text: Newly minted hams like me generally find themselves asking, "What now?" after getting their tickets. Amateur radio has a lot of different sub-disciplines, ranging from volunteering for public service gigs to contesting, the closest thing the hobby has to a full-contact sport. But as I explore my options in the world of ham radio, I keep coming back to the one discipline that seems like the purest technical expression of the art and science of radio communication – low-power operation, or what's known to hams as QRP. With QRP you can literally talk with someone across the planet on less power than it takes to run a night-light using a radio you built in an Altoids tin. Now that's a challenge I can sink my teeth into.


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Welcome to the Gunfighters of the American West wiki page!
On this page, we'll be brainstorming about how the gunfighters can be involved at the American West Heritage Center throughout 2007. This is an idea page, so feel free to join the site (see the link at left) and add your two bits.
The Gunfighters have been a fun and vital part of the American West Heritage Center for many years. They include not only gun-wielding men and women, but also frontier townsfolk, tradesmen, and other folks often associated with the Old West. In the past, they have joined us at festivals and have done skits and gunfights for the enjoyment of all. Sometimes, they have been involved with reenactment as cowboys, townsfolk in a frontier town, and other appropriate venues.
Fun and safety are the overriding concerns for the Gunfighters. If you are a gunfighter and you carry a gun, you must abide by Gunfighter rules and by rules at the American West Heritage Center. Rules will be posted soon for the safety and enjoyment of all. For starters, however, no live rounds are allowed at the Heritage Center—only blanks.
Goals and Plans for 2007
Here are some goals and plans for the coming year:
- The AWHC may like to have gunfighters as special guests once a week. This is still in planning and undecided whether or not we'll actually do this, but we might do it this year. We only need two at a time or so, but if we all took turns, we can do this. Bus tours come on Wednesday afternoons at around 3:00, so 3:30 - 4:30 would be good times. To sign up, just put your name below or contact David Sidwell: dsidwell (at) awhc (dot) com or (435) 764-2006. As of early January, we're still not sure whether or not we will be doing this in 2007; we may have to wait a while, perhaps 2008)
- There are also a few dates in which the gunfighters are the Special Guest Artists during our Daily Adventures summer programming (dates will be announced soon). You'll have an hour or two in the afternoon to do some skits and act as interpreters for the gunfighter site.
- Oh yeah, we need to start planning a frontier town site, to be built in the next year or two. We'll need volunteers to help put this up. We have lots of lumber, so all we really need are warm bodies who can wield a hammer.
- As cast members for the Heritage Center, the Gunfighters' main goal is to interpret history: to let folks know in a fun and engaging way about the people and practices of the late 19th century. Skits are one means to this, but we also want some "scripts" that help visitors explore the dozen or so main points about gunfighters. Our current thought is to explore how the gunfighter of Hollywood was created, and contrast that version with the real thing from the past. The Old West is a mythic place like no other, and it all centers around gunfighters and cowboys. How did the myth get started? How did it progress? As a society, we perpetuate this myth even today; why? Why is it important? These are the kinds of questions that we see great value in exploring at the Heritage Center.
- As part of the activities at the Gunfighter site at the Heritage Center, some ideas are to #
- manage BB-gun shooting for visitors
- interpret the past by discussion and demonstration
- have quick draw competitions
- do cowboy stuff
- have interactive skits that allow some audience members to participate
- One thing we really need to do is create new scripts that have only two to four cast members. This will allow us great flexibility.
- If prepared, the Gunfighters can do shows, and get paid, at Big Horse Adventures. Performers there usually get $10/night.
- Gunfighters are all invited to be part of the Rendezvous Creek Players, a performance troupe that will perform for Big Horse Adventures and at special events. They did a wonderful performance of Romeo and Juliet wild west style in 2006 and hope to do the more violent Wild West Shakespeare: Macbeth in 2007—BUT THEY NEED CAST MEMBERS! So please audition. Auditions will be held in March.
- We would love it if some gunfighters who were adept at history could join us some afternoons for our History meets Hollywood. We're showing shows like Gunsmoke and The Wild Wild West and giving running commentary about the historical accuracy of the shows.
Special Events
- We'll be having a Spring Gunfighters Pot Luck on February 10 at 6 pm. It will be a fun meeting for us all, and we hope to recruit new gunfighters for the cause.
- Don't forget the Intermountain Living History/Re-enactors Conference on Mar. 9-10. This is a family event and fun for all. The Heritage Center, This Is The Place and the Oregon Trail Center are teaming up to make it happen. It will be held at This Is The Place Heritage Park.
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History - english version
Hockey club HC Čeští Letci was founded in Nová Paka and its name would refer to a legacy of not only local but all Czech military pilots , their courage and bravery . Club logo remarkably resembles the logo of the Philadelphia Flyers. The Club which I support from youth. The similarity is not accidental but the three wings in our Club logo symbolize three RAF pilots from Nová Paka: Otakar Hrubý, Stanislav Fejfar, Adolf Vrána . Orange-white-black circle refers to a sign located on allied aircrafts in the 2nd World War.
The first meeting in order to show the intention of "founding a new Club" took place in Ježkův statek in 19.12.2010 in Nová Paka with the participation of Petr Čepek, Martin Kohút, Pavel Kohút a Michal Tlapák. At the beginning of the year 2011, the application has been made establishing civic associations on HO with the subsequent approval at 31. January 2011. Civic association HC Čeští Letci was founded by - Petr Čepek, Martin Kohút, Michal Tlapák a Petr Bílek.
After approval of the civic association
comes designing the first jersey. Jersey bore the
name of Tomáš Syrůček from Hradec Králové with number "77"
. After detailed consideration the sign Čeští Letci placed above
the team logo was removed and for the final version to be placed
below the number on the back of the jersey. Martin Kohout arranged
fabrication of
"Little logo" with a symbol of an aircraft and sign HC Czech Airmen which is then placed on the right side of the large logo.
A test website was launched under webnode.cz in January 2011 and an order for creating profesional website from FY eSports was placed in February. This website was launched on the 16th September 2011.
The first meeting of players took place on 21 May 2011 at 14:00 in the restaurant at Zimák in Lomnice n.Popelkou . During the meeting were present players were introduced to the functioning of the club and its technical background. Players were photographed already in their own jerseys.
17th September 2011 on the hockey stadium in Lomnice nad Popelkou an initial training took place where Letci gathered in almost a complete line-up.
V sobotu 2. dubna 2016 na závěrečném večeru pořádaném v Novopackých Sklepích trenér Českých Letců Jaroslav Kozák předal týmu...
Těpeře vyhrály oba semifinálové zápasy – 4:1 a 6:1. Přestože výsledek druhého zápasu vypadá jednoznačně, tak Letci přes polovinu...
Do prvního zápasu semifinálové série druhého (Těpeře) se třetím (Letci) týmem LHL vstoupili Letci v té nejlepší možné sestavě a...
HC Čeští Letci - Sokol Těpeře
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HC Čeští Letci - Sokol Těpeře
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Ahoy me Mateys!
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BRAVO to you on this brilliantly bright card! Your coloring and the layout choice is just marvelous! Thank You for the inspiration! :) xoReplyDelete
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What are Groups?
Tags: groups
I think the groups feature has an identity crisis. It's not sure what it wants to be - an area where like-minded people can discuss similar interests or an attempt at topic categorization. I think that groups are trying to be two separate things which makes the implementation and usability a bit awkward.
If groups are truly a place for special interests than they should be treated as such and not mixed in with the other general conversations. General conversations are getting buried even faster now since the groups feature has been introduced. As such, I'm seeing more and more messages that don't apply to me. I think it's great that people can connect like this but it's current implementation is creating more noise (purely subjective here) for me to navigate around.
