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The children of Newport News Shipyard workers walk to school in this May, 1942 photograph taken by Pat Terry of the Farm Services Administration. Fifty years after the Supreme Court decision that outlawed racial discrimination in America's schools, Brown v. Board of Education is widely remembered as a revolutionary moment. But the landmark case represented only one clash in an epic struggle that had been under way for years - and which was ultimately fought and won in local schoolyards. One of the first and most bitterly contested cases in Hampton Roads took place in Newport News, where the decision to turn 10 black kids away from a white elementary school led to nearly two decades of legal strife. Even more defiant was the response in Surry County, where whites simply abandoned the public schools rather than integrate. As it did during the Civil War, Virginia became a decisive battleground, witnessing more lawsuits than any other state as black students, parents and attorneys challenged the forces of Massive Resistance. Yet even here, some communities adapted to this wrenching change smoothly. Hampton, in particular, found ways to bridge its racial gaps and reform an entrenched tradition of segregation with far less trouble than its neighbors. The complex history of this long crusade - plus its frustrating and less than clear-cut results - make up the subject of a special Daily Press report that starts today, continues every Sunday in May and marks the May 17 anniversary of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling with special coverage. Beginning with the now-unthinkable inequalities of the Jim Crow era, we will trace this movement's progress for both good and bad, re-examining not only the fight to integrate but also the unexpected losses suffered in the process. We'll survey the state of racial relations and student achievement in our schools today - and consider ways in which their persistent record of shortcomings might be combated. Lastly, we'll invite our readers to a community forum, asking them to size up the impact of an upheaval that - in the span of a single lifetime - has forever changed the society in which we live. We'll publish the results of this dialogue at the close of the series on May 30 - the same day that we review the newpaper's changing, and sometimes backward-looking, role in this historic struggle. -- By Mark St. John Erickson
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From classes to materials, educationalinvestment was unequal for black children School segregation was often a formal introduction for children into a racially stratified society Daily Press Sometimein the 1940s, a deliveryman made a mistake. He unloaded the wrongrolls of toilet paper at the wrong Newport News school. HuntingtonHigh administrators told their black students to use the paperbefore the mistake was discovered. White kids wiped with softpaper. Black kids wiped with coarse.
In Gloucester County duringthe late 1940s, someone in a passing school bus yelled racial slursat two black girls standing beside the road. One girl shouted back.The driver stopped, white kids piled out, and the girls ran. Whitekids rode to school. Black kids walked. In Suffolk in the 1930s, ablack teenager picked up supplies at a white high school to bringback to his classmates. As he passed an open window, he heard astrange noise: clickety-clack, clickety-clack, clickety-clack.Inside, an entire class pounded away on typewriters. Back at theteen's school, the only typewriter belonged to the principal. Whitekids studied for college and careers. Black kids "trained" forsweat-of-the-brow jobs, not professions.
"You knew when you walked out of that school that world was closed to you," said T.C.Williams, an 84-year-old retired postal service worker who didn'tlearn to type until years later. School segregation was alwaysseparate, never equal and always resisted by black families livingin Hampton Roads during the first half of the 20th century. Incities, such as Newport News and Hampton, those families donatedtime and money to bolster overcrowded and neglected public schools,bought framed pictures for bare walls, repaired tattered secondhandtextbooks and took pride in the purchase of typewriters. In rural counties, such as York, James City, Nansemond and Surry,black families opened private academies, which offered a secondaryeducation to black students at a time when even white childrenoften ended schooling in the seventh grade. In the late 1930s,however, black families and teachers began to challenge whiteofficials who refused to improve black schools. Their weapon was aseries of lawsuits seeking equality within segregation.
Virginiabecame a key battleground for civil rights lawyers in the twodecades before the U.S. Supreme Court ended school segregation inMay 1954, in part because Virginia was far less likely to erupt inracial violence than other Southern states. Those early lawsuits -filed in places such as Newport News and Surry and Gloucestercounties - sapped the strength of segregation. They planted theseeds for the court-ordered integration to come. But beforeintegration was achieved, racial discrimination was endured,expected and often endorsed by leading white thinkers who cloakedclaims of white superiority in supposed scientific fact. Schoolsegregation was just one aspect of legalized discrimination. But itwas one of the toughest obstacles children faced as they struggledto obtain better jobs, better homes and better lives.
In 1892, Homer Plessy, a racially mixed shoemaker, boarded a train inNew Orleans with hopes of challenging a state law that required"equal but separate accommodations." He sat in a railcar reservedfor white passengers. Four years later, the U.S. Supreme Courtupheld the Louisiana law, noting that state legislators elsewherehad passed similar laws, particularly in regards to schooling.Virginia, for example, had required separate schools for black andwhite children since passing its first public-education law in1870. Before the Civil War, educating blacks, whether free orslave, was illegal in Virginia. At the time, the Plessy v. Fergusonruling gained little notice locally. It simply recognized thestatus quo.
The New Daily Pilot in Norfolk did not deem the storyworthy of the next day's edition. The Richmond Dispatch ran afour-paragraph story on page six. A few days later, an editorialsuggested drafting similar laws in other Southern states. "It wasnot a big deal," said Davison Douglas, a law professor who teachesat the College of William and Mary. Racial segregation, whetherenforced by law or local custom, intensified significantly in thefirst two decades of the 20th century, dividing blacks and whitesin ways that had never before occurred in the South. Southernsegregation assumed the nickname Jim Crow, a stock stage characterin minstrel song-and-dance acts performed by white actors withblack cork rubbed on their faces. Jim Crow laws pushed blacks tothe back of buses, restricted them to living in certainneighborhoods and stripped them of the ballot.
Even outside oflaws, the Jim Crow culture barred blacks from certain stores, paidthem less for the same work and neglected their children'seducation. Separate was never equal. Not until 1919 did NewportNews convert a classroom at a black elementary school into amakeshift high school. Before then, a city survey said parents senttheir teen-agers to Hampton, Petersburg, Richmond and Washington,D.C., for a high-school education.
Several area localities,particularly rural counties, did not open public high schools forblack students until the late 1930s or 1940s. Teachers in Isle ofWight taught most black students in churches and lodges becausethere weren't enough schools for black children. Georgie Tyler, whoworked in Isle of Wight schools for 34 years, once asked officialsto donate public land for new black schools.
"Criticism startedfrom every direction," Tyler wrote. "I was censured for havingsuggested such a thing." With little hope of public funding, blackparents pooled their money and sought donations from charities andphilanthropists to open private academies. Black residents inGloucester County opened an academy in 1888 with money prominentblack leaders. They also built a public secondary school, calledthe Gloucester Training School, in the early 1920s. The new Gloucester Training School opened in September 1921 after the black community and private, often Northern donors contributed funds for its construction. Though much of the instruction focused on vocational training, the teachers also addressed academic subjects, leading one black leader to describe these rural centers as "boot-leg high schools." T.C. Walker, a prominent black lawyer, donated the down payment andled a fund-raising drive after school officials refused to help. InSurry County, former slave John Smallwood built a large, 4-storybrick school for the county's rural black youths. The school closedin 1928, about 14 years after Smallwood died. In York County, blackvolunteers cleared two acres of public land, sawed trees intoboards and built a two-story, four-room schoolhouse that opened in1915.
Charles Brown, a black York educator from 1914 to 1933, oncesaid black high schools were often called training schools to avoidoffending white officials, particularly in areas without a highschool for white students. "It was a kind of 'bootleg high school,'" Brown said. "Nevertheless, a very potent product."
Northernphilanthropists contributed to improving education for Southernblack students. Nearly every city and county in this area hadclassrooms and schools financed by Julius Rosenwald, president ofSears, Roebuck and Co. in Chicago. The Rosenwald schools usuallyfeatured a peaked roof over an entranceway that led into two tofour rooms where classes were taught to students in first throughsixth grades. Tall windows flooded the poorly heated schoolhouseswith sunlight. Students who arrived at the schools early helpedteachers ignite coal-burning stoves.
"In the mornings it was cold,"said Marion Randall, who attended such a school in Gloucester, "andit was very difficult to concentrate." Black parents and educatorsalso improved their schools - often a center of civic life - asmuch as they could by donating money for things such as athleticuniforms, musical instruments and cafeteria equipment. Newport Newsparents supplemented the salary paid to Huntington High PrincipalLutrelle Palmer. Families in Williamsburg and Nansemond County, nowSuffolk, bought their own buses. Even so, teachers and parentsstruggled to overcome the chronic poverty and overt racism thathandicapped so many black Virginians during the Jim Crow era.
Astatistical report published in 1941 figured school boardsstatewide spent about $29 per white child and about $13 per blackchild. The same report estimated that about 5 percent of whiteadults could not read or write compared to about 19 percent ofblack adults. But change was coming. In the late 1930s, teachersand families and lawyers began to sue school districts to forcethem to make black schools truly equal with white schools. "It wasVirginia blacks insisting on their rights," said Douglas, theWilliam & Mary professor, "and their leaders are Richmondlawyers."
