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M. Hustead Lorenzo
I told you it was a robbery because that was the easier story to tell. And all these years later, what does anyone care about our little tragedy? What does anyone care about the truth?
After we fled Spain—no, not Spain, but a demon called Fascism who had possessed her … no, not only a new demon called Fascism but an old one in the shape of a scorned husband—after we fled to Havana I would lie awake in the dark while Ana and my brother Simón slept and look for the plains of Castilla. I'd squeeze my eyes shut against the dark and try to see: olive orchards baking in the midday sun, two burros pulling a cart full of grain sacks up the dust road from Villaconejos, the arched wooden door of our house with the knob in the center. Sometimes I saw nothing, as if that thick Caribbean night had drawn like a curtain over my eyes. Then I listened for it: the orange-seller's call in the morning: naranjas! Naranjas frescas pa' comprar! Hooves on the village stone streets, clop-clop, clop-clop, clop-clop. Strings of guitar-picking from the corner bar, and the groan of the gaita, the Galician bagpipe. Our mother's family came from Galicia, and one of our uncles always brought out the gaita at weddings and funerals.
But no one had played the gaita when they took mamá and papá. There was no funeral because no one was certain they were dead. That's how it is in a country that lives in fear: no one sees what they're not supposed to. Back then I thought a dictatorship was one man, the Caudillo, as if Franco sat on a throne in El Pardo and oversaw the entire country from his window. Ha! No man commands power alone. The Dictatorship is a many-headed beast, with millions of eyes and ears, clubs and guns and boot-heels, stomachs that fatten while others starve. And it has millions of eyes that don't see, tied hands, and silent tongues. But the worst is this: of all the histories those tongues hold, the Dictatorship tells only one.
We thought we were safe from that beast in Havana. La Habana, the Haven! Who wouldn't trust such a name? It began as a haven to Taíno fishers, and millennia later, to those who followed a Genoese merchant sailing under the crown of Castilla. Yes: Spain. Others thought Columbus was deluded, but Queen Isabel believed and sold her jewels to pay for his journey past the edge of the world. He returned with a jewel of a different kind: the Indies, those jewels that would crown the Spanish empire and finally sink her under the weight of their administration. The wheel of Karma turns slowly, but ay, how it turns!
Patience! "One who would be certain, waits." Soon I'm getting to the robbery that wasn't. The storyteller chooses the beginning, and if I am to be the storyteller, this is where the story begins. You want to hear about a vendetta that was made to look like a robbery, no? Fitting that we should begin in the Indies, where the heist of the millennium was first cast as a mission for souls. Watch, in time-lapse photography, as this glittering sapphire harbor with its tiny fishing village—the magnet—draws men in boats like so many iron-filings. Its shores clutter with docks, shacks, mansions, palaces! Streets crawl further and further into the jungle. And still the ships can't resist its pull: stinking Portuguese slavers slide into port, packed with chained Africans who will break their backs cutting cane. New Orleans cotton traders turn back heavy with sugar and the new cane-liquor that the slaves will never taste. Seven years: after you stepped off the slave ship, that's how long you could expect to survive in the sugar plantations. No time for rum. I've never cared for it, myself. But look! The Spanish galleons unload their supplies and sail back to the Peninsula with the New World's gold and silver, and with an invisible load on board: a karmic Trojan horse that will trample generations of Spaniards. Or is it the joined forces of humiliated gods—I'm sure you know of some, Atabey, Yúcahu, Kukulcan, Quetzalcoatl from the New World, Inti, Eshu and Iku from West Africa—is it the wrath of these gods that will curse Spain's people with poverty, hunger, Napoleon, civil war, fascism, bureaucracy, and unemployment for the next five hundred years?
That I can't answer. But this is the port that, in December of 1948, three young Spaniards watched grow like a mirage from the deck of the Gloria Caribeña. As the palms sharpened into focus and the ants that scurried over the docks became longshoremen, Simón and Ana and I shouted, laughed, kissed each other. We were safe! The Generalísimo, we were sure, couldn't see across the ocean. But it wasn't the Generalísimo we had to fear.
The first thing we did when we got off the ship in Havana was to find Óscar. He was a cousin of our father's who had left Spain before the war. After the iron mines in Santiago de Cuba closed, Óscar came to Havana, opened a restaurant, and within a few years had enough money to expand it into a club. By late 1948, when we arrived from Spain, he had businesses all over Havana, with the club as his headquarters. In the afternoon locals and tourists alike followed their noses into the restaurant for the menu of the day, the ropa vieja, the roast pork with plátanos maduros, ham croquettes and ceviche, mmm…yes, and at night American businessmen, of all varieties of business, came in to sip rum and Cokes and play poker and practice their Spanish with the lovely Cuban girls who sat at the bar looking over their shoulders. "¿Kee-air-ay Usted by-lar, señorita?—Yes, sir, I will like to dance, sí." No, don't misunderstand: Óscar's was a classy establishment. But who left with whom and what they did and whether or not they paid for it was not the owner's problem, no, señor, not as long as he got his cut.
At first, I washed dishes at the restaurant at night. Then I found more work at a cigar factory during the day. Simón started out unloading ships. Soon word got around that he could fix cars and most evenings you could find him on his back under Chryslers, Fords, Cadillacs, Chevys, in the light of a kerosene lamp, Ana handing him tools. She felt useless at first, I think. She was expanding by the day then, and who wants to hire a woman seven months pregnant? So she started taking in laundry. The customers asked for mending, too, but she could only sew on buttons and fix small holes. "If only I had my sewing machine," she kept saying. One day Simón came home wheeling a used Singer. He replaced the motor and soon the run-run sound of people's clothing being mended and tailored was always in the background of our lives. We were living in a room above one of Óscar's stores then, but the cigar-rolling and ship-loading and engine-fixing and skirt-hemming paid off. After two months, we got our own flat, just in time for the baby. She was a beautiful baby girl—she looked just like Ana.
It's ridiculous to imagine I was in love with my brother's new wife. I would say we kept each other company. After the baby was born and I had quit the cigar factory, I would sleep late, hours after the sun came up and Simón had gone off to the repair shop where he worked. I would wake to the sound of the sewing machine. Ana took in work for a tailor then, and like most women, she never stopped moving. But when I came out of the bedroom in the morning, she'd always hop up and put a pot of coffee on the stove, slice some bread and tomato or jam for me. That's how women were back then. It was trained into them to serve men. Ana, sit down, I'll do it, I'd say, but she never listened. Perhaps she was right … I make terrible coffee. But often I bought a newspaper on the street and read to her, and we would discuss the news. I remember some headlines from that summer: Soviet Union lifts Berlin blockade. Mao's Communists march up Yangtze. North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC. Treaty of London creates Council of Europe. I remember when I read that, Ana finished the seam she was sewing and stopped. "The world moves on, and España stays still," she said. I was surprised to see tears in her eyes. What did this dry bit of news have to do with España? Later I understood that for her, it had everything to do with España. She loved our country the way you were supposed to love your patria: like family. I suppose I had never thought to love a country like that. My mother and father had, and you see what it did to them. They disappeared into it. And Ana, she grieved the España we had left behind. The España the world had left behind.
