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I've been reading these boards for a while trying to better understand the DVC so my DH and I can make the best choice for our family. With that said, I know that if we do buy in, it won't be for at least a year or two so I have some time to continue to learn (and save). Here's some questions I still have: 1. Would it be a bad decision to buy one contract around 100 points at first and buy a second contract later? What things do I need to consider when doing this? 2. I am pretty sure I want our home resort to be BLT and we will vacation mostly in January with it sometimes falling in February. What's the best UY? How many months do you get to bank your points for that year? 3. How soon should we buy if we are wanting to go and use our points in January of 2016? We may wait until after this trip to buy, but in case it works out before then, I want to know how soon we would need to do it. I'd guess in time to make our 11 month booking window? Thanks for any help! I feel a little slow in understanding all of this but I sure do enjoy reading and slightly obsessing over it!
1. Not a bad decision. Many start that way. Its the minimum purchase through Disney and one desired in the resale market. Later contract may cost more per point than first one. Also, if you go resale for that first contract, you may not find one with just 100 points. Of course at resale prices you can buy about 150 points for the same price as 100 new points from Disney. 2. If Jan or Feb is usual time, Dec is ideal use year month but you could easily go back as far as Sep. Many recommend a use year that starts shortly before you usually go and that would mean Dec use year for you because there is no Jan use year. The issue has nothing to do with when you can go (any time of year) or when you can call to reserve (always 11 months out at home resort). It simply has to do with what happens if you have to cancel and iif you do can you bank the points. You can bank any or all of your points into the enxt use year on or before the last day of the eighth month of your use year (July 31 if Dec use year). Thus if you have to cancel a Feb trip in Dec, you will still have plenty of months before you have to bank and almost a year to use the points. If you have a March use year and cancel a Feb trip in Dec, You cannot bank because you are beyond the eigth month and you will ned to use all the points before March 1, less than three months away. 3. You would be able to reserve Jan 2016 at your home resort in Feb 2015. If buying resale, you will want to buy by late Oct/early Nov 2014 to assure everything is completed by Feb 2015. If buying from Disney you can wait until late Jan 2015 since you can make reservations quickly after agreeing to buy..
That's a huge help! Thanks! I think we will probably wait until after our next trip then to buy. I doubt we are ready next year and my DH is more likely to be onboard after our next trip probably.
On the booking issue it depends on whether or not you are buying resale or direct. Direct purchasing thru DVD you can count back the 11 months and then add another month just to allow DVD to process your application and such but generally in buying direct you can use your points almost immediately. If buying resale you need to plan further ahead not only to find a contract that you want but to allow enough time for DVD to pass on ROFR and for the paper work to be processed. So count back 11 months and then allow another 3-4 months for processing the application and such.
That is what we're doing 100 pts at GFV and then adding. I totally enjoy the reading and obsessing too
Just keep in mind that whether you buy direct or resale, prices may go up. If you aren't looking at VGF, then go with a property that works for you, considering that a resale contract won't allow you to book with Disney Collection (I.e., cruises, Disneyland Hotel, etc.). In terms of use year, consider the "rule of four" which means that if you cancel a reservation during that last four months of your UY, your points are stuck in that use year until you use them. So make sure your UY is before you usually travel. Good luck.


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Olivia Bites Kevin's Foil Wrapped Cucumber
Olivia Munn makes a snack out of Kevin Pereira's foil wrapped cucumber. This is Spinal Tap!
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Lol Olivia and Kevin, What a great team. Flint get your eyes and judgement evaluated.
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Hahaha you two are crazy. Olivia thats so not you, you strike me as the type that would quickly say "Eeeeewww" at such a thing. But its sexy and will make guys drool. Kevin why do you have two cucumbers?
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My life is complete now, lol... This is why I always keep one on me, fr times like this... and it complimnts my package...lol, learnd frm the best Mr. K. Pereria!
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wow, so this is how u move up Maxims hot 100. I would say it works, but her looks are as bad as her personality... needs MOAR EXPLOITATION!!!!!
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Tena Klosterboer
Date posted - May 18, 2013
Tena Klosterboer, age 96 of Rock Rapids, IA died on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at Sanford Hospital in Rock Rapids, IA.
Funeral service will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 23rd at Bethel Reformed Church in Little Rock, IA, with Rev. Matt Miller officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery.
Visitation will be Wednesday, May 22nd from 2:00 to 8:00 p.m., with family present from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Jurrens Funeral Home of Rock Rapids.
Tena Anna Klosterboer was born March 11, 1917 to Jerry and Dea (Willms) Reck in Midland Township, Lyon County, Iowa. She attended country school through the eighth grade. She then became a "hired girl" to farmers' wives in need of help.
Tena married Henry A. Klosterboer on January 25, 1939 at her parents' home. They farmed in several locations in Nobles County, MN and Lyon County, IA. In May of 1975 Tena's husband, Henry died after 36 years of marriage. Tena continued to farm with her youngest son until 1980, when she moved into Rock Rapids.
She was a life-long member of Bethel Reformed Church of rural Little Rock, IA. She was an active member of the Dorcas Society and the quilt committee for 20 years. She enjoyed sewing and volunteering at Dinner Date.
This past Saturday, May 18, 2013 Tena died at the Sanford Hospital in Rock Rapids at the age of 96. She is survived by her five children, Arlen (wife, Arlene) Klosterboer of Bryan, TX, Darlene (husband, Elmer) Aeilts of Rock Rapids, IA, Charlene (husband, Dave) Marquart of Valley Springs, SD, Gerald (wife, Laura) Klosterboer of Zephyr Cove, NV and Dallis (wife, Kim) Klosterboer of Tampa, FL; eight grandchildren; seventeen great-grandchildren; a brother, Peter Reck of Rock Rapids, IA; and many nieces, nephews and other extended family.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Jerry and Dea Reck; her husband, Henry Klosterboer; and two grandchildren, Alan Aeilts and Darci Marquart.
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Ok I spent the entire day devoting to making soap. I actually made a batch of soap. I decided to use the Hot process method again today but using the crock pot. The first time I used this method I used the oven and it came out pretty well. So since I have a crock pot that I don't hardly use, I decided to try it.
Pros and cons for both cold and hot process soap making
Both methods have its advantages and disadvantages. Which one do I prefer, it is really hard to decide. Please keep in mind that these are just my opinions based on how I made my own soaps. I am sure others will have their own opinions.
Lets start with the Cold Process Method.
1. Pro-I like the fact that I can color the soap and make designs with this method.
2. Con- For me the scent sometimes gets distorted if I use this method. I find some of my fragrance get so messed up after I take it out of the mold and cut. Some of my scent don't seem to smell the same afterwards. Sometimes not all the time. Curing time takes up to 6 weeks in some of my soaps. The Whipped soap can take up to 6 weeks to cure.
Ok now the Hot Process Method
1. Pro-I like the fact that you can use this soap right away after it has cooled down. The scent is much bolder than when I use the cold process method. And it is so much faster to make. At least in my opinion and much easier.
2. Con- Since using this method, it is hard to swirl this type of soap as it is so thick. Just coloring the soap all one color seems to be much easier but not being able to swirl is the hard part of using this method. Another con about this is that you have to work fast after the cooking process to get all your fragrance oils and other additives in the soap before it starts to cool down too much and it won't be easy to get into the mold at least from my experience.
Testing the soap to see if its done is one method I don't like to use. I have read where the old method is to take a piece of the soap and do the tongue zapping test. Nope I did not want to do that. Another way is to scoop some soap out and roll it in your hand (gloves of course since the soap is hot) and roll to see if the soap sticks together. I lather use a ph test strip. Also I run some water on the small piece to see if it lathers. I rather do it this way then the tongue test. I remember taking the 9volt battery to my tongue as a kid and didn't like it. LOL That is what it will feel like if your soap is not quite done.
