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Skip to comments.A Hunt Turns Tragic, and Two Cultures Collide
Posted on 11/27/2004 12:42:07 PM PST by neverdem
DOBIE, Wis., Nov. 27 - The two gatherings, less than 200 miles apart, seemed to be separated by whole worlds.
In this isolated village deep in the pine and cedar woods of the Upper Midwest, mourners trudged through falling snow on Friday to Our Lady of Lourdes Church to remember one of six hunters, all locals, killed near here a week ago.
To the southwest, across the state line in Minnesota, thousands of Hmong immigrants streamed into a downtown St. Paul auditorium for three days of New Year's festivities with papaya salad, traditional courtship games and young women in dresses covered in gently clinking coins that echoed through the halls.
The only link between the somber Wisconsin gathering, which followed the most violent rampage in anyone's memory here, and the mostly festive Minnesota gathering, one of the most important annual meetings for Hmong people, was a shared concern: the depth of the scars left behind by the shootings last Sunday that left six white hunters from the North Woods dead and a Hmong immigrant from St. Paul in jail, accused in the deaths.
In three decades, St. Paul has drawn at least 25,000 Hmong immigrants, transforming it into what they call the Hmong capital of America. Even there, it has not always been an easy fit, with so many Hmong refugees arriving so rapidly, often with no English and little education or urban job skills. The Hmong are from large farming families from Laos, where the Central Intelligence Agency recruited many of them to be part of an anti-Communist secret army during the Vietnam War.
The northernmost edges of Wisconsin, meanwhile, are made up mostly of people of European descent. Many come from Scandinavian, German, Czech and French Canadian backgrounds.
For all their differences, the native Wisconsin residents and the Asian immigrants from St. Paul share a love of hunting.
For generations of Wisconsin families, the deer season has come to mean a time to bond with friends, to wander the woods and to pass along life's secrets to the next generation. For the Hmong, hunting is one of the rare realms in which America's fast-paced culture meshes neatly with their old ways from Laos, and Hmong elders have come to use it as a chance to share at least one rural cultural tradition with the youngest among them, some of whom never saw the hills of Laos.
In the November deer season, the two groups have often met in the woods and sometimes clashed, but mostly quietly until last Sunday. Some here said they fear those tensions will now grow.
In Wisconsin, mourners said they were still dazed by how a day of deer hunting turned into a killing spree after a group of local hunters confronted Chai Soua Vang, 36, of St. Paul, who, police say, was using their tree stand to hunt on their property.
The police say Mr. Vang, a naturalized citizen and former army national guardsman who immigrated 24 years ago, opened fire on the hunting party after he was told to leave.
Waiting for the start of Friday's funeral service for Mark Roidt, 28, one man turned to another and said, "This is going to be a horrible week."
His friend replied, "The worst week ever."
Mike Katterhagen, another mourner, said he and many of his neighbors felt anger about what happened, but he said, "I don't know if you can place it at who."
Asked if people here have a negative attitude toward Asians or people of other races, Mr. Katterhagen replied, "Personally, I don't." Then he added, "Some people, I think, may have it."
In St. Paul, many at the Hmong New Year events said they feared retribution for the killings. Some said they would not hunt for a while. Many said they were embarrassed by the acts another Hmong-American was accused of, but the case also made them recall experiences with ethnic misunderstanding.
Some said they wondered whether there was more to the case - and thought they might have gained some understanding when they learned Mr. Vang had told the police that the local hunters used ethnic slurs against him and fired at him before he started shooting. A police statement by a hunter wounded in the incident makes no mention of any ethnic slurs.
"I mostly ignore what people call me, but it does hurt." said Va Pao Xiong, a college student in Wisconsin who was celebrating the New Year in St. Paul on Friday. "They have called me 'chink' and things like that. And it makes you wonder whether they even understand who the Hmong people are, where we come from, or what we've been through."
Like many others here, Mr. Xiong, who is 24, has distinct and painful memories of his family's flight from Laos. After Communists won power there, the Hmong people, who had rescued downed American pilots and fought North Vietnamese soldiers, said they found themselves under attack and began fleeing through the jungles, escaping across the Mekong River and ending up as refugees in Thailand and elsewhere.
In part as a show of gratitude for their sacrifice in the Vietnam War, the United States has allowed tens of thousands of Hmong people to come here.
This year, as many as 15,000 more Hmong refugees still waiting at a bleak camp in Thailand called Wat Tham Krabok were granted permission to come to this country. In the past few months, some of them have moved to St. Paul, a city of 300,000.
The new arrivals brought new questions to City Hall from some residents: how could the city, in tough budget times, afford to help more Hmong refugees, especially those who lacked adequate medical, educational and psychological help for years at the camp in Thailand?
A city analysis in January found that 34 percent of Hmong families in St. Paul had incomes below the poverty level in the year 2000, compared with 31 percent in the black community and 20 percent among Hispanics. Home ownership and median income rates showed more positive progress, but the unemployment rate for Hmong people was 8.7 percent, compared with a citywide rate of 5.7 percent.
In September, a poll conducted by The Pioneer Press and Minnesota Public Radio found that Minnesotans, by 42 percent to 37 percent, believed that the cost of helping immigrants start their new lives outweighed their economic, social and other contributions.
Then came the events of last Sunday.
"It's difficult to be Hmong-American right now," said Mee Moua, a Hmong in the Minnesota State Senate. "There's an expectation that the Hmong-American community ought to be answerable, or ought to be responsible for this one man's action."
Ms. Moua said that was absurd: "Don't hold our community to blame for something one individual has done."
That sentiment was echoed in Wisconsin, where some mourners, like John Zoellick, said they had not heard any negative comments or slurs against Asians or Hmong people in the days since the killings.
"Any negative feeling is directed toward the one individual, since he did something that is just totally inexcusable," Mr. Zoellick said. "It's not aimed against any group."
Nearly everyone interviewed at the New Year celebrations in St. Paul said they had experienced name-calling at some point. Elee Vang, who is 19 and was crowned Miss Deaf Minnesota this year, said she was once spit at by a white boy on a bus. Workers at Tswvtxos Yang's old manufacturing job used to call him Bruce Lee, he said.
Many said they had been called by the very names Mr. Vang told police the white hunters hollered at him.
In Laos, hunting was always a crucial part of the culture and important for survival, said Cha Vang, the son of Gen. Vang Pao, who worked closely with the C.I.A. in the war and who remains a revered leader of Hmong people in America. (Thousands rose and cheered him in St. Paul when he arrived in the auditorium for New Year festivities.)
"It was different in Laos though," said Mr. Vang, who is no relation to Chai Soua Vang. "You could hunt all year round and there was all public lands."
The restrictions in this country have led to conflicts, with some white people complaining that Hmong people ignore or are unable to read fishing limits, clothing rules and permit requirements.
On the other side, Hmong hunters have complained about mistreatment and harassment by white hunters. Since last Sunday, Ms. Moua said she had received so many reports of such incidents that she was considering calling for public hearings on the issue.
