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Irma René Koen: An Artist Rediscovered
This exhibition features paintings by Rock Island native and distinguished artist of the 20th century, Irma René Koen (1883-1975). Koen's legacy was largely forgotten until art historian Cynthia Wiedemann Empen, Ph.D., began a line of research which uncovered this intriguing local figure. Including over 40 paintings produced over the course of 70 years, the exhibition reflects Koen's artistic journey as well as shifts in style and taste during the era. Her paintings range from light filled impressionist scenes of the Eastern seaboard to expressive oil paintings from her time in Mexico.
Koen was active during a time of rapid change in American art. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1903-1908 and at art colonies critical to the development of art in the country. During the 1920s and 1930s she was an active member of the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery (the precursor of the Figge Art Museum). Driven by ambition and an independent spirit, Koen was a professional artist at a time when women making a career in art were a rarity. In addition to an impressive run of exhibitions, awards and memberships, Koen travelled the world; working in France, England, Germany, North Africa and Asia. Koen eventually moved to Mexico where she lived and worked for over 30 years.
Many of Koen's paintings are cherished family heirlooms held by private collectors with roots in the Quad Cities. This project would not have been possible without their generous loans to the Museum.
This exhibition will be on view September 30-December 31, 2017.
The exhibition was made possible by the support of Osherenko Young Foundation
Contributing sponsors include the William Butterworth Foundation, Rock Island Art Guild and Quad City International Airport.
Media sponsor KWQC TV6
Irma René Koen, All on a Summer's Day, 1920s, oil on canvas, City of Davenport Art Collection, Museum purchase: Friends of Art Acquisition Fund, 1929.407
Companion Events
Thursday, October 5
5:30 pm Opening Reception
7 pm Curator Talk
Thursday, October 19
5:30 pm Social Hour
7 pm Art, Architecture and the Deere Family Story
Offsite events
Friday, September 15
Deere-Wiman House
817 11th Avenue, Moline, Illinois
3 pm The "New Woman" in Illinois, 1910-1945
Wednesday, October 11
Rock Island Public Library
401 19th Street, Rock Island, Illinois
6 pm "An Interesting Rock Island Girl": The Modern Art and Life of Irma René Koen

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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Dimpled Darling makes his debut
Obama's Bangalore Bomb was another big one. Nobody saw that one coming. Just as I was about to switch off, came an sms asking whether Balasaheb Thackeray had passed away. Now, all that was needed was to hear yet another ghastly rumour about the BSE building being attacked ( there was a terror warning this morning). Not a dull day in India ever! Kasab's demands are as outrageous as they are amusing. The guy wants his favourite ittar, flavoured toothpaste, and permission to stroll in the balcony outside his cell. Hello?? Has someone forgotten to tell him what he stands accused of? Or is his lawyer Kazmi upto tricks?? That Kazmi guy looks like he is acting all the time - I get the feeling he has missed his true calling. This is Kazmi's only opportunity to hog the limelight and ham away to glory. I suspect he wears stage make up before every court appearance.
The other nasty rumour doing the rounds is that the Gerard Butler dude was being treated like visiting royalty by Bollywood Biggies for reasons that are very hush hush. It is not our Priyanka Chopra alone who fancied him.The asli suitor was someone else. And he was playing it coy and safe by keeping Priyanka as a decoy. You go figure...
Just to end on a happy and healthy note, Pune's best kept foodie secret may turn out to be an unpretentious restaurant called 'Mayur' - the vegetarian thali place that serves Marwari specialities like Daal Batti. I always but always stop off at Mayur's for lunch, and did so this time as well. I skipped the Daal Batti, and had 'aam ras' instead. My next stop was Fab India (another favourite), from where I bought a bitter orange facial spray. I tell you, it saved me from getting a heat stroke! It is so utterly divine, especially straight out of the 'fridge, I spray it on each time I enter the kitchen. This is my big summer discovery to beat the wretched heat. Okie...kal ki baat kal. adios..
28 comments:
- Priyanka said...
the spray truly works wonders...
- May 5, 2009 at 11:51 PM
- News Editor said...
Rahul's speech shows how hopeless the Congress party is. How can one imagine Chandrababu Naidu aligning with the Congress? If required Naidu will align with the NDA but not UPA.
- May 6, 2009 at 12:18 AM
- Gossipgal said...
Rahul is a cutie....
hmm. Asli Suitor of Gerard..hmmm
www.highsocietygoss.blogspot.com - May 6, 2009 at 12:29 AM
- Anil Kumar said...
I wish every country has a leader like Obama who is a visionary, skillful, honest and passionate about his country.
There is nothing wrong if he is trying to close the loopholes in the tax laws which affects his own country. If it hurts India, then take it on chin like a real man.
In India we have a Sonia's puppet Manmohan Singh who is a honest but lacks leadership qualities and is more like a Robot. I don't know who advised this SIKH to go to USA and tell Terrorist BUSH that whole of India loves him. Shameful tactics I guess.
LK Advani will soon be drafting his funeral plans considering his head wobbles whenever he speaks. I don't know what will happen if he becomes PM and catches flu.
Rahul baba still has a long way to go. Just waiting for the right opportunity.
If a mediocre actor like Abhishek Bachhan can become a leading movie star with the help of MEDIA and his father's blog then why can't Rahul Baba become PM with the help of those in NDTV and loads of chamcha in his mother's party. - May 6, 2009 at 1:02 AM
- introspection said...
good masala post. feel i am in india, and in the heat...!
- May 6, 2009 at 1:17 AM
- Anil Kumar said...
Kazmi is playing the dirty tricks to provoke elements like Shiv Sena with stupid demands of Kasab. And if Shiv Sena start attacking the home of such parasites, he will get sympathy from the media (Barkha Appam C. will make sure that she is reporting live from outside the court in her tent) and they will run non-stop shows that trial is not fair.
Hit where it hurts. Don't fall to the tricks of parasites. - May 6, 2009 at 1:23 AM
- Zlaek said...
i LOVE the title! And you calling him Rahul Baba! Ha ha ha
Somebody should go and kill Qasab
Orange spray? Naaice..By the way you look just so utterly gorgeous on NDTV every night... :D - May 6, 2009 at 1:24 AM
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- May 6, 2009 at 2:43 AM
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- May 6, 2009 at 3:00 AM
- Sidhusaaheb said...
I think that Rahul Gandhi's statements about the Communists and the JD (U) and their subsequent ripostes are only going to make it even more difficult for them to join a Congress-led coalition, post-election. So, if that was what Rahul Gandhi was looking at, his statements are more likely to prove counter-productive than anything else.
BTW, I fail to understand what a prisoner's demand for tooth-paste and permission to stroll outside his cell has to do with the nature of crime he is accused of. As far as I am aware, no law in any country prohibits any under-trail, accused of any crime whatsoever, from demanding a tube of tooth-paste and permission to stroll outside his cell.
It should be interesting to note here that people accused of crimes much more heinous than Kasab's, are not only free men or women, but have also been members of parliament or state assemblies in India. Some of them have also been appointed ministers in the Union or State Governments.
Kasab and his comrades shot people and for which all of his comrades have already been shot dead and Kasab is in prison, but these men or women pulled people out of their homes, poured kerosene on them and burnt them alive or hacked them to death, threw infants into burning stoves or speared them, among other such barbaric acts. The number of their victims was twenty to thirty times the number of people that Kasab and his fellow terrorists shot dead.