On a Friday morning in November 1937, a thousandblack teachers and administrators applauded as a NAACP officialtold them during a convention at Hampton Institute, now Hampton University, how teachers in Maryland were winning lawsuits forequal pay. Virginia's black educators had long complained aboutracial salary differences.
Black teachers earned on average $558annually while white teachers earned $864. A white janitor earned ahigher salary at a Norfolk high school than the black principal andteachers. Richmond paid its most experienced black male teachersone dollar less than it paid its least experienced white femaleteachers. Palmer, the Huntington High principal and a driving forcein the pursuit for equal salaries, chastised his daughter foraccepting a job in Newport News that paid her a third less permonth than a beginning white teacher earned.
After the speech, theVirginia State Teachers Association, which had about 3,700 members,voted unanimously to file equal-pay lawsuits in partnership withthe NAACP. The vote launched a statewide campaign that helped erodethe legal basis for school segregation so deeply that lawyers laterpushed for integration. Similar lawsuits were filed in otherstates. "It's not challenging segregation," said Peter Wallenstein,a Virginia Tech history professor. "It's within segregation, butit's saying separate and equal are not the same."
The NAACP, acivil rights group founded in 1909, had decided a few years earlierto fight school segregation - from grade schools to graduateschools - under the leadership of Charles Houston, its lead lawyer.Houston believed that inferior education prevented blacks fromgetting better jobs, made them less likely to defend their rightsand symbolized "more drastic discriminations," according to "TheNAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, 1925-1930."Virginia played a pivotal role in the campaign, Douglas said. Blackplaintiffs were less likely to encounter violence here than in theDeep South.
Also, Virginia was closer than other Southern states toNAACP headquarters in New York and to Howard University, a blackcollege with a law school in Washington, D.C. Scholars credit agroup of Richmond lawyers - Oliver Hill, Samuel Tucker, MartinMartin and Spottswood Robinson - with coordinating most of theVirginia lawsuits, including those in Hampton Roads. These lawyershad graduated from Howard University, just like Houston and
Thurgood Marshall, a NAACP lawyer and future Supreme Court justice.At the time, Virginia did not provide a law school for blackstudents. Howard professors instilled students with an obligationto correct racial injustices, said Philip Walker, a Newport Newsnative and Howard graduate involved with the case to desegregatehis hometown's schools.
"You would develop it if you did not haveit," Walker said. "You sure weren't going to get it at the
University of Virginia or William and Mary." In 1938, Norfolkteacher Aline Black volunteered to become the first Virginiateacher to sue for equal pay. She lost in a state circuit court.The School Board decided not to renew her employment contractbefore an appeal could be heard. Leery teachers hesitated tosacrifice their jobs, but Melvin Alston, who headed the Norfolkblack teachers group, stepped forward and sued in the fall of 1939.His case seesawed through the courts.
Ultimately, the Supreme Courtrefused in November 1940 to overturn a federal appeals courtdecision that labeled the pay disparities unconstitutional. Norfolkwas ordered to equalize salaries by January 1943. The successprompted other lawsuits across the state. It also encouraged somelocalities to make changes before teachers filed cases. In NewportNews, teacher Dorothy Roles sued for equal pay and won her case inJanuary 1943, but the School Board refused to comply with the courtorder for more than two years.
Six months after the ruling, theSchool Board dismissed three teachers and three principals,including Palmer, by refusing to renew their annual contracts.Palmer had worked in Newport News schools for 23 years. SchoolChairman Dorsey Pleasants never publicly linked the firings to thelawsuit, saying only that the action was taken "for the good of thesystem." Palmer later told people that the superintendent hadwarned him to drop his support for the lawsuit or risk his job.
The dismissals spurred mass meetings and a petition with more than2,000 signatures. A judge sided with the School Board. Distrustlingered for decades, even regarding the pay raises that finallycame. "It was equalized, as far as we knew," said Artemesia Carter,who taught home economics in Newport News from 1948 to 1976. "Butthere were lots of things that went on behind closed doors." Schoolofficials attempted to address the damage in the 1970s by namingschools after Palmer and Roles, who had married and taken thesurname Watkins. Lawyers filed few salary-related lawsuits afterthe Newport News case was settled because most localities hadagreed by then to equalize pay. The next round of lawsuits focusedon correcting physical discrepancies, such as school buildings, busservice and curriculum. NAACP lawyers again crisscrossed the statesearching for plaintiffs.
"I was telling people now that we've gotthe teachers straightened out," said lawyer Hill, who's now 97."We're going after the schools and bus transportation." Two locallawsuits - one in Gloucester County and one in Surry County - wereparticularly noteworthy. Both cases were filed in 1947 and resultedin federal court rulings that ordered the school districts toimprove black schools. In Surry, black students attended classes inthe newly built L.P. Jackson School in 1951. Industrial teacher Isabella Smith, shown at right conducting a sewing lesson in this undated photo, was a prominent figure in the drive by Gloucester County blacks to establish a training school. In Gloucester, a new school was built after an attempt tointegrate. Lawyers inspected the Gloucester Training School in thefall of 1948 - five months after a federal court orderedimprovements to the building, heating system and equipment.
Theyfound no major changes, only some used appliances and other itemsmoved from the white schools into the black school. Afterward,lawyers tried to enroll a group of black teens at Botetourt HighSchool, which was for white students, to drive home their pointabout inequality. The Botetourt principal wrote down their names,and then he told them to enroll instead at the black school. Bothsides returned to court. Back in the courtroom, civil-rights lawyerMartin pitched an easy way to settle the dispute.
"The school boarddoesn't seem to realize that it can equalize schools tomorrow,"Martin said. The county's lawyer swiveled in his chair and askedhow. "They can do it tomorrow by letting those colored childreninto Botetourt High School." Ultimately, the School Board receivedgrant money to build a new black school in 1950.
That funding cameafter county voters opposed borrowing $300,000 to build the school."It was a shock," said Marion Randall, who had attended a Rosenwaldschool. "We left this very primitive building and moved to a modernfacility. I thought I was in heaven." One year later, countyresidents voted to spend $500,000 to build a new high school forwhite teenagers.
As Martin's remarks foretold, the NAACP againchanged its strategy at this time. A 1950 Supreme Court decisionsaid that a separate law school created for black students at theUniversity of Texas could never equal the white law school.Separate schools excluded future black lawyers from professionalrelationships and other intangibles associated with a respected lawschool. Civil rights lawyers no longer sought equalization. Theywanted integration. In Virginia, lawyers like Hill refused toaccept any more lawsuits seeking to equalize black schools.
In an attempt to head off more lawsuits, state and local officialskept pumping money into black education. Some cities and countieseventually spent more annually in black schools than in whiteschools. "What lots of Southern states begin to figure out over thecourse of the 1940s," Douglas said, "is if they don't equalizethings, they'll be forced to integrate." In Virginia, the bid forintegration came in Prince Edward County, which sits betweenRichmond and Lynchburg. Hill and his law partners visited thecounty in April 1951 after a high school senior called them forhelp. Students had refused to attend classes until local officialsimproved their school.
Hill and partner Robinson filed a lawsuit onbehalf of 117 students. They asked the courts to strike downVirginia's school segregation law - a law that traced back about 80years. A U.S. District Court rejected the request and orderedcounty officials to equalize the black school. The black familiesappealed. The Supreme Court considered the case as one of the fivelawsuits that made up the Brown v. Board of Education decision. InMay 1954, justices ordered desegregation.
Many Southern congressmenresponded quickly and fiercely, pledging to defy the court order."The abolishment of segregation in our schools will not enhance but- on the contrary - will lower the standards of public education,"said U.S. Rep. William Tuck, a former governor from South Boston.Local officials mostly waited in silence for direction from thestate political machine that marched to orders issued by Sen. HarryByrd, who warned that the decision "will bring implications anddangers of the greatest consequence."
A year later, the SupremeCourt handed the job of integrating schools "with all deliberatespeed" to local district courts. The ruling muddied the outlook fordesegregation. District courts, in Hampton Roads and elsewhere, hadregularly rejected arguments made by civil-rights lawyers over theprior two decades for equal teacher pay and for equal schools andequipment.
The NAACP saw the ruling as a concession to whiteSoutherners who favored gradual, rather than immediate,integration. Much had changed, but much remained the same. The sameschool officials and community leaders who had endorsed segregationand opposed equalization would oversee integration. None of themcould trump the Supreme Court. But, to show their displeasure, theydidn't have to. In some places, such as Hampton, integration wouldcome fairly quickly and fairly quietly.
In other places, such asNewport News and Surry, integration would come only after almosttwo decades of struggle. The Supreme Court had ordered change, butit relied upon local people to ensure it happened. Oftentimes, thatwork had just begun.