Also, some groups are really analogous to a sub-forum, an attempt to categorize certain conversations. It seems weird to me that I have to "join" these groups to post in them. Again, it adds more noise for me.
My suggestions:
- Do not mix group conversations with the rest of the general conversations. Perhaps have a separate list on the same conversations page allowing the user to see all group conversations or just those that apply to them.
- Have a search feature to find the groups that interest you as well as a better way to navigate the current groups. This becomes even more important as more groups are added and the possibility of duplicated groups increases.
I'm not really sure how to distinguish between groups and groups that act like sub-forums. My fear is that more of these sub-forum groups will be created but without a proper UI to navigate through them, it will become a mess.
I understand that the groups feature is still new and can definitely see people getting value out of them but I'm concerned about what things will look like as more groups are created.
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taking Ms. MacKenzie's class for accent reduction, my colleagues noticed that I could speak English more clearly.
This is very important because I make regular presentations to team members and management. Her teaching skills were so good
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It's been six days of virtual silence. I've had 2 phone conversations, minor texting and emailing and yelled at/loved on Puppy.
Of course, it's been six days of inner FIELD DAY. Like when you started Kindergarten and went to school all year, secretly thinking it was cool but knowing that you shouldn't say so, and then at the end of the year comes a certain day: Field Day. Where classes are cut and sleeves are rolled up and everybody laughs and it's like you're a family together, playing games in the sun. I have an apparent playground full of little children, older siblings, parental chaperons, teachers and friends all doing red three-leg sack race rover in my head. And even, a couple kids far off just past the tire swing near the creek talking alone.
So, it's been just me. The first day I did the west side of the road down the mountain to the River House: treacherous. Hawk and land-fill country. The next day I did the east side of the road: lovely. Mushroom and frog country. Today I did the creek on the east side of the road. The one the deer sprung from, but hitting it much further up. Turns out, it is the main creek which feeds the Gasconade. Almighty Gaagle search engine map function informs me that the creek is unlisted, which means I get to name it.
It's an important creek, it's the creek where I'm going to build The Aerie!
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Mindless Wandering
I dropped the farm Blazer off at the Workshop and went back up the cow pasture towards the dream house from the other end of the field. I just only roughly believe their might be an easier way through, but there isn't. Instead I'd like to introduce you to the 5 billion tiny rose thorn cuts across my calves. You know those $70 fancy waterproof open shoes you bought? You were had.
It's ok. We've already learned to live with broken shoes. So I'm thinking about how Mindless Wandering means you gotta trample a lot of things. I'm mowing down who knows who's family estates. I mean it could be some kind of super-bad-bugs-club kind of mansion down there, forget those seeds, sorry flower. Just smashing through, and puppy is worse, he's like at least 15 horse power of stamping around breaking little plants and bug-biting energy.
And it wasn't so different when I left the city. I was on a real roll, you know when nothing can keep the pen down? When you have a sudden dam-burst infinity of tiny and immense things to say and you don't even worry about what happens in the wash? The delta is such a long way off. But then I became aware of leaving. This altered things. So I partied, and really found the best of them, you know? The best of what any little burrough like mine can offer: they offered the kid of the housekeeper, really smart and bright but someone nobody pays attention to. And everybody was still Mindless Wandering. But instead of smashing the dark purpleflowers and the cattails, the rosebushes and the what-i-call-missouri-cactusses (made ya laugh), we were all smashing each other.
Not intentionally, of course. HOW GAUCHE. But people who called themselves family were just throwing a real hollywood right hook into each other's faces. I wanted to call a time-out, but I wasn't no umpire or coach. And now I might as well be an epoch away from all that.
So I made my way from the Cow Pasture, down the Easy Path, past the Selfie Statue Meadow with the Sitting Tree and I took that right I skipped the day before. Now we're in the creek.
Oh Annie! I'm been chasing you my whole damn life! Ms. Dillard, you are now with me and I've read your book. It didn't say one damn word about ticks! You filthy liar, making Nature seem tranquil and if you're calm they're calm, as if you don't carry the parasitic echoes of every relationship back with you wherever you go. Everything has its price. As you say, my numberoneprimo lady, "Nothing is lost, and everything is spent."
It's decades cooler in the creek. The sun and the world take on an instantly calmer air.


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Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, is Bali's most notorious jail. With the murderous Widoto regime of Indonesian executing another group of foreigners for alleged trafficking, while the Indonesians who sold them the drugs are not so much as charged, the rank corruption of Indonesia's notoriously dishonest justice system has been exposed for all to see. Widoto's decision to ignore international outcry over the executions has plummeted his country's reputation to new lows. Billions of dollars in foreign aid flow to Indonesia each to prop up this appalling regime. It is a clear abuse of international taxpayers resources and should be stopped. In Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali's Most Notorious Jail, acclaimed Australian journalist Kathryn Bonella exposes the inside of hell, Indonesia's barbaric penal system.
An Indonesian court recently rejected the final appeals for clemency for a group of foreigners facing the death penalty for drug charges, attracting worldwide condemnation. The Indonesians didn't care. The foreigners were perfect fodder for one of the largest and most expensively orchestrated jihad spectacles the world has ever seen. Snowing in Bali lays bare just how common drugs have been in Bali for decades, and how closely allied with the trade are the Indonesian elites. Indonesia's President Wododo faced a storm of international criticism for refusing to grant clemency; and was entirely indifferent. In the world's largest Muslim country, a religious grouping incensed worldwide by the conduct of Westerners in the Middle East, the killing of foreigners is not something that on the face of it caused any distress to the locals. Amongst others, Australian taxpayers contribute almost a billion dollars in foreign aid to Indonesia each year, but the President did not even bothered to take the Australian Prime Minister's calls. The Indonesian justice system is notoriously corrupt; and has now been laid bare for the world to see. Those who sold the drugs to the foreigners were never charged. The police who took their usual bribes were never charged. And Indonesia got exactly the jihad spectacle it wanted.
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12.03.08: Charlie's first birthday
Dear Charlie,
Today is your birthday. Your first birthday. It probably feels like any other day to you, but trust me when I say that this is a big deal. For me, it's the happy/sad end-of-an-era, a day that I will surely spend in the fog of my own wistful nostalgia.
The weather prediction for the entire week is snow. Just like last year—when we told Julia that you would come with the snow. To think that a year ago today, we were gazing into your sweet face for the very first time. You were lying warm and wet against my chest, with your squished-in chin and your shiny wet black hair. My first thought was: "Beautiful." Little did we know how your cheeks would fill out into these soft, warm, kissable chunks of dough; how your otherworldly eyes would soon sparkle clearer and bluer than the bluest sky; how your silky black hair would turn into a golden ring of curls around your head. What I did know then—what I have known from even before I ever laid eyes on you—is how much I love you.
It feels like just yesterday. Just yesterday when Julia and I picked out her "I'm a Big Sister" T-shirt to surprise Daddy with the news of you—the best surprise of my life. Just yesterday when you were waving to us on the ultrasound screen, when we found out that you were a boy—a Boy! Just yesterday, when Daddy was driving me to the hospital, and I was clutching my big belly and begging him to slow down over the bumps in the road. Just yesterday, when your foot was the length of my pinky.
You're such a person now. You're standing in the middle of the room in your corduroy overalls, holding your hands up in the air in a "Look ma, no hands!" kind of way before flopping down onto your diapered bottom. You're crawling to the top of the stairs—so fast!—where you sit and clap proudly for yourself. Now, you hold your toys out to us and ask "Ahhh? Ahhh?" and offer your paci to complete strangers. When you hear music, you nod your head and shake your shoulders and wiggle your bottom with this happy, goofy grin on your face. (You've obviously inherited your father's dance moves.) Sometimes you lean your head against my chest and just leave it there. When I hold you in my lap, you babble so softly in the sweetest baby voice, I wish I could bottle it and uncork it years from now on a day when you're grown and off on your own.