Does that ever outrage you, besides Kasab's demands for tooth-paste and strolls outside his cell? - May 6, 2009 at 3:09 AM
- Bindu Nayar said...
Ah!Rahul G for the rescue plan...if you have media with you..anything is possible...
To hell with human rights and Kasab should be treated like how he would be treated in his country prison..uhhmm..any guesses how would that be...
Reg Mr.O..This was expected..he was loud and clear in one of his election speeches..and i dont think he is wrong ?
Wonder ! whats with the Butler guy ? or is it just plain fancy for anything Hollywood...
cheers - May 6, 2009 at 5:54 AM
Obama talks - a surprise ? Why ?
Atleast I was sure since day one. - May 6, 2009 at 7:58 AM
- Opinionated Indian said...
From your comment, you are indirectly telling us many things
1. You are taking Kasab's and hence Pakistan side. I would like to know what provoked you to support Pakistan in such heinous crmie. I dont know if you are a pakistani. If you are Indian and still taking Kasab side, you are literally giving life to all myths(we believe facts) about certain community in India.
2. You are telling that Mumbai attacks is a revenge sorts by one cmmunity on another. - May 6, 2009 at 8:11 AM
- Unknown said...
Thanks for the orange spray tip. Cool idea for hot tempers.
- May 6, 2009 at 10:16 AM
- athi said...
i got the lemon spray.. but thats as good as well.. very refreshing!! :)
- May 6, 2009 at 12:06 PM
- honestinjun said...
Dying to know who the asli suitor is...a guy or gal??
- May 6, 2009 at 1:19 PM
- bnihal.com said...
Bahut Achhha Hai
- May 6, 2009 at 3:55 PM
- Rajlakshmi said...
hope they close the kasab case soon... why is everything in India so slow...
- May 6, 2009 at 4:59 PM
- Unknown said...
KaSaB....this guy sure has guts for one he is a terroist and he feels as if he has conquered his own kingdom and gives out commands....huff!!!!!!!!!!....
I mean we need to bring in some law which punishes people outrightly....ie., only for people against whom we have a mountain of evidence........... - May 6, 2009 at 5:33 PM
- Unknown said...
laying the red carpet for a 39 year old B-lister from hollywood seems rather overdone. and yes the buzz is he's bent. go figure. you're so right, pc was a decoy.
- May 6, 2009 at 6:49 PM
- Unknown said...
I think people forget what happened in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and AbuGhareb prison in Iraq. The kind of sexual torture and other inhumane stuff, the suspected terrorists went through can make one puke. Did they have any right???
Does anyone think that US army and some British troops were offering them toothpaste and a pleasant walk in the morning and torturing them in the afternoon and evening session. Did CNN, FoxNews, ABC News, CBS News were reporting their demands as NEWS???
There was an investigation news done by some news channel in US and they released one suspected terrorists after one year in Guantanamo Bay. When they asked this 70 (SEVENTY) year old man who was a poor vendor on Afghanistan road and caught by the American arrogance, "How did he feel now"?? His response was that I never understood why they arrested me...But he is happy that he got a new dress from the US army at the time of release.
But in Kasab's case there is no such chance of being released.
Saddam was a mass murderer of his own population. But BUSH was a bigger MASS MURDERER in the name of fighting terrorism and STEALING OIL from Iraq. The US Vice president Dick Cheney was head of oil company Haliburton which was given oil contract in Iraq without a tender. THEY DID THE OIL STEALING FOR 4 years before other hyenas can have their share and started the tender process. Just imagine the amount of oil pumped out by these Americans in the name of fighting terrorism.
Our puppet's in Delhi to this day are trying to convince USA about pakistan's role. They still need American crutches to punish someone.
When I listened to our Sardar Gyani ManMohan Singh's comment that EVRYONE IN INDIA LOVES TERRORIST BUSH...I was just ashamed of leadership in New Delhi. Bloody hell Gyaniji...Get a life.
Just watch out how our elite channels NDTV alias Appam C. spend tonnes of energy and time on making Rahul baba as the greatest leader India ever produced.
Just look at NDTV's VALUES
- Shahrukh Khan is Cricket's new avtaar on NDTV and they have hooked up with him
- Mediocre actor Abhishek bachhan is their brand ambassador.
- Yesterday they never get tired of praising Rahul Baba and his coming of age.
- They have added the apology of Jagdish Tytler as part of news promotion advertisement. So you hear about Tytler's apology 15 times a day and every single day.
No news channel play the kind of LOW LEVEL TACTICS played by NDTV and jokers in it. I watch news from various countries. NDTV deserves special award on how they are fooling masses with their smiling faces and carefully crafted biased coverage. - May 6, 2009 at 6:54 PM
- Unknown said...
Least said about Bollywood Kulta's is less.
Gerard Butler looks as harmless as the Scottish highlands and sheeps.
Please suggest these Kulta's and those using these Kulta's as decoy to invite beasts in NBA to their parties...Even old bastards like Denis Rodman and Shaqeel ONeal will give them the life time of experience.
The downside is that Priyanka Chopra and any bent personality will regret for the rest of their life and question why were they even born on this planet. - May 6, 2009 at 7:03 PM
- Chance said...
so who wants Butler? SRK?
- May 6, 2009 at 10:13 PM
- nil2020 said...
not everybody have the courage to say the truth in this selfish world
- May 6, 2009 at 10:42 PM
- obssesor said...
I dont agree with you on RG, charm...far away from it...he is a bimbo..now his sister is real smart....
- May 6, 2009 at 11:00 PM
- Sameer said...
I know a restaurant named Mayur which was on Bombay-Pune road couple of years back. Had great gujarati thali. May be you are refering to same place. aam-ras sounds delicious. You made me hungry now :) where can I get the asali desi aam-ras here in US. Fab India is my favorite as well. Love shopping there.
- May 7, 2009 at 1:04 AM
- Unknown said...
it truly works...
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Recently, we had the fun of shooting video interviews with several designers who are part of our upcoming exhibition California Design 1930—1965: "Living in a Modern Way". All were active in the postwar period, making everything from furniture to jewelry to enamels and weaving.
Not surprisingly, they live in extraordinary homes. Perhaps the most stunning is that of John Kapel, who designed his house with architect Jerry Weiss. This photo of John sitting in one of his studio chairs (which will be in the exhibition) doesn't fully capture the beauty of his home, but it does suggest the environment, with its blue tile floor, hand-built wood furniture, and sculpture – all by John. In this photo, he's talking about the design of the chair, and the subtle geometry that make it visually appealing from various angles.
The setting is spectacular as well – nestled into the hills above the San Francisco Bay, in Woodside.
We also visited ceramist Harrison McIntosh at home high on a hill in Claremont. Here he is in his studio, at the same workbench he's used since the 1950s, when he shared the space with Rupert Deese.
The rustic modern house was designed by architect Fred McDowell for Harrison and his wife Marguerite and their young family in the 1950s. Here it is seen from the rear patio.
Gene Tepper lives and works aboard a houseboat in Sausalito. Here he is on his back deck with Mount Tamalpais in the background.
Gene's studio is down a flight of stairs – below deck, you might say. The surface of the water, which rises and falls with the tide in relation to the windows, creates dancing reflections inside the studio, where Gene has a collection of drawings and paintings. (The piece in our show is a convertible dining table/cocktail table from the 1950s.)
