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Berel Lang of Wesleyan University writes to ask if I would "consider tracing the genealogy of the Hebrew Sabbath greeting 'Shabbat Shalom' — specifically, when it entered popular discourse." And he continues: "My hunch is that it is a) modern and b) secular, that is, deriving from the generally nonreligious world of Zionist pioneers in 20th-century Palestine, and from the problem that religious traditions posed for them. (The phrase is not, after all, a translation of the traditional Yiddish greeting, a gutn shabbes, 'A good Sabbath!') I've asked a number of Jewish studies scholars about this, but have so far drawn a blank."
Berel Lang's hunches, it so happens, are both wrong. The expression "shabbat shalom," literally, "Sabbath of peace," is neither modern nor secular in origin. The one thing Mr. Lang is right about is its being Palestinian, since it originated in the Galilee, in the city of Safed, in the mystical circle of renowned kabbalist Isaac Luria (1534-1582) — also known by an acronym of his name, forming the Hebrew word for "The Lion," as Ha-Ari.
Luria and his disciples had many unique practices, the best guide to which can be found in the Hebrew book "h.emdat Yamim," "The Adornment of Days," written in Jerusalem in the 17th century. Although its anonymous author was not, as he was once reputed to be, Nathan of Gaza, the "prophet" and apostle of the false Messiah Sabbetai Zevi — he apparently was, besides being a follower of Lurianic customs, a Sabbatian sympathizer. In a chapter on Sabbath observance, he declares that after leaving synagogue at the end of the Musaf service Saturday morning, a Jew should "go directly home in great joy instead of meandering here and there [to visit friends or neighbors] and say in a loud voice when he enters [his home], 'Shabbat shalom u'mevorakh,' and sit down at the table dressed in white like an angel of God."
The word u'mevorakh, which means "and blessed" in Hebrew, is puzzling in this context, inasmuch as, a grammatically masculine and singular form, it is not clear to whom or what it refers. It cannot be to the Sabbath, since shabbat in Hebrew is feminine, as is the traditional image of the Sabbath as a queen or bride; yet neither can it be to the members of the greeter's family, in which case it would be u'mevorakhim, in the plural. Perhaps it refers to the good angel who, in kabbalistic belief, accompanies every Jew during the Sabbath and is here being welcomed to the greeter's home, just as the Sabbath angels are welcomed in the hymn Shalom aleykhem, mal'akhei ha-sharet ("Welcome in peace, ministering angels"), that is traditionally sung around the Friday night table. Perhaps the answer lies in some other Lurianic precept.
In any case, shabbat shalom u'mevorakh was a Sabbath greeting that spread from Lurianic circles in Palestine to other Sephardic communities in the Middle East. It came to be used during the entire Sabbath, not just after the Saturday morning prayer, and was eventually divided into a greeting and response, the first person saying "Shabbat shalom!" and the one responding, "Shabbat shalom u'mevorakh!"
To the best of my knowledge, Mr. Lang is right about shabbat shalom (or, in Ashkenazic Hebrew, shabbes sholem) never having been used in Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europe, even though there were Eastern European Hasidim who adopted what was known as nusakh Ha-Ari, the Lurianic liturgy and prayer book. Indeed, when late 19th-century Eastern European Hebrew fiction writer Mendele Mokher Seforim wished to put a Sabbath greeting in the mouths of his characters — that is, when he had to translate the Yiddish a gutn shabbes into Hebrew — he never used shabbat shalom. Nor did he literally render a gutn shabbes into Hebrew as shabbat tova. Rather, he resorted to the Aramaic equivalent of shabta taba.
If we think, then, not of the origins of shabbat shalom but of its adoption as a standard Sabbath greeting, first in Israel and subsequently in much of the Diaspora, Berel Lang does, I think, have a valid point. Secular Eastern European Jews who came as Zionist pioneers to Palestine and encountered shabbat shalom among Sephardim preferred it to shabta taba or shabbat tova, both for its own charm and because it did not reverberate with the Eastern European religiosity against which their Zionism was a rebellion. In this sense, their adoption of shabbat shalom may be said to have had similar motives to their adoption of Sephardic pronunciation, or what they took to be such, for the Hebrew spoken by them in the early Zionist colonies.
Today, with the exception of the ultra-Orthodox, who continue to say "a gutn shabbes" or "gut shabbes," the greeting of "shabbat shalom" is heard all over the Jewish world. There are however, different responses to it. One is the traditional Lurianic "shabbat shalomu'mevorakh." Another is "shabbat shalom u'verakha — "shabbat shalom and a blessing" — which is perhaps an attempt to get around the lack of clarity of u'mevorakh. A third is to reply in kind, answering someone else's "shabbat shalom" with a "shabbat shalom" of one's own. All are acceptable. Feel free to use whichever you like best.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
This Year, Let's Make Better Bad Decisions.
20 comments:
- Riggers said...
Love this post!
My finances have taken a beating over the last few years, so I'm with you on trying to spend nothing (though I know I have some car expenses coming up at the end of January!)
as for making an effort to make days special.....t'was already on my "to do" list for this year!
- January 2, 2013 at 12:15 PM
- Bethany @ A Fish Who Likes Flowers said...
I really like your last resolution! My brother and I were just talking about making every day count just the other day, especially in light of what has happened over the past year. It makes it easier when life gets tough that you can count all the little blessings that add up to make a huge difference.
Good luck to you in 2013!
- January 2, 2013 at 12:34 PM
- Jane @ The Borrowed Abode said...
Dude. This post totally speaks to me.
Thankfully we haven't had to flush our savnings with crazy bills, but I need to save more. For me it's the fact that I spent years living frugally on a small salary, then as it grew, my excitement at my spending abilities grew. Whoops!
So glad I found your blog :)
- January 2, 2013 at 1:02 PM
- Michelle Johnnie said...
You are so much like me. I am very frugal. I hate to see money wasted. Even though we can afford more, we live below our means for many reasons. Debt drives me crazy! You are awesome. I hope you can put $15,000 in the savings account this year! Maybe your husband makes a lot and you can save even more!!!!
- January 2, 2013 at 1:17 PM
- Megan said...
Right there with ya' with every single word and resolution. Lots of Pictures this year? Done. We didn't spend our savings, heck we hardly even have a savings!! But I'm trying to change that. And that last one? Totally inspired me. I've always been, "oh hey let's spend some money since we can't take it with us." So why not use those fancy dishes...I can't take those with us either.
- January 2, 2013 at 1:23 PM
- Kat said...
Crap. I literally just ordered sheets for my boys from Pottery Barn that cost $117. The first time IN MY LIFE I've ever spent money like that on something like sheets. Seriously, I'm the Goodwill Queen. Okay, now that THAT'S out of my system, I'm with ya! (after I buy myself a nice pair of running shoes, that is. I've seriously had my current pair for like 8 years. I'm due.) Good and challenging post:) BTW, I'm Kat and I'm semi-new to your blog. Love it. And congrats on paying off your house...so awesome.
- January 2, 2013 at 1:29 PM
- Kathy @ Creative Home Expressions said...
