remaining in the second quarter.
ETSU got on the board quickly in the second half, scoring a touchdown on just their second play of the half after a quick three and out by Concord (0-1). With 13:09 remaining in the third, Meadows connected with sophomore wideout Brian Matthews (Georgetown, S.C.) on a 54-yard touchdown pass to make the score 24-0 in favor of the Bucs.
After a second-consecutive three and out by the Mountain Lions, the Bucs struck quickly, putting up another touchdown, but this time in an unconventional fashion. On third-and-11 from the Concord 48, Meadows hit sophomore wide receiver James Rainer (Alcoa, Tenn.) with a deep pass down to the one-yard line. As he was being taken down, Rainer fumbled into the end zone, where it was scooped up by fellow sophomore wideout Frank Green (Monks Corner, S.C.) for a touchdown.
The Bucs scored on their next drive as well, running their lead to 31-0 as Godfrey put another three points on the board with a 24-yard field goal.
ETSU's offense was almost unstoppable in the third quarter as they put another touchdown on the board on a drive that was set up by an interception by sophomore defensive back Primus Glover (Springfield, Ga.). With 53 seconds remaining in the third, Meadows hit Nuckolls with a touch pass to the corner of the end zone for a seven-yard score.
The Bucs capped the evening's scoring with 11:09 remaining in the game when Godfrey split the uprights with his third field goal of the evening. His final field goal put him in the Buccaneer record book as his 51-yarder ties for the second-longest in ETSU history, only behind George Cimadevilla's 52-yarder against James Madison in 1986.
"I am very proud of Jonathan Godfrey and the kind of kicker he has become," said ETSU head coach Paul Hamilton following the game.
Meadows also reached a milestone as he went 14-for-28 on the evening with an even 300 yards passing and four touchdowns. This game marks the first time a Buccaneer signal-caller has thrown for 300 yards or more since Todd Wells threw for 307 yards against Wofford during the 2000 season.
Varner led the Bucs with 71 rushing yards on 20 carries and Nuckolls led Buccaneer receivers with four receptions and 81 yards. Cullen paced the Buccaneer defense with nine tackles on the evening, one for a loss and a fumble recovery. Junior safety Gerald Sensabaugh (Kingsport, Tenn.) had a strong evening as well, with six tackles, one for a loss, a forced fumble, a blocked punt and a sack.
"We are going to go get back to work because we have a big out of conference game next week," said Hamilton. "We are proud of what we did tonight, but there is still work to be done."
The Mountain Lions were led in the air by Josh Aliveto, who completed 11 of 22 passes for 65 yards. Speedy tailback Eric Jelks had 62 yards on the ground, while Jerrand Nesmith had six catches and Daniel Timpe led the team with 21 receiving yards. Linebacker Daryl Wilson had a game-high 10 tackles, one for a loss, and also broke up a pass and recorded a sack.
"I want to commend Concord and their team," said coach Hamilton. "Coach Quick has a good football team, and they fought us hard tonight."
The Bucs return to the gridiron on Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. against Tennessee-Martin in their third consecutive Thursday night game. The game will be televised by The Football Network, visit www.footballnetwork.com for information on availability. Concord will next travel to Pikeville, Ky. on Sept. 13 for a 1 p.m. matchup with Pikeville College.
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New Delhi: India on Thursday said the "tragic death" of an Indian woman in Ireland who was denied abortion was a "matter of concern" and its embassy in Dublin was following the matter closely.
Responding to a media query on the death of Savita Halappanavar, 31, who collapsed after doctors in an Ireland hospital refused to abort her foetus on grounds that "this is a Catholic country", the external affairs ministry said: "We deeply regret the tragic death of Ms Halappanavar. The death of an Indian national in such circumstances is a matter of concern."
"Our embassy in Dublin is following the matter closely," the external affairs spokesperson said, adding that the embassy was in touch with the family.
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He said the Indian government was also awaiting the results of two probes ordered into the death by the Irish government. "We understand that the Irish authorities have initiated two enquiries. We are awaiting the results of the enquiries," the spokesperson added.
Halappanavar arrived Oct 21 with back pain at Galway University Hospital where she was found to be miscarrying at 17 weeks. She died of septicaemia Oct 28.