Here are a few shots of my crock pot after everything was done.The soap does stick to the sides of the crock pot so letting it sit with water in it will loosen the soap and make it easier to clean out. Since my crock pot is not immersable, it has to cleaned this way.
This is what I made today. This is from the Crock Pot method. This soap smells sooo good I can't wait to use it. This is Stargazer Lily. Absolutely wonderful.
As you can see it is sitting so it can cool down and harden. I am going to let it sit till tomorrow then unmold and cut it. Once I cut it, I will let it dry out for about 1-2 weeks. Then thats it.
I just cut and unmolded the soap loaf above. Wow the scent is the same as if I just poured it in. The lather is very creamy. The color is much lighter then when it was in the mold which I didn't expect but still a very nice color. I guess it was still hot when it was in the mold.
This is a small piece of the Hot Process soap that I just made. I am testing it to see how well it lathers and as you can see it lathers very well. :-) I am ready to try it NOW hehehe
To be honest I do like both methods. I am leaning towards the HOt Process because it was so much easier for me. The scent holds very well which I really like because the fragrance goes in after the soap has been cooked so all you get is the full fragrance of the scent. They both have the advantages and disadvantages.
Cold Process Method (soap poured into molds, unmolded, cut and cured for 4-6 weeks)
Hot Process Method- Using direct heat (no curing time needed) but I allow my soap to harden a bit for about a week
Whipped Process Method (same as the cold process method without heating the oils and lye solution. This method takes much much longer to cure)
You know after making my soaps from scratch after a year has gone by I still do not consider myself a pro. I am still learning. I may never consider myself a pro mainly because I just enjoy making it and don't like labels. :-)
Thank you for letting me share my soap making experience with you today.


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Gattuso made player-coach at Sion
Gennaro Gattuso has been promoted to player-coach at Swiss side FC Sion, with incumbent manager Victor Munoz demoted within the club.
The former Real Mallorca, Zaragoza, Panathinaikos and Terek Grozny coach was sent packing after fourth-placed Sion were thrashed 4-0 by FC Thun in the Swiss Super League on Sunday.
Eccentric club president Christian Constantin was seen talking on his mobile phone during the second half and Swiss media speculated that had already decided to sack Munoz before the final whistle.
"Following Sion's disastrous performance against FC Thun and in the face of the lack of effort showing in the team, the club's board have decided to make the players face their responsibilities," said Sion in a statement.
"To do this, from now until further notice, they will take charge of their own affairs. The club entrusts the responsibility for the group to its captain Gennaro Gattuso."
Gattuso, 35, a notoriously hard-tackling midfielder, joined Sion at the start of the season after 13 seasons with AC Milan, where he won the Champions League on two occasions.
He also played in Italy's World Cup winning team in 2006.
Last season, Sion were involved in a complex legal battle with UEFA after they were excluded from the Europa League for fielding ineligible players.
The club lost the case and were docked 36 points for breaking the statutes of European football's governing body which bans clubs from taking cases to the civil courts.
However, Sion escaped relegation after Neuchatel Xamax were expelled from the Swiss league over financial irregularities, and officially finished bottom of the table.
Gattuso becomes the 29th coach at Sion since Constantin took over for his second stint in 2002.
An architect, former goalkeeper and participant in the annual Glacier Patrol ski mountaineering race, Constantin has appointed himself as coach on two occasions.


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Red matter
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Red matter was a substance capable of forming a black hole when ignited. One drop was sufficient to collapse a star or consume an entire planet.
Red matter was used by Ambassador Spock in 2387 to create a black hole to absorb the energy of a supernova which threatened the galaxy, by shooting a small amount of it into the exploding star from his small, one-man vessel. Although his plan succeeded and the supernova was eliminated, Spock was too late to save Romulus, which was destroyed. Subsequent to the creation of the black hole, Spock was confronted in his ship by the Romulan mining vessel Narada, commanded by Nero, who held Spock responsible for the destruction of his homeworld. During the confrontation, both ships were pulled into the black hole and transported back in time through a tunnel in spacetime, the Narada arriving in the year 2233, resulting in the creation of an alternate reality. Upon emerging from the black hole, the Narada encountered the Starfleet vessel Kelvin and engaged in battle, but was severely damaged when Lieutenant George Kirk rammed the Narada with the Kelvin.
Twenty-five years later, Spock, who had entered the black hole only seconds after the Narada, emerged, and both he and his ship were captured by Nero. Upon obtaining the red matter aboard Spock's ship, Nero mounted an attack on Vulcan, drilling into the planet and launching a small amount of the red matter into the core, forming a singularity within which consumed the entire planet. Nero later attempted to perform the same action on Earth, but was stopped by the intervention of Spock's alternate reality-counterpart and James T. Kirk. Spock's counterpart was able to appropriate Spock's ship from the Narada, and piloted it on a collision course with the Romulan vessel. When the ship collided, the red matter stored aboard ignited, generating a black hole within the Narada itself, destroying the ship. (Star Trek)
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In Star Trek Magazine issue 144, Scott Chambliss, production designer on Star Trek, noted that the appearance of red matter as a "big red ball" was a reference to other productions that he had worked on with J.J. Abrams, including Alias and Mission: Impossible III. [1]
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According to the Star Trek: Countdown prequel comic book, which details the events leading up to the destruction of Romulus, red matter is an artificial substance created by the Vulcan Science Academy. It is manufactured from decalithium, a rare isotope which the Narada was equipped to mine.
The novelization of 2009's Star Trek by Alan Dean Foster states that red matter's destructive properties are magnified by intense heat and pressurization that a star or a planetary core can provide.
The Path to 2409 (β) on the Star Trek Online website states that the Vulcans had created red matter without the consultation or approval of Federation authorities, earning criticism from the board investigating the destruction of Romulus. In response the Vulcans promised to not conduct any more red matter experiments and stated that the entire supply was on Spock's ship when it vanished. Despite this, the game has a device called a "Red Matter Capacitor." This device is a equipped to a player's ship and acts as an auxiliary power source.
The 2013 virtual collectible card battle game Star Trek: Rivals has "Decalithium Red Matter" as card #110.
External link Edit
- Red matter at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Wyoming lawmakers will decide in coming months whether to follow a growing national trend and allow the use of silencers on hunting guns.
Proponents say there's no reason to ban the devices that screw onto the muzzle of a firearm to catch the blast and muffle the sound of a shot. Not only do they prevent hearing damage, supporters say, they also reduce noise pollution.
Some opponents, however, say they believe allowing silencers for hunting would be unsporting and unnecessary. They say hunters increasingly laden with high-tech gadgets don't need yet another advantage when they go up against game species whose defenses always have been only their alertness and ability to run away.
An interim Wyoming legislative committee recently endorsed a bill to end the state's prohibition on hunting with silencers. The full Legislature will consider the issue in the general session starting in January.
Scott Edberg, assistant chief game warden at the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, said the agency doesn't take a position on the proposal. He said constituents asked several state legislators to roll back the ban.
More than half the states allow silencers and the number is growing, with Texas and Arizona approving their use for hunters earlier this year.
Knox Williams, secretary of the American Silencer Association, a Washington, D.C. industry group, said the organization is pushing to legalize the use of silencers for hunting in Wyoming and Montana this year. He said the group also is pushing to change laws in other states where possession of silencers is still prohibited.
Williams said 39 states allow civilian ownership of silencers. Their sale is regulated by the federal government, which imposes a $200 transfer tax.
Despite their name, there's nothing truly "silent" about silencers, particularly when they're attached to hunting rifles. The escaping blast from the gas that propels a bullet still makes a substantial noise, and there's no way to silence the sonic boom, or loud crack, of the bullet breaking the sound barrier.
