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This was a enjoyable episode, thank goodness. I was worried after the last couple of episodes. The acting was good, but the writing left something to be desired. So glad the show is back to it's usual crazy, interesting, spooky, fun self.
This was a enjoyable episode, thank goodness. I was worried after the last couple of episodes. The acting was good, but the writing left something to be desired. So glad the show is back to it's usual crazy, interesting, spooky, fun self.
Why did Abby & Ichabod automatically assume that Washington wrote December 18 after he died? Couldn't he just as easily have written that date before he died, giving it some as yet unknown significance? I've noticed a lot of shows make assumptive statements like that when technically there could be other reasons. Revenge did this recently but I can't remember the example.
Have you done your Green deed for the day?
Liked that the story revolved around Captain Irving and his family. Also great catch ArchieComic Fan I think you are spot on with your observation.
I did wish Molock or the other demon would have visited the Doomsday Preppers just because.
No goat killers on my island.
Two hour season finale tonight.
No goat killers on my island.
How adorable was Ichabod when he was pouting for a newer cell phone? Damn this new technology, but, um...can I get an up-to-date phone?
So poor Abbie is stuck in the Barbie Dream House from hell, sis is hanging upside down in her wrecked car, Katrina was stolen away, and Ichabod is buried once again. And John Cho's character continues to be abused. What a mess!
It was me. I let the dogs out.
I was surprised how easily they were allfooled by the old Fringe guy! Ichabod seems so smart, yet he went thru everything like his enemy planned.
And we only have to wait until .... next fall!! Whew! That means we have at least 8 months until the apocalypse.
I hope Ichabod gets an extension on his cell phone bet with abbie. (Or is that how he gets out of his grave?)
I admit it, I didn't see that twist coming along at the end.
Well, I won't back down/No I won't back down/You can stand me up at the gates of hell/But I won't back down
No I'll stand my ground//And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down/Gonna stand my ground/Well I know what's right/I got just one life/In a world that keeps on pushin' me around/But I'll stand my ground/And I won't back down-Tom Petty
Just now caught up with last night's episodes and I loved them! Oh man, I hope this season comes out on DVD in the interim, because I would love to watch it again. That's saying a lot, because I haven't loved a show this much in quite a while.
My favorite lines:
When Crane was at the re-enactment camp and the lady told him, "You need to wear the official uniform."
At the cabin, when Jenny urged him to get rid of his coat. "Certainly not. I will not have somebody find it and wear it ironically."
And just a few moments later, when they were discussing George Washington, and Jenny said, "Is that the Zombie Washington or the Man-Who-Saved-the-World Washington?" Next time somebody mentions Washington to me, I'm going to laugh thinking about our first President as a zombie.
Can somebody fill me in just a little? I remember that Katrina had a baby and that Crane was looking for his son. I must have missed an episode, though. What was all that about the coven putting a hex on him? Why was he dangerous?
Maggie: "While she takes care of the men with the guns, why don't you sit down and I'll make you a nice, hot cup of tea?"
Pan Am stewardesses: prepared for anything!


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Sentinel Business Owners
Federal Court Upholds NLRB's Ambush Election Rule
Late last week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) rule to drastically speed up union elections. The NLRB's "ambush election" rule allows employees to take a vote on union representation as quickly as 11 days after a union petition has been filed.
Prior to the NLRB's ambush election rule, employers had a median of 38 days before an election to offer counter-arguments and persuade his/her employees not to join a union. With the ambush election rule, union officials can quickly sweep into a small business, organize the workers without the business owner knowing, and form a union. The ambush election rule guarantees employers no more than 10 days to stop this from happening.
The challengers in the lawsuit, the Associated Builders and Contractors of Texas and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), argued that the NLRB's rule undermines the rights of employers and violates privacy laws.
Executive director Karen Harned of NFIB's Small Business Legal Center stated: "Small businesses everywhere are extremely disappointed by the decision, which puts employers at a severe disadvantage. The rule essentially makes it impossible for small businesses to respond to unionization campaigns. It also hurts employees by compromising their privacy, as the rule requires them to hand-over sensitive information."
Legislation to address this issue is currently pending in both chambers of Congress. The Employee Rights Act (H.R. 3222 and S. 1874), introduced by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), would give employees at least 40 days to hear from employers before voting in a union election.

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Paul Berg's essay of Aug. 1 made some valid points about the uses of war in American politics. However, I think he gave too much weight to politicians' history book motivations and ignored their far more significant motivations of immediate electoral or governing politics.
America was involved in Vietnam on so massive a scale only to give the conservatives a foreign policy bone to buy them off from opposing Lyndon Johnson's liberal domestic agenda.
Whether through war, executions, lynchings or inadequate health care, conservatives love nothing more than turning live humans, except wealthy humans, into corpses.
In the 1960s if conservatives were to be convinced not to derail Johnson's initiatives to provide medical care to senior citizens, ease poverty and malnutrition in American, and guarantee civil and voting rights to blacks, then they had to be convinced by an opportunity to create completely unnecessary death. Johnson provided conservatives with the Vietnam War, and they took full advantage, killing more than 58,000 Americans and many hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese.
Richard Nixon could have ended the Vietnam War in early 1969, just after taking his first oath of office. But he didn't end the war until early 1973 just after his reelection, and under the same terms available in 1969. Expecting another close election in 1972, he saw the electoral need to keep the war going for four more years so he could announce its end just before the 1972 election. This crass political calculation cost many thousands of Americans and who knows how many Vietnamese their lives.
Similarly, following their loss in the 2000 presidential election, the Republicans saw the electoral advantage in marketing George W. Bush as the "wartime president" for the 2004 election.
Afghanistan and Imam Omar were too remote and obscure for that purpose. But the conservatives had planned since early 2001 to start a war with Iraq. And the overwhelming negative name recognition of Saddam Hussein made starting a war in Iraq out of nonsensical fabrications and outright lies a marketing natural: 70 percent of Americans initially fell for it and George W. Bush barely squeaked through his 2004 election. And 1,700-plus American soldiers are dead, 13,000-plus are maimed and tens of thousands of ordinary Iraqis are dead because Bush, the Republicans and conservatives simply needed a war for political advantage, as did Johnson and Nixon before them.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in NYC with no public schedule. Let the Turkey Day/Black Friday countdown begin!
The alleged "lone wolf" terrorist, Jose Pimentel, whose arrest was trumpeted by Mayor Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly last night, pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail.
Pimentel allegedly manufactured a bomb on his mother's couch following the directions in the article "How to Build a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom," from al Qaeda's English-language on-line magazine "Inspire."
Authorities believe Pimentel converted to Islam while living in Schenectady for several years.
Civil rights attorney Normal Siegel, joined by Sen. Eric Adams, criticized the Zuccotti raid and said the Bloomberg administration should be held in contempt of court.