Just up the hill from Gene, June Schwarcz is still producing in her enamel studio, in the basement of her small but exquisite home overlooking the San Francisco Bay.
You enter the modestly-sized house through a lush garden…
…and enter an open living space filled with Asian antiques, African sculpture and paintings and objects June has collected over decades of living there. A wall of windows looks out on this:
Jeweler Merry Renk lives on a narrow winding street in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood.
She bought the house and—as she proudly tells it—paid off her mortgage all by herself in one year (she was widowed when her first husband's plane went down in World War II) with her teaching income.
The inside of the cottage is charming…
…though my favorite part is the clawfoot tub on the back deck overlooking the city.
We also made it over to Berkeley, to textile artist Kay Sekimachi's home and studio near the university. Here's Kay sitting in a chair by Sam Maloof, one of the other designers in the show.
Watching Kay weave on one of her looms is mesmerizing.
Curators Bobbye Tigerman and Wendy Kaplan are hosting a discussion at Dwell on Design this weekend, at 2 pm on Friday. They'll talk about the exhibition and California's unique brand of mid-century modern.
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The City of Alexandria deserves credit for a great job of plowing our area streets. And since the Tuesday after the storm we have not had serious problems getting around. Were we snowed in for a couple of days? Sure. Inconvenienced? Of course. A once in 10 years event? I hope so.
So, my thanks to all those who were out there in the mess and worked so hard. We appreciate it.
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Forced Entertainment's new show struggles to reconcile the conflict between performer and performance, using movement and sound to reveal the rusted mechanics of theatre.
Dance and theatre have a dynamic relationship. Early methods of storytelling incorporated dance as a way to express meaning and it has continued to occupy an important position in the theatrical tradition. Though dance is commonly used as a means to propel narrative and demonstrate emotions, the potential of dance within a theatrical piece is extensive. There is, for instance, a vast difference between the use of movement in the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874 – 1940) and the role of dance and movement in the variety show format and in musical theatre. In Meyerhold's performances, the three dimensional bodies of the actors were integrated with two dimensional sets to develop a unity between actor and set. His production of The Magnanimous Cuckold (1922) is arguably the best demonstration of this process, where Lyubov Popova (1889 – 1924) designed a machine-like structure, complete with moving parts and the actors' performances moved in unison with the rhythms of the machine, created a pulsating whole. Although both demonstrate a type of dance or movement theatre, this use of movement is entirely different from the sort of movement that occurs within musical theatre, where dance and music are utilised under strict choreography to advance narrative and create atmosphere. Dance offers enormous flexibility in its various guises: it is representative of story, demonstrative of character and it is also, in the more abstract sense, a study into the nature of physicality, with reference to the body and its mechanics.
British theatre company, Forced Entertainment (founded 1984) manipulate these roles of dance and movement within theatre in their new show, The Thrill of It All. The production endeavours to use movement in a way that incorporates both the surface glamour of vaudevillian dance with the underlying reality of the process. It employs the variety show format but this quickly disintegrates to reveal the mechanics of theatre and the struggle of the performers in creating performance. The Thrill of It All was created though Forced Entertainment's distinctive collaborative process and is framed and focused by Artistic Director, Tim Etchells, while Kate McIntosh worked as choreographic advisor for the piece. McIntosh is a New Zealand-born artist trained in dance and she is conscious that "dance and theatre trainings give very different perspectives on how to structure an experience and navigate meaning." She believes that "a more in-depth research of physicality, which can come with a dance perspective, is certainly rich for developing the whole area of what is 'unsaid' in theatre." Dance and movement in theatre can offer a more visceral experience than theatre based solely on text and have always been important to Forced Entertainment's work, but The Thrill of It All demonstrates a shift in the way they emphasize movement in performance. McIntosh comments: "The performers' physicality is one way that I can connect to a human presence escaping the more artificial layers." The movement in the production is laboured and the exertions of the dancers reveal the humanity beneath the façade of performance.
McIntosh worked with the performers to develop the choreography but was reticent to create any real formal movement patterns for them. The choreography remains loose and skeletal with the intention of allowing the dancers freedom within the structure of the dance: "Any detectable 'choreography' should seem like the bones of an old shipwreck poking through the sand – half remembered dance routines that they once knew well, but which have decomposed to the bare essentials." McIntosh explains the organic nature of the process: "Almost all of the movements I taught the group were moves I'd seen individuals create during previous improvisations." The benefit of working this way means that the dances in the show are more than simple entertainments, or a means of advancing the story. They are demonstrations of the very process of telling a story and what this means for the performer. The performers in The Thrill of It All are visibly wearied by the physicality of the movement and the audience observe their struggle with the process. McIntosh remarks that "the performers' relation to their own physicality is the richest element that the dance movement brings to the show." The dancers are sweating and out of breath and the dances break down; they are human beings and the audience sees the effort required by them to fit into the mould of the show. This concept is revealing of the mechanics behind the theatre and plays with the idea of a struggle that arises between performer and performance.
The production is presented in a vaudevillian format, with nine performers in prescribed costumes; the men wear grubby white tuxedos and black wigs and the women are clothed in sequin dresses with straggly blonde wigs. These comical outfits provide a context within which the audience anticipate certain formulas and assume certain expectations from these performers. By clarifying the situation in such a way and by using a distinctive form of theatre such as the variety show, Forced Entertainment can deviate from the expected and disintegrate the production effectively. The audience knows what should be happening so when it doesn't they immediately understand that there is something amiss.
Conflict plays a big role within the movement of the piece. The performers attempt to usurp one another and assert their position within the show. Whilst the dance pieces do operate as "numbers" in the sense of traditional musical theatre they also present an opportunity to shift the understanding of the physicality. They are not polished items but contain "a lot of human error, private enthusiasms and argumentative interactions woven into them as well." The dances often descend into fighting and the performers manipulate the traditional expectations of dancing, "mis-using" it and exploiting it for independent agendas (such as attacking another performer). The audience observe the dances on a number of levels: on the one hand they are simple vaudevillian acts to music but they are also a means to advance the plot and a demonstration of the characters. Performers use the dances to battle for ownership of the stage and in doing so reveal much about their individual struggles for identity within these "choreographed" moves and within the cast.
To this end, Forced Entertainment also adopts voice distortion in the production. Through the use of treated-microphones, the men acquire the same deep, sonorous voice and, likewise, the women speak with a high-pitched, shrill voice. When all the performers sound the same, they are required to work harder to define themselves. This, along with the dressing of the performers in identical costumes, has the effect of increasing the level of tension and conflict. The performers have to fight harder to establish an individual presence on the stage and to assert their unique identity. The exaggeration of the gender divide with the voices also works to take the performers to the level of the grotesque, the more-than human and operates as a kind of mask. McIntosh asserts: "The voices, the wigs and the uniformity of the costumes all work to present an artificiality, which is a key part of the show." Beneath the mask of performance the audience is offered glimpses of the characters that make up the performers. A struggle exists between the "show" and the process of creating the show, between the performers and their performance and also between the spoken narratives and the unspoken narratives.
As the show unravels the spectacle of theatre is revealed and examined. The title of the production is demonstrative of the tongue-in-cheek exposure that Forced Entertainment articulates in the piece. The audience is invited to experience the "thrill of it all" and instead becomes privy to the break-down of the set pieces and the disintegration of the theatre. The glamour of the variety show decays and cracks to reveal the reality beneath the bright surface, the relentless demands on the performers and the human existence beneath the show. As the choreography crumbles, so too does the text, with jokes ending in confusion and sentimental stories resolved in arguments. This is indeed "forced entertainment."