Was she happy? We didn't use the word happy, feliz, so much those days. The word would be contenta. She should have been content, no? She had escaped a miserable marriage to Chema, a cruel Falangist who was ugly inside and out—and those were the Years of Hunger, the worst of Franco's rule. Whatever women had done before the war, now they were expected to take care of the home and obey their husbands and bear children for the Patria. I can't say I blame her for putting the horns on Chema. What is that funny English word? Cockold, yes. She was young and her father had pushed her into the marriage, and I can't blame him either, because at least with Chema his daughter would eat well. Now she had left all that, left behind the dusty village for a musical city on a tropical sea. She had a beautiful baby girl and a handsome young husband who took her out dancing, out for walks on the malecón, who brought her flowers. Although once she said to me, "I don't like cut flowers. They make me think of death." Well, flowers or none, she should have been happy! No? But after that day I began to notice her. She was doing her best, but a sadness stalked beneath her constant motion, behind her smiles, smooth and quiet as a cat. And I tell you, even sadness looked good on her. I can't explain, but I will try.
Her being was a contagion. Everything that touched her, any old garment she threw on, any word she spoke, became beautiful by proximity. When she dressed in black, as she often did in those days—you see, she was mourning España, and her sister—it only made her hair redder, her eyes more brilliant green. She would cover her head and kneel before the little altar our neighbor Maribél had built in the corner of our flat and pray, and there before my eyes she became la Piedad, only more beautiful than Michelangelo could ever have carved from stone. I teased her sometimes: "Ana, what do you pray for?" She would only smile and say, "For you, that Nuestra Madre save your wicked soul." Everything she touched, I tell you, even me. I was an ordinary boy, but in her glow I became kinder and nobler of mind. My thoughts became real because she listened to them. I had seldom felt that way before. Perhaps that was the first flicker of my vocation, talking about books and the news with her in that Havana flat.
Oh yes, I read everything I could get my hands on. But school was outside the realm of possibility. As Simón always said, we were immigrants now, and we had to sink roots into this new land. So individual ambitions, especially idle ones like study, were subordinate to our family's common welfare. My brother was the arbiter of that welfare. And sometimes he was just a bastard under its pretense. One day I had come home from the cigar factory, tired, and at the door realized I had left my house key inside. So I walked six blocks to the repair shop to get Simón's key, and he shook his head. "Hermanito, this is the third time. You need to learn responsibility." He made me wait an hour until he was done to walk home together. There I was, in dirty work clothes, stinking like a cigar, and the girls walking by laughing at me sitting on the steps outside the garage. I hated Simón then. The next day at the restaurant, I told Óscar. "I was the youngest brother too," he said. "Give me the key and I'll have my friend the locksmith make a copy. We'll keep it here at the club for you."
One day I came in for my shift at the restaurant and cousin Óscar looked at my hands, stained brown with tobacco. "What's this," he said, and he held my hand up to the light. I told him about the cigar factory and he shook his head and laughed. His was a hearty laugh that shook his round panza, like Papá Noel, you can imagine. Only Óscar had a neat little waxed black mustache, and a less wholesome twinkle in his eye. I was about to become one of his elves. He put his hand on my shoulder. "Come with me," he said.
"But cousin, I have work to do." There was a pile of dirty dishes in the sink.
Óscar snapped at the boy sweeping the floor. "Arturo! You're a dishwasher now." The boy let the broom fall where it was, ran to the sink and started scrubbing. "Jefe, who will sweep the floor?" I heard the manager complain as Óscar led me away. We went out to the garage, past his office, to the blue Cadillac with the gleaming whitewalls. "You can drive, no?" I nodded. It was a little bit true. I had driven a tractor, taken a few spins with Simón in our uncle's car, ha ha! "Of course. I'm a pro." Cousin Óscar clapped me on the back. "You're going to drive this. I'll pay you twice what they pay at the cigar factory. No, three times!"
Three times what I was earning? To cruise around Havana in a Cadillac? I couldn't believe my luck. I nearly fell to my knees thanking him. "No family of mine needs to work in a factory," Óscar said. Our cousin was a hedonist, yes, money, drink, and women, but I believed I had found a friend in him. A line from Macbeth comes to mind now: "Where we are, there's daggers in men's smiles, the nearer blood, the nearer bloody."
That fateful day? I'm getting to it. Endings, endings! All we care about these days is how a thing ends. "All's well that ends well," fools say, as if anything ever truly ended. First I must explain what happened a few days before.
The sun was a ripe apricot over Havana bay when I began my afternoon driving, and when I finished it, the moon was a thin white slice of onion, enough to make a man cry. But I was not a man, not yet. I had dropped my charges off at a nightclub, and I had several hours free. I could have gone for a drink, I could have gone home, but this is what I did, as was my custom then: I parked the Cadillac in the cool roomy garage next to cousin Óscar's restaurant, got my book from the glove compartment, and lay down in the wide leather backseat with a flashlight. Of all the things a sixteen-year-old could do in the backseat of a Caddy, this was the pleasure I chose. I was reading a new collection of bizarre stories by an Argentine named Jorge Luis Borges. You may have heard of him.
Why had I taken to reading in a dark garage? Because there, the circle illuminated by my flashlight excluded the world I would not think of. Things inside the circle: quiet, the smell of leather, the fresh unread pages of my book. Things outside the circle: Óscar's gold-tooth grin, and the way it made me uneasy in a way I could not attend. My narrow cot in the living room, next to Máribel's altar. What Simón and Ana might be doing in the bedroom behind that thin wall. The look of concentration on Ana's face while she was sewing, the curses she flung out when she had trouble. Qué cabrón! If this fatty needs to let these pants out any more he ought to just buy a skirt. I had begun reading stories to her. She laughed in the right places, the places where I would laugh, made an mmmm when something was profound, an ehhh when she saw a twist coming, an ayy when something went wrong. Simón, he had no patience for stories. He once came in while I was reading and said, "Hermanito, are you boring my wife with your stories again?" Of course, we continued as if he weren't there: she didn't miss a stitch, I didn't look up from the page. And when he stomped off, we looked at each other with a smile, because then he was the one outside the circle. That look might have been mere conspiracy, or a clue to something more—but now that perplexing question too fell outside the circle of my flashlight. Only the world of the book existed. Except that night, in the middle of a fantastic passage—I had just begun "Emma Zunz"—I heard voices in the corridor to the garage, and I switched my circle of light off and held my breath in the darkness.
I ducked down in the backseat of the Cadillac. Technically, I was doing nothing wrong, but that seemed irrelevant. I heard the lock click and the door open through the open windows of the car. Then the bare bulbs at the back of the garage flicked on. That was where Óscar had his office. I heard heavy footsteps and the scrape of a chair on the cement. Óscar and one other man, I guessed. "Sit," Óscar said. I knew about the bottle of Kentucky bourbon in Óscar's desk, beneath the map of Cuba and the Marilyn Monroe calendar. He had shared it with me before. I do enjoy a good bourbon, despite this early association. I heard the drawer open and shut, the clink of glass. In the silence I imagined Óscar unscrewing the cap and pouring two glasses. A chair creaked as Óscar settled into it and then a flywheel sparked and sweet cigar smoke reached my nose where I lay in the backseat.
