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by Kelly McLaughlin
Throughout generations the radio has entertained us with different programming formats and musical styles or genres ranging from classical, swing, big band, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, bluegrass and folk to New Age sounds. Of all these, folk music with its soft ballads and lively dance reels has long captivated my attention most of all. Ever since the birth of commercial radio, folk music has always been available to radio audiences. This unique style of easy-going music that always tells a story offers the listener sounds for relaxation or thoughtful reflection.
When I was a young girl, my mother introduced me to folk music on her car radio. Upon hearing only a vocalist singing with soft acoustic guitar music in the background, I would ask mom to change the station because I did not wish to listen to these quiet, unplugged sounds for the duration of the trip.
I missed my loud, electric rhythms and beats. My mom simply replied, "Just listen to the music and the words." I have been listening to the music and words ever since. I couldn't seem to get enough of this folk music, but little did I know that there was so much more available to me around Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia station, WXPN, that my mom had on the car radio that day soon became my favorite. Mixing folk with World (international) and alternative music, news and entertainment programming, WXPN was always so interesting to me. I became an avid listener of "Kids Corner," a family program that introduced children to family-friendly folk artists.
Later I also became a fan of "Sleepy Hollow," the World Café Live! and "Mountain Stage" — all programs that introduced the public to legendary or up-and-coming folk artists. In my opinion, folk is a musical melting pot of sounds, ballads, oral histories and mixed musical genres.
In a recent interview, Michael Cloeren, director of the West Mt. Airy-based Philadelphia Folk Song Society, Inc., and Levi Landis, executive director. described the origins of the Folk Song Society in 1957. The Society (later the umbrella organization covering the Philadelphia Folk Festival and other musical concert venues) was established through the generosity of friends enthusiastic about folk music and wanting to share this enthusiasm with others.
Principal founders were Kenny Goldstein, chair and board member of the folklore department at the University of Pennsylvania, and George Brittain, an instructor of guitar in the university's music department. From the beginning, the Philadelphia Folk Song Society was widely recognized as a source of both education and entertainment.
In 1962 Gene Shay played another integral role with the society by organizing its now-famous Schwenksville venue for the Philadelphia Folk Festival, which celebrated its 50th annual extravaganza last August. (Born Ivan Shaner, Shay, now 76, is a long-time radio personality who is often referred to as "The Grandfather of Philadelphia Folk Music.") Today, in addition to sponsoring the longest running folk festival in the country, the society offers numerous opportunities for budding artists to perform. One such opportunity comes from the Music Co-op, and the society is linked with several recording studios such as Morning Star Studios, where artists can record albums.
According to Landis, "The folk festival offers a huge opportunity to play on stage. As well as jamming with the artists, individuals, if chosen, can play in front of the audience along with other artists, having their musical abilities heard perhaps for the first time. These budding musicians may be asked to help teach music at local schools and to perform at either the Fall or Spring Flings held by the Folk Song Society."
Cloeren added, "There is nothing better than seeing people enjoying what we do. When artists such as Levon Helm and Arlo Guthrie perform on stage, and we see the audience's positive reaction to the music, it is worth all the blood, sweat and tears that we poured into it."
Other individuals instrumental in the continued production of events are: Lisa Schwartz, president of the Philadelphia Folk Song Society; Jesse Lundy and Rich Kardon of Point Entertainment, responsible for programming the Philadelphia Folk Festival since 2008; and Andy Braunfeld, chairman of the Philadelphia Folk Festival.
There are also several workshops every year for both musicians and non-musicians. For example, in October a harmonica class took place for both beginners and advanced individuals. This year, under the name "Water the Roots," there will be nine consecutive monthly concerts of diverse styles such as Klezmer, which blends Middle Eastern music with clarinet and bagpipes ("This music reminds you of being at a Jewish wedding," Landis exclaimed.), as well as rock and roll, blues, bluegrass, Celtic and folk music. This musical series illustrates how folk music over the years has dipped its feet into the pool of several different genres.
The Philadelphia Folk Song Society, Inc., is headquartered at 7113 Emlen St. For more information, visit www.pfs.org or call 215-247-1300.
Kelly McLaughlin, 29, of Erdenheim, a graduate of Springfield Township High School and Chestnut Hill College, is currently a freelance writer.

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Kibbeh Naye with Lamb Heart Recipe
Recipes and stories for everything but the oink.
Adapted from The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Read more: The Nasty Bits: Lamb's Heart
- Yield:two as an appetizer
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:1 1/2 hours
- 1 lamb's heart
- 2-3 tablespoons bulgur wheat
- 1 shallot
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper
- Few drops lemon juice
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- A few sprigs finely chopped parsley
- To serve:
- Pita bread
- Romaine lettuce
- Fresh radishes
- Black olives
Cook bulgar wheat: Place bulgar in small bowl. Pour boiling water over bulgar, immersing entirely. Let bowl of bulgar sit covered for one hour to cool and absorb water.
Grate shallot with microplane zester. Finely grind lamb's heart or pulse in food processor until you have a smooth paste. Transfer lamb's heart to bowl and beat in onion, 1 teaspoon of olive oil, pinch of cayenne, lemon juice, and salt. Beat in bulgar. Chil mixture for one hour before serving.
Finish by trickling with the remaining olive. Scatter the parsley and final pinch of cayenne. Eat with hot pita bread and undressed romaine lettuce leaves, radishes, and olives.
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A winner was selected from 92 designs submitted by 33 freelance designers.
Profitable Social Media Marketing for the Busy Realtor
I'm a consultant in social media for realtors. I am writing a 32-page book (printed and e-book) for that market.
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MistakesDavid Augsnurger
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960) is an Irish musician and social activist, who after being nicknamed Bono Vox, became famous as the lead singer of the Irish rock band, U2 using the stage name Bono.
- 1 Sourced
- 2 Lyrics
- 3 Quotes about Bono
- 4 External links
- Rock n roll stops the traffic
- Message spray-painted onto the Vaillancourt fountain during a free concert in San Francisco (11 November 1987)
- It is fair to say that we overreacted a bit. ... Its not really worth defending my action, I did it in the spirit of the concert, and I thought I did it in the spirit of the artist's work, and he agreed — but, in fact he didn't own his work anymore, as most artists are prone to , he'd sold it, and the City of San Francisco owned it, and they didn't like what I did at all. ... Its a really wild thing, you know, you're in Rock n Roll band — you know, I happen to sell millions of records — people therefore think that makes you a responsible citizen — this is not true. ... I think this is one of the more mild actions of tour-madness. ... It's the music that is magical with U2. ... I don't mind being arrested for putting on a free concert, but I don't want to be arrested for being a vandal. I am a vandal and I do regret what I did. I really do regret it. It was dumb.