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MLB Steroids Scandal, Cont'd: Don't eff with George Mitchell. He knows that he can create sizzle – if not steak – in his investigation, simply by "naming names."
And so he generates publicity for his effort – if not cooperation from current players, who will ignore his requests for interviews and medical records – by dropping names like...
Sosa and Palmeiro.
That's all he's got? And it's not like he's actually proving they used steroids. He's merely asking for their medical records.
But he throws around their names, and – as with everything in this scandal – merely being mentioned is tantamount to guilt by common perception.
I'm not defending Sosa or Palmeiro or any other player. And I'm not sure yet how I fall on the question of whether these players should cooperate: If they're innocent, why not? But the mild libertarian instinct in me says they are under no concrete obligation.
(Here's what I really want to know: Let's run a poll, much like the controversial Bonds one from last week, asking how many baseball fans really give a damn about the ongoing steroids story anyway? I'm betting the answers will shock and shame the media. )
MLB clubhouse alcohol bans: I suppose it's sad that Hancock's death was the impetus for the new rules throughout MLB teams, but they were long overdue. The question/pressure now will be: If your team hasn't banned alcohol from the clubhouse yet, why not – and when will it happen?
Suns thump Spurs by 20: And, remember, Game 2 was in I AM AN IDIOT. Man, did the Suns seem inspired. (FROM THE RESULT, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY I DIDN'T WATCH THE GAME) Maybe it was Mike D'Antoni's decision to put beefy Kurt Thomas in the starting lineup, tweaking the fun-n-gun offense but putting more pressure on Tim Duncan. (ISN'T IT NICE TO SCOUR ALL OF THE MORNING-AFTER ANALYSIS TO SOUND MORE INTELLIGENT ABOUT A GAME I DIDN'T WATCH? YEESH. ISN'T IT NICE THAT I MADE THE SAME MISTAKE ON MONDAY TALKING ABOUT GAME 1? I WILL NOW GO BERATE MYSELF FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHY I PUT MY EMAIL ADDRESS IN THE CORNER. ONLY TWO "YOU'RE WRONG!!!" EMAILS HELPING ME OUT? I'VE BEEN OFFLINE ALL MORNING BUT HAVE ACCESS TO EMAIL.)
Cavs go up 2-0 on Nets: Zzzz...
UPDATE: I know it's late in the day already, but if you're not listening to JE and Tas doing their podcasts at The Basketball Jones, you're totally missing out. Best sports podcast out there.Bonds: 745. (Wow, this is approaching much faster than anyone thought, isn't it? Whether or not you think he used PEDs, you have to admit that it's unlikely he's using them now. So stipulated, how do you explain this season's power surge? Oh, right: 'Roiding or not, he's the best power hitter of all time.)
UPDATE: How did I not write earlier about Curt Schilling ripping Barry Bonds on the radio? Seems like easy pickins.
Maddux vs. Smoltz tonight: A rare matchup between Hall of Fame pitchers. (No: Santana vs. Halladay doesn't count... yet.) How many lock Hall of Fame pitchers are in MLB right now? Maddux, Smoltz, Glavine, Clemens, Johnson, Schilling?, Hoffman? I know there are more.
How do I know that this is the Mets' year? They have already gone to the team-wide "Crew Cuts in Solidarity."
Stud: Josh Beckett. First to 7 wins. (Tigers, too: 8 straight Ws.)
Dud: Jorge Reyes. (See this LIO post.)
My favorite on-field promotion of the baseball season is coming up: The pink bats used on Mother's Day. (Remember Bill Hall last year?) Apparently, more than 200 players have signed up to use them. Rah Moms!
McNabb calls Eagles first-pick of QB Kolb "shocking," but tried to downplay it. Why didn't he say this: "The Eagles have to think about what's going to happen after I've retired in 10 years. But Kolb will have big shoes to fill after I've led the team to multiple Super Bowl titles. Heh." ("Heh" necessary.)
Steve Smith got paid: And deserves it.
Ronnie Brown is too fat? After drafting him for my fantasy team the last two seasons, I might be inclined to agree with the Dolphins if they want him to get into better shape. But they're just sucking me back in, tempting me to use a high first-round pick on him... again....
NBA All-Rookie: The first-team is a testament to Lottery "names": Roy, Bargnani, Foye, Gay, Aldridge... and Garbajosa, a Euroleague find (and, combined with Bargnani, Exhibit A why the Raptors' "European Invasion" strategy led them, in one year, from the first pick of the 2006 NBA Draft to a division title and the playoffs).
The second team is fascinating: Paul Millsap and Craig Smith were second-rounders viewed as stereotypical "tweeners"; here's a reminder: Scouting is an imperfect science. Oh, and Adam Morrison somehow made it onto the team, even though he was horrible. Nice to see the Bobcats' Rookie of the Year, Walter Hermann, made the second-team, too.
Baseball draft on TV: I'm late on this by two days, but I love this idea. If you don't like it, you don't have to watch it. But it made zero sense for baseball in the era of "Moneyball" and an increasing (if still small) profile of college baseball NOT to televise the draft. The only question: Who will emerge as this cottage industry's Mel Kiper?


