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Molly Hankwitz Cox
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis' spectacular public image possessed a mystique which reached deep into the psyche of her generation. To the public eye, she exuded taste, youth, beauty, and breeding unparalleled in American society; a modern queen. She was a politician's wife; a President's wife, an exact replica in female form of JFK's desire to lead. Jackie was passionate, involved, well-dressed, always careful in the eye of the camera, yet, sincerely, reclusively, attractively...private. With her particular energy and birthright, Jackie exuded classic, well-educated, aristocratic good looks and values, and an elegant confidence; what Kennedy himself signified with his Harvard education and possessed as member of the Kennedy "clan."
Jackie Kennedy was a product of both the snooty Miss Porter's girls preparatory and Vassar College where qualities of intellectual confidence and the best breeding are routinely pounded into graduates. Her facial expressions embodied these values. Her strange, broad, calm smile and wide-eyed starry grin; straight ahead stare and coiffured hair, all spoke to a history of wealth, social skill and glamor. Of course much of what we know about her has come from popular culture: newspapers, magazines, official photographs, and TV, much of which was a series of posed opportunities representing brief glimpses of the Presidential couple as they would have been arriving or departing in a limo. The use of the limo is a favored shot sequence for news crews intent upon capturing the essence of power against the backdrop of the crowds.
Auras of Exclusion and the Feminine Mystique
Perhaps it is the aura of exclusivity which Jackie so fully embodied, radiated, contrived, which lends a classicism to her mystique, both as a President's wife and later (though to a less pageant-like degree) in marriage to Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis. Her family owned the aura, her husband violated it, and at the same time, during their brief Presidency, the couple was also made by it. They were a youthful sensation, a promise of prosperity and fairness, a coveted idea of wealth and power, the image of success, the absolute essence of a positive, innovative upward mobility, bottled and signed. They were smart. Jackie was fluent in French and Spanish. Moreover, her version of "First Lady" had strong parallels to the lives of American women who had married and done motherhood and who now found themselves fending off what Betty Friedan called, the "feminine mystique" in her 1963 tome on housewife discontent.
American women were pushed by postwar capitalism to carry a specific national torch. They were to live and breathe an idealized womanhood in which they weathered housework with fresh can-do energy, owned all manner of new appliances with a pseudo-scientific glee, gushed enthusiasm, and were to appear always in fashionable good taste when it came to home decorating and clothing. "Mrs. Kennedy" was no exception, although major interior decorating replaced an obsession with housework. Her duty to the nation was to rethink White House style, appear in large, colorful magazine spreads celebrating the transformation of the White House from a bleak, pared back interior—where little fit and history was lacking—to rooms robust with heritage, American craft and colors. And, Jackie did.
Her gracious smile and lithe carriage, like the latest technology, seemed to whisk her airily from one life event to another. "Mrs. Kennedy" was the modern mother, calm and collected, a woman for whom wealth, fame, power, and technological convenience in every aspect of her existence allowed her to avoid what regularly frazzled American women.
In one moment Jackie could carry out strategic destruction of oppositional ego (when every possibly frumpy Texas Republican's wife witnessed her that fateful day in Dallas as a high class fashion plate) in the strawberry pink Chanel wool suit with navy blue collar and piping, gold buttons and famous matching pink pill box hat, carrying a Navy blue leather clutch bag with gold details, an outfit Jack apparently chose for her. And, in the next set of events, witness the brutal assassination of her husband, screaming (although it's not readily visible on Zapruder's film), "My God, they will kill us all!" and, in what has to be one of the most tragic images ever in modern history of a well-known and revered woman, Jackie is viewed - over and over in the play back - crawling across the limo on all fours, in search of President Kennedy's brain, which by force of impact from the rifle bullet which had shattered the front of his skull, was blown across the Lincoln Continental's trunk, in pieces. Jackie, with rounded bottom in pink wool skirt high in the air, crawls back across the car,stretchin to grab what she can, before resuming a place near the President. That sequence is simply tragic in ways that no person of grace or substance ever wants to be known.
A few hours later, Mrs. Kennedy would be photographed once again in a photo opp, aboard Air Force One.
What is so powerful about this series of events and ideas as a document, is that these pictures were caught only on one piece of film by one lone filmmaker, Abraham Zapruder, who happened to be there on the grassy knoll with his 8mm camera. Secondly, they are powerful from a media studies perspective because most domestic television sets were black and white in 1963. Color TV was still expensive and relatively rare, therefore, despite color film, the general public would have seen the footage in black and white. The absence of color, retrospectively, plays a curious role in the eventual remembrance and perhaps importance of the historic record and cultural memory itself.
It was not until publication of the Warren Commission's report in 1964 that the pink color of the Chanel suit was widely known. Between traveling that day with the President, and returning to the television screen later on, the major event of the President's assassination and death had already intervened in whatever other news regarding the President and his beautiful wife would have been tracked by TV crews.
Yes, another motorcade took place, a second motorcade, this one more spectacularly powerful, more tragic, more dignified and stately, It was modeled after the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, and it too passed the panoptical public eye between event one and event two. In this motorcade, Jackie was seen again, with their two beautiful children, and she was in another outfit, more powerful, more dutiful, more tragic, more iconic and expressive which filled our memory: the funereal dress of a thirty-one year widow.
Time Lapse
Fifty years later, recalling Mrs. Kennedy's image in the media spotlight, suggests other important aspects of her role as model for women in the American history of the '60s. She resonates with deeper issues of The Feminine Mystique and what it represented as a way to be and as a governing concept for American women. It was eleven years later that The Total Woman was published, Marabel Morgan's book about how to please your husband and your wifely duty. Within a trajectory of publishing on womens' lives, we move from Friedan, who's work is a sincere foray into the problems confronting women, to another major best seller which merely caricatures the daily existence of wives.
The Feminine Mystique as outlined by Friedan was the profoundly oversimplified, market-driven version of what American women should do with their time: spend money on commercial products including beauty, diet, household, fashion, baby and motherhood; an exaggerated status. Editors of the leading womens' magazines, predominantly white and male, made clear that the most correct and desirable destination for an educated, middle class woman, was home and family. It was her place in the nation and in the capitalist conspiracy to sell soap, manners, and sex appeal. By the end of the 1950s, however, the mystique was beginning to disintegrate as women marched against the War in Vietnam, turned towards careers, and liberated their talents. Friedan cites dozens and dozens of letters from housewives, in which boredom and unhappiness merges with wanting "something more."