NYC Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who slammed the NYPD for how he was treated after his arrest in the Zuccotti raid, will, along with Sen. Adriano Espaillat, "commend" the department for its recent alleged terrorist arrest and call for community cooperation with the investigation. (1 p.m., 34th precinct).
Protestors had hoped to stage a 24-hour drum circle outside Bloomberg's Upper East Side townhouse, but were kept off his block by police officers.
Several Occupy Albany protestors are due in city court today to start answering their tickets for trespass arrests in Lafayette Park. The nightly ritual of arrests may soon stop, as some think they've made their point to Cuomo.
There was a brief glimmer of a Super Committee deal not long ago. But it's long gone now.
Newt Gingrich is rising in the polls, former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato is not a fan.
Gingrich's rise has renewed focus on his tumultuous personal life. He has been married three times. Will that matter to voters, and should it?
Gingrich plans to unveil an "alternative" to Social Security during a swing through New Hampshire.
Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos accused his would-be foe, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, of playing both sides of Occupy Wall Street by supporting NY Communities for Change and accepting Wall Street cash.
Failed 2010 state comptroller candidate Harry Wilson is now giving "serious consideration" to a 2012 challenge to Gillibrand.
Gillibrand is volunteering upstate to mark the Thanksgiving holiday week.
New York has a love-hate relationship with Wall Street, which accounted for 20 percent of state revenues in 2008. That number has since dropped to 14 percent.
The fundraising scandal is damaging, but don't count "bad ass" NYC Comptroller Jon Liu out of the 2013 mayor's race just yet.
An amended version of the so-called living wage bill will be given another hearing by a NYC Council committee Tuesday.
Supporters of the bill are celebrating the emergence of a new, powerful ally: The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of NY.
Three NYC trade unions are bucking their labor colleagues and refusing to back the measure.
Bloomberg LP is booming, which means the mayor's influence when he leaves office will be that much more significant.
Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno has quietly been working for CMA, the consulting firm he used to lead that's headed by his companion, Kay Stafford. No fundraisers for his legal fund have yet been planned, but it remains unclear if he'll face a new trial.
A transgender NYC Council candidate has emerged and, if elected, would be the first to hold an elected office in city government.
Erie County Executive-elect Mark Poloncarz announced his transition committee.
An attorney who serves as director of the transition team for Albany County Executive-elect Daniel McCoy and is a former aide to Sen. Adams was quietly hired to an $84,000-a-year job with the county last month.
Hunters in the Southern Tier and Wyoming County are now allowed to use rifles to hunt deer.
NY Farm Bureau President Dean Norton says fracking could save farmers.
Another town – this time on high-taxed Long Island – mulls blowing the 2 percent tax cap.


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Marathoner goes extra mile to help horse rescue center
Published 11:34 am, Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Five miles north of Katy on more than 70 acres of green pastures is where Pops and Honey are living out the golden years of their life, relaxing and enjoying time together.
They often have visitors who spend time with them like Katy mom Kelli Kerkhoff, who said she is grateful to see the couple happy now after neglect and suffering marred their lives.
"Pops is just really sweet and he was about to be sent off to a slaughterhouse so he was brought there," said Kerkhoff, 39. "And Honey had been kept in a garage for a couple of years and she was underweight and malnourished but she's there now and doing well."
Pops and Honey are enjoying a different kind of retirement as horses, being protected and cared for at the Blue Ribbon Equine Horse Rescue at 25150 Beckendorff Road. As a volunteer, Kerkhoff grooms horses, walks them around and feeds them.
"I've always had a love for animals, dogs, cats and horses especially, and since they can't speak for themselves, I have a strong urge to work with them," said Kerkhoff, who grew up around horses as a child and sought out a place to volunteer after she and her family moved to Katy last year.
Kerkhoff recently combined her love of horses and running to participate in the Chevron Houston Marathon in January to raise funds and awareness for the horse rescue. An avid runner who has competed in five other marathons, Kerkhoff trained with a Katy-area running group for six months to prepare for the Houston marathon.
"I ran my fastest marathon yet by 13 minutes and qualified for the Boston Marathon," said Kerkhoff, who ran in a rainy and windy Houston marathon. "It was a total shock that I qualified, especially considering how bad the weather was."
Kerkhoff was "Hoofin' It for Horses" at the marathon, a catchy name that Blue Ribbon owner Barbara Jacobs came up with once Kerkhoff decided to run to support the rescue.
"Kelli has been trying to help us and she's been great," said Jacobs, who began the rescue 20 years ago and established its nonprofit status three years ago. "We always need a lot of help and it's good to find consistent volunteers like Kelli."
In addition to raising awareness for the rescue through her marathon, Kerkhoff set up a website for the rescue, created a blog to document her work with Blue Ribbon and continues to fundraise via social media and her blog.
"These animals hit the jackpot when they come to Blue Ribbon and Barbara has so much passion for these animals and she dedicates her life to them," Kerkhoff said.
Jacobs, who runs the rescue with her family and other volunteers, also provides fee-based boarding and training for horses as well as riding lessons as part of her business Blue Ribbon Meadows Equestrian Center.
About 100 horses call her property home, 30 of which are rescued and 70 of which compete in professional horse shows. Some horses can be adopted by suitable owners but most remain at the rescue, she said.
Jacobs said she often receives horses that have been neglected or abused, or receives calls from owners who can no longer afford to care for their horses. Other horse rescues sometimes run out of funding and need a place for their horses, she said.
"A lot of our rescues are not adoptable because they've had too much tragedy in their life so they live with us forever," Jacobs said. "They have salt, blankets and pastures they go out in. One of our fancy show horses might be right next to a rescue horse but you wouldn't know the difference."
The horses at Blue Ribbon are regularly groomed, receive routine veterinary care and have their hooves trimmed. Jacobs said her boarding facility is open seven days a week while training and lessons are offered every day except Mondays.
Her work is her life, Jacobs said, yet she often struggles to obtain enough funding to care for the horses. It costs approximately $60,000 a year to support the rescue and Jacobs said she received $4,000 in donations last year. Now, she's facing another challenge as she was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and will be undergoing treatment.
"Every single thing we do for the rescue is 100 percent ourselves and volunteers," Jacobs said. "We live here at the property. The barn is always cleaner than the house."
Despite funding struggles, Jacobs said she has plans for her property that include building an education center where she can teach children about animal care. She continues to rely on the community for monetary support and donations such as horse feed, hay and lumber to keep her rescue running.
Anyone interested in donating to the Blue Ribbon Equine Rescue can send checks to P.O. Box 842, Katy, TX 77492 or visit http://www.blueribbonequinerescue.com/wordpress/ for more details.


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Hurricane Rated Garage Doors
There are many benefits to living in Florida, from the beautiful beaches to warm weather to fun local attractions. But, amidst all these benefits lies the yearly threat of a hurricane strike. Hurricane damage can be costly for even the most insured homeowner, which is why it's so important to take precautions where possible.