- On reactions to his spray painting the fountain at the free concert he gave in San Francisco, in a Press conference (November 1987)
- What a city, what a night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a wanker you have for a President.
- Acceptance speech at the MTV Europe Music Awards, referring to French nuclear testing in Pacific (1996)
- It's an amazing thing to think that ours is the first generation in history that really can end extreme poverty, the kind that means a child dies for lack of food in its belly. That should be seen as the most incredible, historic opportunity but instead it's become a millstone around our necks. We let our own pathetic excuses about how it's "difficult" justify our own inaction. Be honest. We have the science, the technology, and the wealth. What we don't have is the will, and that's not a reason that history will accept.
- In an interview to the World Association of Newspapers for World Press Freedom Day (3 May 2004)
- We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. But will we be that generation?
- Foreword to The End of Poverty (2005) by Jeffrey Sachs
- Can you imagine your second album — the difficult second album — it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, "It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.
- About the album October (album) (1981) in a speech accepting induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (17 March 2005).
- All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.
- CNN Interview, after the 2006 Grammys (9 February 2006)
Rattle and Hum (1987)
- Quotes from the rockumentary film.
- Well, here we are, the Irish in America. The Irish have been coming to America for years, going back to the great famine when the Irish were on the run from starvation and a British Government that couldn't care less. Right up to today, you know, there are more Irish immigrants here in America today than ever — some illegal, some legal. A lot of them are just running from high unemployment, some run from the Troubles in Northern Ireland, from the hatred of the H Blocks, torture. Others from wild acts of terrorism like we had today in a town called Enniskillen, where eleven people lie dead, and many more injured, on a Sunday Bloody Sunday.
- Statements made before a live performance of Sunday Bloody Sunday, a song first recorded on the U2 album War (1983).
- Let me tell you something. I've had enough of Irish Americans who haven't been back to their country in twenty or thirty years come up to me and talk about the resistance, the revolution back home; and the glory of the revolution, and the glory of dying for the revolution. Fuck the revolution! They don't talk about the glory of killing for the revolution. What's the glory of taking a man from his bed and gunning him down in front of his wife and his children? Where's the glory in that? Where's the glory of bombing a Remembrance Day parade of old-age-pensioners, their medals taken out and polished up for the day? Where's the glory in that? To leave them dying, or crippled for life, or dead, under the rubble of the revolution that the majority of the people in my country don't want. No more! Sing No more!
PENN Address (2004)
- Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania (17 May 2004) RealPlayer video (Bono introduced at 1:50:30, speaks from 1:56:00 - 2:22:00)
- My name is Bono and I am a rock star.
- An allusion to Apple Computer's "switch" commercials, which ended with such statements.
- Don't get me too excited because I use four letter words when I get excited.
I'd just like to say to the parents, your children are safe, your country is safe, the FCC has taught me a lesson and the only four letter word I'm going to use today is P-E-N-N. Come to think of it 'Bono' is a four-letter word. The whole business of obscenity — I don't think there's anything certainly more unseemly than the sight of a rock star in academic robes. It's a bit like when people put their King Charles spaniels in little tartan sweats and hats. It's not natural, and it doesn't make the dog any smarter.
- I have to come clean; I've broken a lot of laws, and the ones I haven't I've certainly thought about. I have sinned in thought, word, and deed. God forgive me. Actually God forgave me, but why would you? I'm here getting a doctorate, getting respectable, getting in the good graces of the powers that be, I hope it sends you students a powerful message: Crime does pay.
- So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, "No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails." Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
- I didn't expect change to come so slow, so agonizingly slow. I didn't realize that the biggest obstacle to political and social progress wasn't the Free Masons, or the Establishment, or the boot heel of whatever you consider 'the Man' to be, it was something much more subtle. As the Provost just referred to, a combination of our own indifference and the Kafkaesque labyrinth of 'no's you encounter as people vanish down the corridors of bureaucracy.
- There's a truly great Irish poet. His name is Brendan Kennelly, and he has this epic poem called the Book of Judas, and there's a line in that poem that never leaves my mind, it says: "If you want to serve the age, betray it." What does that mean, to betray the age?
Well to me betraying the age means exposing its conceits, it's foibles; it's phony moral certitudes. It means telling the secrets of the age and facing harsher truths.
- Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was — which was ungodly and inhuman. Ben Franklin called it what it was when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.
- Segregation. There was another one. America sees this now but it took a civil rights movement to betray their age. And 50 years ago the U.S. Supreme Court betrayed the age May 17, 1954, Brown vs. Board of Education came down and put the lie to the idea that separate can ever really be equal. Amen to that.
- What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?
- Africa makes a mockery of what we say, at least what I say, about equality and questions our pieties and our commitments because there's no way to look at what's happening over there and it's effect on all of us and conclude that we actually consider Africans as our equals before God. There is no chance.
- We used to wake up in the morning and the mist would be lifting we'd see thousands and thousands of people who'd been walking all night to our food station were we were working. One man — I was standing outside talking to the translator — had this beautiful boy and he was saying to me in Amharic, I think it was, I said I can't understand what he's saying, and this nurse who spoke English and Amharic said to me, he's saying will you take his son. He's saying please take his son, he would be a great son for you. I was looking puzzled and he said, "You must take my son because if you don't take my son, my son will surely die. If you take him he will go back to Ireland and get an education." Probably like the ones we're talking about today. I had to say no, that was the rules there and I walked away from that man, I've never really walked away from it. But I think about that boy and that man and that's when I started this journey that's brought me here into this stadium.
Because at that moment I became the worst scourge on God's green earth, a rock star with a cause. Christ! Except it isn't the cause. Seven thousand Africans dying every day of preventable, treatable disease like AIDS? That's not a cause, that's an emergency.
- 20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity.
Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
- The scale of the suffering and the scope of the commitment they often numb us into a kind of indifference. Wishing for the end to AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa is like wishing that gravity didn't make things so damn heavy. We can wish it, but what the hell can we do about it?
Well, more than we think. We can't fix every problem — corruption, natural calamities are part of the picture here — but the ones we can we must. The debt burden, as I say, unfair trade, as I say, sharing our knowledge, the intellectual copyright for lifesaving drugs in a crisis, we can do that. And because we can, we must. Because we can, we must. Amen.