"We simply could not lose," said civil rightslawyer Walker. "But it took us a long time to win."


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We've already made it pretty clear that we find Nicole Richie both hilarious and stylish, but at the Tuesday launch party for her new AOL series #CandidlyNicole, she once again showed why she's worthy of our valuable TV-watching time.
When asked if her husband Joel Madden ever weighs in on her style, Richie laughed. "No!" she told PEOPLE. "He just noticed I had bangs. He noticed those a year ago and we've been together for seven years. I'm still waiting for everything from the neck down. He just noticed my bangs."
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As it turns out, this is actually bangs phase II. The first time around, she was going through a rebellious phase, which is now filed under her most cringeworthy style moments.
"My parents didn't want me to have bangs," she said — adding that she cut them anyway. "Then, after realizing I had curly hair — because I was too young to realize I'd actually have to blow dry my bangs — I had curly bangs for a year. That was fun."
And though you'll see the high-fashion side of the star in her AOL series, at home, she can't get out of her designer duds fast enough. "When I'm home I do not wear regular clothes. All I wear is sweats. Everything comes off, the shoes, jeans, the jewelry," she said. "I do not wear clothes in my house."
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You cream the butter & sugar - I realized at this point that I didn't have a mixer! But then I remembered I had just gotten one of those hand blenders and sure enough - it had a mixer attachment! I wasn't sure it would be powerful enough - but as you can see - it definitely was! After creaming the butter & sugar - you add eggs one at a time.
Then you stir in a can of crushed pineapple.
Fold in bread cubes (5 slices)
And there you go! Then you bake it for an hour and you're done!
And there you go - a piping hot dish of Pineapple Stuffing! It's sweet and fluffy and a great side - almost like the sweet potatoes would be. I really enjoyed this and can't wait for another reason to make it again! Easter isn't too far off!
Mom's Pineapple Stuffing
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 lb. 6 oz can drained crushed pineapple
- 5 slices bread, cubed
- * Preheat oven to 325.
- * Cream butter & sugar.
- * Add eggs one at a time.
- * Add pineapple.
- * Fold in bread.
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A story in the Feb. 9 Herald described how the NRA operates to weaken reasonable gun laws in the United States. In the recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Boston pediatricians describe the need for protecting our youths, who die at a rate of more than 6,000 per year from gun wounds. For years, the Academy of Pediatrics has recommended much stronger gun laws, but neither the NRA nor the media has listened. Guns kill many more children than cancer or infections or other types of accidents.
What can be done when the NRA money brokers will not listen to common sense spoken by pillars of our society who care for our children? We should turn off the propaganda of Fox news and Rush Limbaugh, who stupidly say that we need more guns to protect ourselves.
And we can strike the gun manufacturers where it hurts in the pocketbook. Call up your pension plan, broker or whoever you have stocks with, and tell them to get rid of any gun or ammunitions stocks in your portfolio.
Furthermore, stop buying gun magazines that advocate NRA ideas or that seem to advocate violence with guns. They are our stocks, it is our money, and we should not invest in companies that promote violence.
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December 2, 2004
Recent additions to Abzu:
- 115 items have been catalogued in Abzu in the period 1 November- 30 November 2004
Earlier monthly list remain available at the ETANA-Abzu-news Archives
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November 18, 2004
As part of its ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS ON-LINE, the Oriental Institute Publications Office announces publication of SAOC 38: The Demotic Verbal System, edited by Janet H. Johnson. This document is an Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
November 16, 2004
Two recent University of Chicago Dissertations are now available in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) format:
- Urbanism and Society in the Third Millennium Upper Khabur Basin: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, By Jason Alik Ur, Chicago, Illinois, December 2004.
- The Architecture Of Defense: Fortified Settlements Of The Levant During The Middle Bronze Age: A Dissertation Presented to The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations by Aaron Alexander Burke. The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago, June 2004.
November 16, 2004
As part of the Oriental Institute's ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS ON-LINE, the Chicago Hittite Dictionary Project announces the Electronic CHICAGO HITTITE DICTIONARY (e-CHD), and its first electronic publication, The P volume. Access to the P volume requires downloading to your computer an executable file for either the Windows 2000 & XP platforms or the Macintosh System 10 platform (it will not run on Macintosh computer running System 9.x).
November 15, 2004
HITTITE PARADE - The University of Chicago Magazine's Web log attends the Midwest film premiere of "The Hittites: The Empire that Changed the World."
November 10, 2004
Recent additions to Abzu
38 items have been catalogued in Abzu in the period 21 July - 31 August 2004
25 items have been catalogued in Abzu in the period 1 September - 30 September 2004
40 items have been catalogued in Abzu in the period 1 October - 31 October 2004
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October 28, 2004
Seventy new objects are added to our on-line Iraq Museum Database, bringing the current total to 984 objects. The new additions include Diyala sculpture and Diyala cylinder seals.
October 1, 2004
The Middle East Librarians Association Committee on Iraqi Libraries has received permission to publish two reports, one on the damage done to the Central library of Baghdad University / Al-Waziriyya, the second on the Central Awqaf library in Baghdad. The two reports were written by one of the most energetic archivists working in Iraq today, Mr. Zain Al-Naqshbandi. He is primarily responsible for the investigation and content of the two reports. The report on the Waqf library is certified by Mr. Salah Karim Hussein, the head of the Library, Mr. Asim Dawud Al-Khattab, a specialist in libraries (with five degrees in library and information science) and Mr. Muhibb Al-Din Yasin Ibrahim, one of the employees of the manuscripts section of the Awqaf library who was able to save 109 manuscripts, and find a further five in the post-looting stage. The reports were transmitted to the committee by Hala Fattah, who also prepared the English translations.
The text is available in English and Arabic at:
September 16, 2004
A significant percentage of the Diyala Expedition sculpture has been added to our on-line Iraq Museum Database, accessible via the Categories Main Page.
August 5, 2004
The Oriental Institute Iraq Working Group announces the availability on-line of the three fascicles of "Lost Heritage:
Gibson, McGuire; McMahon, Augusta. Lost Heritage: Antiquities Stolen from Iraq's Regional Museums, Fascicle 1. Chicago: American Association for Research in Baghdad; 1992. 1 volume (xii + 54 pages [illustrated]): American Associaton for Research in Baghdad, 1155 E. 58th St., Chicago IL 60637, USA.
Baker, H. D.; Matthews, R. J.; Postgate, J. N. Lost Heritage: Antiquities Stolen from Iraq's Regional Museums. Fascicle 2. London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq; 1993. 1 volume (viii + 153 pages [illustrated]). ISBN: 0-903472-14-7.
Fujii, Hideo; Oguchi, Kazumi. Lost Heritage: Antiquities Stolen from Iraq's Regional Museums. Fascicle 3. Tokyo: Institute for Cultural Studies of Ancient Iraq, Kokushikan University; 1996. 1 volume (xxi + 43 pages [illustrated]).
At the moment we are also providing separate access to:
"List of Stolen Manuscripts" = pages 16-43 of: Fujii, Hideo; Oguchi, Kazumi. Lost Heritage: Antiquities Stolen from Iraq's Regional Museums. Fascicle 3. Tokyo: Institute for Cultural Studies of Ancient Iraq, Kokushikan University; 1996. 1 volume (xxi + 43 pages [illustrated]).
All are available at:
They are made available on-line with the kind permission of the original publishers.
August 4, 2004
As part of its ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS ON-LINE, the Oriental Institute Publications Office announces an additional letter, N, for the Chicago Demotic Dictionary, edited by Janet H. Johnson. This document is available as an Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
May 25, 2004
As part of its ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS ON-LINE, the Oriental Institute Publications Office announces an additional letter, G, for the Chicago Demotic Dictionary, edited by Janet H. Johnson. This document is available as an Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
May 18, 2004
A new Oriental Institute website component, Modeling Ancient Settlement Systems (MASS), presenting research papers and progress reports for this on-going archaeology project, is now available.
"Until recently, debates concerning humans and their environment tended to favor either cultural or environmental mechanisms as the driving force behind change, but the most persuasive studies now focus on the interface between human/cultural systems as well as interactions between them. We have proposed that early urban settlements in the Near East provide an ideal laboratory for the study of human-environmental interactions because they offer an enormous array of data drawn from archaeological and textual studies that can be incorporated into an overall social, economic, and environmental analytical framework stretching over several millennia. We are engaged in modeling and attempt to explain trajectories of development and demise of Bronze Age settlement systems for both the rain-fed and irrigated zones of Syria and Iraq. Climate, hydrological, agricultural, demographic, and active agent social models are being combined using Argonne's Dynamic Information Architecture System (DIAS) simulation framework to provide a new holistic dynamic object model. The goal is to determine under what conditions urbanization or its opposite, ruralization or even collapse, might have taken place."
May 14, 2004
A University of Chicago Chronicle article from May 13, 2004, entitled Martha Roth, Professor of Assyriology, named Deputy Provost is now available. This link will open in a new window!