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- Heavy Rain: Heavy rains and salty air can weather a generic garage door — but not a hurricane garage door from Banko Overhead Doors.
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When selecting the best hurricane garage doors from Banko for your home in Florida, you have the option to choose from some of the most reputable brands in the industry, including Clopay and Amarr®. And with an employed full-time staff of highly trained installers and professional service technicians, you can rest assured that our superior services will be just as reliable as your new door.
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Terminally ill fan watches 'Rogue One…' before passing away
Los Angeles, Aug 25 (IANS) A special screening of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story", which is slated to release on December 27, was organised by director Gareth Edwards for a terminally ill fan Neil Hanvey, who passed away two days after watching the film.
Edwards organised the special screening on August 20. The 36-year-old Hanvey, who was told back in April that he had only six to eight months to live, died on Monday, reports variety.com.
The sad news was broken by St Michael's Hospice on Facebook. The post which was shared on Tuesday, delivered a message from Hanvey's wife, Andrea.
"On behalf of all our family we would like to thank everyone who has passed on their condolences following Neil's death last night (August 22)," the message read.
"We would also like to thank the tens of thousands of people who supported the '#RogueOneWish' campaign. All the messages of love during the past week have given us a great deal of comfort during a very difficult time," the message further read.
"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" follows a band of Rebel fighters stealing the plans for the Death Star before it can be used by the Emperor.
Felicity Jones, Forest Whitaker and Mads Mikkelsen are among the cast members.


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AFFORDABLE HOME IN ROTHESAY!!!!!!22 Islay Drive -
Family home on quiet Rothesay St with large private yard. Four bedroom home with 3 bedrooms on the main level and one down. Hardwood floor, French doors, eat-in kitchen, dining room. Newer deck accessed off the dining room plus an additional newer patio at ground level accessed off the family room. Fully finished basement with ½ bath, rec room and fourth bedroom. Oversized single car garage. Beautiful treed lot provides plenty of privacy. Great location close to schools, skating rink, post office, etc. Energy efficient electric convection heating. Upgrades in last 8 years are the roof, windows, and electrical panel.
Property Details
- Status: Sold on 8/11/2011
- Neighbourhood: 5-550
- Property ID: 100685003
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- Style: Split Entry
- County: Kings County
Exterior Stone, Other - Siding
Flooring Other - Ceramic, Hardwood, Carpet - Master Bedroom
Foundation Other - Concrete, Fully Finished
Garage 1 Car
Heat Other - Baseboard Electric
Parking Other - Double Paved Driveway
Sewer Other - Municipal
Water Other - Municipal
Bathroom 2 Lower Level
Bedroom 4 Lower Level
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Foreign and Colonial NewsThe Illustrated London News, vol. 44, no. 1252, p. 335.
April 9, 1864
The Australasian, which arrived at Queenstown last Saturday, brings New York advices to the 23rd ult.
General Lee is reported to have broken up his encampment on the Rapidan and to be moving on the Shenandoah Valley, and an early attack by the General on the army of the Potomac was apprehended.
General Stuart was concentrating his cavalry at Fredericksburg and Charlottesville preparatory to making a raid. But the military operations in Virginia were delayed by a terrific snowstorm.
The movements of General Longstreet at Bull's Gap rendered it doubtful whether he intended to enter Kentucky or to join Lee: the latter was considered most probable.
Porter's fleet and Sherman's forces had left Vicksburg for Red River.
The steamer Norman has been destroyed in Suwannee river.
President Lincoln has signed the Enabling Acts for Nevada, Colorado, and Nebraska, allowing them to form State constitutions and come into the Union.
The negro colonists who left the United States for Hayti have returned, unable to form a colony.
The decree of the United States District Court in the case of the Saxon not only orders the ship and cargo to be restored to the owners, but recommends that Lieutenant Donovan, who shot Mr. Grey, should be tried by court-martial for the murder. The questions of compensation to the widow and to the owners of the vessel have been reserved.


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Union leaders will this week threaten the Royal Mail with a series of nationwide strikes in the run-up to Christmas just days after its members were given £2,200 of free shares in the company.
Sources at the CWU union yesterday said the result of a strike ballot of 115,000 members would be revealed on Wednesday and used to demand an agreement over terms and conditions for staff. If this is not reached within three weeks, the union will call a strike.
A CWU spokesman said: "Our members care more about their jobs and terms and conditions than they do about the share price."
Analysts said it could leave a cloud of uncertainty over the Royal Mail share price ahead of its first day of full trading on the stock market on Tuesday.
Royal Mail staff cannot sell their shares for three years, so they will be unaffected by the fallout from any industrial action.


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If Obama abandons Israel, what then?
August 15, 2005, began as a day of infamy. It ushered in a great tribulation for the Jewish state, but one forced upon it by its very own Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon.It began one day after the annual commemoration of the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, Tisha B' Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av when, according to tradition, both Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed; the first one by the Babylonians in 586 BC and the second by the Romans in 70 AD. On that August day, the Jews of Gaza began to be driven from their homes by Israeli soldiers and police acting on the orders of their Prime Minister. The tragedy ended one week later, known now by its euphemism -- disengagement. Its self-imposed execution ushered in a needless catastrophe for Israel and eventually led to the occupation of Gaza by Hamas through an election engineered by Condoleezza Rice. Hamas thus came to power using a democratic tool and subsequently destroyed its rival, Fatah, in a bloody massacre; the...(Read Full Article)


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Imam Rauf Speaks About Muslim Radicals Hearings
On Thursday, the House Committee on Homeland Security — chaired by Republican Representative Peter King of New York — will hold a hearing on radicalization in the American-Muslim community. The event has angered many American Muslims — including Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. Rauf is most known nationally for his association with the planned Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan. Host Robert Siegel talks with Rauf about his reaction to the hearing.
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
Tomorrow, the House Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Congressman Peter King of New York, begins a series of hearing into radical Islam in the United States. Many American Muslims have spoken out against these hearings. And one of them is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of New York, who became nationally famous as the Muslim religious leader most associated with the planned Islamic center in Lower Manhattan. His role in that project has changed. We'll get to that in a moment.
But first, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, welcome to the program.
Imam FEISAL ABDUL RAUF (Chairman, Cordoba Initiative): Thank you very much, Robert, for having me on.
SIEGEL: And I'd like to begin by reading to you what the writer Akbar Ahmed wrote in The New York Times' op-ed page today. While he urges America to realize its pluralist vision by better understanding Islam, he also writes this: At the same time, Muslims must realize that to be truly accepted as "good" Americans - he puts quotation marks around good - they need to more explicitly embrace American identity, culture and history from political debates, like Representative King's hearing, to the ideals of the country's founders.
What do you think of that?