- This is the straight truth, the righteous truth. It's not a theory, it's a fact. The fact is that this generation — yours, my generation — that can look at the poverty, we're the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it's belly. We can be the first generation. It might take a while, but we can be that generation that says no to stupid poverty. It's a fact, the economists confirm it. It's an expensive fact but, cheaper than say the Marshall Plan that saved Europe from communism and fascism. And cheaper I would argue than fighting wave after wave of terrorism's new recruits.
- It's a fact. So why aren't we pumping our fists in the air and cheering about it? Well probably because when we admit we can do something about it, we've got to do something about it. For the first time in history we have the know how, we have the cash, we have the lifesaving drugs, but do we have the will?
- Yesterday, here in Philadelphia, at the Liberty Bell, I met a lot of Americans who do have the will. From arch-religious conservatives to young secular radicals, I just felt an incredible overpowering sense that this was possible. We're calling it the ONE campaign, to put an end to AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa. They believe we can do it, so do I.
- I really, really do believe it. I just want you to know, I think this is obvious, but I'm not really going in for the warm fuzzy feeling thing, I'm not a hippy, I do not have flowers in my hair, I come from punk rock, The Clash wore army boots not Birkenstocks. I believe America can do this! I believe that this generation can do this. In fact I want to hear an argument about why we shouldn't.
- I know idealism is not playing on the radio right now, you don't see it on TV, irony is on heavy rotation, the knowingness, the smirk, the tired joke. I've tried them all out but I'll tell you this, outside this campus — and even inside it — idealism is under siege beset by materialism, narcissism and all the other isms of indifference. Baggism, Shaggism. Raggism. Notism, graduationism, chismism, I don't know. Where's John Lennon when you need him.
- It's not everywhere in fashion these days, Americanism. Not very big in Europe, truth be told. No less on Ivy League college campuses. But it all depends on your definition of Americanism.
Me, I'm in love with this country called America. I'm a huge fan of America, I'm one of those annoying fans, you know the ones that read the CD notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that...
I'm that kind of fan. I read the Declaration of Independence and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude. As I said yesterday I made my pilgrimage to Independence Hall, and I love America because America is not just a country, it's an idea.
- America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it's the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that's one of the reasons why I'm a fan of America. It's like hey, look there's the moon up there, lets take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That's the kind of America that I'm a fan of.
- When the potatoes ran out, millions of Irish men, women and children packed their bags got on a boat and showed up right here. And we're still doing it. We're not even starving anymore, loads of potatoes. In fact if there's any Irish out there, I've breaking news from Dublin, the potato famine is over you can come home now. But why are we still showing up? Because we love the idea of America.
We love the crackle and the hustle, we love the spirit that gives the finger to fate, the spirit that says there's no hurdle we can't clear and no problem we can't fix.
- Every era has its defining struggle and the fate of Africa is one of ours. It's not the only one, but in the history books it's easily going to make the top five, what we did or what we did not do. It's a proving ground, as I said earlier, for the idea of equality. But whether it's this or something else, I hope you'll pick a fight and get in it. Get your boots dirty, get rough, steel your courage with a final drink there at Smoky Joe's, one last primal scream and go.
- Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations.
- You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. But it's not. The future is not fixed, it's fluid.
- The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, "He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute."
Well, this is the time for bold measures.
Rolling Stone interview (2005)
- Interview in Rolling Stone magazine, No. 986 (3 November 2005)
- I'm the Imelda Marcos of sunglasses.... Very sensitive eyes to light. If somebody takes my photograph, I will see the flash for the rest of the day. My right eye swells up. I've a blockage there, so that my eyes go red a lot. So it's part vanity, it's part privacy and part sensitivity.
- On his sunglasses; Imelda Marcos famously had a huge collection of shoes.
- We had a street gang that was very vivid — very surreal. We were fans of Monty Python. We'd put on performances in the city center of Dublin. I'd get on the bus with a stepladder and an electric drill. Mad shit. Humor became our weapon. Just stand there, quiet — with the drill in my hand. Stupid teenage shit.
- We could defend ourselves. But even though some of us became pretty good at violence ourselves, others didn't. They got the shit kicked out of 'em. I thought that was kind of normal. I can remember incredible street battles. I remember one madster with an iron bar, just trying to bring it down on my skull as hard as he possibly could, and holding up a dustbin lid, which saved my life. Teenage kids have no sense of mortality — yours or theirs.
- You know that Johnny Cash song "A Boy Named Sue" where he gives the kid a girl's name, and the kid is beaten up at every stage in his life by macho guys, but in the end he becomes the toughest man. ... By not encouraging me to be a musician, even though that's all he ever wanted to be, he's made me one. By telling me never to have big dreams or else, that to dream is to be disappointed, he made me have big dreams. By telling me that the band would only last five minutes or ten minutes — we're still here.
- On his father.
- I really remember John Lennon's Imagine. I guess I'm twelve; that's one of my first albums. That really set fire to me. It was like he was whispering in your ear — his ideas of what's possible. Different ways of seeing the world.
- I was in my room listening on headphones on a tape recorder. It's very intimate. It's like talking to somebody on the phone, like talking to John Lennon on the phone. I'm not exaggerating to say that. This music changed the shape of the room. It changed the shape of the world outside the room; the way you looked out the window and what you were looking at.
I remember John singing "Oh My Love." It's like a little hymn. It's certainly a prayer of some kind — even if he was an atheist. "Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes can see/I see the wind/Oh, I see the trees/Everything is clear in our world." For me it was like he was talking about the veil lifting off, the scales falling from the eyes. Seeing out the window with a new clarity that love brings you. I remember that feeling.
Yoko came up to me when I was in my twenties, and she put her hand on me and she said, "You are John's son." What an amazing compliment!
- What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living — that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening.
- On the forming of the band U2.
- We actually aren't able to play other people's songs. The one Stones song we tried to play was "Jumpin' Jack Flash." It was really bad. So we started writing our own — it was easier.
- Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.
- When John Lennon sings, "Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open" — these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.
- The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
- So now — cut to 1980. Irish rock group, who've been through the fire of a certain kind of revival, a Christian-type revival, go to America. Turn on the TV the night you arrive, and there's all these people talking from the Scriptures. But they're quite obviously raving lunatics.
Suddenly you go, what's this? And you change the channel. There's another one. You change the channel, and there's another secondhand-car salesman. You think, oh, my God. But their words sound so similar . . . to the words out of our mouths.
So what happens? You learn to shut up. You say, whoa, what's this going on? You go oddly still and quiet. If you talk like this around here, people will think you're one of those. And you realize that these are the traders — as in t-r-a-d-e-r-s — in the temple.
