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Greta Hodgkinson and Guillaume Côté in Giselle. Photo by Aleksandar Antonijevic.
Giselle andThe Four Seasons & Emergence
Saratoga PerformingArts Center, Saratoga Springs,New York
July 16—18, 2013
Piotr Stanczyk in Giselle. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
Greta Hodgkinson in Giselle. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
Xiao Nan Yu in Giselle. Photo by David Cooper.
Xiao Nan Yu and Guillaume Côté in Giselle. Photo by David Cooper.
GretaHodgkinson in Giselle. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
Greta Hodgkinson in The Four Seasons. Photo by Andrew Oxenham.
Artists of the Ballet in The Four Seasons. Photo by Bruce Zinger.
Artists of the Ballet in The Four Seasons. Photo by Lydia Pawelak.
Artists of the Ballet in Emergence. Photo by Bruce Zinger.
Greta Hodgkinson and Aleksandar Antonijevic in Emergence. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
Giselle was produced as a memorial to the late William P. Walker.
The Four Seasons is a gift from The Volunteer Committee, The National Ballet of Canada.
Emergence is generously supported by Gail Hutchison.
July 16 at 8:00 pm
An undisputed classic and an audience favourite from its first performance in 1997, James Kudelka's ravishing, witty and always surprising The Four Seasons is set to Vivaldi's renowned sequence of baroque concerti of the same name.
A work of inspired levity, intense emotion and always exquisite dancing, Kudelka's ballet, which integrates brilliant ensemble work with virtuosic solos and breathtaking pas de deux, explores nothing less than the seasons of a man's life, from the youthful brio of Spring and Summer to the melancholy acceptance of Autumn and Winter.
The collectivity of ballet as an art form, the mysterious alchemy by which a group of individuals interact through the complexities and nuances of a choreographed plan to express an ultimate goal, is the large and bracing metaphor at the heart of Crystal Pite's startling Emergence. A thematically ambitious work that explores the notion of dance as an evocation of the broader, inherent human tendency to socialization, Emergence is a striking work by a gifted young choreographer.
July 17 at 8:00 pm, July 18 at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
The quintessence of romantic ballet, and one of the most enduringly affecting and popular in the classical repertoire, Giselle continues to cast its inimitable spell over audiences with the sheer beauty of its staging and choreography, its intimations of the supernatural, its open appeal to feelings and its potent narrative of undying love and unbridled passion.
Since its premiere, the ballet's title role has always proven to be a signature piece for any ballerina, testing not just their technical skills, but placing enormous demands on their dramatic abilities, requiring as few dramatic ballets do a complete commitment to its emotional depth and complexity.
"A show that the National Ballet does superbly well… an endless thrill." The Globe and Mail, 2012
"The female corps under the command of Heather Ogden's Queen of the Wilis, danced up an emotional storm. They earned their big burst of applause."Toronto Star, 2012
"The National Ballet of Canada's Giselle is a timeless masterpiece, worthy of returning to again and again. It is pure classical dancing at its finest."National Post, 2012
"National Ballet polishes 170-year old jewel to glittery perfection for holiday season." Toronto Sun, 2012
"With this gently nuanced performance Hodgkinson joins the great Giselles of our time. Hodgkinson's triumph is so complete, so thrilling you want to cheer the theatre down." The Hamilton Spectator, 2012
"simply the greatest Canadian contemporary ballet. Everything – Kudelka's marriage of choreographer, music and theme – is perfection."The Globe and Mail, 2010
"A brilliant ballet, filled with complex and unexpected choreographic twists. The partnering is dazzling. And when Kudelka moves groups of dancers, it's mesmerizing – like being able to see a wind curling through a forest" Detroit Free Press, 2004
"The Four Seasons... a sweeping company calling card." San Francisco Chronicle, 2004
"A masterpiece of our time… Only Mr. Kudelka can infuse passion into virtuosity in this way." The New York Times, 2000
"A showstopper of a contemporary dance work" The Vancouver Sun, 2011
"brilliantly danced… "Canadian choreographers have the right stuff, the right moves and the right nerve to make things happen." Ballet Review, 2010
"Pite's Emergence offers a contemplation of human and insect activities – the swarm as social group; the hive as home – and makes its points well"Financial Times (UK), 2009
"a beautifully crafted, mysterious, impressionistic piece that captures the hidden world of insects, and can also stand as a metaphor for human existence."The Globe and Mail, 2009
The first act is set in a Rhineland valley surrounded by vine-clad hills in medieval Germany. Giselle, a peasant girl, has a passion for dancing, which is shared by her sweetheart, Loys, who courts her ardently. Hilarion, a rival for Giselle's affections, unmasks Loys as Albrecht, Duke of Silesia, who is already betrothed to the Countess Bathilde. The betrayal so shocks Giselle that she loses her reason, stabs herself with a sword and dies, leaving Albrecht crazed with despair and love.
The scene opens on a moonlit forest glade near the tomb where Giselle has been buried. After midnight, the forest is haunted by Wilis, spirits of betrothed girls who have died as a result of being betrayed by faithless lovers.
Hilarion mourns by Giselle's grave. As midnight tolls, he becomes aware of the presence of the Wilis. Terrified, he flees. The Queen of the Wilis summons her subjects for the initiation of Giselle. Albrecht comes to Giselle's tomb to beg forgiveness. Giselle appears before him and he pursues her disappearing image.
Hilarion is once again attracted to Giselle's grave, but is surrounded by the Wilis. The Queen shows him no mercy and commands the Wilis to throw him into a nearby lake. Albrecht is discovered and is prescribed the same fate but warned by Giselle he clings to the shelter of the cross. The Queen, wanting revenge, commands Giselle to dance and so lure Albrecht from the cross. He is drawn towards his beloved and dances with her until he is exhausted. Just as his death seems imminent, dawn breaks. Daylight destroys the Wilis' power, and he is saved. The ghostly figures fade away. Giselle, too, must melt into the air, leaving Albrecht sorrowful and alone.
It's often said those works of art endure that seem to read us as we read them. Shakespeare, naturally, Mozart's operas, Rembrandt's self-portraits. And in ballet? Among others, you could make a good case for Giselle. Created in 1841 with a libretto by the French poet Theophile Gautier and choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Joseph Perrot, the work, with its gauzy, dream-like textures, its check-list of 19th century literary obsessions and its volkische appeal (the Wilis were borrowed from a Slavic legend via the German poet Heinrich Heine) to both earthiness and mystery, has always been the standard reference point for Romantic ballet. And that's perfectly apt. It is a romantic ballet, in terms of reflecting so many of the intellectual and artistic currents of its age, of representing certain channels of feeling and social attitudes prevalent in European society of the time. But looked at that way, it becomes a curio, a museum piece, lacking the power to still touch us, to shake us up in some way, to make us re-think the foundations (or absence thereof) of our present condition.