Where Does Jackie Fit In?
The role of the First Lady, because she is so public, so much the sidekick and wife to the President, is on some level a model of behavior and truth for the rest of America's women. First Ladies have had an extraordinary legacy as speakers, activists, ardent supporters, and champions of rights. Each woman has brought her individual mark to the role and Jackie's mark was to be First (and most beautiful, most stylish, and most intelligent) to one of the most powerful men, John F. Kennedy. In her own physical way, she fit his stature, his myth. which was about prominent family, good looks, a Harvard degree, and successful immigrant history. He was about the Space Age and the republic, about the future of technologies putting men on the moon. He was about freedom, be it "equality" or freedom from the rhetorical threat of Communism. And Jackie was his trophy bride, young mother to his two adorable children. If they had not lived in the White House, they would have lived in a smaller house somewhere in a posh suburb. Like the rest of the upper middle class, they would have governed their domain. Instead they governed the nation, made appearances. Made speeches, laws, declarations. Made news in the age of radio and television.
First Lady Mystique
There is no role for women in this country which so validates the divisions of labor associated with the nuclear family. The First Lady is to know her place at the side of her more powerful husband. She is to select china patterns and write letters at small desks in private studies tucked away in White House wings, while the Oval Office is "command central" and the President makes calls and signs laws with long pens at public desks surrounded by staff as white-wigged founding fathers did years ago.
Jackie as First Lady was fit into an historically prescribed position to fulfill duties, while also bringing New England heritage and upbringing, and an easy, educated, modernist spin to the role. Indeed, Jackie set a distinctive style to being First Lady, with her model beauty and brightly lit smile. From high forehead and fine cheek bones to variations on the bouffant hairdo and hemline, Jackie was pure chic. The Chanel suit she wore to Dallas was upper middle class smartness. She had a great repertoire, so much so that the press often remarked more on what she wore than on anything she did or said. Needless to say, she later became more of a person when married to her reclusive second husband Aristotle Onassis, or in having a job.
Something is unsettling about Jackie's public face. Her mystique is the calm, benign grin and emphasis on fashion, but obviously, this historic face was masking domestic unhappiness. The Presidential marriage, after all, was not as perfect as it would seem. The First Couple who seemed so unreally marvelous in their public image had tragic and unhappy personal lives. They were human, capable of feeling, living, and dying, but Jackie rarely if ever cracked. So immaculate was their public face that its power pervaded, and left us basking in its limelight, made us feel worthy and serene. Failure to show anything was the sign of good breeding; that weird capacity of aristocratic people to remain controlled due to their well-earned privilege. Jackie Kennedy was pushed to endure her First Lady place, to endure her husband's bad habits, to mask her private life for sake of duty. Just as ordinary housewives also lived in silence.
The Times Changed
President Kennedy's speech on the equality of "race, color and creed" was delivered in June 1963. His articulate wording and deep Boston accent rang out. New laws to prevent discrimination in hiring based on sex and the Equal Pay Act were signed. The officially sanctioned domination of privileged white men over people of color and over all women was hopefully, gladly, on the way out. In 1963 the National Organization for Women was founded, with Betty Friedan as its first President. The civil rights movement gathered increasing steadfastness under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King. In this context, Jackie's blithe modernity as a liberated, educated woman, as a true upper class woman shown forth. Her even composure can be read as the mark of self-assurance in the new age of American democracy, of what her educated husband stood for, of what she—in picture after picture—represented amidst the growing climate of American social unrest.
New Money, Old Money: Inextricable Ties
New England families the Vanderbilts and Wannemakers lived amidst a heritage of "blue money" (old money) and the stock exchange. But unlike these old relic families of America's industrial age and rising retail conglomerates, the Kennedys and the Bouviers were "new money. For relatively new money, picturesque New England towns were home to their extended families, especially during summer, when colonies of the rich and famous would be drawn to the coastline, the privacy, and the social circles. Many summer colonies are privately gated with delicate, architect-designed houses, sprawling roofs, verandas, landscaping, and private beaches. Summer colonies were where one owned one's second houses. This was the space of leisure and privacy, much like Onassis' yacht, only fixed.
In a sampling, from Baltimore to Maine, Nonquitt, Massachusetts stands out. A Wampanoag name, from the local indigenous tribe, meaning "dry or landing place," Nonquitt is a notorious set of grey shingled summer houses, post office, zip code, golf course, yacht club and pier; an early gated community. Nonquitt has been a summer colony since the turn of the century. Names such as Wannemaker, Sheridan, and Smythe; writers and famous artists are occasionally seen. Queen Elizabeth reportedly visited Nonquitt in the twenties, parking her yacht in the tiny Padanarum Harbor. The place epitomizes something about East Coast wealth that lingers in the physical fact of Jackie Kennedy Onassis despite her never owning a house there. It is something about the ultra-exclusive habits of people who "summer" and who enjoy considerable access to the coastline, that Nonquitt and Jackie have in common.
Jackie's family home is Newport, Rhode Island, American Aristocracy Central. With its Ten Mile Drive of overblown castles and mansions, and yachts visible from all vistas, grand events such as the America's Cup Races and the very pricey Newport Jazz Festival happen there. The Bouvier home is perched overlooking the harbor. From Newport and Nonquitt, the list of aristocratic families, private locales, and first and second homes goes on, somehow enabling a nearly inextricable relationship between the arts of politics, property ownership, status and social climbing, called "summering." Hence, later images of Jackie caught by paparazzi on Onassis' yacht have special meaning for the degree to which her private habits of summering were still pried into, still desired.
