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LITTLE TRAVELS AND ROADSIDE SKETCHES by TITMARSH
. . . I quitted the "Rose Cottage Hotel" at Richmond, one of the comfortablest, quietest, cheapest, neatest little inns in England, and a thousand times preferable, in my opinion, to the "Star and Garter," whither, if you go alone, a sneering waiter, with his hair curled, frightens you off the premises; and where, if you are bold enough to brave the sneering waiter, you have to pay ten shillings for a bottle of claret; and whence, if you look out of the window, you gaze on a view which is so rich that it seems to knock you down with its splendor-a view that has its hair curled like the swaggering waiter: I say, I quitted the "Rose Cottage Hotel" with deep regret, believing that I should see nothing so pleasant as its gardens, and its veal cutlets, and its dear little bowling-green, elsewhere. But the time comes when people must go out of town, and so I got on the top of the omnibus, and the carpet-bag was put inside.
If I were a great prince and rode outside of coaches (as I should if I were a great prince), I would, whether I smoked or not, have a case of the best Havanas in my pocket-not for my own smoking, but to give them to the snobs on the coach, who smoke the vilest cheroots. They poison the air with the odor of their filthy weeds. A man at all easy in his circumstances would spare himself much annoyance by taking the above simple precaution.
A gentleman sitting behind me tapped me on the back and asked for a light. He was a footman, or rather valet. He had no livery, but the three friends who accompanied him were tall men in pepper-and- salt undress jackets with a duke's coronet on their buttons.
After tapping me on the back, and when he had finished his cheroot, the gentleman produced another wind-instrument, which he called a "kinopium," a sort of trumpet, on which he showed a great inclination to play. He began puffing out of the "kinopium" a most abominable air, which he said was the "Duke's March." It was played by particular request of one of the pepper-and-salt gentry.
The noise was so abominable that even the coachman objected (although my friend's brother footmen were ravished with it), and said that it was not allowed to play toons on HIS 'bus. "Very well," said the valet, "WE'RE ONLY OF THE DUKE OF B--'S ESTABLISHMENT, THAT'S ALL." The coachman could not resist that appeal to his fashionable feelings. The valet was allowed to play his infernal kinopium, and the poor fellow (the coachman), who had lived in some private families, was quite anxious to conciliate the footmen "of the Duke of B.'s establishment, that's all," and told several stories of his having been groom in Captain Hoskins's family, NEPHEW OF GOVERNOR HOSKINS; which stories the footmen received with great contempt.
The footmen were like the rest of the fashionable world in this respect. I felt for my part that I respected them. They were in daily communication with a duke! They were not the rose, but they had lived beside it. There is an odor in the English aristocracy which intoxicates plebeians. I am sure that any commoner in England, though he would die rather than confess it, would have a respect for those great big hulking Duke's footmen.
The day before, her Grace the Duchess had passed us alone in a chariot-and-four with two outriders. What better mark of innate superiority could man want? Here was a slim lady who required four-six horses to herself, and four servants (kinopium was, no doubt, one of the number) to guard her.
We were sixteen inside and out, and had consequently an eighth of a horse apiece.
A duchess = 6, a commoner = 1/8; that is to say,
1 duchess = 48 commoners.
If I were a duchess of the present day, I would say to the duke my noble husband, "My dearest grace, I think, when I travel alone in my chariot from Hammersmith to London, I will not care for the outriders. In these days, when there is so much poverty and so much disaffection in the country, we should not eclabousser the canaille with the sight of our preposterous prosperity.
But this is very likely only plebeian envy, and I dare say, if I were a lovely duchess of the realm, I would ride in a coach-and- six, with a coronet on the top of my bonnet and a robe of velvet and ermine even in the dog-days.
Alas! these are the dog-days. Many dogs are abroad-snarling dogs, biting dogs, envious dogs, mad dogs; beware of exciting the fury of such with your flaming red velvet and dazzling ermine. It makes ragged Lazarus doubly hungry to see Dives feasting in cloth-of- gold; and so if I were a beauteous duchess . . . Silence, vain man! Can the Queen herself make you a duchess? Be content, then, nor gibe at thy betters of "the Duke of B--'s establishment- that's all."
We have bidden adieu to Billingsgate, we have passed the Thames Tunnel; it is one o'clock, and of course people are thinking of being hungry. What a merry place a steamer is on a calm sunny summer forenoon, and what an appetite every one seems to have! We are, I assure you, no less than 170 noblemen and gentlemen together, pacing up and down under the awning, or lolling on the sofas in the cabin, and hardly have we passed Greenwich when the feeding begins. The company was at the brandy and soda-water in an instant (there is a sort of legend that the beverage is a preservative against sea-sickness), and I admired the penetration of gentlemen who partook of the drink. In the first place, the steward WILL put so much brandy into the tumbler that it is fit to choke you; and, secondly, the soda-water, being kept as near as possible to the boiler of the engine, is of a fine wholesome heat when presented to the hot and thirsty traveller. Thus he is prevented from catching any sudden cold which might be dangerous to him.
The forepart of the vessel is crowded to the full as much as the genteeler quarter. There are four carriages, each with piles of imperials and aristocratic gimcracks of travel, under the wheels of which those personages have to clamber who have a mind to look at the bowsprit, and perhaps to smoke a cigar at ease. The carriages overcome, you find yourself confronted by a huge penful of Durham oxen, lying on hay and surrounded by a barricade of oars. Fifteen of these horned monsters maintain an incessant mooing and bellowing. Beyond the cows come a heap of cotton-bags, beyond the cotton-bags more carriages, more pyramids of travelling trunks, and valets and couriers bustling and swearing round about them. And already, and in various corners and niches, lying on coils of rope, black tar-cloths, ragged cloaks, or hay, you see a score of those dubious fore-cabin passengers, who are never shaved, who always look unhappy, and appear getting ready to be sick.
At one, dinner begins in the after-cabin-boiled salmon, boiled beef, boiled mutton, boiled cabbage, boiled potatoes, and parboiled wine for any gentlemen who like it, and two roast-ducks between seventy. After this, knobs of cheese are handed round on a plate, and there is a talk of a tart somewhere at some end of the table. All this I saw peeping through a sort of meat-safe which ventilates the top of the cabin, and very happy and hot did the people seem below.
"How the deuce CAN people dine at such an hour?" say several genteel fellows who are watching the manoeuvres. "I can't touch a morsel before seven."
But somehow at half-past three o'clock we had dropped a long way down the river. The air was delightfully fresh, the sky of a faultless cobalt, the river shining and flashing like quicksilver, and at this period steward runs against me bearing two great smoking dishes covered by two great glistening hemispheres of tin. "Fellow," says I, "what's that?"
He lifted up the cover: it was ducks and green pease, by jingo!