And so we have had the ballet re-set in a madhouse, in the Louisiana bayous and, most recently, courtesy of a hybrid spoken word/song and dance extravaganza created by Fabulous Beast Dance Company, in a small town in Ireland where Albrecht is a bisexual line dance instructor from Bratislava. Yes, Giselle is still getting to us, a choreographic Rorschach test, even if the contested fields today are class consciousness, race and the patriarchy.
But what of that traditional ballet, the familiar spooky, spectral, gorgeous, touching ballet blanc reverie that most of us still recognize Giselle being? That story of love, betrayal, revenge and forgiveness that strikes a chord because, despite the formal adherence to an earlier aesthetic (or perhaps because of it), those themes never do get old. Can we still experience that story unoccluded by theory, in its emotional openness, its agonized beauty? Giselle is a pivotal ballet because it both looks back almost nostalgically to a romanticism that was beginning to fade, and points ahead to the challenges and preoccupations of symbolism, of interiority, of abstraction, that modern ballet would take up. And that gives its story a special meaning and place both in the history of ballet and in the history of self-understanding. We still want to hear that story and to see it danced.
At the heart of the ballet is the title character. In fact, although the work boasts some of the most haunting and distinctive corps dancing in any ballet and despite how richly suggestive the other characters are, it's safe to say that Giselle is Giselle. The role is often described as a "testing ground" for ballerinas, not just because of the demands of its technique, but because it is so emotionally exacting. Of course, that is often code for "it has a mad scene," which tends to fold it into such staples of exquisite, male-conceived female derangement as Lucia de Lammermoor or a raft of other 19th century operas. But Giselle as a character is more than her madness, and although her emotional collapse, which is brought about by her heartbreak and which brings on her death, is the ballet's famous showstopper, what completes Giselle is her transformational arc: she dies for love and then gets to come back as a spirit to save the man who betrayed her. That's the ultimate romantic gesture: her revenge is her forgiveness.
Greta Hodgkinson, Principal Dancer with The National Ballet of Canada, has danced Giselle numerous times and will be performing the role again this season, along with fellow ballerinas Sonia Rodriguez, Xiao Nan Yu and Jillian Vanstone. She's attuned especially to a Giselle she sees as a creature of pure feeling, "the epitome of all that is pure and true." That's certainly a key to constructing the role, but just as important for Hodgkinson is the challenge of playing that role on two planes. "Inhabiting her as a real person in Act I and transitioning to an ethereal being in Act II is both a physical and emotional journey," she says. There's the rub. Dancing Giselle is often compared to playing Hamlet, and there's truth enough in the remark. But once Hamlet is dead, he stays dead. Giselle gets another chance to set things right and at least partially dispel the ballet's tragic cloud. She's proof that at least in the lives of Romantic ballet heroines, there are second acts. They just happen beyond the grave.
Giselle is considered by many to be the quintessential Romantic ballet, representing the aesthetics of a bygone era, not only in dance, but music, literature, philosophy and art as well. It premiered in France at the Paris Opera in 1841 where it proved to be an instant success. Following its Paris premiere Giselle was performed throughout Europe and the United States and inspired a number of theatrical productions as well as the naming of a new flower, "The Giselle." Giselle's farewell to Albrecht even inspired a popular Victorian song, Ah No! You'll not forget me! The production was introduced to Russian audiences in late 1841 with the title role performed by the great dramatic ballerina Fanny Elssler.
It is from this version that today's interpretations take their cues with the ballet's emphasis lying in the drama of the story. Despite its early success Giselle disappeared from the stage in Paris and London for nearly 40 years only to be reintroduced in the early 20th century spawning many modern productions. Giselle has been called the Hamlet of ballet and the title role is one of the most challenging roles to perform due to the great contrast in character which must be portrayed by the ballerina, from the earthly sweet movements of the first act through the dramatic climax of madness to the spiritual, airborne, weightless movements of the second act.
The longevity of Giselle is credited not only to its historical value but also to the universality of its tale— a story of love, class distinction, betrayal, remorse and forgiveness. Like Romeo and Juliet, Giselle is a story of lovers separated by the artificial barriers of society. For both dancers and audience members, the roles of Giselle and Albrecht prove a fascinating challenge, as they allow for multi-faceted psychological character development.
The role of Giselle is unique, from its costuming to the complexity of its character makeup. At the time of its creation in 1841, Giselle was one of the first ballets to introduce the female dancer in pointe shoes, a device that allowed her wider possibilities of movement. The result was that she seemed light, ethereal and otherworldly on stage. The introduction of calf-length, lightweight tulle dresses with tight bodices also allowed for greater freedom in leg movements and the appearance of softer, "romantic" arms.
The contrasting thematic concerns of Giselle also lent themselves to the Romantic fervour of the period. While many ballets dealt either with an idealized peasant life or the fantastic, Giselle incorporated both. The ballet is set in two locales, which are set off in sharp contrast. Act I takes place in the peasant village, which is contrasted with the moonlit forest glade of Act II. As well, the realism of Act I is contrasted with the fantasy elements of Act II. The first act incorporates bright and lively mime and musical leitmotifs that develop the drama. Before the end of Act I, Giselle's mad scene begins the transition to Act II, in which the demonic world of the Wilis is represented as dark, sombre and melancholic.
The character of Giselle also goes through a transformation, from light-hearted peasant girl to crazed woman and, finally, to a ghostly vision. Giselle is a challenge for ballerinas who must combine dramatic ability and technical brilliance to bring about a convincing performance in a role that is both physically and mentally exhausting.
One of the most powerful scenes in the ballet is Giselle's death. Does she die of madness or of a broken heart? Or does she commit suicide when she thrusts Albrecht's sword toward her heart? Since early documentation proves inconclusive on the subject, the scene has been dealt with in various ways. The only clear fact is that Giselle is not buried in a graveyard but in the depths of a forest in unhallowed ground. Only a suicide would warrant such a burial. Choreographer Sir Peter Wright has said he believes Giselle kills herself, but in his own productions dancers have changed the scene to suit their own interpretations. In the late 1800s in Russia, during Marius Petipa's tenure as Ballet Master of the Imperial Theatre, suicide was not accepted on the stage, so Giselle invariably was shown as dying from madness.
The role of Albrecht provides male dancers with one of ballet's most interesting and complex characters. Far removed from the porteurs of most classical works, who simply carry the ballerina, Albrecht is a fully rounded character capable of standing on his own and holding centre stage.