Tonight, we'll have cake, and sing Happy Birthday, and let you tear into your first birthday present, knowing that all you'll really care about is the wrapping paper and the box. I will stand by and clap and sing and make a wish for your future as Jujie helps you blow out your candle. And I will try to ignore the tightening in my chest.
Wendy tells me that every birthday is a wrench to the heart. Daddy says he thinks that this is when the fun really begins.
I think they're both right.
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Cover Reveal: Sworn to Secrecy by Terah Edun
Sworn to Secrecy
The Courtlight Series #4
By- Terah Edun
Expected Publication Date-?
In the heart of the Imperial Courts, Ciardis Weathervane knows that death is coming for the empire. With her friends by her side and the new triad of Weathervanes, she's in a race against time to convince the courts of the same.
She must do her best to unite kith, mages, nobles and merchants under one cause - the fight to prevent a war. Soon she is forced to keep a secret that could exonerate her mother of the Empress's death, and is always one move away from stepping into diplomatic chaos.
Throw in a Daemoni Prince who is showing interest in the youngest Weathervane, a jealous Prince Heir, and a irritated dragon with her own designs on Ciardis, and you have an Imperial Court in turmoil.
This fourth novel continues the story of Ciardis Weathervane from Sworn To Conflict.
About the Author-
Terah Edun is a young adult fantasy writer born and raised in the Atlanta metropolitan area, who transplanted to the Northeast region for college, and has spent years living abroad in South Sudan and Morocco. She writes the stories that she always loved to read as a young girl.
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Merewyn De Heer's craft was birthed from her passion to help women affected by HIV and her desire to create beautiful things. After years in the advertising industry she began dreaming of a more satisfying career. She experimented with rolled clay beads which can be made even by women who are sick and struggling. Armed with an astute sense of high design and a deep passion to dignify vulnerable women, she has created a truly inspiring line of products utilizing these gorgeous, hand rolled, and life changing beads.


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As I have substantially passed the halfway mark in writing The Survivor Chronicles series, there is always forward looking to consider. I can't always write about zombies – well, I could, but I don't want the stories to become stale or boring. So, I have to consider what is next in store for your poor, fledgling writer.
I've been asked, but I can't tell anyone the answer to the question, "Where will you go from here?" It's not because I am being mysterious or evasive – I just don't know for sure. I've considered two possiblities, as they are both favorite topics of mine: medieval fantasy and high seas adventure.
Of course, The Survivor Chronicles is hardly finished, but I must look ahead to what comes next after the series is completed. The other option, of course, is a standalone novel of an idea that I've had recently which will probably come along at some point in the future. It's a horror novel, but it is based in our world and doesn't have any paranormal or fantasy elements. It's more of a murder mystery novel idea, but I'll need to think about that one at length to flesh out the thoughts I have for it.
Not very many people post here on the website, and most of my feedback comes through emails and social networks (Facebook mainly), but I thank you for visiting. I'm just happy that there are plenty of people out there enjoying the series and giving feedback when they get a chance.Share


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Nokia 3110c
It's time to renew my cell phone subscription, and they're offering me a Nokia 3110c. Should I take it?
I mean, is it worth the typical 24-month or even 30-month lock-in period, in exchange for a free cell phone? Thankfully, I stopped myself from impulsively signing the renew contract, and decided to check the internet for a review of the Nokia 3110c, and this is what I found:
Nokia 3110C Complaints - Poor quality product!
Nokia Support: Nokia 3110c Restarts Automatically
In other words, you'll need to monitor your memory, and after every 4 or 5 months, you'll need to do all those 15 steps again.
Thanks, but no thanks. Who needs the hassle, right?
Anyway, if you will use your phone mainly for voice calls and have no need to receive incoming SMS text (which you'll have to monitor because of the impact on the phone's memory), then go ahead and get the Nokia 3110c. I'm passing on this one, though.
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University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student-athlete Spencer Twining (Janesville/Janesville Parker), a three-year member of the Warhawk men's swimming and diving team, was killed Thursday evening in a three vehicle collision on Highway 59 near Road X in Eagle, Wisconsin.
According to the criminal complaint filed with the Waukesha County Sherrif's Office, a witness said a Dodge truck had been headed westward on Highway 59 and then swerved into the eastbound traffic lane, striking a motorcyclist headed eastward. Officials also say after the initial collision the truck collided with another eastbound vehicle.
The motorcyclist, identified as Twining, died on the scene.
"We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss," UW-Whitewater Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Amy Edmonds said. "[Twining] was a very talented individual both in and out of the pool as an all-conference swimmer and former member of the conference's Scholastic Honor Roll.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with Spencer's family and with those who were close with him, especially head swimming and diving coach Joel Rollings and all our student-athletes affected by this horrible accident."
Twining was entering his senior season with the Warhawks. Last season, he placed seventh in the 200-yard breaststroke and eighth in the 100-yard breaststroke, and helped the 400-yard medley relay team finish third at the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championships.
In 2014-15, Twining earned second team All-WIAC honors in the 100 breaststroke and placed third in the 200 breaststroke, 200-yard medley relay and 400-yard medley relay. He garnered WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll accolades as a freshman in 2013-14.
Twining majored in physics with an emphasis in engineering and a minor in mathematics. He was a recipient of the iCORPS Internship Grant and was an iCORPS Kaleidoscope Award finalist.
The UW-Whitewater flag will fly at half staff on Sunday in Spencer's memory and a Celebration of Life ceremony will be held this Sunday, Sept. 11, at 1 p.m. in the Kris Russell Volleyball Arena at the Williams Center.


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KIEWA'S historic dairy plant will not close with new owner Saputo deciding to keep it open and retain cream cheese production at the factory.
The Canadian dairy giant formerly took over the former Kiewa Butter Factory from Murray Goulburn last week.
On Monday afternoon it announced to workers who continued on the cream cheese line, following the end of milk production last year, they would keep their jobs.
"We are pleased to confirm the Kiewa processing site will remain open," Saputo board chairman and chief executive Lino Saputo said in a media statement.
"We met with the Kiewa team today to inform them of this important decision.
"We appreciate the uncertainty that employees at the Kiewa site have experienced in recent times and extend gratitude to them for their loyalty.
"We also want to thank the community and the Kiewa farmer suppliers for their dedication to the Kiewa facility.
"We now look forward to working together to make Kiewa successful."


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Former President Goodluck Jonathan says Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, should be given protection as the number one citizen in the state.
He said this while reacting to reports that Fayose was assaulted by policemen.
In a statement by Ikechukwu Eze, his spokesman, Jonathan said security operatives were meant to give voters the confidence to come out on election day, not to intimidate them.
"I am appealing to the security agencies deployed to Ekiti state for the governorship election to carry out their duties according to the laws of the land by securing the state in a manner that will enable a peaceful electoral process," he said.
"If it is true that the state governor Ayodele Fayose was assaulted as reported in the media, my appeal is that such should not be allowed to happen again, since the governor's constitutional immunity guarantees that he should be given official protection to freely conduct the business of governing the state."
The former president appealed to the security agencies to strive to protect the laws of the land and also seek to prevent any development that could negatively impact on the process of deepening the nation's democracy.


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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, APPELLEE,v.THOMAS WILLIAM FREDERICK, APPELLANT.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Shepherd, Circuit Judge.
Submitted: December 16, 2011
Before LOKEN, BRIGHT, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.
Following a jury trial, Appellant Thomas William Frederick was convicted of one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor, one count of sexual contact with a minor, and one count of tampering with a witness.*fn1 The district court sentenced Frederick to 145 months in prison. Frederick now appeals, challenging two separate rulings made at trial. We affirm.