A University of Chicago Chronicle article from May 13, 2004, entitled Oriental Institute returns ancient tablets that explain an empire's administrative life is now available. This link will open in a new window!
A University of Chicago Chronicle article from May 13, 2004, entitled In the News is now available. This link will open in a new window!
May 12, 2004
The Oriental Institute Research Archives is pleased to announce the availability on-line of: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF UGARITIC GRAMMAR AND BIBLICAL HEBREW GRAMMAR IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by Mark S. Smith. Its URL is: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/bibs/BH-Ugaritic.html
This 136 page bibliography is a work in progress and is available in three formats, .pdf, .doc, .rtf
From the introduction:
"...In order to make this bibliography more "user friendly," I have presented it in the order of topics found in a grammar. The order here is largely traditional (with the customary division of phonology, morphology and syntax), although since the 1960s linguists have paid a great deal of attention to the interface between these levels of grammar. In section 15, the organization for syntax gives precedence of text linguistics before the syntax of clauses and their subunits, reflecting the current view that the sentence does not constitute the largest unit of grammatical analysis. One might go further and present syntax as theoretically prior to, and the context for, situating morphology, and, by extension, phonology as well; however, the traditional order of grammars is retained here for the sense of familiarity that it affords readers. I have included bibliography for the alphabet (under section 2), although properly speaking the alphabet is not a grammatical topic but a matter of the graphic representation of languages. However, the alphabet's historical importance for the study of West Semitic languages dictates its inclusion here. I have included some entries for Hebrew phonology or morphology with little or no mention of Ugaritic, in part to be more inclusive in these areas and in part to promote such work in the study of Ugaritic. Also included are entries for the syntax of particles (under 9.2) and for the verb (under 10.2.1) as well as some select individual verbal roots (under 14.11 and following). The bibliography in section 16 includes both basic and illustrative entries in the areas of lexicography, loanwards and semantics as well as personal names, but listings for dictionaries and lexica for Biblical Hebrew have not been included... Standard abbreviations have been used (see the list in the final section of this introduction); these are found also in Ugarit-Forschungen and Journal of Biblical Literature)."
May 6, 2004
About 300 new objects are added to our on-line Iraq Museum Database, including 250 ivories from Nimrud and 49 seals from Abu Salabikh. A quick overview over the Abu Salabikh Seals can be gained from the "Index of Museum and Excavation Numbers" s.v. "Abu Salabikh". I want to thank Harriet Martin and Nicholas Postgate (British School of Archaeology in Iraq) for generously making photos and descriptions of these seals--both published and unpublished--available to us.
Most of the recently added Nimrud ivories remain to be categorized--they are currently archived in a folder "*uncategorized". Due to the large number of items in it this will take a while to load--a fast connection is recommended. IM and Excavation numbers of these objects are already integrated into the index of IM and Excavation numbers. Once more, I want to thank Georgina Herrmann (British School of Archaeology in Iraq) for making the photographs of these ivories available to us. Over 1,000 ivories still remain to be added to our database over the next few months.
April 28, 2004
A University of Chicago News Office press release entitled University of Chicago returns ancient Persian tablets loaned by Iran is now available. This link will open in a new window!
April 28, 2004
NBC News coverage of the Oriental Institute's Iraq Museum Database project, "Chicago Researchers Seek Lost Iraqi Treasures" is available on the NBC5.com website:http://www.nbc5.com/news/3243596/detail.html This link will open in a new window!
April 27, 2004
A list, with active links, of the 221 items catalogued in Abzu in the period 13 March - 12 April 2004, is now available at http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/AbzuNewMar04.html.
April 15, 2004
We have added three new components to the Site Photos from Iraq web page: Isin, Umm al-Aqarib and Ur, taken by McGuire Gibson. They are added to the photographs of Girsu, Nippur and Uruk posted some days ago.
In May 2003, less than two weeks after major combat had been declared over, Gibson undertook a trip to Iraq, during which he visited several archaeological sites, including Isin, Ur, and Umm al-Hafriyat. A detailed account of this trip was posted on IraqCrisis yesterday:
Gibson's photos of Isin and Umm al-Aqarib show extensive damage to both sites by looting. His dramatic shots of Isin, showing looters caught in action by U.S. marines, highlight the scope of the destruction and the difficult if not impossible task of protecting these sites adequately in the current situation. A harrowing account of the destruction of Isin, based on a site visit by the German archaeologist Susanne Osthoff at about the same time, was published in the New York Times on May 23, 2003:
These recent photographs are supplemented by links to earlier photographs of five of these sites, taken by John Sanders (Head of the Oriental Institute's Computer Lab and then site architect at Nippur) during the 1970's and 1980's.
View the Site Photos from Iraq web page at:
April 9, 2004
On the first year anniversary of the looting of the Iraq Museum, the Oriental Institute and the University of Chicago News Office present: Oriental Institute continues to support search for missing Iraqi artifacts a year after looting.
April 5, 2004
A new addition to the Oriental Institute's "Lost Treasures From Iraq" database, Site Photos from Iraq, presenting digital photographs of archaeological sites, which were taken by SPC William Peterson during visits in late 2003 / early 2004 and generously forwarded to the Iraq Working Group at the Oriental Institute. They are posted here with permission of of the photographer.
Peterson took photographs of several archaeological sites, of which three (Nippur, Uruk, Girsu) are shown here (a fourth page with pictures of Babylon is in preparation). The pictures from Nippur and Uruk show relatively little obvious disturbance by looters. Stamped bricks found on site (eg., Pictures 65, 66 at Uruk, 29, 30, 31 at Nippur) and damage to brickwork at both the Ziqqurrat of Nippur and Uruk may have been caused by looters while attempting to steal such bricks [Note, however, that looting at the site of Nippur had been reported in July 2003, which may have occurred in areas other than the Ziqqurrat, such as the "Tablet Mound" (Areas TA / TB)], More apparent damage has been caused on both sites by wind and water erosion (note deep water erosion gullies on the site of Uruk). In Girsu, by contrast, photographs of numerous recent robber holes show that this site has clearly been looted in the past year.
We invite people who know something about the sites to comment. We are willing to annotate the captions of photographs if there is something particularly worthy to note.
March 30, 2004
The Oriental Institute Publications Office announces the publication of OIP 123. Temple of Khonsu, Volume 3. The Graffiti on the Khonsu Temple Roof at Karnak: A Manifestation of Personal Piety, Helen Jacquet-Gordon.
March 16, 2004
Names and Contact Information for Senior Administrators and Librarians at Institutions in Iraq, supplied to Middle East Librarians Association Committee on Iraqi Libraries by Mr. Wishyar Muhammad, specialist for libraries at the CPA
March 15, 2004
The URL's of the web-accessible version of the Oriental Institute's Iraq Museum Database have changed. The entry page is now at: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/dbfiles/Iraqdatabasehome.htm
The category overview page is at: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/dbfiles/indcat.htm
These changes have affected all category and object pages. Those who bookmarked individual category and object pages are advised to retrieve the new URLs by logging in again through the project's front or category pages.
We continuously are adding new objects and re-classifying objects in an effort to make the data entry as systematic and possible. For that reason, some of the category URL's are likely to change agin over the next few months. Object URL's are unlikely to be affected by these changes.
As of March 15, 2004 the total number of objects from Iraq Museum posted on our website is 534, which include 246 seals and 228 ivories. We hope to increase the number of objects significantly over the next few months.
March 12, 2004
Regarding the current situation in Iraq, the Middle East Librarians Association Committee on Iraqi Libraries is making available an article by Jeffrey B. Spurr, Bosnian Libraries: Their Fate in the War and Responses to it, with Lessons for Iraq
February 27, 2004
As part of its ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS ON-LINE, the Oriental Institute Publications Office announces an additional letter, Q, for the Chicago Demotic Dictionary, edited by Janet H. Johnson. This document is available as an Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
February 16, 2004
The Oriental Institute's Iraq Museum database, a part of the Oriental Institute's website "Lost Treasures of Iraq", has been revised and updated substantially. All files are now computer-generated, making additions and future updates easier to accomplish. New additions include an alphabetical index of object categories and and subcategories; all pages with object descriptions now also report the current status of the object, if known.
Note that the names of the category pages were changed to numerical code; bookmarks to the old category pages will no longer work. The URL's of the object pages have remained the same.
The number of objects currently posted on the Oriental Institute's website is now 496, most of them seals from the Diyala and ivories from Nimrud. Work on an additional 1000 object his mostly completed, which we hope to add successively to our website in the next few months.
February 11, 2004
The Oriental Institute Publications Office announces the publication of OIP 122. Neo-Babylonian Texts in the Oriental Institute Collection, David B. Weisberg.