There is no right or wrong way to portray Albrecht. Because Albrecht is a nobleman in disguise, it might be assumed that he wishes to be freed from his elevated social position. It is also possible that he has grown alienated from his wealth and is seeking a more spiritual, simple and authentic existence. Or maybe he is a restless dreamer who seeks a quaint diversion among the peasants.
In falling in love with Giselle is Albrecht a cad? Is he a thoughtless nobleman and idle flirt? Or is he truly in love with Giselle but simply naive about the social implications of their liaison? Whether or not he is concerned with the consequences of his actions, he is soon confronted with them.
Already engaged to be married, Albrecht is prevented by his duty to his aristocratic family from fulfilling his love for Giselle. Giselle's madness and subsequent death not only awaken Albrecht's moral sense, but also bring to the fore his emotions, primarily love and guilt. Through Giselle's love and forgiveness in Act II, Albrecht gains new awareness, humility, and a sense of responsibility. He is also made aware of the gulf between reality and his ideals, and his inability to merge the two. He must fight for his life in this act, at the mercy of the powerful Wilis, who attempt with their supernatural powers to compel him to dance to his death.
At the end of the ballet, Albrecht is left on stage, a solitary figure. Dancers' interpretations vary in these final moments, sometimes walking into the distance, away from the audience or toward it; sometimes carrying a flower, the only tangible link with Giselle, at other times, allowing the flower to fall to the ground; others end the ballet reaching out for the elusive dream or kneeling in remorse. In the original production, this scene was taken one step further, with Bathilde, Albrecht's betrothed, returning to his side. The audience would have concluded that although he had savoured his ideal (Giselle), he was reconciled to return to reality.
A leitmotif is a theme used recurrently to denote a specific person, object or feeling, either through music or movement. Giselle composer Adolphe Adam ingeniously used musical leitmotifs in his score. Adam's leitmotifs were complemented by dance movement leitmotifs created by choreographers Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli, and are still incorporated in the ballet today, more than 150 years after its premiere.
Giselle's theme There is one sequence of steps with accompanying music that Giselle repeats at various key moments in the drama. This series of ballonnes, piqués and pas de basque denotes Giselle's love for dance. They are very simple steps, light and airy, that reflect Giselle's simple peasant background and carefree existence. When Bathilde asks Giselle what her favourite pastime is, Giselle executes this series of steps, telling Bathilde that she loves to dance.
Flower themeThe flower theme in which Giselle plucks the petals of a daisy ("he loves me, he loves me not") is performed twice, once in a happy duet with Albrecht, and again in the mad scene, as Giselle recalls her lover.
Huntsmen's themeThe huntsmen's theme is the sound of horns that always precedes the arrival of the nobles and their hunting party.
Wili themeThe Wili theme is first heard in Act I when Berthe, Giselle's mother, warns her about dancing too much; it acts as a premonition of the tragedy that is to follow. The theme is reintroduced in the second act with the arrival of the Wilis, who surround Hilarion on his visit to Giselle's grave.
Hilarion's themeHilarion's entrance is heralded by his own distinct musical theme. For this music, Adolphe Adam used an excerpt from the Fate theme of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
"[Giselle is] love, betrayal, forgiveness and redemption told through the poetry of dance… a power that is almost epic in its ability to stir the emotions." - National Post
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A trio of students earned some education money with their writing skills, E.L. Ross students are getting iPads, the high schools' heating and air problems are being addressed, a parking quandary has been resolved, a group of Cleveland High students have returned from a Model U.N. Conference in Washington, D.C, and cleaning services have been secured for the coming school year.
Keep America Beautiful Director Joanne Maskew was on hand to announce the winners of this year's Environmental Essay Contest. All three winners are Cleveland High students.
The 31 entries were judged by a committee from Cleveland Associated Industries, and Westside Ruritan Club members provided prize funds of $250 for first place, $150 for second and $100 for third.
Sara Ann Owenbey was the winner with a paper titled "Tables Turned."
In second place was Brandon Caylor with his essay titled, "What has Cleveland's government done for the environment?" Hannah Aubrey Arrington wrote "An action is an action, no matter how small" for third place.
W.W. Johnson of the Ruritan club said, "This is one of the ways we can help our young people." The Ruritan president said he hoped the three winners would use the money for their education. Joyce Johnson and Linda Melton also attend the presentation from the Ruritan Club, along with KAB's Maskew.
Guidelines for the essay were that they must be two pages long, use proper grammar and punctuation, and contain a listing of all material sources.
Other notes from Monday night:
- Steve Robinson of the Cleveland Public Education Foundation and Scott Taylor of the Bank of Cleveland presented a $30,000 grant from the bank to E.L. Ross Principal Lisa Erby.
"Scott came to us with the proposal of the gift," said Robinson. "He was the driving force behind this, and wanted a project that would be measureable for his investment. He hopes this will be a model for others (individuals, businesses or industries) to do something similar."
Taylor said it was a way the shareholders of the bank can give back to the community.
Erby said the grant will be used for an iPad learning lab.
Board members Dr. Murl Dirksen and Dawn Robinson said the board appreciates it when local businesses and industry "give back."
- A group of 14 Cleveland High students echoed their thanks to the school board for approving a trip to Washington and George Washington University for this year's Model U.N. Conference Monday night.
Eighteen CHS students made the trip. They discussed the conference and what they did in debates and writing competition. They also brought back video of the adventures.
- Arnold School Principal Kellye Bender introduced her two employees of the month.
Selected by the Arnold faculty were Adam Moss and Rhonda Weeks.
Moss, whose students improved their grades by 12.5 percent this year, was an Arnold student himself. Bender said Weeks makes her job easier in the school's office. "She makes everyone happy, every day," she said.
- Energy and Maintenance Supervisor Paul Ramsey reported that the City Schools system has approved the low bid of $323,000 for renovation of the heating and air conditioning system in the east wing at the high school.
The bid, although higher than the funds previously approved by the school board, was from Four Seasons, a Knoxville firm. Work will begin as soon as school lets out for the summer, and is expected to be completed by Aug. 1.
Four bids were received on the project, all well over the projected cost. Ramsey said the school system has used Four Seasons before.
- The city school board approved a bid from D and B Janitorial Services in Chattanooga for cleaning services during the 2012-13 school year. "We've decided to try something different," said Director of Schools Dr. Martin Ringstaff. He said there were 11 competitive bids, adding that the administrative staff has confidence in the company, which has been in operation for 41 years.
- A property owner adjacent to the school system's STaR Center on North Lee Highway has reversed a decision to ban parking on the north side of the building, on property he owns. Educators had used the space for parking for some time, but thought they were going to have to find space at another location.
