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Monday, January 20, 2014
The cookies that restored my faith in...well, cookies.
I'm basically here to talk about a cookie, but I wish we could chat about Downton Abbey and how my heart is breaking for Anna. Just as a side note. Since my mind is going eleventy-hundred directions at once right now.
There was a point a few years ago, after finding out that my daughter and I couldn't ingest gluten anymore, where I went through my tried and true recipes and threw most of them out. Realizing that we could no longer make certain items, or convert them (deliciously) into gluten free options kind of bummed us out. There were a few recipes that were so amazing I kept them in the back of my recipe binder. One in particular, was a recipe for sugar cookies. What makes them special is the almond flavoring.. and the use of powdered sugar, rather than regular sugar. It's the kind of cookie that bakes with a slight crunch on the outer layer but has a tender texture inside. Topped with fluffy icing, this cookie seems like a treat you'd pay for at a coffee stand. It is a fact that I have even become friends with perfect strangers over this particular recipe. The title at the top of my recipe card reads, "The Best Sugar cookies EVER." They were that good.
Sadly they didn't convert easily into gluten free cookies, and my experience with gluten free sugar cookies have been a bit disappointing with the exception of this vanilla bean sugar cookie recipe. Probably because I was comparing them all to the BEST SUGAR COOKIES EVER. Ya know? Anyway, fast forward to a few months ago when my man did some Costco shopping for us and brought home a surprise bag of gluten free cup for cup flour. It is the Namaste brand. I know it's at Costco right now and that it's a blend that is supposed to replace flour in any recipe cup-for-cup but I threw the bag away when I decanted my flour into a canister, so I can't give you any more specifics. (Please don't throw rotten tomatoes at my head. Thanks.) I used that flour throughout the holidays and it was great. So... I decided I'd give these sugar cookies another try using what I had on hand. It worked!! I added 1/2 tsp xanthan gum for a binder because nobody likes too many crumbles in their cookie and those of us who attempt gf baking know all about that. I prepared myself that they would not taste exactly like the regular version, but they were as close as I've ever gotten, and they weren't a pain in the neck to handle with the rolling out and cutting process which is a first! I was so happy with them that we made a batch for the Seahawks game.
I had seen some fun decorative candies at JoAnn's last week (lips, googly eyes, smiley teeth, moustaches, and some other colorful sprinkles. My kids flipped out decorating their little blue monster faces. Apparently this sort of activity is very fun for the tween crowd. I'll have to keep that in mind for the future.
eating something with eyes is freaky.
older child on me and I don't like it much. But she looks pretty cute in her new glasses... and she can see the white board at school now, which is a good thing. I don't even want to think about the fact that I'm going to have a teenager on my hands in about two months, when Joe turns 13!! (She chants, "I will stop time, I will stop time." You may be seeing a lot more photos of my kiddos from this point on, as I attempt to do just that. Ha!)
Speaking of photos, I've been primarily using my 50mm lens again. I think I was in a photo-taking slump with a phone camera in my hand more than my Canon. It's been so long since I used my 50, that I'm almost having to relearn how to use a fixed lens, rather than a zoom lens- I forgot how much fun it is to shoot with!! Kind of breathed new life into my lack of desire to photograph things, which is just in time for my shop reopening. I am shooting for February 5th so stay tuned... it's getting crazy over here!!
So before someone comes in and I get side tracked again... here is the recipe for both gluten free and regular cookies:
The best sugar cookies EVER:
1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 cup butter at room temperature
1 egg
1 tsp real vanilla extract
1 tsp real almond extract
2 1/2 c flour (either an all purpose for regular cookies, or the Namaste cup for cup for gluten free.)
1/2 tsp xanthan gum *ONLY if making these gluten free
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cream of tartar
*Mix sugar and butter then add egg, vanilla and almond. Add dry ingredients and mix until combined. Refrigerate in discs for 2-3 hrs. Lay out disc onto parchment and place another piece of parchment over top, then roll out to about 1/4 thickness or slightly thinner. Cut into desired shapes and place on lined baking sheet. Bake at 375 for 7-8 minutes.
(I used half recipe of this icing and added 1 tsp almond into it as well but you could use any icing you like. Royal icing is also nice on these cookies.)
And now I need to get the hoodlums lunches packed for tomorrow and move the laundry off my table so we can eat dinner. I've got a busy week of restocking flour sack dishtowels for the shop ahead of me. (I'm doing the Eat drink & be merry design in a couple fun colors for the everyday...along with the butcher chart cow and blue mason jar towels) It's going to be a good week I can tell.
What's on your agenda for the rest of this week?
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- AnonymousJanuary 20, 2014 at 3:49 PM
one of the things that I noticed about your blog a long time ago was all the pretty pictures of desserts! not sure what it is about sweet things that make for great photos but "it works!"ReplyDelete
total cuteness with the glasses! :-)Replies
Oh thank you!! Now if only my waistline was as photogenic. Lol!! :)Delete
The cookies look delicious! You probably have heard this already, but gluten-free baking works so much better when you bake by weight, not volume. That is, if the Namaste mix was cup-for-cup, it meant that a cup of it weighed the same as regular flour (125g). But you can use any GF mix this way; just always substitute by weight, not volume. It makes such a difference, especially when you're converting a non-GF recipe! Also, I've found that the best mixes (mixed up yourself or storebought) are about 50-70% whole grain flour (brown rice, sorghum, etc.) and 30-50% starch (cornstarch, potato, tapioca, etc.).ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you!!! I actually just read this tip last week and have yet to try it bit I am going to now that you have seconded that tip! Still learning as I go and always appreciate the help and encouragement!Delete
Thanks for sharing this cookie recipe with us today, I have a friend of mine that can only have gluten free stuff and I bet she would just go crazy over these. I am going to have to try them for her. Your kids are getting bigger, mine are as well. I really notice it when I look back a pictures......~sigh~ I guess that is life right. At least they are growing and are healthy. Have a great week hun. ~hugs~ReplyDeleteReplies
Aww thanks friend. We cant stop time...sure wish we could just freeze it a bit! :)Delete
What fun and how cute, eyes and all! Seems more and more folks are going gluten free, so how nice that you converted it. Good luck as you prepare to reopen your shop. Happy week!ReplyDeleteReplies
Its so nice how many gf options ava and I can find now. Sure wish we didnt have to but since we do it makes things so much easier. Happy week to you too girly!Delete
Thank you so much for posting this. I have been trying to go gf due to joint pain (I am 45 and my joints feel 80). I am on my second week and feeling better but having a hard time adjusting. I think I will make these this weekend. I here king arthur flour has a gf flour also.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing the recipe . I buy it all the time at costco. Here is there web site for those who don't have a costco near buy .ReplyDelete
Yum. I'm not an almond extract kind of girl, but I bet these would be fabulous with orange zest or extract too! Yay, gonna try!ReplyDelete
These sound so good right now (guess I should have read your post AFTER lunch) that I had to grab a yogurt to finish the post : ) The decorations look like such fun although I am with you in liking a cookie without eyes. And from one Seahawk fan to another - Superbowl here we come!ReplyDelete
oh goodie! i have been doing gluten free fro TWO..yes two days. kinda getting ready for the next surgery and really want to eliminate it from my diet for the most part. with my new parts i think it will help with things. and i have a voracious sweet tooth and sugar cookies are my FAVORITE! so i will pin these. i have heard of the namaste flour at costco. went the other day and couldn't find it...boo! but when i do i am baking these! looking forward to your shop opening and if you want to put a BRAVE quote or something on some flour sack dish towels...i would really buy them! since i do dishes by hand....ugh! i know. i am whining again but flour sack towels are THE best for drying....love you xoReplyDelete
Oh my goodness! I've been searching for a gluten free sugar cookie recipe! I'm so excited to try this!ReplyDelete
I've gone gluten free this week.ReplyDelete
I'm not allergic to it, but my body sure does resist it.