February 5, 2004
Read a recent article from the University of Chicago Chronicle magazine, titled University Archaeologists Return To Amuq, Discover Tomb Unlike Others In Middle East. Aslihan Yener, Associate Professor in the Oriental Institute, is Director of the new excavations at Alalakh, an ancient archaeological site in the Amuq region of southern Turkey. She and other Oriental Institute researchers are involved in an effort to re-establish the institute's work in the region, which began there before World War II.
February 3, 2004
An activity called "Prepare a Mummy for Burial" that appears in the Kids Corner of the Museum Education section of the Oriental Institute website. Take a look at this activity at and let us know what you think! To operate properly, your web browser will need to have the free Flash plugin installed.
For additional children's programing, go to the Kid's Corner section of our Museum's Teacher Resource Center.
January 13, 2004
The Iraqi Jewish Archive Preservation Report is now available. This document is published on the website of the Middle East Librarians Association Committee on Iraqi Libraries with the kind permission of the authors and The National Archives & Records Administration.
January 9, 2004
The Oriental Institute is pleased to presents a new list: ETANA-Abzu-News
This list will provide occasional reports on developments at ETANA: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives. and Abzu: Guide to the rapidly increasing, and widely distributed data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East on the Internet.
To add your e-mail address to the list, please follow the instructions at https://listhost.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/etana-abzu-news
January 5, 2004
An article, Standing Guard, describing the reopened Mesopotamian Gallery at the Oriental Institute, from the University of Chicago magazine (December 2003, Vol. 96, Issue 2), is available from a University of Chicago website.


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Cujo: 25th Anniversary (US - DVD R1)
After calculating, Gabe realizes that Cujo is well over one hundred in dog years...
Donna Trenton (Dee Wallace Stone), a frustrated suburban housewife, is caught cheating on with a local tennis player. Donna's husband Vic (Daniel Hugh Kelly) takes a business trip, and uses the time to think about his marital troubles. While Vic is away Donna takes her five-year-old son Tad (Danny Pintauro) to a local mechanic to fix their broken Pinto. When they get to the mechanic's farm it appears that his dog, Cujo, has come down with a mean case of rabies.
Part of reviewing DVDs is reviewing entirely irrelevant movies because they have been reissued in a special anniversary edition. This isn't to say that all, or even most re-released films are irrelevant, and I also don't mean to imply that irrelevant films are necessarily bad, but it's really hard to find something intelligent to say about a movie as unimportant as Cujo. Cujo isn't an unintelligent film, or even a flat film - to the contrary, it's a well layered monster movie, with rather deep emotional allegories, but allegories that speak specifically to the 1980s. Before and since other monster movie allegories have spoken for their eras, and these films cast long shadows over Cujo's minor accomplishments, not to mention the fact that many other non-horror films said the same thing with more conviction ( E.T. for instance). We're left with an entertaining little movie that looks great, and has more than scares on its mind, but little staying power, plus or minus a few good scares.
Contextualizing, Cujo is one of the better Stephen King adaptations. The '80s in general were a good time for Stephen King adaptations, from The Shining to The Dead Zone, all the way to Pet Cemetery. The '90s were pretty awful, at least for straight horror work, and the '00s aren't off to a very good start (though I do have a slightly stupid soft spot for Dreamcatcher). Perhaps King's style was made for the era. Unfortunately, going this route I also wind up realizing how irrelevant the film is, because calling it 'one of the better Stephen King adaptations' ends up being the nicest thing I can say about it concerning the greater movie lexicon.
Ok, let me try again. I hadn't seen Cujo in (wait for it) a dog's age. I hadn't remembered how much an eyeball appetizer it was, do in no small part to the presence of cinematographer extraordinaire Jon De Bont. De Bont's work here is occasionally flat out brilliant, though much credit must also go to director Lewis Teague, who thought up most of these bravado camera moves. The energy isn't quite up to Sam Raimi levels, and the overuse of soft focus is a little annoying, but the visuals cover the lack of overall plot rather well, and keep what could have been a stagnant narrative moving. There are only so many ways to shoot a Pinto, and this director/DP team juices the possibilities to the rind.
Lewis Teague is the guy behind the camera on Alligator, which thanks to the efforts of John Sayles and a smashing cast was more tongue-in-cheek funny then horrifying, but there were plenty of genuinely frightening images to go around. The story goes that Stephen King himself suggested Teague for Cujo when the time came based on his work on Alligator. Alligator is the better film (mostly because of its script alone), but Cujo is the more frightening. As an adult the film didn't wrack my nerves like it did when I was a kid (I was afraid of dogs for most of my childhood), but I can still recognize a good scare when I see one. For seat jumping alone Cujo may be the scariest King film on record, except for, of course, those shots you can see the dog's tail wagging in. Those kind of spoil the terror.
And hey, let's give a hand to Dee Wallace. I know the woman is notorious for her overtly emotional method acting, but this performance makes the film. Without her melodramatic every-mom this would just be a good looking thriller. With her it's an occasionally nerve-wracking, nearly brilliant pity piece.
I'm not familiar with the original Artisan release of Cujo (I swear that the film is on cable every other weekend, why would I bother spending money on it), so I can't say if this disc is an improvement. What I can say is this new release looks pretty great for a modestly priced, twenty-five-year-old thriller. Jon De Bont's hard work does not go unnoticed here. There is some grain and compression noise to deal with, and the soft focus work sometimes appears blurry rather than soft, but colours are realistic, details are relatively sharp, and blacks are deep (if not a tiny bit on the brown side.
There's no frilly remixing on this one, just your basic Mono and Pro Logic tracks. I suppose a 5.1 revamp could've added some aggression to the musical score, maybe some bassier dog barks, but the film don't really require a lot of surround work. The two tracks are pretty close, and both a little flat, but they work, and for the most part are clear. During some of Cujo's car attacks things get a bit muddled, and the lack of definition in the LFE track is a bit sad, but it's all loud and furious nonetheless.
Lewis Teague's solo commentary track is great. Teague is well prepared, and knows specifically what he wants to talk about. Unlike many DVD commentators, Teague assumes (rightfully), that we've already seen the film, so when he's nearing a shot he wants to talk about he sets himself up several minutes before the shot arrives. Too many commentary tracks involve commentators pointing out a sequence or shot as it appears, rather than preparing us for what to look for. Teague rarely lets up, and is consistently engaging.
This so-called 'special edition' is filled out with a three-part featurette, running over thirty minutes in total. It's no fluff piece, and covers most of the creative process (I did not know that the original book was a semi-sequel to The Dead Zone). The interviews are great, except for Teague who reiterates everything he already said on the commentary track. Teague's repetition aside, I can't think of anything more I'd like to know about the film's production.
So if you're looking for a great monster movie with more on its mind than just scares, watch Jaws, or maybe even director Lewis Teague's own Alligator. If you're looking for a great Stephen King adaptation watch Carrie or The Dead Zone. If you're looking for a great Dee Wallace film I'd suggest E.T or The Howling. If you want to watch Cujo, just watch Cujo. I've got no better reason for you. Not a super-duper, ultra-great, must-see feature, but an entertaining horror/drama. This special edition release features a fine audio commentary with Teague and a solid making-of featurette, but probably isn't worth a double dip for fans that already have the killer dog flick on their shelves.
Review by Gabriel Powers
keffa Member Join Date: July 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 436
Shame this wasnt in the recent SK dvd box set with Silver Bullet, Pet Cemetary & The Dead Zone.
Dave Brock Banned Join Date: November 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,237
Does it contain the (lovely) Dee Wallace orgasm/close up on her face scene when it is revealed who she is sleeping with?
Steven Carrier Senior Member Join Date: November 2004 Location: United States Posts: 1,575
Id have to say the best Stephen King movies are "Carrie", "The Dead Zone", "1408", "The Shining", and "Misery". I dont think "Cujo" belongs on that list lol
Shaun Andrews Member Join Date: March 2004 Location: United States Posts: 149
Forget not The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.
I tried to make it clear that I was speaking of horror alone, but for the record I think both Shawshank and Green Mile are pretty overrated.
Tyler Foster Member Join Date: October 2004 Location: United States Posts: 717
The original disc was full-frame. This being OAR makes it a clear upgrade.
Andy Radke Member Join Date: October 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 93
I bought this last week but won't be watching it until my Halloween movie night next weekend. I've waited so long for this to be released OAR. It's going to be a real treat. I would've loved to see a 5.1 mix included as well, but all things considered, the mono track should suffice.
Tyler Foster wrote: The original disc was full-frame. This being OAR makes it a clear upgrade.
I was not aware of that. Sometimes I get too busy to do proper research when pumping out these reviews. Thank you for that.
I was not aware of that. Sometimes I get too busy to do proper research when pumping out these reviews. Thank you for that.
Dave Brock Banned Join Date: November 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,237
Orgasm? Hello?