Tou Ger Xiong, a Hmong comedian, rapper and motivational speaker from St. Paul, said his father, who speaks little English, was once approached by a white hunter who simply demanded his gun. He said another white hunter ordered his brother to leave a tree stand he had built on public land, and threatened to use a chainsaw to tear it down.
But people in Wisconsin said that complaints by some Asian hunters of insults or harassment from white hunters were exaggerated.
"I haven't heard any anger against the Hmong," said Patty Behrndt, manager of a bookstore in Rice Lake, the main town in this part of the North Woods. "Not anger, just disbelief and confusion. People aren't able to make out why or how. You hear talk now about racism, but I don't see it."
Laurel Steffes, a spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, said she was unaware of tensions between Hmong and white hunters.
"We've had our ear to the ground since this happened," she said, "and we're not picking up on that at all."
The mourning continued on Saturday, as a funeral for two more of the victims, Robert Crotteau, 42, and his 20-year-old son, Joey, was held in Rice Lake. The Crotteau family is large and well-established here, with the local telephone directory showing 30 listings for that name.
Some arriving mourners said they were still too much in shock to analyze what had happened.
"It's just all so stunning," said one mourner, who gave his name as Aaron. "There's hardly anything else you can feel, not at this point."
In addition to the six people killed, two men were wounded in the shooting. Both attended Mr. Roidt's service on Friday. One of them, Lauren Hesebeck, who wore a blue sling to support his wounded left arm, has told the police that Mr. Vang fired the first shots, according to a police document.
All of the victims lived in or near Rice Lake, a town of 8,300 where many people have known each other since school days, and most of the rest came to escape crowds and enjoy rural life.
In Rice Lake, Greg Swanson and his daughter were hanging lights on their outdoor Christmas tree. Mr. Swanson said he and other people here were "waiting for someone to take us from this unreal situation to some kind of explanation of why a guy would just open up like that."
Along Main Street this weekend, ribbons of bright orange, the color of hunters' jackets, hung above Christmas wreaths along Main Street.
With more funerals running through the weekend and into Monday, Larry Jarvela, the mayor of Rice Lake, was still groping for an explanation.
"It's so senseless," he said. "Why did it have to happen?"
"We don't have any population of Asians," Mr. Jarvela said, and Census statistics largely bear him out. Here in Barron County, the 2000 census counted just 145 people of Asian descent, less than 1 percent of the population.
Mr. Jarvela said he had never heard about clashes between white and nonwhite hunters, but he added that because northern Wisconsin was very large, "if you happen to have an incident, nobody knows about it."
At last count, a week ago, nearly 645,000 hunting licenses had been issued in this state for the nine-day regular gun season that ends on Sunday. In just the first two days, hunters reported bagging 140,000 deer, Ms. Steffes said.
The Rice Lake City Council here may soon consider a proposal to rename a city park in honor of the six people killed, Mr. Jarvela said. The likely choice for a new name is Hunters' Park.
Stephen Kinzer reported from Dobie for this article, and Monica Davey from St. Paul.
The truth lies somewhere between the stories from both sides. It was a sad day indeed. Lord, I hope the gun control crazies stay out of the fray.
Well, I'm glad to hear somebody tried to get him! Seems like you better be taking a fully loaded concealed handgun out in the deer woods, along with your rifle!
I read on another thread that Vang was trespassing on this same property last year, and the year before. Frankly, if someone trespassed on my hunting land 3 years in a row, I would most likely use a whole bunch of descriptive language directed at him, his heritage, and his intimate relationships with dead farm animals. (Hmong other things)
Oh, come on, you selfish meanie. The poor, victimized man just wanted a place to hunt!!! He can't afford to buy land in this mean-spirited, capitalistic country. :)
What I'm curious about is why none of the hunters tried to shoot the murdering SOB
They were unarmed, from the accounts I heard. Only one had a gun.
Being in familiar territory while being somewhat experienced and with no weather changes forecast for days and not in a camp setting would make 20 plus rounds more than needed but, in my run on humble opinion, subject to whatever burden you are willing to carry.
I am just curious as to how many rounds he tossed and why.
They should be separated by whole worlds, and if not for liberal experiments in social engineering they would be.
Well. . .It's subject to what objective he really had, don't you think?
Not really. My first rule is no trespasser shall retain posession of a firearm, period. The trespasser can claim his weapon from the Sheriff upon providing proof of ownership.
Very true --- imagine if everyone of Polish descent was entitled to shoot and kill a half dozen people every time they were called "pollacks" or whites could kill every time they were called "gringos" or "anglos" or "honkies". This is the height of political correctness ---- to try to justify cold blooded murder because evil Americans aren't welcoming other cultures.
That murderer owns 40 acres of hunting land of his own.
I thought I read that he couldn't get a hunting license in his own state.
Judging by their attitudes as quoted in this piece, I would say that was a big mistake, and should be ended.
The media is out of control. The media has over stepped their bounds. The media is interferring in our judicial process.
A prime example is the Scott, Lacy Peterson case.
Hesebeck, who was released from a hospital Tuesday after treatment for a shoulder wound, told investigators Willers shot at Vang after Vang fired first but missed. Both accounts agreed that Vang shot the others as more people from the deer camp arrived at the scene after Hesebeck used a walkie-talkie to call for help. Vang said he continued firing as the group scattered, and at one point chased one of the hunters and shot him in the back, only to find the man had no gun, the document states. Authorities have said there was only one gun among the victims. According to investigators, its believed Vang fired at least 20 shots. Hesebeck told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis on Tuesday that much of what he has heard in news media reports about the incident is not accurate.
I did not read that, but I don't doubt it being a posibility. Fact is owning property is not tied to a person's ability to get a hunting license.
As I read the title of this article I had a smudge on my glasses and read "Al Hunt Turns Tragic,....." ,But then I thought "No, that happened many years ago, why tell us now?"
I have been hunting all my life and normally I take a box of ammo (20 rounds) with me. The rifle I use holds 5 rounds and I carry 5 more extra (in the mountain).
The Democrat Principle, "What is mine is mine, What is yours is mine if I decide I want it."!
Purposely written for a core audience that has racial hatred as its religion. This goof probably never thought of asking if the Hmong had any of that famous "racial animous" that seems so prevalent amongst whites to the writers at the NYTs. Perhaps conservatives ought to really question the morality of the left instead of meekly challenging the New Nazis.
What do you mean, they are the new revolutionary martyrs according to the NYTs.
NYSlimes culture. Evil is good and all things american is evil.
And don't forget that culture get's celebrated by the likes of the New York Slimes, et al.
If the victims would have been Hmong, it would be a "hate crime", and we would see it trumpeted as an example of intolerance for months on end, and all throughout the trial.
But since the victims were not part of a protected minority, it's just an innocent misunderstanding between cultures which can be quietly sorted out with a plea bargain or two.