My joints are hurting from inflammation…I feel so much better when I'm off of it.
WHY do I keep going back? makes me so mad at myself to know better and not do better!!!
Here's to another try at it….what better way to get started than to bake cookies???
Your cookies look so yummy. And cute with the faces! We don't have any flours like that here but I get pretty good results with Orgran GF flour if I use a decent margarine (am dairy-free as well) and especially if I chill the dough before rolling it out. Thank goodness we can still have cookies, hey?ReplyDelete
those cookies!!!!!ReplyDelete
i remember seeing his face cookie over at instagram... it's my fave.


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Bristol-based band The Belishas released their debut EP 'Spectrums' a few weeks back and it's got me and many others going mad over it already. I don't often like bands and their music this much after listening only a few times, but as soon as I had listened to their EP fully: I was absolutely mesmerised by every single song.
With an average age of just 17, The Belishas have an incredible and undeniable talent for their age, and it's only set to increase their status within the music industry. The EP came about after the band had spent the previous year gigging to gain (deserved) recognition. Being described as a mix between punk and classic indie vibes, the EP tests the complete spectrum (pun intended) of indie within the 5 songs.
A personal favourite of mine on the EP is 'Alcohol Assassin' because it captures both the raw indie instrumental with an equally as good classic british vocal balance. I won't ruin the remaining 4 songs for you – because below is a link to the band camp page, where you can stream the EP or even buy it.
There are a lot of new and young indie bands around at the moment, but there's something about The Belishas that screams different, and their journey is certainly one I want to be a part of. If you do too, you can find them at any of the links below:

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Susanne Antonetta
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Susanne Antonetta is the pen name of Suzanne Paola (born 1956, in Georgia), an American poet and author who is most widely known for her book Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir (ISBN 1-58243-116-7). In 2001, Body Toxic received recognition as a 'Notable Book' from the New York Times. An excerpt of "Body Toxic" was published as a stand-alone essay which was recognized as a 'Notable Essay' in the 1998 Best American Essays 1998 anthology. She has published several prize-winning collections of poems, including Bardo, a Brittingham Prize in Poetry winner, and the poetry books Petitioner, Glass, and most recently The Lives of The Saints. She currently resides in Washington with her husband and adopted son. She is widely published both in newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, as well as in literary journals including Orion, Brevity, JuxtaProse Literary Magazine, Seneca Review, and Image. She is the current Editor-in-Chief of Bellingham Review.
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Early life[edit]
Paola was raised among the New Jersey Pine Barrens, which she later used as the setting for Body Toxic (and the haunt of the Jersey Devil), in one of the most environmentally contaminated counties in the United States. Paola's memoir merges her personal and familial sagas with historical accounts, politics, and environmentalism. Body Toxic depicts an American family in the midst of what the author perceives as the wreckage of the American dream.
Paola writes about how the poisoned landscape of her New Jersey childhood devastated her body, causing cardiac arrhythmia, seizures, severe allergies, and sterility. She recounts the story of the Radium Girls, details aspects of the frequent nuclear and industrial waste debacles in New Jersey, and relates these events to her family and neighbors.
Paola's memoir disputes attribution of her afflictions to genetic vulnerability, random chance, or recreational drug use. Vignettes depicting colossal man-made environmental disasters are woven into her story, accenting the recurrent medical catastrophes she endured, including endometriosis, rampant thyroid tumors, a quadruplet pregnancy (sans fertility drugs) that ended in miscarriage, numerous growths on her liver and ovarian cysts that necessarily had to be removed, all embedded in a time line repeatedly punctuated by manic-depression. Ironically, the latter condition was treated with psychotropic drugs, some of which are derived from the very same dye chemicals dumped, sometimes recklessly, into the environment of southern New Jersey.
- Notable Essay, Elizabeth, Best American Essays 1998
- Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Bardo, 1998
- New York Times Notable Book, Body Toxic, 2001
- Spirituality & Health|Spiriturality & Health - Best Book of the Year, Body Toxic, 2001
- Library Journal's Ten Best Science Books of the Year, Body Toxic, 2001
- American Book Award, Body Toxic, 2001
- NAMI/Ken Johnson Award, A Mind Apart, 2006
- Pushcart Prize, Hosts, 2012
Creative Nonfiction[edit]
- Make Me A Mother New York, NY: (W.W. Norton, 2014) ISBN 978-0393068177
- A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World New York, NY: (Tarcher/Penguin, 2005) (reprinted 2007; ISBN 9781585425181)
- Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir New York, NY: (Counterpoint, 2001) ISBN 9781582432090
- Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir (Korean translation, Yeesaw Publishers (Gyeonggi-Do, Korea), 2005)
Poetry collections[edit]
- The Lives of the Saints Seattle, WA: (University of Washington Press, 2002)
- Bardo Madison, WI: (University of Wisconsin Press, 1998)
- Glass Princeton, NJ: (Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Award Series, 1995)
- Petitioner Seattle, WA: (Owl Creek Press, 1986)
- Tell It Slant: Creating, Revising and Publishing Creative Nonfiction (2nd edition of "Tell It Slant: Writing & Shaping Creative Nonfiction") with coauthor Brenda Miller. New York, NY: (McGraw-Hill, 2012) ISBN 9780071781770
- Tell It Slant: Writing & Shaping Creative Nonfiction with coauthor Brenda Miller. (trade edition, McGraw-Hill, 2004)
- Tell It Slant: Writing & Shaping Creative Nonfiction with coauthor Brenda Miller. (McGraw-Hill, 2003)
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- Bookreporter.aol.com – Body Toxic Chapter One (excerpt)
- Gelmans.com – 'Woman Looks Back at Her Toxic N.J. Youth', Candy J. Cooper (February 20, 2002)
- NYTimes.com – 'Poison: The author recounts how she was shaped by a girlhood that was, quite literally, toxic', reviewed by Michael Pollan, New York Times (June 24, 2001)
- SpiritualityandPractice.com – Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir, reviewed by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
- TidePool.org – Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir, reviewed by Christian Martin (2001)


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Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
The Columbia-Shuswap Regional District is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located in the Southern Interior region on the Trans-Canada Highway between Vancouver and Calgary, Alberta. The regional district borders the Province of Alberta across the Rocky Mountains.
Columbia-Shuswap regional district comprises the regions known as the Shuswap Country, which focuses around Shuswap Lake and lies to the north of the Okanagan region, and the northern part of the Columbia Country, namely the "Big Bend" of the valley of the Columbia River from the Town of Golden to the historic City of Revelstoke, British Columbia. (Revelstoke is sometimes referred to as being in the North Kootenay, Golden is usually thought of as being part of the East Kootenay sub-region, the Columbia Valley). The Canada 2006 Census population was 50,141, spread over a land area of 28,929 square km and a water area of over 2,000 square km. The regional district's offices are in Salmon Arm, near the southwest corner of the regional district.