On March 9, 2010, an indictment was filed against Frederick, charging him with four separate counts: Count 1, aggravated sexual abuse of a minor, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1153, 2241(c), and 2246(2)(D); Count 2, sexual contact with a minor, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1153, 2244(a)(3), and 2246(3); Count 3, attempted sexual abuse of a minor, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1153, 2243(a), and 2246(2)(A); and Count 4, tampering with a witness, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(3).*fn2 The first three counts stemmed from allegations that Frederick had sexually abused W.F. and J.F., the adopted daughters of his biological sister Kathleen Frederick, at the family ranch on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation. The last count was based on Frederick's instruction to J.F. to lie to investigators about his conduct toward her. After a five day trial, the jury found Frederick guilty as to Counts 1, 2, and 4. On appeal, Frederick challenges two separate rulings made by the district court. We address each in turn.
Frederick first argues that his rights under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment were violated when he was prevented from (1) asking W.F. if she made a false accusation of sexual abuse against her bus driver and (2) asking J.F. if she made a false accusation of sexual abuse against a school teacher. "We review evidentiary rulings regarding the scope of cross-examination for an abuse of discretion, except where the Sixth Amendment confrontation clause is implicated, and then our review is de novo." United States v. Jewell, 614 F.3d 911, 920 (8th Cir. 2010), cert. denied, 131 S. Ct. 1677 (2011).
During his cross-examination of W.F., Frederick's counsel*fn3 began to ask W.F. if she knew of a bus driver named Harry DuBray. The government objected immediately, and a side-bar followed. Defense counsel represented that in the past W.F. made a false accusation of sexual abuse against DuBray after DuBray disciplined her for getting angry and acting out on the bus. Defense counsel submitted that the intended line of questioning was probative because it would show that W.F. was "a girl that will make allegations against anybody that she doesn't like." The government countered that any previous allegations of abuse against DuBray were inadmissible under the rape shield, Federal Rule of Evidence 412.*fn4 The district court sustained the government's objection and noted its reliance not only on Rule 412, but also on Rules 403 and 404. During recross-examination of W.F., defense counsel asked W.F. if she "ever lied about sexual abuse." W.F. responded in the negative.
The court took up Frederick's intended line of questioning outside the presence of the jury two more times before the conclusion of trial, allowing Frederick to make an offer of proof as to the alleged previous false reports. Defense counsel represented that W.F. had accused DuBray of "asking her to kiss him, having her sit on his lap, touching her improperly, and that this was an ongoing thing." Defense counsel argued that, like her allegation against DuBray, W.F. only accused Frederick of sexual abuse after he punished her for stealing his granddaughter's iPad. Counsel stated that an investigation had been initiated into the allegation against DuBray but that it was his understanding that a final report was still outstanding.
During the offer of proof, defense counsel also addressed an intended line of questioning as to J.F. Defense counsel represented that J.F. made a false allegation of sexual abuse against a teacher, Mr. Miles, allegedly accusing Miles of touching her buttocks, her breasts, and between her thighs. Counsel stated that the allegation against Miles was "fully investigated," including reports to "mandatory reporters" and to J.F.'s therapist. Counsel then represented that J.F. "simply retracted the allegation . . . as the investigation was winding up, and . . . then the allegation went away." Counsel stated that she would be able to call the principal of the school who received the report of abuse and oversaw the investigation as well as the student aide in the room who would be able to testify "that the actions just simply could not have happened." Counsel did not represent that J.F.'s allegations against Frederick or her teacher resulted from any sort of disciplinary action. Instead, at a sidebar during the cross-examination of J.F., defense counsel represented that part of J.F.'s motive was to "manipulate the system" and that J.F. made the allegations against Frederick based on her belief that doing so would allow her to move from the family ranch into town to be closer to her friends.
In response, the government maintained that the evidence relating to DuBray and Miles was inadmissible under Rule 412 and that Frederick could not show that any of the previous allegations were false. The Assistant United States Attorney also noted that he did not recall anything in the exhibits submitted by Frederick that debunked the investigation into the Miles allegation but noted his recollection that the allegation by J.F. against Miles was that Miles "was too close behind her."
After allowing Frederick to make his offer of proof, the court upheld its original decision to disallow Frederick from asking W.F. and J.F. about other allegations of sexual abuse. The court noted Frederick's arguments that the allegations were not within the ambit of Rule 412, but ultimately concluded that Eighth Circuit precedent held to the contrary. In excluding the evidence, the court noted its reliance not only on Rule 412, but also on Rule 403 and Rule 608(b). The court did not prevent defense counsel from asking W.F. about her specific motive for bringing a claim against Frederick, including whether she blamed Frederick for being sent to a home for troubled teens.
Frederick contends that the court's reliance on Rule 412 was misplaced because "a lie about engaging in sexual abuse does not become an actual act of sexual abuse under Rule 412." Frederick argues that his intended line of questioning would have demonstrated each girl's retaliatory motive to make false claims of sexual abuse when she felt wronged by an authority figure.*fn5 Therefore his line of questioning was not aimed at ...
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The great blue heron has become the poster child for the Chesapeake Bay. You can't go anywhere these days without running into its proud mug. Everyone wants a piece of the action from business brochures to state road signs. The great blue has become the Bay's unofficial logo.
The heron's immense popularity would seem to defy logic. You can't eat one, and tastiness is usually why we develop a deep affection for one of the Bay's critical critters. You can't hold one in your hands and get all warm and snugly with it. And they aren't what you might call friendly; haughty is more like it.
They are regal birds, with their bright yellow beaks, ruffled-grey neck feathers and that shiny black cowlick atop their white head. But it wasn't until graphic artists started displaying them on signs and license plates that we began to realize just how cool they really are.
Back in the 1970s, when state Sen. Gerry Winegrad was pushing through the Chesapeake Bay Initiatives and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation was just getting started, they needed a symbol, something that would spark people's imaginations and make them care about the Bay. The foundation was cranking out pamphlets about how important it was to Save The Bay, and they often adopted the great blue heron as a mascot. Before the movement to preserve the health and well-being of the Bay became popular, it was rare to see a picture of a heron. But when the Bay warriors finally got cranked up, they rode into battle with the great blue on their shields.
Then a subtle thing began to happen. The heron wove its way into our mental tapestries. Like a subliminal message flashing a brief image of popcorn during a movie, every visual signal we received regarding the plight of the Bay featured a a blue heron. So, in a very real sense, the great blue became the lightning rod for Bay protection, making us care about this grand body of water that we were slowly destroying.
The great blue heron looks prehistoric, and in fact they go back millions of years in the fossil record. They were among North America's first birds, along with loons, gulls, cormorants and ducks.
The heron's amazing ability to thrive has made it one of the Bay's great success stories. But this has not always been the case. For hundreds of years, they were hunted for sport, and their delicate feathers were prized for their decorative value.
In the 1950s and '60s, heron numbers plummeted because of pesticides like DDT that made their eggshells so fragile they broke before the young could hatch.
At about the same time we banned DDT, the cumulative impact of everything we were dumping into the Chesapeake from unregulated sewerage to chemical cocktails to a million and one other acts of mindless mischief began to drive the heron into oblivion. In addition, human encroachment along the watery edges of the Bay, in the form of development and bulkheading, stole the heron's prime habitat.
Then a funny thing happened. Call it adaptation. Call it dumb luck. Heron numbers inexplicably started to go up. And since 1985, when the state Department of Natural Resources began annual heron surveys, the number of nesting pairs has doubled to over 6,000 in Maryland. In addition, there are now 123 recorded colonies scattered across the Bay.
I have my own resident great blue who lives pretty close to my home and who sits for hours each day on one of the pilings by my neighbor's pier. He stares into the water, patiently waiting for a fish. Time seems to stand still as he waits, like a Zen master, his neck craned slightly at an angle, peering into the murky shallows for his next meal.