One reporter I saw (can't remember which network) was baiting a Hmong community leader about the "racial slur" explanation. To his credit, the leader replied "Six men have been killed and the one who did it is alive. Nothing they might have said can justify such an act! We do not consider him one of us."
One element ignored in this story: in SEA, the Hmong worked very closely with U.S. Special Forces and they were superb jungle fighters, feared by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. Obviously, the accused gunman is too young to have served in Vietnam, but I'm sure he was schooled by Hmong veterans of the Vietnam War. Otherwise, how could a single shooter get the drop on six heavily-armed hunters that (presumably) were decent shots themselves?
He was a sharpshooter in the National Guard.
Actually, my understanding is that only one was armed. The rest of the victims were unarmed.
"to try to justify cold blooded murder because evil Americans aren't welcoming other cultures."
I feel that, more than any other country on earth, Americans are welcoming to other cultures. We just want them to have respect for our values, too.
"Hmong comedian, rapper and motivational speaker "
Yep I am rappen and laughing and motivated. i put up with this on the family farms every year and this is Kansas. Don't know where to go from here but when we ask you to leave please just leave. Quit shooting our live stock and our farm machinery. I have yet to see a John Deer tag. We would love to have you shoot all these damn deer but please ask first. And if you shoot one of my relatives or friends we will show up with guns.
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Everyone who is eager to learn English and fit in as an American should be welcomed. Those who want their own culture, language, etc I think should have that but back in the homeland.
Agreed. It seems like those cultures who want to assimilate into our American culture do very well. Those that want to nurture a permanant racial grievance (like Je$$e Jacka$$ and his ilk) don't tend to do very well.
It can't be a hate crime. The victims are white devils.
Heard today that there is an unsolved shooter/hunter in that area from several years ago where the perp was 5'4" and left in a black truck like this shooter.
Ha! I haven't heard that in awhile!
"I thought I read that he couldn't get a hunting license in his own state."
I missed seeing that. My thought is that he already hunted his own land in MN. And then went to WI - their season starts right after MN's ends. Just my own thought.
Actually, although I was quite young, I specifically remember Dwight Eisenhower, while he was Pres., giving a speech in which he said that we had to go to Vietnam because we needed the bauxite, among other natural resources. Why I remember the bauxite and not the other natural resources he mentioned I have no idea.
I'm not prejudiced toward Asians in general, only the men! :-)
Actually, the Hmong are terribly persecuted by the commies. There has been forced repatriation back to Laos, where the commies use any excuse to make their lives miserable or kill them. The ones trying to get out and come here are in camps. That kid's memories are not of Vietnam War, they are of what is going on right now. That's a different story though, and the Slimes shouldn't lump it together with the murder story.
All sorts of people suffer "discrimmination" of some degree, or name calling etc., myself included. I think that's a fact of life that some people are not going to like you or maybe they're just shallow bigots, but hey, such is life. This Vang guy IMHO is a whack nut job, no matter where he came from.
The media loves to make a story that sounds like something- and I guess "psycho kills 6 people" isn't as tasty to them as "cultures clash and dumb red-staters aren't tolerant enough".
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He can't afford to buy land in this mean-spirited, capitalistic country. :)
He owned 40 acres in MN. I bet he hunted there first. MN's deer season is the week before WI's.
A whole bunch of vang stories at
I have returned. There's a bit of snow/sleet in the air. Nothing serious.
That's entirely possible. It hasn't been that many years ago that my guys went to Missouri deer hunting, then came back home and hunted our season, too.
There are people who are obcessed with hunting. I'm married to one of them.
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Running Time: 100 Min.
Director: Buddy
Company: Grooby Productions
DVD Extras: Still Gallery(ies), Trailer(s)
Cast: Carmen (II), Mandy (I), Christian (I) (TS-friendly performer), Alondra, Betty O, Mink
Critical Rating: AAA
Genre: Trans
When the trailers are hotter than the content, something is clearly amiss. (Someone's a Miss, too.) Fact is, the usual trans-problems crop up here: not-so-passable, mostly limp she-males. Alondra's spicy Hispanic appeal fares best. She's a get-it-up-and-go gal, able to withstand all the rough riding that Christian employs to teach her prostate gland who's boss. (He sucks a pretty mean cock as well.)
After their mutual fireworks session's over, there's not much left except a few games of "show and tell" to crow about. Subsequent hot spots are hit 'n miss; containing far more fizzle than actual sizzle. As they've proved before, Grooby is capable of much better content ... when they put their heads together.
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I would like to ask about this... i got 2 different apps separate app A and app B. I would like both of them is related to each other such as parent and child. App A is a parent and app B is a child. if user wan to download app B from the itunes, they must download app A first. how im gonna make checking on this...
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You can't.
As far as I know, all applications are sandboxed / independent of each other. You cannot set any sort of requirements / dependency on any other application.


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07-Ghost: EYE STEW TRIAL
everything by ero-de || edits done: grading and dodge
I am no cooking pro. In fact, this is the first time I tried something like this. My eye stew, however, is entirely a dessert and it's pretty damn good My Frau and I plan to remake these for our official shoot so wait for that!
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Now that Fluttershy's parents have been revealed in the show, I can say that you weren't too far off on the mom's color pallete!
Very nice picture!
Very nice picture!
I like it!
So what were/are their names?
So what were/are their names?
Aww cute. :3
fluttershy´s dad has the same hair thats so cute he remembers me to my father
This is really good. If they ever show fluttershy's parents in season 5, this is what they should like.
yeah Fluttershy's parents is official in season 5 and also Fluttershy's younger brother too.
what are their cutie marks
fluttershy´s mom cutie mark is a sun with cluds i think and fluttershy´s dad i dont have idea
May I use their names?
Aww I love filly fluttershy!!!!
WOW, I like that, Fluttershy has her parents. That give me a idea of the comic, when season 4 of my little pony comes on premiere I still draw Fluttershy's brother and her little baby sister.
Amazing job!
I used this in my PMV, and i put your link in description and nick in credits. Hope its not problem..
I don't mind at all! Can I watch your PMV? :3
the dad reminds me of an older pound cake you know one of the twins
x: I'm curious as how no one thinks something bad happened to Fluttershy to make her act and look like she did and does, like say, abusive parents instead, or orphaned
Beautifully done. I love how you draw FlutterShy's parents and I like their names. ^^
Scarlet Sunset...reminds me of Trisha Elric from FMA!
ADORABLE picture!
ADORABLE picture!
I really like your design for her mother!
maybe butI seen better
anyway this is cute and beatiful!
anyway this is cute and beatiful!
So cute! I wish I could see more of these two! And know what their talents are and stuff. Scarlet Sunset is so cute, in a shy/quiet/motherly type way (not saying she isn't just plain cute), and Autumn Leaf is pretty cool looking, in that fatherly way. It's an adorable scene.