Incorporated Communities[edit]
- City of Salmon Arm- 16,012
- City of Revelstoke- 7,230
- Town of Golden- 3,811
- District Municipality of Sicamous- 2,676
Regional District Electoral Areas[edit]
- Columbia-Shuswap Electoral Area "A" - 3,097
- Columbia-Shuswap Electoral Area "B" - 706
- Columbia-Shuswap Electoral Area "C"- 7,695
- Columbia-Shuswap Electoral Area "D"- 3,899
- Columbia-Shuswap Electoral Area "E" - 1,528
- Columbia-Shuswap Electoral Area "F" - 2,731
Unincorporated Communities[edit]
- Anglemont- 454
- Blind Bay- 1,149
- Celista- 408
- Craigellachie
- Eagle Bay- 528
- Falkland- 805
- Malawka- 619
- Notch Hill- 515
- Ranchero- 971
- Scotch Creek- 762
- Silver Creek- 1,038
- Sorrento- 1,360
- Sunnybrae- 699
- Swansea Point- 243
- Tappen- 773
- White Lake- 623
External links[edit]
Coordinates: 51°25′00″N 117°40′00″W / 51.41667°N 117.66667°W


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FLIGHT, DECEMBER 19, 1930 42, and three additional 7-seater•machines were added to the fleet. From this period the company'sservices progressed to the present- day development—to which we re-ferred in our previous article. Here we may give a few par-ticulars concerning some of the air- craft for which the Larkin AircraftSupply Co., Ltd., are responsible, and which are shown in the accom-panying illustrations. These are : " Lascoter " 5-seater, with Siddeley" Puma " engine ; " Lascondor " 7-seater, with three ArmstrongSiddeley " Mongoose " engines ; " Lascowl " 11-seater, with geared" Jaguar S " engine. The "Lascoter" was the firstaeroplane designed in Australia to receive an airworthiness certifi-cate. It had completed, up to October 16 last, over 60,000 milesof flying over all parts of Australia, carrying disposable loads up to2,000 lb. Its top speed, as actually checked with full load, is 112 m.p.h. ;empty weight, with water, 2,500 lb. ; fully loaded weight, 4,500 lb. Thismachine is also available as a 7-seater fitted with an ungeared"Jaguar" engine, the guaranteed top speed being 140 m.p.h. The " Lascondor " is believed to be the first multi-enginedaeroplane to be either designed or manufactured in the Southern Hemisphere. With a disposable load of 2,300 lb.,it will take-off and climb to 8,000 ft. with any two engines running. The top speed is 130 m.p.h., and cruising speed108 m.p.h. The construction is almost entirely of metal, the fuselage being built from square steel tubes of the firm'sown patented type. It will be noted that the wing engines are mounted in such a position that the slipstream from theseengines passes entirely beneath the wing. This feature un- doubtedly results in considerably greater efficiency, and, inaddition, provides greater accessibility and more satisfactory petrol feed. A fully-castoring tail wheel is provided in con-junction with independently-operated wheel brakes. The wing bracing is arranged in such a manner that the wingnacelles can be omitted with no other structural alteration beyond the fitting of a " Jaguar " engine in place of thecentral " Mongoose " engine, enabling this type to be offered as a single or triple-engined aircraft. There are two " Lascowl " machines in operation—the" Diamond Bird " and " Love Bird." These machines were formerly Anec Ill's with Eagle VIII engines, the cabinholding six passengers. The Larkin Co. recently re-designed these as 11-seaters, the whole of the forward structure beingof their patented steel-tube construction. Since completing this work, the 'planes have a total of over 330 hours each The "Lascowl" is the Anec III re-designed as an 11-seater, fitted with a geared "Jaguar S" engine. to their credit without even top-engine overhaul. A pointof interest is that after 200 hours' running the two aircraft were chartered by Mr. Donald MacKay to proceed to Ilbilla,a point 400 miles west of Alice Springs, in Central Australia, to carry out survey flights over 40,000 square miles of entirelyuninhabited and practically unknown country extending into Western Australia. (We described this survey in our issuefor November 21 last.) About the middle of July, both machines returned safely, having experienced no troubleof any kind. The terrain over which they operated, from Ilbilla as base, is admittedly the worst in Australia, providingpractically no facilities for landings anywhere. A new lake, the largest in Australia, was discovered by this Expedition,the entire mapping being done from the air. Other Larkin machines of interest are : The D.H.50" Wattle Bird," with geared " Jupiter XI " engine, which was entirely rebuilt by the Larkin firm for use on theCamooweal-Daly Waters service, and two of which have been put into operation. The Sopwith " Gnu," with Wright" Whirlwind J.5 " engine, which was originally in service ten years ago, fitted with a 200 h.p. Bentley rotary andlater a 110 h.p. Le Rhone, but which was sold two years ago to Mr. Keith Farmer—a well-known Australian pilot—and re-designed for the Wright engine. The Laikin company have also built 32 " Gipsy Moth "machines for the Royal Australian Air Force. That Transatlantic Air Mail Service FURTHER developments are reported regarding theproposed Transatlantic air mail service, to which we referred the other week. It appears that an agreementhas been made between the air operating companies of Great Britain, France and America, whereby the difficultyof a divided control in the operation of the service, when it is set up, has been avoided. The companies concernedare Imperial Airways, Aero Postale Union of France, and Pan-American Airways of America; Imperial Airwayswould control operations in Bermuda, and Aero Postale in the Azores. According to The Times aeronauticalcorrespondent :— " This arrangement has resolved the initial difficultiesof the Pan-American Company and, strongly supported by the American Post Office, it is pressing forward its plansfor opening a service in 1932. The keenness of the American Post Office on the project has been shown byits invitation of tenders for such a service. The announce- ment inviting tenders was made within a fortnight of theconclusion of the agreement. The conditions provided that the first stage of the route between Norfolk or Charles-ton and Bermuda shall be in operation by next June, but that the operating company shall receive no payment untilthe whole service to Europe is established. The French company, on its side, is similarly preparing to begin aservice. Great Britain at the moment has taken no step either through the Post Office or through the Air Ministryto prepare for a service, which both the other countries are evidently determined to start during the next two years." While the main difficulty of such a service at present isthe production of a seaplane or flying-boat possessing the necessary performance for the 2,000 miles Azores-Bermudasection (the distances from Portugal to the Azores, 900 miles, and from Bermuda to the American coast, 700 miles, donot present any great difficulties), The Times correspondent points out that the United States and France are both con-structing flying-boats suitable for this service and will have them ready for trial well within two years. Great Britainhas no boats under construction for such a purpose, and the Air Ministry has not given any indication that it proposesto move in this direction, but it is clear that if provision were made in the next financial year Great Britain need not bebehind the other nations in this enterprise. Air Services in the West Indies JAMAICA'S first British air mail service was inauguratedon December 10, when a machine (piloted, we understand, by Capt. A. R. Holland) left Kingston for Santiago, Cuba. Thisservice is to form a part of a 33-hour air mail service between Jamaica and Montreal, for which Capt. Holland has alreadysigned a contract. We also learn that Caribbean Airways, Ltd., of Jamaica, has secured the official contract to carryall outward air mail—but we do not know if this is the same concern or not. 1469
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Parkside Happy Hour - Wing Night!
Join us on June 20th @ Parkside Meadow
Hope to see you there for good food and good times!