The famous LIFE magazine photo of President Jack's younger brother Robert Kennedy running on the beach to get away from his busy life, is quintessentially "summering." This time it's in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, where the Kennedy Compound is located, and where frugal, salt box homes and a post office sit beside it. In and around Cape Cod, and Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, are some of the most famous spots in Massachusetts, the state where the Kennedy brothers cut their political teeth, where they learned to rub elbows with the men and women who run America. Few circulating in these places were capable of establishing, as did the Kennedys, and Jackie Bouvier marrying in to them, a history so spectacular. The Kennedy name carried the attractive Irish immigrant rags-to-riches story, and fabulous accumulated profits, carrying them to Harvard, Vassar, a military and political career, and all the way to the White House.
End of Story: Air Force One Visit
The images of youth, virility, power, wealth and breeding for which the Kennedy Presidency was known, and which captivated American imaginations in the early 1960s rested upon a moment in modern life when technological advances and the visionary sensibility was somehow coalescing. Kennedy himself epitomized this integration.
The elite of postwar America enjoyed air travel. Given the high cost for ordinary people, it was an exclusive and elite activity, done by elite people. The spectacle of a private Presidential jet, paid for with American tax dollars, to ferry around the First Couple, was an ultimate status symbol. With Air Force One, however, the Kennedys arrived and deplaned in transcontinental style, faster, better, more securely. They exited the interior of the airplane, and waved to the people, before descending from it. Television crews, excluded from the interior, would await their arrival all over the nation. Such is what John Hartley calls the "arrival of leadership" and the arrival of a new mode of address and photographic opportunity for the modern President. It was a look, a power, something to do with mobility. Kennedy himself monitored the plane's exterior appearance, first designed to be painted in red and gold. He settled for a stripe of a more popular/populist blue, and in a shade less military and somber than "navy".
Air Force One is on exhibition in Seattle's Museum of Flight. It sits next to a Concorde jet. The same stairs which President Kennedy and his wife climbed to fly to Texas stand, admitting people to the cabin and back out. It takes a small turn of the body, from the hatch door to the tarmac, to understand how miraculous, mobile, and powerful, the First Couple would have felt, and how completely odd it is to step from the cabin where they were once seen to have stood. To see people walking below also conjures memories of the Beatles' first trip to America, Johann Grimonprez's cult film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, and numerous other media memories of the famous planing and deplaning as witnessed on the news. But inside the plane, is an even greater, mind blowing trip. The woody, beige paneling, and soft leather interior design of the cabin is preserved exactly as it would have looked for the Kennedys. The visitor's eyes become those of the President's. In the main cabin, completely sealed in half inch clear Plexiglas, is a centrally-located telephone console and desk. The console is bread box-sized, covered in large, square, now yellowed buttons. There is a red button, too. Opposite the console is a single, swivel chair, taller than any other seating. It is the Presidents' chair.
Mrs. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and their entourage of Secret Service, used this plane to bring JFK's body back to Washington, DC. In that main cabin, directly in front of the chair, Lyndon Johnson swore his oath of office as 36th President of the United States, a radically informal formality, due to the emergency circumstance. It was there that Jackie stood engaged in yet another act of propriety, brunette hair, minus the pink pill box hat, curled closely around her face, eyes averted, as witness.
Molly Hankwitz Cox, holds a Ph.D. in Media and communications. She lives in San Francisco with her family and writes.
"Sixteen Jackies" by Andy Warhol, 1964. Photo from the JFK Library.


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Opening to the public in 1999, CityLink was the first road project delivered by Transurban and provided Melbourne with its first cross-city connection and road tunnels. Since then, we have invested almost $2 billion into the corridor, including for the construction of more lanes and advanced on-road technology to help people get to where they want to go.
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Squeaking and sinking were what one got for so low of a price.
Robie was a half inch over six feet and a rock-solid one hundred and eighty pounds. He possessed a compact musculature that relied more on quickness and endurance than sheer strength. His nose had been broken once, due to a mistake he had made. He had never had it reset, because he'd never wanted to forget the mistake. One of his back teeth was false. That had come with the broken nose. His hair was naturally dark and he had a lot of it, but Robie preferred to keep it about a half inch longer than a Marine buzz cut. His facial features were sharply defined, but he made them mostly forgettable by almost never making eye contact with anyone.
He had tats on one arm and also on his back. One tattoo was of a large tooth from a great white. The other was a red slash that looked like lightning on fire. They effectively covered up old scars that had never healed properly. And each held some significance for him. The damaged skin had proven a challenge for the tattoo artist working on Robie, but the end result had been satisfactory.
Robie was thirty-nine years old and would turn forty the following day. He had not come to Scotland to celebrate this personal milestone. He had come here to work. Of the three hundred and sixty-five days in a year, he was working or traveling to do his job on about half of them.
Robie surveyed the room. It was small, adequate, unadorned, strategically located. He did not require much. His possessions were few, and his wants fewer still.
He rose and went to the window, pressed his face to the cool glass. The sky was gloomy. It was often that way in Scotland. A full day of sun in Edinburgh was routinely greeted with both gratitude and astonishment by its citizens.
Far to his left stood Holyrood Palace, the Queen's official residence in Scotland. He could not see it from here. Far to his right was Edinburgh Castle. He could not see that battered old edifice either but knew exactly where it was.
He checked his watch. A full eight hours to go.
Hours later his internal clock woke him. He left his room, and walked up toward Princes Street. He passed the majestic Balmoral Hotel that anchored the city center.
He ordered a light meal and had tap water to drink, ignoring the large selection of stouts offered on the board over the bar. As he ate he spent some time gazing at a street performer juggling butcher knives atop a unicycle while regaling the crowd with funny stores delivered with an embellished Scottish brogue. Then there was the fellow outfitted as the invisible man taking pictures with passersby for two pounds each.
After his meal, he walked toward Edinburgh Castle. He could see it in the distance as he ambled along. It was big, imposing, and had never once been taken by force, only stealth.
He climbed to the top of the castle, peering over the gloom of the Scottish capital. He ran his hand along cannon that would never fire another shot. He turned to his left and took in the full breadth of the sea that had made Edinburgh such an important port centuries ago as vessels came and went, disgorging freight and picking up fresh cargo. He stretched tight limbs, felt a creak and then a pop in his left shoulder.
But first he had to make it to tomorrow.
He checked his watch.
Three hours to go.
He left the castle and headed down a side street.
He waited out a sudden chilly rain shower under a café awning and drank a cup of coffee.