I'm determined not to buy what we don't need this year, too, Mandi. For my projects, I'd like to use up what I've got {sewing, crafting, etc.} and if I do need something it will be from the thrift store. Any supplies {Joanns, Michaels, Hob Lob} will not be bought without a coupon either. No coupon, then it has to wait until I have one. Oh, and biggie, I'm not whipping out the credit card either. I'm going to be using cash, which I think will help keep me in line, too. Good luck ~ we're gonna need it! : )
- January 2, 2013 at 2:25 PM
Great post, and I'm totally with you on this one! I've always been frugal, however, I've finally made the decision that you can limit your spending to thrift stores, and still end up piling your house up with a whole lot of "stuff" you really don't need. I started a series on my blog, "Decluttering 101", which I kind of suspended during Christmas, because of decorating, but I'm going back at it strong in the coming weeks. And, I'm NOT replacing the "stuff" with MORE "stuff". Nope! I'm loving me some empty space, Whoo! Hoo!
- January 2, 2013 at 4:29 PM
- Shirley Moore said...
Hmm, well, I'm here to support ya man, but I think my year is gonna be different than yours, cause I'm seriously thinking of opening an online store to sell my jewelry, and I Know all sorts of expenses will come with that decision...
And I'm also going to have a REAL garden this year. As in, hopefully enough tomatoes to can. Just so ya know, I'm not Garden Gretta by any means. Like, I don't really go outside much....:)
So any tips and frugalness you can pass along, I will totally lap up....
- January 2, 2013 at 9:23 PM
- Rach said...
Love this post!
I'm right there with ya...after Christmas I kinda went crazaay and spent a lot of money. That's crap. No more!
- January 2, 2013 at 9:55 PM
- SueAnn Lommler said...
I so know the feeling about the "crash and burn" financially!! Yikes
We had a similar experience!! So we are going on a budget and I get an expense account to use as I see fit. Good idea and it should save our butts!! I tend to have a lot of "good ideas" that I just need to do. And then.....sigh! Well you know!!
- January 3, 2013 at 1:55 AM
- Patty said...
We have been on a financial diet for 2 years, and I HATE it. I am not pointing fingers, but we almost lost everything because someone I love didn't think they had to balance a checkbook. October of 2014 can't come fast enough. Good luck to having a better 2013.
- January 3, 2013 at 8:01 AM
- Lauras Crafty Life said...
My husband has finally been doing really great at work, and it makes me want to be more frugal than ever so we can finally build up our savings and pay down our debt. Good luck with your resolution. I am sure you will do great! And I love the quote about the special occasion stuff. I think it is so true. Sad that we often treat our guests better than our own families!!
- January 3, 2013 at 8:32 AM
- Rochelle Wall said...
Mandi, I can definitely relate to your wondering if you can manage to not purchase new clothes in 2013. Last year, that was my resolution, and I did very well for most of the year - except then I got pregnant, and all those plans went out the window. Hope it works out better for you!
- January 3, 2013 at 11:35 AM
- Libby said...
We're going to try to live on what our pension might be (a guestament)...which is going to be tricky since we're going to have two kids getting married and one of them is our only daughter!
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Have a great year!
- January 3, 2013 at 9:04 PM
- Stuff Parents Need said...
Very cool! I can't wait to hear more details about whatever the rules will be for your spending (or not spending, as it were). I'd like to do something similar, but I can't come up with a coherent plan.
- January 4, 2013 at 3:56 AM
- Jean @ www.thebackyardbungalow.com said...
Love this post. I've had a similar "end of year" financial drain. No bueno! This year, I'm using what I got already...although... I'm looking at a thousand dollar sofa on Overstock...someone help me!
- January 4, 2013 at 8:18 AM
- Spencer & Lorilyn Crum said...
Oooh I like it! I'm excited to see what you have planned! Go Mandi go!
- January 4, 2013 at 6:07 PM
- Emily said...
I am with you on the finances! We will keep each other in check. Every time either of us want to go buy something... shoes for example ( I just bought 3 new pairs)we should call and we can talk each other down! Ü
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DIGHTON — Selectmen would like to host a pre-Town Meeting forum and resident Myrna Santos wants selectmen to attend the local cable television show "Dighton Community Corner."
Selectmen and Santos combined the two together and will appear on the show on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the selectmen's meeting room to discuss Town Meeting articles. The public is encouraged to attend and if the crowd is too large, the forum will be moved to the Town Hall basement.
Santos said the program will then be repeated for cable viewers before the June 2 special and annual town meetings.
The board voted to schedule this forum, as both selectmen and Santos agreed that this could help better inform town residents and boost participation at the town meetings.
"If we did a taping early next week ... I really think that will help the whole process," Santos said last week. "This might be a way to make more people aware."
She added that she hopes local cable access can repeat the program throughout the day, including during evening hours so working families can also view the forum.
"I want everyone to understand this is not political at all; it is strictly informational," Santos said.
She also said that early June is a busy time for Dighton residents, with high school graduations for both Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School and Bristol County Agricultural High School.
These busy times will sometimes impact attendance at the Town Meeting. Both Santos and selectmen appeared to agree that a pre-Town Meeting forum could help matters.
They also agreed that many people are intimidated by Town Meeting process and are afraid to ask questions at Town Meetings.
A forum would help answer those questions beforehand.
"When I first came into office, this is something we started to do and we got away from it," Selectman Thomas Pires said. "It is important that they have the knowledge early on."
Selectmen will discuss articles that are not routine matters and would need some explanation beforehand.
The special Town Meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on June 2 at the Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School auditorium. The annual Town Meeting is scheduled to occur after that.
In other town news, Dighton's Hazardous Waste Collection day is scheduled for Saturday between 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Dighton Transfer Station. A $10 fee per car load is required, along with proof of residency.


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- Download HA Bridge from here https://github.com/bwssytems/ha-bridge
- From the command line start the app "java -jar -Dserver.port=8090 ha-bridge-3.5.1.jar". Note: you will need JDK8 installed.
- In the web browser type "http://localhost:8090" that brings up the web interface of the bridge.
- Find the tab called "Manual Add" and create a new New Device lets call it "Winamp Play". In the On URLs area enter the following as HTTP GET:
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The upstate New York village that bills itself as the birthplace of the U.S. Navy hasn't done much to preserve one of the service's oldest warship relics: the hull of a schooner that was the first in a long line of American vessels to carry the name Ticonderoga.
The wooden remains of the War of 1812 ship are displayed in a long, open-sided shed on the grounds of the Skenesborough Museum in Whitehall. They've been stored there since being raised from the southern end of Lake Champlain by a local historical group more than 50 years ago. Now, with the approach of 200th anniversary of the battle at which the first Ticonderoga gained its fame, a maritime historian is hoping something can be done to stem the deterioration of a rare naval artifact.
"It was recovered for all the right reasons but before we knew all the implications of a shipwreck and bringing it up into an air environment," said Arthur Cohn, senior adviser and special projects developer at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes, Vt.
Cohn has suggested to museum officials that the hull needs be stored in an enclosed, climate-controlled building with interpretive displays telling the vessel's story. But the museum's director said such a project would be cost-prohibitive for her organization and for Whitehall, a village of 3,000 65 miles northeast of Albany on the Vermont border.