The school system leases the building and surrounding property from the Church of God of Prophecy.


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One Year After the Honduran Election
It has been nearly a year since Honduras held elections that were deemed illegitimate by most of the international community and which resulted in the presidency of Porfirio Lobo, a conservative politician and agricultural landowner. The election occurred just months after an illegal coup ousted President Manuel Zelaya and only included candidates who supported the coup.
Despite the illegal nature of the coup and numerous accounts of human rights abuses against supporters of Manuel Zelaya—including violence against protesters, mass arrests, and crackdowns on press freedom—the U.S. media distorted the events, painting Zelaya as a villainous follower of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and legitimizing those who ousted him, in part, by ignoring their many crimes and abuses.
Unfortunately, in the year that has followed, little has changed. The Lobo regime has continued the human rights abuses, while the U.S. media has downplayed, distorted, or ignored the crimes of his regime. The press also continues to amplify calls for international acceptance of the new leadership, despite reports of abuse.
Ignoring The Record
Throughout Lobo's tenure, widespread human rights abuses, such as the killing of journalists, the removal of opposition judges, mass arrests, beatings, and torture have been thoroughly documented by human rights organizations. Amnesty International's findings indicate the extent and brutality of abuses: "Hundreds of people opposed to the coup were beaten and detained by the security forces as protests erupted during the following months [after the coup]. More than ten people were reportedly killed during the unrest. The police and military also widely misused tear gas and other crowd control equipment.
"Human rights activists, opposition leaders, and judges suffered threats and intimidation, media outlets closed and journalists were censored. There were also reports of security force personnel committing acts of sexual violence against women and girls. Judges viewed as critical of the coup suffered a series of arbitrary transferrals and unfair disciplinary proceedings. Members of the organization Judges for Democracy, which promotes principles of fairness and transparency, formed the vast majority of those targeted."
Amnesty International released three reports about various abuses to journalists between August 2009 and June 2010, yet none received any notable mainstream media attention in the United States. One such report, written by a delegation sent to Honduras, gave chilling testimony of those who were abused.
Human Rights Watch, the largest human rights organization based in the United States, has also released a variety of reports, press releases, and statements documenting a wide range of abuses in Honduras between the coup and September 10, 2010.
Amazingly, elite national publications in the United States paid no attention to these reports. The New York Times has published 53 articles about Honduras since the coup in mid-2009 and Human Rights Watch was only mentioned in one of them—a September 29, 2009 article about two media stations being closed down. Amnesty International, likewise, has only been written about once, briefly, in a September 3, 2009 article.
The reason for ignoring the reports cannot possibly be because the Times editors consider Human Rights Watch reports about Latin American leaders to lack news value. When Human Rights Watch issued a report about Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez—who, unlike Lobo, is opposed to the neoliberal economic policies of the U.S. government—the Times dutifully published a full article about the report titled "Report Accuses Chavez of Abusing Rights."
Since the Lobo presidency began the Times has mentioned human rights abuses in Honduras twice on their news pages—once in a June 6 article titled "Latin America Still Divided Over a Coup in Honduras." The only mention of human rights abuses was buried 20 paragraphs into a 25 paragraph story and merely said, "Human rights groups complain of arbitrary arrests, beatings and killings of government opponents over the past year. And seven journalists have been killed in the country in recent months, although it has not yet been determined how many of those attacks have political links." It is interesting that the Times chose to emphasize how politically divided the nation is without mentioning the harrowing data about post-coup Honduras—such as the more than 600 cases of cruel and unusual punishment, at least 23 politically motivated killings, and the removal of judges critical of the coup.
The other mention was when the Times covered a report on July 27, 2010 released by the Committee to Protect Journalists, which expressed concern over the deaths of journalists. But this report also failed to truly document the extent of the ongoing troubles in Honduras. Tellingly, in the online version of the article, the term "human rights violations" was hyperlinked to a previous Times article. The link takes readers to a nine-month-old article about abuses following the coup that took place before Lobo's presidency. The Washington Post likewise painted the massive violence not as an egregious abuse of power, but rather as an example of "how difficult it is to bridge regional divisions."
Pushing For Legitimacy
While critics of the Lobo regime have been largely ignored by the media, those who wish to see the regime be granted international legitimacy have been given a considerable platform in the U.S. press. The Washington Post, for example, quoted Secretary of State Clinton urging the Organization of American States (OAS) to recognize the new regime in Honduras, citing "strong and consistent commitment to democratic governance and constitutional order," from President Lobo. The Post article did not bother to mention Lobo's human rights record at all and only acknowledged that within the OAS "a majority of ministers opposed even adding the question of Honduras to the agenda." Readers were left to figure out why there was opposition to accepting Honduras into the OAS, since the Post failed to give any reasons.
In fact, when the United States came out in favor of returning Honduras to the OAS, mainstream media gave it massive coverage. In addition to the Post, Reuters, the Miami Herald, the New York Times, and CNN all covered U.S. support for the new Honduran government.
The push to recognize the fraudulent regime was not surprising to those who followed the U.S. media coverage of the November 2009 elections, which—despite being marred by reports of voting irregularities and voter intimidation—was portrayed as a triumph for democracy in the country.
Ignoring numerous reports of widespread abuses on election day, the Washington Post called the election "mostly peaceful." Bloomberg reported that Lobo was "elected president in a peaceful vote" to "overcome a five-month political crisis" and quoted political analyst Heather Berkman saying: "Honduras is definitely getting toward the end of the crisis." A New York Times editorial claimed that there was "wide agreement" the election "was clean and fair," despite having declared weeks earlier that "an election run by the coup plotters won't be credible to Hondurans—and it shouldn't be to anyone else."
This glowing portrayal of the election, propagated by virtually all mainstream U.S. media outlets, conflicted dramatically with reality. Amnesty International released several reports of voter intimidation and other such problems during the elections. Many media also misreported the turnout figures, relying on the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal's grossly exaggerated numbers of about 61 percent when, in fact, turnout was below 50 percent. But by the time the truth came out, these false numbers had already been used to justify the sham elections. The "turnout appears to have exceeded that of the last presidential election," the U.S. State Department said in a statement. "This shows that given the opportunity to express themselves, the Honduran people have viewed the election as an important part of the solution to the political crisis in their country."
The U.S. media coverage has served to help legitimize the plotters and beneficiaries of the 2009 coup from the start. When Zelaya was forced out of office, the U.S. media painted him as "a leftist aligned with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela," who was ousted by the U.S.-backed Honduran military "acting to defend the law." Opinion writers asked, "Who Cares About Zelaya?" He was merely "a typical Honduran politician" with a "lust for power," whose "goal seemed to be a change from our democratic system into a kind of 21st-century socialism...a Hugo Chávez-type of government."