More info on our website HERE
Without faithful Parkside residents like you, the work we do would not be possible. For those of you who have generously completed community service, come out in support of our events, and financially contributed, we are so grateful.
If you've enjoyed our many community events and campaigns, sent your children to our Summer Arts Camp, or if you simply appreciate being a part of a community that cares for its neighbors, please consider making a tax-deductible gift to the PCA.
If you appreciate what we do, please consider joining. Already a member? Share our efforts and events with your family, friends, and neighbors!
Learn more about the Parkside Community Association here.
To see all PCA events such as committee meetings and sponsored events, check out our online calendar!
Sunday, June 24 | 10AM-4PM
More information available HERE
Sunday, June 24 | 10AM-3PM
One Sunday each month through September!
More information available HERE
Wednesdays | 5:30-7:30PM
June 20 - Wing Night at Parkside Meadow
September 19 - Trivia Night at Central Park Grill
December 19 - Wing Night at Parkside Meadow
FREE programs and meals for adults and children available at community school and Parent Center locations city wide. The nearest Community School & Parent Center to Parkside is Bennett High School, 2885 Main Street. Visit the Buffalo Public Schools website for details.
For more information about events, such as tours, workshops, youth education classes, and adult lectures, check out their website.
2495 Main St, Buffalo, New York 14214
For more information about events, such as Game Space, Journey's End Refugee Services Farm Stand and CSA, and/or Free M&T 4th Fridays at the Buffalo Arts Studio, visit their website.
29 W. Northrup Buffalo, NY 14214
For more information about the Community Laboratory (CoLab) in the University Heights, such as free DIY bicycle maintenance, tree stewardship, housing repairs, and community meetings, check out their website.
298 Northampton Street, Buffalo, NY 14208
The Foundry works to increase neighborhood prosperity by empowering individuals through education and entrepreneurship. See here for: Adult and Youth Classes and Maker Spaces.
617 Main Street, Suite 201 Buffalo, New York 14203
PBN is committed to bringing resources and results that ensure that our historic places thrive for generations to come. For more information about services and workshops, call: 716-852-3300 or visit their website.
If any of our elderly members are interested in attending any of these events, let us know. The PCA will work towards finding a ride for you.
For general volunteer opportunities, please contact the office, 716-838-1240 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Want to show off your Parkside Pride? We know, of course you do! The PCA has a wide variety of logo apparel, household items, and cards in our online store.
Our newest item, Parkside Pennants, are now available for sale through our website, and we can provide free Parkside neighborhood delivery, or you may pick up in our office, 2318 Main Street.
Your nearest Dash's Market | 1770 Hertel Ave. Buffalo, NY 14216
Every time you shop at Dash's Market, please save your receipt.
Turn original receipts into the PCA office, 2318 Main Street (near the corner of W. Oakwood), anytime (drop in our mail slot!) and we will submit them to Dash's office for a cash back.
There are no increased premiums, no sign up forms, no fees, no new key tags. Simply drop off your receipts. We will take care of the rest.
The Parkside Community Association participates in SEFA, TRUIST, and United Way payroll deduction programs. These programs allow you to give generously with pre-tax income, so both you, and the PCA benefit. Reach out to your employer to make a charitable contribution.
Additionally, often times employers will match charitable contributions to not-for-profits such as the PCA. Inquire with your employer to see if they will give a donation along side your own.
SimpleFund is a fundraising technology platform designed to allow you to raise money by doing things you already do: Reading Articles, Installing Mobile Applications, Watching Videos and Taking Surveys. Every time you complete one of these actions, you can raise money for the PCA. That's it! Download the application for your mobile device:
Street light out? Let us know!
If you see any dimming or nonworking street lights on their blocks, please let us know by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or calling the PCA office at (716) 838-1240. When reporting these to us, please be sure to include the street address and the cross streets, as well as the number listed on the light pole itself.
That's right, if you would like a tree planted in front of your home, you can ask the city to do so by calling the City of Buffalo's 311 Call and Resolution Center. For more information, please click HERE.
Join us on June 20th @ Parkside Meadow
Hope to see you there for good food and good times!
More info on our website HERE
Sunday, June 24th from 10:00AM to 4:00PM
Additional details and gardener sign-up form link below!
Sign up to participate in this year's tour!
2018 Garden Sign-up form HERE
2018 Lemonade & Cookie Stand form HERE
Tours of the local gardens nestled between the beautiful homes of the Parkside neighborhood, the suburb designed by Olmsted in 1870, were during the 20th Annual Parkside Garden and Architecture Tour on Sunday, June 24th from 10AM to 4PM. The self-guided tour began in the heart of the Parkside community, outside of Hillside Children's Center, 70 Jewett Parkway, at the corner of Crescent Avenue. A full color map and garden directory for this self-guided tour was available for $5 on the day of the tour. The maps directed you to the highlighted gardens.
If you missed this past weekend's debut of the market, mark your calendars for next month's return! New this year, the event has been sceduled to coincide with our other neighborhood events such as the Tour of Homes and Garden Tour. The market is free and open to the public.
Russell Street from Parkside to Woodward will be CLOSED to traffic during this event.
2018 Parkside Artisan Market Event Dates and Times
One Sunday per month starting at 10:00 AM
June 24th, July 22nd, August 26th, September 23rd
For additional information, or to sign up as a vendor, click HERE
Poster design by Parkside Prints
For over thirty years the Parkside Summer Arts Camp has provided quality arts education programming for children during their summer vacations. We hope you will join us in 2018 as we continue our long tradition!
Session Dates:
Session I - July 10-July 27, 2018
Session II - July 30-August 17, 2018
Please see our website for the online registration form, payment, and additional details.
Help us showcase our beautiful Parkside community by submitting a photo of the neighborhood for inclusion below.
If you've got a great shot you would like to share, please send it to email@example.com!
This week's photo comes from our 2017 spring blooms. If you've got great shots of our neighborhood flowers this year, we would love to see them.
Would you like to Volunteer with the PCA's events? Take a look at which events the PCA needs assistance with by clicking below! Thank you!
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The Saeki House is a common, unassuming, two-story fictional Japanese house located in Tokyo, and a main setting of both Ju-on and The Grudge franchises. In Ju-on, the house first appeared in Ju-on: The Curse and is last seen in Ju-on: The Beginning of the End, after being absent from White Ghost and Black Ghost. In The Grudge franchise, the house first appeared in The Grudge, and was last seen briefly in The Grudge 3 through flashbacks. According to the writer, it most likely will not re-appear in the reboot of The Grudge series.
The place is home for the rancorous spirits of its deceased, ill-fated residents, the Saeki family, and consequently for their grudge curse that affects any person that steps inside.
Ju-on franchiseEdit
The house is located at the Nerima district in Tokyo, Japan, and was home for a seemingly normal family, the Saeki, formed by a father, Takeo, his wife Kayako and their only son Toshio. Toshio raised his black cat Mar with them.
At some point, the family's harmony was destroyed after Takeo found out Kayako's secret feelings towards another man, their son's teacher Kobayashi. Going insane, Takeo murdered Kayako, Toshio and Mar the cat, before killing Kobayashi's pregnant wife Manami. With his murders Takeo unintentionally created a grudge curse that, according to the myth, takes over a place (their house is this case) following a moment of intense anger.After the murders, this house was first bought by the Murakami family, all of them being taken, possessed or killed by the curse afterwards. The following residents were the Kitada family, with Yoshimi the wife being possessed by Kayako's spirit, killing her husband Hiroshi and a real state agent, Tatsuya. The curse proves itself able to affect people not necessarily stepping inside the house, so Tasuya's family, the Suzukis, also succumb to it through
The death cycle continued with the third family to move into the place, the Tokunagas. Two social workers hired for them were also taken by the curse. The Tokunaga family is the last one seen to own the house, that remained for sale even though more people continued visiting the place, increasing the deaths.