I prefer these two over the other ones I've seen, just because her parents don't look exactly like her, yet you can see the connection
I prefer these two over the other ones I've seen, just because her parents don't look exactly like her, yet you can see the connection
Aww! Very nice!
aw you shud do luna and celestia's mom, queen harmonia
Aww, so precious!! I love it!!!
scarlet sunset reminds me of the mom from fullmetal alchemist, mostly because of her hair and mom-ness
Sweet Celestia....THIS IS AWESOME!
This is so cute! :3
I like this alot.
Good job.
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You should have gotten a diff pic. Honestly if I would have seen it I would know it's a fake
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In! Was wondering why I had no updates for last thread lol.
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I've diluted a half-cup of malto in an 8-oz. plastic water bottle with far less than 8 oz. of water. It took a lot of shaking, but now I have a homebrew energy gel flask, of sorts.
I think for the electrolyte potion, I'll mix up a concentrated batch to store in the fridge and dilute it into bike bottles as I go. Maybe throw in a squirt of fruit juice for flavoring so it doesn't taste like I'm drinking my own sweat.
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The journey towards Smaug and the Lonely Mountain inches ever nearer. As casting on The Hobbit continues to firm up, director Peter Jackson is hard at work on the behind-the-scenes aspects of the production. His latest move is sure to get people talking — confirming what many were already suspecting, it's now official that Jackson's Hobbit will be coming at viewers in 3D.
The news comes by way of an official press release from Jim Jannard, owner and founder of Red Digital Cinema. Jannard says that Jackson will shoot The Hobbit with at least thirty of Red's soon-to-be-released EPIC Digital Cameras, which will be used to shoot the film in 3D from the ground up. In other words, no sloppy post-conversion ala Clash of the Titans, which is certainly something worth celebrating.
"I have always liked the look of Red footage," Jackson said of his camera selection. "I'm not a scientist or mathematician, but the image Red produces has a much more filmic feel than most of the other digital formats. I find the picture quality appealing and attractive, and with the Epic, Jim and his team have gone even further. It is a fantastic tool, the Epic not only has cutting edge technology, incredible resolution and visual quality, but it is also a very practical tool for film makers. Many competing digital systems require the cameras to be tethered to large cumbersome VTR machines. The Epic gives us back the ability to be totally cable free, even when working in stereo."
Since so much of the visual look of the movie comes from forced perspectives, i.e. putting the people who are supposed to be small further from the camera, etc., I'd like to know how the nuts and bolts of shooting in 3D would work for this one.
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Chefetz creates athletes' Miami hot spot
MIAMI -- Myles Chefetz, owner of Miami's premier hot spot for athletes, received a text message from Drake just as he was in the middle of an incredibly entertaining story about how he covered for a NBA player who he suspects was cheating on his wife.
Chefetz summoned a waiter, informing him that Drake would be stopping by after midnight, so they would have to keep the kitchen open. The waiter sighed, because apparently Drake does this on a regular basis. It also meant the staff could forget about leaving early.
Now back to that story about the (alleged) two-timing NBA player
Chefetz, who created Prime One Twelve and turned it into one the top grossing restaurants in the country, didn't disclose any names, of course. He just explained how this star NBA player brought his wife to his restaurant and the wife coyly questioned Chefetz about whether her husband had been to Prime One Twelve before, and if her husband was alone when he came.
"I don't know anything and I don't see anything," Chefetz said, laughing.
Yes, the player had been there with someone else, but Chefetz wasn't about to snitch.
Not to make light of infidelity, but this is just a minor example of why so many athletes trust Chefetz and why his restaurant remains their go-to spot.
Chefetz and Prime One Twelve have carved out a unique place in the sports world as the destination spot for the cool kids. Prime One Twelve was where Dwyane Wade watched "The Decision." It's where Chefetz introduced Chad Ochocinco to Bill Clinton.
It's also where the worst pick-up line in history was uttered. An extremely tipsy O.J. Simpson went up to a woman at the bar and said, "You look just like my ex-wife."
"People come for the food, but they come for the scene," Chefetz said. "They come for the beautiful women. It's a production. It's a show in here every night."
Especially during these NBA Finals.
Consider the restaurant's week recently. On Saturday, Lil' Wayne and his crew stopped by. Monday, it was Young Jeezy and 15 of his friends. After Game 1 of the Finals on Tuesday, the infamous World Wide Wes dined with several others near the front of the restaurant while Pedro Martinez, Cliff Floyd and Rondell White were in the back. While they ate, Maverick Carter, LeBron James' right-hand man, arrived.
And then on Wednesday, ESPN personality Michael Wilbon drank Prime One Twelve's most expensive bottle of wine with Dan Le Batard, who bet Wilbon the Heat would win 70 games. The misguided prediction cost Le Batard $4,300.
"It's the ambience," Shawn Marion said. "It's the place you go if you want to be seen. I've been knowing Myles for six or seven years and he's just the kind of guy you can call and just kick it with."
Last year, Restaurants & Institutions, an industry publication, ranked Prime One Twelve the 14th-highest grossing restaurant in the country with more than $18 million in sales and 160,000 plates served.
Chefetz also was a semifinalist for the James Beard Foundation's outstanding restaurateur award in 2010.
When Chefetz, a former real estate attorney, moved to Miami after building successful nightclubs in New York City, he never expected this kind of rabid success.
In addition to Prime One Twelve, Chefetz owns four other restaurants and the Prime hotel. The hotel is next door to Prime One Twelve and both spots are located across the street from Chefetz's Prime Italian. So just call this corner of Ocean Drive the prime corner.
"The first week we opened I was freaking out," Chefetz said. "Then something happened the third week and people just started flipping out over the mac 'n' cheese and tater tots. It just exploded."
Even during his nightclub days, Chefetz always had a knack for building binding relationships with athletes. His goal was to turn Prime into a place where athletes felt comfortable interacting and being seen.
That's why the portions for Prime meals are outrageous, like the brontosaurus ribs Fred Flintstone used to eat. It's not a traditional steakhouse -- how many steakhouses have fried chicken and waffles and collard greens on the menu?
It also helps that Chefetz not only prides himself on being approachable, but he's a huge sports fan. He grew up in Allentown, Pa., and is a self-proclaimed baseball nut who talks about the Phillies like a wide-eyed 12-year-old. In fact, one of his first acts as a father was buying his 1-year-old daughter, Mylie, a Phillies onesie.
While balancing his responsibilities as a father is rewarding, it is difficult. It's nothing for Chefetz to stay at Prime One Twelve until 3 a.m., or later. Sometimes, it's as if he's a 24-hour concierge.
"[Having a daughter] has been a huge source of joy and calmed the craziness of my life," he said.
Catering to celebrity customers is indeed a crazy business. It also means Chefetz never lacks a good story. Sometimes, he's even able to divulge names.
Right after his story about running interference for that NBA player, he tells another one, about his dear friend, Shaquille O'Neal.
Shaq boycotted Prime One Twelve for months because he once walked in with five people and couldn't get a table right away. Chefetz was so stressed he offered a group of patrons a free meal if they gave up their table for Shaq.