Imam RAUF: Oh, I perfectly agree with that. In fact, one of the projects that I have worked on and have been speaking about for last 20 years, and I've written about it, is the need for American Muslims to evolve from being Muslims in America to becoming American Muslims. By which I mean to evolve an American Muslim identity, institutions, affects of legal interpretations, so forth, because this is actually part of our own history.
And when Islam spread from Arabia to much of the - what we call today the Muslim world - it had to recreate itself in the cultures of ancient Egypt, of Sub-Saharan Africa, of what is today modern Turkey, of Persia, of India and so forth.
SIEGEL: But in all the cases you mentioned, Islam arrived and quickly became the majority religious culture of the country. And that's definitely different here. Are Muslim leaders and is Islam, more broadly, prepare to be a minority culture within a pluralistic society?
Imam RAUF: Well, that is not always the case. In India, you know, Islam was never a majority in India...
SIEGEL: But it was a ruling...
Imam RAUF: It was a minority and in many other places in Africa, from the very beginning, Muslims minorities in Abyssinia. And in very pluralistic societies, and for centuries, Islam was not, you know, even in Egypt, it took more than half a millennium for it to become a majority religion.
But the point is that wherever it has gone to, it has always had to adapt itself. I mean in China, where it's not the majority, there was a Chinese Islamic culture. So the notion that you have to be a majority or a ruling religion is not at all accurate.
SIEGEL: The problem of the homegrown terrorist is much discussed in the news these days, from Fort to Hood to Times Square, we've seen a very small number of disaffected Muslim Americans taking violent action. Because, often because of U.S. actions abroad.
Is there any special responsibility for Muslim leaders to denounce these things? Or should they be dismissed as the acts of individual crackpots or people with their own personal problems?
Imam RAUF: Well, I mean, they are certainly the acts of crackpots or those who've been radicalized. You know, with almost one and half billion Muslims worldwide, we have our share of the unhinged and the crazies, as well, and the crackpots. We also have radicalization, which we recognize and acknowledge. But the real battle front is between the moderates - peace-loving people of all faith traditions - against the radical extremists of all faith traditions.
Which is why I've proposed that if Peter King really wants to do this, he should not use the word Islam, and let's talk about radicalism, the fact that they'll be more instances of radical Muslims is fine. But it comes radicalism per se, rather than have it be seen in the Muslim world, both domestically and internationally, as being the attacks somehow against Islam.
SIEGEL: Back to the Cordoba Center, the planned downtown New York Islamic center, interfaith center that became so controversial because of its proximity to Ground Zero. You recently said that if another suitable location opened up, you would be open to not building at the Park 51 site, as its known.
Can you explain, was that location central to the whole idea because of the proximity to the World Trade Center, or was it simply the propinquity of New York real estate that there was a building available? What's the tie to that space?
Imam RAUF: Well, I have been imam of a mosque just, you know, a dozen blocks from Ground Zero for the last 28 years now, in November of this year - more than a quarter of a century. I have been part of this Lower Manhattan community. They know me. They know our mosque. They know our community. They've accepted us. We are friends.
So if I have had no one really offer a space that is suitable. But should anyone offer a space adequate to the vision, I will immediately act upon it.
SIEGEL: When you say adequate to division, are you speaking in architectural terms? Or does proximity to Ground Zero, is that...
Imam RAUF: No.
SIEGEL: ...part of division or was that just a fact of where the Park 51 site happened to be?
Imam RAUF: Well, it has to be in Manhattan. It has to be in New York City. But we have also had hoped to meet the needs of the Lower Manhattan community, who wants a center like that. So, you know, I mean I'm part of this community. If somebody wishes me to leave this community that's another issue, but anywhere that, you know, would be acceptable and would contribute to interfaith accord and, you know, harmony is what my purpose of life is all about.
SIEGEL: Well, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, thank you very much.
Imam RAUF: Thank you, Bob, a pleasure to be with you.
SIEGEL: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is the chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, and a board member of the Park 51 Community Center that is the planned Islamic center for Lower Manhattan.
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It's that time of year again.
Some people see it as the first sure sign of spring, some rehearse all year for their fifteen minutes in the limelight while others look forward to the infamous jam sessions. Regardless of whether you're an amateur or accomplished musician, volunteer or drop-by listener - everyone seems to groove on the opportunity to mingle with their neighbors and listen to live music.
No matter what you love (or hate) about it, the 26th Alaskan Folk Festival kicks off at 7 p.m., Monday night at Centennial Hall and continues through April 16.
With 155 musical acts, more than 40 workshops, a dozen dances and performances by visiting guest artists; Folk Festival 2000 should lure just about everyone out of their dens to celebrate - what will hopefully prove to be - the advent of spring.
The following schedule should help people chart their course as they navigate through the festival's musical options:
Monday Evening, April 10 * Centennial
7:00 African Rain * Juneau
(Mary Hymer, TJ. Hovest, Bill Glude, Joyce
Levine, Alexis Burton,
Eric Ocasio, Jeff Watson, Kathy Brown, Lisa
Bogert, Jerry
Rounsley, David Jackson, and a surprise guest
or two)
Drumming for dancing.
7:15 Eric McDowell * Juneau
Folk and fun
7:30 Friday at Foster's * Juneau
(Paul Fuhs, John Bitney & Scott
Political junkies who like to
7:45 Hiram Henry * Juneau
Local boy returns from South Pole and Southern
World Tour to play
you a few inspired tunes.
8:00 J. Althea & the Lifters *
(J. Althea, Jayne Andreen, Georgia Germunsson,
Sally Honse, & Ed
Ragtime & blues piano gospel.
8:15 Riley Woodford * Juneau
My fun original songs about seduction and
foreign policy.
8:30 Panhandle Crab Grass Revival Band *
(Maridon Boario, Sean Tracy, Eric Chadwell,
Johnse Ostman, Ethan
Abbott & C. Scott Fry)
Old time/ Bluegrass.
8:45 The Buckley Women * Juneau
(Linda Buckley, Cadie Buckley, and Jen Coots
Original songs about the sun, the moon, and
all the powder in between.
9:00 Fiesta Gatos * Juneau
(Jason Soza, J.B. Blankenship, and Rik
Yes! Drop the chalupa!
9:15 Odd Waters & Slammin' Salmon * Auke
(Odd Waters and Christa Salmon)
In the space between the rain drops, you'll
find the laughter of
the fish that stitches the water to the
9:30 Patrice Helmar * Juneau
Man, it feels good to be home! Original
9:45 Live Bait * Juneau
(Lindy Dickson, Susan Lewandowski &
friends scrounged up at the
last minute)
Hurdy Gurdy Cowgirls singin' swing tunes in
the blue grass.
10:00 Grateful Celtics * Juneau
(Beth Leibowitz, Chris Pace, and Bill
Old, new and hybrid celtic music.