A TV crew entered the house to shoot an episode of a popular TV variety show called Heart-Stopping Backgrounds, which featured an actress Kyoko Harase, who was pregnant by the time she went in. Kayako's spirit (and perhaps Toshio's as well) found its chance to live again through Kyoko's pregnancy, killing her unborn child and assuming his place. All of the crew members succumbed to the curse, and later Kyoko's husband Massashi, untill Kayako was reborn from Kyoko.
It is unclear if Kayako's rebirth ended the grudge curse.
Ju-on video gameEdit
At some point, the house was visited by Erika Yamada, while searching for her dog inside the place. The curse affected the whole Yamada family after Erika returned home.
The Grudge franchiseEditThe house is located at the Suginami special ward in Tokyo. After the Saeki murders, with the father hanging himself in Toshio's bedroom, Peter Kirk, the pivot of Kayako's murder, visited the house following her letters but is not seen being haunted or disturbed by the curse in any way; he, however, commits suicide the morning after. A group of detectives entered the house to investigate the Saeki murders and were taken one by one. The first family to own the house was the Williamses, an American family living in Japan. The whole family ended up killed by the curse, as well as their first caretaker hired. A detective sent to investigate their deaths succumbed while entering the house in order to burn it down. The caretaker's substitute then set the house on fire attempting to break the curse, but fails, as she is taken as well. As its curse, the flared house remained and was visited by her sister and a journalist (the sister being actually grabbed inside), who believed the fire had somehow worsened the curse. An American student entered the house at some point and was also caught by the curse, as it affected his girlfriend (through his cellphone call) and her friend, possibly affecting the latter's house as well. Three schoolgirls also stepped into the place, one of them unintentionally bringing the grudge curse to her home in Chicago, USA, affecting the whole place and its resident families.
Owners Edit
Ju-on franchise Edit
- Saeki family (Original owners)
- Murakami family (Ju-on: The Curse)
- Kitada family (Ju-on: The Curse & Ju-on: The Curse 2)
- Tokunaga family (Ju-on: The Grudge)
Ju-on video game franchise Edit
- Saeki family (Original owners)
- Yamada family (Ju-on: The Grudge (video game))
The Grudge franchise Edit
- Saeki family (Original owners)
- Williams family (The Grudge)
Notes and triviaEdit
- While the house setting is a real location used for the Ju-on film series, the sets were built in a sound stage for The Grudge franchise. The American shooting sets also make the house look bigger, slightly roomier and more isolated from other houses nearby.
- Karen's research confirms that the Saeki house is located in Suginami in The Grudge. This ward is 2 miles away (4 miles if driving) from the Nerima ward, where the Ju-on house is located.[1]
- Even though the house was not real, the cast and crew were required to step inside in bare feet while shooting The Grudge, respectfully.
- A replica of the Grudge house was featured in the Grudge-themed Haunt Maze at Knotts Berry Farm. The attraction was inaugurated at The Grudge 2 premiere.
- The road that leads to the fictional house is outside Minami Shinjuku station in Shibuya ward, Tokyo.
- The Ju-on: The Grudge intro was also shot at the actual house used for the Ju-on films.
- Throughout the Ju-on film series, the house often awakens some estrangement from random passersby, but never on its current owners until they are in. Apart of Karen's suspiciousness, this is never seen in The Grudge.
- According to an interview, the same house used for the Ju-on franchise was also used by the VisualKei band Kuroyuri To Kage as the set for the PV for their song "Yokusou" [2]


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The Economist has a condescending, ungrounded piece today that has this interesting claim:
For example: the new health-care-reform law passed in March is an entirely private-insurer, free-market-based reform.
Michael Cannon at Cato has a very good takedown of this whole blogpost on how close-minded conservatives are, but I wanted to expand on the use of the phrase "free-market" in a description of a bill that, as Cannon writes, expands Medicaid, creates new insurance subsidies, the price controls, and places new mandates on individuals and employers.
We see Lefties roll this canard elsewhere when they want to paint as extreme the opposition to a big-government program.
Lee Fang, a liberal blogger at the Center for American Progress wrote recently:
The right has attacked Crist for voicing support for cap and trade, a free market idea to address global warming.
Q. What's in common between (1) government mandates and subsidies for private insurance, and (2) government requirements that businesses use tradable carbon credits before burning their own fuel?
A. Some private business is making money.
So, for some lefties, that appears to be the definition of "free-market." Of course, they are ignoring the "free" half of the phrase. Yes, cap-and-trade would create a market, and yes, newly mandatory, heavily subsidized, heavily regulated insurers will compete under ObamaCare — that's a market, just not a free one.
Similarly, Lefties sometimes use "free-market" as a label on anything that both (a) involves profit, and (b) is bad. See Thomas Frank's work for a gazillion examples.
To be fair, this confusion — that private profit is the same as free markets — is shared by many on the Right, who defend corporate welfare, thinking (or claiming) that it's part of the free market.


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A Case of Good Christian Scholarship: David Lyon
I want to examine a case of what I think is good Christian scholarship, as an exemplar that we might follow: the work of the sociologist, David Lyon, who has become known as a leading expert on surveillance studies.
Many Christians in the academe adopt approaches that, I believe, are neither effective, nor satisfactory as genuine Christian scholarship. One common unsatisfactory way is to be an 'upright' person and a 'good witness' in the conduct of the activities of scholarship -- but this does not affect the theoretical content of our fields, so our fields are deprived of genuine Christian contributions, and Christians simply acquiesce to the content. Another, does try to affect the content, by trying to bring in God or Christian principles -- but this usually ends up as an antagonistic elite position, with little to recommend it to the field.
David Lyon takes a third way, which I find more satisfactory and effective, and 'resonates' with me as genuine Christian scholarship. His approach may be described as neither antagonism, nor acquiescence, but treating the world's thought as impaired insight. As a result, his Christian faith and viewpoint make a genuine contribution to the field, which scholars of other faiths and 'none' can value, and the whole field benefits.
What Does David Lyon Do?
To make this contribution, does David cite Bible verses? No (with one exception, below). Does he argue from Biblical principles? No (with one exception, below). Does he argue from a Christian world view? Not even that, as far as I can tell.
He begins from Christian presuppositions. He explains [Lyon 2007, 3]:
"A note is needed at this point on the perspective that underpins this book. While I genuinely try to present an overview of surveillance studies and to be fair to different theoretical positions in particular, I cannot pretend that I myself take no position. ... I draw readers' attention to valuable insights in the work of many thinkers, including those who disagree with each other. Readers will not find the work of a consistent disciple of Zygmunt Baumann, Judith Butler, Émile Durkheim, Jacques Ellul, Michel Foucault, Nancy Fraser, Karl Marx, Georg Simmel or Max Weber here ... Yet the analysis done by each of these, among others, contains very helpful ideas. ... While I find substantial agreement with others in the field, analytically and ethically, I try to find consistent ways of expression my position. However poorly I live them, my convictions are Christian."