Um, I beleive it did, yes. Don't quote me, but I remember that shot.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 25th September 2007
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Surrond 2.0 English, Dolby Mono English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Extras: Director Commentary, Behind the Scenes, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Lewis Teague
Cast: Dee Walace Stone, Robert Behling, Danny Pintauro, Terence Donovan
Genre: Drama and Horror
Length: 95 minutes
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HOUSTON (AP) — Just before the season, Houston defensive coordinator Wade Phillips was asked what he wanted from his defense in 2012 after the unit made a remarkable turnaround to finish second in the NFL in yards allowed last season.
Phillips didn't say a word. He simply raised one index finger.
The Texans haven't reached that mark yet, and they remain No. 2. That, they say, gives them something to work toward.
"We're working extremely hard to make that happen," defensive end J.J. Watt said. "We attack every day with that intensity and that mentality."
That was clear in Sunday night's 13-6 win over Chicago when Houston forced four turnovers.
The Texans are allowing 281.6 yards a game, behind only Pittsburgh. They are also among the top teams in several other defensive categories. Houston is third in scoring (15.9), tied for fourth in interceptions (11) and have allowed the third fewest touchdowns (15).
Houston has rebounded from its only loss — a 42-24 defeat by Green Bay — with three straight dominant defensive outings. They've allowed just one touchdown since the loss.
"It's important that we play well every week," nose tackle Shaun Cody said. "We know we want to put our offense in a good position to get the ball a lot, and it's going to lead to some good things."
Watt has emerged as one of the top defenders in the league. He leads the NFL in sacks with 10 ½ and has knocked down 10 passes. The constant attention he receives has given other Texans chances to make plays. Outside linebacker Connor Barwin has come on lately, piling up 13 tackles and two sacks in the last three games.
The Texans have come a long, long way from the days when there were concerns about Phillips changing the alignment, and then in the offseason, Mario Williams and DeMeco Ryans left for other teams. More questions came when star linebacker Brian Cushing was lost for the season with a knee injury in Week 5 and the loss to the Packers came the next week.
The defense has been great since then, and Barwin said they are driven by the thought of becoming the best in the league.
"That's something that we've all thought about all year long," Barwin said. "We pay attention to where we're at. At the end of the year is what matters. So hopefully at the end of the year we'll be No. 1."
Houston's secondary has been helped by the solid play up front. Phillips inherited a pass defense that allowed an NFL-worst 267.5 yards passing per game in 2010. Last year, the group gave up the third fewest at just 189.7 yards a game.
They're currently in third again by allowing 196 yards passing a game.
Cornerback Johnathan Joseph, who along with Phillips sparked the transformation of the secondary last season, is focused on being the best defense. But he noted that the statistics aren't the top priority.
"We always want to be known as the best defense and the best team," he said. "But in our minds it's all about helping the team win games by playing dominate defense and being the top defense. What's most important is winning ball games."
The Texans have done a lot of that this season. They're off to the best start in franchise history and tied for the NFL's best record at 8-1. Joseph has been impressed that they've been able to remain one of the top defenses for a second straight season.
"Going out and doing it every week (is) probably the hardest part about having a great defense," he said. "You see teams like Pittsburgh and Baltimore that did it for five, 10 years-plus. To go out and do it this last year and this year and keep up the same style of defense is something that you can build on and look toward the future."
Houston plays Jacksonville on Sunday in a rematch of a Week 2 win by the Texans. Houston's defense starred in that 27-7 victory by allowing Jacksonville to gain just nine first downs and 117 yards.
The Texans are guarding against a letdown this week against the Jaguars (1-8).
"There's always room for improvement, but right now it's just about going out and being better than we were the week before," Joseph said.
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WASHINGTON — A U.S. Department of Labor lawyer who was accused of a home invasion at a co-worker's home has been found dead in his cell at the D.C. Jail.
The Department of Corrections said in a statement that 58-year-old Paul Mannina of Ashton, Md., was found unresponsive on the bunk in his cell early Tuesday. The cause of death is under investigation.
Mannina had been in jail since last week. He was charged with attacking a co-worker at her northwest Washington home. According to court documents, the woman told police Mannina had a "crush" on her and that he used a stun gun on her during the attack. He was charged with first-degree burglary while armed and third-degree sexual abuse.
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I find it difficult to write about my holiday. Looking at all the holiday photos and trying to recall every single details through the journey again just makes me miss travelling even more. After writing the post about finding the best bowl of Pho Bo in Vietnam, I thought perhaps it is the right way to document my trip by just blogging about the particular dishes and restaurants rather than trying to record it chronologically. How wrong I am… Now everything is messy and tedious, especially when there are over 2000 photos to sort out is not something I would call fun. Hence, after wasting more time playing with the layouts and trying to organise the photos, it is back to square one like I just hit the rewind button on the TV remote control and now I am back to day one in Vietnam.
(harp strumming sound effect optional…)
I've planned to be in Vietnam for 8 days, mainly focus on Ho Chi Minh City and center Vietnam – Hue and Hoi An. With very little knowledge about the country and the food, Anthony Bourdain's No Reservation TV series is the only guidebook I have. I'd like to keep an open mind and I am ready to experience a new adventure by embracing anything and everything comes my way.
Day 1
I was supposed to travel alone, but my brother-in-law decided to tag along for six days after an impromptu decision. I do not mind to have a travel companion but this so-called companionship only lasted two days before he started getting on my nerves and ruining my gluttony plan! Learned my lesson and from now on, always say "No" to brother-in-law for food trip! Or whoever is going to get in the way between me and the food!
We took the earliest AirAsia flight out from Kuala Lumpur and arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) at around 10am in the morning. Whilst it is way too early to check in, we just dropped off our bags at the hotel and wandered off to get some breakfast. Our first meal in Vietnam of course has to be a bowl of hearty Pho Bo Dac Biet at Pho Quynh in Pham Ngu Lao, the backpackers district. I love my Pho Bo, but I find it challenging slurping up a bowl of hot beef noodle soup while the humid monsoon weather outside already reaching 32ºC in the morning. That's why a glass of Vietnamese Ice Coffee (Ca Phe Sua Da) is almost compulsory for any consumption of hot meals in Vietnam. This is my first taste of Vietnamese coffee and I am instantly hooked. The coffee is exceptionally strong with a robust vanilla-ish flavour, it is also very thick and sweet from the condensed milk. I reckon they could have used less ice and more coffee as I always found the glass is still full of ice blocks when finished.
For the first day, we decided to take it easy and just wander around the city for more food. The touristy Ben Thanh Market is only a short 10 mins walk from Pham Ngu Lao. Ben Thanh Market is located right next to the biggest roundabout in the heart of Saigon. The market is almost like the Paddy's Market in Sydney, except it is a lot bigger, hotter, and pokier inside. Different exotic smell lingers in different section of the maze. It also has a mini food court at the back of the market where the diners are mainly locals. The vendors are typically pushy, shoving the menu in your face, dragging your arm to their stalls to make you sit down. Just be firm, say 'No, thank you' and walk away. Rubbing your stomach to indicate you are already eaten or full is always a good optional escaping plan.
I then come across this food vendor at the far end corner of the food court which seems to be very popular among the locals. Rows upon rows of customers on plastic stools are over spilled on the walking path and waiting patiently, mesmerised by the lady boss busy preparing plates upon plates of Banh Beo Hue behind the counter. A Chinese-speaking local saw us sticky-beaking and invited us to pull up a stool to join them for a plate of Hue specialty. The mini steamed rice flour cake is sticky and chewy, it reminds me of the translucent prawn dumpling skin at yum cha. The rice cakes are naturally tasteless, so it is usually served with dried shrimps, cilantro and a good dash of fish sauce. Our friendly lady must have ordered the 'special' Banh Beo Hue for us which also comes with fish balls, a thin slice of Cha (the white one), which is steamed sausage, and Nem (the pink one), a cured meat made from pork rind which has a sour acquired taste.
By the time we finished our Banh Beo Hue, there is already a group of locals waiting to take over our seats. We soon found ourselves joining our friendly lady again and another big group huddling over a drink stand a few stalls down that only serves Che, a sweet sticky local dessert drink.
The tri-colour Che Thap Cam is an eclectic of mix of different ingredients including tapioca, green cendol, sweet corn, coconut milk, roasted coconuts and some other unidentified chewy goodness before sealed with an inch thick of crushed ice on top. Spoon dug in, we excavate and testing all different textures in one glass, a nice fun drink for a hot afternoon.
I've been warned about the heavy traffic in Saigon, especially the heavy fleet of motorbikes zooming past us. It didn't take me long to get used to the constant honking and beeping for no particular reason. According to statistic, there are average 4 people die in car accidents per day in Saigon, especially hit by the motorbikes. Which also makes one think twice before take a plunge and cross the busy streets, but unfortunately that's also the only way you will make progress in Saigon. I can't help but feel vulnerable like being inside the Frogger arcade video game. Eventually I got the hang of the rhythm, follow the instinct and walk out the streets slowly without any sudden movements will ensure motorists understand your directions and veer around you appropriately.