An article in Reuters earlier in 2010 observed, quite accurately, that "Honduras is trying to erase memories of the coup," citing how "a Supreme Court judge cleared military leaders of any wrongdoing…after prosecutors accused them of abuse of power for rousting Zelaya from his bed at gunpoint." Indeed, if the illegitimate Honduran government is trying to erase memories of the illegal coup and tighten control over the nation, it has no stronger ally than the U.S. media.
Michael Corcoran is a freelance journalist and media critic who has written for NACLA Report on the Americas and Extra! (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), among other outlets.
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LABOR - May 1 is May Day. Workers of the world will celebrate the 124th anniversary of International Worker's Day. Born out of a call for an 8-hour workday in the United States, this day is an opportunity for all workers to show their solidarity with one another, as well as to renew the call for labor rights.FARM CONFERENCE - The Farm Conference on Community and Sustainability will be held May 24-26 in Summertown, TN, in partnership with the Fellowship of Intentional Communities. Tour green homes, see sustainable food production, learn about solar installations, alternative education, midwifery, and more.
Contact: email@example.com; http://www.thefarmcommunity.com/.
PALESTINE - The Conference of the Palestinian Shatat in North American will be held June 3-5 in Vancouver. The conference will examine the future of the Palestinian liberation movement.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.palestinianconference.org/.
LABOR - The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association's 45th annual conference will be held May 3-5, in Portland, OR. This year's theme is Labor Under Attack: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future. A call for presentations, workshops and papers is currently underway.
Contact: PNLHA, 27920 68th Ave. East, Graham, WA 98338; 206-406-2604; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www3.telus.net.
MARIJUANA - On the first Saturday of May marijuana legalization activists will hold informational and educational events, rallies and marches in over 300 cities around the world.
ECONOMICS - The Union For Radical Political Economics will hold its 39th annual conference May 9-11 in New York City.
Contact: http://www.ramapo.edu/eea/2013/.
RECLAIM THE DREAM - The 2013 Poor People's Campaign & March from Baltimore to Washington D.C. will be May 11. Communities, schools and unions interested in participating are encouraged to contact the Baltimore People's Assembly.
Contact: 410-500-2168; 410-218-4835; email@example.com; Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Baltimore and the Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly, 2011 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218.
MOTHER'S DAY - The 17th Annual Mother's Day Walk For Peace will be May 12th, in Dorchester, MA. The walk began in 1996 for families who had lost children to violence. The day has become a way for thousands of people to financially support the work of the Louis Brown Peace Institute.
Contact: http://www.ldbpeaceinstitute.org/; http://mothersdaywalk4peace.org/.
NATO 5 - An International Week of Solidarity with the NATO 5 has been called for May 16-21. Supports call on supporters to raise awareness of the NATO 5 and support funds for the defendants on the one-year anniversary of their preemptive arrests.
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MOUNTAINTOP - The 2013 Mountain Justice Summer Activist Training Camp will be held May 19-27 in Damascus, VA. It will be a week of workshops, field trips to view Mountain Top Removal coal mines, direct actions, and service project.
Contact: http://rampscampaign.org/.
FEMINIST SCI-FI - The feminist science fiction convention WisCon 37 is scheduled for May 24-27 in Madison, WI.
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ANARCHY FEST - A month-long Festival of Anarchy is scheduled for May in Montreal. The festival includes The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 19-20).
Contact: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/; http://www.radicalmontreal.com/.
LABOR - The International Labor Rights Forum will present: Down the Supply Chain, Driving Corporate Accountability, on May 22 in Washington, DC. The Labor Rights Awards Ceremony and Reception will honor pioneers in supply chain worker organizing, working solidarity and international labor rights policy.
Contact: http://laborrights.org/.
MULTICULTURE - The 26th annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) will take place May 28-June 1, in New Orleans.
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MEDIA - The 2013 Alliance for Community Media Annual Conference will be held May 29-31, in San Francisco, CA. Participants will include educators, community leaders, media professionals, journalists, nonprofit leaders, policymakers and students.
Contact: http://www.allcommunitymedia.org/.
RADIO - The 38th Annual Community Radio Conference is schedule for May 29-June 1, in San Francisco, CA, with discussions and workshops.
Contact: 1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20004; 202-756-2268; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.nfcb.org/.
BRADLEY MANNING - On June 1, a rally will be held at Fort Meade in support of Bradley Manning.
Contact: http://www.bradleymanning.org.
BIKES - Bikes Not Bombs is holding its 24th annual Bike-A-Thon and Green Roots Festival in Boston, MA on June 3, with several bike rides scheduled, music, exhibitors and more.
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LEFT FORUM - The 2013 Left Forum will be held June 7-9, at Pace University in New York City.
Contact: 365 Fifth Avenue, CUNY Graduated Center, ? Sociology Dept., New York, NY 10016; http://www.leftforum.org/.
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ADC CONFERENCE - The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) holds its annual conference June 13-16, in Washington, DC, with panel discussions and workshops on civil rights, media and other topics.
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CUBA/SOCIALISM - A Cuban-North American Dialog on Socialist Renewal and Global Capitalist Crisis will be held in Havana, Cuba, June 16-30. There will be a 5 day Seminar at University of Havana, plus visits to a cooperative, urban garden, community development project, social research centers, and educational & medical institutions.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/.
NETROOTS - The 8th Annual Netroots Nation conference will take place June 20-23 in San Jose, CA. The event features panels, trainings, networking, screenings, and keynotes.
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MEDIA - The 15th annual Allied Media Conference will be held June 20-23, in Detroit.
Contact: 4126 Third Street, Detroit, MI 48201; http://alliedmedia.org/.
GRASSROOTS - The United We Stand Festival will be hosted by Free & Equal, June 22 in Little Rock, Arkansas. The festival aims to reform the electoral process throughout the U.S.
Contact: http://freeandequal.org/.
SOCIALISM - The Socialism 2013 Conference is scheduled for June 27-30 in Chicago, featuring talks and panel discussions.
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LITERACY - The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) will hold its conference July 12-13 in Los Angeles under the heading, Intersections: Teaching and Learning Across Media.
Contact: 10 Laurel Hill Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003; http://namle.net/conference/.
IWW - The North American Work People's College will take place July 12-16 at Mesaba Co-op Park in northern Minnesota. The event will bring together Wobblies from branches across the continent to learn new skills and build One Big Union.
Contact: http://workpeoplescollege.org/.
PEACESTOCK - On July 13th, the 11th Annual Peacestock: A Gathering for Peace, will take place at Windbeam Farm in Hager City, WI. The event is a mixture of music, speakers and community for peace. Sponsored by Veterans for Peace.