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The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East is an isolated Autocephalous Church. It separated from the Eastern Orthodox Church after the Council of Ephesus (AD 431).
The Assyrian Church of the East (Nestorian Church) is sometimes considered an Oriental Orthodox Church, although it is not in communion with Oriental Orthodox churches and it has a Nestorian or Nestorian-like Christology that differs from the declaration of the Council of Chalcedon in an opposite way from the Monophysites.
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I wanted to take some time today to share with you
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It's easy to enjoy this holiday without much thought .
I wanted to encourage everyone to take time this weekend
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REMEMBER the cost many have
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Kirk's stroke draws former Porter staff together
"We should really get together," the onetime staffers in former North suburban U.S. Rep. John Porter's office would say, year after year.
But life interceded, until news of U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk's stroke helped rekindle the close-knit relationships they developed on Capitol Hill nearly three decades earlier.
Chicago attorney Peter Friedman, an aide in Porter's office from 1986 to 1991, was driving on the Eisenhower Expressway when he heard of Kirk's January 2012 stroke on the radio -- and was so stunned he had to pull over.
"It's a moment that you just realize that things happen. You've always got to remember who's important and what's good and how fragile things are," Friedman said.
Kirk was hired as a legislative assistant in Porter's office after graduating from the London School of Economics. Five years later, he was named chief of staff.
Porter describes himself as "blessed with a lot of smart hardworking young people who served me well the whole time I was in Congress."
That group, along with Friedman and Kirk, included Bill Cadigan, now a Winnetka attorney and New Trier Township GOP committeeman.
Cadigan reminisced about the long days in the office, which sometimes were followed by long nights in bars, and some memorable congressional staff softball seasons.
In 1990, Kirk left Porter's office to work as special assistant to the assistant U.S. secretary of state.
Porter said that while he and Kirk stayed in touch, it came as a surprise when, in 1999, Kirk announced his bid for the seat Porter would be vacating the following year.
Several of the dozen Republican primary bidders for the seat had close ties to Porter -- among them, Northbrook Mayor Mark Damisch.
"I initially said I'm not going to endorse in the primary," Porter said.
That February, however, he endorsed Kirk.
Kirk won the primary and narrowly defeated Highland Park Democrat Lauren Beth Gash in the general election.
Kirk's message as a fiscal conservative and social moderate -- crafted in the image of Porter and honed in Kirk's five terms as 10th District congressman -- helped him win the Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama by 2 percentage points in November 2010.
In that first year, Kirk seemed tireless. Energetic. Unstoppable.
The stroke, Porter said, was "the last thing you'd expect."
Meanwhile, Porter's former staff, reminded of the fragility and unfairness of life, began getting together, including in April at the Wilmette home of former staffer Ann James.
"It made you remember ... what we did and how special this all has been," Friedman said.


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Stolen Stradivarius violin will be tough to sell
FBI art crime expert says thieves usually bad businessmen
The search is on for a multimillion dollar violin stolen in an ambush-like attack.
Milwaukee police are fielding tips, but so far, no violin, no suspects and no sign of the getaway van.
It's a musical work of art, but the 300-year-old Stradivarius masterpiece will be hard to move. The founder of the FBI's National Art Crime Team, Robert Whittman, told WISN 12 News the robbers are probably laying low.
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"Generally speaking, in the very first phases of an investigation like this there really is no difference between say a Monet and a Chevrolet," Wittman said.
Wittman wrote a best-seller detailing his career with the FBI investigating high-end art thefts and now works privately. He said he suspects the violin is still in Milwaukee.
"What happens in most of these cases, and what I've seen over the years, is that the criminals, they're very good thieves, but they're terrible businessmen. Because the real art in an art theft or a collectibles theft is not in stealing it but in selling, and that's when they get caught," Whittman said.
The Sell It Now Store in Wauwatosa conducts high-end international auctions, some of them for musical instruments. Selling a Fender Stratocaster is one thing, but they said moving a stolen Stradivarius is nearly impossible.
"Any time something comes in the door the first thought is 'Does the person have the right to own it?'" Sell It Now owner Mike Boerschinger said.
Boerschinger said there would be very few, if any, buyers.