Later he passed a sign for the ghost tour of underground Edinburgh, adults only, and only conducted after full darkness had set in. It was almost time. Robie had memorized every step, every turn, every move he would have to make.
To live.
As he did every time, he had to hope it would be enough.
Will Robie did not want to die in Edinburgh.
A bit later he passed a man who nodded at him. It was just a slight dip of the head, nothing more. Then the man was gone and Robie turned down the doorway the man had vacated. He shut and locked it behind him and moved forward, quickening his pace. His shoes were rubber-soled. They made no sound on the stone floor. Six hundred feet in he saw the door on the right side. He took it. An old monk's cloak was hung on a peg. He donned it and put the hood up. There were other things there for him. All necessary.
Night-vision goggles.
A recorder.
A Glock pistol with suppressor can attached.
And a knife.
He waited, checking his watch every five minutes. His watch was synched to the very second with someone else's.
He opened another door and passed through it. He moved downward, reached a grate in the floor, lifted it, and skittered down a set of iron handrails set into the stone. He hit the floor silently, moved left, counted off his paces. Above him was Edinburgh. At least the "new" part.
He was in Underground Edinburgh now, home of several ghost and walking tours. There were the vaults under South Bridge and parts of old Edinburgh such as Mary King's Close, among others. He glided down the dark brick-and-stone passages, his powered goggles letting him see everything in crisp definition. Electric lamps on the walls were set at fairly regular intervals. But it was still very dark down here.
He could almost hear the voices of the dead around him. It was part of local lore that when the plague came in the 1600s it struck impoverished areas of the city - such as Mary King's Close - especially hard. And in response the city walled up folks here forever to prevent the spread of the disease. Robie didn't know if that was true or not. But it wouldn't surprise him if it were. That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.
He checked his watch.
Ten minutes to go.
He moved slower, adjusting his pace so he would arrive seconds before he was supposed to. Just in case.
He heard them before he saw them.
There were five, not counting the guide. The man and the peripherals.
They would be armed. They would be ready. The peripherals would think this was the perfect place for an ambush.
They would be right.
It was stupid for the man to come down here.
It was.
The carrot had to be especially big.
It was.
It was as big as it was total bullshit. Still, he had come because he knew no better. Which made Robie wonder how dangerous the man really was. But that was not his call.
He had four minutes to go.


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Season's greetings to family and friends!
We totally missed sending out our traditional Blichmann / Bond holiday letter in 2010, so let's rewind a little bit...
Bob's Bifurcated Life: Bob was out of official work for the first half of 2010, but late in the summer he found a job a Caterpillar plant making parts for big yellow digging machines. That's a good thing. The position is less pure metallurgy and more general engineering stuff, which can also be a good thing. The bad thing is that it's located in wonderful Sumter, SOUTH Carolina, which is about two hours south of our home. Sumter is in the SC midlands – essentially a big swamp. It's main claim to fame is an Air Force bombing range that is open to the public. You can go watch planes blow things up, if you like that kind of thing. Bob spends weekdays in Sumter, staying in a sort of crumby apartment we call the "Den of Squalor". Weekends are mostly spent at home in North Carolina. Ah, the exotic double life
Bob outside the new modern
art museum in Charlotte.
Sumter, SC does have an active bicycling community, though. And it's as flat as a pancake, with the exception of maybe one hill. 2011 was a hot summer down in the swamp, and Bob really did get acclimated to cycling in the 99 degree heat. Hard to imagine for a Yooper, eh?
Some of the swamps are actually pretty cool.
Betsy and the Various Rabbits: Betsy is still working with exotic metal alloys at Allvac, and holds down the fort during the week with help from the rabbits. Her extreme knitting activities have been somewhat held in check by a nasty case of De Quervain's tenosynovitis – think carpal tunnel, only in the thumb. But she's working that out, and has nonetheless managed to produce a good number of cool knitted objects. Betsy was even the winner of the Charlotte Knitters Guild 2011 Excellence in Knitting Award in the non-professional category. Go Knitbert!
It's an unwritten covenant in our neighborhood that each residence harbor at least two yapping dogs.
We snub our noses at convention by keeping a pair of outdoor rabbits. Our current critters are anything but your typical quiet, sedate, sit-there-and-look-cute fuzzy bunnies. High-energy, athletic, curious,
friendly, and excitable are more like it. Mr. Skippy exhibits behavior more associated with a puppy than a rabbit. His female friend, Zeela II, is a little more aloof, but still enjoys tearing around the back deck,
sometimes bouncing off the railings and walls like a hockey player. Project for 2012: engineer a way to mount a little video camera on one of these creatures.
Automatic deck sweepers,
out on the prowl.
News from the Offspring: Nart (AKA Bart, Nathaniel, take your pick) is currently a junior at UNC Chapel Hill, studying various biology-related subjects, and holds the best job title of the family: Center Manager. This stems from a part-time job supervising the sundry activities at the campus gym. Last summer was spent ridding a Florida slough of invasive plant species.
Mary and the kids at Paul's graduation, Clemson University 2010
Parental Units: Betsy's mom is doing well up in Livonia, MI, and is involved in a dizzying plethora of
book and cooking clubs.
Bob's parents are still in the U.P. Just before Thanksgiving they ended up in different hospitals, for different reasons, on the same day. Lorraine is now finishing up rehabilitation from an emergency hip replacement, and cheerfully putting up with the crazy nursing home world of early wake-up calls, relentless physical and occupational therapy sessions, and roommates who are retired World Professional Snoring Association champions. Dale's prostate cancer slowly is catching up with him, so he's in hospice care at the VA hospital. But he's in great spirits, and enjoys reading, smuggled in beer, and having visitors in for Packers games on TV.
Travels, etc. We hadn't been skiing for a few years, so in March we took a ski trip to Big Sky, MT. It was great to get away to someplace with real snow, big mountains, and hot tubs. That and a few enjoyable trips to Michigan to visit family effectively burned up our vacation days.
Our one 2010 ski outing: Pine Mountain! Bob and Betsy at Big Sky
Here's to a happy 2012!