They refused. And Shaq decided after a few minutes that he wasn't waiting, and went across the street to eat. Then, word got around Miami that Chefetz made Shaq, arguably the biggest star in Miami at the time, wait.
"If I could have built a table out of wood for Shaq, I would have," Chefetz said.
After months of avoiding Prime One Twelve, Shaq returned. It's difficult to stay away from a place that's this cool.
But on this night, a big star did manage to make a detour from Prime One Twelve. After Chefetz finished with the Shaq story, he received another text from Drake, who at the last minute decided to fly to Las Vegas.
Chefetz shrugged. His staff, though, looked a little relieved to be able to go home early -- if you consider 2 a.m. early.
Not Chefetz. He's 52 years old, but can't sit still. He doesn't feel like it's been a good night unless he's kicking people out at 4 a.m.
"Even though I'm considerably older than most [athletes], I have a young personality," he said. "I'm just one of the guys."
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College Board shows growth in Advanced Placement program, along with growth in those who don't do well on the exams and continued racial gaps.
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I've taught both theoretical and applied university classes in my academic career, and the opening lecture always has one thing in common: an invitation to my students to demand something of me. I tell them to insist they walk away from my course writing better, speaking better, thinking more analytically and a little more comfortable with numbers. Indeed, I urge them to insist the same of their university education writ large.
My efforts to frame courses like Sociology of Education and Social Science Research Methods around a set of broadly applicable skills aligns me with an "outcomes" orientation increasingly promoted by academic, business and political leaders. Yet whether my students achieved the four capacities I encourage or not, their college academic transcript will never tell.
If the answer to those who doubt the value of higher education is to trumpet the full educative impact of a postsecondary education, students deserve a credential that describes their full set of educative experiences. The time has come to extend the traditional academic transcript and begin issuing Postsecondary Achievement Reports (PARs), a verified summative document issued by colleges and universities that aligns and reflects each institution's deeper educative goals.
While every institution could issue a PAR according to its own academic policies, what defines a PAR is a set of generally accepted conventions for the structure and technical formatting of academic transcripts that include co-curricular and competency-based information, along with traditional information such as courses, grades and credits. But before describing the PAR in greater detail, let's first set some context for why colleges and universities have begun to think differently about how they document learning outcomes.
Our current system of credentialing in the United States is under attack, within and outside higher education. Google says the grade-point average is "worthless as a criteria for hiring." The New York Times reported on "degree inflation" and the diminishing value of the college diploma, where "it takes a B.A. to find a job as a file clerk." LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman called for "an upgrade of the diploma," to include, among other things, the full scope of skills and expertise to enable better job matching.
Defenders of academe are inclined to agree that transcripts and diplomas are insufficient credentials, though for very different reasons. As the scholar Andrew DelBanco argues in "College: What is, what was and should be," the traditional four-year college experience can be an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers. If a degree is really about developing a whole person, and preparing them with humanistic education that will serve them in a very dynamic career landscape, surely a ledger of courses and grades alone is a poor reflection of that experience.
Indeed, institutions with a more vocational orientation face a similar challenge documenting the industry-skill certifications their graduates achieve on their way to conventional degrees.
It's not surprising that, given these pressures, higher education has, in fact, put forth efforts to innovate the credential. Three distinct developments are already in process: co-curricular transcripts, competency-based transcripts and data-enabled eTranscripts. Together they lay the foundation for a new generation of academic credentialing. Co-curricular and competency-based transcripts innovate at the level of content and substance, extending the academic transcript. Electronic transcripts innovate the medium of credentials, enabling machine-readable data and analytics that can make student learning outcomes more easily understood and actionable.
Each initiative has successfully generated some momentum and adoption in the higher education community. For example, Northern Arizona University is doing innovative work documenting the student competencies that have been mastered via coursework, and State University of New York at Geneseo's is continuing long-standing efforts to capture the student leadership, research, study abroad and other co-curricular experiences that define its vision of a postsecondary education.
While these institutions are already extending their transcripts, there are good reasons for concern that the grassroots nature of their innovations will conspire against its own success. Specifically, I fear a Tower of Babel if we do not find a way to converge around a lingua franca that describes the basic structure of such 21st century extended transcripts of the type being issued by pioneering universities across the country.
We take for granted the fact that transcripts make sense; we all expect to see a course title and number, a letter or number grade, in a sequence that is chronologically based. But transcripts are not actually standardized in any formal sense. My company, Parchment, exchanges millions of electronic transcripts each year. Our platform has been developed to help both sending and receiving institutions align and utilize the different information transcripts contain. For example, colleges may award different numbers of credits for essentially the same course. A-level work at one college may be B-level work elsewhere. Over time the academy gravitated toward a basic document structure, along with a strong professional code for issuing transcripts that remain a sacred trust of our university registrars. This standardization respects academic freedom while supporting learners in their pursuit of academic and professional opportunities, for example when transferring between institutions and seeking course credit for prior learning.
How does a university articulate a competency transcript from a peer institution? Where does Ernst & Young look for evidence of leadership, when each institution's co-curricular information is reported in different sections, with no convention for describing the process by which activities were verified? How do various information systems import achievement data, when the field names and file formats lack any rhyme or reason? Before you know it, the best intentions and efforts give rise to documentation that isn't widely understood, reliable or actionable.
We need to extend the transcript, but we need a method to do it within a well-worn convention that is backward compatible. By backward compatible I mean we need to preserve the role of the traditional academic transcript, and create a reasonable roadmap for extending it, when institutions so choose, in a way that serves students, educators, associations and employers.
This is why I am calling for a "PAR," a Postsecondary Achievement Report. A PAR is a concise, electronic document that provides a standardized, machine-readable report of the full range of higher education experience. It can be verified by the academic registrar to confirm credibility, and it creates a common understanding of both course-based and campus-based achievements. A PAR does it sensibly, recognizing academic freedom. It is not a uniform way to grade; rather, it is a consistent document structure and data standard when institutions choose to extend their traditional academic transcripts. The PAR can be issued alongside a traditional transcript, or act as its next generation successor. It is a summative statement from the institution and a passport for the learner.
Perhaps the best model for a PAR is the Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR), which has been evaluated for almost 10 years in Britain. The HEAR not only provides a standardized academic transcript; it also captures information relevant to employers. And the information is captured and transferred as electronic and verifiable data.
The HEAR is a maximum of six pages long and adheres to a standard template. It is verified by the academic registrar and regularly updated throughout a student's enrollment. It is accessible by the student at any time, and is unique and personalized to them. There HEAR contains six sections:
In their final report, the HEAR's creators summarize well the goal of their work: "The HEAR has been designed to encourage a sophisticated approach to recording achievement that better represents the full range of outcomes from learning and the student experience in higher education at the same time as encouraging personal development that is commensurate with a culture of lifelong learning."