"That would take more money than anyone in the village of Whitehall could put together," Carol Greenough said.
In 1776, during the American Revolution, Benedict Arnold oversaw the building of a small fleet of vessels in what is now Whitehall. That October, Arnold led this ragtag flotilla north to Valcour Island off Plattsburgh, where the outgunned Americans were defeated but forced the British to put off their invasion of New York until the following year. Roadside signs in Whitehall tout the village's claim as the birthplace of the U.S. Navy, a distinction that's been claimed by several New England communities.
The Ticonderoga started out as a merchant steamer before the U.S. Navy bought it while it was still under construction. The Navy completed it as a schooner, armed it with more than a dozen heavy cannon and launched the vessel as the Ticonderoga in May 1814.
Four months later, on Sept. 11, the Ticonderoga was part of the American fleet that defeated the British at the Battle of Plattsburgh on the lake's northern end. The U.S. victory stopped the redcoats from advancing farther into New York and ended their efforts to invade from the north.
Afterward, the ship and several others were sent south to Whitehall, where they were anchored in a southern extremity of Lake Champlain known as East Bay. The Navy removed the Ticonderoga's rigging and fittings, and a decade later it was deemed unworthy of repair and sold. The ship eventually sank into the bay, its upper structure disappearing after years of exposure to wind, waves and ice.
Four other Navy warships have carried the name Ticonderoga, including a World War II aircraft carrier that saw action in the Pacific.
New York has no plans to preserve the Ticonderoga, but local entities could apply for matching funding for such a project, according to Mark Peckham of the state parks department.
The locations of several British and American shipwrecks from the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 have been found in the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, but the Ticonderoga remains one of a handful of warships from those conflicts that's easily accessible to the public, Peckham said.
"This has survived better than most," he said.


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Walking The Halls of Eisenhower High School One Last Time [PHOTOS]
Today, June 13th, Eisenhower High School had an open house for anyone who would like to walk up and down the halls and take pictures before they tear it down in favor of the new school being built. Here are some of the pictures I took.
If you have any memories or favorite teachers or just give a shout out to your graduating class, post it in the comments below.


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On September 23, the FBI headlined, "Aafia Siddiqui Sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court to 86 Years for Attempting to Murder US Nationals in Afghanistan and Six Additional Crimes." More on its press release below.
No matter that she's completely innocent, and has been a US political prisoner since her March 30, 2003 abduction, incarceration, torture, prosecution, and conviction on bogus charges. Her case is one of America's most egregious examples of horrific abuse and injustice, climaxed by her virtual life sentence for an alleged crime she never committed.
Yet she was convicted for these claimed felonies:
Earlier articles about her can be accessed through the following links:
Gloating about another victory, like a predator over its prey, the FBI quoted Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara saying:
"As a unanimous jury found beyond a reasonable doubt (they're all unanimous or hung), Aafia Siddiqui attempted to murder Americans serving in Afghanistan, as well as their Afghan colleagues," though only Americans were with her in Bagram Prison at the time the alleged incident took place, as follows:
In the presence of two FBI agents, two Army interpreters, and three US Army officers, this frail 110 pound woman allegedly assaulted three of them, seized one of their rifles, opened fire at close range, hit no one, yet she alone was severely wounded.
It was her word against theirs. At trial, no credible evidence was presented, because there was none, not even her fingerprints on the alleged weapon. The charges were concocted, bogus and absurd, not even rising to the level of a bad film plot, yet jurors were intimidated to convict.
A Pakistani/American scientist, home visiting her family in 2003, local authorities abducted her at the behest of Washington, after which she was handed over and incarcerated at America's infamous Bagram Prison, Afghanistan.
Yet the FBI statement says: "SIDDIQUI was detailed (on July 17, 2008) by Afghan authorities," who found alleged incriminating items "in her possession" about a "mass casualty attack" planned against high-profile New York targets. "Other notes....referred to the construction of 'dirty bombs,' (and) ways to attack 'enemies,' including by destroying reconnaissance drones, using underwater bombs, and deploying gliders."
Yet these charges were not in her indictment, exposing them as spurious. Instead, on July 18, 2008, she was accused of allegedly disarming and attacking seven armed Americans during interrogation.
Post-9/11, America declared war on Islam to justify rampaging globally, focused heavily on Eurasia's mineral wealth, principally Middle Eastern oil, comprising two-thirds of the world's proved reserves.
Abroad, illegal imperial wars and occupations followed. At home, Muslims have been victimized, vilified, and persecuted for their faith, ethnicity, prominence, and activism - opportunistically targeted for political advantage. They've been singled out, hunted down, rounded up, held in detention, kept in isolation, denied bail, brutally tortured, restricted in their right to counsel, tried on secret evidence, convicted on bogus charges, given long sentences, and incarcerated as political prisoners or extraordinarily renditioned to a similar or worse fate abroad.
Victims are innocent pawns in the war on terror, mocking the rule of law, judicial fairness, and democratic freedoms - the modus operandi of rogue states, calling wars of aggression liberating ones, suppressing civil liberties for our own good, and rampaging globally for alleged "democratic freedoms," ones America won't tolerate at home or abroad.
After her sentencing, US media reports highlighted bogus government charges, ignoring the truth and Aafia's horrific treatment. CBS, for example, affirmed allegations that she's an "Al Qaeda supporter" and "cold-blooded radical." CNN noted her "Anarchist's Arsenal." ABC News called her "Lady Qaeda."
Wall Street Journal writer Chad Bray referred to her alleged "mass casualty attack" plan on New York landmarks, and for Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, she's a "terror mom (and) reputed Al Qaeda associate," a Bruce Golding headline saying, "Judge throws book at Pakistani plotter....'terror mom' has been eighty-sixed."
Note the difference in Pakistan. The entire country is outraged - in Karachi (Aafia's home city), Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Faisalabad, Hyderabad, Lehore, Quetta, Peshawar, Multan, and elsewhere.
Dawn.com headlined "Pakistanis furious over Aafia Siddiqui's sentence," saying:
In Karachi, "Pakistanis burned tires, (Obama effigies), and chanted anti-US slogans after a New York (hanging) judge handed down an 86-year sentence" on bogus charges. Her case "has long stirred passions in Pakistan....where anti-American sentiment is (deservedly) widespread."
"Many Pakistanis believe the US abducted Siddiqui and kept her in a secret prison for years as it pursued its war on terror." News of her "harsh sentence immediately sparked anger and disbelief." In Peshawar, angry protestors burned tires and shouted "Down with America!" Pakistan's president and prime minister were also named, and "Some hit a portrait of....Obama with their shoes."
Islamabad students were also outraged, shouting "Crush America, Siddiqui is our sister," and "We will bring her back."
More in Multan where dozens of lawyers and activists blocked traffic, shouting "Down with America," and burning effigies of Obama and former Pakistani despot Pervez Musharra.
In Peshawar, thousands of political, social, and religious activists protested on city streets, holding banners and placards condemning the sentence. They demanded Aafia's release and end to US Waziristan drone attacks.