Óscar spoke first. "We want it to look like a robbery."
Who was "we," and what should look like a robbery? I thought it must have something to do with the police. I often ran errands to the police station, dropping off packages, picking up fat manila envelopes. I never took the blue Cadillac for those: as Óscar said, there are times you want to be seen, and those you don't. That moment, in the back of the Cadillac, was one of the second.
"I understand," the stranger said. He had a voice like the edge of a saw and I pictured him tall and narrow, with a sharp nose and hard eyes.
"Now," Óscar began, "my cousin would prefer to have both of them. But he's asking the favor, see, and I'm doing. So he doesn't get both. Es que …" He paused as if he couldn't find the words: "The younger one is useful to me."
Do I sound bitter now? That came later. There in the backseat, I was only confused. What cousin? Both what? I knew Óscar was involved in horse racing, maybe horse fixing, as they call it, but for some reason I pictured two bulls stamping about.
"So make sure he's out of the way," said the stranger.
"That's easy," said Óscar. "Now the payment we agreed on…it's cash on delivery. You know I'm good for it."
The other man laughed, sawlike and ugly. "Óscar, Óscar, my friend…of course you're good for it—" he said, "nobody stiffs a sicario."
I didn't know what a sicario was then. I wasn't into detective stories. They laughed together then, and even there huddled in the back of the Cadillac, I heard the metal ring of fear in Óscar's laugh.
What did I do then? Patience, patience. I recall now that night's dream, of bombs falling on Havana. When I was small, and the Nationalists were bombing Madrid, we saw lights in the sky and heard explosions, even in our village in the hills. My mother held me close and told me they were just fireworks. So in my dream the bombs were terrible fireworks that rained down sparks in the night, tore craters into the streets and splashed into the port like meteors, hissing. I ran and ran, searching for Ana and Simón and the baby. When I finally found them, they were sitting in a plaza, eating ice cream. "We have to get out of here," I screamed, but they just stared at me as if I were crazy. "We're watching the fireworks," they said. En español: fuegos artificiales. False fires.
So what did I do after Óscar and his guest finished their whiskeys? We know what I should have done, right? The moment the door closed behind them and left me there in the silent garage. I should have sneaked out and run all the way back to our flat, from streetlamp to streetlamp, past men playing dominoes, past children tossing baseballs, past mothers chatting, over steps, through plazas, and I should have told my brother and Ana that we had to leave before daybreak, telling no one, not Maribél, not the owners of the repair shop, not the tailor, and especially not cousin Óscar. Simón should have thanked the saints that I had indulged my penchant for literature in a quieter place than our flat. We should have thrown what we could carry into the same bags we'd packed out of Spain and caught the next bus to Santiago de Cuba on the eastern coast of the island, and argued over where to go from there—Miami? Buenos Aires? Panamá? Many times I've pictured us all on the bus to Santiago, duffel bags between our knees, Ana pointing out the window for the baby. I've watched us rent an apartment in Miami. That was how this story should have gone.
Why did it not, then, when the chill in my stomach told me something bad was afoot? Because I was still a child who wanted to believe in false fires. I was also proud of what I thought was rationality. I had nothing rational to act on. I knew Óscar was into some shady business, but in Havana, in 1949, that was not exceptional. I decided to drive to our flat and talk to Ana.
Instead, when I got there, Simón came out of the bedroom tying his robe. "What are you doing here?" he hissed at me. "I thought you were working tonight!"
I didn't want to talk to him. He wouldn't understand anything. Of course I imagined Ana naked, waiting behind the door, and I felt that sick feeling, as always when I thought of them together. So I just said, "Something is going on with Óscar."
My brother crossed his arms. "What?"
I said something vague. "I don't know. I heard him talking about some things … maybe something illegal."
And Simón just snorted. "Don't kid with me, hermanito. That tío is more rotten than an old fish, and I've warned you. Do you have news, or no?"
He made me feel like an idiot, and ashamed of Óscar, who was one of my only friends. I wanted to punch him. Instead I said, "At least he's not …" And I pointed at the bedroom door behind my brother, where Ana surely sat listening. Simón knew what I meant, of course, and he grabbed me by the shoulders and pushed me against the wall.
He should have been ashamed, but instead he was laughing, and he spoke under his breath so Ana wouldn't hear. "At least he's not what? At least he's not doing what you wish you could do? What you'll never, ever get to do?"
That was enough for me. I spat at his face and twisted away from him. I wanted to leave and never come back, to hell with all of them. I headed for the front door but he blocked me: "Are you crying? Isn't one baby around here enough?"
I pushed him, said, "Get out of my way, you hijo de puta!"
Ana called from the bedroom then, said, "Simón, leave him alone." All these years later I can hear her sweet voice.
Simón stepped out of the way. But I remember what he said, verbatim: "Sabes lo que te falta, chico? Véte a echarte un polvo, por una vez, hermanito." Translation: "You know what you need, kid? Go out and get yourself laid for once, little brother."
Now, what would the rational, noble young man have done? He would have ignored the insult and repeated that conversation for his unworthy bastard of a brother. But I wasn't that. I was a child, an overgrown weed of a child with sweaty palms and a heart that stung with my brother's taunts, and I stalked out of that flat and tore off in a blue Cadillac. As evening turned to night, did that impetuous sixteen-year-old regret the argument? The aspersions cast on his brother, thief of wives? Did the flawed adolescent replay the mysterious conversation in his mind, trying to make sense of it? I don't recall if there was regret and consideration that night, although I fear that there was not. What I know for certain is that there was a pickup of Americans at a nightclub and their delivery to a posh hotel. Then there were rum and Cokes, and a pretty curly-headed girl who looked nothing like Ana, trying to teach that tall awkward boy to dance the mambo. There was a strong little hand guiding his and kind laughter at his clumsy steps. There were soft and then urgent kisses on the dance floor, and finally a race up the stairs to her one-room flat and a thing that boy had never done before but took to better than the mambo, the strong fine-boned hand steering the small of his back.
I did exactly as my bastard brother told me to. I went out and got laid.
Well, now we're there, as I promised. I'll keep it short. I'm an old man, and I don't have all night to tell stories. That day I came home for dinner and siesta. I had been running errands for Óscar that morning. He had asked me to pick something up at the racetrack at three, but I was tired and I paid Arturo to do it. At the flat, before I even opened the door, I smelled smoke, and heard the baby screaming. When I stepped in a man with a gun told me to put my hands up. My brother already had his hands in the air. He tried to take out his money clip. And then suddenly I recognized the man's voice and the pieces fit together in my mind. We were the bulls, and we had walked right into the arena to be slaughtered. "Chema's found us," I said to my brother, and he put his money away. The gunman asked which of us was Simón. I tried to tell him that I was, but Simón would have none of it. He told me to go, and I did.