Thunder Beast Arms Corporation in Cheyenne manufactures silencers for sale around the country. They range from tubes 1-inch in diameter and less than 5-inches long, for .22 rimfire cartridges up to units nearly twice that diameter and length for centerfire rifles.
Shane Coppinger, one of the owners of Thunder Beast Arms, said he took about a dozen Wyoming lawmakers to a shooting range this summer for a demonstration.
Rep. Cathy Connolly, D-Laramie, was among the state lawmakers who attended the demonstration and later voted in favor of the bill. She said she enjoys walking in the woods and had been concerned about the prospect of not hearing when someone's shooting nearby.
"I honestly was convinced," Connolly said of the demonstration. "My biggest concern was about a lack of report, but there is a report."
Coppinger and Thunder Beast Arms co-owners Zak Smith and Ray Sanchez demonstrated their silencers for a reporter recently at gun range west of Cheyenne.
With a silencer in place, a .308-caliber centerfire rifle made a sound scarcely louder than the blast that might come out an air hose at a filling station. A .22-caliber rimfire rifle made a barely audible "pffft" sound when shooting subsonic ammunition.
Smith said sees no merit to the argument that silencers are unsporting. With bullets traveling faster than the speed of sound, he said, game animals don't hear the report of the hunter's shot anyway, unless the hunter misses.
Steve Kilpatrick, executive director of the Wyoming Wildlife Federation, said his group opposes allowing hunting with silencers on ethical grounds.
"We already have a lot of tools, and a lot of them are toys I guess, with GPS units, night vision scopes, high-powered rifles with ballistic scopes that allow you to kill critters at 800 to 1,000 yards, four-wheelers, four-wheel drives, the list is quite long," Kilpatrick said. "And we don't really see the need for silencers, especially for the hunting of game animals."
Kim Floyd, spokesman for the Wyoming Federal of Union Sportsmen, said his group also opposes the prospect of allowing silencers for hunting, calling it "a poacher's dream." He said any hunters truly concerned about the effect on their hearing from shooting at game can carry ear plugs.
Floyd questioned why Wyoming would want to allow silencer use. "I want to know who's in that drainage with me," he said. "If they're shooting a gun, I want to hear that gun. I want to know where these other hunters are. It just absolutely makes no sense to us. Why we would open that can of worms? I don't care how many other states have this law in effect, it's just a really, really bad law for Wyoming."
Coppinger dismissed concerns that silencers could encourage poaching. He said clearing the federal background check to buy a silencer can take months while silencers themselves can cost up to thousands of dollars. He said no one's likely to go through the trouble and expense of buying one only to turn around and use it to commit a crime.
"They're gun guys," Coppinger said of the people who buy silencers. "You get caught poaching, and you don't own a gun anymore."


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Ashton Kutcher And Mila Kunis Vacay In Bali
When you're kinda-sorta secretly dating and you kinda-sorta get skewered by the media, where do you go? BALI! Just ask Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher!
Kutcher, 34 (who in November split from wife of 6 years, Demi Moore, you may know of her), and Kunis, 28, are taking a break from the woes (hah!) of Hollywood to spend some one-on-one time at a resort on Bali's southern peninsula. Sounds like a good four month anniversary, no?ÃÂ Four months of kinda-sorta dating, 14 years since they met on the set of That 70's Show…
Life is so weird sometimes!
Only last month, the two were kinda-sorta giving each other some PDA at Kutcher's Jobs movie wrap party in Los Angeles. They "appeared to be lighthearted and in good spirits, and hardly left each other's side," an onlooker told PEOPLE. "They stayed within five feet of each other practically the entire evening. It looked like young love."
Hmm…to many kinda-sortas for me in this post. OUT WITH IT, you two! Then I can get over my disappointment that someone as adorable as Mila Kunis is dating a dude like Kutcher.
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Category → Romney Fakes a Bus Tour
Romney "Fakes" a Bus Tour — Just One More Proud Example of How Inauthentic and Clumsy He Is?
By Peter Le Force –– In just one more big showy example of how phony he is, Mitt Romney has announced a bus tour to "connect" with America — you know — that campaign thing where you get on a greyhound type bus and ride around the country like an ordinary guy — stopping and chatting with constituents in their own home-towns — just to show them you're a "regular joe" and that you care about them and their issues — and America. Let's face it, anybody who put themselves through that — and who would endure the inconvenience and discomfort and chaos of a bus tour, must be crazy enough to deserve the torture of being elected to public office. Except that Mitt is not really on a bus tour. He's faking it. Surprised?
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Instead of actually going on a bus tour — something a rich, pampered fellow like Romney could not possibly enjoy –or endure — even if it was the only way he might have a chance to get elected President — Mitt chose the next best thing. Fake it and see if you can fool the American people — or hide it from them at least. What is actually happening is that the supposed "bus tour" is being staged. The campaign has "acquired" a bunch of buses and positioned them strategically around the country in places that Romney plans to feature in his "Connecting with America" efforts. Then, Mitt will fly to the places it has been advertised he will "tour", then drive to where the bus is strategically positioned, get on the bus ride around for a few stops — pretending that this stop is just one more leg in the extensive tour of America to connect with the voters he is taking — then he will go back to his plane, fly away to someplace more comfortable (and plushier and cushier, no doubt), only to fly out to the next place a bus is positioned at the appointed time to continue the masquerade as actually being on a real bus tour. Now it's admittedly an admirable trait in politicians to want to make an attempt to get out and meet and greet regular Americans –their potential constituencies — going right out there to their homes in their cities and towns across America — press some flesh and kiss some babies — let them know that deep down you are a regular guy like them — and that because of that — you obviously know about the issues of their lives — and care about them.
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Except that Mitt is not really doing it. He's jet-setting to the local events and festivities — and then faking the part about being a regular guy out in the hinterlands on a bus tour — connecting with America. He thinks it's a good thing to do — he just doesn't really want to have to do it — so he's faking it — and he thinks that faking it is close enough to actually doing it that it won't matter.
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Admittedly, there is a certain amount of posturing and image-creation that goes into campaigns — there always has been, it's one of the fact parts of the fiction that is political campaigns. But isn't it just like Mitt Romney — to say to his campaign aides — campaigns are all fake anyway — and so am I as a politician running for President — so why don't we at least make it as convenient as possible — let's just fake the "bus tour to connect with America" thing, too? What's wrong with that. Most people won't even know — and many of them will still vote for us anyway, once the find out — if they do. It doesn't really matter. It's all fake anyway. Right, Mitt. It is. Starting with you — and running through your campaign — and off the lips of all your aids — who cynically tell the American people — don't get all excited about the ideas you hear — it's just campaign stuff — sound bites and faking the public out at every stop and all that. It's just the way it's done.
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Yeah, you're probably right. That is probably just the way it's done. So now I have to things to dislike about you, Mr. Romney. First the fact that you are doing it this way because it's the most expedient, cost-effective, and most convenient way to fake your way into a plausible chance to win the Presidency. Second, because even if there is an element of ingenuousness in every campaign — and yours is no exception — I dislike you for being so crass, so blatantly, so disrespectful, and so terribly bad at it, when you do do it. And I would not vote for you for that fact, alone. Fake on, Mitty boy, fake on!


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Judd Apatow, don't you toy with our emotions. The comedy producer took to Twitter to suggest actually finally really making "Pineapple Express 2" with James Franco and Seth Rogen.
"@Kokohonga_6: DO A PINEAPPLE EXPRESS SEQUEL 🙏 @JuddApatow @Sethrogen @JamesFrancoTV" should we? Seriously. I'm asking. #PineappleExpress
— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) January 17, 2014
Someone who is totally on board with the idea? "Game of Thrones" star Sophie Turner.
@JuddApatow please
— Sophie Turner (@Sophiee_Turner) January 17, 2014
While we're totally with Turner about wanting "Pineapple Express 2" to get made (especially after Rogen and Franco's April Fool's joke), we'd also like to see her get involved in the Apatow comedy.