The HEAR is one example; there are various efforts internationally to create a more standardized way of reporting and documenting academic achievement. Australia has adopted something similar with the Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement (AHEGS). Our colleagues abroad also recognize the need to extend the transcript electronically, but do it in a way that is understood among all constituents nationally and internationally.
The U.S is the world leader and innovator in postsecondary education; we can take extended transcripting to the next level.
To succeed, we need to start with a core set of institutions, particularly those that are already doing competency-based and/or co-curricular transcripting, and have adopted eTranscripts. Those institutions can share their experience to establish a set of conventions that creates a common language for all. Institutions can create a roadmap for implementation, by adopting sections when ready. The beauty of a PAR is that it represents incremental change. At least some sections of PAR would be immediately actionable by any institution using eTranscripts. If a limited form PAR is as far as an institution is comfortable going at first, so be it. The pace of the roadmap will be driven, in part, by the validation PAR receivers give to more robust PAR issuers. In other words, if employers or grad school admissions committees start paying more attention to parts of the PAR, more institutions will add them. The more valuable a "complete" PAR is found to be, the more it will be demanded, and the broader and faster adoption will be.
Such an effort will require the collaboration of a number of campus leaders beyond registrars and admission officers. Chief academic officers, deans of continuing education and online programs, directors of student affairs and career services, as well as other campus leaders, will need to be engaged in the conversation both on their campuses and through their national organizations. And core organizational stakeholders like the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) and the P20W Education Standards Council (PESC) are central actors in helping to make the PAR a reality.
We are all ready for a new era of credentials communication, one that is aligned with our more mobile and digital culture. The PAR will be universally understood and actionable. It will be easily portable and stackable in an individual's personal, online credential profile. Lifelong learners will start with a PAR, then continue to add digital academic or professional credentials from an ever-growing diversity of resources — from degrees to certificates to badges — to their profile, and present a verifiable, complete picture of education and skills.
In addition to knowledge and specific skills, a college experience imparts the ability to communicate a compelling story, to synthesize information into a bigger picture and to use data and numbers to understand a problem. Those are some of the characteristics that Google is looking for and that LinkedIn wants to help employers identify. In our knowledge economy, where opportunities are defined by what you know and how well you know it, a PAR will provide the foundation for learners, educators and employers to make more insightful and successful decisions.
Returning to the skills I encourage my students to demand in my opening lecture, for me the PAR is personal. I know from both my academic and professional experience how much they matter. In my last lecture — to the great surprise of my students — I reveal that before becoming an academic I was a technology entrepreneur. The skills I said they should demand are the reason my co-founders and I could create and build Blackboard..
We must ensure that the significant value gained during one's postsecondary journey is captured and validated. A PAR would be a major step to empower learners, and help them turn credentials into opportunities.
Matthew Pittinsky is the CEO of Parchment and co-founder and former CEO of Blackboard. He is on the faculty of Arizona State University, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Many colleges admit some of their freshmen for the spring semester rather than the fall semester. An article in The Washington Post looks at the way this system works at the University of Maryland at College Park, which admits -- for a state flagship university -- an unusually large share of its first-year class this way. Between 1994 and now, spring freshmen have gone from making up 8 percent of the first-year class to 21 percent.
It was the main subject of this month's White House summit, and members of the House of Representatives subcommittee focused their attention on the best ways to help low-income college students and first-generation college students not only get into college, but graduate, at a hearing Tuesday. The hearing of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx, a North Carolina Republican, was to discuss approaches to the issue and needed improvements in the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.
Witnesses (who included senior administrators at the College of Westchester and Fayetteville State and DePaul Universities), and lawmakers touched on several different themes, many that have been voiced before. Among them:
Study finds long-term impact on college grades, even for those near top of their high school class, of attending disadvantaged institutions.
According to Dick Moll, co-founder of the Common Application, "The unavoidable standardization of the Common Application, not to mention the online debacle for students trying to use it this year, causes serious questions regarding its service to both the candidate and the college … I sense that the Common App's time is up."
The Common App organization obviously doesn't agree. One executive was recently quoted as saying, "We are feeling good about how things are going … [But] we would never go so far as to say that everything is fixed for every person in all circumstances because we're dealing with a very complex piece of technology."
Unfortunately, this focus on technology problems and their fixes avoids discussion of the real problem at Common App.
And the real problem is this: The Common Application organization has forgotten its core ideal of "holistic admissions."
This good idea encourages consideration of applicants as real people, not just bundles of statistics and scores. While the Common App requires its "member" schools to review an essay, it has made those essay choices more restrictive and uniform; colleges are charging students $10 just to attach their artwork; and it's not embracing video technology, a step that could provide a true sense of individual expression.
Instead of pursuing its core ideal, the Common Application has transformed itself into a Web processor. Yet doing this today is just as off-mission as if the organization had insisted on running printing presses during the paper era. Instead of advancing "holistic" admissions, Common App has been absorbed in de-bugging its site, bulking up its infrastructure, solving a steady stream of back-office reliability and security issues, and conducting PR.
So why do colleges put up with this?
Many colleges that join the Common Application experience an immediate bump of 20-30 percent in application volume and fee revenue. And because "selectivity" is computed by U.S. News & World Report as a simple measure around the ratio of entering class size to volume of applications, each new member of the Common App can, thus, say it is more "prestigious."
This, of course, is a total fiction. Everybody in higher education knows that Common Application adoption doesn't suddenly make each new member institution 20-30 percent more prestigious. The irony is that as institutions sign on to the Common Application, sanctimoniously affirming a "holistic" approach to evaluating applicants, they are chasing more favorable assessment according to U.S. News' specious, non-holistic and quantitative measure of "prestige."
Yet, because it holds the keys to greater rankings "prestige," the Common App can force its member colleges to live with whatever malfunctions and backwardness come with its technology platform. There's also a suppression of innovation, given that admissions officers cannot easily suggest or add new features or functions that might enrich the application process. In addition, the Common Application has unwittingly created a means by which other senior administrators can wrest control from the admissions office. We've seen university boards and presidents forcing the Common App on admissions officers because of their unquenchable desire for greater "prestige."
This is especially ironic given that the Common Application "movement" was created by admissions officers to advance their ideals and influence.
So is there a solution here? Yes.
It starts with the Common Application renewing its commitment to the "holistic" evaluation of applicants and phasing out its misguided efforts to become an application-processing vendor.
To do this, the Common App could announce and promote a new Web form, the New Common Application, which would collect common field information only.
The New Common Application would be available for students to complete at the Common Application site. The New Common Application would contain most, if not all, of the fields of the current Common Application. But, unlike the current version, the New Common Application would neither collect payments nor be submitted by the student. Rather, it would serve as an entry point for a student's common information, which the student could then subsequently download into full, customized applications served separately – either by universities directly, or by vendors on their behalf.