- If I could put it simply, I would say that I believe there's a force of love and logic in the world, a force of love and logic behind the universe. And I believe in the poetic genius of a creator who would choose to express such unfathomable power as a child born in "straw poverty"; i.e., the story of Christ makes sense to me. ... As an artist, I see the poetry of it. It's so brilliant. That this scale of creation, and the unfathomable universe, should describe itself in such vulnerability, as a child. That is mind-blowing to me. I guess that would make me a Christian. Although I don't use the label, because it is so very hard to live up to. I feel like I'm the worst example of it, so I just kinda keep my mouth shut. ... I try to take time out of every day, in prayer and meditation. I feel as at home in a Catholic cathedral as in a revival tent. I also have enormous respect for my friends who are atheists, most of whom are, and the courage it takes not to believe.
- These are hard subjects to talk about because you can sound like such a dickhead. I'm the sort of character who's got to have an anchor. I want to be around immovable objects. I want to build my house on a rock, because even if the waters are not high around the house, I'm going to bring back a storm. I have that in me. So it's sort of underpinning for me.
- I'm wary of faith outside of actions. I'm wary of religiosity that ignores the wider world. In 2001, only seven percent of evangelicals polled felt it incumbent upon themselves to respond to the AIDS emergency. This appalled me. I asked for meetings with as many church leaders as would have them with me. I used my background in the Scriptures to speak to them about the so-called leprosy of our age and how I felt Christ would respond to it. And they had better get to it quickly, or they would be very much on the other side of what God was doing in the world.
Amazingly, they did respond. I couldn't believe it. It almost ruined it for me — 'cause I love giving out about the church and Christianity. But they actually came through: Jesse Helms, you know, publicly repents for the way he thinks about AIDS.
I've started to see this community as a real resource in America. I have described them as "narrow-minded idealists." If you can widen the aperture of that idealism, these people want to change the world. They want their lives to have meaning.
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
- If you're wondering what I'm doing here, at a prayer breakfast, well, so am I. I'm certainly not here as a man of the cloth, unless that cloth is leather. It's certainly not because I'm a rock star. Which leaves one possible explanation: I'm here because I've got a messianic complex.
Yes, it's true. And for anyone who knows me, it's hardly a revelation.
- I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural... something unseemly... about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert... but this is really weird, isn't it?
- I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned — I'm Irish.
- I presume the reason for this gathering is that all of us here — Muslims, Jews, Christians — all are searching our souls for how to better serve our family, our community, our nation, our God.
I know I am. Searching, I mean. And that, I suppose, is what led me here, too.
Yes, it's odd, having a rock star here — but maybe it's odder for me than for you. You see, I avoided religious people most of my life. Maybe it had something to do with having a father who was Protestant and a mother who was Catholic in a country where the line between the two was, quite literally, a battle line. Where the line between church and state was... well, a little blurry, and hard to see.
- One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God.
For me, at least, it got in the way. Seeing what religious people, in the name of God, did to my native land... and in this country, seeing God's second-hand car salesmen on the cable TV channels, offering indulgences for cash... in fact, all over the world, seeing the self-righteousness roll down like a mighty stream from certain corners of the religious establishment...
I must confess, I changed the channel. I wanted my MTV.
Even though I was a believer.
Perhaps because I was a believer.
- It is such an important idea, Jubilee, that Jesus begins his ministry with this. Jesus is a young man, he's met with the rabbis, impressed everyone, people are talking. The elders say, he's a clever guy, this Jesus, but he hasn't done much... yet. He hasn't spoken in public before...
When he does, his first words are from Isaiah: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me," he says, "because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor." And Jesus proclaims the year of the Lord's favour, the year of Jubilee. [Luke 4:18]
What he was really talking about was an era of grace — and we're still in it.
- Look, whatever thoughts you have about God, who He is or if He exists, most will agree that if there is a God, He has a special place for the poor. In fact, the poor are where God lives.
Check Judaism. Check Islam. Check pretty much anyone.
I mean, God may well be with us in our mansions on the hill... I hope so. He may well be with us as in all manner of controversial stuff... maybe, maybe not... But the one thing we can all agree, all faiths and ideologies, is that God is with the vulnerable and poor.
God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house... God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives... God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war... God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
- I close this morning on ... very... thin... ice.
This is a dangerous idea I've put on the table: my God vs. your God, their God vs. our God... vs. no God. It is very easy, in these times, to see religion as a force for division rather than unity.
And this is a town — Washington — that knows something of division.
But the reason I am here, and the reason I keep coming back to Washington, is because this is a town that is proving it can come together on behalf of what the Scriptures call the least of these.
This is not a Republican idea. It is not a Democratic idea. It is not even, with all due respect, an American idea. Nor it is unique to any one faith.
"Do to others as you would have them do to you." [Luke 6:30] Jesus says that.
"Righteousness is this: that one should... give away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for the emancipation of the captives." The Koran says that. [2.177]
Thus sayeth the Lord: "Bring the homeless poor into the house, when you see the naked, cover him, then your light will break out like the dawn and your recovery will speedily spring fourth, then your Lord will be your rear guard." The jewish scripture says that. Isaiah 58 again.
- A number of years ago, I met a wise man who changed my life. In countless ways, large and small, I was always seeking the Lord's blessing. I was saying, you know, I have a new song, look after it... I have a family, please look after them... I have this crazy idea...
And this wise man said: stop.
He said, stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing — because it's already blessed.
- These goals — clean water for all; school for every child; medicine for the afflicted, an end to extreme and senseless poverty — these are not just any goals; they are the Millennium Development goals, which this country supports. And they are more than that. They are the Beatitudes for a Globalised World.
- There is a continent — Africa — being consumed by flames.
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did — or did not to — to put the fire out in Africa.
History, like God, is watching what we do.
October (1981)
- I watched the way it was
The way it was when he was with us
And I really don't mind
Sleeping on the floor
But I couldn't sleep after what I saw
I wrote this letter to tell you
The way I feel.
- "Stranger in a Strange Land"
- I wish you were here
I wish you were here
To see what I could see
To hear
And I wish you were here
- "Stranger in a Strange Land"
War (1983}
- There's many lost but,tell me,who has won?
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
- How long,how long must we sing this song?
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
The Joshua Tree (1987)
- I wait for you
Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait, without you
With or without you, with or without you.