The woman best known as Sansa Stark already showed off her comedy chops in the upcoming Hailee Steinfeld teen action flick "Barely Lethal," so she could totally leverage that to making comedy her new thing.
"Game of Thrones" returns to HBO on April 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.


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Trails group recruiting volunteers for summer trail projects
OUTDO – The Washington Trails Association is recruiting volunteers for an ambitious lineup of trail-building and maintenance projects in far Eastern Washington this season.
Every year as the budgets for parks and forests dwindle, volunteers become more important, said Jane Baker, local WTA trail crew leader in Spokane.
The work parties range for day-jobs at the Rocks of Sharon to multi-day trips in the Salmo-Priest Wilderness that combine backpacking with trail clearing.
WTA is a third of the way to meeting the 2,000-hours of work at Liberty Lake County Park the group pledged in order to get a state grant. The first of several work parties planned at Liberty Lake is set for March 16, followed by work in April, May, June and July.
Other project areas include the Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge, Dishman Hills, Mount Spokane and Sullivan Lake.
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Council approves temporary hours extension for Element events
At the Jan. 21 Castlegar City Council meeting, the Element Club Bar and Grill was granted two temporary changes to their liquor license.
The club will be allowed to stay open for an extra hour on Friday, Feb. 15 and Saturday, June 1, from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m.
"They wanted to extend their hours on Feb. 15 and June 1," said councillor Sue Heaton-Sherstobitoff. "They need that so it's profitable for them. The RCMP are fine with it. They'll have enough resources on staff those days. So we voted in favour of those extensions."
Feb. 15 is the Element's special night of DJ's, including two of which were headliners from Shambhala last summer.
On June 1, the Element will once again be hosting the official Sunfest party.
"This will be the final night of our seventh anniversary weekend which will feature a very popular top 40 band that has played here on many occasions," said Element owner Florio Vassilakakis in his request to the city. "We are partnering again with Castlegar Slo-Pitch to help them in their fundraising. In order to make this event as successful as possible, we would be very appreciative of the opportunity to extend our hours of operation for the night until 3 a.m."


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wtng2fish User ID: 123039 United States 07/27/2006 11:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to volokh.com] United Nations an Accomplice in Hezbollah Kidnapping: After Hezbollah's kidnapping of a pair of Israeli soldiers spurred an Israeli counter-attack, many critics of Israel actions have suggested that the United Nations can serve as a buffer between Israel and Hezbollah. To the contrary, the United Nations has a well-established record of collaboration with Hezbollah in the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has been deployed since 1978, not long after Israel first entered Lebanon in pursuit of PLO terrorists. UNIFIL was created pursuant to Security Council Resolution 425, for the purpose of "confirming the withdrawal of Israeli forces, restoring international peace and security and assisting the Government of Lebanon in ensuring the return of its effective authority in the area." Quite obviously UNFIL has utterly failed to achieve the Security Council's objectives, either before or after Israel's 2000 complete withdrawal from Lebanon. One reason is that UNIFIL does not interdict Hezbollah attacks on Israel. Instead, UNIFIL allows Hezbollah to set up positions next to UNFIL units, in effect using UNIFIL as human shields against Israeli counterstrikes. (Aluf Benn, Israel accuses UN of collaborating with Hezbollah," Haaretz, Sept. 11, 2005.) UNIFIL's most notorious collaboration with terrorists involved the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli soldiers, and the subsequent cover-up. On October 7, 2000, Hezbollah terrorists entered Israel, attacked three Israeli soldiers on Mount Dov, and abducted them Lebanon. The kidnapping was witnessed by several dozen UNIFIL soldiers who stood idle. One of the soldier witnesses described the kidnapping: the terrorists set of an explosive which stunned the Israeli soldiers. Clad in UN uniforms, the terrorists called out, "Come, come, we'll help you." The Israeli soldiers approached the men in UN uniforms. Then, a Hezbollah bomb detonated—-apparently prematurely. It wounded the disguised Hezbollah commander, and three Israeli soldiers. Two other terrorists in U.N. uniforms dragged their Hezbollah commander and the three wounded soldiers into a getaway car. According an Indian solider in UNIFIL who witnessed the kidnapping, "By this stage, there was a big commotion and dozens of UN soldiers from the Indian brigade came around." The witness stated that the brigade knew that the kidnappers in UN uniform were Hezbollah. One soldiers said that the brigade should arrest the Hezbollah, but the brigade did nothing. According to the Indian soldier, the UNFIL brigade in the area "could have prevented the kidnapping." "I'm very sorry about what happened, because we saw what happened," he said. Hezbollah "were wearing our uniforms and it was too bad we didn't stop them." It appears that at least four of the UNIFIL "peacekeepers," all from India, has received bribes from Hezbollah in order to assist the kidnapping by helping them get to the kidnapping spot and find the Israeli soldiers. Some of the bribery involved alcohol and Lebanese women. The Indian brigade later had a bitter internal argument, as some members complained that the brigade had betrayed its peacekeeping mandate. An Indian government investigation sternly criticized the brigade's conduct. There is evidence of far greater payments by Hezbollah to the UNIFIL Indian brigade, including hundreds of thousands of dollars for assistance in the kidnapping and cover-up. The UN cover-up began almost immediately. Lebanon's The Daily Star reported the story told by a former officer of the Observer Group Lebanon (OGL), which is part of the UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO). ("UN 'destroyed' evidence after abduction of 3 Israeli troops," The Daily Star, July 20, 2001.) A few hours after the kidnapping, UNTSO learned that two abandoned cars had been discovered. One was a white Nissan Pathfinder with fake UN insignia; it had hit an embankment because it was being driven so fast that the driver missed a turn. The other was a Range Rover; it was missing a tire rim, and was still running when it was discovered. Rather than using the very-recently-abandoned vehicles as clues to rescue the kidnap victims, the UN initiated a cover-up. The next morning, eighteen hours after the kidnapping, a team of OGL and the Indian UNIFIL began removing the contents of the cars. The Range Rover was soaked with blood. Among the contents of the vehicles may have been a cell phone belonging to the terrorists. The UNTSO officer confirmed that the cars contained "extremely sensitive" items which included "current and relevant information that could have been easily linked to the incident." A UNIFIL peacekeeper videotaped the removal of the contents, and attempted to tow one of the cars. According to a much-later U.N. report, there were fifty items taken from the car, seven of them blood-stained. (Report of the fact-finding investigation relating to the abduction of three Israeli soldiers on 7 October 2000 and subsequent relevant events, Aug. 2, 2001.) |
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Clarence Ray Vosburgh '33
Clarence Ray Vosburgh '33, a retired educator and journalist long resident in Panama, was born on October 25, 1911, to Harry A., a stockroom clerk, and Nellie Bump Vosburgh, in Warsaw, NY. He grew up in nearby Attica, southwest of Rochester, and was graduated from Attica High School in 1929.That fall, he came to College Hill and joined Tau Kappa Epsilon.A member of Professor Fancher's Choir, he also served as head cheerleader for the Continentals at sports events.
After receiving his B.S. degree in 1933,Clarence Vosburgh began his teaching career at Pavilion High School, near Batavia, in western New York. In 1935, he joined the faculty of Kenmore Senior High School in suburban Buffalo to teach English and journalism.
While attending summer sessions at Columbia University's Teachers College in pursuit of an M.A.degree (which he would receive in 1940), he met a student from Panama, Ines Rodriguez.
They were married in Balboa, Canal Zone, on July 12, 1938.
Following a tropical honeymoon, Clarence Vosburgh returned with his bride to Kenmore, where they remained until he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1943.He served as a sergeant in a postal unit in the European theater until his discharge in 1946, after World War II had ended.