text: Travel Trip Ideas Around the Midwest Best Midwest State Parks By Midwest Living editors Midwest Living editors Midwest Living's experienced editors create best-in-class travel, lifestyle, food, home and garden content you won't find anywhere else. We're loudly, proudly Midwestern, and we're passionate about helping our audience explore and create through award-winning storytelling. Midwest Living's Editorial Guidelines Updated on February 24, 2022 Trending Videos Amnicon Falls State Park. Photo: Gervase Thompson/Wisconsin DNR We hiked. We swam. We even peeked in the bathrooms. All to bring you a state-by-state guide to 35 of the Midwest's greatest natural treasures. 01 of 34 Michigan: Porcupine Mountains State Park Aaron Peterson "The Porkies" (150 miles west of Marquette) embody Michigan's remote Upper Peninsula, with 59,000 wild acres, 90 miles of trails and, if you get away from the campsites, not too many visitors. Choose from beaches, bird-filled marshes and hemlock groves. If you only go once, be sure to stop and drop your jaw at the Lake of the Clouds vistas. 02 of 34 Michigan: Ludington State Park Bob Stefko Ludington State Park (100 miles northwest of Grand Rapids) is busy enough to warrant a rich lineup of amenities and programming--including boat rentals, lighthouse tours and guided dune walks--but large enough, at 5,300 acres, to escape summer crowding. Lake Michigan beckons, cobalt waves washing onto unruly dunes. Trails hopscotch over bridges and boardwalks along inland Hamlin Lake. A bike path traces the tranquil Sable River, and a 2-mile hike north through wild sands leads to the lighthouse tower at Big Sable Point. 03 of 34 Michigan: Wilderness State Park One of the biggest parks on the Michigan "mitten" sprawls over a wooded Lake Michigan peninsula. Wilderness State Park (100 miles northeast of Traverse City) offers a perfect mix: Swim and sunbathe, then head inland to hike. Most visitors stick to the shore, so the trails are quiet. And really, is there anything more lovely in life than waking up with a Great Lake outside your tent? 04 of 34 Indiana: Brown County State Park Kevin J. Miyazaki/Redux The peaceful vistas alone warrant a day trip to Brown County State Park, Indiana's largest state park (60 miles south of Indianapolis), but resort-style extras make this a full-fledged destination. The great on-site stable offers horseback trips and pony rides, and the restaurant-lodge includes an indoor water park. 05 of 34 Indiana: Falls of the Ohio State Park Courtesy of IDNR / Falls of the Ohio State Park What's the draw to this utterly unwild park across the Ohio River from Louisville? Fossils. Tons and tons of them, preserved in a rockbed along the river. Visit the excellent museum first, so that when you're down on the rocks, you know your tubes from your tusks. 06 of 34 Indiana: Indiana Dunes State Park Photo Courtesy of Christine Livingston/Indiana Dunes Tourism Yes, the surroundings are a bit industrial, but once you hit the sand, it's all sparkling Lake Michigan goodness. Most people come to Indiana Dunes State Park to swim or slide down the huge dunes, some up to 100 feet tall. Inland, though, you'll find great trails. Check out the brochure that breaks down hour-, day- or week-long visits to the park (40 miles southeast of Chicago). 07 of 34 Indiana: Turkey Run State Park Turkey Run State Park, Indiana's best all-around park (65 miles west of Indianapolis) has a large lodge; hiking trails through deep, wooded ravines; horseback riding; and an impressive, year-round lineup of naturalist programming. Just one minor quibble: You have to go off-site for popular canoeing and tubing on Sugar Creek. 08 of 34 Ohio: Hocking Hills State Park Ryan Donnell Seven park units cradle soaring shelf caves, fern-filled valleys and sweeping overlooks at Hocking Hills State Park (55 miles southeast of Columbus). Expect company on the trails, especially in fall, when crowds snake past Ash Cave and Old Man's Cave. But on weekdays, you might have the stunning Conkle's Hollow Rim Trail all to yourself. 09 of 34 Ohio: Hueston Woods State Park Courtesy of Ohio Department of Natural Resources Hueston Woods State Park is an action-packed resort park on Acton Lake (35 miles northwest of Cincinnati) that offers canoe, pontoon and mountain bike rentals; horseback riding; an 18-hole golf course; archery—even paintball! The amenities turn what might be a quite ordinary lake-and-woods vacation into an adventure. 10 of 34 Ohio: Lake Hope State Park Courtesy of Ohio Department of Natural Resources Wooded hills surround Lake Hope (70 miles southeast of Columbus), where kayakers can paddle through fields of pink water lilies. The atmosphere at this pretty little park is decidedly kid-friendly (Disney movies in the campground), but there are grown-up touches, too, like a rent-a-tent program for newbie campers. If you stay in a cabin, try to snag one of the historic Forest Cottages, named for trees. 11 of 34 Wisconsin: Amnicon Falls State Park Amnicon Falls State Park. Gervase Thompson/Wisconsin DNR Even locals sometimes forget about this little gem of a park (20 miles southeast of Duluth), where water tumbles over rocks into a swimming hole, and a historic covered bridge spans the falls. The short (though pretty) trails at Amnicon Falls State Park will disappoint hard-core hikers, but if you just want to get your Zen on listening to water splash over stones, this is a lovely spot to do it. 12 of 34 Wisconsin: Door County state parks Five state parks—Newport, Peninsula, Potawatomi, Rock Island (pictured) and Whitefish Dunes—preserve the pebbled beaches, rocky bluffs and pine forests along the 80-mile-long Door Peninsula. Each park has its own landscape, but isolated on a peninsula, the Door County parks feel interrelated, too, like chapters in a book. So if you come all the way out here, you ought to visit more than one. 13 of 34 Wisconsin: Interstate State Park Choosing between Minnesota and Wisconsin's Interstate State Parks feels a little like asking a mother which child she prefers. A mom can't play favorites, but we can. The parks face off across the St. Croix River. Both offer cool hikes by rocky glacial potholes, but the larger Wisconsin park (50 miles northeast of Saint Paul) also has a large swimming lake, a heron rookery, a wildlife trail and naturalist-led hikes in the summer. If you want to visit both, the US-8 bridge links the parks. 14 of 34 Illinois: Cache River State Natural Area Cache River State Natural Area.. A blue heron screeches overhead, and the floating boardwalk groans in the eerie, strangely beautiful swamplands of Cache River State Natural Area (150 miles southeast of St. Louis). This 14,000-acre preserve protects one of just six spots in the country where four ecological regions overlap, making for an incredible diversity of landscapes and wildlife. 15 of 34 Illinois: Starved Rock State Park Starved Rock State Park, Lasalle County. Ryan Donnell You could come here and never leave the lodge, kicking back with a burger, watching a fiery sunset over the trees. But then you'd never know the beauty of this pocket of Illinois (90 miles southwest of Chicago). So tear yourself away from your Wi-Fi-equipped room and head out on the well-marked trails, which climb past waterfalls, rock formations and gorgeous Illinois River views. A short drive away is Matthiessen State Park, Starved Rock State Park's pretty (but much less crowded) little sibling. 16 of 34 Minnesota: Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park Around 1900, a forward-thinking farmer bought up the dying town of Forestville and patiently waited for the state to recognize what he had saved. Today, interpreters chat with visitors in this beautifully resurrected pioneer town (120 miles south of Saint Paul). The village shares a park with Minnesota's longest cave, open for tours in the summer. 17 of 34 Minnesota: North Shore state parks Beth Mancuso North of Duluth on State-61, the turnoffs for fabulous North Shore state parks come one after another, like Burma Shave signs flashing past your window: Gooseberry Falls, Split Rock Lighthouse, Tettegouche. All told, eight parks sit along the North Shore, loaded with waterfalls, forest trails and achingly beautiful Lake Superior views (40 miles northeast of Duluth). 18 of 34 Minnesota: Blue Mounds State Park Blue Mounds State Park. Beth Mancuso Blue Mounds State Park offers a change in landscape from most Minnesota parks: wide-open spaces. Visitors come for simple prairie pleasures, like prickly pears blooming in June and July, bison grazing on wild grasses and quiet hikes along windswept trails (35 miles northeast of Sioux Falls, South Dakota). 19 of 34 Iowa: Backbone State Park Backbone State Park. Courtesy of Northeast Iowa RC&D At Backbone State Park, elevation-starved Iowans love Backbone Trail, a rocky ridge high above Backbone Lake with a string of knee-knocking overlooks. The trail alone is worth a visit, but Backbone is actually a nice all-around park (55 miles west of Dubuque), with canoe rentals, a popular trout stream and a handful of pleasant cabins. 