Who among us has not seen what I just described? It is perhaps, the one Bay scene we all can relate to; the solitary heron standing like a sentinel, performing its slow-motion hunting dance along the shoreline. Heron is always there, indifferent to humankind and the world around it. Striking with its spear-like yellow bill in a flash and then swallowing almost comically a fish or a crab down its long, undulating neck; seeming to gloat with satisfaction at its success, then returning to the hunt. Ever the hunt.
It's 2006. The great blues have done their best. But the Bay's health continues to deteriorate. All we can seem to do is monitor its steady decline. What we need is a new Bay symbol. How about a rockfish covered with bright red tumors?
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Historically, wolves roamed across North America, from coast to coast and Alaska to Mexico. But an aggressive campaign of hunting and trapping in the early 1900s left wolves in very few places where they once lived. Conservationists, scientists, and managers working to recover wolves today face a difficult task: combining historical records, the present-day distribution of wolves, and genetic analyses to determine the kinds of wolves that once lived in different parts of the U.S. This problem is particularly evident in places like New England where wolves were once abundant but are not found today. Occasional interbreeding between wolves, coyotes, and even dogs blurs the boundaries between species and only adds to the challenge.
Biologists now recognize several distinct subspecies of gray wolf (Canis lupus), each of which is adapted to life in a different region of North America. For example there is the lobo of the southwest (C. l. baileyi) and the snow wolf (C. l. arctos) of the arctic tundra. The assortment of gray wolf subspecies also includes a northeastern variety – the so-called "eastern wolf" or Canis lupus lycaon – that was once found throughout the forests of eastern Canada and New England. These eastern wolves are smaller than their western and northern cousins, likely enabling them to efficiently hunt small prey. But not everyone agrees with this assessment. Recently the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) argued that the eastern wolf is instead a unique wolf species, dubbed Canis lycaon. The Service contends that eastern wolves are actually more akin to coyotes than to gray wolves, and that gray wolves never lived in the east. But a recent peer review of this science showed that this is not the majority view among biologists.
Are eastern wolves a full species or just a distinct population or subspecies of one of these other canids? Several genetic studies have tried to tackle this question, but the results so far are conflicting. Studies based on DNA that wolf pups inherit from only their mother (and not their father) suggested that eastern wolves may be a distinct species. However, other evidence including an excellent study based on over 48,000 different "markers" (parts of the genome used to tell individuals apart) found that eastern wolves are the result of gray wolf and coyote interbreeding. This hybridization between wolves and coyotes likely began about 600 to 900 years ago and resulted in eastern canids that are about 85% gray wolf and 15% coyote today. Therefore eastern wolves could be a distinct subspecies, a distinct species, or even a group of gray wolf and coyote hybrids. Although the science remains unsettled, most wolf taxonomists and the American Society of Mammalogists disagree with the Service's position that the eastern wolves and gray wolves are different species.
While the identity of eastern wolves may seem like a mere disagreement among biologists, the issue turns out to have major conservation ramifications. The Service currently plans to strip gray wolves of their endangered species protections throughout most of the country, including in New England. Although no wolves have been found in New England recently, large areas of excellent wolf habitat remain, especially in Maine. But the Service claims that gray wolves (C. lupus) never lived in New England; they say it was eastern wolves (C. lycaon), a new species with no current legal protections. With some taxonomic sleight of hand, the Service cut out the northeast from the historical range of gray wolves, and made it easier for endangered species protections to be removed everywhere. Divide – then conquer.
As you might imagine, the Service's plan has received considerable criticism. The delisting plan ignores much of the available science and is not the consensus of biologists. As the peer review panel pointed out, even if eastern wolves are a distinct species, gray wolves may have once roamed New England too. Therefore more time is needed – for scientists to sort out the taxonomy of wolves, and for gray wolf populations to recover across their former range – before protections for wolves are removed.
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Hello ,
I said during early 3Beta testing of the PSI that I thought that the final version design would depend on the efficiency of the SPS silent installers and the aim of reducing the massive bad guy target of patchable insecure/vulnerable software (with known patches not workarounds available) .
Secunia seem to think that their SPS is ready for the big time and have produced PSI 3 to run on boot and to automatcally(when possible) or manually offer their SPS installers . Cutting edge technology available to us all for FREE
Target users for version 3 ?? The silent majority who are only interested in having a "safe" computer where the firewall , A/V , etc do thier job . How they do it , what they did and why is of minimal interest and thgat includes "security updaters" .
Does that include you ?? If you are reading here in the Forum this probably not .
Will there be problems ?? It's a computer , stupid (question) .
Is there a solution ?? Either go back to version 2.0 , which will (hopefully) be available and "bug supported" in the long term ; it would be terrible to lose all that extra "tecchie" stuff ,
run the PSI version 3 and see whether it really is as good as it wishes to be and when there are problems try and help those mosqt in need .
With my eyesight , I love BIG icons ; I just wish they were all available in the GUI (a lot of default/non-specific ones) and , for the nth time of asking , that the script/writing underneath the icon be in BOLD BLACK font :(((((((( .
There are real problems of CPU and RAM usage by the GUI /psi.exe process ; but the same CPU/RAM happens when my Chrome browser silently updates (very often , as I run the Dev Channel and for that reason have stopped using the Canary alongside) . On my old XP SP3 , I have learnt to leave the system to warm up and do its daily updating for 5 miutes after I boot before starting to work . I'm sure a superfast PC with W7 64 bit will take everything in it's stride .
There will be lots of other problems , the Beta was never able to autoupdate Java for me . That is a must if the new user is not to get totally lost from the start ; support failed to respond to this and other problems during Beta testing so I can only hope they have done something about it .
Finally , 3 does not encourage learning about security as such ; then again that is not everone's cup of tea .
Brekky time .
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What is goin on with the men in Sports?
First we have Lance Armstrong, becoming probably one of the most conceited, big bully, lying men in the world of sports and he has not remorse for his actions. Who is this man? The man I routed for when I was younger and supported his hard work and efforts to do what he loved while battling a disease. I mean what an inspiration for children right?
I remember in high school when I got my first Livestrong band, I would wear that thing everywhere and I would be proud to wear it because it meant to me that I was overcoming some hard obstacles and working on bettering myself in the sports I loved.
The first thing I thought when I heard that Lance had lied was what was going to happen to his organization. Would that still continue knowing that this man had lied his way through gold medals and money, only to come up in a web of lies? Would people still support his organization even though they now know the real person behind the label? I'm nervous to see what happens. Not only for the purpose of the organization but for the people working there and who have actively supported LiveStrong and its vision.
I guess we will just have to see…. And am I the only one who thinks it weird that he decided to come out on Oprah's OWN channel? Why her? Why wait?
Then we have the news of our very own NCAA football player caught up in a catfish story. One thing is that he admits to have been talking or wait… "dating" a woman he met online for the past 3 years and has never met her. To be honest Manti Te'O, you play football for Notre Dame, you can honestly say you didn't find anyone to talk to on your own campus that you could meet and hangout with in person? Either way, this hoax whoever is behind it, whether it was to raise your ranks in getting the Heisman trophy, or you actually did get played, I do have to say.. well played on either side.
You will either be looked at like you were a victim of "catfish", or you were behind one of the most heartbreaking, unbelievable, yet hidden, yet biggest lies of the football season, maybe even football history as of right now. All for what? Because it sure didn't help your team win the BCS Championship. That was just embarrassing. Either way, it was a hoax and it pretty much made you even more famous than you were before, and you could even make it to the NFL for it.
Props, to both of these athletes on their lies over this past week. I do have to say it was interesting to see how it all played out. I think I will just sit back and see what else happens in our news this next week.
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The painting above the dining table already lived in our flat when we moved in. It's painted in 1944 - no signs of the war, a dream of peace.