- "With or Without You"
- I have climbed highest mountains,I have run through the field,only to be with you.I have run,I have crawled,I have scaled these city walls,only to be with you.But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
- "I still haven't found what I'm looking for"
- I want to run,I want to hide,I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside.I want to reach out and touch the plains,Where the streets have no names
- "Where the streets have no names"
- I'll show you a place,high on the deser plain.Where the streets have no names
- "Where the streets have no names"
- Our Love has slowly slipped away,Our Love has seen its better day
- "Red Hill Mining Town"
- I have spoke with the tongue of Angels,I have held the hand of The Devil.It was warm in the night,I was cold as a stone
- "I still have'nt found what I'm looking for"
- I believe in the Kingdom come,then all the colours will bleed into one.Bleed into one.But yes I'm still running
- "I still have'nt found what I'm looking for"
- See the stone set in your eyes,see the thorn twist in your side.I wait for you
- "With or Without You"
- The Glass is cut,The Bottle run dry.Our love runs cold in the caverns of the night
- "Red Hill Mining Town"
- We're wounded by fear,injured in doubt.I can lose myself,You I can't live without
- "Red Hill Mining Town"
- From the stinging rain comes a Rattle and hum.See the face of fear running scared in the valley below
- "Bullet The Blue Sky"
- See them burning crosses,see the flames get higher and higher
- "Bullet The Blue Sky"
Rattle And Hum(1987)
- I don't believe the Devil,I don't believe his book,but the truth is not the same without the lies he made up.
- "God Part II"
- You say you want diamonds on a ring of Gold,You say you want your story to remain untold.But all the promise we made from the Cradle to the Grave,When All I want is You
- "All I Want Is You"
- Don't believe them when they tell me there ain't no cure.The Rich stay healthy,the Sick stay poor
- "God Part II
- Don't believe in Goldman,His type like a curse.Instant Karma's going to get him if I don't get him first
- "God Part II
- Don't believe in the 60's,the Golden age of Pop.You glorify the past,when the Future dries up
- "God Part II
Achtung Baby (1991)
- It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways.
- "Mysterious Ways"
- Johnny, take a dive with your sister in the rain
Let her talk about the things you can't explain
To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal
If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel.
On your knees, boy.
- "Mysterious Ways"
- A man will rise,a man will fall.From the shear face of love like a fly from the wall
- "The Fly"
- We're one but we're not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other
- "One"
- One love, one blood
One life, you got to do what you should
One life, with each other
Sisters, brothers
One life, but we're not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other
- "One"
- Have you come here for forgiveness? Have you come to raise the dead? Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head
- "One"
- Every Artist is a Cannibal,every Poet is a Thief.All kill for inspiration and sing about their grief
- "The Fly"
- We're One but We're not the same.Well,We hurt each other and We'll do it again.You say love is a temple,Love a higher law.Love is a temple,Love a higher law.You ask Me to enter,then You make Me crawl.And I can't be holding on to what you got,when all You've got is hurt.
- "One"
Pop (1997)
- It's the blind leading the blond
It's the stuff, it's the stuff of country songs.
Hey if God will send his angels
And if God will send a sign
And if God will send his angels
Would everything be alright?
- "If God Will Send His Angels"
- Jesus never let me down
You know Jesus used to show me the score
Then they put Jesus in show business
Now it's hard to get in the door, angel.
- "If God Will Send His Angels"
- If God will send his angels
I sure could use them here right now
Well if God would send his angels
And I don't have to know how
- And I don't need to know why
And I don't want to promise
Where do we go
Where did you go
And I don't want to lie
I just know that I need to...
- "If God Will Send His Angels"
Staring at the Sun (1997 EP)
- There was a badness that had its way. But love wasn't lost. Love will have its day.
- "North and South of the River"
All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)
- It's a beautiful day...
Don't let it get away
- "Beautiful Day"
- What you don't have you don't need it
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
- "Beautiful Day"
Walk On
- Dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi
- Love is not the easy thing...
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind.
- Walk on, walk on
What you got they can't steal it
No they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on...
Stay safe tonight.
- Walk on, walk on
What you've got they can't deny it
Can't sell it, can't buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight.
- And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
- Sometimes you can't make it.
The best you can do is to fake it.
Sometimes you can't make it on your own.
- "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own"
- You don't have to put up a fight, you don't have to always be right.
Let me take some of the punches for you tonight.
Listen to me now, I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone.
And it's you when I look in the mirror.
It's you when I pick up the phone.
Sometimes you can't make it on your own.
- "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own"
- Can you hear me when I sing?
You're the reason I sing.
You're the reason the opera is in me
Well, hey now
Still got to let you know
A house just don't make a home
Don't leave me here alone
- "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own"
- And though your soul it can't be bought, your mind can wander. I can feel your love teaching me how, how to kneel.
- "Vertigo"
- I could never take a chance of losing love to find romance.
- "A Man and A Woman"
- The songs are in your eyes.
I see them when you smile.
- There is no failure here sweetheart, just when you quit.
- Of science and the human heart, there is no limit.
- Beneath the noise, below the din,
I hear a voice, it's whispering,
"In science and in medicine,
"I was a stranger, you took me in."
- "Miracle Drug"
- You heard me in my tune when I just heard confusion.
- An intellecutal tortoise racing with your bullet train.
- Some people got high rises on their backs.
I'm not broke but you can see the cracks.
You can make me perfect again.
All because of you
I am.
- "All Because of You"
- Would you deny for others what you demand for yourself?
Cool down mama, cool off
You speak of signs and wonders, I need something other.
I would believe if I was able, but I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table.
- Where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.
- "Crumbs from Your Table"
- Well, the heart that hurts is a heart that beats.
- "One Step Closer"
Quotes about Bono
- You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only one world to share. You have taught young people that they do have the power to change the world.
- Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, to Bono. (November 1999)
- He's a poet. He's a philosopher. And last night, I think I saw him walking on water.
- Mick Jagger (1999)
- I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
- I think that politicians are attracted at first by the celebrity but once they meet him, they find that he is outstandingly capable.
- Jeffrey Sachs, Head Economist for the UN Millenium Development Goals. (1999)
- He's a strange sort of entity, this euphoric rock star with the chin stubble and the tinted glasses — a new and heretofore undescribed planet in an emerging galaxy filled with transnational, multinational and subnational bodies. He's a kind of one-man state who fills his treasury with the global currency of fame. He is also, of course, an emanation of the celebrity culture. But it is Bono's willingness to invest his fame, and to do so with a steady sense of purpose and a tolerance for detail, that has made him the most politically effective figure in the recent history of popular culture.
- Bono gives us a vision of how tomorrow can be better than today. He appeals to something greater than ourselves. He tells the story of his life and struggles in terms everyone can understand. He speaks about faith in a way that even a nonbeliever can embrace.
- Jann S. Wenner in Rolling Stone magazine, No. 986 (3 November 2005)
- For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bono is Time's Person of the Year.