10:15 Like Sunlight on your Skin *
(Jon Smith, Rick Bellagh, & Genevieve
Casey Smith)
Some nice music for you...
10:30 Tom Begich * Anchorage
Songs from his upcoming 3rd CD "Albuquerque
Emcee: Don Drew
Stage Manager: Laura Lucas
Tuesday Evening,
April 11 * Centennial Hall
7:00 Juneau Pride Chorus * Juneau
(Sara Boesser, Judy Crondahl, Lorie Daniels,
Mary Graham, Marilyn
Irwin, Kim Kiefer, Mo
Pat McLear, Bonnie Palmateer, Heidi Passer,
Gani Et Se, Jill
Sandleben, Jeanette St. George, Bonnie
Linda Valle, Christina Wallace, Susan
Warner, Taffy Wells, Corin
Whittemore, Marcia Buck, Rachel Zahnd;
Beverly Haywood,
Piano, Kelly Henrickson, Percussion, Leslie
Wood, Director)
We are women who join our voices to celebrate
our diversity- a
chorus of mothers, daughters, sisters,
lovers, and
grandmothers. Our common bond is a love of
singing, creating a joy we carry
in our hearts.
7:15 Tlingit Gospel Singers *
Songs of the Presbyterian Navy.
7:30 Katie Henry * South Royalton,
Newly northeastern mom does a happy little
bathroom dance and sings
the potty song
7:45 Joanne Erskine * Juneau
(with Jacque Farnsworth and Mystery
Some new ditties from Juneau.
8:00 Make Mine Decaf * Douglas
(Paula Rohrbacher, Winston Smith, Heidi
Johnson, and Ray Thibodeau)
Not too sweet-no foam, with whipped cream and
sprinkles. Originals
and covers from
Paula and Winston.
8:15 Decaf * Juneau
(Britt Arnesen,Becky Brubaker & Chris
Winners of the 2000 JDHS Talent Show,
performing original music
and, of course, smiling a lot.
8:30 Some Lovely Young Ladies *
(Zoe Friesen, Irene Muller, Anna Percival, and
Nikki McCarthy)
Conrad and Nora's daughters and their
8:45 Scott Miller * Juneau
50 years of accumulated wisdom in 15 minutes
or less.
9:00 Final Form * Juneau
(Frankie Pillifant, Bill Childers, and Odin
This band has been taking shape for
9:15 Sunday Singers * Juneau
(Dave Stancliff and Pat Pourchot)
"A Set of Trains" (Picking for
9:30 Karla Oman * Seattle
A blend of old & new country folk,
inspired by legends like Bonnie
Raitt and Emmylou Harris
9:45 Carpe Diem * Juneau
(Justine Bishop, Cathy Allen, Jacque
Farnsworth, and friends)
An eclectic blend of soulful/upbeat
10:00 Sonny & Stephanie Chandler * Auke
Acoustic guitar Instrumentals, vocals/all
10:15 John Palmes * Juneau
It will happen again.
10:30 Douglas Delivery Company *
(Ron and Manya Pungowiyi-Reed)
Original music & lyrics delivered to you
from the big island.
Emcee: Darius Mannino
Stage Manager: Cheryl Levitt
Wednesday Evening,
April 12 * Centennial Hall
7:00 Forget-Me-Not Fiddlers *
(Anna Branch, Casey Guertin, Drake Skaggs,
Elias Daugherty, Erika
O'Sullivan, Elliott Pillifant,
Isaac Stark, Jason Roman, Jessie Beck, Karen
Hock, Kelsey Skaggs,
Lauren Hopson, Matt Callahan,
Obersinner-Gage, Brittany Page, Nathan Ord,
Sofia Tenney, Tessa
Haralovich, and Weldon Else)
4th - 6th Grade Class violinists from the
Juneau Community Charter
School under the direction of
Xia Guohua
7:15 Tla Kut Naaxsati Yatx'i *
(Children of All Nations) is a SE Native dance
group for children,
ages preschool through high
7:30 Andy Baker * Anchorage
Anchorage-based singer/songwriter
"I am sure I can sculpt her from clay by
memory alone"
7:45 The "We're Still in the 20th Century"
Bluescast * Juneau
(Laury Roberts Scandling, J. Althea, Karl
Ohls, Mo Hicks, Jeff
Brown, and Ron Clarke)
Political satire - we only report what might
have really happened
8:00 Lonny Eaton * Auke Bay
8:15 Donnie & Dianne * Juneau
(Don Drew, Dianne Slater, Frank Grand, Gerry
Traditional Country music vocal solos and
8:30 The Moon Dogs * Juneau
(Jillian Clark, Nik Zymonas, and Albert
Lunar influenced original tunes
8:45 Large Red Kings * Juneau
(John Church, Jim Griswold, Dan Minuskin, John
Palmes, Stuart Ely,
Gordon Sandy)
And the doctor said, "Give 'em jug band
9:00 Bryce Edgmon * Juneau
Finger-style guitar originals with an Alaskan
9:15 Arran Rose * Juneau
(Janey Fadely, Charli Meacham, Cecily Morris,
and Sarah Hopkins)
Celtic Schmeltic
9:30 Dan Saddler * Juneau
Solo strummer/singer's selected
songs-sometimes serious, sometimes silly
9:45 Mitchell Franseth * Santa Fe, New
Love songs and other infirmities
10:00 Steven "Pearly" Hettum * Gold Hill,
Singer/songwriter performing original
folk/country tunes with a new
CD called "Fishermen's Ball"
10:15 Rainee Godwin & the BANDTOGETHERE *
Songs from Appalachia to Alaska
10:30 Ricky David * Port
It's great to be back in Juneau!
Emcee: Jim Grammel
Stage Manager: Ann Gifford
Thursday Evening,
April 13 * Centennial Hall
7:00 Greg Thomas * Ketchikan
Australian/Irish Folk Songs.
7:15 Shamrocks on Ice * Fairbanks
(Julie Baldridge, Erin Tilly, Hannah
Pendergrast, Marty Baldridge)
The um.."interesting" celtic band from
7:30 River of Life Bluegrass Band *
(Eldon Dennis, Jan Dennis, Heidi Johnson,
Keith Goering, George
Trani, Greg Lindsay)
3 or 4 songs of traditional or contemporary
bluegrass and bluegrass
7:45 Will & Trudy * Fairbanks
(Will Putman and Trudy Heffernan)
Original songs (unless we can't find someone
to watch the kids in
which case it's 'Itsy Bitsy Spider',
8:00 Charivari * Louisiana
(Mitchell Reed, J. Randy "Frisson" Vidrine,
and Jonno Frishberg)
The Guest Artists for the 26th Annual Alaska
Folk Festival!
8:45 Banjo Rebop * Haines
(Eric Holle, Patrick Murphy, John Hanson, and
Collette Costa)
A little rebop on the flip flop.