"What! haven't they done YET, the greedy creatures?" I asked. "Have the people been feeding for three hours?"
"Law bless you, sir, it's the second dinner. Make haste, or you won't get a place." At which words a genteel party, with whom I had been conversing, instantly tumbled down the hatchway, and I find myself one of the second relay of seventy who are attacking the boiled salmon, boiled beef, boiled cabbage, As for the ducks, I certainly had some pease, very fine yellow stiff pease, that ought to have been split before they were boiled; but, with regard to the ducks, I saw the animals gobbled up before my eyes by an old widow lady and her party just as I was shrieking to the steward to bring a knife and fork to carve them. The fellow! (I mean the widow lady's whiskered companion)-I saw him eat pease with the very knife with which he had dissected the duck!
After dinner (as I need not tell the keen observer of human nature who peruses this) the human mind, if the body be in a decent state, expands into gayety and benevolence, and the intellect longs to measure itself in friendly converse with the divers intelligences around it. We ascend upon deck, and after eying each other for a brief space and with a friendly modest hesitation, we begin anon to converse about the weather and other profound and delightful themes of English discourse. We confide to each other our respective opinions of the ladies round about us. Look at that charming creature in a pink bonnet and a dress of the pattern of a Kilmarnock snuff-box: a stalwart Irish gentleman in a green coat and bushy red whiskers is whispering something very agreeable into her ear, as is the wont of gentlemen of his nation; for her dark eyes kindle, her red lips open and give an opportunity to a dozen beautiful pearly teeth to display themselves, and glance brightly in the sun; while round the teeth and the lips a number of lovely dimples make their appearance, and her whole countenance assumes a look of perfect health and happiness. See her companion in shot silk and a dove-colored parasol; in what a graceful Watteau-like attitude she reclines. The tall courier who has been bouncing about the deck in attendance upon these ladies (it is his first day of service, and he is eager to make a favorable impression on them and the lady's-maids too) has just brought them from the carriage a small paper of sweet cakes (nothing is prettier than to see a pretty woman eating sweet biscuits) and a bottle that evidently contains Malmsey madeira. How daintily they sip it; how happy they seem; how that lucky rogue of an Irishman prattles away! Yonder is a noble group indeed: an English gentleman and his family. Children, mother, grandmother, grown-up daughters, father, and domestics, twenty-two in all. They have a table to themselves on the deck, and the consumption of eatables among them is really endless. The nurses have been bustling to and fro, and bringing, first, slices of cake; then dinner; then tea with huge family jugs of milk; and the little people have been playing hide-and-seek round the deck, coquetting with the other children, and making friends of every soul on board. I love to see the kind eyes of women fondly watching them as they gambol about; a female face, be it ever so plain, when occupied in regarding children, becomes celestial almost, and a man can hardly fail to be good and happy while he is looking on at such sights. "Ah, sir!" says a great big man, whom you would not accuse of sentiment, "I have a couple of those little things at home;" and he stops and heaves a great big sigh and swallows down a half-tumbler of cold something and water. We know what the honest fellow means well enough. He is saying to himself, "God bless my girls and their mother!" but, being a Briton, is too manly to speak out in a more intelligible way. Perhaps it is as well for him to be quiet, and not chatter and gesticulate like those Frenchmen a few yards from him, who are chirping over a bottle of champagne.
There is, as you may fancy, a number of such groups on the deck, and a pleasant occupation it is for a lonely man to watch them and build theories upon them, and examine those two personages seated cheek by jowl. One is an English youth, travelling for the first time, who has been hard at his Guidebook during the whole journey. He has a "Manuel du Voyageur" in his pocket: a very pretty, amusing little oblong work it is too, and might be very useful, if the foreign people in three languages, among whom you travel, would but give the answers set down in the book, or understand the questions you put to them out of it. The other honest gentleman in the fur cap, what can his occupation be? We know him at once for what he is. "Sir," says he, in a fine German accent, "I am a brofessor of languages, and will gif you lessons in Danish, Swedish, English, Bortuguese, Spanish and Bersian." Thus occupied in meditations, the rapid hours and the rapid steamer pass quickly on. The sun is sinking, and, as he drops, the ingenious luminary sets the Thames on fire: several worthy gentlemen, watch in hand, are eagerly examining the phenomena attending his disappearance,-rich clouds of purple and gold, that form the curtains of his bed,-little barks that pass black across his disc, his disc every instant dropping nearer and nearer into the water. "There he goes!" says one sagacious observer. "No, he doesn't," cries another. Now he is gone, and the steward is already threading the deck, asking the passengers, right and left, if they will take a little supper. What a grand object is a sunset, and what a wonder is an appetite at sea! Lo! the horned moon shines pale over Margate, and the red beacon is gleaming from distant Ramsgate pier.
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A great rush is speedily made for the mattresses that lie in the boat at the ship's side; and as the night is delightfully calm, many fair ladies and worthy men determine to couch on deck for the night. The proceedings of the former, especially if they be young and pretty, the philosopher watches with indescribable emotion and interest. What a number of pretty coquetries do the ladies perform, and into what pretty attitudes do they take care to fall! All the little children have been gathered up by the nursery-maids, and are taken down to roost below. Balmy sleep seals the eyes of many tired wayfarers, as you see in the case of the Russian nobleman asleep among the portmanteaus; and Titmarsh, who has been walking the deck for some time with a great mattress on his shoulders, knowing full well that were he to relinquish it for an instant, some other person would seize on it, now stretches his bed upon the deck, wraps his cloak about his knees, draws his white cotton nightcap tight over his head and ears; and, as the smoke of his cigar rises calmly upwards to the deep sky and the cheerful twinkling stars, he feels himself exquisitely happy, and thinks of thee, my Juliana!
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Why people, because they are in a steamboat, should get up so deucedly early I cannot understand. Gentlemen have been walking over my legs ever since three o'clock this morning, and, no doubt, have been indulging in personalities (which I hate) regarding my appearance and manner of sleeping, lying, snoring. Let the wags laugh on; but a far pleasanter occupation is to sleep until breakfast-time, or near it.
The tea, and ham and eggs, which, with a beefsteak or two, and three or four rounds of toast, form the component parts of the above-named elegant meal, are taken in the River Scheldt. Little neat, plump-looking churches and villages are rising here and there among tufts of trees and pastures that are wonderfully green. To the right, as the "Guide-book" says, is Walcheren; and on the left Cadsand, memorable for the English expedition of 1809, when Lord Chatham, Sir Walter Manny, and Henry Earl of Derby, at the head of the English, gained a great victory over the Flemish mercenaries in the pay of Philippe of Valois. The cloth-yard shafts of the English archers did great execution. Flushing was taken, and Lord Chatham returned to England, where he distinguished himself greatly in the debates on the American war, which he called the brightest jewel of the British crown. You see, my love, that, though an artist by profession, my education has by no means been neglected; and what, indeed, would be the pleasure of travel, unless these charming historical recollections were brought to bear upon it?