20 of 34 Iowa: Maquoketa Caves State Park Cornfields and combines feel eons away from the lush and strangely exotic landscape at Maquoketa Caves State Park (30 miles south of Dubuque), where a long wood staircase descends from a concrete picnic area into an almost prehistoric world. Towering stone walls, moss-covered rocks and an emerald canopy unfold around the Maquoketa Caves' 16 caves and crawl spaces. Ducking under low-hanging rocks and clambering along a roller coaster of steps, visitors feel like real explorers. Bring a flashlight-and a towel to wipe mud off your shoes. Check the park website before you go for cave accessibility; Iowa's Department of Natural Resources monitors the bats in the park's caves to help prevent the spread of White Nose Syndrome by humans. 21 of 34 Iowa: Ledges State Park Andy Barlett At Ledges State Park, a web of steep trails loops over the sandstone cliffs along Pease Creek. The campground is pleasant (and a few walk-in sites are very cool), but most visitors are day-trippers from Des Moines (40 miles southeast) who come to picnic, hike and wade along the Canyon Road. Parents: Pack extra clothes. The splashy spots where the path crosses the creek are kid magnets. 22 of 34 Missouri: Ha Ha Tonka State Park John Noltner Most visitors head straight for the stone ruins that overlook Lake of the Ozarks. And with good reason—no other state park has skeletal remains of a blufftop mansion. But Ha Ha Tonka State Park (80 miles northeast of Springfield) also has wonderfully varied nature trails, which snake along a hilltop, by a spring-fed river and under a natural bridge. 23 of 34 Missouri: Katy Trail State Park Starboard & Port Creative Katy Trail State Park, the nation's longest rails-to-trails bike path starts northwest of St. Louis in St. Charles and loosely follows the Missouri River west for 225 miles, through small towns, farmland, prairie and wine country. Ultimately, the 25-year-old trail will link to city and county bike paths to Kansas City, making it possible to pedal across all of Missouri. 24 of 34 Missouri: Meramec State Park Courtesy of Missouri Department of Natural Resources Every summer, thousands of people canoe near Mark Twain National Forest on the Meramec River, but most never realize they've entered one of the Midwest's most diverse river ecosystems. (There are 45 varieties of fresh-water mussels alone!) Besides canoe rentals, Meramec State Park (70 miles southwest of St. Louis) has a good nature center, nicely spaced cabins and guided cave tours. 25 of 34 Missouri: Sam A. Baker State Park Courtesy of Missouri Department of Natural Resources Sam A. Baker State Park in the St. Francois Mountains (125 miles southwest of St. Louis) stands out as much for its homey atmosphere as its verdant landscape. Friendly staff and great amenities (free sports equipment, nicely spaced cabins and campsites, a well-stocked store and a noticeably pleasant laundry room) make Sam A. Baker a camper's dream. Most people rent canoes for leisurely float trips along the St. Francois River. 26 of 34 North Dakota: Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park Courtesy of North Dakota Tourism Touring Fort Abe Lincoln (10 miles southwest of Bismarck) feels a little like time-traveling to your last elementary field trip--not least because, on many weekdays, you'll see busloads of schoolkids wandering around the grounds. But the history preserved here is compelling, no matter your age. Highlights include interpreters in Civil War-style uniforms, rows and rows of beds in the barracks, a re-created Native American village and George Custer's actual "Mansion on the Prairie." A great museum ties all the historical pieces together. 27 of 34 North Dakota: Lake Metigoshe State Park Courtesy of Bottineau EDC Right on the Canadian border, 200 miles north of Bismarck, Lake Metigoshe State Park offers a well-rounded, classic lake vacation--walleye fishing, a tidy beach, clean cabins, a friendly Fourth of July fireworks show and canoeing—with way less noise and crowds than you'll find at big, better-known Lake Sakakawea. 28 of 34 South Dakota: Custer State Park Ryan Donnell At 71,000 acres, Custer State Park (30 miles south of Rapid City) is one of the nation's largest state parks, known for granite spires called Needles and the 1,500 head of bison that wander freely throughout the park. Seeing them shuffle through a campsite or along the 18-mile Wildlife Loop road never loses its thrill. Iron Mountain Road into the park from Keystone takes lots of switchbacks, offering absolutely stunning views. The 1922 State Game Lodge is one of four on-site resorts. 29 of 34 South Dakota: Lewis and Clark Recreation Area Lewis and Clark Recreation Area. Chad Coopess Lewis and Clark Recreation Area is one of the Midwest's largest state recreation areas—with some 600 campsites, a small motel and cabins—that hugs the north shore of Lewis and Clark Lake along the Missouri River (90 miles southwest of Sioux Falls). Amenities include a fun restaurant, pools, a well-run marina and picnic areas with Nebraska bluff views. Just one tip: Pack bug spray. 30 of 34 South Dakota: Palisades State Park Gorgeous red cliffs flank Split Rock Creek, some climbing 50 feet above the water at Palisades State Park (20 miles northeast of Sioux Falls). Swimming isn't allowed, but picturesque picnic spots—perfect for relaxing with a book—are abundant. In fact, one summer ranger program is "Photography at the Palisades." 31 of 34 Nebraska: Eugene T. Mahoney State Park Eugene T. Mahoney State Park is all about amenities: trail rides, miniature golf, a driving range, a water park, pedal boats, theater performances, a hotel-restaurant and an ice rink in winter. The grounds are as manicured as a golf course, and the cabin clusters look like suburban subdivisions. Rugged, it's not, but you can't beat the price for a family-friendly resort vacation (30 miles southwest of Omaha). 32 of 34 Nebraska: Fort Robinson State Park Courtesy of Fort Robinson State Park Fort Robinson State Park fuses history and nature. Pine-topped bluffs frame the site where Indian wars were fought, Crazy Horse died and soldiers trained for World War I. Jeep and horseback tours head into the hills, a theater shows live musicals, and lodging includes motel-style rooms in the former cavalry quarters (125 miles south of Rapid City, South Dakota). 33 of 34 Nebraska: Ponca State Park For such a little-known park, Ponca (125 miles north of Omaha) offers a surprisingly well-rounded experience. Choose from a nine-hole golf course, 20 miles of varied hiking trails, a rich lineup of naturalist programs, horseback trail rides and a first-class park museum. Slick recently built cabins sleep eight--perfect for family reunions. 34 of 34 Kansas: Cheney State Park and Crawford State Park Ryan Donnell At Cheney State Park, Cheney Reservoir (35 miles west of Wichita) serves up three summertime essentials—water, sand and sunshine. Hidden swimming coves punctuate the shoreline, and strong winds make for one of Kansas' most striking (and surprising) sights: sailboats zipping across bright blue water under the bright blue dome of the prairie sky. At Crawford State Park, shade trees soften the edges of Crawford Lake (110 miles south of Kansas City, Missouri), so it looks more natural than some man-made lakes. The leafy landscape--unusual in Kansas--might explain the fierce local pride for the park. (Volunteers plant flowers and tidy the grounds.) Most visitors come to camp or fish, but it's worth walking to a moving memorial to the Civilian Conservation Corps, whose workers built the stone-and-log buildings that are hallmarks of state parks. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit


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The new TYC treatment program sounds a lot like the old "Resocialization" program, but with key differences designed to rush kids out the door on the back end much quicker than under the old guidelines:
So bottom line, kids no longer must complete this treatment program before they go home, and while privileges may be taken away, failure to participate fully in treatment will no longer be used to extend a youth's length of stay (a change already codified this summer in TYC's formal rules).CoNEXTions measures a youth's progress in treatment in five stages: Orientation, Skills Development, Transition, Maintenance, and Community Reintegration. Once a youth completes a stage in his or her treatment, he or she cannot be demoted to a lower stage. Additionally, youth do not have to complete all five stages to be eligible for release from a TYC facility when they have met their minimum length of stay. Progression through and completion of the program can be accomplished as a condition of parole.
In the CoNEXTions model, reward and privileges are key motivating tools to encourage youth to progress in their rehabilitation. While all youth receive basic privileges as outlined in TYC policies, there are four additional privilege levels. As youth advance in their treatment, additional privileges are earned. Youth may earn or lose privilege levels based upon individual behavior but any lose of privilege will not affect a youth's minimum length of stay in TYC.