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There is a problem in the file /usr/include/httpd/apr_uri.h in Red Hat Linux 8/9
that causes a simple autoconf test for httpd/httpd.h not to work. The problem
is that the header file contains the line
#include <apr_network_io.h>
which causes autoconf to die when testing for httpd.h There seem to be two fixes..
one change it to read like all other header files.
#include "apr_network_io.h"
or put link /usr/include/httpd -> /etc/httpd/include
The second one is probably due to some hack in our configure.ac files.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[smoogen@smoogen1 lama-2.0]$ rpm -qa | grep httpd | sort
How reproducible:
# Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
AC_INIT(mod_xxx, 1.0, email@example.com)
# Checks for header files.
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([arpa/inet.h fcntl.h netdb.h netinet/in.h stdlib.h string.h
sys/socket.h sys/time.h syslog.h unistd.h lber.h ldap.h httpd/httpd.h])
The supported interface for building modules is using:
apxs -c mod_foo.c
this will ensure that -I/usr/include/httpd and whatever else is used, as
necessary. If you don't want to use apxs -c, you should add:
-I`apxs -q INCLUDEDIR`
to CPPFLAGS before running the header checks, but this is not future-proof (and
will fail with the packages in Raw Hide).
If possible, is the <> link in that header file to force only the use of apxs?
It looks like there are several parts that need to be made ready for the project
and we had hoped to use autoconf to get those other parts going. It looked like
using a standard test on httpd/httpd.h would show that the proper items were
installed. however that test fails because of the <> entry on the header file.
No, it's not deliberately to force use of apxs. Your test will work if you add:
AC_PROG_PROG(APXS, apxs)
CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I`$APXS -q INCLUDEDIR`"
before the AC_CHECK_HEADERS test, as I eluded to above, still with caveat.


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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Mimi's Scented Garden
A delightful way to introduce children to the scented aromatics, herbs and flowers, and the oils they give us.
Four children visit their Mimi's aromatic garden, learning the names, aromas and tastes of their chosen herbs. Sara introduces several simple crafts which elementary school aged children should be able to create with some adult involvement.
(Remember, if the project involves using the essential oils, it is essential that an adult supervise!)
This is a delightful little book that can start a child on a lifelong journey, learning about the world of healing plants.
Available from Sara Holmes at Botanical Healing Arts.
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The Canal Winchester High School football team will face one of the most potent passing offenses it has seen this season when it travels to Zanesville in the first round of the Division II, Region 7 playoffs on Friday, Nov. 2.
The Canal Winchester High School football team will face one of the most potent passing offenses it has seen this season when it travels to Zanesville in the first round of the Division II, Region 7 playoffs on Friday, Nov. 2.
In a 39-6 win over Marietta on Oct. 26, Zanesville junior quarterback Thomas Wibbeler completed 17 of 21 passes for 269 yards and four touchdowns as the Blue Devils improved to 9-1. Among his targets were J.T. McFarland (4 catches, 76 yards, 2 touchdowns), Matty Lynn (4 catches, 62 yards, 2 touchdowns), Dar Stanford (3 catches, 51 yards), Brady Armstrong (3 catches, 40 yards) and Granger Long (3 catches, 40 yards).
McFarland, a running back, also rushed for a touchdown and tailback Jamal Gladden had a 9-yard touchdown run.
Early in the season, Canal Winchester's 3-5 defense struggled against teams that throw the ball effectively, as the Indians allowed 284 yards passing in a 48-21 loss to Dublin Scioto on Aug. 24 at home and 222 yards passing in a 28-3 loss at Marion-Franklin on Sept. 7.
But Canal Winchester, which has a seven-game winning streak, has given up only 23 points over its last four games, and senior nose tackle DeOntaye Cosby expects the Indians to be ready for the Blue Devils' offense.
The Indians won at Circleville 21-6 on Oct. 26 to improve to 8-2 overall and finish 7-0 in the MSL-Buckeye Division. They limited the Tigers to just 57 total yards through three quarters.
"We played a terrible game defensively against Dublin Scioto, but we've progressively gotten better since then," Cosby said. "Most teams in the MSL like to run the ball a lot, so we haven't seen an offense that throws the ball this well in a long time, but I think we'll be ready for them. Our backs need to stay deeper to defend their receivers and our defensive line will need to get to the backfield quickly so our linebackers will be free to make plays."
Senior right tackle Zach Morehead said the Indians' spread offense will try to establish an effective running game early to set up its short-route passing game.
Behind the blocking of Morehead, right guard Josh Miller, center Seth Wentzel, left guard Dalton McKee and left tackle Zach Huffer, running back Jaquan Ransome rushed for 118 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries against Circleville and running back John Franklin rushed for 60 yards and two touchdowns on 16 carries.
Quarterback Isaac Pifer completed 11 of 20 passes for 66 yards against Circleville.
Zanesville allowed just 25 total yards in the first half against Marietta.
"Zanesville is big and physical up front, so it's going to be important for our offensive and defensive lines to be more physical than they are," Morehead said. "If they load the box, we'll need to pass the ball well. But it's our job up front to create holes because our running backs do a good job of hitting holes hard when we open them."
Coach Shawn Hinkle said his players are excited to reach for the playoffs after going 7-3 but missing the postseason last year. The Indians are the seventh seed in Region 7 and Zanesville is the second seed. The top eight teams in each region qualify for the playoffs, and last season Canal Winchester finished ninth in Region 7.
Canal Winchester is making its seventh playoff appearance, including its fifth appearance in the last six years. The Indians qualified for the postseason four consecutive years before falling short last season.
"It feels really good to be back in the playoffs," Hinkle said. "We had already won the MSL-Buckeye title outright (before defeating Circleville), but it feels good to go undefeated in our league, too."


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This week we hit the gym. The three of us share our routines, talk about our first memories of "working out", our current routines, and get into some of the staples legends at every gym. Also Chris wants to drink Mountain Dew, Andrew questions a famous American question, and Alex is looking for the right masseuse.
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Mid-level junk...but it gets the job done. Scorpion Releasing has another Katarina's Nightmare Theater double-feature for you, showcasing the, um...barely marginal in 70s U.K. horror: the original uncut The Devil's Men from 1976 (known here in the States in a truncated version called Land of the Minotaur), starring Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasence, and 1978's gory British giallo-wannabe, Terror, from cult director Norman J. Warren. Separately, these two low-budget affairs aren't particularly distinguished (Terror does have its moments), but as a double-feature...they're not all that hot, either. But if you have a fondness for these cheap British horror outings from the 70s, this two-fer is acceptable late Saturday night fun. Some half-way decent bonuses help. Let's look very briefly at each movie.
Intensely bald-pated padre, Father Roche (Donald Pleasence), knows something is wrong in his tiny, remote Greek village―young travelers and archaeology students disappear every time they check out the local temple ruins. Former students Ian (Nikos Verlel Verlekis), his girlfriend Beth (Vanna "Gelsomina" Reville), and Christ-look-a-like friend Tom (Robert Behling), have come back to Father Roche's church to show him their latest discovery: a small minotaur relic. Father Roche forbids them to go back to the temple, but they slip out in the middle of the night and run smack dab into a minotaur-worshiping ceremony, led by none other than Baron Corofax (Peter Cushing), a Carpathian ex-patriot who owns the local castle on the hill. Father Roche, realizing he needs help, calls Milo Kaye (Kostas Karagiorgis), his best friend and former student, and now a swinging private dick based in New York City. Milo, a non-believer in all this occult mumbo-jumbo, feels he owes it to his mentor to help out, so he ditches his fine girlfriend (Jane Lyle), and hopes over to Greece, where he teams up with Father Roche and Tom's just-arrived fiancé, stacked Laurie Gordon (Luan Peters), to find their missing friends.