Contact: Bill Habedank, 1913 Grandview Ave., Red Wing, MN 55066; 651-388-7733; email@example.com; http://www.peacestockvfp.org.
CHILDREN'S DEFENSE - July 15-19, join clergy, seminarians, Christian educators, young adult leaders and other faith-based advocates for children at CDF Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee, for five days of spiritual renewal, networking, movement building workshops, and continuing education about the urgent needs of children at the 19th annual Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry.
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ACTIVIST CAMP - Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp will have sessions in July and August in Ben Lomond, CA; Portland, OR; Charlton, MA. YEA Camp is designed for activists 12-17 years old who want to make a difference in the world.
Contact: email@example.com; http://yeacamp.org/.
LA RAZA - The annual National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Conference is scheduled for July 18-19 in New Orleans, with workshops, presentations and panel discussions.
Contact: NCLR Headquarters Office, Raul Yzaguirre Building, 1126 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036; 202-785-1670; www.nclr.org.
LABOR - The Eastern Conference For Workplace Democracy: Growing Our Cooperatives, Growing Our Communities, will be held at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, July 26-28.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://east.usworker.coop/.
WOMEN/LYNNE STEWART- Radical Women is asking for support letters and cards to be sent to Lynne Stewart. Stewart is a civil rights attorney and political prisoner who is currently in jail. She has breast cancer and authorities have denied her request for transfer from her Texas prison to the New York City hospital where she received medical attention during a prior bout of breast cancer. Send messages and cards to: Lynne Stewart 53504-054, Federal Medical Center Carswell, P.O. Box 27137, Fort Worth, TX 76127.
Contact: 747 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA 94109; 415-864-1278; email@example.com; http://lynnestewart.org/; http://www.radicalwomen.org/.
HAITI/WOMEN - Haiti's government is considering a legal reform measure that would prohibit and punish all sexual assault, including marital rape. MADRE and the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict are launching a petition to raise international support for this push to address violence against women in Haiti.
Contact: 121 West 27th Street, #301, New York, NY 10001; 212-627-0444; email@example.com; http://www.madre.org.
SYRIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) is currently seeking funds to assist more than 200,000 refugees fleeing violence in Syria.
Contact: https://www.mecaforpeace.org.
FOLK FESTIVAL - The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival will be held August 2-4, in the Berkshires, NY.
Contact: http://www.falconridgefolk.com/; firstname.lastname@example.com.
WAR RESISTERS - The War Resisters League will hold its 90th anniversary conference, Revolutionary Nonviolence: Building Bridges Across Generations and Communities, August 1-4, at Georgetown University. The event will focus on the U.S.' long history of antimilitarism.
Contact: 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012; 212-228-0450; email@example.com; http://www.warresisters.org.
POPULAR ECONOMICS - The Center for Popular Economics is holding its 2013 Summer Institute August 4-9 at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. No background in economics is needed for this intensive training. This year's theme is, The Care Economy: Building a Just Economy with a Heart.
Contact: Center for Popular Economics, PO Box 785 Amherst, MA 01004; 413-545-0743; email@example.com; www.populareconomics.org.
VETERANS - Veterans for Peace is holding the 28th annual convention August 6-11 in Madison, WI. This year's theme is, Power To The Peaceful.
Contact: http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org/.
DEMOCRACY - The Democracy Convention will take place August 7-11 in Madison, WI. The convention brings together nine conferences including topics such as media, education, defense, race, environment and others.
Contact: https://democracyconvention.org/.
MEN - The 38th National Conference on Men & Masculinity: Forging Justice: Creating Safe, Equal and Accountable Communities, presented in partnership with HAVEN, will be held in Detroit, MI, August 8-10.
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OCCUPY - An Occupy National Gathering will be held in Kalamazoo, MI, August 21-25.
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COMMUNITIES - The Communities Conference is a networking and learning opportunity for co-operative or communal lifestyles, with workshops, events and entertainment; scheduled for August 30-September 2 at the Twin Oaks Community in Louisa, Virginia.
Contact: http://www.communitiesconference.org/.
LABOR DAY - The 29th annual Bread and Roses Festival, a celebration of the ethnic diversity and labor history of Lawrence, MA, will be held September 2, in honor of the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike. There will be music, dance, poetry, drama, ethnic food, historical demonstrations, walking & trolley tours.
Contact: PO Box 1137, Lawrence, MA 01842; 978-794-1655; http://www.breadandrosesheritage.org/.
OCCUPY WALL STREET - September 17 is the two-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Events are planned in New York City and worldwide.
Contact: http://occupywallst.org/.
TEACHERS - The 13th Annual Conference, "Teaching for Social Justice: The Politics of Pedagogy," will be held October 12 in San Francisco, CA. The free event features workshops, resources, and free childcare.
Contact: 415-676-7844; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.t4sj.org/.
HAITI - International Action, which brings clean water and chlorinators to Haiti, seeks office space capable of housing up to six people and their office equipment.
Contact: Zach Bremer, email@example.com; 202-488-0735; http://www.haitiwater.org/.
MEDIA - The Union for Democratic Communications and Project Censored are sponsoring a joint conference on media democracy, media activism and social justice to be held November 1-3 at the University of San Francisco. Proposals for presentations, workshops and panels from activists and critical scholars are invited.


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Rawr! The preview video is out for The Housemaid's remake, and it's pretty damn sexy. The music, the ambiance, the juxtaposition (literal and figurative) of Jeon Do-yeon's sly maid character — with those sneaky sidelong glances! — and Seo Woo's young wife character… I have a feeling I may not feel a ton of sympathy for Lee Jung-jae's cheating husband character but his magnetism abounds. He's always been confident and sexy, but he's even more so here.
The Housemaid will release in theaters on May 13.
Thanks to a reader's recommendation, you can also see the 1960 original film (called by many the greatest Korean film of all time) for free online here: TheAuteurs.com
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When I was little I used to spend all my playtime outside the house, in the streets together with my cousins and other children in the neighborhood. We climb trees, hide by the bushes, play with the grasshoppers, ran all day and burn all our energy chasing the cats or the occasional tricycle passing by a then not so busy and crowded Arellano-UM Street. Summer vacations in the Philippines where children are off from school are on the months of April and May and these were our play-all-day time of the year. We put up tents made of sticks and old tarps and streamers, made use of just about anything and everything we found on the yard as toys and play to our heats content. Inside those "tents", our world was on the games we played, oblivious of the nagging voices of our mothers and aunts telling us not to stay too long in those tents where it is extremely hot and humid under the sunny day of summer, nevertheless happy childhood memories were made.