Let us pick this apart, to see what David Lyon does, which might act as a model for good Christian scholarship.
1. "A note is needed at this point on the perspective that underpins this book." It is good to be aware that we have a distinct perspective, and in papers or books to tell readers openly what it is. David Lyon does not belabour it, but places his explanation where it is appropriate. Often the appropriate place to do so is in the Introduction after outlining the topic, or sometimes at the end, as a postscript, as is done in Hart [1984] and Basden & Wood-Harper [2006].
2. "While I genuinely try to present an overview of surveillance studies and to be fair to different theoretical positions in particular, I cannot pretend that I myself take no position." Try to be fair, but do not hide behind any pretence of being 'neutral'. We all hold a position, so admit it. Readers will trust us more if we do so. David Lyon does not give the impression of arrogance, of holding 'the truth', but one of humble offering of the treasure he believes he has.
3. "I draw readers' attention to valuable insights in the work of many thinkers, including those who disagree with each other. ... Yet the analysis done by each of these, among others, contains very helpful ideas." Affirm the work of extant thinkers in the field. See their insights as 'valuable'. Recognise that disagreements in the field do not necessarily mean that we have to take sides. Just as when Joshua asked the Angel of the Lord "Are you with us or with our enemies?", he told Joshua "Nay, but as Captain of the Lord's Host I come", so God's perspective usually transcends the battles that go on in each field.
I saw a website that claimed to be 'Christian economics', which was little more than a poor-quality promotion of free-market competitive capitalism, and one-sidedly ignore issues of justice for the poor or for the earth. That site, in my view, dishonours Christ, despite having in one corner a brief statement of the gospel.
4. "Readers will not find the work of a consistent disciple of Zygmunt Baumann, Judith Butler, Émile Durkheim, Jacques Ellul, Michel Foucault, Nancy Fraser, Karl Marx, Georg Simmel or Max Weber here ..." Critique the work of others in terms that are relevant to the field -- but critique in a way that all reasonable readers would see as valid critique. Here David Lyon signals that every line of thought that he finds insightful, is also open to critique. For example, later in his book, he makes one of the best critiques of Foucault's thought that I have yet seen -- sandwiched between his appreciation of some aspects of Foucault.
Some 'Christian' writers criticise Foucault because they don't like his secularist, postmodern views, and especially not his views on sexuality, and fail to acknowledge Foucault's penetrating insights and his courage. By contrast, Lyon's critique is in terms of how Foucault ignores certain aspects that are important in the reality of his field.
5. "While I find substantial agreement with others in the field, analytically and ethically, ..." Understand points with which we agree, and write about them. It might require digging deeper, because it is easy to be blinded by the points on which we disagree with them.
- 'Analytically', We might dislike some of their theories, especially those that grabbed the headlines, but dig underneath to see what theoretical contribution they have made, perhaps in questioning previous flawed ideas.
- 'Ethically', we might dislike their view of what is right and wrong, especially those for which they are well known, but dig deeper because usually their ethical views are based on an important stance with which we would agree and which was in need of being said.
6. "I try to find consistent ways of expression my position. However poorly I live them, my convictions are Christian." It is at this point that it is appropriate for David Lyon to mention his Christian viewpoint. He does not try to define what this means, nor does he use many words about it. Rather, he lets the rest of his book speak for itself, just as Jesus did to John's disciples: he let the works speak for themselves.
I do not suggest that these are the only things we need to do. For example, to Affirm and Critique we might add Enrich, and this is what David Lyon does throughout his book, Surveillance Studies: An Overview [Lyon 2007].
In What Way is This 'Christian'?
The result is a work that seems to me second to none as a reference point for the field of surveillance studies. It is not just comprehensive but rich, and has a certain 'feel' that I like, being not just technical but also 'human' in its approach.
What makes it good Christian scholarship, to me, is:
- It is rich, as just mentioned. What I mean is that it covers all the varied aspects of the field. Lyon [2007] discusses legal, the technical, the informational, the social, the economic, the ethical, and the faith aspects, among others. This, to me, is 'Christian'. If reality is created, rather than 'just is', then it is likely to exhibit a diversity of aspects, a diversity of ways in which it is ultimately meaningful. Meaningfulness refers always to an Origin of Meaning. By contrast, many works try to promote one aspect, often one that had previously been overlooked. By doing so, they sing to the tune that reality ultimately has no meaning except what we give it. Good Christian scholarship, in my view, tries to give equal due to every sphere of meaningfulness. Call it 'non reductionist' if you like.
- It breathes the coherence of reality. The distinct aspects are woven together as a beautiful tapestry of material. If reality has its Origin in a Loving Creator, then we would expect the diversity to cohere and work together. Christian scholarship, in my view, tries to understand how the irreducible modes of being and functioning all work in harmony to bring something good and beautiful in the field. Christian scholarship can often produce an 'overview' kind of work that others will find useful.
- It is 'human', as just mentioned. It recognises that the process of logical thought is never neutral, and that every thinker holds a position. We have seen above that thought is not neutral. At one point, Lyon [2007, 68] says "For me, such commitments are expressed in a quest for ..." [see below]. We are responsible for the logic we employ. A sense of responsibility and responsiveness pervades Lyon's work.
- It is 'ethical'. It exhibits the attitude that normativity, ethicality cannot be divorced from an understanding of the field. The text above continues, "For me, such commitments are expressed in a quest for the kind of justice that takes special account of the very vulnerable ..." [Lyon 2007, 68]. It is the Humanist ground-motive of theoretical thought that divorces 'Is' from 'Ought', and the Scholastic ground-motive that began to put them into different compartments of our lives, sacred and secular. To a Biblical ground-motive or viewpoint, what 'is' has 'goodness' built into it (Genesis 1). The Fall has not negated that, though it distorts human views.
- Finally, it can mention or allude to what we believe: God, Christian faith, the gospel and the Bible but in a way that is appropriate, stimulatory and seductive
Some Questions
How and when to mention God, Christianity, etc.?
Seldom, and only when appropriate to the topic. Not in a crass way 'because I feel it my duty as a Christian to do so'. We have seen above how Lyon [2007] just once mentions his Christian convictions (note, not his 'faith'). At the end of Lyon [2003] we find,
"Jacque Ellul once noted, reflecting on the fate of ancient cities such as Babylon and Nineveh, that these cultures were closed, too, 'protected against attacks from the outside, in a security built up in walls and machines.' Is there anything new under the sun? Yet, against that, insists Ellul, is the vision of a city where doing justice and loving one's neighbour is put first. From that commitment to responsibility for the Other proceeds peace and prosperity, freedom and security, sought otherwise through false priorities. This is a city whose gates are never shut. It is a place of inclusion and trust. And its light finally banishes all that is now done in the dark.
Notice the allusions to Biblical themes, speaking redemption.
It does not explain how to accept Christ, because to do that would not be appropriate to that book. In my view, it can sometimes be appropriate in other books or papers, where solutions are being discussed, and we can offer Biblical salvation as one such solution. But present it humbly, offered as 'a' way, even though we might hold Christ to be 'the' way, because by doing so we respect the academic readers' desire to understand options. And, do take pains to argue how it actually contributes a solution; I find the idea of three dimensions of salvation useful here: not just becoming acceptable with God, not just being filled with the Holy Spirit, but also so that the creation can 'rejoice'. All three of those dimensions can be argued to be relevant to any field, but it takes a lot of effort to work out how. Are we ready for that effort; it is sacrificial?