A supportive Pakistan Times editorial called America "an authoritarian, arrogant superpower," and Aafia's sentence "unheard of....people will be waiting to see how (Obama reacts). Only time will tell if the US president will step in to mitigate (this outrage) by either pardoning Dr. Aafia or sending her back to Pakistan to serve at least part of her sentence in her home country."
"Dr. Aafia may very well become the poster-child for increased hatred against the US and more sympathy for the militants," a possibility both countries should consider.
Aafia's sister, Fauzia, called the sentence "a slap in the face of our rulers, who have pledged and made promises to bring" her back.
Addressing a supportive rally, she said they failed miserably to help Aafia. "The sentence bears testimony to the fact that this government is a puppet of the US. We are peaceful people, and our aim is to bring back Aafia."
Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit expressed "disappoint(ment with) the sentence and sad that our efforts....did not succeed. We are still in touch with the US administration to see what possible options are available. We are not giving up." At issue is whether they ever tried, given the ties between the countries "in the fight against Terrorist militancy...."
The International Tribune reported that Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik said government efforts "will surely bring (her back), but it needs time to do it."
Pakistan's US ambassador, Hussain Haqqani, said "the government took every possible step for (her) safe release," adding that efforts will continue.
Pakistan's Jamiat Uleme-e-Islam Party (JUI) chief, Fazalur Rehman, cancelled his US trip in protest, saying "the punishment of Doctor Aafia has added to the list of American crimes, and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said he, too, "would make all efforts for Dr. Aafia's release," adding that "the entire nation was praying for her safe return."
Tekreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Party chairman, Imran Khan, condemned the verdict as "unethical and inhuman," warning it could inflame the entire Muslim world. He also announced launch of a countrywide protest, saying Pakistanis won't tolerate this outrage.
"Aafia is the daughter of the nation," he said, "and all-our efforts should be made for her early return." PTI plans protest rallies, seminars and meeting throughout the country, its campaign to continue until Affia's back home.
Farooq Sattar, Parliamentary leader of Pakistan's third largest political party, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), condemned Aafia's sentence, announced protests, and said MQM officials would meet with America's ambassador to demand her release. MQM head, Altaf Hussain, also wants her released and sent home, saying, if in power, MQM "would have immediately severed ties with the US and its allies...."
In America, Aafia's a "terrorist," in Pakistan a national hero, at least on the country's streets, if not the halls of power, despite the above rhetoric.
For their part, Aafia's family vowed to launch a "movement" for her release, Fauzia telling reporters that all of Pakistan would agitate for her. "I was alone when I started the campaign to release my sister, but from now on it will be the Aafia movement as the whole nation is with me."
Qazi Muhammad, Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president asked "Why is our individual and collective conscience as a nation silent on the maltreatment of Dr. Aafia, the daughter of the nation?" He said an SCBA delegation would meet with her family, and offered to defend her in the US pro bono.
The International Justice Network (ICN - supporting human rights globally, including Aafia's family) issued a press release, saying:
"Dr. Aafia Siddiqui - who has never caused harm to anyone - has now been condemned to spend the rest of her life in a (US) maximum security prison....This sentence is not only unjust because of its harshness, (but) also because of its impact on her....children....who may never see their mother again. But the greatest injustice....is that those who are responsible for the kidnapping, disappearance, and abuse of Dr. Siddiqui and her children without cause have yet to answer for their actions."
"The International Justice Network stands in solidarity with the international community in condemning this unfair and unjust result in Dr. Siddiqui's case."
Dr. Mehdi Hasan, chairperson of The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) issued the following statement:
America must "assess the impact of the unusually harsh punishment awarded to (Aafia), particularly in view of the absence of direct and credible evidence against her."
In fact, there's none.
It's also a red herring for the US embassy to say Pakistan must sign two international treaties relating to prisoner exchanges before Aafia can be returned - the Council of Europe Treaty and OAF Convention. In fact, reversing her sentence and repatriating her is as simple as doing it, an Obama stroke of the pen sending her home. It's time for Pakistan's government to put its muscle where it's rhetoric is and demand nothing less, suspending diplomatic relations until done.
On September 11, 2001, America declared "war on terror" based on a lie, then used it as justification to rampage globally. Thereafter, democratic freedoms weakened or disappeared, and Muslims became the target of choice. A war on Islam followed.
Stereotypically called culturally inferior, dirty, lecherous, untrustworthy, religiously fanatical, and violent, they've been prejudicially called Islamofascists, "terrorists," or a homeland fifth column. Their fate became summary judgment - no due process, judicial fairness, or innocent unless proved guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt by an impartial jury of their peers.
Aafia is their poster child, an innocent woman brutalized and condemned to spend the rest of her life in maximum security confinement, meant for America's "worst of the worst" criminals. The facilities are extremely harsh. They crush the human spirit, body and mind, in Aafia's case even more than already after seven and a half brutalizing years.
More is now planned for the rest of her life unless world outrage saves her, no easy task given the Obama administration's contempt for the rule of law, human rights and justice, as roguish as Bush officials.
That alone should incite everyone's moral outrage. Aafia's case adds an exclamation point!
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at email@example.com. His blog is sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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Peabody Police Chief Bruce Burke has announced the recovery of three of the laptop computers stolen Oct. 9 from the HUB in Peabody.
"Information in the case has continued to be forthcoming," Burke said. "Diligently following up on leads received in the case led to the recovery of the laptop computers.
"After evidentiary processing, the laptops will be returned to the HUB."
"Also, the recovery of the stolen items gives us concrete evidence to be used when we prosecute the case," he said. "At this point is just a matter of doing our due diligence to ensure we will get an arrest."
Anyone with information regarding the HUB burglary or any other crime in Peabody is encouraged to contact Burke at (620) 983-2133 or visit the City of Peabody website at http://www.peabodyks.com to leave an anonymous tip.


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As the world's cities grew into the skies, futurists, designers and scientists came up with ingenious solutions for fighting fires in the world's tallest buildings.
"The tallest building in the world is on fire. You are there with 294 other guests. There's no way down. There's no way out." So read the poster for the 1974 disaster movie Towering Inferno, which depicts an epic tale of survival in the badly wired 138 story Glass Tower in San Francisco and the race to put the fire out.
The action plays out amidst obvious tension and dislike between the two main characters –architect Doug Roberts and Fire Chief Michael O'Halloran. In one scene, O'Halloran, played by Steve McQueen, laments: "Now, you know there's no sure way for us to fight a fire in anything over the seventh floor, but you guys just keep building 'em as high as you can."
In the end, his only option is blow up water tanks on the top of the building; a move that may kill those remaining trapped inside.
Off the silver screen, the choices for fighting fires in skyscrapers are not usually so stark., although they are still limited. Automatic systems help contain smaller fires, while ground crews and helicopters are deployed to tackle bigger blazes. For example, a recent fire in the 42 story Polat Tower in Istanbul was eventually contained by helicopters and fire fighters working from the ground, as was a blaze in April at the Federation building in Moscow, when hundreds of tons of water had to be dropped to contain a blaze on the 65th floor. In both these cases, thankfully, no one was hurt. But, that is not always the case.