I love seeing that old Crown International Pictures logo. You would think that after decades of reviewing films, I'd be smart enough to remember to watch a movie like The Devil's Men or Terror the "right" way. Obviously, if I can't see them the way they were truly meant to be seen―at a run-down, spooky drive-in or grindhouse―I should have at least waited until the evening to pop this double-feature into my player. Instead, I started to roll The Devil's Men around 9:00am, and after 45 minutes I bailed, fed up with how stupid and boring it was. However, I can't write a review unless I see what I'm reviewing in its entirety (okay for a 90 minute movie...not so good for the entire series run of a TV show) so later that night, around two in the morning, I tried again, and within that viewing context...The Devil's Men was still pretty dumb...but it did play a bit better―don't discount a dark, quiet room, in the middle of the night, to add a bit of atmosphere to a movie that needs all the help it can get.
Technically, I guess you can't really call The Devil's Men a U.K. horror movie, because it was financed by Greek investors, for what looks like French subsidiary companies, with a Greek director and Greek actors. Only Cushing, Pleasence, and the remaining English players give it that U.K. imprint (along with the shaky Anglicized dubbing). Written by Arthur Rowe, it's not surprising that the scripter of uneven fare like The Girl From U.N.C.L.E., The Magnificent Seven Ride!, Zeppelin, The Bionic Woman, and Fantasy Island, would help turn out such a hit-and-mostly-miss low-budget horror outing. Indeed, The Devil's Men plays very much like an unexceptional TV episode or movie, with some brief, low-grade nudity and gore thrown in for the grindhouse trade. To be fair, though, it's always tough to call a movie a failure based solely on the script, particularly when it could have been altered (or even thrown out), or botched by the director or editor. But a whole lot of exposition and character development would have to have been hacked away from Rowe's script to explain the final product here.
Director Kostas Karagiannis certainly doesn't help matters by shooting everything with an inscrutable, hesitant delay, as if everyone is waiting to hear the word "action" after the cameras have already started rolling. You can take that sort of somnambulant feel The Devil's Men has and just...groove along with it, listening to Brian Eno's ambient, repetitive, and slightly menacing score (no question the best element in the whole movie), and getting into the ineptitude of the production as a kind of half-assed nightmare that doesn't really begin or end, or know where it's going to wind up. Then, The Devil's Men can be kind of lazy fun (at 2 in the morning, mind you)―not scary at all, but odd and creepy in a way, with some tame gore to kick you a little bit. And there's certainly nothing wrong with checking out the good-looking performers here, either, regardless of whether or not they can act (after all, that's why it's called exploitation cinema). Jane Lyle looks just fine after a shower, while pneumatic Luan Peters is an architectural wonder of cantilevered pulchritude when she's strolling among the temple ruins (and if you're into dudes, Robert Behling has that whole Jesus/Charlie Manson/Rasputin thing going on).
I wouldn't know who's looking at Cushing or Pleasence for some eye-candy thrills, but as for their performances here...they're hardly thrilling. Cushing by this point in his career didn't have to do anything but show his skull and crossbones face to give any character he played a bit of old school horror gravitas, but "phoning it in" comes closest to describing the level of intensity he's giving director Karagiannis here. As for Pleasence, he's doing his same "intense staring combined with little bits of whining/crabby mumblings-shouts" shtick that was all too familiar by 1975 (The Devil's Men didn't make it here to the States, as Land of the Minotaur, until two years later). One can't really blame them, though, when one sees what they have to work with in this low-budget, low-energy project. Getting past the atmosphere...what the hell is The Devil's Men about, anyway? What's the deal with the minotaur? Why does he need couples as sacrifices? What's Carpathian Cushing doing in Greece? Why the hell is Milo even involved here, since he can't seem to do anything? We never know, because the movie makes the fatal error of not having a final scene (or a beginning one, or a middle one) where Cushing tells us what, exactly, is up. So in the end, we simply don't care.
1675 England, during the witch hunts. Lord and Lady Garrick (William Russell and Mary Maude) have successfully brought the village's fleeing witch (Pattie Love) to bay, and now it's time for a cleansing bonfire―a verdict that brings an eternal curse down on the Garrick name, and a quick dispatch of both Lord and Lady after the fact from the crispified witch. But surprise―this opening sequence is actually the finale of modern-day film director James Garrick's (John Nolan) latest project...based on his own true family history. Gathered together at his ancestral home, Buttercup Larch, Garrick and his friends―co-worker Philip (James Aubrey), blonde B-movie actress Carol Tucker (Glynis Barber), and friend Gary (Michael Craze)―entertain themselves after the showing with a little hypnotism bit from Gary and Carol. But when James' new-found cousin, Ann (Carolyn Courage) gets in on the act, while in a trance she almost lops James' head off with a battle sword. This is small potatoes compared to what happens to Carol; walking home to her actress hostel, she's viciously stabbed over and over again, winding up pinned to a tree with knives. Ann, who lives at the same hostel, comes home and washes some suspicious blood off her hands, while roommate Suzy (Sarah Keller) looks on in alarm. What follows is an unending series of graphic slayings as we try to decide who's killing whom...and why.
You don't even have to know the conventions of giallo filmmaking to figure out that Terror is a lift of Argento's classic Suspiria―English director Norman J. Warren (the classic Inseminoid) all but uses the words "ripped off" when speaking about that Italian shocker and the influence it had on him and Terror. As to whether or not Warren gets Argento down or not isn't too hard to figure out, either: he doesn't, but it's not an ignoble effort, either. While Warren and his production team don't have quite as refined a visual sense as Argento's work, you can see them striving for that "Italian look" with several stylized sequences that ape giallo conventions (the opening credit sequence, with the shock stills colored red and green, the futuristic-looking tube car, the garishly-lit sets at Garrick's studio when Philip is killed). As for the story, I'm not sure it works in David McGillivray's (House of Whipcord, Satan's Slave) script to have Hammer gothic elements (the whole medieval witch angle) making up the spine of this "New Wave" shocker; somehow the marriage of the two seemingly incongruous components lessens the effectiveness of each―it comes out neither particularly good Hammer, nor completely urban, cold, nasty giallo.
Still...there are some surprisingly effective moments in Terror that almost redeem it. McGillivray's sense of humor comes through occasionally, with Gary getting a solid laugh when the movie-within-a-movie ends and he promptly opines, "What a load of rubbish." The whole soft-core "Bathtime with Brenda" is quite amusing, too, with its cynical look at the decidedly unromantic aspects of grungy low-budget filmmaking (I love the unenthusiastic, uninspired cries of "passion" that Peter Attard and Tricia Walsh summon up for each other as they unconvincingly try to simulate sex in a tub). As well, a few of the extended murder scenes are convincingly designed, included the horrific staircase stabbing of Walsh (that close-up of the knife going through her foot is inexplicably good), the floating, spinning car up in the trees (fantastic lighting effects on Keller in the car), and the rather remarkable attack on Aubrey at the film studio, where reams of 35mm negative engulf him like Amazonian creeper vines, smothering him before he's decapitated by a piece of glass. On the whole, Terror may be derivative and not nearly as accomplished as those movies that inspired it...but it does have a few inspired moments, and sometimes, that's enough.
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Professional wrestler Katarina Leigh Waters is back, providing bookend bumpers with little tidbits of info on the films' productions (and even smaller amounts of forced humor). Also included is a quite detailed featurette, Bloody Good Time, that features the cast and crew of Terror, giving lots of details on the making of the film. Two deleted scenes from Terror, with commentary by the director, are included, as well as original trailers for the two main features, and several other titles from Scorpion Releasing.