- TIME Magazine (2005)
External links
- @U2 - U2 tribute site
- Three chords and the Truth - U2 tribute site
- U2 Wanderer - U2 tribute site
- An Cat Dubh - U2 tribute/multimedia site
- U2 Song index at Frog Circus
- U2MoL - The Meaning of U2 Lyrics
- Streaming audio interview with Bono and The Edge from 1983 - Classic Rock Central


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Much has been written about the psychological costs of job loss and other fall-out of the Great Recession, but far less ink has been spilled over how we can best address them.
"The worst things in life start showing up when people experience extended unemployment," asserts Gallup Chairman and CEO Jim Clifton in his chilling manifesto The Coming Jobs War, which paints a dire picture of a global job shortage. "Those wounded will probably never fully recover."
In a similar vein, Atlantic journalist Don Peck cites a troubling litany of consequences stemming from long-term joblessness, including "growing isolation, warping of family dynamics, and a slow separation from mainstream society," as he further details in Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It.
My reaction to such observations is mixed.
On the one hand, I welcome the acknowledgment that the Great Recession has exerted unprecedented stress on millions of Americans. It strikes me as a much-needed antidote to the view that the jobless, foreclosed-upons, and other casualties of these new hard times just need to buck up, to opt for the sort of relentless cheer skewered by cultural critic Barbara Ehrenreich in Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America.
On the other hand, it strikes me as unnecessarily disempowering to simply give in, to believe that there's nothing we can do to change our relationship to the bad things that come our way.
It's in this spirit that I'm embarking on meditation teacher James Baraz's 10-month online class Awakening Joy. I first heard about the program from some like-minded friends (read: friends not prone to the aforementioned relentless positive thinking) and decided to give it a try. My initial skepticism largely faded when I learned that no one is turned away for financial reasons. (I myself opted to pay a small fraction of the total cost.)
Baraz—a founding teacher at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California—draws heavily on the Buddhist tradition, but as he makes clear in the first class, the program is in no way limited to any particular religious faith.
So is it possible to "awaken joy" when we're facing huge challenges? Baraz says Yes. Where his approach differs significantly from many other proponents of positive thinking is that he—like the Buddha—is focused on the practical strategies that allow us to do this. Rather than saying "just do it," his focus is on how to do it.
The first step? Simply cultivating the intention to be happy. To this end, Baraz and his teaching team provide a number of exercises and practices, including the act of reminding ourselves again and again of our intention. Another suggestion: Making a conscious decision to recognize and relish moments of well-being. (Positive psychology acolytes refer to this as "savoring.") The theory is that where we choose to place our mind goes far to determine how happy we are.
"More than 2,000 people have tested it, so it's not some airy-fairy idea," Baraz said of the class, in a 2008 O magazine interview. "I've learned that it's possible to change, no matter what your history or the limiting beliefs you've held on to. If you have the intention to be happy and you do the practices, if you give it your best shot and are very patient, it works."
That being said, the Buddha told his students to not take anything on faith—rather to "see for yourself." That's exactly what I'll be doing, and I'm curious to explore what happens. Interested in joining me? Click here for sign-up information.


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Saturday Food Chain August 25th 2012- Where are all the farmworkers?
Where are all the farmworkers?
With 30 million Americans out of work and millions more underemployed, farmers are still having a hard time finding the help needed to keep a farm profitable. Michael Olson's guest for this week is Dr. Ann Lopez, Executive Director of The Center for Farmworker Families. www.farmworkerfamily.com


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|2012-11-01, 04:12
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The Lovable SuBiTA
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Sleeping in Yokohama base, Section 9.
Your conceit never fails to amuse.
|2012-11-01, 04:20
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I don't mind you ignoring canon for the sake of fanfics (because really, the point of fanfics is to reject canon and replace it with one's own story), but you really must not be so desperate to vindicate yourself that you have to grasp at thin ice such.
If you're going to suddenly leap on every single little thing you find that you think you might be able to drag out of context and twist into insulting someone who offended you without fully understanding what the argument or your attempted refutal is based on, you're not really going anywhere fast.
|2012-11-01, 04:23
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The Lovable SuBiTA
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Sleeping in Yokohama base, Section 9.
Spoiler for 207 Cohort:
|2012-11-01, 05:56
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Senior Member
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isn't the scene hagoshod show a scene from unlimited though I'm not sure and I think its only in alternative where Yuuko reveal the situation of the girls to Takeru. The girls being political hostages of UN army. Though I'm not really sure.
|2012-11-01, 07:19
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Now I'm going to have a lot of problem in even thinking about my fanfic idea
Mostly because of how it stretched from year 1999 to 2001 and possibly beyond
Is there any information about when the cast was recruited in the UN army?
And even before that,when did Marimo became a instructor and when did the other Valkyries besides the main cast became Valkyries
Considering a lot of Valkries died off-screen,I guess I will have to create some throw-away characters in year 1999.
|2012-11-01, 08:02
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|2012-11-01, 08:27
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Doesn't help that the VN only have stuff and information beyond October 2001
I guess I have to make up a lot of stuff myself...
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Truth Martyr
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Location: Doing Anzu's paperwork.
Age: 33
I actually wanted to reply a lot earlier, since 3pm, but my iPad was being derp. Anyhow, my thanks and compliments, grevierr and DoomRavager, for your able replies to Hagoshod.
That said, given that I actually typed out this reply, I do feel like I want to post it anyway. Waste not, want not.
A-01 is supplied its personnel from local Japanese forces, as part of UN doctrine (UN forces in a nation will be part foreign troops and part local troops given to the UN). Yes, Chizuru volunteered for the IJA, but before she got there she was shunted to Training Squadron 207B (under Special Task Force A-01, which is part of the UN Army) for training, before she eventually went to Isumi's Valkyries.
Whereas Izumi is already commissioned into the Imperial Royal Guard by the time of the Fall of Kyoto. Notice how she and the rest of Yui's crew were wearing active duty reinforced suits and are flying Type-82 Zuikakus in IRG deployment colors. They aren't wearing their translucent training suits, nor are they flying the training colors Type-77 Gekishins.
Contrast this to Chizuru and the rest, who are wearing UN training reinforced suits, and are flying Type-97 Fubuki trainers, particularly when they deployed for 12/5.
Besides, one more thing. Has Chizuru had prior training? Nope. Where is she getting her training done? With 207B squadron, along with the rest of Takeru's harem. Whereas Izumi already had the better part of a year's worth of training as a prospective IRG officer/pilot. (Yes, the training is obviously truncated and they haven't completed the full training syllabus, but they've got the basics down and have been instilled with IRG doctrine. As a matter of perspective, OCS takes 90 days, while Sandhurst and Dartmouth last a year.) Also, as I mentioned with AOCS, and with practically all forms of military flight training, you can be a commissioned officer without completing flight training.