"When you have a piece with a handful known to exist, there's very few people that are going to take something like that without the provenance behind it. You know a chain of ownership. Well, the chain of ownership has been broken here," Boerschinger said
The experts said that could mean the violin, like many stolen before it around the world, will eventually find its way back to its rightful place.
Milwaukee police said they are following up a number of tips that have come in since Tuesday.
Antonio Stradivari is considered one of the greatest violin makers of all time. He lived in Italy in the 1600s and 1700s.
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Business consultant Stanley Davis defined mass customization as the "customization and personalization of products and services for individual customers at a mass production price." Anyone who has ever ordered a custom PC is no stranger to mass customization: that particular combination of components wasn't assembled into a PC until the customer initiated an order.
As we responded to zero-day exploits in the past couple of years, we took stock of some of the properties that separated them from mass malware, which affect older, patched vulnerabilities. For example, we noticed zero-day attacks starting to target more than one version of a platform on one or more operating systems. In addition, we observed that zero-day attacks contain more than one exploit possibly affecting multiple vendors' products. Our thesis can be stated as follows: The exploit creation industry is maturing; by combining the features of mass malware with multiple zero-day exploits, they can create mass-customized attacks.
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In light of negotiations with US, conservative groups in Iran call for continued use of 'Death to America' as official slogan, celebrate anniversary of US Embassy hostage crisis
Published: 11.02.13, 17:55 / IsraelThe Revolutionary Guards, the elite Iranian regime's army, said Saturday they are committed to the slogan "Death to America," chanted at official ceremonies, just days before the 34th anniversary of the storming of the American Embassy in Tehran.
"The slogan Death to America is the symbol of strength and determination of the Iranian nation against the dominance of the United States, which is an oppressive and untrustworthy nation," said the Revolutionary Guards on their official website.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is a far-Left "animal rights" organization focusing on what it calls the four main areas of animal suffering (factory farms, animal testing, clothing trade, and the entertainment industry), as well as other individual issues.[1] It was founded in 1981 by Ingrid Newkirk.
PETA essentially claims that human beings are animals, and that (non-human) animals should have most of the same rights as human beings.[2] While not proposing a ban on keeping pets, PETA believes:
- that it would have been in the animals' best interests if the institution of "pet keeping"—i.e., breeding animals to be kept and regarded as "pets"—never existed.[3]
PETA opposes the human ownership of animals as work animals.[4] It proposes that people stop eating meat; see vegetarianism.
PETA achieves its goals through "public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns,"[1] but they are best known for their provocative advertising and protests. For example, they often use nude women to protest the wearing of fur.[5] They have also had controversial public education campaigns, including comparing Jewish ritual slaughter to the Holocaust.[6][7] "On May 5, 2005, however, PETA issued an apology for its "Holocaust on Your Plate" exhibit, which traveled to more than 100 American and foreign cities. The exhibit compared the treatment of farm animals to the victims of the Nazi concentration camps. PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said she realized that the campaign had caused pain: 'This was never our intention, and we are deeply sorry.'" [8] In addition, PETA members have camped out in front of public schools and handed out propaganda "comic books" entitled "Your Mommy Kills Animals" to children as young as six years old in their attempt to manipulate children into blindly believing their lies.[9]
Many prominent celebrities support PETA, such as Bill Maher, Richard Gere, Alec Baldwin and Paul McCartney.
Controversy and odd statements
PETA receives criticism from many different groups, including researchers, consumer advocates and others who claim that PETA's goals are not animal rights, but total animal liberation,[10] which would mean no meat, dairy, hunting, fishing, circus animals, aquariums, or even pets.
Critics also chastise PETA for some of its methods of action, including stalking, attacking and harassing those in the food or medical research industries[10] and supporting violent far-Left animal rights and environmental terrorist groups such as the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front.[11] Many of PETA's advertisements also contain nudity or other shock tactics.
There have also been several accounts of PETA killing animals when they could not find homes for them. From July 1998 through December 2005, PETA killed over 14,400 dogs, cats, and other "companion animals." That's more than five creatures every day. PETA has a walk-in freezer to store the dead bodies.[12] The stated rationale is that a swift death is better than long suffering, but critics point out that PETA commands significant funds and presumably could have cared for the animals if they so chose.