In the US, between 2005-2009 alone, there were an average of 15,700 reported fires in high-rise buildings (not all skyscrapers) each year, leading to an average of 53 deaths and millions of dollars of damage annually. Just last week, a [thankfully] false report of a fire on the 88th floor of a skyscraper on the Ground Zero site, caused flashbacks to the tragedy of 9/11.
As the world's cities have grown into the skies, we've had to confront the question of what to do when something goes terribly wrong and we are forced to fight fires in the cities of tomorrow. It has proved a fertile ground for futurists, designers and scientists.
'Eating smoke'
For example, the cover of the March 1927 issue of Science and Invention magazine included a look at the "aerial fire fighters" of the future. The article, Fighting Flames from the Air by Joseph H Kraus, shows how an invention by Edward P Conlin might one day be used to reach the highest skyscrapers ever built in the event of a fire: "Mr Conlin employs the pressure of the water [in a long hose] to operate or energize two lifting propellers, the purpose of which is to carry the hose to heights unattainable with present apparatus..."
The March 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics was perhaps more realistic – and closer to what we see today. It quotes New York City Fire Chief John Kenlon as saying, "I expect to see the day when fires in lofty skyscraper quarters will be fought with special types of airplanes. They will operate on the system of the helicopter so that they can remain stationary in a desired and advantageous spot. Special chemicals would be used by firemen in their airplanes for putting out the blaze. We have seen the police departments take up aviation. I believe the firefighters will go a long way in that direction."
Kenlon wrote a book a couple of decades earlier in 1913 called Fires and Fire Fighting which explained even then just how daunting the fires of the future will be when skyscrapers dominate our urban landscape.
But it was perhaps the 2 July 1961 edition of Arthur Radebaugh's Sunday comic strip Closer Than We Think that took the idea of sky-high firefighters to an optimistic extreme. The comic took the idea of helicopters and doused it with that unique brand of flashy optimism that mid-century American designers did so well. A bright red fire engine in the sky emblazoned with NYFD (New York Fire Department) is seen hovering as it shoots water from its pressure tank. A young girl and her mother look on excitedly from an adjacent building.
The text reads: "Tomorrow's firefighters, as a leading helicopter technician has predicted, may actually travel in airborne united, powered by "dynaprop" fans. Great advantages will be derived from the ability to hover beside conflagrations, regardless of whether the blaze is high in a skyscraper or simply smouldering in a farmer's barn. Firefighting direction will improve, rescue work will be far more efficient than with ladders, and radio instructions from aloft will speed the subduing of flames."
As we now know, most of these ideas have remained firmly on the drawing board. But the fear of skyscraper fires has left its mark in some cities we see today. Take Sydney, in Australia, for example. It passed an act in 1912 to limit new buildings to just 50m (150ft) tall, within reach of the fire fighting technologies of the day. As a result, Sydney became a city that spread outward rather than upward until the mid 1950s.
Other cities, like Los Angeles, have also been shaped by this fear. Its 1974 city fire code explicitly states that every building needed flat roofs to allow for helicopters landing there in case of fire. As a result, all of LA's towers are rectangular monoliths, leading some to to describe the city as "bland" and as "stuck with high and tights, not liberty spikes". The city is currently revisiting the code and some indications suggest that there may be a change, allowing more ornate tops to some of its buildings.
If and when they do, let's hope they take the advice from the final lines of Towering Inferno, when O'Hallorhan is once again with the architect of the building.
"You know we were pretty lucky tonight, body count's less then 200," he says. "You know, one of these days, you're gonna kill 10,000 in one of these firetraps, and I'm gonna keep eating smoke and carrying out bodies until someone asks us... how to build them."
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Basketball: Magic beat Kings despite Howard's foul trouble
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)-Having foul-plagued star Dwight Howard sitting on the bench for much of the first three quarters wasn't funny to Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy during the game.
Afterward, the veteran coach could laugh about it.
Jason Richardson scored a season-high 22 points, Glen Davis added a season-best 20 and Orlando beat the Sacramento Kings 104-97 on Sunday with Howard playing only a minor role.
The All-Star center, who entered the game averaging 20.3 points and 15.9 rebounds, had five points and four rebounds in 20 minutes and spent most of the first three quarters in foul trouble. He didn't get his first rebound until 4 minutes into the fourth and was scoreless before converting a three-point play with 6:35 remaining, putting the Magic ahead 87-85.
"I got Dwight a lot of rest in the first half. That was a (good) coaching move," laughed Van Gundy, who received 42 points from his productive bench.
Davis earned a big share of the credit. Nicknamed "Big Baby" for his 289-pound frame and style of play, Davis consistently hit jumpers from the perimeter and used his muscle to score inside and grab eight rebounds, including five on offense. He shot 8 of 13 and had two assists in 28 minutes.
"These types of games are a tell-all for a team when you have your best player in foul trouble," said Orlando forward Ryan Anderson, who had 19 points and 11 rebounds. "We had a lot of guys back (Howard) up tonight. Glen did an amazing job off the bench."
Tyreke Evans had a season-high 28 points and eight assists for the Kings. DeMarcus Cousins, also hampered by fouls, had 16 points and 10 rebounds. J.J. Hickson added 14 points and 11 rebounds, and Marcus Thornton scored 13 points.
Guarding Cousins, Howard picked up his second foul at the 10:14 mark of the first quarter and promptly left the game. He was called for a third foul midway through the second quarter and had zero points and rebounds in 6 first-half minutes.
Howard was whistled for his fourth foul at 9:57 of the third quarter. He also had a second-quarter technical for what he termed a harmless comment to the referees.
"I didn't curse and I didn't show them up," he said.
Although Howard would have preferred playing with foul trouble, he said he understood Van Gundy's decision to sit him for more than half the game.
"It's smart. He didn't want me to pick up any more cheap fouls, especially early in the game," Howard said. "He would rather have me sitting than in the game and having to be tentative."
With Howard on the bench, the Kings shot 52 percent to stay close throughout. But 17 turnovers and only 16 assists were partly to blame for the end to their modest two-game home winning streak.
"Obviously, he's the focal point of the team, an All-Star," Kings coach Keith Smart said. "It makes the game a little bit easier when the paint opens up and you don't have a guy shot-blocking and rebounding. So that was one of the keys to us staying in the game and having the lead. We just really couldn't hold onto it and extend it."
Von Wafer made three 3-pointers and scored 12 points, and Hedo Turkoglu added 11 points for the Magic, who had 14 more field goal attempts than the Kings and committed only 10 turnovers.
Turkoglu banked in a 3 with the shot clock running down to give Orlando a 93-89 lead with just less than 3 minutes remaining. Anderson's 3-pointer from the corner and Turkoglu's layup gave the Magic a 102-95 cushion with 35 seconds left.
Even with Howard sidelined for a large portion of the game, Cousins also got into foul trouble. He picked up two fouls in just more than a minute in the third quarter and went to the bench at the 6:54 mark with five fouls.
"We've just got to get better with late-game situations," said Cousins, who had only four points and four rebounds in the second half when he was saddled with foul problems. "It's not something we can get overnight, but we have to continue to get better. We are taking steps forward."