Again, I will further reiterate that Yuuko wants fresh trainees with zero preconceptions. Izumi has already spent a significant amount of time undergoing IRG training, and has had significant exposure to IRG doctrine. This is the final mark against her being a member of the Valkyries.
Sorry, looks like you dropped a dud bomb. Device failed to initiate. Negative effect on target. Try again, Hagoshod.
Also, thank you for providing this amusement to cap off my day. In future, I'd suggest that you do try to lessen your preemptive smugness - it only makes you look more foolish and conceited. Contrast the tone of your post with my response above.
|2012-11-01, 12:28
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|2012-11-01, 12:46
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Spoiler for MLA Spoilers:
Also, I'm of the mind that Quantum Takeru (aka the Takeru from every universe combined) might just be a completely different existence when compared to any of the original Takeru's.
|2012-11-01, 13:12
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Spoiler for Mars Drop:
Eh, wouldn't quite say it's the best I've ever written, and I usually find that the stuff I speed write tends to be crap, but meh, needed to get this outta my head.
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|2012-11-01, 22:16
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Just a thought, the XG-70s were experimental thus the X in the designation aka X-32 becomes the F-32 in test production or the YF-22 becomes the F-22. The mass production models would be like G-XX or something. Just give it a Fortress like designation.
And related pics again.
|2012-11-01, 23:01
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That the Fabled fan made TSF T-50 Pak Fa = F**k the shit out of you BETA I just wish the TSF has Variable modes like a certain anime were even Super dimensional fortress transforms and does a Drill Milky Magnum on the enemy
|2012-11-02, 00:05
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Truth Martyr
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Also ZOMG Mave Yukikaze TSF! Is it carrying the laser cannon, because that would be really, really win.
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|2012-11-02, 07:20
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Nah, I think he meant that the BETA invade the code geass world. The crossover of code geass and muv luv that has already been done was a story where Lulu was reincarnated into the BETA world.
This crossover where BETA was going to invade the holy britannian empire or area 11..... might sound good but the knightmare frame or the more customized knightmare frame from 7 gen and above are far stronger and will lay waste on the BETA. They also had that shields to protect them and hadron cannon that is mass produced. They will lay waste on the BETA and they had good leaders like some of the royal family of Britain.
|2012-11-02, 08:25
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the political shit storm in code geass world isn't that bad compare to BETA world where every country has their own agenda to fulfill.
The shit storm in Code Geass world can be easily stop by the emperor of Britannia if he had time to play with BETA or Shiniezel (or whatever spelling his name is) will put a stop on them and the empire will attack. Remember in Code Geass world there are only few power players and they aren't in war with each other. The only one who are invading are Britannia and if the royal decide to concentrate their attack on BETA. BETA will be turn into a pile of meat and also remember that Schiezel and Cornelia are good leaders that aren't all power hunger which the BETA world lacks.
BETA world leaders are bunch of power hunger being that tried to devour each other and that's why they don't prosper and haven't beaten the BETA yet. They try to do it their way.
Code Geass world is much more united. Specially if Shiniezel and Zero takes charge. Those two will probably use each other in the battle but they are smart enough to not take easy against alien race. Also the code geass world has lots of talented pilot which aren't dead. Comparing it to BETA world that the veteran are few and newbie are being sent to beat the crap of BETA or just to get eaten by them.... well Code Geass world has better chances.
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Charlie Fisher has watched Northeast L.A. change around him over his lifetime. He grew up in Mt. Washington and has lived in Highland Park for more than two decades. While the evolution of neighborhoods is a large part of what he loves about Los Angeles, Fisher has been disturbed by the demolition of some of the city's old and beautiful buildings and residences. As a kid, Fisher remembers watching as the historic homes of Bunker Hill were torn down, one by one. It is that event which propelled Fisher into the life and business of preserving local heritage and history. The now 60 year-old Fisher has since made it his life's work to ensure that Los Angeles' heritage is remembered through its buildings – highlighting not only the people and characters who built them, but those who lived in them as well.
Fisher has helped preserve such landmarks as the Arroyo Seco Bridge, the Echo Park branch of the Bank of America, and the Purviance Residence (an R.M. Schindler home) just to name a few. He helped create one of city's largest historic districts – the Highland Park-Garvanza Preservation Overlay Zone – and also represents clients who seeking historic landmark status and protection for properties and sites. In fact, the 1908 bungalow that Fisher has called home for 21 years is also a historic monument.
How would you describe historic preservation?
Historic preservation is essentially guarding our history. And the history of the built environment is every bit as important. As preservationists we dig up stuff and sometimes you find that the myth [surrounding a building's history] that has been out there for so many years just isn't the case. We have to determine whether we're dealing with the truth or with a myth.
How do you reconcile historic preservation with progress?
Progress is interesting because sometimes we think it's a great step backwards. I mean to tear down an architectural specimen and put up a piece of crap is not going forward. We had a lot of that in Highland Park in the '80s. And the big thing was, we were losing our heritage.
What are your feelings on the gentrification of Highland Park?
I don't really consider it gentrification as much as people moving into the area. We had a lot of old-timers that were still living in the area at the time we bought our house, many of them have unfortunately passed on. There was a link to the pre-war period that existed then. And the area underwent some challenges … It's an evolution.
What's your favorite Eastside building or structure?
There are so many cool buildings. If I was going to pick a Victorian, I would probably pick The Hale House at Heritage Square. I've written several nominations on Modernist homes, a couple of Schindlers, including one in Silver Lake which nobody knew about. It's on Maltman, a house he designed in slab-cast in 1922.
Which people most commonly seek historic cultural monument status?
Most of my clients are the property owners. They seek it because they want to preserve what they have but they also want a Mills Act [tax credit]. And the Mills Act is probably, in California, one of the best things to happen to preservation. Any historic property can fall under a Mills Act. You get a tax savings based on the restoration work you put into the property.
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A television ad airing last week suggested that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had cost a man his health insurance, leading to the death of the man's wife from cancer.
The ad – which brought an immediate denunciation from the Romney camp – was not sponsored by President Barack Obama. Instead, it came from Priorities USA Action, a giant political action committee, or "super PAC," that is legally independent, though it is run by former Obama aides.
Earlier in the campaign, Romney's Republican rivals were buried under negative ads produced by a super PAC called Restore Our Future. Now it is turning its fire on Obama. This group, legally independent from Romney, is also headed by former aides.