Persuaded by his wife to join her in Panama, Clarence Vosburgh decided to look for employment opportunities there. His first job, of brief duration, was as a civilian employee at U.S. Army headquarters in the Canal Zone.
In 1947, he began his long tenure with the Zone's Schools Division, initially teaching English at Balboa High School. For many years thereafter, until his retirement in 1974, he was a member of the social science department of Canal Zone College, a two-year institution with an unusually cosmopolitan student body. In addition, he taught for a time a few extension courses at the University of Panama.
While in Panama, he and Ines also reared their three sons, James R., David A., and John D.Vosburgh. Early during his long stay in Panama, Clarence Vosburgh became a weekly columnist for the venerable Star & Herald, the leading English-language newspaper in the country and one of the oldest in Latin America.
Through troubled, even riotous, interludes in relations between the United States and Panama, he continued to write his column for more than 30 years. In the Canal Zone, he also served as an elected member of the Pacific Civic Council and represented it in discussions of community concerns with the Canal Zone's governor.
Clarence Vosburgh, a genial and engagingly enterprising gentleman, and a keen observer of the Panamanian scene, utilized his expertise to write and speak on the subject at every opportunity.
Following his retirement, he and Ines returned to New York and settled in Batavia, but they continued for several years to serve as "enrichment lecturers," speaking about Panama on Royal Viking Line cruise ships passing through the Canal.
Clarence R.Vosburgh, who later resided in Rochester, NY, was residing in West Melbourne, FL, when he died on July 17, 2006, at the age of 94, as verified by Social Security records.The College has no information on survivors.
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Milton Kaplan, Valedictorian '37
Milton Kaplan, Valedictorian '37, an attorney who became a highly influential legal educator, was born on December 20, 1915, in Binghamton, NY. A son of Benjamin Kaplan, a wholesale meat dealer, and the former Mayme Lipman, "Milt" Kaplan grew up in Cortland, NY, where he was graduated in 1933 from Cortland High School as class salutatorian.
That year, he enrolled at Hamilton and began compiling an impressive academic record that culminated in his election to Phi Beta Kappa and graduation with honors in political science and as first in his class. Milt Kaplan went on to Harvard Law School, where he earned his LL.B.degree in 1940.
Briefly associated with the law firm of Mulligan & Hill in New York City, he soon became a state assistant attorney general in Albany. In 1943, he returned to private practice in Manhattan with the firm of Reed, Mulligan, et al.However, in 1947 he went back to his hometown of Cortland to become a partner in a newly formed law firm.Two years later, he assisted in the successful campaign for mayor of the city of Robert A. Kerr '31,who appointed him to the post of corporation counsel.
In 1954, Milt Kaplan left for Albany to serve as associate counsel for municipal affairs in the State Comptroller's Office. Named administrative assistant to Governor Averill Harriman's counsel in 1957, he thereafter served again, from 1959 to 1962, as an assistant attorney general. Milton Kaplan,who had become a specialist in land-use planning and local government law, also gained wide experience in comparative planning. From 1962 to 1965,he lived and worked in Calcutta, India, as a legal advisor to Ford Foundation consultants on metropolitan planning, and he later traveled extensively as a consultant for international organizations in numerous other developing countries.
In addition, he was a planning law consultant to state and federal agencies in the United States. In 1965,Milton Kaplan began his long association with the State University of New York at Buffalo's School of Law. Initially appointed as a visiting professor, he was soon given regular faculty status.During two decades on the law school's faculty, he not only shared his extensive expertise in courses on state and local government land-use planning and comparative environmental law,but was also primarily responsible for the formation and development of the School's state and local government law program.
Noted for his balanced judgment and careful legal analysis, Milton Kaplan left a profound impact on his students as well as his colleagues. Students who took his innovative courses, or participated in his research projects, gained great appreciation for his insight and personal guidance and encouragement.With his gentle, self-effacing manner, he also gave encouragement and support to younger colleagues who saw in him "a model of dedication to the lawyering craft."
Although he retired as professor emeritus from SUNY Buffalo in 1985,Milton Kaplan continued for many years to teach there part-time while also serving as of counsel to the firm of Magavern & Magavern in Buffalo.
He died on February 26, 2007, in the Buffalo suburb of Getzville following a lengthy illness, at the age of 91. He is survived by a daughter and son, Jo K.Nasoff-Finton and Michael R. Kaplan '75, born of his first marriage, to Toby Josowitz in 1941, which had ended in divorce.Also surviving are a brother and a sister.
Predeceasing him was his second wife, Linda S. Reynolds,whom he had wed in 1987.
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Edward P. Jones, Jr. '37
Edward P. Jones, Jr. '37, who retired as executive vice president of operations after 38 years with the Graybar Electric Co.,was born on April 25, 1915, in Port Jervis, NY. The son of Edward P., one of the town's leading lawyers, and Mima Shimer Jones,"Brud" Jones (his lifelong nickname originated with his sister as her approximation of "brother"when they were children) was graduated from Port Jervis High School,where he captained the football team.
He entered Hamilton in 1932, joined Delta Kappa Epsilon, and became a guard on the varsity football team. Named its captain, he was sidelined in his senior year because of a torn cartilage resulting from pre-season play. Elected to DT and Pentagon, he left the Hill with his diploma in 1937.On February 5th of the following year,he and Evelyn Colegrove were married in Utica. By that time, having followed up on a suggestion from a fellow Deke, Lee E. Perry '39, that he see Perry's father about a job, Brud Jones had been hired as a trainee by Graybar. He began his long career with the electrical distribution company in Cleveland,OH, where he eventually became district manager.
He also worked out of such locations as Toledo and Akron, as well as Boston,MA, where he was district manager for New England operations. Transferred to Graybar's headquarters in New York City as vice president in 1965, he retired in 1975 as head of operations, the same job that Lee Perry's father had when he first interviewed Brud.
Brud Jones, who resided in Connecticut and engaged for a time in real estate after his retirement, was remarried in 1978 to Mary Lou Kindred in Greenwich. In 1982, the couple moved to the small town of Salem, OH, where Brud would be near his son and grandchildren. There he became affiliated with the First Presbyterian Church and served from 1983 to 1991 as its administrator. He also became active in the community as a hospital volunteer and driver for charitable organizations.
A passionate golfer, he continued to work on his game, "hoping they will invent new clubs that will help." Edward P. Jones, Jr., a dedicated alumnus who assisted the College with its fund-raising activities over many years, and "whose love of family was his greatest joy," died on April 5, 2007, at his home in Salem, in his 92nd year. In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter and son from his first marriage, Susan Kiedio and Edward P. Jones III, and three grandsons and 11 great-grandchildren.
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Robert U. Hayes, Jr. '39
Robert U. Hayes, Jr. '39, who retired after more than 40 years as a banker,was born on September 4, 1917, in Syracuse, NY. The elder son of Robert U., Class of 1905, president of the family founded Hayes National Bank in Clinton, and Elise Millard Hayes, he was a nephew of Earl W. Anibal '08.
He grew up in Clinton and came up the Hill in 1934 as a graduate of Clinton High School. He joined his father's fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and demonstrated his athletic prowess in the hockey rink and on the soccer field, lettering in both sports. A "demon on the ice" as a wingman, he captained Hamilton's hockey team in his senior year.
After receiving his B.S. degree in 1939, Bob Hayes began his long commercial banking career at the Oneida National Bank & Trust Co. in nearby Utica. He was with the bank when, on May 17, 1941, he and Virginia Y. Eckert were married in that city. By December, however, Bob Hayes was in uniform, having enlisted in the U.S. Army the month Pearl Harbor was attacked. Commissioned as an officer in the Quartermaster Corps, he was sent overseas to Northern Ireland and then England. Assigned to the Mediterranean theater in 1942 and promoted to first lieutenant, he served in North Africa, Corsica, and Italy, principally as a company commander in an air service group.