We decided to follow the route which allows us to check out a few of the tourist attractions, but disappointingly most of the museums are shut during lunch hour. We got approached by rickshaw drivers who will let you know that the museum you are going to check out is closed and recommend another place that is still open and will take you there in their rickshaws of course. If that's not convincing enough, they will soon pull out an autograph book that is filled with testimonials written by tourists from all over the world that have used their services. Once I've mentioned I am from Australia, he will instantly flipped to a page written by another tourist from the same country. As professional as it may sound, I am afraid I have to decline and prefer to walk.
We only managed to check out the War Remnant Museum after a short wait outside the gate. A good excuse for us to pull up another stool under the tree, sipping an icy cold Vietnamese Ice coffee to beat the muggy air. The museum itself is small but very informative with lots of artifacts and photographs from the Vietnam War. The museum does get very hot inside with no air conditioning except a few big fans which simply circulating the hot air around. It is well worth it to check out the museum, but I can assure you that pork chop and offals are the least thing you want on the dinner menu after seeing all the gruesome photographs with gory details.
Eventually we got beaten down by the heat and insane humidity, decided to call it a day and start walking back to our hotel. On the way back, I've noticed the food scene in Saigon is also slowly changing according to the time of the day. The shops are closing, whilst the street is slowly filled with ladies pushing trolley carts selling all kinds of street food. The moment that I've been waiting is finally over. We stop at the first trolley cart as soon as we spotted it on the street and immediately ordered ourselves two Banh Mi. You simply can't go to Vietnam without stuffing yourself silly with at least one Bahn Mi or two (or many more in my case). The usual ingredients they put inside Banh Mi are roast pork slices, Vietnamese ham, pate, pork floss, cucumber, cilantro and green chili for those who like it hot. But the secret of a good Banh Mi is definitely the Vietnamese baguette they used. The fluffy soft bread is sealed with the most amazing crust on the outside. Each bite is a sensory experience.
It was a lot of walk in one day so the evening is resolved to a nearby bar in the area. A quick research on internet and landed us at Eden Bar, a popular backpackers' haunt in Pham Ngu Lao. The fairy lights and red lanterns hung over the kitsch oriental bamboo counter bar sets the mood while a house DJ is playing some ambient music in the background. Upstairs is a restaurant that offers local and western food for those who are looking for a bite. Sometimes when you visit a new restaurant or bar, you can usually sense whether you are going to like it or not. And on this occasion I know instantly that I am going to fit in perfectly. In fact, the vibe of this place has captured my soul and I found myself spending every single night here ever since my first day in Saigon.
The food at Eden Bar is nothing special to rave about, we had a simple meal of fried rice and burger then slowly winding down at the bar area over a few beers. I've tried a few local beer, the Saigon Lager is quite drinkable with a fresh crisp taste while the 333 beer is absolutely nasty with an awful grandma's old knickers after taste. But the best beer I've tasted is surprisingly from Hue, which I will blog about it in my next post. As the night wears on, the music is getting louder, a free round of watermelon cocktails are offered to all the patrons in the bar. By now, I would have learned all the friendly staff names by heart (or phonetically at least). We decided to call it a night before 12am as we still need to be up bright and early for our day tour the next morning.
I am already loving my first day in Vietnam.
Day 2
When we woke up, we decided to skip the breakfast provided by the hotel and venture outside to look for another bowl of Pho Bo. And this time, we found our favorite Noodle Granny as mentioned in my previous post. I am so glad that we had a big bowl of noodle soup before we jumped on the bus for the Cu Chi tunnel day tour, as we don't get to feed until around 1.30pm after seeing the Cao Dai temple. But the highlight of the tour is definitely the Cu Chi tunnel which every fat food lovers will hate to see himself get stuck inside. The only piece of advice from our tour guide is, "Do not stop." Okay, thanks… I guess.
One after another, I follow the rest and crawl into this dark, hot and stuffy narrow tunnel and soon realised it is a bad decision a second too late. Excitement turns into fear, the tunnel goes three levels deep, with split ends at certain sections so you really have to keep up with the group or else you will get lost inside. And if you think you are good at lunges, try this this tunnel and feel the muscles burning! It is the longest 10 mins in hell and crawled myself out from there. Never again. Not to mention I can barely walk down the staircase for the next 5 days.
At the Cu Chi tunnel park, there is also a shooting range for those who feels like turning into Rambo or Lara Croft for a mere 5 minutes of adrenalin rush. I do find guns fascinating and intimidating. I don't against it, but definitely won't keep a gun in the house that's for sure. 240,000VND ($15.00AUD) will buy you 10 bullets on a M16 which is my weapon of choice. The shooting range is badly positioned right next to the souvenir shop, scares the daylight out of the poor tourists by the unexpected loud bangs. The earmuffs that provided are absolutely useless as I could barely hear a thing afterwards. It feels very awkward to fire a machine gun that survived from the war and definitely would not like to imagine how many people had die under this gun I am using. Our tour guide, Minh, is quite a Mr Wise Guy himself and gives us his best advise to conclude our tour,
"No one likes war, no one likes tiger traps. But we all love one kind of tiger, and that's Tiger Beer."
Corny but it works for me.
We arrived back in Saigon after dark, and I am absolutely famished and knackered. When I am hungry, I am angry. I just want to sit down somewhere and have something in my tummy fast. But my brother-in-law decided that he wants another bowl of Pho from the same Noodle Granny. That's when I get irritated because as a foodblogger, you never try the same dish twice, let alone on the same day! Besides, I well knew the noodle shop will be shut at night as the usual business trade are only for breakfast and lunch.
I let him wandered off to look for his Pho, while I determined to stay and try the little food stand opposite Pho Quynh that serves Chao Trang which I discovered later is actually Chinese congee. And of course it doesn't take long for my brother-in-law crawling back like a defeated dog with its tail tucked between his legs and joining me for the meal after all.
Chao Trang is more like the congee mum will cook at home, just simple bland white porridge as the basic of the meal where there are lots of small dishes that you can order to enhance the flavour and texture. I ordered some side dishes that I am familiar with like salted duck egg, pickled vegetable, cured roast pork but I am extremely curious about the hairy looking dish in the glass display. From what I saw, it seems like a group of tarantulas doing Stacks On with all their legs tangled up in an insolvable mess. I will definitely jump in and order one if it is deep fried, but this pile of squishy crawleys dressed in mystery sauce does make me backen a bit and is probably not wise to fall sick on the second day of my trip when I still have a long food journey ahead of me. The meal comes to 100,000VND which is probably more than what the meal should have cost us.
We must be still hungry after the meal as we soon find ourselves holding a giant log of Banh Mi with both hands munching away as we walking back to our hotel. Well fed, showered and a micro rest, it is time for us to hit the Eden Bar for a quick drink as we have an early flight to catch the next morning for our next destination. The promises of an early night are soon forgotten and found ourselves wasted, stumbling back to our hotel way past midnight.
To be continued…
Addresses of restaurants/places I've visited:
Pho Quynh
323 Pham Ngu Lao, District 1
Saigon, Vietnam.
Directions: Right at the corner of Pham Ngu Lao & Cong Quynh,
in a big bright yellow building
Noodle Granny (No shop name)
Cong Quynh, District 1
Saigon, Vietnam.
Directions: Between Pham Ngu Lao & Bui Vien, opposite of Volcano Bar
Chao Trang street food
Cong Quynh, District 1
Saigon, Vietnam.
Directions: Right opposite Pho Quynh in Pham Ngu Lao
Eden Bar
236 De Tham, Pham Ngu Lao, District 1,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Ben Thanh market
Directions: On the north west side of the roundabout;
intersection of Le Loi, Ham Nghi, Tran Hung Dao Avenues and
Le Lai Street, look for a big blue clock tower.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Related Posts:
In search of the best Pho Bo in Vietnam
Part 2 – Postcard from Vietnam – Hue
Part 3 – Postcard from Vietnam – Hoi An


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The first story concerns at least one of the legitimate (by which I mean factual, not bastardy) children of Ira Baker Brown (28 Jun 1829 - 15 May 1899), a maternal second great-grand-uncle, oldest brother to Silas W Brown, about whom I have written before. Among many other occupations, including cooper, painter, soda maker (?), and photographer (he owned a panorama camera), Ira Baker Brown was also a sextant at the Edgewood Cemetery in Chillicothe, Missouri. Oooooohhhh! Not terribly spooky in itself, I know, although I did try to add a little atmosphere to the photo below.
|Edgewood Cemetery, original photo by "mordecarr" at findagrave.com.
|Not our twins, but a suitably macabre illustration,
from Edward Gorey's The Epiplectic Bicycle.