As many hundreds of thousands of English visit this city (I have met at least a hundred of them in this half-hour walking the streets, "Guide-book" in hand), and as the ubiquitous Murray has already depicted the place, there is no need to enter into a long description of it, its neatness, its beauty, and its stiff antique splendor. The tall pale houses have many of them crimped gables, that look like Queen Elizabeth's ruffs. There are as many people in the streets as in London at three o'clock in the morning; the market-women wear bonnets of a flower-pot shape, and have shining brazen milk-pots, which are delightful to the eyes of a painter. Along the quays of the lazy Scheldt are innumerable good-natured groups of beer-drinkers (small-beer is the most good-natured drink in the world); along the barriers outside of the town, and by the glistening canals, are more beer-shops and more beer-drinkers. The city is defended by the queerest fat military. The chief traffic is between the hotels and the railroad. The hotels give wonderful good dinners, and especially at the "Grand Laboureur" may be mentioned a peculiar tart, which is the best of all tarts that ever a man ate since he was ten years old. A moonlight walk is delightful. At ten o'clock the whole city is quiet; and so little changed does it seem to be, that you may walk back three hundred years into time, and fancy yourself a majestical Spaniard, or an oppressed and patriotic Dutchman at your leisure. You enter the inn, and the old Quentin Durward court-yard, on which the old towers look down. There is a sound of singing-singing at midnight. Is it Don Sombrero, who is singing an Andalusian seguidilla under the window of the Flemish burgomaster's daughter? Ah, no! it is a fat Englishman in a zephyr coat: he is drinking cold gin-and-water in the moonlight, and warbling softly-
"Nix my dolly, pals, fake away,
N-ix my dolly, pals, fake a-a-way."*
* In 1844.
I wish the good people would knock off the top part of Antwerp Cathedral spire. Nothing can be more gracious and elegant than the lines of the first two compartments; but near the top there bulges out a little round, ugly, vulgar Dutch monstrosity (for which the architects have, no doubt, a name) which offends the eye cruelly. Take the Apollo, and set upon him a bob-wig and a little cocked hat; imagine "God Save the King" ending with a jig; fancy a polonaise, or procession of slim, stately, elegant court beauties, headed by a buffoon dancing a hornpipe. Marshal Gerard should have discharged a bombshell at that abomination, and have given the noble steeple a chance to be finished in the grand style of the early fifteenth century, in which it was begun.
This style of criticism is base and mean, and quite contrary to the orders of the immortal Goethe, who was only for allowing the eye to recognize the beauties of a great work, but would have its defects passed over. It is an unhappy, luckless organization which will be perpetually fault-finding, and in the midst of a grand concert of music will persist only in hearing that unfortunate fiddle out of tune.
Within-except where the rococo architects have introduced their ornaments (here is the fiddle out of tune again)-the cathedral is noble. A rich, tender sunshine is streaming in through the windows, and gilding the stately edifice with the purest light. The admirable stained-glass windows are not too brilliant in their colors. The organ is playing a rich, solemn music; some two hundred of people are listening to the service; and there is scarce one of the women kneeling on her chair, enveloped in her full majestic black drapery, that is not a fine study for a painter. These large black mantles of heavy silk brought over the heads of the women, and covering their persons, fall into such fine folds of drapery, that they cannot help being picturesque and noble. See, kneeling by the side of two of those fine devout-looking figures, is a lady in a little twiddling Parisian hat and feather, in a little lace mantelet, in a tight gown and a bustle. She is almost as monstrous as yonder figure of the Virgin, in a hoop, and with a huge crown and a ball and a sceptre; and a bambino dressed in a little hoop, and in a little crown, round which are clustered flowers and pots of orange-trees, and before which many of the faithful are at prayer. Gentle clouds of incense come wafting through the vast edifice; and in the lulls of the music you hear the faint chant of the priest, and the silver tinkle of the bell.
Six Englishmen, with the commissionaires, and the "Murray's Guide- books" in their hands, are looking at the "Descent from the Cross." Of this picture the "Guide-book" gives you orders how to judge. If it is the end of religious painting to express the religious sentiment, a hundred of inferior pictures must rank before Rubens. Who was ever piously affected by any picture of the master? He can depict a livid thief writhing upon the cross, sometimes a blond Magdalen weeping below it; but it is a Magdalen a very short time indeed after her repentance: her yellow brocades and flaring satins are still those which she wore when she was of the world; her body has not yet lost the marks of the feasting and voluptuousness in which she used to indulge, according to the legend. Not one of the Rubens's pictures among all the scores that decorate chapels and churches here, has the least tendency to purify, to touch the affections, or to awaken the feelings of religious respect and wonder. The "Descent from the Cross" is vast, gloomy, and awful; but the awe inspired by it is, as I take it, altogether material. He might have painted a picture of any criminal broken on the wheel, and the sensation inspired by it would have been precisely similar. Nor in a religious picture do you want the savoir-faire of the master to be always protruding itself; it detracts from the feeling of reverence, just as the thumping of cushion and the spouting of tawdry oratory does from a sermon: meek religion disappears, shouldered out of the desk by the pompous, stalwart, big-chested, fresh-colored, bushy-whiskered pulpiteer. Rubens's piety has always struck us as of this sort. If he takes a pious subject, it is to show you in what a fine way he, Peter Paul Rubens, can treat it. He never seems to doubt but that he is doing it a great honor. His "Descent from the Cross," and its accompanying wings and cover, are a set of puns upon the word Christopher, of which the taste is more odious than that of the hooped-petticoated Virgin yonder, with her artificial flowers, and her rings and brooches. The people who made an offering of that hooped petticoat did their best, at any rate; they knew no better. There is humility in that simple, quaint present; trustfulness and kind intention. Looking about at other altars, you see (much to the horror of pious Protestants) all sorts of queer little emblems hanging up under little pyramids of penny candles that are sputtering and flaring there. Here you have a silver arm, or a little gold toe, or a wax leg, or a gilt eye, signifying and commemorating cures that have been performed by the supposed intercession of the saint over whose chapel they hang. Well, although they are abominable superstitions, yet these queer little offerings seem to me to be a great deal more pious than Rubens's big pictures; just as is the widow with her poor little mite compared to the swelling Pharisee who flings his purse of gold into the plate.
A couple of days of Rubens and his church pictures makes one thoroughly and entirely sick of him. His very genius and splendor pails upon one, even taking the pictures as worldly pictures. One grows weary of being perpetually feasted with this rich, coarse, steaming food. Considering them as church pictures, I don't want to go to church to hear, however splendid, an organ play the "British Grenadiers."