The game was the start of a four-game road trip for the Magic, which ends Jan. 16 against the Knicks.
The Kings' next game is Tuesday in Philadelphia, the start of a five-game road trip in seven days.
After struggling for much of the game, Anderson got going in the third quarter, scoring 11 points. Davis replaced Howard and proved to be trouble for the Kings again, scoring nine points as Orlando took an 81-79 lead into the fourth.
Despite playing almost the entire first half without Howard, the Magic led 49-47. Davis and Richardson both scored 11 points, while Evans had 15 for the Kings and Cousins added 12. The Orlando bench had 28 first-half points.
A slow starter much of the season, Cousins scored 10 points in helping the Kings to a 21-19 lead in the opening quarter.
Notes: Anderson, who missed his first six shots, grew up in nearby El Dorado Hills, about 30 miles northeast of Sacramento. He got tickets for a group of family and friends. … Turkoglu argued a first-quarter foul and was given a technical. … Thornton missed all seven shots in a scoreless opening half, but finally scored on a jumper early in the third quarter, when he had 10 points.


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Taylor Slade has been on the road as much as he's been in the cotton field this year. As president of the North Carolina Cotton Producer's Association, he carries with him the knowledge of what will benefit cotton growers, what bears watching and what needs improvement.
One for the comment that sums up things in a few words, Slade figures he's "10 days from a drought," even after a rain, and works with that thought in mind.
The Martin County, N.C., producer took the two-year post in February and hit the ground running. He's been dealing with state issues as well as national and international issues. Trips to Georgia, New Mexico, Washington, D.C., and Raleigh, N.C. have been the norm in his leadership post.
From the cab of his pickup, Slade talks about a number of issues concerning cotton growers, while the threat of two hurricanes wear on his mind.
"Cotton growers have a myriad of issues we're facing," Slade says.
First and foremost is the ever-important issue of quality. "Quality is our future," he says. "It's always been important, but with the added emphasis of having to sell overseas, it's even more important."
Slade believes it's not a one-state issue in the Southeast. "If we get a reputation for poor-quality cotton in the Southeast, it can roll right up the line to North Carolina and other states. It's our problem, not somebody else's problem."
In his position representing North Carolina producers, Slade sits on a number of cotton-related boards, including Southern-Southeastern. That group, as well as others, have funded research aimed at quality issues.
For his part, Slade picks varieties that have optimal strength and low mike. He plants four early-to-mid-season Roundup Ready varieties on his 700 acres of cotton and works to "keep the cotton clean." He hasn't made the switch to Bollgard technology because he believes he can keep his costs down with Round Ready.
He had just finished up spraying a second time for boll worms in mid-August. "The scouts say that'll probably be the last time we spray this year."
Like much of his outlook, Slade views issues in the light of the long-term.
The World Trade Organization ruling about cotton concerns him, of course, but in talks and at meetings, he believes that whatever will happen will be a long-time in coming, possibly after the current farm bill expires.
At the meeting of the American Cotton Producers in New Mexico recently, Slade and other delegates listened to a two-hour conference call with the United State's trade representative.
The gist of the call was, it's going to be a long process. If push comes to shove, said the trade representative, the cotton program may have to be realigned to make it legal.
"We're supporting the National Cotton Council in its efforts to represent us," Slade says. "I feel like we have the right people representing us. They recognize how important the cotton program is."
Slade finds it ironic that cotton was singled out, but the issue, as posed, could apply to all commodity groups.
He owns the Roanoke Tar Cotton Gin in partnership with other cotton growers. "Quality cotton involves keeping the crop clean, planting good varieties, making sure the pickers are adjusted right at harvest and being timely at harvest. Those are some of the things that growers can do to help themselves."
Slade started growing cotton in 1991. At that time, he built the gin because there were few in the area. "There are people who are ginners and there are people who are farmers. I am a farmer. I'm in the ginning business because I needed to be; I'm in the farming business because I wanted to be."
When the gin was built in 1991, there were only about 4,000 acres of cotton in Martin County, N.C., which is in the eastern part of the state. Since then, Martin County has been up to about 48,000 acres. The gin has produced as many as 60,000 bales of cotton. Last year, the gin did 43,000 bales.
When Slade returned from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to farm with his father in 1971, cotton had already left the farm. "My father never threw anything away, and I found a cotton plate one day and asked him what it was," Slade laughs.
"He told me, 'give that thing to me. I don't want to ever plant another seed of cotton.'"
Slade wonders what his father would think of him today since he's so involved in growing and promoting cotton.
"There were two reasons for the cotton revival in North Carolina, I think," Slade says. "One was the consumption increase in the U.S. Second, the boll weevil eradication program.
"The Boll Weevil Eradication Program had its start in North Carolina and I think that's one of the biggest reasons we've gotten back in cotton the way we have," Slade says.
Billy Carter, the executive vice president of the North Carolina Cotton Producers Association, has kept him busy, Slade chuckles. "North Carolina cotton growers don't realize the asset we have in Billy. He's so well-received and respected in all areas of the Cotton Belt."
Slade says he feels honored to serve North Carolina cotton producers. "It's an honor to represent cotton growers. We have a lot of issues that need to be addressed. Right now, we're working with the dean of North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to get a technician hired for our state cotton specialist."
In between trips to national organization meetings, Slade is preparing for the Sept. 15 field day that the North Carolina Cotton Producers Association will host at the Upper Coastal Plain Research Station near Rocky Mount.
"It's great that we're having the field day at an experiment station that the North Carolina Department of Agriculture owns and the North Carolina State University Extension experts do research at," Slade says. "It's a great partnership that I think benefits all North Carolina farmers."


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"Skyfall" hits theaters Friday, and many of America's critics say that 50 years after James Bond first preened his way across screens, he's back with his license to thrill intact.
Directed by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes ("American Beauty") and starring Daniel Craig as the suave superspy, "Skyfall" pits 007 against a computer whiz baddie played with florid menace by Javier Bardem. With a whopping 93 percent "fresh" rating on the critics aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, it's the best reviewed Bond film in years. That's all the more impressive given that Craig's previous impeccably tailored turn in "Quantum of Solace," ranks as one of the least well-regarded outings — a doleful mess with a nonsensical plot about water rights.
All is forgiven, claims TheWrap's Alonso Duralde, thanks to a crack performance in "Skyfall." Indeed, Duralde raves that "Skyfall" is assured a place among the top five Bond adventures of all time with a string of creditable performances from a list of RADA greats like Judi Dench, Ben Whishaw and Ralph Fiennes. More important, he says a whip-smart script from Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan deftly ushers the Bond mythos into a new geopolitical era.
"With the film placing Bond into a realistically modern world of politics and terrorism, this crew helps place Her Majesty's Secret Service into a context that makes Bond seem as relevant to life post-9/11 as he once was to the Cold War," Duralde writes.
Also read: 'Skyfall' Review: Nuanced Thriller Leaps to Top Five of 007 Movies
Also pouring on the approbation was Roger Ebert. The Chicago Sun-Times critic labeled the 23rd Bond film "invigorating"; an adventure filled with stunning chase scenes but a more recognizably human 007.