What do you mean, details? It was a traumatic event. And it was more than half a century ago. You want details? Joder. I'll give you goddamned poetry. The gunshot rang out like a…like a shot! What else? The sky was azure over Havana on the day they finished murdering my family and cursed me with staying alive. My brother told me to go and I went. I ran without seeing street names, ran and ran across that city and vomited right into the sea that had once saved me. When I came back to the flat, after it was all over … blood has a smell, you know. I got back just in time to hear Ana take her last breaths…let's see, details, it sounded like she was drowning in her own blood. Does that satisfy you? No, no, you said you wanted details, by God I'll provide them! I raced into the bedroom, and the neighbor Maribél was sitting on the floor with Ana, holding her hand. The baby was finally quiet. Her blood was everywhere—Ana's blood—and her eyes were fixed. Fixed, I couldn't fix her. I couldn't fix her. No podía. Ana, Ana, wake up, estoy aquí, I'm here, por favor, no, no, no. Shaking her, and Maribél clutching at me, saying, ya se fue, ya se fue, déjala, la bebé se asusta, she's already gone, she's gone, let her go, the baby is frightened. I couldn't fix her. I could fix anything. I couldn't fix her. Dios es cruel, there is no Dios, no podía.
Marleen Hustead Lorenzo lives with her husband and three dogs in South Philadelphia, where she teaches English and finds any excuse to be outdoors in the sun when it's available. She is a graduate of the Rosemont College MFA program.


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text: More Library Show! I couldn't be happier with having my illustration Show in the Children's Library in this fabulous building in the center of a metro area of two million. The show runs all summer long. Having a show in such an openly public venue, especially a library, is perfect for this work. I focused on the kids books and hung them at 50" centers so the kids could see them easily. Photographing the show was tough- I used my phone, which was not adequate, but through the magic of photoshop I salvaged the exposure somewhat. I had to shoot them at knee level... I'd like to thank Librarian Robyn Green and Assistant Librarian Tressie Rollins for all their help in making this possible, and for hanging all the pictures- no mean feat. It's a real honor to be here. This is the hub of urban life in Salt Lake, the center of the city. And, as we open, the Pride Festival is just outside in Washington Park. Utah. Wow.


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Yesterday I didn't get much spinning done for the September Challenge. What I did do was spend some time attempting to teach my son how to spin on a wheel. He previously tried spinning on the spindle which was moderately successful. We both tend to have short leashes on failure and frustration so the spindle went to the wayside. However, the other day he expressed an interest in learning to spin on the wheel. So yesterday we worked a little on treadling and then on trying to add the twist to the fiber. (Okay, we actually did some "drafting" but we will have to come back to that later.) At the end I had him practice his treadling some more. 30 -40 minutes was all we spent working on it but we will try again today. Short lessons are definitely best for our collective temperaments.
Outside of the yarn challenge I wanted to share my recently thrifty finds. Okay Okay... really its another eagle-eyed husband find and some books. While running some errands we stopped by the local Goodwill in town to see what type of items they had available. As we were passing by the normal section of goods my husband turned me into an aisle and said "Look, isn't that one of those knitting things?"
Sure enough he had found a Knifty Knitter Loom at the Goodwill. Even better, it was only $2 bucks, the complete loom set and came with instructions. After securing our purchase, we moseyed over to the GoodBooks Cafe to browse. I went to my normal craft and hobbies section but didn't expect anything. Usually the books in the craft section are old and not very useful but I got a great surprise this time. Two relatively recent knitting books in hand and a knifty knitty loomy thingy. Not sure what to do with the loom since I know how to knit already but I always wanted one so... there you have it. A little spinning, a little knitting, a little reading and a little thrifty adventure.
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Friday, September 4, 2009
Protege and Knifty Thrifties
2 comments:
- Kate said...
My kids are both fascinated with my spinning wheel - but not quite old enough to try it out. (5 and 2)
Congrats on your fantastic thrifty finds!
- September 4, 2009 at 10:43 AM
- AlpacaFarmgirl said...
What a FUN mom you are! Your son is a lucky boy.
I am having a time trying to learn to spin. They say it's easier to learn for kids than adults.
- September 11, 2009 at 11:30 AM
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Welcome to the Fat2FitHQ podcast. I'm Zack and here we'll be chronicling my hopefully incredible journey from Fat to Fit. Along for this ride is Jake with his own plan. You may know us from GunGuyRadio or the Top Shot podcast. Sit back and prepare to be motivated. Introduction of our stories...
Zack- Basically I go through how I got this way..
Jake- I'm 228 lbs. 6'1" Feel too fat in my stomach, man boobs, and fat face. Real lack of energy. Feel healthy weight would be 190lbs. with muscle.
Exercise Plans-
Zack- FitShot program , explain what that is and why it interests me.
Jake- Walking and Running in the mornings. More walks with the family. Running Book-Amazon
Nutrition Plans-
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All modern cars seem to be burdened with the task of keeping their occupants safe at all costs. Which is a good thing, because all modern cars are impossible to see out of. High beltlines create a claustrophobic sitting-in-a-bathtub feeling, and impossibly huge C-pillars bring visibility to near zero. To me this is a chicken and egg situation. Is it better to drive a tank with its hatch shut or actually see what you are doing?
Thankfully this is only temporary. Soon enough we will become completely babied by autonomous driving systems, lane departure warnings, the gentle whir of electric motors, and 5 cameras up our ass.
We can't have usable wrap around windows anymore, so why fake it? It looks bad, really bad. Though, a few automakers seem to be going with more of an Alice Cooper style to give the illusion of a window like line running to the back. Ugh


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I wish to be remembered as the person who best loved the Mormon FAQ and to debate the Mormon regulars on there as good friends and dear opponents of my Roman Catholicism.
Okay, but isn't what I am offering is that mystical experiences are not dependent upon religion or defined spirituality? Love is spiritual, beauty is spiritual, awe is spiritual. Love, beauty and awe do not rest soley upon religion or any agnostically proscribed spirituality.
What have I said ... ?
As for a short version of the above: Skepticism is not compatible with Spirituality, Mysticism, or anything that derives from those mediums even though Spirituality is actually a part of Mysticism, separated usually so people can process the ideas since they are so poorly educated in philosophy. Mysticism basically works off of both evidences that are tangible and evidences that are not, but mainly evidences that are not, probably because of the lack of answers that science can actually provide in totality no matter what measures we manage to achieve like "Why this? Why now?" for instance, even if we had the equation to find out why this today we wouldn't be able to find the moment prior etc. ad infinitum. To that end mysticism tries to answer the unanswerable by pretty much making connections that aren't readily evident.
Skeptics however do not believe in things that hold no readily available and generally heavy evidences as per their thought patterns so they do not believe in the paranormal, the mystical, or the supernatural. Because of this obviously they can't ascribe to spirituality of any sort. Those that do are not "skeptics", they are better defined as "People who are skeptical about many things" but they are not actually skeptics. It's much like the difference between being a baker ( profession ) and being a person who bakes and sells things ( a hobby ), if you understand the IRS you don't have to register if baking, even if you're selling for profit up to a point, is just a hobby however if you intend to make a business of it then you have to register. In the same way we have skepticism where as a rigorous method of thought ( the profession ) it's exclusive, you do and do not believe certain things, in relation to the general layman ( the hobby ) it's just not believing everything you see, it's simple common sense given an incorrect name.