It is an awfully good story, and comes to us from no less an authority than Timothy Hopkins' John Hopkins of Cambridge, 1634, and Some of His Descendants (1932, Stanford University Press), the former Martha Abigail Hopkins (27 Jul 1834 - 1 Apr 1924) being Mrs Brown, and consequently the children's mother. The only problem is that the story is merely that. There are no records of daughter Malvina Brown, despite her "twin" Orlando appearing on the 1860 U S Federal Census. And it is doubtful Orlando, even allowing for the lightning strike, would have been in school, as he was just three years old at the time of his death. Like many family stories (and I am sure you can think of examples in your own lineage), there may be some truth in this tale, but not as it has come down to us.
The second legend involves an actual person, unlike the mythic Malvina Brown, and it involves everything from piracy to a haunted house. The stretch here is that I have not been able to prove our heroine is related to me (although it is likely); she certainly would have been known by some of my ancestors. I am referring to Mary Wilson (Jul 1720 - 13 [alas, not a Friday] Feb 1814). Who? She is better known to New Englanders and beloved by ghost-story fans as Ocean Born Mary.
|The legend has inspired everything from a children's book to an indie album to a puppet show.
The story, aptly enough, does begin with her birth at sea, on board the sinisterly-named Wolf, coming from Ireland to the New World. The ship was overtaken by pirates, whose captain was named Don Pedro. Upon seeing the newborn girl in her mother's arms, the oddly sentimental Captain, struck by the beauty of the red-haired child, said he would spare the lives of all aboard, and return the plunder his men had taken--if the child would be named "Maria," after his own mother. Needless to say, Mother Wilson agreed, so the pirates departed, but not before Don Pedro returned to the cabin to present her with a length of sumptuous green brocade, for baby Mary to wear on her wedding day.
Upon reaching land, the Wilson family settled in Nutfield, New Hampshire (present-day Londonderry), where Ocean Born Mary grew up. Her father James Wilson, died soon after their arrival, and her mother, Elizabeth (nee Fulton), married James Clarke, also of Nutfield. Mary Wilson was known to be tall, with fiery red hair and aquamarine eyes. On 18 December 1742, she married James Wallace (1712 - 30 Oct 1781), wearing, as promised, a dress made of the ill-gotten seafoam brocade. The Wallaces stayed in Londonderry, and had five children, living a normal life until James died. Then Mary's tale takes another bizarre turn...
And it is here that I must interrupt (this is called building suspense) to explain how Ocean Born Mary Wilson Wallace may be related to me. As I have written before, my seventh great-grandparents, Thomas Steele (1683- 22 Feb 1748) and Martha Morrison (1686 - 22 Oct 1759) were among the founding families of Nutfield/Londonderry and were well-acquainted with the Clarkes and Pattersons (into which family Mary's only daughter married), so certainly would have known Ocean Born Mary. And the Steele's daughter, Janet (1703 - aft 1754), married John Wallace (abt 1700 - 1785) in 1720; they are my sixth great-grandparents. John Wallace is almost certainly related to Ocean Born Mary's husband James Wallace, but I have not finished researching that line. But today's theme is meant to be more chilling than genealogical, so to continue....
After her husband's death, Mary moved away from Nutfield to nearby Henniker, New Hampshire, perhaps to be near her now-grown sons. Don Pedro--remember him?--had since retired from piracy, but never forgot Ocean Born Mary. He sought her out using his stolen fortune, and upon discovering she lived in New Hampshire, bought land there and built a magnificent mansion on a hill, in which he intended to install Mary as, if not a bride, at least a companion. She accepted, and they lived a life of leisure and luxury, including a black carriage drawn by four white horses. They were a striking couple: the elegant Irish widow and the fine "Spanish" gentleman.
The only thing that marred their gentility was the occasional reappearance of someone from Don Pedro's piratical past. Mary once thought she saw figures, including her husband, digging a hole behind their home, in which to place an enormous trunk. When she asked Don Pedro about it, he denied everything, but less than a year later, she discovered him in that same spot, dead, with a cutlass stuck through his back! Rather than risk digging on their land, Mary instructed the servants to bury Don Pedro under the hearth. Although occasionally rumors surfaced about Don Pedro's background, and wild stories abounded about treasure buried there, Mary continued to live in the house until her death.
The home stayed in the family for nearly a hundred years, often occupied by tenants, who never seemed to stay long. The house fell into disrepair. Soon, ghost stories began to spread, tales of ectoplasmic buccaneers, or a tall ethereal woman descending the stairs; sometimes they told of phantom carriages driven by a flame-haired woman.
About 1918, a new family, the Roys, bought the home, and began to notice many peculiar things, from objects behaving oddly to apparitional appearances. Learning of the folklore surrounding their home, they decided to share the "haunted house" with neighbors, then tourists. Word got out to reporters and psychic investigators, and soon Ocean Born Mary's story was out. Her fame went as far as National Geographic magazine, which featured her in an article about prominent American ghosts in 1939. Through the 1960s, members of the Roy family continue to charge for tours, and even rented shovels to those brave--or greedy--enough to want to dig for treasure.
Times change, and we learn more. Whether that is good or bad is hard to say. The family that bought the house from the Roys say the Roys admitted the entire ghost story was fabricated, as a way to make money. Historians have provided documents proving that Mary would have been over sixty (and Don Pedro older still) when they moved into the house. Researchers dug deeper and learned that the supposedly haunted house was not even Mary's, but her son Robert's. Although she did live nearby, she so disliked him it is doubtful she ever visited the house.
|Ghost-y, and less-so. Left, the infamous "Ocean Born Mary House" touted by the Roys;
Right, Mary's actual home.
Yet to this day, there are many that go to Ocean Born Mary's House--particularly on Hallowe'en--to try to catch a glimpse of the black carriage coming up the hill, or the fiery-haired woman of New England folklore. Will she be seen tonight? How much is true? Is she related to me? I suppose it depends on what you want to believe....
|An evocative recent image by Victor Ambrus.
Here are links to two terrific--if not terrifying--websites with more information about the legend of Ocean Born Mary:


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Golf is a good walk spoiled. Or so said American author Mark Twain, or Winston Churchill, or Oscar Wilde - depending on which Googled entry you believe. However, it really doesn't matter which as whoever it was, they were wrong. The golf's the best bit. It's all the walking that's a pain (sometimes literally).
Therefore, we're a sucker for a good golf game here at the Lint - those that we can play from the comfort of our own homes. And it's refreshing to see something truly different...
- Format
- iPhone
- Price
- £0.59p
- Where
- iTunes
Using the gyroscopic abilities of the iPhone 4 (or iPod touch 4G), Puttluck is a tactile game that emulates the ultimate (and, in our opinion, hardest) discipline in golf; putting. It offers up a nine-hole course with increasingly more difficult putts to conquer and there are two difficulty levels to complete.
In addition, to celebrate the real life Open Championship at Royal St George's Golf Club from 14 to 17 July, the developer of the app, Mobile Golf Games, will be running a competition during the event to win £500 worth of Black Widow golf goodies (including grips, cleats, tees and all manner of swag).
The gameplay is very Wii-esque. First up, you're presented with a common 3D-like viewpoint of the ball and the pin, with slope indicated through an onscreen icon. Also, a grid can be overlain to show up any further undulations. Then, when the iPhone is physically pointed downloads, the view changes to above the ball, and you can see your putter stemming from the bottom of the screen.
It is in this form that you can then take a shot, by first pressing your thumb on the screen and then physically sweeping your phone as you would a club. It's much easier to perform than it sounds, although to actually putt within a set par on each hole will require plenty of practice.
The game was devised by PGA professional golfer Steve McGuinness, so the in-game physics are remarkably accurate. In fact, so much so that we were initially as dreadful at the game as we are at putting in real life. We'd have fairly decent real world handicaps if it wasn't for putting.
However, thanks to the prizes on offer, it's worth the perseverance as the best score posted on Game Center by the end of the Open Championship (Sunday 17 July) will reward its poster the fine bounty. And as the competition is played out on an unlocked course which opens up just after midnight on 14 July, even if you don't plan to enter your score, that's still a bonus nine holes for the same price.
Puttluck may look basic from a static screengrab, but it's more than worthy of its App of the Day status. It's nice to find something that tries something new and isn't just another Tiger Woods clone, and if you're an avid golfer like us, it's an essential purchase because it may even help with your game.
And Android players need not despair as versions of Puttluck for other operating systems are in development.
Are you into golf? If so, what's your favourite app? Let us know in the comments below...


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By Walter Villa, The Sports Xchange
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The New York Jets, likely playing their final game under coach Rex Ryan, rallied from a 10-point third-quarter deficit to upset the Miami Dolphins 37-24 on Sunday afternoon at Sun Life Stadium.
The Jets scored their season-high in points in a game that was a battle between AFC East rivals who were already out of the postseason race.
Ryan, in his sixth season as Jets coach, is expected to be fired by Monday after a disappointing 4-12 season. The Jets, who missed the playoffs for the fourth straight season, are also expected to fire general manager John Idzik.
The Dolphins (8-8), who have not made the...


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