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- Bob's musical stuff: www.facebook.com/RachelGarciaQuartet www.facebook.com/StevensMill
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- Cancer finally caught up with Bob's dad. He passed away just after the first of the year. The Blichmann family met up in the U.P. to celebrate his long, unique, and meaningful life.
- Lorraine is out of physical rehab, and has just moved into an assisted living apartment until she can gain enough strength to go back home.
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As the title suggests- going to a wedding on Sunday evening (6-11pm) and wondering if this dress is OK? The ceremony is outdoors and the reception is indoors, but in an elegant garden setting. This dress was technically from a winter collection, but I think it may work since the wedding is in the evening? I was going to wear it with gold flats and a gold clutch.


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I'm really not sure how I feel about this week's episode. On the one hand, it was stupid as hell for the first 45 minutes. On the other hand, those 45 minutes were supposed to be an episode of a reality show, so if it weren't stupid, that would be completely unrealistic. On another hand altogether, why did they feel the need to make an episode about a reality show? My guess is that it's because the writers have their fingers on the pulse of the nation, and reality TV is where it's at these days, especially with the strike. BUT WAIT, they must have written this episode before the strike! Nothing makes sense anymore! I guess it's the same reason any reality show gets aired: sweet, juicy ratings.
The first few minutes are Christian convincing Sean to agree to do a reality show, and Sean being at first completely against the idea, then somewhat open to it, and finally reluctantly agreeable after Christian bats his eyelashes and blows Sean kisses.
The credits for their fake reality show, Plastic Fantastic, are probably the best credits of anything ever. Sean and Christian are wearing dark glasses and waving around cartoon scalpels and bobbing their heads side to side like Stevie Wonder. (Requisite Eddie Murphy-on-Stevie Wonder joke: "You wanna impress me, motherfucker? Take the wheel.")
Here's what happens during the reality show episode: Sean and Christian offer ironically opposing views of what the plastic surgery industry really does for people, Sean siding with "helping" and Christian siding with "making titties bigger." Their patient, Daniel Sands, is a gigolo who wants an eye lift and a neck lift, only he's a former drug addict, so he wants to use acupuncture instead of anesthesia. Olivia is conveniently an acupuncturist. Liz has a huge crush on Olivia. Julia is wicked jealous and also an annoying cunt. During Mr. Sands' surgery, Eden storms in with cigarette burns all over her forearms, crying about rehab and telling all of everyone's secrets. Julia confronts Liz about her crush on Olivia. Eden thanks Sean for treating her burns and not being a dick to her, like everyone else. She says she was j/k when she said that Christian and Julia did it. Christian cries to Bliss (aka Mary Cherry from Unpopular), the publicist who is working on the show, about how he wishes it were focusing more on him. She tells him to go shopping on Rodeo Drive. Then she thinks better of it and gets New York to come on the show and act poorly and give Christian advice about starting shit. Heeding said advice, Christian calls Julia and tells her that Olivia and Liz were macking. Julia runs over and yells at both of them. And that's the reality show episode.
If last week was about Secrets, then this week was obviously about Revelation. I guess this is actually really well-suited to a reality show, since nothing can stay secret for long if there are cameras everywhere and everyone else hypothetically has access to everything you're saying and doing. Still, Christian managed to not allow Mr. Sands to tell everyone that he's a gigolo, and Eden spilled secrets in such a way that no one necessarily believes them. Further, when Christian called Julia about Olivia and Liz kissing, we didn't see them kissing right then, so it seemed like Christian was lying. However, he knew they'd kissed because he'd installed a camera (apparently for his own nefarious personal use) in the women's bathroom. All of those things happened independent of the reality show. Conclusion: nothing secret can stay secret for long. Unless you anesthetize or discredit the revealer, I guess.
The reality show portion also had a really awesome reality show soundtrack, with tons of melodramatic violins and "wah-waaah" sounds and fake baby crying and talking head segments. (Side note: in her talking head segment, Nurse Linda totally reminded me of Phyllis from The Office, which may have something to do with the fact that she's a real RN who serves as a technical adviser on a lot of doctor shows. Fun facts!) It was a little bit stupid that everyone was so "Get these cameras out of my face!" all the time, since they signed up to be on the show in the first place. I guess it was the first time they'd had to deal with them, but that's still something that you rarely see on reality shows anymore. Also Julia burst into a huge "no cameras!" fit every time she was on screen, wherein she would literally just plead with the cameraman to stop filming her. She is such a stupid cunt.
After the reality show part is over, Sean and Christian are somewhat upset with the direction it's taken upon reviewing the footage, Sean because it's too much about personal problems and not enough about surgery, and Christian because his fat ass isn't featured prominently enough. Bliss reveals that it tested poorly, so the network is pulling the plug on the show anyway, unless they agree to re-shoot. Both do not agree to re-shoot. Sean is relieved, Christian is plotting. From this point forward, it's really clear that Christian is secretly continuing with the show via hidden cameras. You can tell because first of all, he wants to be a huge star, but also he sometimes looks right into the camera. Plus he says totally obvious, cartoon villain things like, "Thank goodness the cameras have all gone! Let's do whatever we want! (twirls mustache)" and everyone else is like, "Meh."
Sean goes over the footage of the Julia/Olivia/Liz altercation several times, focusing on the part where Julia apologizes for her "indiscretions" during her relationship with Olivia. After watching this 150 times, Sean begins to realize that maybe Eden wasn't lying about Christian and Julia having recently slept together.
Speaking of those two, Julia and Olivia talk out their relationship problems. Julia cries a lot and looks bad and I hate her, and Olivia is way too interested in Julia. So much so that she cannot understand that Julia needs for everything to be about her having problems all the time, so no matter how long they stay together, and no matter how little of a social taboo it is to be a lesbian in LA, Julia will never, ever, EVER be comfortable in the relationship. Plus she wants Christian, or whatever, but even if he weren't in the picture, she still has to manufacture drama in her relationships, because she's boring as fuck otherwise.