"Just as Christopher Nolan gave rebirth to the Batman movies in 'The Dark Knight,' here is James Bond lifted up, dusted off, set back on his feet and ready for another 50 years," Ebert writes. "And am I completely misguided when I expect to see Miss Moneypenny become a Bond girl in the next film?"
Like Ebert and Duralde, The New York Times' Manohla Dargis praised the performances and Mendes' insistence on grounding Bond's globe-trotting in a story with real emotional stakes.
Also read: James Bond Returns: 007 Things to Know Before Seeing 'Skyfall'
"Whether Mr. Mendes is deploying an explosion or a delectable detail, he retains a crucially human scale and intimacy, largely by foregrounding the performers," Dargis writes. "To that end, while 'Skyfall' takes off with shock-and-awe blockbuster dazzle, it's opulent rather than outlandish and insistently, progressively low-key, despite an Orientalist fantasy with dragons and dragon ladies."
Even the congenitally snarky Rex Reed had only nice things to say about Mr. Bond. In his review for the New York Observer, he resorted to "movie-trailer speak" by branding the film "high-octane" entertainment.
"'Skyfall' may not reach the sophisticated heights of 'Casino Royale,' but it's better than the lollygagging 'Quantum of Solace,'" Reed writes. "With buff, camera-ready Daniel Craig lending fresh fisticuffs to the role, and acclaimed director Sam Mendes adding more realism and fewer jokes than in most Bond pictures, it's a satisfying entertainment that delivers a kangaroo kick from start to finish."
That's not to say that every critic felt the film went down as smoothly as one of Bond's signature martinis. In the Village Voice, Karina Longworth praised Mendes for trying to inject a bit of backstory into Bond, but griped that the movie was more preamble than payoff.
"'Skyfall's' fatal misstep is its slavish hewing to event-movie trends," she writes. "Like this summer's 'Spider-Man,' 'Batman,' and 'Avengers' movies, 'Skyfall' seems to exist primarily to set up the events of subsequent films."


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High school student Brandon Silk has been treated by his doctors for allergies to Axe Body Spray for a few years. Recent exposure to the fragrance in the hallways of his high school caused him to be rushed to the hospital when his throat swelled causing him to have difficulty breathing. His throat swelled twice before when exposed to the same smell at school. Now his mother is scared to let him go back to school and wants Unilever to disclose the ingredients of the body spray to help determine what is causing his allergic reaction.
Brandon and his mother talked to local TV station WFMZ. Please watch their story and read the article by WFMZ for details….
The Bethlehem Pennsylvania school where Brandon attends has put out a statement to parents on their website urging students not to wear Axe body spray due to Brandon's allergy. This is a great gesture by the school. I wonder how it will be enforced and for how long?
I am also scent sensitive and am touched by the reactions of many of the students at that school. Some suggest lobbying Unilever to disclose the ingredients for Brandon by posting to Axe's Facebook page. Check out a video of reactions of students created by a local newspaper. I love their comments.
Smell Inc supports Brandon's mom, Rosa Silk, and her quest to get the ingredients disclosed by Unilever. Unfortunately it's an uphill battle. There is no legislation requiring these cosmetic companies to release the ingredients of the fragrance. The Environmental Working Group has proposed the safe cosmetics act to try to get this changed in the cosmetic industry.
Rosa isn't the first mom to take on Unilever regarding severe allergies to Axe. Read about the 2010 lawsuit filled in Indiana from an earlier post here at Smell Inc.
Something must be done. Body Spray, fragrances, perfumes, colognes…. it's getting more and more obnoxious and it's affecting others. When did it become trendy to reek? And when will these fragrances be considered second-hand scents and treated with the same regard as cigarette smoke. It's affecting people the same way.


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A neat real photo postcard of Viola Jeanne Chassels. She was on a radio program back in the early 1930's, (I do not know which one, there were sev eral that used here) where she sang country and western music. During the depression her show was cut back to Saturday only. The stars would send these to fans with personal notes on the back. If you asked for a "free picture" they would request about 10 to 25 cents or so, to cover the "cost" of the photo, most fans would send the quarter, a princely sum back in the early 30s, and they would get a RPPC postcard or picture.


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NEW YORK — Forest Whitaker tends to talk about his work with a mystical flourish. Movie roles, he says, have helped him achieve transcendence, learn the value of quiet and appreciate fear.
Yet the star of Lee Daniels' "The Butler" is surprisingly direct about how he squandered an opportunity after his Oscar turn as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in 2006's "The Last King of Scotland."
"I thought I found a new way to work after that movie. I could be this intense person, someone who vibrated differently, and it would make me a better actor," he said. "Then I tried it on a few movies, and it didn't work."
But last year he began shooting "The Butler," and "something changed," he said. "The energy changed."
As the period drama arrives in theaters next week, Whitaker's prolific, praised and puzzled-over Hollywood career indeed seems to be in the midst of a resurgence.
After toiling in recent years on nondescript films such as the Keanu Reeves crime picture "Street Kings" and the fact-based basketball movie "Hurricane Season," Whitaker stars as Cecil Gaines, a White House staffer who attended to seven presidents and served as a silent witness to history. The actor also produced this summer's art-house sensation, "Fruitvale Station." Still to come this fall and beyond are turns in the holiday musical "Black Nativity," the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced revenge drama "Out of the Furnace" and the French director Rachid Bouchareb's auteur piece, "Enemy Way."
Whitaker also produced and lent his voice to "Rising From Ashes," a documentary about a Rwandan cycling team's bid to compete at the London Olympics.
Inspired by the story of White House staffer Eugene Allen, "The Butler" examines tensions within Gaines' family and in the country at large during the Civil Rights era. As his Zelig-like work evolves (the movie shows Cecil present as Robin Williams' Eisenhower contemplates integration and James Marsden's JFK pushes a Civil Rights agenda), Whitaker's character is also facing complexity at home. He is married to the supportive but alcoholic Gloria (Oprah Winfrey, in her first live-action film role in 15 years) and raising a son, Louis, who undertakes a brand of campus activism that veers from the preachings of Martin Luther King Jr. to the teachings of the Black Panthers.
Though Cecil has overcome a sharecropping childhood to become a fixture in the halls of power, Louis believes that his father has been too submissive. It's this tension that provides the movie's ideological and emotional spine.
Whitaker, who's known for his level of preparation, calls this "the most specific work I've ever done on a character."
He trained with a butler consultant and met, quietly, with one of the famously discreet White House butlers. He studied proper hand movements and tray-lifting, and he spent hours with confidantes of Allen, who died in 2010. Because the movie spans many decades, Whitaker created an elaborate system of flash cards that would remind him of his character's age and experience in a given scene. "It's not easy to be 90 in the morning and 35 in the afternoon," he said.
It was all in the interest, "of feeling it deep inside me, to know the places I was coming from so I could know who I needed to be," he said over a late lunch at an uptown restaurant. "I wanted to feel the collective experience of Cecil's life, so when I walked at 90 you could feel that weight. I wanted my parents and grandparents and all the people of their generation to feel like this accurately represented them."