Bob Hayes left the Army Air Forces as a major in late 1945, after World War II's end, and returned to the Oneida Bank, where he became assistant vice president. In 1957, he accepted an assistant vice presidency at the Hanover Bank (later Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.) in New York City and relocated to Darien, CT. Six years later, he joined the Berkshire Bank & Trust Co. in Pittsfield, MA, as executive vice president.
His final career move, in 1965, was to the Albany, NY, area, where he became administrative vice president in charge of the trust division of the National Commercial Bank and Trust Co. He was promoted to executive vice president in charge of the bank's marketing division in 1972.
For the last eight years until his retirement as senior vice president in 1982, he was with the bank's parent company, Key Corp., as an advance man engaged in solicitations and negotiations in connection with bank acquisitions as part of Key Corp.'s tremendous expansion at that time.During his career, he also completed graduate programs in banking and management at Rutgers and Northwestern universities.
Bob Hayes was active over the years in numerous community endeavors on behalf of charitable organizations in the Albany area, and, as an avid golfer, was a member of local country clubs. He also served on several boards, including the Oystermen's Bank on Long Island and his family's Hayes Bank (now NBT Bank) in Clinton, as well as Five Rivers Limited, a citizens' environmental support group.
A devoted Hamilton alumnus and great admirer of his old hockey coach, Albert I. Prettyman, he took a particular interest in the Continentals' athletic fortunes and chaired the athletic committee while a member of the Alumni Council. During the 1950s he also served as the Council's athletic advisor.
Besides golf, Bob Hayes' enjoyed downhill and crosscountry skiing, and continued even in his later years to put on his ice skates occasionally. The official "yard man" around the suburban Albany homes where he lived at various times, he also enjoyed getting away to Florida. Wherever he happened to be, however, he maintained his posture of "being too light for heavy work and too heavy for lightwork."
Robert U. Hayes, Jr., who last resided in Slingerlands, died on April 2, 2007, while hospitalized in Albany, in his 90th year. Predeceased by his wife in 1999, he is survived by a son. Peter E. Hayes; two daughters, Barbara Muhlfelder and Nancy (Nikki) Vierne; three grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren; and his brother, Gordon M.Hayes '41.
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Joseph Alleyne Kelly '38
Joseph Alleyne Kelly '38, a former journalist who specialized in sports writing, was born on November 19, 1914, in Plattsburg, NY. His parents were the Rev. John B. Kelly, a Presbyterian minister, and the former Mary G. Smith. Joe Kelly, having been graduated from Pembroke Preparatory School in Kansas City,MO, came to Hamilton in 1933 from Emporia, KS, where his father was then president of the College of Emporia. However, after a brief time on the Hill, he returned to Emporia and took courses for two years at his father's college. In 1936, he came back to Hamilton and resumed his studies.
A member of Psi Upsilon, he also played varsity baseball and intramural sports, and received his initial introduction to journalism by contributing items to the College's news bureau. By the time he received his B.S. degree in 1939, he had already embarked upon his journalistic career back in Kansas as a reporter for William Allen
White's famed Emporia Gazette. In 1939, Joe Kelly moved on to Washington, DC, where he became a copy boy and cub reporter for the Evening Star.
In 1941, after a year as a reporter for the Watertown, NY, Daily Times, he enlisted in the U.S.Army. On March 11, 1942, in Washington, DC, he was wed to Mary R.Williams. Assigned to intelligence"as a result of my Hamilton training," he was commissioned as an officer and sent to New Guinea in 1943. He served with Army Air Corps units in the Pacific theater for two years, participating in the invasion of the Philippines and the occupation of Japan following World War II.
Discharged from the Army Air Forces in early 1946 as a first lieutenant, Joe Kelly briefly returned to New York's North Country and his job at the Watertown Times. In 1947, however, he settled permanently in Texas, after a childhood and early adulthood of constant moving as a result of his father's various church postings followed by his own military assignments. In Texas, he became sports writer and editor for the Avalanche-Journal in Lubbock, a position he retained for 16 years until 1963. Best known for his sports column "Between the Lines," he laterre called those years as "the most satisfactory period of my life."
In 1965, after a series of posts including correspondent for the Dallas Times-Herald, reporter on Texas basketball for United Press International, and radio news director, Joe Kelly was appointed executive director of the Lubbock Community Action Board. In 1973, he became district sales manager for the National Federation of Independent Business, a position he held until his retirement in 1982.
Through the years, he was highly active in sports organizations, particularly the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association. In addition, he was a former director of the Lubbock Amateur Athletic Association and the Texas Sports Writers Association. Within the community, Joe Kelly was highly active as well, serving as "tail twister"and newsletter publisher for the Lubbock Lions Club, auxiliary board member of the Methodist Hospital, and chairman of the local chapter of SCORE.
He was also a deacon and elder of the Westminster Presbyterian Church. On vacation, he often transported his boat 2,000 miles to deep in the woods near Saranac Lake, NY, where he delighted in fishing for bass and trout.An ever faithful alumnus and reunion attendee (his 60th was made notable by a hip fracture he sustained while on the Hill), he also assisted the College with its fund-raising efforts.
Joseph A. Kelly was still residing in Lubbock when he died on March 31, 2007, at the age of 92. Predeceased by his wife of 64 years in 2006, he is survived by a daughter, Frances Baker; two sons, Joseph A., Jr., and John B. Kelly III; and six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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Frank Martin Hoppe '39
Frank Martin Hoppe '39, a retired district sales manager,was born on November 11, 1916, to Otto W., also a business manager, and Anna Kosbab Hoppe, in Syracuse, NY. Frank Hoppe grew up in Syracuse,where he was graduated from North High School. He came to the College in 1936, joined the Squires Club, and participated in a variety of sports. He also played trumpet in the College Band and helped create a different kind of music as a Chapel bell ringer.
Awarded his B.S. degree in 1939, Frank Hoppe worked for a time in a chemical laboratory. However, in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he signed up for military service with the U.S.Army. Assigned to an armored division and later the Army Air Corps, he completed both Officer Candidate School and Intelligence School before being posted overseas. Released at the end of 1945, after World War II's end, as an Air Force captain, he had concluded his active service as a public relations officer for a medium bomber group in the European theater.
In 1947, Frank Hoppe went to work as a sales representative for J.I.Case Co., manufacturers of farm equipment. Transferred to its western New York territory, he, with his wife, the former Florence E. Derby, whom he had wed on May 3,1947, in Greensburg, PA, established their home in East Aurora. In 1953, he joined the sales division of Wagner Electric Corp., a leading manufacturer of automotive parts, with headquarters in Buffalo. His work required extensive travel throughout upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania.
Frank Hoppe was a district sales manager for Wagner when, in 1967, he and his family relocated to Cherry Hill, NJ, where the Hoppes built their second home in what was then a farming area just outside of town. There, Frank enjoyed gardening and was especially proud of his orchard. With Philadelphia just across the Delaware River from Cherry Hill, he and Florence also had the opportunity to enjoy the music and theater offerings of that city.
Frank Hoppe retired from Wagner in 1982, giving Florence and him increased occasion to indulge their love of travel.Their trips took them through much of the world, from Europe and the Soviet Union to North Africa and South America, and across the Pacific to China.
Frank M.Hoppe, a devoted alumnus who once credited Hamilton Professor Willard B. Marsh with shaping "much of my success in the business world," died on December 16, 2006, at the age of 90. In addition to his wife of 59 years, he is survived by a son, David D. Hoppe; a daughter, Lynn Kaminski; and two grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.
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Douglas Barton Stevens '39
Douglas Barton Stevens '39, who for 40 years practiced surgery at the University Medical Center in Princeton, NJ, was born on November 24, 1916, in Cortland, NY. His parents were Edmund H. Stevens, an insurance agent, and the former Norma V. LaBarre. Barton Stevens, also known as "Bart," grew up in Syracuse, NY, where he was graduated from Nottingham High School.