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in /b/ veritas. This is what the abortion abomination is effectively saying to our children. No wonder the children who have grown up during the holocaust of infants are so confused and mistrusting. Who can blame them?
Pope John Paul, II stated that Heaven and Hell are not "places" but are states of being. The pope didn't "dismiss" the metaphorical imagery of the City of God as depicted in the Book of Revelations. From whence derived you this quote?
During his weekly address to the general audience of 8,500 people at the Vatican on July 28, 1999, Pope John Paul II rejected the reality of a physical, literal hell as a place of eternal fire and torment. Rather, the pope said hell is separation, even in this life, from the joyful communion with God. According to an official Vatican transcript of the pope's speech, Pope John Paul II noted that the Scriptural references to hell and the images portrayed by Scripture are only symbolic and figurative of "the complete frustration and emptiness of life without God. " He added, "Rather than a physical place, hell is the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy." He said hell is "a condition resulting from attitudes and actions which people adopt in this life." Concerning the concept of eternal damnation, the pope said, "Damnation consists precisely in definitive separation from God, freely chosen by the human person, and confirmed with death that seals his choice for ever." The pope also added, "The thought of hell and even less the improper use of biblical images must not create anxiety or despair." Rather, he stated, it is a reminder of the freedom found in Christ.
The Religion News Service reported that a Vatican-approved editorial published several weeks ago in the Jesuit journal Civilta Cattolica agrees with the pope's latest pronouncement. The editorial explicitly pronounced, "Hell exists, not as a place but as a state, a way of being of the person who suffers the pain of the deprivation of God" (Los Angeles Times, 7-31-99). The pope said eternal damnation is "not God's work but is actually our own doing." Only a week earlier the pope stated that heaven is neither "an abstraction nor a place in the clouds, but a living, personal relationship of union with the Holy Trinity. "
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What commonly pulls people like me into this, and it may be happening to you (haven't read enough of the lengthy debate to discern if you have or not), is when people begin to say things that seem to attack my view directly, or try to nitpick at the WAY I say things. When it comes to people addressing me like this, I have to determine, before posting, if they are honestly trying to engage in discussion or if they're simply trying to get me to flare up and burn out, or to just have everyone hear their voice, so to speak.
If they're really trying to engage in conversation, They'll type respectfully, with proper address towards people. They may even ask for clarification on your views, and maybe a little background on them. When they reply with their views, they'll back up where their views come from and not try to persuade you with their reasoning.
Those that are trying to fire you up (trolls) are just trying to make themselves feel better than others by getting them to make their views look stupid by becoming radicals. They resort to attacking you personally and saying that your views are stupid. In those cases, don't even reply.
In the case of people just trying to be heard, look out for the ones that will rip apart a message and reply to each line or paragraph individually. While sometimes it is worth the time to respond to them because of valid, respectful statements being made, more often than not they are just trying to start some kind of war of puzzle pieces. This is why I never brake down people's posts when I reply, and if someone breaks mine down, I always keep my reply within a single set of my own paragraphs.
It can be hard to discern who's worth replying to and who's not, especially since the last two catagories can come at you disguised as the first. As soon as someone takes on the nature of the last two, it's time to stop replying to them unless your goal is to defeat yourself. Even if they come back and try to call you out on skipping an answer, that's just further proof that they're trying to force you to either admit defeat or go into a rage. To give yourself a stance of pride like that will never add credibility to a statement, and make others in the future less willing to care for what you have to say.


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U2 in KC: a quick look at past shows, plus that music video they made here
From a heart-shaped stage, before a crowd only a few months removed from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, U2 delivered a memorable performance at Kemper Arena.
"We are humbled and proud to be playing in America at this time," Bono said then, in late November 2001. The Star's Timothy Finn reported that fans responded during the show with love and zeal: dancing, singing, waving arms and flags and signs bearing political and personal messages.
Nearly 16 years later, the Irish rock band will return to Kansas City in September, as part of its Joshua Tree tour, to play at Arrowhead Stadium. Tickets go on sale Monday and can be purchased at www.livenation.com or at Arrowhead.
U2 first performed in Kansas City in 1981, about five years after the band was formed.
The music video for its song "Last Night on Earth" was filmed in KC in 1997, though the result was apparently underwhelming. A Star staff writer wrote in December that the band "tied up traffic for two days in May to make a forgettable music video."
Here's how The Edge, guitarist for U2, explained it:
"The name of the song in the video is 'Last Night on Earth.' And William (Burroughs) is the alien. They're all afraid of an alien. And they're all gathered around waiting for an alien to come. And this big light comes down and it's William Burroughs pushing a shopping cart. And he saves the world, and that's the gist of what they did. And I guess William is beautiful in it. And he ... started brandishing his cane and everybody ran."
The Star has chronicled U2's stops in KC through the years, here's a quick look at some past performances, pulled from our archives:
1982, Uptown Theater
Crowd: 1,200
Album: "October"
Songs: "I Will Follow"; "An Cat Dubh"; "Electric Co."
Opening band: The Regular Guys
What we said: "The group's music does not conform to labels and therefore must be judged on its own merits. Fortunately, U2's music stands on its own."
Roland Reschke, The Star
1983, Memorial Hall
Crowd: 2,200
Album: "War"
Songs: "Out of Control"; "Two Hearts Beat as One"; "Sunday Bloody Sunday"; "Gloria"; "I Will Follow"
Opening band: The Shapes
What we said: "(Bono) is easily one of the most charismatic vocalists around. The lithe young man with the stand-up hair ventured into the seats during 'Boy.' He clambered up a pole into the balcony with the crowd's help, where he completed the song using a wireless microphone."
Joe Rassenfoss, The Star
1987, Kemper Arena
Tickets: $17.50
Crowd: 16,758
Album: "The Joshua Tree"
Songs: "Pride (In the Name of Love)"; "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"; "Sunday Bloody Sunday"; "I Will Follow"
Opening band: The BoDeans
What we said: "As arena rock shows go, this one was a doozie, but not because of stage gimmickry or a stunning light show. ... Things cooked because the frontman, who also frequently visited the rear of the stage to acknowledge beside-themselves fans, believed in what he was singing."
Brian McTavish, The Star
1992, Arrowhead Stadium
Tickets: $30
Crowd: 39,800
Album: "Achtung Baby"
Songs: "Zoo Station"; "Mysterious Ways"; "Satellite of Love"; "Angel of Harlem"; "New Year's Day"; "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Opening bands: Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, the Sugarcubes
What we said: "The high-concept stage design included not only many huge video screens but also smaller televisions of all sizes that Bono swaggered through and around. ... Meanwhile, the screens flashed dizzying messages such as 'Everything you know is wrong,' and 'Art is manipulation.'"