The Antwerpians have set up a clumsy bronze statue of their divinity in a square of the town; and those who have not enough of Rubens in the churches may study him, and indeed to much greater advantage, in a good, well-lighted museum. Here, there is one picture, a dying saint taking the communion, a large piece ten or eleven feet high, and painted in an incredibly short space of time, which is extremely curious indeed for the painter's study. The picture is scarcely more than an immense magnificent sketch; but it tells the secret of the artist's manner, which, in the midst of its dash and splendor, is curiously methodical. Where the shadows are warm the lights are cold, and vice versa; and the picture has been so rapidly painted, that the tints lie raw by the side of one another, the artist not having taken the trouble to blend them.


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2 on the board for Halford at 24/1
Captured brilliantly by Healy Racing, Bensoon gets rid of Conor Hoban past the line
(Healy Racing Photos)
Hoban was 'thanked' for his efforts when dumped by the Refuse To Bend gelding past the line as he appeared to shy away at the lights.
The three-year-old had his job done at that stage and he passed the post three parts of a length to the good from Noverre Princess.
Halford explained: "Conor said he just shied away from the lights at the line.
"He probably deserved to win one. There was a fast early pace which suited, as he had a bad draw and Conor did well to get him into position.
"He carried a good weight and it was a good performance." (AM & EM)
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Prince George's County Police say a man was fatally injured when he was hit by a car in College Park.
Officers say 23-year-old Carlos Pacanins of Chevy Chase was trying to cross Baltimore Avenue about 10:20 p.m. Friday when he was hit by a car. Authorities say the driver remained at the scene.
Police say Pacanins died of his injuries Sunday. Investigators say he was walking in or near a crosswalk, but a "Don't Walk" signal was flashing.


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My laptop fails to resume from hibernation after ram upgrade
I've been looking on the search function to find a problem similar to mines, but I have not. So hopefully this is not a duplicate post, and if so, could you be kind enough to redirect me to such forum thread.
Computer upgrade: Currently, I have a Gateway NV75S23u laptop with Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Laptop Memory Model (upgraded from the factory 2 x 2GB RAM).
Other information which may/not may be useful: AMD quad-core cpu A6-3420M, AMD Radeon HD 6520G with 512 graphics system memory, 320 gb hdd.
Issue: When I hibernate my laptop for some time (at least 10 min), I get the Windows Resume loader Error black screen when I try to wake up my laptop from hibernation, telling me that my memory config. changed since i last went into hibernation. When I resume my windows, my memory usable for windows is about 3.48 out of 8gb. However, when I restart, I see about 7.4 roughly memory usable.
I've tried disabling the hibernation function and restarting. Then enabling the hibernation function. I restarted my computer after that, yet i still get the same error.
Any suggestions on how to fix that?
[edit] under issue paragraph, I added "when I try to wake up my laptop from hibernation".
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By Tim Redmond
I just came across this wonderful report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance called "Localizing the Internet: Five ways Public Ownership Solves the Local Broadband Problem." The folks at the Institute, which does great work, argue (as we have) that broadband is essential municipal infrastructure. They also say locally owned broadband is good for the economy. Read more »
By Tim Redmond
Back in the early 1980s, San Francisco's Public Media Center did a campaign against PG&E's Diablo Canyon nuclear plant with a slogan that read:
"A nuclear plant on an earthquake fault? PG&E is making the mistake of our lives."
You see, Diablo's built right smack atop the active Hosgri Fault. Read more »
(Graphic from Calitics)
Lawyers hired by the state Senate campaign of Assembly member Mark Leno have concluded that those big, colorful billboards promoting Carole Migden all over town are in fact an illegal campaign contribution from Clear Channel Corp. Read more »
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In what could be the most ironic moment of the Ed Jew saga so far, Jew's attorney Steven Gruel is accusing the City Attorney's response to a recent public records disclosure request of being "woefully incomplete."
This from the attorney of the "D4" Supervisor, who still hasn't been able to prove that he actually lives in the district that he is supposed to be representing at City Hall.
Gruel's ironic accusation followed Jew's July 11 request that the City Attorney's off Read more »
Update on the :campaign-finance bill I mentioned a few days ago
This thing is pretty bad, and it's winging its way through Sacramento with very little opposition. Read more »
State Sen. Carole Migden just called me to answer the question I've been posing to her for a couple of weeks: Who paid for all those pro-Migden billboards?
Migden says it wasn't a secret donor; as far as she knows, Clear Channel, which owns the billboards, donated them, through the efforts of Michael Colbruno, a local Clear Channel exec who is a former Migden aide and remains close to the senator.
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Carmona said he also ran afoul of politics on teen pregnancy prevention. Read more »
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Approximately 30 Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals gathered at the edge of Shu'fat refugee camp today to demonstrate against the new Israeli checkpoint, which opened last Monday, December 12 and that an Israeli activist referred to as "ethnic cleansing." Palestinian children threw stones; Israeli police fired rubber-coated bullets at the kids.
Jeff Halper, founder of ICAHD, on the right
A number of local Palestinian activists were reportedly arrested prior to the demonstration.
The small group of protesters stood in the roundabout nearest to the new checkpoint, holding signs and giving speeches. Israeli police approached and asked the group to move 20 meters back because the protesters were "bothering" them. The demonstrators responded that the checkpoint bothered them and refused to move.
An Israeli policeman argues with a Palestinian protester
After a tense stand-off, the police left and the protest continued.
"This [checkpoint] has nothing what so ever to do with security," Jeff Halper, a co-founder of the Israeli Commitee Against House Demolitions, said. "There are Palestinians on both sides of the border. [The checkpoint] has one purpose--to concentrate 50,000 Palestinians on one side of the [separation] wall so their residency can eventually be revoked."
Halper added that the checkpoint is "ethnic cleansing."
Shu'fat refugee camp was founded by Jordan in 1966. Today, it is home to approximately 50,000 Palestinians. It is located in the eastern part of the city and falls inside of Israeli-drawn municpality lines.
Many of the residents hold Jerusalem residency. But to keep this status, they must prove that Jerusalem remains the "center" of their life. According to activists, the checkpoint--which separates one area of Jerusalem from another, impeding freedom of movement--makes this already difficult task more difficult. Scores of Palestinian residents of Jerusalem lose their residency rights every year; 2008 marked an all-time high, with the Israeli government stripping over 4000 Palestinians of their status.
Jaber Mouheisen, head of the Shu'fat's Popular Committee, called the checkpoint illegal. "We carry Israeli ID cards...This is our right to live here and move freely."
He added that the occupation would fall "sooner or later."
As the protest dispersed, small children threw stones towards the checkpoint. Israeli police fired rubber-coated bullets. After the kids continued, police entered the refugee camp with their weapons drawn. Israeli protesters appealed to them to leave, saying their presence and their weapons were a provocation. The police retreated to the roundabout near the checkpoint.