This photo was taken Summer of year 1984. Obviously, the picture quality tells it's age. Digital cameras were not born yet nor Photoshoppe and digital image enhancement. By the way, that's ME over there, partly hidden, fourth from the right. We may look like refugees but who cares? As we grew older, our games were also getting modern, physically sporty and technical eventually as the era of game and watch, family computers and brick games have evolved.
Nowadays, children are less seen on outdoor games. They don't play the games we played. They seldom climb trees like we did. Instead, they are indoors and opted to spend their time on computers, laptops, tablets and other hand held video games. Their playmates are the friends they have on their Facebook and they play games online or by themselves. I know that this scenario is common not only to my household but perhaps to most.
In a hi-tech world we are living now, it is very surprising that kids as young as six or seven are technically literate. I admit, the games online and those android games loaded on our gadgets are addictive. Back then, our parents knew who our playmates were and even their families. As a mother of two computer literate children who tend to splurge on video games, I see to it that in one way or another I will become their playmate. I control the time they spend on computers and games as well as the movies and cartoons they watch. When they play, I compete with them and YES, they are better than me. We share the same virtual playmates and these are our favorites:
1. PLANTS vs. ZOMBIES
3. BOOKWORM Deluxe
4. CUT the ROPE
5. FaceBook's Farmville, Cityville, Café World and Pet Society
The good thing about these games is that it occupies their time when I have house chores to do and needs to finish doing it up. What is bad is that, they get so hooked and they want to play often that they keep bugging me to fire up the laptop which they know how to but can't because I secured it with a password. These games may be good because they will learn strategies and bad at the same time since it kept the children from all the physical activities their young bodies need to exert. My kids on the other hand does a lot of running around good enough on what their bodies needed…… or so I think. Well, they appear to do so because they looked like they were on a-hundred mile fun run every time they come home from school.
When we play, we take turns and compete in terms of scores and game levels achieved. Virtual games can't be all that "VIRTUAL"…. we mothers can be their playmates too!


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MARTINSBURG - A Falling Waters man pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing more than 3,000 images and more than 200 videos containing child pornography in Martinsburg's U.S. District Court.
U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld II announced that David Lee Johnson, 74, entered the guilty plea to one count of possession of child pornography before Magistrate Judge David J. Joel.
On July 11, 2011, a search warrant was executed on Johnson's residence, and 3,584 images and 218 videos containing child pornography were seized. Johnson, who is free on bond pending sentencing, faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul T. Camilletti and was investigated by the West Virginia State Police. The case was prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. It was launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
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The Iji-kai (Support Group)
Soon after the death of Yukichi Fukuzawa in 1901, the Keio University Supporters association was established by alumni volunteers who wanted to provide material support for the maintenance and development of Keio University and educational research. In particular, support is given to international educational exchange programs, foreign students coming to Japan and Japanese students going abroad, the improvement of facilities on each campus, and advanced or large-scale research projects.
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Feb. 7, 2013 Georgia fans- help us celebrate the 50th Season of Stegeman Coliseum, presented by Athens Regional Health System, by continuing to vote for your favorite moments in this historic building. We've totaled up the quarterfinal votes, and have narrowed it down to the final 2 events. Lets take a quick look at the remaining bracket.
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As the Weinstein Company's newly formed VOD label Radius gets past shelved releases out there, they've officially reached one of the most highly sought after, and depressingly held hostage American horrors in recent memory. Jonathan Levine's Amber Heard-starring ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE will finally see the light of day.
A stylish, successful modern slasher from Levine, ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE was heartily praised at its 2006 Toronto Film Festival premiere, where buzz quickly swelled and the Weinsteins were poised to release. As many know, in the U.S., that never happened.
As Weinsteins dropped it, Senator Entertainment seemed to swoop in until they dissolved prior to release. Radius co-president Tom Quinn tells Deadline, "It is one of my favorite horror films I've seen in the last decade, and if I could have afforded it at Magnolia, I would have bought it then. We were finally able to untangle the film's rights at a time when a multi-platform release makes perfect sense for a film like this. Jonathan's film WARM BODIES has grossed over $60 million, and to me this movie surpasses what is available to us on the open market."
MANDY LANE stars Heard as the titular object of everyone's high school affections. Pure and on a pedestal, she heads on a weekend getaway that sees the classmates who surround her have their lives cut short. Radius' plans for the film include the now popular VOD and limited theatrical release with the "top 50 markets" targeted for the latter.
Despite being available for those with region-free players, it's been years since I've seen the film and am very much looking forward to seeing its proper stateside release and promptly rediscovering. Levine, of course, has since gone on to the great THE WACKNESS and last month's WARM BODIES, while producer Keith Calder is gearing up for this year's much less delayed, and equally splendid YOU'RE NEXT.
See an original trailer below and keep an eye on Fango for much more.
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Police responded to the school and are working with the school district, as well as the social media site, to investigate and assess the source and level of the threat.
The Police and the San Mateo Union High School District also opted to provide an increased safety presence to the school Wednesday while investigating the threat.
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Information related to this investigation or online threats should be related directly to the San Mateo Police Department at 650-522-7700.
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One local church will celebrate a rich history, dating back more than two centuries.
Lower Fairforest Baptist Church will celebrate its 250th anniversary with a homecoming celebration today, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2012.
The Rev. Jim Cunningham said he looks forward to Sunday's service and that all members — prior and present — along with many friends are cordially invited to attend.
The service will begin at 11 a.m., and the message will be delivered by a guest pastor — the Rev. Michael Whelchel — who is a former member of the church and the son of a former pastor.
A presentation from June Smith will discuss the rich history of the 250-year-old church including facts compiled by several families within the church. Smith will also distribute printed copies of the church's history. Smith mentioned that her husband's aunt, who passed away in April at age 106, was baptized at the church's original site.
The date of the original church's first service was Dec. 13, 1762. The original building was a log structure and was established at the fork of Dining Creek and Fairforest Creek on the Old Charlestown Highway. The original site — located on what is now a dirt road named Rooster Drive which is off of Police Club Road — is now only the cemetery of the original church, and it contains graves marked by traditional tombstones as well as stones that are unmarked or marked with the carving of initials.
"The church survived turbulent years during the Revolutionary War," Smith said, explaining that the church was built before the U.S. was a country. "There were those siding with England and those wanting religious freedom. There were Indians and wild animals. They didn't let those things deter them from coming to church."
As the original log structure deteriorated, a brick church was built right beside it. Smith said that the men of the church went out and stomped the mud and dried it to make bricks for the church's construction. The building included galleries for slaves, and the cemetery contains the graves of both white settlers and slaves. Many referred to the building as the "Old Brick Church."