He entered Hamilton in 1935, joined Psi Upsilon, and tried his hand at fencing. Active in the German Club, he also sang for four years in Professor Paul Fancher's Choir, taking trips by train to New York City to be heard on Alexander Woollcott's and Rudy Vallee's radio shows. Inspired on the Hill by Professor of Biology Earl Butcher to contemplate a career inmedicine, he entered Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons following his graduation in 1939.
After receiving his M.D. degree in 1943 and a brief internship at Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, Bart Stevens went off to war in early 1944 as an ensign with the U.S.Navy Medical Corps. Promoted to lieutenant, he was assigned to oversees duty as a surgeon aboard naval vessels, including the light cruiser Providence.
While on an LST delivering troops and materiel to the shore, he participated in the Normandy invasion and medically treated the wounded as they were evacuated from the beaches. In 1946, after World War II's end, Dr. Stevens returned to Presbyterian Hospital and completed his surgical training.
Appointed as an associate attending surgeon at Princeton's Medical Center in 1951, he remained on its staff until his retirement decades later.Chief of general surgery at the Center from 1972 to 1981, he also held academic appointments, including instructor in surgery at Columbia University (1951-65) and later for many years clinical assistant and associate professor of surgery at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. After he retired from the operating room, he continued to be professionally active, attending clinics,doing medical-legal consulting, and giving occasional lectures to medical students,until the age of 82.
In his younger years Barton Stevens enjoyed flying light airplanes as an instrument-rated pilot.Other interests encompassed sports cars,motorcycles, scuba diving, and even dog training. His favorite pastimes in retirement were fly-fishing for trout (he tied his own flies) and gardening, as well as "general puttering around plus a little travel."
With his wife, the former Joan Pettitt Fortune, whom he had married in 1972, he often vacationed in the Southwest, where they acquired a modest collection of Indian art, such as Navajo rugs and Pueblo pottery.While there,Dr.Stevens also worked for the Indian Health Service. Ever intellectually curious, inventive of mind (he devised the Stevens pediatric retractor), and with an almost poetic way with words,he continued to reside in Princeton until the end of his life at age 90.
D. Barton Stevens, a faithful alumnus, died in Princeton on April 24, 2007. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons and a daughter,Douglas B., Jr., Peter G., and Meredith C. Stevens, born of his first marriage, in 1943, to Mary-Louise Crowell, which ended in divorce in 1969. Also surviving are three stepchildren and eight grandchildren.
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Is 'Catfish' Catfishing America?
The first rule of the Internet: Don't believe everything you read/hear/see. Case in point: the perma-confusing tale of Manti Te'o and his fake Internet girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, a.k.a. Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. If that tale taught us anything, it's that there's a tangled web living deep within the World Wide one.
And MTV has stepped into that web for the network's newest reality phenomenon, Catfish. But the series is not quite as simple as the show's intro may have you believe. Airing its finale Monday night, the series revolves around Internet romances never realized IRL ("in real life" for all you n00bs out there), where one — or sometimes both — of the participants are not being honest about themselves.
The idea for the show is brilliant: telling the story of these online deceptions sheds new light on the ever-changing world of interpersonal relationships in the digital age. The network uses these stories of people meeting online under a guise of dishonesty (often using fake Facebook profiles) called catfishing — a term made famous thanks to host Nev Schulman's breakout 2010 documentary, Catfish. (In the context of the show, to "catfish" means to "hook" someone through a series of online deceptions.) Alongside his friend and filmmaker Max Joseph, Schulman sets out weekly to unite two people in online relationships who might not be telling the truth about their identity. But the lens though which the show views these people's lives may not be exactly truthful itself.
"You know how they said that [the catfishee] had reached out to them?" a cast member from the series (whom we spoke to anonymously to protect their relationship with MTV) tells Hollywood.com. "I don't know why they put that in there because it's not even true. It was actually me that reached out to them."
Another cast member (this time a catfishee), felt betrayed by an episode and put it plainly: "Really, I'm just frustrated that people don't know the whole story."
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So what is the whole story? MTV's version plays out like this: Two individuals involved in an online, romantic relationship meet. The show chronicles the discovery of who the catfisher is in real life. The story is always told from the point-of-view of an innocent catfishee unsure about the authenticity of the person behind the screen. Each episode starts with an email from the catfishee to Schulman, followed by the story of the relationship, an uncovering of truths, and the inevitable in-person meet-up.
Seems straight-forward, but as Catfish has taught us, not everything is as it seems.
Speaking with local news outlet WHAM ABC, catfishee Joe Sumeriski of Warsaw, New York corroborated a story many cast members have claimed: that he does not know how MTV and Catfish became aware of his Internet relationship. "They just called me out of the blue," he explained. Sumeriski was right — Hollywood.com has confirmed his catfisher, Rose, was the one who contacted MTV. RELATED: Why Catfish is MTV's New Jersey Shore (Thanks to Manti Te'o) In fact, after speaking with six of the stars of this season (covering six episodes of the series), we found that in every instance except one, the catfisher — not the catfishee, as the series claims — has been the one to contact MTV first. Either via a casting call, Craigslist post, or a mention on the MTV website itself, the catfisher has consistently been the one to initiate the process. One catfishee from the South says she and her catfisher hadn't had contact for "a couple months" — until Catfish's producers showed interest. "We dropped off [talking] for a couple months and then we got it started again … when someone reached out to MTV about me and [the catfisher's online identity] talking," she says. "[MTV producers] hit me up, but I didn't reach out to them because I didn't know anything about a new show." Of course, it's natural to expect some editing changes in any reality series. The Hills, Real Housewives, Jersey Shore — reality series are so dependent on scripting drama, audiences no longer accept TV's reality as reality anymore. But Catfish, with its documentary background and style, seemed different. "If it is true that the scenarios on Catfish are fabricated, then it definitely would take the enjoyment out of watching the show," says Galen Criscione of Brooklyn, New York. In fact, Criscione admits that he "wouldn't watch it anymore" and that he "would feel kind of like the people portrayed on the show — fooled." There are, of course, truthful elements to the show. Every Catfish subject told us the series' hosts, Schulman and Joseph, are indeed kept in the dark about the true identities of the catfishers. Their Internet research into these people's lives are, apparently, all authentic. But the crux on which the show is balanced — the initial contact between Schulman and the catfisher — is in fact a fabrication. Everyone involved has already agreed to an in-person meet up before production begins. Naturally, this complicates how viewers watch the show. If the two parties have long agreed to meet in person, Schulman's random selection of a catfishee by scrolling through his email no longer seems random. And his dramatic phone call to the catfisher suddenly isn't so dramatic. Is the catfisher genuinely surprised when Schulman requests a meet-up on-camera? "Not really," says one catfisher. "Because they told me they were going to do it before they actually did it." But there are more discrepancies. Several cast members say the timing of their stories were off, with one claiming the show represented her relationship as lasting one month, when she was really communicating with her online love interest for three months at the time of filming. And two interview subjects denied their relationships were ever romantic at all. One cast member says she set up a profile to punish a catfishee for a past disagreement and only claimed to be interested in him to save face after yelling at him on camera. (Those scenes, she claims, hit the cutting room floor.) "The only reason why I said that I had feelings for him was because I knew I had put him on blast twice already [on camera], so I didn't want to come across as a b***h," she says. And another female catfisher says she knew her catfishee was not interested in a relationship with a woman, despite the fact that the series portrayed the duo as a couple with romantic interests. According to the cast member, she always knew her co-star "to be gay," but that once "the show started, he got scared and backtracked," resulting in an all-too-confusing conclusion of events that raised more questions than answers. (MTV — where I was an employee from November 2008 until May 2011 — declined to comment for this piece.)