When asked via email about the purpose of the new checkpoint at Shu'fat refugee camp and whether it was intended to separate Jerusalem residents from other areas of the city, Israeli officials did not respond.
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A Nebraska teenager has been deemed too immature to get an abortion. Let that sink in for a minute. Nebraska is one of several states that requires girls under the age of consent to get parental permission before they can have an abortion. The problem is that the teen doesn't have parents. She's in foster care and was a ward of the state. So a judge had to determine if she got her abortion or not. The teen reportedly testified that she didn't feel ready to be a mother, wasn't financially stable, and felt she wasn't mature enough to be the mom she wanted to be right then. The court agreed she was immature -- but not enough to raise a baby on her own. Just enough to not decide for herself if she wants an abortion! Holy convoluted logic!
The unnamed teen was reportedly taken from her parents due to neglect and abuse. She was living with a strict religious foster family and was worried about telling them about the pregnancy. So the state took over -- and had to decide whether or not she could have an abortion.
The judge asked her if she understood that an abortion would kill the fetus. Yes, she understood. He asked if she still wanted an abortion. Yes, she said, she did.
So the court made this jaw-droppingly bizarre decision: It said that because the teen was living with a foster family and was financially dependent on them, and she had never had any work experience, she was not mature enough to make a decision about an abortion.
But apparently this sounds like a fine candidate to have a baby! Perhaps the court didn't realize that denying an abortion equals having a baby?
This ludicrous decision actually went through two more courts, including the state Supreme Court, both of which agreed with the first ludicrous decision.
Because the girl is underage, her lawyer wouldn't give her name or say whether the girl ended up having the baby or getting an abortion elsewhere.
But she also says that this is hardly an isolated incident.
Sure, you can say the girl should have the baby and give it up for adoption. Easy for you to say, not being in her position.
Easy for the courts to say, not being in her position. Not having their daughter in that position. Easy to say, don't have sex. You don't know if she was raped. Birth control? Could have failed.
But also could be a loved-starved teen doing what teens all over the world regularly do -- have sex.
But what we do know is that somewhere out there, a 16-year-old girl who was abused and neglected and stated that she was not ready to be a parent and could not support a baby -- might now have a child. Sound good to anyone?
Do you agree with this decision?
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And the cycle of abuse will continue.
Mutts, I don't usually agree with you but you are totaly right. This is some backwards thinking.
Then she shouldn't have had sex if she wasn't ready to have a baby. It's a hard lesson to carry out the pregnancy and give it up for adoption, sure. But don't you think the judge is trying to set an example for other teens? Don't you think there should be some sort of accountability for what the teen decided to do? This is a bad decision, and she should have to live with her decisions. An abortion also has physical and mental risks. Oh wait, for BOTH PEOPLE involved, except one doesn't make it out alive.


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About 100 people many of them first responders packed the Shawnee Theatre at Midwestern State University to learn about severe thunderstorms and tornadoes.
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"A lot of our spotters are firemen and sheriff's deputies and emergency management coordinators. These are people who are in the communities, they know the communities and they also have a real interest in what happens with the weather," said Rick Smith with the National Weather Service.
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Join ECPL for this special event as they kick off the Summer Reading Club with food, fun and entertainment! Gary Railcat's "Rusty" will be on hand as well as East Chicago Central's "Cardinal and the library's own mascot the ECPL Library Book.
Music will be provided by DJ Manuel "Get Down" Feliciano, face painting by local resident, Ms. Nora Cheeks and cartooning by Donna Upshaw. This event is free and open to all ages from pre-school to high school. Come out and enjoy a fun-filled day of prizes, fun and refreshments.
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As people relax in their backyards watching the squirrels frolic about and rabbits eating the garden lettuce, the serenity of the moment is broken by the incessant beep, beep, beep of "back up" alarms, some near and some far. For those who live near, or not so near, construction sites, or golf courses, or other locations where commercial vehicles frequent, there is no sense of tranquility, of relaxation. This is but one of the prices we pay when government edicts have unintended consequences.
Sometimes one wonders when environmentalists fight so called "global warming" (now called "climate change" due to the fact that no warming has taken place in the last 15 years) by demanding that governments subsidize the wind and solar power industries, they ignore the unintended slaughter of hundreds of thousands of our avian friends, including the Bald Eagle, our national bird. As someone recently said at a Congressional hearing on another subject, "what difference does it make"? What difference does it make that many of our endangered national birds are chopped to pieces by wind turbines or roasted until extra crispy by the sun concentrations of solar panel fields. Why do environmentalists continue to support the ultra expensive wind and solar industries that make up less than 3% of the energy sources in the United States and which will never be a major source of power in the world?
We are a compassionate society, but a divided society, divided in our ideas for problem solving. Some believe that government is the cure-all, the quickest step to a utopian world. Others believe that that utopia rests in the innate abilities of the individual and the freedom to grow and become self sufficient and not having to depend on Uncle Sugar to be their lifelong caretaker.
So many of our people are well intentioned and elect government representatives that are equally well intentioned. What many are lacking is common sense. Invariably these representatives, whether they are liberal, moderate or conservative, end up passing laws that are fraught with unintended consequences and require financial resources that end up exacerbating one of our most pressing problems, the national debt.
Beginning in the Clinton years, "compassionate" Democrats and some Republicans pushed to provide home ownership to those who could ill afford it. By providing an outlet, Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac, for the banking fat cats to unload their highly risky loans, a boom in the housing industry was created. Millions of Americans signed up for the highly attractive sub-prime, adjustable rate mortgages, and all was good; until it was not. The collapse came, people were unable to pay their mortgages, financial institutions failed, the housing market nosedived, the stock market fell and the World's economy was in shambles. Again, government interference in the free market economy created dire unintended consequences.
Sometimes it doesn't take an intrusive government to initiate a debacle. At times, the people of this great nation do it to themselves. Hammering home the slogan of "Hope and Change", a man, devoid of any significant experience or accomplishments, whose political views were far left of the American people's, was elected President of the United States. Nearly seven trillion dollars of debt later, a stagnant economy, a government health care system in shambles, a shrinking workforce, a hurting middle class, and government dependency at an all time high, we must now know that this is not the "change we can believe in".
Maybe Libertarians have it right, government, with its penchant for laws and regulations and their inherent unintended consequences, is the problem.


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Chris F Holm's fantastic debut novel, DEAD HARVEST, came out this week. I read it a while back before he was cool.
Okay, that's a lie. Chris has always been cool. And he's offered to make this blog a little bit cooler by his presence.
And so, dead readers, here's Chris to talk a little bit about DEAD HARVEST. And raise some shit talking about that one thing that noir writers LOVE to talk about.
No, not penises.