Along with this new form, the Common Application organization would offer an API – Application Programming Interface – for licensing by institutions or their vendors. Any entity, whether it was a college hosting its own Web application or a vendor hosting Web applications on behalf of client institutions, could license this API from the Common Application organization. The licensing entity would then configure its Web application so that students could automatically populate it with their New Common Application information. The licensing entity would pay the Common Application a fee for each student who downloaded his or her data in this fashion.
Over time, this approach would eradicate the need for redundant typing of application information by students. And any college or vendor that licensed the API would spread this benefit throughout the ecosystem. Obviously, every admissions-servicing vendor would need to quickly acquire an API license for the New Common Application. By "hooking" its system into the New Common Application, the vendor would thereby add an important and necessary new feature – saving typing for student users.
One of the most significant benefits of this idea would be the elimination of U.S. News' pernicious influence on the selectivity calculation in the admissions application processing business. Since every college would eventually be hooked into the New Common Application, no subgroup of institutions would hold an advantage in terms of receiving more applications by virtue of having reduced the typing burden.
Individual colleges could also go back to expressing themselves individually through their application form, welcoming more interesting and imaginative expression from students, and pressuring vendors to compete and innovate with new features and processing capability.
For its part, the Common Application organization would likely become richer, despite having dropped out of the for-profit, top-line revenue chase. With growing revenues from API fees, and no distraction from the challenges of processing applications, Common App could contribute new ideas, award scholarships, grant stipends to admissions officers who innovate for "holistic" admissions, and generally behave in a manner more befitting its nonprofit status.
It's not too late for the Common Application organization to choose a different and better path, one that would advance, not distract from, its core ideal of "holistic" admissions.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Inside Higher Ed was unaware at the time that this piece was published that CollegeNet, the company led by the author of this article, was twice involved in patent litigation -- since settled -- involving the Common Application.
Jim Wolfston is CEO and founder of CollegeNet.
U. of Michigan administrators pledge to do more for African-American students, who took to Twitter last semester with grievances. Black Student Union responds by giving institution 7 days to meet demands or face "physical" activism.
Fred Hargadon, who was highly influential in college admissions during almost 40 years as dean at Swarthmore College and Stanford and Princeton Universities, died Wednesday at the age of 80, Princeton announced.
New study finds that "quality of life" rankings of colleges have an impact on the number of applicants and the enrollment of highly qualified students.
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In this brilliant book, Roger Cohen of The New York Times takes us to the core of one of the twentieth century's most complex stories, weaving together the history of Yugoslavia and the story of the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995, as experienced by four families.
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This quest involved attempts to overcome many silences, blank spaces, pages deleted from history. People, like Sead's father, disappeared. Families knew who the executioners of their relatives were, but did not confront them. Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, has written that the "special union" between ancestors and descendants "is one of the foundations of the existence of every sound human community aware of its identity." Yugoslavia, by this standard, was never a "sound human community," for, in countless cases, the bridges across generations had been broken.
If this was the case, the savagery of Yugoslavia's destruction from within became more readily understandable. I came to see a bloody catharsis cynically willed by communist-turned-nationalist leaders, in the wars of Yugoslavia's destruction between 1991 and 1995; the catharsis of a seductive but repressed individual, one whose birth in 1918 from the marriage of loveless parents was flawed and whose mid-life crisis in World War II left a residue of lies and fear that ruthless politicians were able to exploit.
Sead Mehmedovic is a Yugoslav. He has the mixed blood of this Balkan crossroads state. His father was a Bosnian Muslim; his mother, Gaby, who was raised in Zagreb, is half Hungarian, one quarter Serb, and one quarter Austrian. Such mixtures on lands that were long part of the Austro-Hungarian or Ottoman empires are typically Yugoslav. But Sead is also a Yugoslav in another sense. His own family history was falsified.
Sead's smile is gentle: it begins and ends in his pale blue eyes, a smile that is never quite whole, for it contains, like a shadow, a suggestion of fatigue less physical thanintellectual and emotional. The fatigue of a man in late middle age who has long sought, long questioned, before accepting with a wry abandon the absence of answers in any other form but riddles. "I have a very bad orientation in time and space," he said to me once. "I don't know if something happened three years ago or five years ago. When I go into some big home, I don't know the front from the back, the left from the right. It takes me a long time to orient myself. I am unable to navigate."
I, too, have experienced Sead's Balkan vertigo. There are moments when everything seems to lurch, like the listing white graves on the ridges above Sarajevo and Tuzla that march out to meet the surrounding houses, or what is left of them, in a visible dance of the living and the dead. Time, no longer an abstraction, becomes a palpable matter. The sheer accumulation of tombs turns the head, and a rational understanding of so much death seems not so much impossible as inadequate.
In the northwestern Bosnian town of Banja Luka, outside a stone fort, there are numerous black marble graves recalling Tito's "People's Heroes" who died in World War II. None of the dead--Muslim, Croat, or Serb--is older than thirty-five. On and on the names trail--Kazim Hadzib, Drago Lang, Ante Jakib--lives given for a Yugoslav state that is itself now dead. Beside the memorial stones flows the Vrbas River, gushing over rocks: this sound of water, an unquenchable sound, is the essence of Bosnia. On the far bank, in winter, children sled, their squeals of pleasure carrying out over the water. The cries spend themselves slowly over the ruins of the Roman fort, the tombs of the now forgotten or vilified World War II Partisan heroes, the battlefields of "ethnic cleansing" between reborn tribes that marked the last decade of the twentieth century, the soaring poplars and willows with silent ravens perched on the highest branches. The indifferent river swirls on, eddying past small promontories where grass peeks through the snow. Everything here appears to be in movement, defying a firm foothold.
Sead's search for his father was like Yugoslavia's search for its soul. In a fluid landscape, it was a quest for bearings, for an understanding of the past--the basis, for an individual, as for a state, of a sound existence. But on the unstable Balkan Peninsula, the quest was arduous.
In 1995, some years after his quest to find his father had ended, Sead took me to a small room perched like an eagle's nest on the roof above his mother's Belgrade apartment. He unlocked the door and we walked into a cluttered space filled with boxes of papers. Casting a despairing glance at the disorder, he said, "When I'm old and my wife, who is much younger, leaves me, I will come up here and sort through all this."
But would he, I wondered, ever be able to bring order to this chaos? "Earlier," Sead said, "I had the feeling that there was so much time in front of me. Gauguin started to paint when he was forty. I could too. When I passed forty, this habit stayed, this feeling that I had time. Still, I don't really register time passing. I don't pay much attention to my age, but just sometimes I feel this physical tiredness, a pressure at the back of my neck."
He reached into one of the boxes and pulled out an undeveloped roll of film. "This might interest you," he said. :I was given it by a friend of my father named Refik Cabi, but I never did develop it. You might find some pictures of my father."