9:00 Mary DeSmet and Greg Burger * Juneau
& Boulder Creek, California
Traditional Music from the American
9:15 Long Gone Sean & Ari Ferrari *
(Sean Tracy and Ari Rome)
2 jobless vagrants play it like it is. Shaves
and haircuts
optional- beers and ears
9:30 Jim Wimmer * Santa Barbara,
Fiddle tunes from the World Traveler's
9:45 Both Wild * Portland, Oregon
(Straford Wild and Andrea Wild)
Brother/sister duo from Liverpool performing
traditional British
folk music.
10:00 The Blue Jays * Juneau
(Hannah Lager, Jim Griswold, Jason Soza,
Jeremiah Blankenship,
Jacob Soboloff,
John Hanson, and John Lager)
Hot Rock tunes from the 50's &
10:15 Buddy Tabor and Friends *
The Singing House Painter. Call for free
estimate: 780-4492.
10:30 Brennan Halterman and other local Satyrs
* Juneau
Fun songs for the humorous spirit
Emcee: Riley Woodford
Stage Manager: Rachel Beck
Friday Evening,
April 14 * Centennial Hall
7:00 Thrush Hill Music *
(Hans Felkl, Michael Sarkesian, Trevor Fritz,
Sam Melville, Evan
Fritz, Charlotte Lenox, Ted Heidersdorf,
Helena Benedict, Edward Mertz, Sam Bush, Jane
Hartle, Ariel Lyon, Tesia Mead, Erin Mead,
Callie Conerton, Caitlin Chalmers, and
Teslin Benedict)
7:15 Chillberries * Anchorage
(Jim Wolfe, Carol Anne Hogins-Wolfe, Meg
Wolfe, and Nathan Wolfe)
Fine fiddle tunes from Anchorage's musical
Wolfe pack
7:30 Skagway Beach Picnic *
(Barbara Kalen, Ardy Miller, Gene Bartell,
Mary Beattie, Pete
Beattie, Mike Wanner)
Remembering some War Songs and Tom
7:45 Dan Coleron * Anchorage
Born & raised in Boston. Now a traveling
Alaskan musician playing
original music.
8:15 Clifford Hardesty * Ohio
Master Ohio Fiddler/Fiddle Maker. Fine Square
Dance Music.
8:30 Under Taking Daddies * Carcross, Yukon
(Kevin Barr & friends)
8:45 Pat Henry * Juneau
Refried songs from Jeanie's
9:00 Rank Strangers * Anchorage
(Joe Page, Frank Solovan, Greg Booth, Joel
Kadanauch, and Berny
9:15 Rex Blazer & Friends *
Pseudo-traditional fiddle tunes
9:30 Maynard and Sara Johnson (The Kitchen
Musician) * Cincinnati, Ohio
Husband-wife duo playing hammer dulcimer,
cittern and recorder.
Publisher of the Kitchen Musician tune
collections, with an album
"Pass'd Times"
9:45 Lou Nathanson * Eagle River
Lou-2000, the long-promised upgrade. The
features you demanded and
finally, a new CD!
10:00 Cliff Landis & Julia Hersh *
Bolinas, California
Gonna feast here tonight while the southern
moon is shinin' bright
10:15 Olga * Vladivostok, Russia (Juneau
Sister City)
(Olga Sednina, Oleg Naumov, Evgenii
Russian Blues Ensemble
10:30 Michael Truax * Juneau
Objects on the stage are hairier than they
10:45 Paul and Melissa Zahasky *
Guitar, mandolin, violin/fiddle, vocals and
hopefully we'll get a
few friends to join us
Emcee: Collette Costa
Stage Manager: Nora Muller
Afternoon, April 15 * Centennial Hall
12:00 Time Capsule * Juneau
(Ms. Canapary's 2nd & 3rd Grade
Second and Third Graders back together for the
third year! You can
see the fun.
12:15 Emeralds * Anchorage
(Mathew Crimp, Ethan Barske, Martha Leffek,
Matthew Smith, Amanda Kerr)
Irish/Old timey music from 4 young fiddlers
aged 11-14 and a pianist.
The Emeralds have played at the Anchorage Folk
Festival 4 years running.
12:30 Reel Tchunes * Douglas
(Henry Hopkins and friends)
Traditional Irish tunes.
12:45 Dick Person * Teslin, Yukon
Traditional folk
1:00 3D * Sitka
(Kermit Whittemore and Denise
Music from the sea, music from the heart of
Southeast Alaska.
1:15 Polar Drive * Fairbanks
(Nancy Bayer, Charlie Hunt, Betty Connor, Bill
Connor and Lynn Basham)
Music from various styles & countries
carefully selected
and arranged for your listening
1:30 Fireweed * Anchorage
(Sherri Hadley, Linda Zeigler, Patty Hamre,
Bruce Bookman)
Sweet old-time tunes wild and
1:45 Liberty String Band * Ashland,
(Larry Thompson and Roscoe Morris)
Traditional American old-time Folk
2:00 Invisible Circus * Juneau
(Brian Sullivan, Scott Fry, and Ari
One Hand Clapping
2:15 Bear Paw Pickers * Hoonah
(Stephanie Harold, Ben McLuckie, Bob
Back porch tunes for 2000
2:30 Ann McBeth * Fairbanks
(Ann McBeth and Alex Clarke)
Carve off the blue fuzz and it's still
Velveeta inside.
2:45 Robin Dale Ford * Fairbanks
Ain't that skippin' and flyin'?
3:00 Been in the Timber * Juneau
(Sara Boario, Jen La Roe, and Maridon
If we play in the forest and no one is around,
do we sound like
falling timber?
3:15 Diane Hall * Anchorage
singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist (currently
playing just one) - Do come!
3:30 Two Steps Up * Wasilla
(George Paul and Karen Rosene)
Traditional Celtic piano, flute, and
3:45 The Young Fogies * Anchorage
(Michael Young, Doyle Burnett, Roxanne Young,
Danielle Young, Kent
Ireton, and Landon Burgess)
An eclectic mix of music, from spiritual to
ballads to folk.
Emcee: John Lager
Stage Manager: Barbara Pavitt
Saturday Evening,
April 15 * Centennial Hall
7:00 Alaska Youth Choir * Juneau
(Missouri Smyth, Music Director; Lorrie Heagy,
Resident Training & concert Choir (Grades
4-9) Children's Choral
7:15 Rain and Sarah Sea * Juneau
(Sarah C. Hanson and Rain Van Den
Two Alaskan dames share 15 minutes of home
grown songs, signs and
heart rhythms.
7:30 Bearfoot Bluegrass * Cordova
(Angela Oudean, Annalisa Tornfelt, Malani
O'Toole, Mike Mickelson,
Jason Norris, Kate Hamre)
These hot picking teens invite you to check
out what a few years
of summer camps,
private lessons, folk festivals and lots of
practice can do.