Since Stephen was kind enough to hand over the reins of his blog today, I thought I'd repay him by stirring up a little internet-ire. See, DEAD HARVEST is a funky little fantasy/noir crossover, the first in a series that recasts the battle between heaven and hell as Golden Era crime pulp. So it seemed only fitting, given the name of this here blog, that the the trashcan fire I stoke while squatting here, eating my baked beans straight from the can, comes in the form of the most dreaded question in all of crime fic:
"What is noir?"
Yeah, I went there. And I bet at least a few of you winced when you read those three little words, because you know just what a can of worms they represent. Truth is, a lot of ink's been spilled by readers and writers of crime fiction alike on the topic of noir, and rightly so: as literary movements go, it's a hard one to pin down. One of the few definitions to get any traction of late is noir preservationist Eddie Muller's take on noir as "working class tragedy," due in large part to the fact that definition's been championed by no less than Dennis Lehane. "In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights," sayeth Lehane. "In noir, they fall from the curb."
Now, that definition doesn't strike me as half bad, but it's more descriptive than prescriptive; I'm not convinced "working class" is a necessary condition of noir, so much as a common ingredient. A shorthand for where the subgenre's often been, as opposed to an instruction manual for where it's going. To my mind, noir boils down to this: shit options, bad decisions, and dire consequences. The difference between Greek tragedy and noir ain't the height of the fall, but the reason: those who fall in Greek tragedy do so because they're destined to; those who fall in noir choose to their damn selves.
In short, free will's a bitch.
When I sat down to write DEAD HARVEST, it was that notion I wanted to explore: namely, the curse of free will. I'm from a family of lapsed Catholics, and I've long been fascinated with the Church's teachings, particularly with regard to free will. On the one hand, we're told God gave to humankind, his most beloved creation, the gift of free will, and on the other, that said gift resulted in the humankind's expulsion from paradise, and a taint that's passed to every one of us at birth. We're taught that three-quarters of everything we do -- or even think -- is sinful, and we should beg forgiveness at every turn lest we wind up burning for all eternity. We're taught that even good people can go to hell if they don't play by God's rules. And we're taught that if they do wind up in hell, it's all their fault.
I'm not trying to knock my family's faith. But I will say being raised in such a faith can scare the ever-loving shit out of you. It puts no small amount of pressure on you to make good decisions, and no doubt has filled the pews for damn near two thousand years of Sundays with folks trying desperately to reconcile their decisions and their beliefs with a rulebook that is both dense and difficult to comprehend. Because by God, if they don't, they're gonna take a fall.
Sam Thornton, the protagonist of DEAD HARVEST, is a man who understands that all too well. Or, rather, he was. See, Sam's dead. Has been since the Forties. In life, he spent his Sundays in church. In death, he's condemned to an eternity in hell. Was Sam a bad guy? Nope. But his life was one of Muller and Lehane's working-class tragedies. Dirt poor and rendered unemployable by a bum leg picked up when a strike-buster took his job a tad too literally, the only thing he'd had going for him was the love of a good woman, his wife Elizabeth. Until she fell ill, that is. Not content to watch her die, Sam struck a bargain with a demon: his immortal soul for Elizabeth's life. And now, in punishment, he's forced to collect the souls of the condemned for all eternity, forever forced to relive the moment he was torn from his beloved.
Sucks, huh? Well, you don't know the half. Because he begins to suspect that Kate, the teenaged girl he's sent to collect at the outset of DEAD HARVEST for murdering her family, is innocent of the crime for which she's been condemned. That someone -- or more likely, some thing -- conspired to set her up. Sam's not about to let an innocent soul rot in hell for all eternity, so he does something no Collector's ever done before: he defies hell's orders, and sets out on a quest to prove Kate's innocence. A quest that, if he's not careful, may just shatter the fragile truce between heaven and hell, and jump-start the Apocalypse.
Like I said, free will's a bitch.


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Responding to a complaint call in August, our humane officers found Hoppy and 30 more neglected cats and kittens crowded in a small house. She was draped over a feedbag lying listlessly. Both of her eyes were swollen completely shut and her rear leg was crippled. Fortunately, Hoppy was still alive and was immediately treated by our Medical team.
Little Man was discovered by our humane officers, emaciated and abandoned. When they first saw him laying lifeless, they were afraid they were too late. Our officers quickly transferred him to our Medical department to receive the care he so desperately needed.
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"I think he is getting better," Jones said. "I think his arrow so to speak is going up. I feel good about where he is." Parnell started one game last season at right tackle, but he and Free rotated snaps for the final five weeks. It might not be a given that the Cowboys sign a veteran free agent like RT Eric Winston if Free ends up getting the ax, especially if they continue to wait for Free to budge.
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SCOAP has had remarkable success. However, a need exists to move beyond QI and to perform real world assessments of risks and benefits. QI alone, while important and worthwhile, cannot accomplish these assessments: QI registries are often limited and cannot capture long-term care and outcomes, don't cross care delivery sites (inpatient vs. outpatient), don't include patient perspectives, are extremely labor intensive, and are limited in dissemination and generalizability. CERTAIN is an innovative response to the limitations of pure QI by building an automated flow of electronic health information and creating a novel approach to incorporating patient perspectives into research through patient-reported outcomes surveys, a Patient Advisory Network, and integration of patients into research development and evidence dissemination.
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Now is the time when contenders (and pretenders) begin to make the final turn jockeying into position for the home-stretch.
Some teams will be fine-tuning their rotations—keeping their competitive edge, but also doing what they can to make sure their main players will be rested and healthy going into the playoffs. These teams will be continually modulating how hard to push for one particular playoff spot or another.
Other teams will be in a mad dash to make sure they can get into the playoffs at all.
Paradoxically, the W's will be trying to do both things at once.


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Na jane kyun hota hai yeh zindagi ke sath ........ achanak yeh pal kisi ke jane ke baad kare fir uski yaad choti choti si baat...... .........??? kisi ke jane ke baad hi uski choti choti baatein yaad kyon aati hai.... kya hota hai aisa bhi kabhi........ ???
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Na jane kyu,,, hota hai ye zindagi ke sath,, yaad aa he jati hain,,, apno ki yaad...har ek chaoti chooti se bat..Answered by naveen soni, 30 Jan '13 07:22 pm
Un chhoti chhoti baatonme dher sara sukun bhara hota hai.. Jab wo yaadein aati hai, tab dil pyar se bhar jaata hai.. nazdikiyaan mehsoos hoti hai. Aur maje ki baat ye hai ki jab koi duur jaata hai tabhi in baatonka importance badhta hai..Answered by subhash, 27 Jan '13 10:03 pm
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LAKE CITY – The Elk County Humane Society reports investigating an act of animal cruelty that occurred on Wednesday, Oct. 19, in Lake City, Spring Creek Township, Elk County, when a male brindle-colored pit bull dog was discovered shot in the shoulder at close range with a shotgun.