These super PACs are transforming presidential politics. Freed from the $5,000-per-donor limit that hobbles the official committees, yet utterly loyal to their respective candidates, they operate as shadow campaign committees.
They offer the wealthy a chance to do something that the official committees cannot: make a big difference for their chosen candidate.
"It's a way to buy a lot of brownie points with the guy who wins the election," said Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College. "There's nothing to prevent (the winner) from taking a peek at the list of who gave the money."
The Orange County Register analyzed Federal Elections Commission data, combining contributions for the two official committees and the two super PACs, through June 30. We found:
- 24 people have given $1 million or more – 200 times the official limit – to one of the presidential super PACs, 10 to the Obama group and 14 to Romney's group.
- About 23 percent of the money flowing to Romney, $44 million, has come in donations of $50,000 or greater. Just 5 percent of Obama's donations are that large.
Obama is still dependent on his traditional base of small donors. Just over half of his money comes from small, unitemized donations of $200 or less. About 13 percent of Romney's money is unitemized.
Roughly a third of Romney's total take has flowed to his super PAC. Obama has gotten 94 percent of his money from his official committee, where donations are strictly limited. That implies Obama's current financial lead will disappear soon and that Romney ultimately will outspend him.
Several prominent names are among the biggest donors.
Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife, physician Miriam Adelson, each gave the Romney super PAC $5 million after earlier backing Romney rival Newt Gingrich.
Houston homebuilder Bob Perry also gave $5 million to Restore Our Future. He has been a longtime major Republican donor.
Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs of La Jolla and Dreamworks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg of Universal City, both longtime Democratic donors, each gave $2 million to the Obama super PAC.
Most of the big super PACs, such as American Crossroads on the Republican side and Majority PAC on the Democratic side, spread their money among many races and candidates.
By contrast, Priorities USA and Restore Our Future focus exclusively on promoting one presidential candidate and eliminating his rivals.
Federal election law prohibits the super PACs from coordinating with the official committees. But Pitney said, "there are many ways to coordinate without legally coordinating."
For example, when Obama or his website or a surrogate attacks Romney over Bain Capital, Priorities USA can follow suit. Same thing when Romney attacks Obama over health care or granting welfare waivers to states.
There is no phone call, no meeting, nothing that a lawyer or judge could interpret as coordination. And yet the campaigns coordinate with the super PACs as reliably as a quarterback passing signals to his favorite receiver.
Rick Hasen, an elections law expert at the UC Irvine School of Law, said he thinks the super PACs will have a limited impact on the presidential race.
"Actually, I think the danger is much worse for House and Senate races," Hasen said. "You drop $15 or $20 million in a House or Senate race, it's a nuclear bomb. The money can go much further."
And this potentially has big consequences for the politicians we elect, Hasen said.
"Legislation is likely to be skewed toward those with the most resources," Hasen said.
But Obama and Romney will raise so much money for their official committees that the two super PACs won't overwhelm the presidential campaign, Hasen said.
This election may mark the end of post-Watergate campaign finance reform. Following the Watergate scandal, which resulted in part from secret donations to President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, Congress set limits on donations.
"This was inevitable," Pitney said. "As long as we have the First Amendment and federalism, there are going to be ways around campaign finance limitations."
Pitney predicted that if Romney is elected, "I wouldn't be surprised if Democrats start raising large amounts of outside money."
And if Obama is re-elected, then Pitney would expect the president to replace a conservative justice on the Supreme Court who would vote to roll back the "Citizens United" decision, reversing the legal precedent for super PACs.
But not for long.
"There will be new ways around it," Pitney said. "That's been the story for a century."
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Hey everyone my name is luigi. I am very new to kite boarding ( flew a trainer for 2 months, have had one water lesson at alameda). If anyone is interested in hanging with a rookie and showing me the ropes I am way in, I just got all my new gear and am ready to start ripping some mean body dragging. I live in SF on the embarcadero and have a car so I am always down for a trek!
In case noone else has told you, you definitely want to wait until spring before trying out any bodydragging in the SF Bay area.
We'd like to keep "bodydragging" a positive term, totally unrelated to, say, "dragging the bay for a body".
As in: "Today the Coast Guard was dragging the bottom of SF Bay looking for the body of a novice kiteboarder who succumbed to hypothermia before rescuers could reach him after his kite crashed into the water".
Keep in mind that all the posters here who are discussing kiting this time of year are experienced riders with a full knowledge of the special precautions that need to be taken when kiting in the winter.
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It says 10M, but it's really a 9.
I hope you got Bulldogs drift.. The winds at Alameda "can" get pretty wild in winter. THere will be days... but USE caution becouse the wind will have a tendicy to change direction (mostly on-shore) and is often extremely gusty.
Come spring things will get better...
You can always come by and have a look. That's exactly what I did the first season; watching people rip it up in storm winds but you would be crazy to try it yourself. Either take a trip down south or wait for spring to drag your body around .
you should wait till it gets warmer; then maybe more people will be up to it =D
if you've only taken one water lesson, you should consider taking another ( with the company you started with ); it would be safer in case something happens to you out there.
I'll be at alameda in march when the early winds kick in, so i wouldn't mind giving you some tips.
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HOLLAND (AP) — The Holland Sentinel in western Michigan is dropping its Saturday print edition in March.
The newspaper says it will expand its Friday edition and continue to post breaking news and sports on its website, www.hollandsentinel.com .
Publisher Pete Esser says the Sentinel is "absolutely" committed to a print newspaper. But he says there have been significant changes in how and where people get their news.
The last Saturday print edition will be Feb. 23. Holland is near Lake Michigan, 30 miles southwest of Grand Rapids.
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While the Phillies are set with Cole Hamels as their Opening Day starter, the Mets aren't there yet with Johan Santana.
Santana threw a 30-pitch bullpen session Sunday, and is not yet at full strength following surgery to repair a torn mtorn meniscus in his left knee.
"Everything is where it's supposed to be," Santana told reporters in Port St. Lucie. "I don't expect to be 100 percent right away. It's going to take some time. We've got around seven weeks to get everything going and I'm pretty sure we're not going to have any problems."


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"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" could also be titled "The Glampires Strike Back," as three teen heartthrobs finally end their endless saga. Forever. One hopes.
The "Twilight" films started a new age of beautifully groomed, soft spoken Undead. Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) fell in love in high school, no doubt because their blank gaze was reflected in the other's eyes. Although their love seemed doomed — he's a dull vampire, she's a dull mortal — together they make a fortune. And a baby!
After her hubby's epic love bite at the end of "Part 1," immortality seems to agree with Bella. She and Edward live in a fabulous house with other fabulous vampires. It's like a photo spread in Vogue.
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