Can and Should We Critique Christian Scholarship?
Yes indeed we should. Within God's creation, and within humanity's calling to open up the potential of reality, no Christian scholarship can claim to be without flaw.
I critique Lyon [2007] work for one thing: The 'solution' he seems to suggest, to bring about the state of affairs where the 'very vulnerable' are properly taken account of, relies on juridical and informational processes and structures only. In my view, he does not adequately discuss the attitudinal or faith aspects of this solution. He does allude to the attitudinal aspect in Lyon [2003], in his passage quoted above, but does not develop the theme.
I might also wish a discussion of how surveillance fits into a wider set of concerns of society, especially that of climate change. I might also question whether the post-2008 'recession' might change anything. But to expect those in his book would be unfair.
What David Lyon does is to adopt a Biblical presupposition about the nature of reality and the nature of scholarship. His approach is neither antagonism, nor acquiescence, but treating the world's thought as impaired insight. He does this from an understanding of reality (of the world of surveillance) that is deeply formed and informed by Biblical presuppositions. He does mention his Christian faith once or twice, and he does allude to God once or twice, but only where it would be appropriate in the eyes of others, and not to 'evangelise'. He adopts a three-point strategy:
- He affirms each thinker's view where it seems to him valid.
- He critiques each thinker's views, from his wider view.
- He enriches the views of those thinkers, so they can be taken further.
As a result, his work is valued throughout the field as of high quality and useful, and his work has become a reference point for his field. But it takes a lot of effort to achieve that. I trust this overview of his work is useful.
Andrew Basden, April 2015
Hart H. 1984. Understanding Our World: An Integral Ontology. Wedge Publishing, Toronto.
Basden A, Wood-Harper AT (2006) "A philosophical discussion of the Root Definition in Soft Systems Thinking: An enrichment of CATWOE" Sys. Res. and Behavioral Sci., 23:61-87.
Lyon D. 2003. Surveillance after September 11. Polity Press.
Lyon D. 2007. Surveillance Studies: An Overview. Polity Press.


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Since I successfully converted over from the British Skiing members organisation (BASI) to the Swiss Snowsports system, a lot of people have people have asked me about the process and the content of the practical conversion course that you have to pass. Some people have one eye on Brexit and the implications of that.
I am one of 5 people in the group of 7 that took and passed the course in November 2016 so the information that follows is up to date and a fair reflection of what to expect when going through the process of converting over your qualifications from any other national system to the Swiss Snowsports system.
For those of you non ski instructors reading this blog, this may get a little nerdy.
The first part of the process is to fill in the form demanding an assessment of your qualifications. This form can be found HERE and it's in French , German or Italian. If you can't speak a second language and you cheated your way through the second language module in your home instructor system, you might struggle and I have no sympathy for you.
The Swiss Snowsports system has levels as follows (the kids instructor is optional);
Kids instructor > Aspirant > Instructor > Brevet Federale
In terms of the qualifications that these equate to, I can only relate you to the British system. BASI 1 and 2 are worth nothing to the Swiss, the level isn't good enough. If you have the British level 3, that equates to the ISIA stamp which is what the Swiss get when they get the Instructor qualification. If you apply with less than ISIA stamp, you will probably be asked to do the aspirant exam. The Swiss give the ISIA Card with the Brevet Federale, the British give it on completion of the Level 4 because of their ties to the Eurotest countries.
Once you have submitted your request, Swiss Snowsports will give you their decision and ask you to pay 270frs to see it. If you are happy to pay, they will send you a dossier with where they consider that you stand in their system and what to do next. Most people who are applying are ISIA qualified as a minimum and will be asked if they wish to book onto the International Equivalence course.
Depending on the qualification that you hold, you may have to attend a tourism and law course and maybe 1 day of the off-piste mountain safety course. Both of these will be in French, German or Italian. Normally these and the practical tests will be sufficient for the Swiss to issue you with the Instructor qualification. Sometimes this is called the 'Patente' but this is a Valais thing only and has a different issuing authority.
If you wish to continue with the system and get your Brevet Federale which allows you to teach off-piste and gives you the right of establishment of your own ski school then you have to go to Bern and sit a written test in French, German or Italian as well as defending a dissertation in front of a panel of experts, that you wrote and submitted previously.
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Saturday, June 23, 2012 | 2 a.m.
Sun Archives
- Judge was once hell on wheels (2-19-2009)
- A painful roller derby wreck (6-16-2008)
- Not your old man's roller derby (8-14-2007)
Old-time roller derby is back in Las Vegas, the latest stop in its effort to return the sport to its glory days — or at least help stave off extinction.
With rosters laden with aging skaters, a struggle to find and train young talent, the lack of a major television contract to bring the game to the masses and money issues, it figures to be a bumpy road ahead for the banked-track spectacle.
"I don't do this for the money. I do it for the love of the game," said Las Vegan Dan Ferrari, who for the past 15 years has owned and operated the nation's last remaining professional co-ed roller derby league, the American Roller Skating Derby League, at nowhere near a profit.
"One of my assistants once informed me that I had lost $10,000 promoting a particular game, Ferrari said. "I told her I was glad I spent the money putting on that game. At roller derby games, fans get to let out their pent-up aggression by yelling at the action and they have a lot of fun. And I enjoy giving them that outlet."
The next such outlet will be at 8 p.m. June 30 when the perennial world champion San Francisco Bombers host the Brooklyn Red Devils at Texas Station. Tickets range from $9 to $30 at the gate. Seats are cheaper if purchased in advance.
Recently, those two teams and the Los Angeles Firebirds squared off in a three-game, round-robin event at Texas Station before a respectable crowd of about 800 fans, many of whom were watching roller derby for the first time.
Ferrari, a Summerlin resident since 2010, started going with his family to roller derby games in Northern California in the late 1950s at age 2. Over the past 50 years, he has seen the game's popularity skyrocket and plummet.
Throughout the 1960s, roller derby leagues featured games coast to coast five to seven nights a week and had large national television audiences. Stars like Ralphie Valladares, Charlie O'Connell, Joanie "Golden Girl" Weston and Ann Calvello became household names — as integral to their sport as Babe Ruth was to baseball.
"Ann Calvello once told me that roller derby is played 95 percent above the neck and 5 percent below," Ferrari said. "I learned early on from her that as physical as the sport is, it is a game for the thinking man and woman. And to be successful at promoting it, you have to keep thinking of ways to reach out to the fan base."
Today, Ferrari is lucky if he can put on two games a month, primarily with his Bombers as the good-guy main attraction and the other squads rotating as the villainous opponents. For now, it has to be that way because there just are not enough men and women skaters to fill the rosters of the six teams in his league.
Today's game relies on a mixture of many veteran skaters — some in their 50s and early 60s who still have the energy to play the game — and a handful of newcomers, some of whom are children of yesterday's stars.
"No one can say that skating is not in my family's blood," said Gina Valladares, the daughter of roller derby legends Ralphie Valladares and Honey Sanchez who will be on loan to the Bombers along with her son Josh for the Las Vegas game. "I wish I could skate every night like my mother and father did."
Valladares, who has skated professionally for 22 years, said she has mixed emotions when watching her children skate.
"Of course I'm very proud of them, but I'm a little scared they might get injured," she said. "Everyone in my family has been hurt skating in the roller derby. I hate it when people say that what we do is fake. When we fall on the track or get blocked into or over a rail, it's very real, and sometimes we get seriously injured."