The dog was found on private property in the Lake City area with a large wound in his right shoulder.
JOHNSONBURG – As of Tuesday afternoon, the Johnsonburg Municipal Authority began selling 300,000 gallons of water per day to the Hunt Marcellus Operating Company.
The municipal authority began selling 157,000 gallons of water per day to Hunt on Aug. 22 for $8 per 1,000 gallons.
The sale of 300,000 gallons per day was permitted by the Department of Environmental Protection [DEP] on Oct. 3.
According to chairman Eric Poague, a 15-million gallon pond situated on top of the hill at the grange location will provide Hunt with a steady supply of water.
Lawrence Earl Donachy, 36, of St. Marys has been found guilty of second degree murder in the April 5-6, 1999 homicide of Irene Challingsworth, a 56-year-old St. Marys beautician.
A 12-member Butler County jury concluded their deliberations Thursday morning at approximately 10:20 a.m. when Elk County Court of Common Pleas President Judge Richard Masson announced the a verdict had been reached inside the Elk County Courthouse.
Elk County Commissioners on Tuesday approved a budget revision for the Elk County Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program and Narrative.
"This is a follow-up revision from one that we did roughly 60 days ago," said Richard Gavazzi, a housing and program specialist for the county's planning department. "As we're nearing the end of the grant program, budget revisions need to be made to allocate the final program dollars through each specific category."
The 12-member jury in the Lawrence Earl Donachy homicide trial continued their deliberations for eight hours on Wednesday and reported no verdict as the trial recessed for the day at 5 p.m.
Deliberations will continue Thursday morning at 9 a.m. at the Elk County Courthouse as President Judge Richard Masson presides over the hearing.
A 12-member jury did not reach a verdict on Tuesday following nearly 5.5 hours of deliberation in the homicide trial of Lawrence Earl Donachy, 36, of St. Marys. Deliberations will continue this morning beginning at 9 a.m., where the jury will decide the fate of Donachy, who is charged with one count each of criminal homicide, rape, burglary, aggravated assault, criminal attempt at arson and unlawful restraint in the April 5-6, 1999 rape and murder of Irene Challingsworth, a 57-year-old St. Marys beautician.
The Ridgway Borough Council voted in favor of postponing their civil complaint hearing against the Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad for building code violations to the Pennsy Railroad Station.
The hearing that was scheduled for Thursday with District Magistrate Judge George A. King will now be postponed until after Nov. 21.
Council reported receiving a letter from B&P Railroad property manager William Gentilman requesting the postponement to allow time for the railroad to reach a final resolution.
JOHNSONBURG – Uni-Tec engineer Dan Guss reported that the wastewater treatment plant is complete and in operation during Tuesday night's Johnsonburg Municipal Authority meeting.
"The plant is complete, is in operation, and is producing high quality effluent and biosolids," Guss said.
According to Guss, the plant has been in full operation since May 31.
A number of contractor punch list items remain to be completed.
"The punch list items remaining do not inhibit plant operation and are, on a relative basis, minor items," Guss said.
Ridgway Township Supervisor chairman John Gardner said roadwork on Long Level Road [Route 4003] from Johnsonburg to Montmorenci is expected to continue until mid-November.
"They will be doing pipe replacements and a lot of adjustments," Gardner said. "Expect delays and watch for flaggers."
Repairs will be made to the shoulder and guard rails will be updated.
Paving will continue along the 4.5 miles.
"That is a lot of work to do by mid-November," said supervisor Sarah Dickinson.
In other business, building plans for the Montmorenci property will be available in the office.
During Monday's night's Ridgway Borough Council meeting environmental manager Paul McCurdy reported receiving a letter from the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] demanding information relative to brine treatment at the wastewater plant.
According to McCurdy, EPA officials gave the the borough officials five days to respond and 15 days for a more detailed response.


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It almost seems like more has been made of what took place off the field following the AFC Championship game Sunday rather than what happened on the field during the game. Much has been made of Bill Belichick denying an interview to CBS following the game, and instead the Patriots having Devin McCourty speak to them. Many have called Belichick a "sore loser" and heavily criticized the coach for failing to give an exclusive interview to CBS, led by CBS analyst Shannon Sharpe. Some have even said to look for a possible fine to be assessed to Belichick — don't hold your breath. BSMW confirmed with an NFL media relations representative that Belichick did not violate the NFL's media relations policy by not speaking with CBS following the game. This raises the question of why was this made into such a big deal? Belichick sought out Ravens coach John Harbaugh following the game and told the Ravens coach the respect he had for them, something which Harbaugh really took to heart. Following a...
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Although prostitution is obviously frowned upon, it's no secret that the world's oldest profession is still thriving thanks to the monetary funds of lonely truck drivers, sex addicts, and depressed husbands who just want to have a good cry.
Oh, and celebrities.
And while it's no secret that they can clearly afford to pay for sex, there's no reason they'd really have to. (I know several people who would bang Danny DeVito for free, just saying.) The latest star to take off his pants and open his wallet? Jason Biggs of sex-with-a-pie fame. Read on for the dirty details and to take a look back at some of Hollywood's most memorable johns.
Jason Biggs
It was reported yesterday that the man with a fondness for apple pastry also seems to have one for ladies of the night. It was reported by his wife to Playboy and the services rendered were actually paid for her as well, because the only time it's acceptable to call a hooker over for some fellatio is if your wife is in on it.
Hugh Grant
You'd think that getting caught with a prostitute two weeks before the release of your first major studio film would really suck- unless you're Hugh Grant. In 1995, while in a relationship with Elizabeth Hurley, he was arrested for receiving oral sex from prostitute Divine Brown. He handled the whole mess like a real gentleman: by hitting up the talk show circuit and owning up to doing a 'bad thing,' and America loved him for it.
Eddie Murphy
Everyone knows by now that the funny man got caught with a Samoan transvestite hooker in his car back in 1997. What people may not remember is the terrible way Murphy handled the situation. Instead of owning up to his bad behavior he tried to talk his way out of it: "It's not the first hooker that I've helped out…I've seen hookers on corners and I'll pull over and they'll go, 'Oh you're Eddie Murphy, oh my God!' and I'll empty out my wallet to help. I'm just being a nice guy." The real story according to his 'companion': he offered 'her' $200 to model lingerie for him, which is barely anything to be embarrassed about.
Jerry Springer
It shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that the man famous for a hooker-heavy talk show would be acquainted with the lifestyle. Turns out this knowledge comes from personal experience rather than basic research. Prior to become a TV host he was actually a politician who resigned from the Cincinnati city council after a police raid at a 'massage parlor' found a personal check Springer had written for its 'services.' Silly Springer, everyone knows you should pay in cash!