That's probably just fine for most youth, but for some of the more troubled kids at TYC the failure to more fully prepare them before re-entry to the free world could invite trouble, just like the failure to provide adequate sex offender and chemical dependency treatment may lead to youth re-entering society without resolving their core problems.
I can't find any additional info about the program on the agency website, but the press release declares that "CoNEXTions is expected to be implemented system wide in early 2008."


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'Django' Slave Toys Banned from eBay
'Django' Slave Toys BANNED from eBay
Don't count on finding one of those discontinued "Django Unchained" slave toys on eBay any time soon -- TMZ has learned, the action figures have now been banned from the auction website.
TMZ broke the story ... the Weinstein Company (which produced the film) discontinued the promotional figurines in response to a massive backlash from several African-American advocacy groups.
After the toy company halted production, the toys began to pop up on eBay as "rare" collectibles ... and bids skyrocketed.
But last night, all the listings for the "Django" toys were yanked from the website -- and eBay explained itself to sellers with an email, saying, "Since the manufacturer of this product has discontinued the item's sale due to its potentially offensive nature, we are not allowing it to be sold on eBay."
eBay also cautioned the sellers not to re-list the items.
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I wish I could have been there in Bethlehem
Published 8:00 am Friday, December 21, 2012
A note from Dick: This column was a favorite of my friend, Otis Brumby, Jr., publisher of the Marietta Daily Journal and Neighbor Newspapers, who passed away earlier this year. It is dedicated to his memory.
I wish I could have been there. In Bethlehem.
I wish I could have witnessed the birth of the baby Jesus in that humble setting of a lowly manger. Was it really as cold that night as it is sometimes depicted on our Christmas cards or was it a cool and comfortable evening as it is predicted to be this year in Bethlehem?
I wish I could have seen Mary's face as she looked lovingly at her new baby and asked her if she knew how much her life was going to change from that night forward. Did she really understand what God had wrought? And Joseph. Poor simple Joseph. What must have been going through his mind? He was in Bethlehem only because he was required to register for the census as decreed by Caesar Augustus. I wish I could have talked to Joseph and see what he had to say about that night. I suspect he was bewildered. It doesn't take much to bewilder fathers.
I wish I could have seen the star that lit up the dark sky. Like everyone else that evening, I am sure I would have been stupefied and afraid, even though angels said not to be. I think even hearing the voices of angels would have scared me. God's power is awesome and He showed it that night.
I wish I could have observed the shepherds as they came pouring into Bethlehem to see first-hand what the angels had proclaimed to them in the hills where they were tending their flocks. What did this roughhewn bunch think when they saw that little baby? The Bible says they went back and told others what they had just witnessed. I wish I could have heard what they said. Shepherding was probably never the same for them after that night.
I wish I could have been there when the Magi arrived. That must have been quite a sight when these three kings from the East appeared suddenly to pay homage to the little baby and to present him with gifts of gold and myrrh and frankincense. Why those three particular gifts? I am sure the gold had some practical application and frankincense probably helped sweeten the air around the manger, but myrrh? Did anyone see the irony in the fact that myrrh would be one of the spices that would be offered to Jesus at his crucifixion to dull the pain of the nails driven into his wrists and ankles and the crown of thorns thrust on his head and that later it would be used to prepare his body for burial? Was the gift of myrrh an omen? God's ways are mysterious.
I wish I could have stopped some of the people in Bethlehem who were there to register for the census along with Mary and Joseph and explained to them that while they had been in town a child had been born that would forever change the world. I am not sure they would have believed me if I could have gotten them to listen. They just wanted to get registered and out of Bethlehem so they could get back home and continue on with their unremarkable lives, having no idea what had just transpired in their midst.
I wish I could figure out what has happened to us Christians since that fateful night in Bethlehem two thousand years ago. Where is our awe? Where is our reverence? Where is our wonderment? Why have we allowed the birth of our Savior and the promise that there is something better awaiting us after this life to morph into cocktail parties, Black Fridays, Santa Claus and gaudy light displays? Why did we permit this sacred event to be high-jacked by retailers who make money off this holy season, but don't allow the term "Merry Christmas" to be uttered, printed or acknowledged lest they offend someone? And we go along with it as though it doesn't matter? Shame on us.
This is why I wish I could have been there. I wish we all had been there. In Bethlehem. With Mary and Joseph and the Babe. With the shepherds. With the angels. With the Magi. Maybe if we had seen these things for ourselves, we would then understand how special Christmas really is. Oh, how I wish we could.
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Battle of Five Armies
Battle of Five Armies | |
Date: "the last week of autumn" in T.A. 2941[1] | |
Place: The valley of Dale and the slopes of Erebor | |
Outcome: Victory for the Elves, Men, and Dwarves
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Combatants | |
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Commanders | |
Bard the Bowman
Bolg † |
Strength | |
Unknown, except for:
Unknown, except for "A vast host" |
Casualties | |
Unknown, presumably substantial |
Heavy: "three parts of the goblin warriors of the North perished"[4] |
The Battle of Five Armies was an important battle waged in T.A. 2941.[5] The five warring parties were the Goblins and the Wargs against Men, Elves and Dwarves on and near the Lonely Mountain.
Thorin and Company, including the "master-thief" Bilbo Baggins trying to recapture the heirloom of their fathers' (and possibly to kill Smaug, too, and thus to recapture the whole Kingdom) had camped without at Erebor for some weeks. Bilbo had already done some exploration of the old hallways using the Back Door and had stolen a golden cup from the treasure. By this deed and by Bilbo's bold speech Smaug's anger was kindled.