As Sean is checking up on Eden after surgery, she whines about how she's a bitch and no one wants to deal with her anymore and she has to go to public school. I say good riddance, but Sean is way nicer than I am. Marissa Cooper v.1.2 is all, "I'll never survive in PUBLIC SCHOOL!!!" and Sean is like, "Where do you belong, then?" and she's like, "Um nowhere. : ( With you?" and for once she doesn't mean it in a sexual way, necessarily. She just wants someone to take care of her and genuinely care about her and pay for her boarding school tuition. I get that now Eden is a sympathetic character, because she came back from boarding school and realized that no one likes a raging cunt, and her mom is maybe not paying as much attention to her as she could be, so Eden has all these issues that she's had for her whole life, which she's tried to work out for herself by taking charge of every situation she's in by being seductive and using sex to get what she wants, because none of the other things she has have worked to get what she wants form her mom, which is love. And she would be a sympathetic character, I guess, if not for the glaring detail that NO ONE HAS SEEN WILBUR IN 8 WEEKS. I can't wait until we find out he was kidnapped by kidney thieves after all, and Christian was too busy trying to get his ass on TV to notice. Maybe Gina would have been the better custodian, is all I'm saying.
Oh, to get back on track with Eden, Sean kisses her on the forehead, because he's all paternal and a nice guy, and then she gazes longing into his eyes like she's in love with him, and they kiss on the mouth. Twice. And the whole time my roommates and I were screaming like McCauley Caulkin, because for real, yo: Christian has cameras everywhere! This is just giving Julia more fodder, that's all. Just more shit she can cry about, even though it has almost nothing to do with her.
At the end, it was Christian and Sean alone together, like it's been for a while, because at the end of the day (literally, usually), this show is all about them and their relationship. Just like Christian said on the reality show. And no matter what is happening with everyone else, as long as Christian and Sean continue to keep secrets from each other, they're going to continue to hurt each other. Christian denies sleeping with Julia, Sean fails to mention that he just made out with Eden, and Christian winks into the camera in his apartment, but otherwise does not indicate that he is filming everyone's lives all the time.
No Matt this episode, so that was awesome. I guess Christian might get into some sort of prostitute rumble with Daniel Sands, but that would be sort of lame. In the previews is shows Julia and Olivia being held at gunpoint, but I'm not sure who would want to kill them, so that might be a case of mistaken identities. Then again, who knows what Olivia's past is like. Then again again, I figure everyone who's ever met Julia probably wants to kill her. I wish for it so badly, but I know it won't happen. Oh! Also the surgery tonight was actually reasonable. It wasn't as cool as what those surgeries actually look like, but it was better than usual.
Until next time, have a good one, picture of donkey as mouth censor!


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The Fort Morgan schools continue to provide weekend food for needy school children in 2017. There is still a great deal of need within the community, and the district's schools provide much-needed nourishment to Fort Morgan children. When schools provide balanced meals, weekends can be a challenge for families who are struggling to make ends meet.
Blessings In A Backpack is a national program (headquartered in Kentucky) which provides some weekend food for these students. The program was started in Fort Morgan in January 2010, and was the first chapter in Colorado. Students in the program receive a sack of food each Friday afternoon to take home with them. Provided food is light-weight, nourishing, and requires little preparation.
School District Re-3 works closely with Walmart to provide this food each week. By finding the best possible prices and by donating fresh fruit, Walmart helps the donations go as far as possible. Other community partners also contribute to the program. Safeway provided turkey dinner donations at Thanksgiving and Christmas. It costs a little more than $2 per week per child, and Blessings In A Backpack are currently serving more than 250 students each week.
Blessings In A Backpack is funded entirely by donations, and every dollar currently donated goes directly to the children. Each school has a Blessings In A Backpack "team" which distributes the food each week, and none of these local workers is paid for this work, the donations are to help children within the community.
This is the first year the local chapter is running out of funding. The chapter has had to try and limit each school to 25 students.
The program can only continue as long as there are donations to support it. Donations are tax-deductible and should be made payable to "Blessings In A Backpack". Donations can be delivered to the Re-3 school district Central Office at 715 W.Platte Ave, or individuals can visit the Blessings In A Backpack web site and donate to the Fort Morgan Schools program electronically.
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Marketers call women the gatekeepers, increasingly responsible for virtually all purchase decisions. But men still think that when it comes to power, it's a man's world. Based on interviews last summer with 1,000 men aged 18 to 49, Arlington, Virginia-based Luntz Research found that despite all the grumblings about feminism, 66 percent of guys still feel men hold a more powerful position in society. Just 13 percent think women do; 18 percent see no gender difference.
But within relationships, they concede, it's women who resolve the day-to-day issues, while men settle the life-changing disputes. Of course, perception is everything. J.D. Power and Associates reports women already make more than half the car purchase decisions-and by the millennium they should be responsible for 60 percent of car buys. But 65 percent of men surveyed by Luntz Research say they choose the car to buy.
And while menswear marketers have increasingly advertised to women, believing they make virtually all their partner's clothing picks, 43 percent of respondents said they choose the clothes they buy and wear-a dead heat with their female partners.
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THE MODERATOR: We'll get started by asking Coach Calipari, if you could give us a brief overview of tonight's game, your take.
COACH CALIPARI: All I want to say is I thought we were national champs, and that's the great thing about college basketball and sports. Within 30 seconds, they make a play and it's OT and it's on again.
Hats off to Kansas. I'm really disappointed. Proud of my guys. You know, again, as a coach, when you're up five with whatever seconds left to go, supposed to win that game. So I take as much responsibility in this. You could say rebounding or free throws or whatever. Supposed to win that game.
I'm disappointed for my team. I wish there were a few more things we could have done there to make it easier for them at the end there. But I'm proud of 'em.
THE MODERATOR: We'll take questions for the student-athletes.
Q. Being that Coach Calipari described it as you thought you had it won, did having to go out and play in overtime, do you think that having to go through that may have taken away some of the momentum that you were feeling?
DERRICK ROSE: A little bit, knowing that they hit a shot like that, they got the momentum going to the other half, the extra half. Just playing a team like that, they're a very good team.
So we knew that it was going to be another war going into that overtime. And we couldn't get it done. That's about it.
CHRIS DOUGLAS-ROBERTS: It pretty much just came down to them just winning the game. I mean, they made a lot of plays. Mario hit a big shot to send it into overtime. They had the will to win tonight. And, you know, they beat us. It had nothing to do with overtime. They just had that will to win, and that's what they did.