7:45 Last Night's Fun * Eagle
(Dan Possumato, John Walsh, Tom Walker, Mark
Ward, and Gerald
Traditional Irish folk music
8:00 Art Johns & friends * Tagish, Yukon
8:15 Pokrov * Vladivostok, Russia (Juneau
Sister City)
(Sergei Makarkin, Anastasiya Ivenchenko, and
Elena Kotova)
Traditional Russian folk music
8:30 Otter Limits * Ketchikan
(Bill Anthes, Terry O'Hara, Tom Le Compte, Don
Pennington, Mary
Larsen, Peggy Pennington, Anunth
Eclectic string band from Ketchikan. Peggy's
mom says, "Y'all are
gittin a lot bettah."
8:45 Clark County, Fairbanks
(Jeremy Kane, Nathan Swartz, George
Gianakopoulos, Carl Hoffman)
Straight ahead Bluegrass
9:00 Robin Hopper * Chugiak
Why is this woman smiling? Her new CD Pass It
On is finally done!
Look for it in the lobby!
9:15 The Improbabillies * Homer
(Grant Dermody, Scott Meyer, and Forrest
Stretching the boundaries between blues and
old-time music
9:30 Northern River * Fairbanks
(Gary Markley, Joe Page, Gary Schultz, and
Carl Hoffman)
Traditional bluegrass- Alaskan
9:45 Pearl Django * Seattle
(Neil Andersson, Shelley Park, and Michael
Gypsy Jazz & new Metropolitan
10:00 Larry Zarella * Talkeetna
Singer/songwriter from Denali Cooks Band.
Performs tunes from his
newest solo album, Stay Alive
10:15 Tetrafiddles * Fairbanks
Fiddle tunes to make the spitit
10:30 Ron Wise * Willow
Finger style solo guitarist
10:45 Rocky Del Arnold * Juneau
Share a few of my diamonds. Original lyrics
& music, acoustic
11:00 Just for Fun * Whitehorse and
(Mike Wanner, Luc Lafferte, and Jerry
International musicians making waltz time
Emcee: Deb Marshall
Stage Manager: Anne Fuller
The guest artists Suzanne Thomas, Don Rigsby and Friends perform at last year's festival. This year's guests, the Cajun group Charivari will perform concerts on Thursday and Sunday this week, as well as a dance and workshops Saturday.
Afternoon, April 16 * Centennial Hall
12:00 Just Met Band * Anchorage
(Rick Miller, Bill Allen, Mary Ann Schallert,
John Michaud, Anne
Stewart, Celine Vaillancent)
A reunion set for this popular but recently
defunct Anchorage group
12:15 Amanda Kerr * Anchorage
(Amanda Kerr and Jim Kerr)
Award-winning young fiddler warms up for
national contest
12:30 TwoCan * Juneau
(Corin Whittemore and Gani Et Se)
Harmony is a spice of life; this music is
12:45 Richard Gumm * Ester
Acoustic fingerstyle 6 and 12 string
1:00 Greg Maloney * Juneau
Singer/Songwriter of songs dealing with
meaning of life. Folk,
alternative, covers, originals.
1:15 The rain drops * Juneau
(Hillary Buck and Molly Trostel)
1:30 D'zantik'i Heeni Treble Ensemble *
(Erin Thompson, Sarah Cole, Ashley Stansell,
Shira Trick, Alix
Curtain, Caila Peterson,
Becky Howard, Rachel Wolfe, Heidi Geist, Lexi
Olsen, Hailey
Diamond, Sharon Chilton;
Laurie Clough, piano)
12 middle school girls singing in three
1:45 Alaska City Folk Arts -
(Cooper Galvin, Sean Galvin, Rowan Kurtz, Reio
Kurtz, Matthew
Crimp, Matthew Smith,
Jamie Crimp, Kalia Yeagel, Forrest Allen,
Miles Allen and more...
.Director: Mary Schallert)
Anchorage youth perform their greatest
2:00 Hannah Wolf, 12 years old *
Jazz tune, folk tune. Been in Alaska Youth
Choir for 2 years. I
love to sing.
2:15 Sophie * Juneau
Sophie Marguerite Lager (13 years
Patsy Cline does Woody Guthrie/a cappella
shower songs.
2:30 Afternoon Sax * Juneau
(Doug Bridges and Jenna
Unpredictability is our forté,
saxaphone duo
2:45 Sons of Norway and Juneau International
Folk Dancers * Juneau
(Terry Hoskinson, Chuck Meacham, John Laskey,
David Moe, Russell
Elfrida Nord, Amy Randolph, Judy Regan, Sondra
Stanway, Beth
Leibowitz, Charli Meacham, Chris
A great set of Norwegian dances and robust
3:00 Nik Zymonas * Juneau
Contemporary, improvisational
Lithuanian-American folk raga.
3:15 Gastineau Buddies * Juneau
Traditional Songs performed in Sign
3:30 Patrick Murphy * Douglas
Traditional style Country. Original songs.
3:45 Michael Stackhouse *
Original folk, blues, country and backwoods
(But mostly, it's just stuff)
Emcee: Susan Fitzgerald
Stage Manager: Susan Phillips
Sunday Evening,
April 16 * Centennial Hall
7:00 Simple Messengers * Woodpecker Pt, Yukon
(Pete, Mary and Sue Beattie)
Fortified by moose meat
7:15 Ed Schoenfeld and the Empty Oil Barrel
Band * Douglas
(Ed Schoenfeld, J. Althea, and Corin
Ed and friends take the tricksters to task.
And yeah, there's a
Douglas song too.
7:30 Nelson, Nelson & Nelson *
(Alex Nelson, Haley Nelson, and Steve
Two, four and six-handed piano
7:45 Burl Sheldon and Haines friends *
Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter with acoustic
8:00 Daughters of the New Moon and El Sehr *
(Phoenicia, Xan, Pilar, Aymelek, Jamaica,
Janan, Sahara, Selene,
Katiyga, Cinefra, Lelia Zaher,
Diana, Matt Gamble and friends)
Middle Eastern dance performed to compelling
percussive rhythms
8:15 Pam Bearden and Maya Raschel *
Folkish tunes
8:30 Karen Boylan * Anchorage
Eagle River songwriter with stories about
ordinary people from the
last two centuries
8:45 Joe and Kendall * Whitehorse
(Joe Bishop and Kendall Sullivan)
Original Appalachia harmonies from the hills
of the Yukon
9:00 Charivari * Louisiana
(Mitchell Reed, J. Randy "Frisson" Vidrine,
and Jonno Frishberg)
The Guest Artists for the 26th Annual Alaska
Folk Festival!
10:00 Good Night, Irene
Emcee: Jeff Brown
Stage Manager: Louanne Christian
Hootenanny Uke! (Roblin Davis, Dawn and Maya Pisel) performs at the 25th Alaska Folk Festival.