Below us, the city stretched away, a beaten-up and shabby accumulation of masonry. Belgrade rises from the Sava and Danube rivers toward the handsome avenue of Terazije; it falls, a mound of crumbling gray stucco, sucked down toward the rivers' banks. The Serbs have a saying: "Nema rata bez Srba"--"No war without the Serbs." Belgrade, according to Serbian lore, has been destroyed and rebuilt forty times. Its obvious strategic importance, on a ridge at the confluence of two great rivers, at the entrance to the fertile plains of Vojvodina, Hungary, and eastern Slavonia, long ensured that it was battled over with a singular intensity. It stood, moreover, at the dividing line of the eastern and western Roman empires that ran along the Drina and the Sava; centuries later, it stood at another border, between the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires.
Belgrade was, by turns, Celtic, Roman, Bulgar, Serb, Turkish, and Austro-Hungarian--to name but a few of its identities between the third century b.c., when the Celts built the "Round Fort" called Singidunum, and the Ottomans' recapture of the city in 1739. The crescent and the cross did battle atop buildings that were mosques, then churches, then mosques once more. The Orthodox Christian Serbs finally recaptured the city in 1813. Over the next hundred years they leveled every mosque but one.
I gazed out: the hill of Dedinje where Tito lies, the Sava River, the high-rises of Novi Beograd, and the fertile Serbian plains beyond. After the plains, I could see in my mind's eye the mountains of Bosnia emerging abruptly, shrouded by mist or haze. Clouds on rocks. Birds circling. The smell of pine and plum brandy. Beyond that the oleander and the heady, Dalmatian coast opening out like some lush dream from the backdrop of a stony hinterland. How beautiful and variegated the Yugoslav state had been! But like the undeveloped film in my hand, it had secrets that had been concealed for too long.
Sead and I walked past the villas of Dedinje Hill, the leafy suburb inhabited by Slobodan Milosevib's Mercedes-driving mercenaries. The Serbian president's socialist party was the old Communist party dressed up in new clothes. Marxism had been dropped but Leninism maintained. The result was gangster capitalism with centralized control: call it Milosevib's Mafia-Leninism. Sead, who had believed in Tito and his revolution, was disgusted.
"These nouveaux riches put pressure on me," he said. "I have always wanted equality and social justice. I feel cheated by these people. When I was young, I thought it was enough to work and society would give you back what you gave to it. Maybe I am just envious because I have no idea how to make so much money and make it so fast. Here, there is no culture of making money slowly. It's fast or nothing.
"All my life, I thought that now it will be different, now it will be different. With my fifty-eight years, I am still naive. I did not want to believe that they could be connected--the party I once supported and the massive crime of this wealth. But I have to bow to the evidence. Still, knowing this, I am divided between what I don't want to believe and what manifestly is--and I guess I will die with this division. I really wanted to live in a better world. I don't believe that the West is better. In America, capitalism can be a game for wolves. That is why I became a communist. I did not want that kind of society."
The towering house belonging to Zeljko Raznatovib, alias Arkan, one of the more murderous of Serbia's paramilitary leaders during the wars of Yugoslavia's destruction, loomed up beside us, with slitlike tinted windows. A Jeep was parked outside, its driver talking on a cellular phone. Sead shook his head. We walked on past the stadium of the Red Star soccer club, whose supporters' club provided an initial nucleus for Arkan's gangs. When we reached his apartment, Sead went into his bedroom and emerged carrying a battered suitcase. Smiling his enigmatic smile, he handed it to me. The case contained letters, diaries, photographs, and other material that provided a portrait of Alija Mehmedovic's war and life and told the story of the terrible circumstances in which Sead ultimately found his father.
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Roger Cohen is the Berlin bureau chief of The New York Times. He was its Balkan bureau chief from 1994 to 1995 and reported from Bosnia throughout the war there. Twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Cohen has won several awards, including two from the Overseas Press Club. He has also been a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. Cohen is co-author of a biography of General Norman Schwarzkopf, In the Eye of the Storm.
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We LOVE this dip and have been making it for years......try dipping ginger snaps in it too!!!
I posted this, too. Didn't see it here before I posted, but mine is without the vanilla. I love this so much. The simplicity is incredible and adults love it as much as kids do. It is the perfect dip. My kids also spread it on top of cinnamon toast, I use it on my spice cake and my pumpkin bread insted of messing with cream cheese frosting. Delicious! You have given me an idea to try it with strawberry extract. Thanks.
This is awesome. I love it with fresh strawberries, peach slices and bananas. Perfect!!
This is the best fruit dip I've ever had! Sometimes we use strawberry cream cheese to add a little twist. This works great with almost any fruit; it's delicious and always gobbled up quickly at potlucks/parties!
Have been making this for years. My kids love it. You can add a little red jello to make it pink. We use this a lot in the fall with apples.
Very good! I put it out with strawberries and sliced apple and we really enjoyed it. Will make again!
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I took this along with a cut up fruit platter to an open house we had at our Community Centre yesterday. I used cut up strawberries, cantelope, green grapes, and kiwi for the fruit, which made an impressive looking platter. I had people come up to me at the end asking for the dip recipe, and all were surprised at how easy it was to make, combined with the few ingredients. There was nothing left on the platter at the end of the event, and everyone really enjoyed the dip. Thanks for posting the recipe!


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That's cute! It reminds me of one gift shop at the Calgary Zoo: there are tigers on the roof there too. I'll have to take a picture of it when I have a chance.
Thanks, Jessica! Funny thing is, he really looks like some of the tigers posted in the tiger thread! :-)
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Old Lyme — An elderly resident who sustained burns during a house fire on Lyme Street Saturday evening was taken to a hospital by Life Star helicopter, according to Old Lyme Fire Department spokesman Johny Cody.
The fire was first reported at around 8:25 p.m. at 7 Lyme St., a two-story condominium complex that is part of an association that includes Boxwood Apartments on the same street. The victim, who others at the scene identified as a woman in her mid-90s, lives alone in a first-floor unit, Cody said.
Other residents were attempting to help the woman when firefighters arrived at the scene, he said.
"It's a stubborn fire," Cody said.
At about 10 p.m., firefighters broke a window at the front of the structure to give firefighters an extra egress area. At one point earlier, firefighters had been ordered out of the building as officials worried about flare-ups.
"I saw flashing lights and got up to look," said Donna Spicer, a resident of the Boxwood Apartments. "That's when we saw the flames."
Cody said it took about 15 to 20 minutes to put out the flames.
The victim was transported to a landing area at nearby Lyme-Old Lyme High School, where Life Star picked her up. The name of the victim was not released.
The house has four one-bedroom condominium units, though only three are occupied, according to Cody. He didn't know how many other people were in the building at the time of the fire but said everyone else got out without injuries.
One resident, who asked not to be identified, said at the scene that she had been unaware of the fire until firefighters arrived on the scene and told her to get out.
Cody said only two of the four units were affected by the fire. Both of the units were in the back of the building, where a gaping hole in the roof created by firefighters was still releasing smoke late into the night.
The Old Lyme, Essex, East Lyme, Old Saybrook, Westbrook and Deep River fire departments responded to the blaze. No firefighters were injured.
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