Q. People talked about the free throws. You had shot them well. What happened in the last 30 seconds?
DERRICK ROSE: It wasn't the free throws. It was the plays before the free throws.
But, uhm, when we was on the line, we was trying to make 'em. That's what everybody go up there and try to do. But I guess we didn't do it.
CHRIS DOUGLAS-ROBERTS: Yeah, I mean, it came back and bit us. We missed 'em. We missed 'em at a crucial time.
But, you know, we were still up. We were still up with 10 seconds to go. We were still up three, you know. Yeah, I think it was three with 10 seconds to go.
But I guess you can boil it down to the free throws.
Q. You were up nine, about two minutes to go. What were your thoughts? Did you relax any or did they just make a lot of great plays or what?
JOEY DORSEY: We was up nine with two minutes to go. You know, Mario came off a screen. I got my fifth foul. I was like, Oh, my God. You know, I felt like I was letting my teammates down again 'cause I fouled out of the game. And I was hoping it didn't go to overtime, you know.
And that, you know, put them on the line, he made those two shots right there. I was just hoping the guys could pull it out for me, so...
ANTONIO ANDERSON: It just came down to them making plays. They made a lot of tough plays in the last minute and a half. That's just how it ended up.
Q. Derrick, did you suffer some sort of cramping at the end of regulation? If so, did that affect your performance at all in the overtime? How close did you come to Chalmers' shot at the end of regulation?
DERRICK ROSE: Oh, yeah, my left, uhm, calf was cramping a little bit. But it didn't bother me in the second half because I drunk a lot of fluid, but when we was in the timeouts.
With Mario's shot, I was right there, left hand up. Uhm, he's just a good shooter. He just shot it right over me, I guess.
Q. Derrick, can you talk about the stretch in the second half, he scored about 10 straight points, 14 out of 16 for you? There was a stretch in the second half when you scored about 10 straight points. Can you talk about what you were feeling during that stretch.
DERRICK ROSE: At that time, I was just trying to keep us in the game. They were sagging a little bit. I just thought that if I started making shots, that everybody else would start getting open. And I was just trying to drive the ball and just make them come towards me so I could pass it out.
Q. Could you talk about your future plans. Have you decided about coming back to college? Have you made any kind of decision on that?
DERRICK ROSE: No, not yet. I don't know what I'm doing right now. Got to talk to my family.
CHRIS DOUGLAS-ROBERTS: Same. Same here.
Q. Chris, back to the free throws, why do you think it was that you missed them?
CHRIS DOUGLAS-ROBERTS: I really can't explain why. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, when you play basketball, you can't describe things like that. You really can't. I missed 'em.
Q. Chris, at the beginning of overtime, the first few seconds, there was a moment where you had the ball in your hands. Could you tell us what happened on that play?
CHRIS DOUGLAS-ROBERTS: Kansas, they were really sagging. They were really sagging. They were helping a lot. So wherever I drove, you know, it was a man there. It made it real difficult to drive.
And they pretty much played like that, you know, the whole game. They ran some box-and-ones. They had a really good game plan. They had a really good game plan.
But that's what happened there. Sagging, extra-help defense.
Q. Derrick, I saw where Dr. Jackson was talking to you after the game. What did he say to you? What did it mean to be able to talk to him in that situation?
DERRICK ROSE: He was just telling me to keep my head up, champions don't show their weakness. Just talking to him, man, it just got me excited. Right after the first time I met him, I called my mother and told her that I met him. She was all anxious then. He called my mother today when I went up to his room, and he probably made her day just by talking to her on the phone.
And just to know he got so much history, it's crazy just being around him because he's a role model to a lot of people.
Q. Joey, can you talk a little bit about how difficult it was to watch overtime and the last couple minutes of regulation.
JOEY DORSEY: Tough. Just watching, you know, a couple loose balls out there and not getting rebounds. I know I let my teammates down because I should have been out there on that floor, you know. So it was very tough.
You see sometimes in overtime, I was on my knees trying to, you know, tell some of the guys, Keep on playing, we gonna get through this. So it was tough.
Q. Derrick, how far back do you go with Sherron Collins and what did you think he did for Kansas when he came off the bench? How did he change Kansas?
DERRICK ROSE: High school. Played against him my junior year about two or three times.
Came in, played. He did what he supposed to do as a point guard: control the team, push the ball up the court, and make tough plays at the end. He just controlled the game.
Q. Can you talk about your view of Mario's shot, sort of your emotions when it went through.
JOEY DORSEY: I just dropped to my knees. I just dropped to my knees. I was like, Man, I can't believe he hit that shot, 'cause I just knew we was ready to cut the nets down.
CHRIS DOUGLAS-ROBERTS: It was tough. I mean, when you're out there, it was tough because you're looking at the ball, you're looking at the rotation. But I seen it was going in. I seen it was going in. Hmm, it hurt, but I knew we had another, you know, five minutes to play. So I didn't -- I didn't think we lost the game when he made that shot 'cause I knew we had some more time to play.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you, gentlemen. We'll continue with questions for Coach Calipari.
COACH CALIPARI: Somebody asked me about the foul, what we were doing. If we made both, we were forming a wall. If he made one, we were fouling. Sherron Collins got away -- we were going to foul at halfcourt. He got away from our man. And then when our man did foul him and pushed him to the floor, probably didn't foul him hard enough because of the space.
But we were fouling. He separated. I imagine their coach said, They're going to try to foul you, so run from 'em. And we were fouling.
Q. What did you tell your players after the game?
COACH CALIPARI: Well, I told them how proud I was. I told them that they did everything they were supposed to to put us in a position to win a national title, that what happened out there is not on one person, it's on all of us, including me as the coach. You have the kind of lead we had, you're supposed to win the game.
Bill had burned a lot of timeouts, and I didn't want to rest his team. The play where Antonio threw the one out of bounds, when I saw what was happening, I probably should have burned one there.
But I told them, It's on all of us. You know, I think they're hurting bad because they know they were, you know -- how close were they to a national title? You think about that.