Brian McTavish, The Star
1997, Arrowhead Stadium
Tickets: $52.50
Crowd: 31,000
Album: "Popmart"
Songs: "MoFo"; "Staring at the Sun"; "Bullet the Blue Sky"; "Where the Streets Have No Name"; "Until the End of the World"; "Sweet Caroline"
Opening band: Fun Lovin' Criminals
What we said: "The crowd bounced and sang along to the new songs, especially 'Discotechque,' which included a sample of "That's the Way I Like It' by KC & the Sunshine Band. ... The highlight of the show for one young woman was 'Miami, ' during which Bono — dressed like Malcolm McDowell in 'A Clockwork Orange' — pulled her from the front row and danced tenderly with her."
2001, Kemper Arena
Tickets: $45
Album: "Elevation"
Songs: "Sunday Bloody Sunday"; "One"; "Elevation"; "Peace On Earth"; "Walk On"
What we said: "At that point, the screens behind the band turned blue and the names of Sept. 11 victims — airline workers and passengers, firefighters, police officers — scrolled up and off the screen and over the walls and ceiling of Kemper Arena as Bono sang: " ... One life, but we're not the same/We get to carry each other, carry each other.
"The seemingly endless scroll of names continued as the band segued into a few bars of 'Peace On Earth' and then into 'Walk On,' a salve about hope and redemption that seemed trite and mawkish several months ago. The difference between then and now, though, is precisely why Bono's farewell — 'We love you, Kansas City' — felt more than cursory and why that Beatles' song fit so indelibly into this stirring and memorable night."
Timothy Finn, The Star
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Gordon D'Arcy: Moving Byrne or Carbery to Ulster sets dangerous precedent
Leinster won't remain best in Europe if they have to solve Munster and Ulster's problems
Joey Carbery in action for Leinster: it looks like Carbery or Ross Byrne will be coerced into leaving their boyhood team. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
You don't grow up in Wexford dreaming of pulling on the Ulster jersey. I can only imagine what Ross Byrne and Joey Carbery are thinking this week. It looks like one of them will be coerced into leaving their boyhood team on the cusp of establishing themselves. The harsh reality of professional sport is creeping into the unique four-into-one Irish rugby pyramid.
The IRFU mandate is clear: until non-Leinster provinces improve recruitment and academy structures, the ability of Leo Cullen and his coaches to do their jobs will be hindered. Connacht appear to be going just fine on both fronts, but cracks in the Munster and Ulster squads need papering over by Leinster.
I understand the predicament faced by David Nucifora and the Ireland team. For different reasons, one of the three best outhalves in Ireland needs to be redirected up to Belfast. Ideally, for them, it will be Joey Carbery, but Byrne could ably fill the void left by Paddy Jackson's dismissal. Neither player wants to leave Leinster. Johnny Sexton is 33 in July. Eventually, Byrne and Carbery would have proved adequate replacements.
In due course one of them would be of a mind to leave, in order to play international rugby, but I'm not sure either player has finished their development under Stuart Lancaster.
Munster also need to recruit a new outhalf. There must be casualties in the pursuit of winning. They are "tired of learning lessons" as Peter O'Mahony stressed after Sunday's defeat to Racing 92 in Bordeaux.
Leinster are going to lose an outhalf. With my old club lenses on, this is wrong and unfair. If Byrne/Carbery proves a success in Ulster then Leinster will suffer on two levels: a player nurtured from childhood will enter his prime elsewhere and Nucifora will have a valid excuse to keep switching Leinster men into other jerseys (there's about to be nine of them on Ulster's books).
It's a short-term solution to a much larger and deeper problem.
Ridiculously, Leinster are being punished for a succession plan that is the envy of most organisations in European sport – home grown, with a constant supply in every position. That's being eroded because Munster and Ulster back offices failed to get their ducks in a row during the good times. Now they need Leinster players to fill their ranks with quality.
Yes, Nucifora needs to increase player movement among the provinces but not to the detriment of Leinster's short- to medium-term success.
See what happens in November. If, say, Byrne goes north, while Sexton and Carbery are in the Ireland squad, Ciarán Frawley gets dropped into the deep end for important Pro14 games. The knock-on effect could have Leinster travelling to Bloemfontein the week before a Champions Cup final because they failed to secure a home play-off. Munster, it can be stated with the benefit of hindsight, struggled on Sunday due to their fortnight in South Africa.
The point is Leinster have built a squad – using 53 players this season – that can dominate on all fronts and, as a result, Ireland benefit.
The national team takes priority over everything else. Joe Schmidt needs Carbery to play in the 10 jersey for at least 700 minutes by this time next year. This season he has banked 80 minutes against Treviso and he started the Fiji game at outhalf. This lack of game time in a specialist position might hurt Ireland when it counts the most – at the 2019 World Cup (should the worst case scenario reoccur in Japan).
Big decision
The flip side is Byrne has earned the right to be starting Champions Cup matches. Moving between provinces would have been a big decision to make for me, tougher if asked to join a club with no coach in place and a culture under constant scrutiny. Hopefully, over the coming months, Ulster starts to repair some of the damage done this past year. Carbery/Byrne would ideally be the catalyst in driving change up north, primarily by wining matches for them.
Lasting change takes time but the opportunity to play a key role in the rehabilitation of Ulster might be an enticing opportunity for a professional with aspirations of becoming the starting Ireland number 10.
Still, Cullen was put in an awful position by two of his bosses last week. The instructions were clear: keep one, send the other up the road.
Desperate times. Ulster need help. John Cooney needs a strong partnership to press his claims for international promotion (I know the value of this better than most).
Conor Murray could also do with a regular link to someone he will play alongside in the green jersey. No disrespect to Ian Keatley or JJ Hanrahan, but neither player has stepped into this category while Tyler Bleyendaal has been recovering from neck injuries.
If Munster enter the market for an outhalf, if given a choice, Limerick over Belfast would be a more appealing destination.
Moving to another province is a tough pill to swallow, but plenty of players have turned it into a positive. Look at Andrew Conway and Chris Farrell. I know Jordi Murphy will be a success in Belfast. But the move can go badly wrong if the players and value system is at odds with experiences in a successful team environment. Byrne or Carbery simply may not click in Belfast and that is a serious risk at this crucial point in their careers.
New heights
Everyone is waiting to see who becomes the next Ulster coach. Especially the young outhalves.
There is another way to go. Rather than bleed Leinster from the throat maybe offer Ulster an outhalf with genuine potential. Ask Frawley if he would like to join them and compete against Johnny McPhillips with the guarantee of game time. The pair of them might even motivate each other to new heights.
It's worked before. Nick Timoney couldn't break into the Leinster Academy and now he's thriving in the Ulster backrow. Tadhg Beirne was passed over for a full contract, played AIL for Lansdowne, joined the Scarlets and should prove a huge boost to Munster resources (they might need to ship on some foreigners to afford the calibre of outhalf needed to make the next step).
Maybe Irish rugby will be better served by Sexton, Byrne and Carbery wearing the 10 jersey in three different provinces but Leinster do not deserve such a heavy tax for producing the best players only for them to be taken away just as their best years are coming.
So the system has a flaw. My instinct is that this is a dangerous precedent to set. Leinster are the best team in Europe for a reason but remaining dominant on two fronts can't last if they have to solve Munster and Ulster's lack of specialised talent.