Charlie Sheen
One of Hollywood's most enduring relationships has been between Charlie Sheen and his ever-rotating bevy of call girls. From admitting to being a client of Heidi Fleiss' escort agency in the early '90s to allegedly dropping $26,000 on prostitutes in a single night back in January, Sheen seems to have no qualms about spending big bucks on female company- or, if you take it from his perspective: "I don't pay them for sex. I pay them to leave."


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John Travolta is officially off the hook in an alleged high seas assault -- the cruise ship employee who sued him agreed to drop the matter ... just 2 days after a judge ruled the case would be argued in open court.
As TMZ first reported, Fabian Zanzi sued Travolta last June ... accusing the actor of exposing his penis in his stateroom, and hugging Zanzi during a 2009 Royal Caribbean cruise.
But on Friday a federal judge shut down Travolta's attempt to handle the case in arbitration, instead of going to trial. The judge's decision essentially left Travolta's attorneys with 2 options -- go through a messy public trial ... or reach a settlement with Zanzi.
The case was dismissed on Monday, but terms were not disclosed -- so it's unclear if Travolta made a financial settlement with Zanzi.
Check out blindgossip.com to find out the answer to this mystery. It was a very expensive massage for Travolta.
He's probably spent more on "massages" than anyone on the planet. Too bad he doesn't think he can come out.
He doesn't need more money, so what's stopping him? Gay-hating Scientology?
Hope you liked the way he tasted John !!
SOMEBODY paid out some Shekels !!
Snap tmz. I pointed out fourteen hours ago that rol was reporting this lawsuit had been dropped. Get with it.
I wonder how many millions it cost him.
Both John Travolta and Tom Cruise are gays stats!!! Tom used to date a friend of mine for a year, John is often seen at a gay spa in kTown!
I was at a party 5 years ago and a person who works at the Ritz Carlton here told a story about how Travolta stayed there and word around the hotel was that he wanted sex from a massage therapist (male) he summoned to his room. I didn't believe it at the time. I do now!
John Ravolta buys and intimidates his gay issues away. Keep it on a leash johnny and no means No
Looks like gay Johnny paid off his sweetheart Fabian!
I think he will come out soon....you can only lie and deny for so long....just like Lance Armstrong...everybody knows John...just come out and get it over with
Being gay is not a crime. It's doing stuff with big mouths that want their 15 mins fame that are the problem.
Maybe Scientology paid the guy off. LOL
He needs to clean out his closet.
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Anne Mason is an absolutely wonderful school. The staff are very professional and friendly. I feel like my granddaughter had the absolute most perfect first teacher in kindergarten. She has learned so much that it is amazing. Ms. Prather and Ms. Carnell are wonderful with the kids. They watch them very closely and in this day and time that's needed. The school is very well maintained. It is always neat and clean. I was surprised that the school was ten years old. I'm glad my granddaughter got to go there. I hope she has as wonderful of a teacher as she did this year.
My child attended first through fifth grade at AME and was very fortunate to have very caring, supportive teachers and a principal that always puts kids first. I was able to talk frequently with the principal and always left feeling as though my concerns were heard and would be dealt with. I can only hope that he continues to have the same kind of supportive people in his life as he did at AME.
Anne Mason is a great school. I have a 2nd and 5th grader who attends. The teachers are very dedicated to their students. I am pleased with their performance as well as my kids. I would by far recommend this school to anyone.
The teachers are dedicated to their students at AME. I wish I could say the same for the administration. The principal of a school is someone you should be able to trust. I hope that there are some changes in this area in the near future.
awesome teachers and it's my neighborhood elementary
We love AME. This school is the best thing that has happened to our whole family not just my child!
My son attends Anne Mason Elem. This is his 3rd year there, he is now a 4th grader. I have nothing bad to say about the school and staff. The staff has always been super nice and always friendly.
AME is a school is one of the best in the county. They are continually making improvements to their school to benefit the students. Two of my children have attended Anne Mason (one currently) and one will soon start Kindergarten. Most of the teachers have worked hard to meet the needs of my students. My gifted child was always encouraged to excel, however, my spec. edu. child was not always accomodated by each teacher. Overall, this is a great school, however, I am concerned that the county still does not have a full-day kindergarten program.
So far so good. I've dealt with the issues another rater had, ie. my child moved twice after the school year started. im certainly not in to politics so I keep a safe distance from knowing the teachers personally. But academically I think the school has high goals for the children. One think I particularly like is the daily behavior report. The school has a color card system. Be good, stay on green - be bad and your card gets flipped and reported on the daily calendar sent home. i expect my child to behave well every day so its a great communication tool. Homework? I still hate it. Seems like 1-2 hrs/night for a 1st grader is a bit much. daily homework sheets plus 1-3 books to read per night. Its tough to get it all done sometimes. But I guess we have summers off. Overall -4 stars.
I don't agree with the September 3rd issue of leadership. That's what leaders do, take issues and make changes to benefit the group as a whole. If a child has the ability to adapt better than others; than that will be the child that's moved I'm sure. My child is doing well at this school and it's from the hard work that is done at home to compliment what the school has done first. If my child isn't up on the grades, then it should start at home to fix it. I spend 1 - 2 hours a day with my child on education. The grades are A's and some B s. Is it the school or is it time well spent? Be a parent first, and then ask for help from the teacher, there are some really great teachers at this school.
I agree the teachers seem very interested in the success of the kids, but i can't say the same for the leadership of the school. VERY unimpressed with the principal. This is the second year my daughter has started school and been moved into a different classroom after she was already settled in. It is beginning to have crowding issues already for a new school. The technology seems up to date, but like any school, I think parent involvement and voice is absolutely essential for your child.
Anne Mason Elementary is a great school. I have seen the dedication of the teachers and the commitment of the school to help the children succeed. It is at the top in academics, and it also has excellent extracurricular activities. My children thrive in this school and they love their teachers.
I agree with the Oct 7 post.... average at best. Just because a school is new and maybe a little 'nicer' than other schools in the area, doesn't mean it's 'better'.
just an average school at best
My grandson is in fourth grade and our family thinks Anne Mason is a wonderful school. We love the young teachers and the security is excellent. I wish I had had a school like this one.
My daughter just finished Kindergarten at Anne Mason Elementary and I have to say that I am pleased with the attention the children are given. I do feel that there is a great amount of emphasis on testing and that at times the kids aren't really allowed to be kids, but overall I feel the school is definitely the very best in academics.
Anne Mason Elementary is an excellent schhol. I am a parent of three children in the school and I cannot tell you how devoted the teachers are to the students of the school. All of the employees of the school share a common vision for the good of the children.
The school is wonderful,great teachers,especially the preschool teachers. I never thought my child would love school this much.
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