Erroneously believing, due to some remarks Bilbo had made during his conversation with Smaug,[6] that some scheme of the Men of Esgaroth was the reason for the Dwarves' (and Bilbo's) presence, Smaug flew to Esgaroth to show them who is "the true King under the Mountain".[6] Smaug's fires burned down the whole town, but the dragon was killed by Bard the Bowman. The Elves of Mirkwood soon learned that Smaug had been killed and thus set forth to claim the treasure, believing there was no one left who had a claim on it. Having heard of the disaster that had struck the befriended men, the Elven host turned aside to offer any help that could be provided. Some day after the Elves had arrived at the Long Lake a united host of Men and Elves set forth towards Erebor, believing that the Dwarves had been among the first casualties of Smaug's wrath. To their surprise they found Thorin and Company quite alive, the gate to the halls beneath Erebor barred by a wall and themselves treated as foes, coming armed towards the gates.[7]
For several reasons Bard, being heir of Girion, Lord of Dale, claimed one twelfth of the treasure: first, he was the dragonslayer and without him, the Dwarves could never have reclaimed their old home. Second, a great deal of Dale's treasure had been robbed by Smaug and thus belonged rightfully to Bard and not the Dwarves. Third, the men of Esgaroth had helped the Dwarves on their journey and now had suffered severely; their whole city burned to the ground and their stocks being destroyed by Smaug, whose anger in the end was only risen by the Dwarves alone. Therefore they demanded compensation and Bard intended to pay it from the part of the treasure he claimed.[8]
Yet Thorin rebuked these claims. He would not fulfill any of the conditions as long as an armoured Elven host camped near Erebor. For the Elves did not have any claims on the treasure and Thorin himself had been imprisoned by the Elves.[8]
As a result, Thorin and Company were trapped in a bloodless siege, with Thranduil and Bard hoping to wait him out.[8] However, Thorin had sent messages of his plight to his relatives using as messengers talking Ravens that lived on the Lonely Mountain. These reached Dáin Ironfoot of the nearby Iron Hills, and he marched to Erebor with 500 heavily armed Dwarves of the Iron Hills, most of them skilled veterans of the War of the Dwarves and Orcs[3]. When Dain's forces arrived, battle was almost joined between the two sides (now three armies were on the field) but at the last moment Gandalf intervened between the two and revealed that while they were bickering amongst themselves, the Goblins of the Misty Mountains and Grey Mountains under Bolg were using the opportunity to march against them. They had been incited by Gandalf's earlier slaying of the Great Goblin, but had now mobilized for a full-scale attack after hearing news of the death of the Dragon and the now relatively unguarded treasure hoard.[9]
The three commanders agreed that the Goblins and Wargs were the enemies of all and previous grievances between them were put on hold in face of the greater threat. They arranged their forces on the two spurs of the Mountain that lined the valley leading to the now-sealed off great Gate of Erebor; the only entrance to the Mountain that remained unblocked (any others had been destroyed by Smaug long before). The 500 Dwarves and 200 or so Lake-men formed up on one spur and over 1000 Elves on the other, while a light rear-guard lined across the mouth of the valley to lure the Goblins between the two spurs of the mountain, and thus destroy them. Bilbo Baggins tried to sit out the battle on Ravenhill which was held by the Elves and where Gandalf had also withdrawn to.[9]
Soon the Goblins and Wargs arrived, and at first the plan worked: they were lured into the choke point and took heavy losses. However, due to their superior numbers, the allied Free peoples did not hold the advantage long. The second wave was even worse than the first, and due to their sheer number now many Goblins scaled the mountain from the opposite side, and began to attack the arrayed forces from above and behind, as the main wave pressed forward. The battle raged across the Mountain, and then a great noise was heard: Thorin and his twelve Dwarf companions inside the mountain had thrown down a section of the stone wall they had erected across the mouth of the gates, killing many Goblins. Thorin and Company emerged, covered in the best armour and armed with the best weapons in Erebor. Then Thorin cried, "To me! To me! Elves and Men! To me! O my kinsfolk!", and charged down into the valley to join the battle with many Dwarves and many Men and Elves joining his charge. Thorin advanced through the Goblins' ranks all the way up to the huge Goblins that formed the bodyguard of Bolg, but could not get past them. Also his battle-line was too short, the flanks unprotected and thus his attack soon crumbled, Thorin and many others were cut off and hard beset by Bolg's bodyguard. The battle degenerated into a chaotic close quarters melee, no quarter asked or given.[9]
As the battle was turning fully against the Free Folk, a large army of Giant Eagles of the Misty Mountains arrived, led by the Great Eagle. Bilbo was the first to spot their entrance on the scene and began shouting that "the Eagles are coming!", a shout that was then continued among the other troops of the Free Folk. At this point Bilbo was knocked in the head by a large stone thrown by a Goblin from above on the Mountain, and he was knocked out.[9] With the support of the Giant Eagles, the Goblins that had scaled Erebor were driven off. The tide was eventually turned, when Beorn himself arrived at the battle, apparently having heard news that a large army of Goblins were on the move. This time he did not appear in his former shape of a giant Man, but in that of a gigantic Bear. Beorn drove through the Goblin lines, but paused to carry the wounded Thorin out of the battle with his paw. Beorn then returned to the battle with even greater wrath and scattered the bodyguard of Bolg, before ultimately crushing Bolg himself. The Goblins panicked and scattered, to be picked off by hunting forces from the victors later.[10]
Thorin had been mortally wounded on the field, and his nephews Fíli and Kíli died defending him as he lay on the ground with shield and body. Thorin died soon after the battle, after he had met Bilbo one last time and had taken back the harsh words he had spoken before.
After defeating the Goblins and Wargs, the victors divided the treasure. Bard took Bilbo's fourteenth share of the gold and silver in return for the Arkenstone, whereupon he shared his reward with the Master of Lake-town and gave the Elvenking Thranduil the emeralds of Girion. Bilbo, despite having forfeited his share, was offered a rich reward by Dáin Ironfoot but refused to take more than two small chests of gold and silver.
It is said that three quarters of the Goblin warriors of the North were killed on that day. The Goblins of the Misty Mountains and the Dwarves both were significantly spent after the battle, and until the War of the Ring, the North remained quiet on both sides.[10]
Other versions of the legendarium
In its first versions, the conflict around Erebor ended after the Siege. While Bard and the Elvenking laid siege, Gandalf would arrive and negotiate a peace treaty. The actual Battle, dubbed by John D. Rateliff the "Battle of Anduin Vale", would be on the return journey, in what would later be known as the Vales of Anduin. There, Goblins and Wargs would waylay Bilbo. The Five Armies in this incarnation were the Goblins, the Wargs, the Woodelves, the Woodmen, and Beorn Medwed leading a troop of bears.[11]
Portrayal in adaptations
1967: The Hobbit (1967 film):
- The battle is completely omitted. Bilbo kills the dragon, and returns home.[12]
1977: The Hobbit (1977 film):
- The "Five Armies" are the Elves, the Men, the Dwarves, the Goblins (and Wargs) and the Eagles. Bilbo estimates the force of the Men and Elves on 10,000, but this may not be an accurate estimate. The number of Dwarves of Thorin and Company to have died is seven, but only Thorin and Bombur are named among the dead. Only Glóin is shown as having survived the battle.
2003: The Hobbit (2003 video game):
- The battle takes up most of the last chapter. Because Bilbo is the main character, his role in the battle is much expanded. After leaving Thranduil, he has to fight his way to Balin, Lianna, Corwin, Gandalf, Beorn, and ultimately Bolg.
2014: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies:
- The battle comprises the majority of the third film. The five armies are described as Elves, Men, Dwarves, and two armies of Orcs - one from Dol Guldur and the other from Gundabad.[13] Azog acts as commander, rather than Bolg, and set up a signal post on Raven Hill to coordinate the battle.
- During the battle, Thorin decides to kill Azog in Ravenhill and is followed by Dwalin, Fili and Kili. Fili is then captured, impaled by Azog and thrown off a tower. Bolg finds Tauriel and injures her but before he can finish her, Kili arrives to save her but is impaled by Bolg's mace and dies. Legolas, hearing Tauriel's confrontation with Bolg, arrives to fight him before he impales Bolg in the head, killing him. Thorin confronts Azog in a fight to avenge Fili; ultimately, Azog stabs Thorin in the chest, whilst Thorin plunges Orcrist through Azog's chest and stabs him into the ice, killing the Orc. Thorin later apologises to, and makes peace with, Bilbo before dying.
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "On the Doorstep"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "The Clouds Burst"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "A Thief in the Night"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "The Return Journey"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Third Age"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Inside Information"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Fire and Water"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "The Gathering of the Clouds"
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "The Clouds Burst"
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "The Return Journey"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, John D. Rateliff (ed.), The History of The Hobbit: Return to Bag-End, pages 713-4
- ↑ "The Hobbit.mp4" dated 5 January 2012, YouTube (accessed 10 January 2012)
- ↑ The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (extended edition) Appendices


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