Leinster great Isa Nacewa bows out
I played against Isa Nacewa for the 2005 Lions, in our last game before the third Test, a full three seasons before he arrived into Leinster. Isa and Joe Rokocoko were the wingers, causing havoc every time they touched the ball. I couldn't separate them for impact.
The hair was a little shorter when Michael Cheika brought him over in the summer of 2008, and nobody knew much about him, but I told the lads we were getting a special player.
That was before we knew him as a person. Rocky Elsom also showed up that season so everyone remembers the big Wallaby flanker's insane impact on the pitch but it was Isa who instantly embodied the mental resilience Cheika had been trying to instill in the group. It doesn't matter what people say about us, it doesn't matter what an enormous French or English pack throws at us or how the media label us, we are going to fight through and come out the other side.
Nacewa put those words into actions, usually with the ferocity of his tackling. He would, and still can, destroy players with a well-timed whip-lashing shoulder.
At the end of his first campaign we all had European winners medals.
What still amazes me is Isa's ability to deliver the same quality of performance on a weekly basis. Even his rare bad days remain at a standard other players hope to achieve in their good games. He loves playing rugby and has an infectious personality that make those around him enjoy it too. You'd come away from a brief chat with Isa feeling good about yourself. That takes a rare type of character.
The truly great leaders instinctively understand that leadership is about making your team-mates better players. Isa is an incredible captain with an phenomenal impact on games for a wing/fullback (an outhalf once-upon-a-time, it was a no-brainer to play him at 12 when Robbie Henshaw was injured).
Never mind being Leinster's best ever foreigner, Isa is the club's greatest ever player in the professional era. Rocky was only with us for a year, Felipe Contepomi, while magnificent, could be enigmatic while at different periods Irish players have had to prioritise the national team, whereas Isa was always there, keeping the team together, influencing a game in the depths of winter, in some obscure corner of Wales or Scotland, where we had no right to win but did because he was on the field.
Now 180-plus games and 700 points later, he is finally calling it a day (for real this time). I'd be surprised if he doesn't reappear as a coach in the very near future.
Enjoy retirement, mate.
An unfortunate example of hindsight bias
Reaction to Johann van Graan's decision to leave Simon Zebo on the Munster bench last Sunday is an unfortunate example of hindsight bias. Was the selection of Alex Wootton over Zebo due to injury, patchy form, the sin-binning against the Cheetahs, or all the above?
Wootton was in reasonable form before Bordeaux but perhaps the fact he's a Munster player next season came into consideration and while his missed tackle on Teddy Thomas did not cost Munster a place in the Champions Cup final, it did reflect the overall performance.
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Taking another positive step for Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement, Gymnastics Australia has announced its new Body Positive Guidelines.
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Gymnastics Australia and Gymnastics Western Australia confirmed in a meeting tonight with parents of NCE Perth athletes that a change of operating model for the National Centre of Excellence in Perth will be brought forward to the end of 2019.
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Gymnastics Australia has worked hard behind the scenes for the release of the Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement section on the organisation's website to provide resources and education for athletes of all levels.
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An update of what the MAG National Team has been up to over the past couple of months.
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The 26th edition of the International Gymnastics Federation's (FIG) Trampoline Gymnastics World Age Group Competition wrapped up in St Petersburg last weekend, and it was an incredibly successful meet for the Aussies.
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Gymnastics Australia is excited to announce that its premier domestic event – the Australian Gymnastics Championships – will remain in Melbourne in the lead up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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The International Gymnastics Federation's (FIG) 33rd Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships wrapped up in St Petersburg, Russia, over the weekend, in what was overall a successful outing for Australia's Trampoline Team.
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The 33rd edition of the International Gymnastics Federation's (FIG) Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships is about to get underway as the St Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex in St Petersburg, Russia, and we can't wait to cheer on our Aussies
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Three-time Olympic and nine-time Commonwealth Games swimming Gold Medallist, Petria Thomas OAM, is joining Gymnastics Australia (GA) in the newly-created role of General Manager, High Performance, where she will add her decades of experience to the s
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The conclusion of Qualifications at the 48th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Doha yesterday, also wrapped up Australia's participation in the event, with unfortunately none of our athletes advancing to this week's finals.


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Officials concerned about impact of new developments
Two large proposed residential developments could add 2,000 unexpected students to the Rock Hill school district -- students that school officials fear they will not have means to serve.
If the two developments, Celanese and Newland Communities, are approved, students would attend middle schools projected at beyond capacity in three years and the high schools in no fewer than five. The 2,000 students the developments could produce were not included in district growth projections. District enrollment for the coming school year is estimated at 17,583.
Celanese would be located at the site of the former Celanese plant and include at least 1,000 units and possibly up to 2,000. Newland has about 1,800 acres in the southeastern section of the district and plans 2,700 residential units.
The approximately 1,300 to 1,600 students at Newland alone would fill one elementary school, the better part of a middle school and one-quarter of a high school, said John Hair, the district's associate superintendent for finance and business. The Celanese development could produce 500 to 600 students, he added.
All affected government entities are gathering data on the impact of the developments. School board chairman Bob Norwood anticipates the district will be asked to weigh in on whether it will support the projects before the end of the summer.
"Even though we may get land and money to build the schools, our concern is how we will keep up with funds to operate the schools," Norwood said. "There are so many homes being built that will pay no operating taxes to the district. Right now, we're just concerned with opening three new schools in the next two years and finding funds to operate those."
If Newland and Celanese were built today, elementary school students in the Celanese community would attend Northside, which already is operating beyond capacity with mobile units. Most Newland elementary students would attend Belleview and some would attend Independence. Both of those schools are expected to be beyond capacity in 2010, even without the two new developments.
Students in both developments would go to Castle Heights Middle and Rock Hill High schools, both already beyond their capacity.
Another issue for the district is the locations. Both projects are situated at the edges of the district, making it difficult and expensive to provide necessary transportation and other accommodations.
While the Celanese development is being planned in cooperation with the city, Newland's proposal for development over 10 years is contingent on infrastructure and planned land use. Dave Lyle Boulevard would require an extension, and access across the Catawba River also would be necessary. There are no current funds or plans to extend Dave Lyle.
Also hindering Newland's proposal is the York County Land Use Study that indicates only minimal development should be allowed there to preserve the natural assets of that area.
Newland has agreed to set aside 35 acres for a school, and Celanese has agreed to set aside about 25.
"Where will we have means to operate the schools?" Hair asked.
The state's new Property Tax Relief law replaces homeowners' school operating taxes with a statewide 1-cent sales tax that will be distributed to schools by the state. Commercial and industrial property still will be subject to school operating taxes, and they and residential property owners still will pay taxes to pay for schools' capital expenses.
Foregone conclusion
School district officials throughout York County want amendments added to the law to address operating expenses for new schools in fast-growing areas.
Norwood points out that the developments' proposed commercial aspects would at least produce some operating revenue.
"Nothing that the school board says is going to stop development in this area," Norwood said. "I'm not sure I'm against this development. But whether or not those two projects go forward, development is going to continue in this area."