PETA only adopted a mere 24 animals in 2011, as opposed to 1,911 that were euthanized. This is a euthanization rate of over 95%.[13] It could be deemed illogical that a group calling for "ethical treatment" would be so quick to euthanize animals rather than giving them adoptive owners.
PETA promotes the welfare of animals and insects yet is silent on the question of protecting children in the womb.[14] It has stated that humans are equivalent to animals as obscure as flies:[15]
|When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Each one values his or her life and fights the knife.
PETA has demanded that the Boy Scouts of America retire the "Fishing" and "Fish and Wildlife Management" merit badges. "Promoting fishing teaches young people that hooking, maiming, suffocating, and killing is acceptable.".[17] This is highly ironic due to their belief that humans are nothing but animals. Essentially, they are saying that one "animal" should not hunt another even though meat is a natural part of a human's diet (given that humans are omnivores). As such, this message is hypocritical.
PETA have seemingly done everything they could possibly do to alienate the online community such as condemning The Dark Knight for having Batman kick vicious guard dogs in an act of self-defence, making idiotic viral campaigns which equate the lives of animals to human beings, as well as making tasteless flash parodies of family friendly video games, such as: Super Mario 3D Land, which became "Mario Kills Tanooki", Cooking Mama, which became "Mama Kills Animals" and Super Meat Boy, which became "Super Tofu Boy". These games contain excessive amounts of blood and grotesque imagery. The reactions to these games were almost universally negative. The Tofu Boy parody inspired the developers of the actual Super Meat Boy to add Tofu boy as a playable character who isn't very strong or fast. PETA also compared Pokémon to actual animal abuse.
PETA often shows that for them, animals have more worth than humans. After "Palestinian" terrorists have detonated a bomb-laden donkey next to a bus with Israelis, PETA's chairman Ingrid Newkirk wrote a letter to Yassir Arafat, in which they ask him to leave the animals out of this conflict. Newkirk does not criticize the murdering of people. She said: "It's not my business to inject myself into human wars."[18]
PETA has also descended into racism by provocatively claiming that milk is a "symbol of white supremacy,"[19] ignoring the irony that the majority of its members are themselves white.
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Further reading
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 PeTA's Mission Statement
- ↑ PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has said, "When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Each one values his or her life and fights the knife." PETA: Why Animal Rights?
- ↑ Animal Rights Uncompromised: PETA on 'Pets'
- ↑ On Newkirk's view of Seeing Eye dogs "She regards the use of Seeing Eye dogs as an abdication of human responsibility and, because they live as 'servants' and are denied the companionship of other dogs, she is wholly opposed to their use."
- ↑ PETA: Dominique Swain is a Class Act for Animals, [1] (contains risque image)
- ↑ PETA'S "HOLOCAUST ON YOUR PLATE" NATIONAL TOUR COMES TO NEW YORK, PETA Media Center, October 9, 2003
- ↑ PETA's dirty war against Jewish ritual slaughter, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, WorldNetDaily, February 25, 2005
- ↑ Holocaust Imagery and Animal Rights, Anti-Defamation League, August 2, 2005
- ↑ ConsumerFreedom.com
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 ActivistCash.com
- ↑ ActivistCash.com
- ↑ PetaKillsAnimals.com, PETA's Dirty Secret
- ↑ http://bloggingfoodforthought.blogspot.com/2012/03/peta-posts-shameful-euthanasia-rate.html
- ↑ PETA Wants Obama to Stop Killing Flies, But Won't Take a Stand on Abortion CNSNews.com July 16,2009
- ↑ Ham, Ken; Foley, Avery (June 7, 2016). Should Animals Have Equal Rights as Humans? Answers in Genesis. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
- ↑ Ertelt, Steve (July 8, 2009). PETA: Upset President Obama Would Hurt a Fly, But Abortion Another Story. LifeNews.com. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
- ↑ Ask The Boy Scouts To De-Merit Fishing, PETA.org
- ↑ http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9997
- ↑ Cheong, Ian Miles (March 31, 2017). PETA Says Milk is a 'Symbol of White Supremacy'. heatst.com. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
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External links
- PETA Website [2]
- Center for Consumer Freedom [3], a consumer advocate group
- ActivistCash.com
- PetaKillsAnimals.com, a website critical of PETA and its hypocritical approach toward animals
- AnimalScam.com