Everyone knows that real life is far more complicated than the smooth, glossy lines created by entertainment mediums. And for the most part, that necessity can be forgiven — it's the nature of the beast. But sometimes, what gets left on the cutting room floor can change the entire tone, nature, and experience of a show for the viewer. Obviously, the production needs to cover itself — getting cast members to sign contracts to agree to be on camera is not always a quick and easy task. But does it take away from the tension and suspense built up around the will they/won't they factor of the inevitable meet-ups? Or is it all just part of the necessary evils of TV production? "Manufacturing a storyline is a disappointing reality of where reality TV has headed, unfortunately," MTV alum, and Road Rules: Campus Crawl participant Sarah Greyson, says. That said, "story editors can only be as truthful to a story as the people they're attempting to represent. So many people watch reality shows now. They manufacture their personalities in ways that might deem them 'castable.'" Many fans of the show are naturally suspicious. One Catfish viewer, Rachel Turnpaugh of Memphis, Tenn., enjoys the show but has always been skeptical of its origins. "It's more or less obvious that it's just baiting," she says. "It always ends up being the worst-case scenario anyway." But would Turnpaugh still watch the series knowing there are editing changes? "Absolutely." RELATED: MTV's 'Catfish' TV Show Succeeds Where The Film Failed Even though the Internet has taught us — and reality TV has proven — that not all is as it seems, viewers can still enjoy even the most unreal aspects of reality television. After all, we've become a smarter and more skeptical audience since the genre reared its head in the early 1990s. Greyson says those watching reality television from home should expect to see an alternate version of reality. "Everyone has experiences that force them to understand that everything isn't always as it seems," she says. "That's reality television in a nutshell, and everyone who hasn't been living under a rock for the past 20 years understands that's what they've signed up for." Speaking at the August 2012 Television Critics Association event, Schulman told attendees that "whether or not two people are totally lying to each other and it turns out to be a huge disaster, that's only the first part of the story." Instead, there are more interesting sides to every story, perhaps enough to forgive the series for any necessary editing fabrications: "We then want to know why they are doing it, who they are, what they are feeling, what led them to this place, and why that resonates with thousands of other young people who have the same feelings, who don't have someone to talk to or don't know how to express themselves." Still, does MTV have a responsibility to air that whole truth?
One catfishee says the cast member who catfished him is now reciving a lot of "hate mail" from fans online after the series failed to dive into the catfisher's true psychological justification for creating a fake profile. If MTV told "the whole story" by including unaired discussions about the catfisher's background, viewers would be more sympathetic. "A lot of our conversation would've shown that she had an excuse; she had reasons why she did this," the catfishee tells us. "And it hurts me that people call [the catfisher] names and don't understand the reasons. She had reasons. [The catfisher]'s had a tough life." Dr. Tamyra Pierce, a professor and Director of Social Media and Integrated Marketing at California State University in Fresno, says misrepresentation of the facts could easily lead to cyberbullying, especially when Catfish's subjects are emotionally and psychologically vulnerable enough to set up a fake profile in the first place. "How are they going to take it when things aren't portrayed the right way?" she says. "I would use a lot of caution." But several catfishers from the show hope that their own experiences will give other young adults the confidence to just live and exist as they are, as the vast majority of them cite real-life insecurities and bullying as a reason they turned to online relationships — to fill a void. And perhaps this show's greater message is one of trying to be more authentic. Hey — it seems to be working for MTV, at least. After a decade of highly-scripted reality programming such as The Hills or even Jersey Shore, most welcome Catfish as a welcome change, heading in the right direction. "I think it's the most authentic thing MTV's had out in a long time," says Greyson, and it seems many fans agree. Cory Hutzell from Seattle, Wash., explained that he doesn't "watch it to see love or happiness. I like watching it to see why someone would lie for years and the reaction of the people when they meet." But the question remains: Is it MTV's responsibility to tell the stories as they are, or to tell an entertaining story that fits into 44 minutes of television? Only time will tell. Or perhaps, its second season. [Photo Credit: Facebook; iStockphoto (3)] Follow Alicia on Twitter @alicialutes From Our Partners: Kate Upton Bares All in Nothing But Body Paint: Video (Celebuzz) Bradley Cooper Dancing Is Surprisingly Awkward, Sweaty (Vh1)


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August 1955 | Volume 6, Issue 5
(This continues Mr. Bryson's recollections.)
After I had been in New York about a year—I think it was about 1935—George Denny of the Town Hall got the idea of the Town Meeting of the Air . It was a great forward step in radio. Every other proposal for free-for-all political discussion on radio had been met with jeers by the powers that be—it wasn't safe, it couldn't be done, and so on.
I remember the first broadcast. I went down. There was no clear issue. The thing was a series of interesting political speeches, but it wasn't a very good broadcast.
After one or two of these Denny called me up and asked me to have lunch with him and talk over the Town Meeting of the Air . He said he was discontented because the questioning was too inert and nothing much happened when the speeches were over. His whole idea was that there should be a real open forum of the air.
He said, "Well, now this is your business, what would you do to make the questioning, the discussion by the crowd more lively when the thing's over?"
I said, "My suggestion is that you hold a preliminary meeting before the broadcast, in which you get the audience whipped up and excited about the issues, not about the personalities, so that when the radio people come on and the thing begins to be broadcast, you have an audience that already has seen a number of issues and has already expressed some of these opinions and is in a sense a little bit warmed up on the subject."
He said, "Let's try."
So the preliminary meetings of the Town Meeting of the Air , which for several years, as you know, were quite an important aspect of the Town Meeting , were launched that way. We timed it so that I practically stepped to one side of the podium at the conclusion of the open discussion and Denny stepped in from the other side and went on the air so that the largest possible amount of psychological pressure would be maintained. Of course the speakers of the evening practically always listened and watched from a box and came into an already dramatic situation. In those days they used to have a brass band and a big cast of super-duper characters, the bell ringer and everything else.
I'll tell you one thing that nobody will ever know who hasn't tried it: how easy it is to start a discussion if you follow a brass band. You've just got everything your way. They are the easiest discussions that anybody ever started.
While I was serving for about two years, as I say, in this capacity as leader of this preliminary meeting, I occasionally took over for George Denny as moderator of the Town Meeting of the Air —at times, for example, when he wanted to go on vacation. I learned in doing it a great deal about how discussions can be carried on with very large groups of people, because generally my discussion group was about 1500 and I always laugh at people who say that you can't have discussion if you've got more than six people! You can only have certain kinds of discussion in a particular kind of group, but you can always get some kind of ad-lib and actually free exchange of opinion when you want to, no matter how big the crowd, if you can be heard.
[ In 1938, Mr. Bryson became a kind of adviser on educational matters to CBS and involved in starting a new panel program , The People's Platform.]
I became the moderator and this was my radio job for eight years.
We carried on our discussions at a dinner table. We actually had dinner, and Mr. Paley opened his own dining room there in the building and put his own domestic staff on. I think this isn't as well-known to the general public as it might be. Like so many other people who head big corporations in New York, he had his own dining room right in his office building. We always had a good dinner. We had a rule that we would serve no alcohol until after the dinner and the broadcast were over. We put the microphones in the flowers, but we didn't attempt to conceal them because we soon found out that when we did try to conceal them the people spent all their time trying to locate them. So we'd say, "The microphones are right there, now forget them." The idea was that this should be a dinner table conversation carried over on the air and that the people discussing it would not know when they went on the air. There's no control room anywhere near the dining room—it's on the other side of the building—and I had a little electric light under the tablecloth which enabled me to know when we were on the air. When the light flickered, that told me we were going on the air; when we were on, it was on. I also had an earphone if I actually had to communicate with the engineer, and I often did, because I could talk in the mike and they could talk to me by the earphones.