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Those sharply dressed 1920s gangsters on Boardwalk Empire (HBO TV Show) and now Peaky Blinders are the envy of men's fashion hounds and period costume admirers alike. If only I had the same budget as the costume designers who make custom wool suiting and hand tailored clothing for each actor. Alas I don't have that budget and I'm guessing you don't either. Fear not! You can get the classic 1920s men's gangster clothing look with some carefully chosen modern suits and accessories.
1920s Gangster Men's Fashion Suit
The best male dresser on Boardwalk Empire goes to the character Nucky Thompson. He is a style icon for all that wealth and prosperity could afford you in 1920. He and most of his associates were fond of striped wool suits. They were not quite pin stripes as they were wider and more pronounced. Today wide stripes are called chalk stripes or shadow stripes. Blue stripes, grey stripes and brown stripes were equally popular. The suits buttoned up with 3 or 4 single breasted and double breasted suit jackets. The buttons came up quite high on the jacket and gave way to wide peak lapels. Suits always had a matching high V neck vest and flat front trousers with narrow legs in the early 20s and wide legs by the end of the decade. The pants came down to the ankles, which is very short by today's standards. Read more 1920s mens suits.
Tip: Find a striped suit that fits you a bit on the small size (the early 1920s suits were very well tailored with no extra room for unrefined movement) or the opposite, wide fit suit for a late 20s gangster. Pinstripe suits will work if you can't find the wider 1/4 inch stripes. You can also wear colorful windowpane or plaid suits. Avoid black suits. The men on Boardwalk Empire wore many of colorful suits and so can you.
Hopefully, the suit you choose has a matching vest. If not then do your best to find one in the same color or shade. With all the changes to vests over the years, modern vests do quite well for a 1920's look. You could even skip the vest if you keep your suit jacket buttoned all the way up. If you go without a jacket then you will certainly need to wear a vest. Shop here for 1920s style mens vests.
Peaky Blinders characters also wore striped suits for the upper classes (the bosses) and neutral browns, tans, greys, and tweeds for the lower classes aka the muscle men. Men with money could afford a matching three piece suit. Poor men/working men wore second-hand clothes that didn't always match. A similar shade of vest but not matching was often worn or none at all. Clothes did not fit too well (usually looser) and were not very colorful. Thomas Shelby also frequently wore shirtwithoutut an attached collar. Caps were worn instead of expensive felt hats. Learn more about Peaky Blinders outfits here.
1920 Men's Shirts
Most men in the early 1920s were wearing colorful dress shirts with club collars or round collars. They were usually detachable white collars that were washed separately and buttoned on a small round collar shirt (similar to a Mandarin style shirt.) Shirt collars were either lined in stiff material or left unlined. The unlined, cloth collars, could look a bit unruly so to keep them looking good with a tie bar. Nucky's was custom made for the show but you can find one at formal men's stores or a local vintage /antique store.
PremierClothing has an excellent tutorial on how to turn an attached collar dress shirt into a detachable collar dress shirt.
If you can't find a club collar shirt you can either make one by cutting off the points on a standard dress shirt or just wearing a point collar dress shirt instead. Pointed collar shirts became common in 1922. 1920s collars, were long point, often called classic or straight collars today. The current trend for wide spread collars was briefly popular in the late 1920s.
The other element of the 1920s shirt, besides the contrasting white collar, was the contrasting white french cuffs. These thick white cuffs came with button holes for a pair of snazzy cuff links. If you wear a standard dress shirt and want to wear cuff links simply poke a hole where the cuff button normally is.
The best part about 1920s shirts were the vivid color choices. White was boring. Pastels yellows, blues, greens and even pink solids were common as well as a mix of these colors in 1/4 inch stripes. Bold and clashing with ties and suits was the way to go! Shirts always had white cuffs and collars until the late 20s when all solid color shirts became popular. Have fun choosing your shirt color!
Shop here for 1920s style men's shirts
1920 Men's Neckties and Bow Ties
The other pop of collar was a man's necktie and pocket square (handkerchief.) Neckties came in standard long silk ties or festive fluffy bow ties. I say fluffy bow ties because they are shorter and fatter then today's pre-tied bow ties. Get a self tied bow tie and learn to tie it yourself for a more authentic 1920's look. Both neckties and bow ties were full of color and often clashed with shirts and suits. Small dots and thick stripes were two favorite bow tie and necktie patterns. In the early 20's paisley print ties were all the rage. Be bold, be daring, show off your style with more color. Learn about the history of 1920's mens ties.
Shop for 1920s style ties here.
1920 Men's Hats and Shoes
Occasionally you see a Boardwalk Empire man wearing a hat. Popular hats of the time were the Homburg, the Bowler or Derby, the Fedora and for summer the straw Boater or Panama hat. Lower classes, working classes and casual sporty outfits required an 8 panel cap instead, sometimes called a Newsboy or Gatsby cap. Peaky Blinders gang almost always wore a cap instead of a felt hat, reflecting their social status. You can read all about 1920's men's hats styles here.
Shop for 1920s style hats here.
Men's iconic shoes of the 1920s were two toned, brown and white, spectator shoes. These were best with casual suits and sport clothes. In the opening credits, you see Nucky wearing dark two tone wingtip shoes- a sign of his class and fashion-forwardness. Get those exact shoes here.
The more common dress shoe was the cap toe oxford in brown or black. Shoes featured the simple cap toe without all the fussy wingtip detailing that came in by the 1930s. In the summer white Nubuck shoes were worn with white or ivory suits. Occasionally two tone grey and white and even black and white shoes were seen.
Lace up boots were still worn by working classes and some older gentlement but if you were a high class gangster you wore spats. Learn the history of mens shoes and spats here.
Shop for shoes on 1920's mens shoes page.
More Gangster Clothing Ideas:
Nucky Thompson and his gang of gangster are not the only styles you can emulate. Click on the photo above or here for more ideas on creating a 1920s men's look.
Now that you know what to look for you can raid your closet, head to the thrift store, or look at all of the new 1920s style men's clothes I have found online for you. Here are some basics to get you started. Use the 1920s menu above for more men's 1920s clothing options:


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26 November (Saturday)
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A Preview into 2015
I unofficially joined a goal group last week, and tomorrow we will be checking in via Google Hangouts to discuss what our goals are for the year and how we have been doing with them. I guess that makes it official. It's that accountability thing, popping up again.
Incidentally, two paths converge: the DeskPM blogging challenge and the goal group encouraged using the SMART framework to create specific, measurable goals:
- Specific – target a specific area for improvement
- Measurable – quantify an indicator of progress
- Assignable – specify who will do it. I've also seen this stand for "Attainable" – hmm...
- Realistic – let's face the music and stick with realistic parameters
- Time-related – specify when the result(s) can be achieved
As I've mentioned before, goal setting is something I am working on improving. To me, some of the parameters using the SMART framework overlap a bit. I suppose the relevance of each attribute can also depend upon the goal specified.
My blogging/writing goals for 2015 are as follows:
- Blog/publish weekly on this website, and capture ongoing ideas and narratives in Evernote
- Contribute to meaningful discussions in the DeskPM community on a weekly basis
- Tweet no more than twice a day with random quips, because sometimes, I can get out of hand...
Wish me luck!


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