As he talks, Whitaker demonstrates a sweet-tempered quality and, even at 52, a wide-eyed enthusiasm for small things; his eyes light up at the sight of the vegan soup he's ordered. His soft-spokenness is all the more striking when one thinks about his intense performance in "The Last King of Scotland," which had him inhabit Amin's megalomaniacal tendencies for weeks at a time.
He said the part changed him, and not necessarily for the better. During the shoot, he said, he felt a hard-edged side to his personality developing. He conducted an interview with a London newspaper where he found himself practically yelling at the reporter. After that, he told his publicist no more on-set interviews.
Still, the live-wire act carried over into his other choices and roles, and it left him feeling a professional chill until just before "The Butler." "I had touched on some frustration. I didn't feel like I was challenging myself," he said.
As Gaines, in part because he's a more soulful character, Whitaker sought to inhabit a quieter place. To put himself in the right frame of mind, he and Winfrey would act as a couple even when they weren't shooting, rubbing each other's shoulders and calling each other by their characters' names.
Before shooting had begun for the day, Winfrey would take Whitaker's hand and say "Let's go for a walk, Cecil," and the two would stroll arm-in-arm around the New Orleans set. Danny Strong, who wrote "The Butler," said he embraced the choice of Whitaker because this part "needed someone whose soul you could hear even when he was being quiet."
The historical reference points in "The Butler" have strong personal analogs for Whitaker. Growing up in the Los Angeles area in the 1960s and early 1970s, he saw Black Panthers recruiting on the corner of his street in Carson. When it came time for high school, his address put him in the district for a Compton school. His parents told school officials that Whitaker lived with his cousin in West Adams, enabling him to be bused to a predominantly white school in Pacific Palisades.
The film reflects his experience in other ways.
"When I look at Cecil, I think of my father, who as a young man left Longview, Texas, and came to Los Angeles even though his father didn't want him to go and never once visited him," Whitaker said. "And then my father wanted me to go to West Point — that was a high calling to him — and couldn't believe I wanted to study acting or music. These are many generational divides in the black community that this film touches on."
Whether Whitaker returns to a role like Idi Amin after this film remains to be seen. He already has an eclectic resume — not many actors can say they played Charlie Parker (1988's "Bird") starred opposite Kristen Stewart in a David Fincher movie ("The Panic Room"), won an Oscar and starred in one of the most lampooned movies ever made ("Battlefield Earth").
But he said he feels more possibilities are open to him now. He is considering taking the part of Bishop Desmond Tutu in an upcoming Roland Joffe movie, and he is energized to produce and perhaps even direct a long-gestating movie about Louis Armstrong.
He says that he owes this rebirth, which he maintains is spiritual as much as professional, to "The Butler." "'Scotland' shifted my cellular being, taught me transmutation," he said. "This movie taught me how to live with the magic."


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Oct. 5, 2010
By Todd Henrichs
For the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award website
As a setter, Lexi Zimmerman watches counterparts at her position with a critical eye.
Many times, what Zimmerman sees looks very familiar. Even in warm-ups.
"In something as silly as pepper, you can see that setters are usually the ones on their team who are super feisty and super aggressive. They do everything to not let a ball hit the court," Zimmerman said. "It's kind of weird or odd, but I see that all the time."
That competitiveness doesn't just manifest itself on the volleyball court. For Zimmerman and other setters, it seems, the desire for success carries over to many other things.
It should come as no surprise then that eight of this year's candidates for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award come from NCAA Division I volleyball's setter ranks. The award honors the senior who best exemplifies the definition of a complete student-athlete. Attributes measured include community involvement, classroom achievement, personal character and contributions to the success of her team.
A first-team All-American at Michigan, Zimmerman said accountability is another benchmark of setters that you could add to the list. UC Santa Barbara's Dana Vargas agreed.
"I knew that for my teammates to get better, I needed to improve so much more first," Vargas said, describing her own development as a player at the collegiate level.
"Setters usually take on more of a leadership role. That's what I am on the court, and off the court, as well," she added. "I also like being the quarterback of the team."
Vargas' instincts come naturally. Her mother, current UCSB assistant Debbie Green, is considered one of the greatest setters in the history of the college game. Dana's sister, Nicole, was a setter at Long Beach State.
Zimmerman's sister, Victoria, played at Indiana and Utah State. And while their older siblings provided Vargas and Zimmerman with a glimpse into the college game, a learning curve remained - both on and off the court.
"One thing that I've learned in college is life is a lot about balance," Zimmerman said. "It's very easy to get caught up in volleyball, but I've always focused on school a lot."
Zimmerman is pursuing a degree in environmental studies with an emphasis on architecture. She says sustainability and green building are among the few things where her enthusiasm matches that of volleyball. She is also excited to meet her "little sister" this month, part of her volunteer efforts with the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. Zimmerman is also active in Habitat for Humanity building projects.
Vargas volunteers at an animal shelter and has helped to coach a youth volleyball team. The sociology major is considering attending law school after graduation. To this point, Vargas said she's pursued subjects that were broad in nature, not wanting to limit her options. Not surprisingly, that's another trademark that Zimmerman has identified in her fellow setters. In addition to Zimmerman and Vargas, other setters who are candidates for the Senior CLASS Award include Sydney Anderson, Nebraska; Jenna Hagglund, Washington; Carli Lloyd, California; Jamie Mellies, Seattle; Jade Michaelsen, New Mexico, and Mary Ashley Tippins, Georgia Tech.
"As a setter, you can't be a specialist," Vargas said. "You have to be a generalist."
And relationships are key, not only unique connections with every teammate but working relationships with coaches. Setters must adapt aggressively to change, as Zimmerman did years ago when a youth coach tried to move her to another position. Vargas shared a similar story. It's no wonder then that setters are a bit feisty.
"There's a lot that you have to react to," Zimmerman said. "In my opinion, that's why it's the hardest position."


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Despite losing their entire starting lineup, the Runnin Royals still have enough respect around the country to get a few nods. Or votes, as the case may be.
The Eastern Mennonite men received four votes in the D3hoops.com national poll, which was released today, effectively putting them in a tie for 51st place in the preseason list. EMU lost all five of their senior starters from last year's 22-5 squad, which also went to the Elite Eight of the national tournament in 2009-10.
Showing the power of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, Virginia Wesleyan was tabbed as the No. 1 team in the country in the preseason poll. VWC finished last year No. 10 in the rankings after losing in the Sweet 16.
Hampden-Sydney was picked No. 23 in the preseason rankings, while Randolph-Macon also received votes, coming in at No. 36.
The official ODAC Preseason Poll will be announced at the league's media day this Thursday in Salem.
The Runnin Royals start their season at home on Nov. 15 against future ODAC-opponent Shenandoah.


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Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial Fireworks
A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. A contrail from an alien spaceship? A jet from a black-hole? Actually this image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is a very thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,000 years ago.
This image is a composite of hydrogen-light observations taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys in February 2006 and Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 observations in blue, yellow-green, and near-infrared light taken in April 2008. The supernova remnant, visible only in the hydrogen-light filter was assigned a red hue in the Heritage color image.
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Acknowledgment: W. Blair (Johns Hopkins University)