In 1933, the church was moved to its current location on Highway 49. Any timber that was usable from the old church was used to build the new one. Builders took a portable sawmill to the original site and sawed the timber there. It was then carried to the new site — which was donated by the Wilburn and Williams families — by mule and wagon.
During construction, church members met in the nearby Cedar Hill School — a building which is no longer standing.
Following Sunday's service, a covered dish luncheon will be held at 1 p.m. in the church's Family Life Center — a building donated by the late Jack Wilburn. Nancy Wilburn, Jack's widow, and family will unveil a watercolor painting of the church painted by Union County artist Betsy Skipper.
Also, Nancy Wilburn, widow of Jack Wilburn, will present a drawing of the church done by Union County artist Betsy Skipper.
Lower Fairforest Baptist Church is located at 125 Lower Fairforest Rd., just off Highway 49 (Cross Keys Highway). For more information, call (864) 427-9073.


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3600 years is just about right for Nibiru - if you go along with that sort of thing
Close coincidence.
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miajhwk 1 year, 3 months ago
look how fired up coach self is...you know he feels the righteous justice of john brown's avenged soul!!!
jq6pack 1 year, 3 months ago
Mr Muhammed, you could be a part of this too. Better come Rock Chalk in Jayhawk-Land!
MistaJRock 1 year, 3 months ago
Just looking over the pics and savoring a sweet comeback... did anyone else notice T-Rob wore those arm bands on both arms, then got rid of one... and had none by the end of the game... wonder why he got rid of them.
baldwinjhawk 1 year, 3 months ago
Did you notice DAVE freakin CAMPO standing with students? I LOVE IT!
jayhawkinATL 1 year, 3 months ago
Did not realize Shabazz was in the House for this one. Couldn't have hurt our chances!
swunruhawk 1 year, 3 months ago
The guy dressed as John Brown looks awesome...but 3 rows behind the KU team bench. Amazing....what a riot.
drgnslayr 1 year, 3 months ago
Fantastic work! Nick? Are these yours?
Just a suggestion, but it would be great if you put a link at the bottom after the images and offered up a zip file with all the images inside. It would make for an easy download for Hawk fans across the globe.
Thank you for offering up these spectacular images!
PhogTimeKU2010 1 year, 3 months ago
Wasn't sure if Tony Parker was going to make this game or not, but it looks like him in the picture of Connor Frankamp to the far left.
nkrug 1 year, 3 months ago
Drgnslayr: All these are the combined effort of the Journal-World photo staff.
ksbball1 1 year, 3 months ago
These pics tell it all. I could see some of them becoming posters. Great Job LJW Staff Photographers!
burnmu 1 year, 3 months ago
is it crazy to love Jayhawk basketball this much? I, guess you can't help the way you were raised. I love the fact that I'm from Lawrence and come from such a rich tradition. Rock Chalk!
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In our webinar Managing Performance In The Virtualized Environment, I discuss the two options that administrators have to resolve performance issues in the virtual environment. They can either try to fine tune their way through the problem, or they can throw hardware at the problem. Of course, that is the same set of options for almost any performance-tuning task in the data center. What makes the virtual environment unique is the theoretical simplicity and high payoff of throwing hardware at the problem.
The virtual environment has multiple layers of abstraction, and getting a holistic view of these layers of abstraction can be challenging with the tools that come with the infrastructure's various components. These tools are not aware of the other components and how they interact, so they each report on themselves, not on the whole. Manually consolidating the information from each of the tools to create a holistic picture can be time consuming, error prone, and ineffective.
The difficulties of managing VM performance lead you to investigate hardware solutions as a bandage to performance problems. Solutions like solid-state drives, faster networks, and server-side caching are all attractive options and in most cases do provide an immediate, but potentially temporary, performance boost.
Every virtual environment can potentially benefit from faster storage and networks, but hardware that improves performance comes at a premium price. Blindly throwing this hardware at your virtual performance problems results in buying excess performance, which goes unused and wastes your IT budget.
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Ninth-Inning Rally Lifts Ragin' Cajuns Past Hilltoppers 2-1
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Reporter: Melissa Anderson - WKU Athletic Media Relations
LAFAYETTE, La. — An RBI single by Louisiana-Lafayette center fielder Brian Bowman in the bottom of the ninth inning lifted the Ragin' Cajuns to a 2-1 victory over the Western Kentucky baseball team Sunday afternoon at M. L. "Tigue" More Field.
With two outs in the ninth, Louisiana shortstop Ryan Leonards reached on an infield single and stole second to advance into scoring position. Bowman's single drove in Leonards, who just got under the tag of WKU catcher Devin Kelly at home plate.
The Hilltoppers offense was limited to just one hit, the lowest total for WKU (13-19, 5-7 Sun Belt Conference) since June 1, 2009 when it faced Ole Miss in the championship game of the NCAA Regional. That day WKU had two hits.
Louisiana-Lafayette (15-16, 5-7) scattered 10 hits on the afternoon, its highest total of the weekend, but stranded nine runners on base.
Right-hander Ross Hammonds (0-2) was touched for one run on two hits with a pair of strikeouts in 1-1/3 innings. The redshirt senior has not issued a walk in his last 10 outings.
Ragin' Cajuns starter Jordan Harrison (3-1) allowed one run on one hit in a complete-game effort. Harrison walked three and recorded 11 strikeouts. After allowing the solo home run in the third, the left-hander allowed only three Hilltoppers to reach base.
Hilltopper junior Ryan Huck accounted for the lone WKU hit and run with a solo home run, his third of the season and first since a two-homer game against Kent State on March 3. First baseman Scott Wilcox drew a pair of walks and third baseman Casey Dykes saw his nine-game hitting streak come to an end, going 0-for-3 with a walk.
WKU took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second inning on a solo home run by Huck.
The Ragin' Cajuns tied the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the sixth inning on an RBI single by designated hitter Tyler Frederick.
Hilltoppers starter Taylor Haydel limited the Ragin' Cajuns to one run on five hits in five innings. The junior struck out a career-high eight batter. Redshirt freshman Tate Glasscock allowed a hit and recorded one strikeout in 1-1/3 innings. Left-hander Austin Clay struck out two batters in two-thirds of an inning. Four WKU pitchers combined for 12 strikeouts without issuing a walk.
In the series, the WKU pitching staff posted a 1.75 ERA with 30 strikeouts and only three walks, while limiting Louisiana to a .213 batting average.
The Hilltoppers, who do not have a game during the midweek, return to action April 13-15 with a three-game Sun Belt Conference series at Arkansas State in Jonesboro, Ark. Game times are scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday, 4 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.
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