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Not the greatest double-bill of 70s U.K. horror...but it will do in a pinch. The Devil's Men barely squeaks by on some unintentional atmosphere (created, perhaps, because nobody knew what the hell they were doing) and the barely-there presence of U.K. horror icons Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasence. Dario Argento giallo knock-off Terror, however, manages to have a few inspired moments here and there, while delivering the (now relatively tame) 70s gore we expect. For horror fanatics and lovers of 70s British filmmaking, I'm recommending this double feature. Casual viewers, though, should rent, first.


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Two contrasting yet complementary visions of the Handel Masterpiece enrich the Holiday Season
~ Joseph So
For Toronto classical music lovers, December is Messiah month. Given this is English Canada, the Handel masterpiece dominates the Holiday programming landscape, with a few other pieces (notably the Berlioz L'Enfance du Christ and Bach's Christmas Oratorio) sprinkled in between. When it comes to Messiah, for years the Toronto Symphony Orchestra was the main game in town, with its large orchestra playing on modern instruments, big-name soloists with volume to spare, and the terrific choral forces of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. When Tafelmusik presented its first Messiah 35 years ago with a baroque chamber orchestra on period instruments and reduced choral forces, it caught on immediately with those audience members yearning for a more intimate experience. Of course there are others which I've attended - and very much enjoyed - over the years, but for me, the TSO and Tafelmusik are the standards by which all other Messiahs are compared.
But now we have a third, a very interesting take, on this work. Against the Grain Theatre, under the direction of Joel Ivany, is just like its name suggests - an adventurous, iconoclastic, cutting edge company noted for re-imagining old standard repertoire. I've seen many shows from them the last few years, from Boheme to Marriage of Figaro to Uncle John (aka Don Giovanni). What they do is provocative and never dull - I wouldn't say everything works 100%, but when it does, it can really hit the bullseye. AtG presented this very same Messiah two years ago. I attended the opening in the middle of a snowstorm, which was almost as memorable as the performance itself. Now it's been remounted at the more convenient Harbourfront Centre, with additional movement sequences by Jennifer Nichols. How do these shows compare? Or is a comparison even possible?
Sir Andrew Davis and the TSO receiving audience accolades (Photo: Joseph So)
I admit I'm a bit of an old guard when it comes to this oratorio. For the last 40 years, rarely a year went by without my attending a TSO Messiah. There's something viscerally comforting to be enveloped and cushioned by that orchestral and choral sound. The line up this year is particularly fine, with the beloved Sir Andrew Davis back again to give us his personal stamp on this piece. His version is musically rich, with some surprising sounds made by extra instruments - Sleigh bells, anyone? - and of course the bleating of the trombones in "All we like Sheep." I recall it was great fun.
(l. to r.) John Relyea, Andrew Staples, Erin Wall, Elizabeth DeShong (Photo: Joseph So)
I attended opening night on Tuesday. Of the quartet of soloists, three are familiar to Toronto audiences - soprano Erin Wall is a resident of the GTA and has sung with distinction at the COC and TSO in the past. She returns for the Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro next month. Mezzo Elizabeth DeShong, previously seen as Angelina in La cenerentola and Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, returns as Calbo in Rossini's rarely performed Maometto secondo in May. And of course John Relyea's stunning bass and patrician stage presence impressed everyone last season as Duke Bluebeard. Only British tenor Andrew Staples is new locally. He sang with a British choral tradition sound - clear-toned and ingratiating without a lot of vibrato. Unlike many choral tenors, he has the necessary volume to fill Roy Thomson Hall. His "Comfort Ye" was lovely, with fine coloratura. Then it was the mezzo's turn to shine in "But who may abide." DeShong, diminutive on stage, is a low mezzo and bel canto specialist, with excellent agility. Her "Behold! A virgin shall conceive" was a highlight, as was the duet with the soprano, "He shall feed His flock" - their voices blended beautifully.
It was good to have John Relyea back since he cancelled due to illness the last time he was in town for Messiah not long ago. Billed as a bass-baritone, Relyea is really a bass, especially now with maturity on his side. He brought the requisite gravitas to his music and sang an impressive "The Trumpet shall Sound." The soprano is the last of the four to take center stage in this piece, and Erin Wall sang with her customary pure, silvery tone, perhaps a touch more flutter at the top and more aspirated consonants than one normally hears from her. I've noticed that the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir has a lot of new blood lately. I missed quite a few of the familiar faces of the past, but such is life! One constant however is the TMC's excellence with its trademark of smooth, homogenized choral sound, and Noel Edison, the choral conductor, sure knows how to coax it out of the 130 strong choir. Sir Andrew's return to the TSO is always an occasion, and his version of Messiah, unveiled a couple of years back, remains enormously gratifying. He conducted with great affection and a firm hand. Roy Thomson Hall was close to sold out, and the appreciative audience gave the performers sustained ovations.
(l. to r.) Stephen Hegedus, Andrea Ludwig, Miriam Khalil, Owen McCausland (Photo: Joseph So)
After a satisfying Messiah like the TSO's, it's like a full and delicious meal - one needs some time afterwards to savour it. But I booked the opening night show of Against the Grain's version the very next day. Well, it couldn't have been more different. If the TSO is traditional to a 'T,' the AtG is very much a 21st Century take on a work that's 274 years old. Yes, all my life I've liked my Messiah in the symphony hall or in a church, but now I found myself increasingly drawn to unconventional interpretations. One of these days, I would like to see a large-scale, fully staged version in the opera house! With the AtG's presentation of 16 choir members and a chamber orchestra of 18 players, it made a surprisingly powerful impression, given its smallish scale. Part of the reason is that human drama needs to be acted out physically. It's fine to stand and sing in a reverent manner, as in a church service, but the injection of movement packs an emotional wallop. The choreography by Jennifer Nichols makes a strong statement. The stylized movements and gestures took some time to get used to, but after several minutes, everything seemed quite natural. I was particularly impressed by the commitment and the overt joy from the chorus. They sounded and looked like they lived every note and every word. Mind you, they don't approach the smooth homogeneity of sound and the precision one has come to expect from TMC, but these AtG guys and gals don't take a back seat when it comes to heart-felt expression.
The Against the Grain Chorus (Photo: Joseph So)
All four soloists are well known to Canadian audiences. In this show, they are required to not just stand and sing but to act and move, often in unconventional ways. Also, the stage director Joel Ivany is not shy in injecting funny moments, eliciting laughter from the audience, unheard of in a Messiah even a few short years ago. Perhaps his staging of "All we like Sheep" was a bit over-the-top, but the audience loved it. Of the soloists, I was most impressed by Owen McCausland's beautiful, clarion tenor. He also handled the coloratura well. I recall when he first joined the COC Ensemble, his stage manner was quite reserved, but look at him now, taking his clothes of (partially!) in "Ev'ry Valley" Stephen Hegedus may not have the booming bass one has come to expect in his music, but there are plenty of compensation in other ways. He has a brilliant top which he put to good use. His lithe body was put to good use by Ivany's staging, and kudos to him for the bravery of donning the gold lame body stocking at the end - it totally brought the house down. Andrea Ludwig's mezzo is on the small side and the lower register doesn't sufficiently project. However, in this small venue, she rightly refused to push and thus sang with much warmth and beauty. Soprano Miriam Khalil has a dark-hued, opulent-sounding soprano, sounding lovely, a few steely top notes notwithstanding. The soloists were ably supported by the fluent and confident conducting of Topher Mokrzewski, who drew beautiful sounds from the small orchestra. The large and enthusiastic audience, perhaps a bit younger than the usual oratorio crowd, gave the performers a rousing ovations at the end.
Joel Ivany and Creative Team (Photo: Joseph So)
Two different approaches, each vital, engaging, and memorable in its own way. I wouldn't want to do without either one. Additional performances of TSO Messiah Dec. 18, 19, 20 at Roy Thomson Hall. http://tso.ca/ Additional performances of AtG Messiah Dec. 17, 18, 19 at Harbourfront Centre. http://againstthegraintheatre.com/


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