But you got to give Kansas credit. Let me put it this way: everything that had to happen to us, missing free throws, turning it over late, them make the three in the corner, think about it, them make the three. We're gonna foul with 10 seconds to go and they run from us. We push the kid to the floor, but we don't foul him hard enough and the kid makes a shot over our arm. And that's why we lose. That's bottom line what happened.
And, you know, I look at it and I just -- you want to think back as a coach, What else could I have done? I will probably do some soul searching on this. Look back, what play or two could we have done? I love how we came out in the second half. We came out and played. We balled.
And Joey's foul, that fifth foul, hurt us because we didn't have him in overtime. You people ask what happened in overtime? We didn't have Joey Dorsey, that's what happened in overtime. So that did hurt us.
But you've got to give them credit. For them not to stop playing and just keep fighting and making plays, my hat's off to them. I just got to tell you. You look at them statistically, they're the best team in the country, in my opinion, other than us or with us. When I looked at the stuff prior to the game, their stats are unbelievable.
Billy has a heck of a team. And the way they fought to take that game, they deserve to be national champs.
Q. You spent a lot of March telling us we were making too much of the free-throw shooting. Do you feel differently about that now?
COACH CALIPARI: No. Because I agree with Chris. If we don't throw the one ball away and we foul, we win. We don't throw the ball in the corner away, they make a three, we don't do that, we win the game.
So, yeah, you could say, Well, if you made those other free throws, you would have been up nine or 10. That's Kansas. To be up nine or 10 on Kansas, you know, like we were, probably amazing in itself.
I wish we would have made the free throws. But let's put it this way: did we have the guys at the line that we wanted at the line? Yeah. They don't make every one. They're not machines, these kids. They're just not. And under that glare of that significance -- you know, I'm still kind of numb, to be honest with you. What just happened, you're kind of numb to it. It will probably hit me like a ton of bricks tomorrow, that we had it in our grasp.
Q. What were your emotions? Obviously you were looking for the foul. Looked like you might have gotten the foul. What were your emotions when Mario went up with the shot?
COACH CALIPARI: I went -- I'm going to tell you what I said on the bench when he was on the line, when Derrick went to the line. You know, I think everything in life happens for a reason. And I sat there and I looked up and I said, Lord, if he makes this, these two, we're supposed to be national champs. And if that's your will, I'm fine. And if he misses them and we're not, I'm fine with that, too. That's what I said in my mind.
I'm probably not supposed to say that, religiously, but that's what it was. And when he missed 'em and he made the shot and we went to overtime, I just -- we did everything we were supposed to. It wasn't in the cards. It wasn't our day. It was their day. And that's -- I just sat there and went, Wow.
But I felt good about everything. We missed a few free throws. We throw it away at the end. We have a good plan at the end. We don't quite get there.
I come back to this: you have a lead like that, you're supposed to win the game. So the culprit here would not be these players. They did everything. Think about it. They're up nine. They fought like heck against a great team. C'mon, let's figure out how we finish this game off. Yeah, we could have made some free throws, been a little tougher with the ball. But, you know...
Q. Can you talk about from a scoring-production standpoint why Chris was so prolific in the first half and Derrick basically took that role in the second half.
COACH CALIPARI: What I needed to do, you notice I was trying with that lead to just finish the game off. So I didn't do a whole lot of subbing those last eight minutes. And that really beat down Chris and even Derrick. And I rolled the dice. I basically said, We better get out of here in regulation. And so I didn't play Willie and I didn't really play Doneal that much. Those two never really came off the floor. Neither did Antonio. I didn't play like that all year. Those kids played 27, 28 minutes. When you're playing for the national title, I left them in there, Let's get out of here, they can be tired tomorrow.
But those extra five minutes without Joey Dorsey and then they came out and made the two baskets, and then we got it back to where maybe we were fighting it, you know, we were right there. But we were running uphill from that point on without having Joey Dorsey on the court.
Q. Could you talk about the contribution your program has received from Derrick and from CDR over their careers. Do you expect them to come back for another season with you guys?
COACH CALIPARI: Well, you know, first of all, you have to have them look to see -- do their research a little bit, which I'll help them with.
I would be ecstatic if both of 'em had the opportunity to leave and were first-round draft picks. Joey, too. That would make me very happy. That's for another day. Right now we're all kind of despondent to what we just went through.
But we will -- you know, I would be happy for all three if they had an opportunity to play in the NBA and be drafted and those things.
Q. I think the first thing you said when you came in was, I thought we were national champs. This might be hard to pin down, but do you recall how late, at what stage you sort of had that in your head?
COACH CALIPARI: Well, we were up five and I said, you know, you just kind of look at that and say, Let's just finish this thing off. And it was more that than, It's us. Finish this off and we're national champs.
And we just -- like I said, if you watched, it was kind of like in the stars and the moon, we just did everything we had to to get them to get what they had to and the shots they had to make they made. You know what I mean? You know, like I said, to be that close for these kids and our City of Memphis, to be that close, and have these kids suffer in there like they are right now, as a coach, you're just like, Man, I wish I could have just done one thing to get them over the hump, because they're suffering right now.
But you think about what they've done, 38 wins. They took on all comers. They put themselves in a position to win the national title. They did everything they were supposed to do really against the odds, and they did it, and they were there, and it slips. I mean, it's devastating to 'em.
You know, right now, like I said, I'm a little numb. But it will hit me tomorrow, you know, how close we really were, and some things down the stretch that kind of bit us a little bit.
Q. Joey goes the first half without a rebound. Was that him or was that Kansas?
COACH CALIPARI: Both. Most of it was Kansas putting a body on him. And he was reaching with that one hand, and he just couldn't bring any balls in. They're very big. Their team -- let me just say this: Kansas is an outstanding basketball team, outstanding - great size, great speed and quickness. They shoot it from the three. They shoot it from the free-throw line. They've got a post game. They're able to go inside on us when they needed to. They're an outstanding team. And we had our opportunity to win the game.
But they are an -- how about this? Defensively, they guarded us as well as anybody all year. They're in the top five in four different defensive categories. They went to box-and-one and zone. I was ecstatic because I thought we were struggling versus man. I thought, Okay, now let's do some things, and we did. Again, that last two minutes, just not finishing it off, just disappointing.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you, coach.
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