Despite questions about the game's legitimacy, generations of fans have loved the roller derby for its rough-and-tumble mayhem, hair-pulling catfights and bruising half-time match races that make the experience exciting up to the final whistle.
Valladares says her only regret in participating in roller derby today is that her dad is not alive to see the family's third generation of roller derby skaters.
"It's so sad because he would have been so pleased to watch them," she said.
The Valladareses are not the only family of skaters in the game today. Sean Atkinson is the son of skating greats Buddy Atkinson Jr. and Drew Scott and the grandson of skating pioneers Buddy Atkinson Sr. and Bobbie Johnstone.
'Demon of the Derby: The Ann Calvello Story'
Bombers star Gwen "Skinny Minnie" Miller, who wears the great Charlie O'Connell's No. 40 jersey, has a daughter, Jackie Holmes, who skates on the same team. Ray Robles has a son, Brian, who skates in the derby.
Other young players are in development, Ferrari said. But with so few games scheduled, the league runs the risk of losing many of them because just practicing and participating in scrimmages may not be enough to hold their interest.
Helping to create tomorrow's stars is Las Vegan Lali O, a 10-year veteran of the banked track who was voted 2009's Roller Derby Queen (a combination of most attractive and most valuable skater — a coveted award since the early 1960s.)
"I feel my job is to prepare the next generation for the roller derby," said Lali, the women's captain of the Bombers who runs a roller derby school at her Las Vegas home, teaching the game to, among others, her niece, Danette Daguiar, a local high school student who also skates for the Bombers.
"I grew up watching the roller derby on TV and pretending to play roller derby on my cul de sac," she said. 'I admired skaters like Judy Arnold (Raquel Welch's body double in the movie 'Kansas City Bomber' who now is a minister) and the late Judy Sowinski. I consider myself a student of the game."
Lali, a mother of three whose real last name is Outhoummountry, says that although there is young talent out there for the league to tap, she questions whether many of today's young skaters are as dedicated to the sport as those of past generations.
"Today, a lot of the younger skaters come and go so quickly," said Lali, who also works on the Golden Nugget switchboard to help support her family. "You have to go at the game whole-hearted. You cannot play half-hearted."
For more than 75 years, Americans have enjoyed roller derby. Invented and diagrammed by businessman Leo Seltzer on the tablecloth of a Chicago restaurant in 1935, the first games were non-contact, marathon races on a track.
Two years later, sportswriter Damon Runyon suggested to Seltzer that the skaters be assigned to co-ed teams and that blocking be added. The addition of such controlled violence caused the game's popularity to skyrocket.
Games are played in eight 10-minute periods, alternating between women and men. Each team uses five skaters per play, two of them designated scorers called "jammers" who earn a point for each opposing player they lap.
Roller derby found its first national audience on Nov. 29, 1948, when it debuted on CBS-TV with the New York Chiefs playing the Brooklyn Red Devils. At one point, the sport was aired four nights a week, but it was canceled in the 1950s as networks began producing their own shows and sporting events such as baseball and boxing.
In the early 1960s, two major roller derby leagues rose to prominence. The Roller Derby featured the Bombers and their championship dynasty. The Roller Games in Southern California had the equally perennial champion Los Angeles Thunderbirds. The two leagues did not square off to crown an overall champion.
Roller derby in Laughlin
In the 1960s, roller derby promoters distributed videotapes of games played in Los Angeles and San Francisco to UHF stations nationwide for broadcast. Once again the game got weekly electronic media exposure and grew in popularity.
Good luck finding valuable TV time at a reasonable price today, Ferrari says. It costs him $10,000 to $12,000 to videotape and produce a single game, and he said he has paid one independent San Francisco television station as much as $3,000 to air a single one-hour game on a Saturday afternoon.
"When you can get your games on TV, it can pay off," Ferrari said, noting that recent crowds at San Francisco's Kezar Pavilion grew from 700 per show to 3,000 after previously taped games were broadcast in the weeks prior to the event. Ferrari said the Las Vegas games will be videotaped for potential future TV broadcasts.
In the early 1970s, roller derby, bolstered by its weekly TV broadcasts, regularly drew large paid crowds — 19,000 to 28,000 per major game. The all-time attendance record was set in 1972 at Chicago's Comiskey Park when 50,118 fans watched Ralphie Valladares' L.A. T-Birds play Ann Calvello's Midwest Pioneers.
In 1973, the Roller Derby folded amid reports that travel costs had become too high. Roller Games, however, continued into the mid-1980s, with a number of games played in Las Vegas, first at the Tropicana and later at the old Showboat.
Roller Games, despite being broadcast on ESPN, shut down and unusual versions of the sport came and went. (One promotion featured an infield alligator pit.) Flat-track women's leagues popped up nationwide, but they are primarily a novelty.
The game's financial struggles and unsuccessful attempts to reinvent itself over the past 30 years have done little to instill any degree of confidence for future success.
"Roller derby is at its end unless a miracle occurs," said Ferrari, who also is a singer and acting teacher. "There are signs of hope like Texas Station agreeing to book us four times a year.
"I think it is possible for the sport to once again become successful because I truly believe there is nothing more fun and exciting than going to a roller derby game."
Texas Station, modeled after the Lone Star State, is a AAA Three-Diamond rated hotel with 200 rooms, a casino, restaurants, bars and lounges, an entertainment showroom, a movie theater and a bowling center about six miles from the Las Vegas Strip.
It features 91,000 square feet of gaming space with more than 1,775 slots, 27 table games, a non-smoking poker room, a 500-seat bingo hall and a race and sports book.
The hotel has several dining options, from quick eateries to restaurants, including Austin's Steakhouse and Texas Star Oyster Bar. Some family-friendly features include an 18-screen movie theater and a bowling center.
South Padre provides live music weekly. The Dallas Events Center seats up to 2,000 people for concerts and other live performances.
Ed Koch is a former Sun reporter.


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TORONTO/CALGARY (Reuters) - A senior investment advisor at Toronto-Dominion Bank left the company after an internal investigation found that he had placed Blackbird Energy Inc shares with clients not suited to investing in high-risk stocks, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The sources said that advisor Jeff Ber received an unauthorized payment from the junior oil and gas explorer after the placing was completed.
TD Securities acted as co-lead on a public offering of shares in Blackbird Energy in March, through which the company raised C$84.8 million, more than the C$80 million it had planned.
Ber, who joined the bank in November 2016, received a check from Blackbird for around C$100,000 about a week after the financing closed, said a source familiar with the situation.
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"We can confirm that Jeff Ber no longer works with TD Bank Group," TD said in an emailed statement in response to a Reuters request for comment. TD is Canada's second-biggest lender.
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Ber did not respond to messages left at a telephone number listed in his name and at his new workplace nor to a message sent via LinkedIn. TD said it was not able to pass on contact details for Ber.
Calgary-based Blackbird's shares were placed at C$0.55 per share but are trading at C$0.32 after disappointing drilling results on three wells in May and sliding oil prices pressured energy stocks across the board. It has output of about 868 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the Montney play.
The sources said Ber faces an investigation by the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, which oversees trading activity in Canadian equity markets. The agency declined to comment and Reuters was unable to confirm this.
Reporting by Matthew Scuffham and Nia Williams; Editing by Amran Abocar and Toni Reinhold