Schedule: Thursday Evening, April 13 * National Guard
9:00 Andy's Old Time Band * Juneau
(Andy Ferguson, Jack Fontanella and Albert
Caller: Larry Edelman
Plain, simple, southern old time fiddle tunes
on fiddle,
banjo & guitar - Drivin'
10:00 The Jig is Up * Juneau
(Chow Taylor, Jacque Farnsworth, and Lis
Caller: Brian Demarcus
Irish tunes that swing!
11:00 The Ripinski Mountain Boys *
(Len Feldman, Nancy Metashvili, Rob Goldberg
and friends)
Traditional Klezmer dance music of the Jews of
Eastern Europe
Dancemaster: Sally Donaldson
Schedule: Friday Evening, April 14 * National Guard
7:00 The Whatnots * Juneau
(Jamie Hale, Joe Veusy, and Spud
A three piece rock band from
8:00 Peabody's Monster * Juneau
(Doug Fanyak, Josh Lovett, Simon Taylor, Ryan
and Bill Kozlowski)
Alternative Rock - Alaska style
9:00 Swang * Ester
(Alex Clarke and Will Putman, Erin Graves,
John Carnahan,
Pat Fitzgerald, and Robin Dale
Featured Guest: Bob Banghart,
Swang with a Bang
10:00 Denali Cooks * Talkeetna
(Larry Zarella, Jim Sandy, Dave Woody and
Harvey Mills)
Celebrating 10 years together. Legendary
Alaskan Band.
Roots, Rock, Soul, Blues. "It's
11:00 The Bluesband * Gustavus &
(Justin Smith, Steve Nelson, Adrian Minne, and
Vern Fowler)
Funky blues
Dancemaster: Buzz Ritter
Schedule: Saturday, April 15 * National Guard
7:00 Salsa Borealis * Juneau
(Russell Sandstrom, Dale Wygant, Mike Stanley,
Albert McDonnell,
Mike Fieldhouse, Marc Ramonda)
Hot and spicy blend of contemporary and
traditional Afro-Latino music
8:00 Ladies Choice * Juneau
(Odette Foster, Cecily Morris and Charli
Caller: Lynn Basham
Upbeat northern tunes for your dancing
9:00 Fat Weasel * Eagle River
Brian DeMarcus, Jason Bent, Steve Montooth,
Aileen McInnis
and Christy Williams)
Caller: Tom Paul
Driving old-time music to make you get up and
10:00 Feline Groovy * Portland,
(Sue Songer, Lanny Martin and Jim
Caller: Larry Edleman
Contra dance band from Portland
11:00 Syrup Lickers * Fairbanks
(Tonya Goldenberg, Sally Freund, Scotty
Gretchen Kerndt and Brian
Caller: Larry Edleman
12:00 Charivari
Guest Artist Dance
Songwriter's Showcase
Saturday and Sunday
3 - 6 p.m.
The Back Room at the Silverbow
Hosted by Betsy Sims
All-Day Coffee & Jam
McPhetres Hall (4th & Gold Streets) *
Friday, 9 am - 3 pm
Potluck breakfast and lunch provided by Juneau
Enjoy the food, a huge open band,
dancing, sweet reunions, and if weather
fill the streets with music outside the dance
Bring your instrument & dancing
Juneau folks bring a dish to share
with our out-of-town dancers and
(This is not up
to date. Will update ASAP)
10:30 Gospel to
Ragtime...sing along with J. Althea
12:00 Chet Atkins style
guitar...Ron Wise
1:00 Klezmer
Music....Len Feldman
2:30 Beginning Hammered
Dulcimer.....Sara Johnson
3:30 Fingerpick Guitar
(blues).....Pat Henry
Hickel Room
10:30 Cajun
Accordion.....Guest Artists
12:00 Illian
Pipes......Henry Hopkins
1:00 Songwriting...
Mitch Franseth... among others
2:30 Cajun
Fiddle-Double Fiddle....Guest Artists
4:00 Instrument Swap
Meet.....J. Garcia
Dancer Leila Zahra of the Daughters of the New Moon belly dances her way through the audiences at last year's Folk Festival.
Egan Room
10:30 Performing
......Larry Zarella
11:30 Autoharp....the
friendly instrument ..... A.Fuller / B.Kalen
12:30 Intermediate
Flatpick Guitar.......Burl Sheldon.com
1:30 Involving Youth in
Folk Music......M. Schallert / B.Mickleson
3:00 Hair
Songs....Humorous Song Swap...K.Henry /
Sheffield I
10:30 English Country
Dance...Odette Foster and the Dominos
12:00 Clogging
......Anchor Town Cloggers
1:00 Cajun
Dance.........Sally Freund
3:00 Contra
Dance......Leader?? Shamrocks on Ice.... others
11:30 Beginning
Finger-style Guitar.....Rick Trice
12:30 Gypsy Jazz
....... Pearl Django
2:00 Storytelling
......Anne Fuller / Becky Bear and....
3:30 Fiddle
Styles......Jim Wimmer
Hickel Room
10:30 Gospel Sing Along
.....Barbara Kalen and others
11:30 Harmonica Styles
....Jim Griswold
12:30 Bird Calls
.....Daryl Dzurilla
1:30 Harmony Singing
.....John Palmes
3:00 Russian Folk
Egan Room
11:00 Tinwhistle
Tips....penwhist, flute...K. Rosene / M. Johnson / T.
12:00 Rounds ......
Barb Kalen / Anne Fuller
1:00 Melodeon ......Dan
2:00 Fiddle Tunes from
Ohio.....Clifford Hardesty
3:00 Open 6 &12
string Guitar, Fahey-Kottke slide ..... Richard Gumm
Sheffield I
10:00 Dances of
Universal Peace....Nina Massey
12:00 Clogging
Anchortown Cloggers .....Rhea McDonald
1:00 Couples Dance
......Sheri and Charli
2:30 Last Dance .....To
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(Literary Masterpieces, Critical Compilation)
What are readers to make of the tortured, vatic utterances of this most laconic of contemporary poets? Some of the difficulty in Geoffrey Hill's work has to do with an ambivalent attitude toward readers, his sense of being "in the enemy's country" or in the "steam of beasts" when it comes to writing for even an intelligent, well-educated audience. Understanding Hill's poetry often depends on the reader's willingness to explore the arcana woven into the terse fabric of his verses. The new poems in this collection make reference to very obscure facts of English, Polish, and Russian history, as well as such documents as John Colet's marginalia to Marsilio Ficino's Epistolae or somewhat better known works as Grotius'De Jure Belli ac Pacis. This is not to say that moments in the fine-hammered lines do not achieve the status of immediately powerfulmelopoeia or develop something of their own mythos. The involuted stanzas and sometimes beautiful lines still may not quite be worth all the trouble to the reader that they obviously were to their learned and skilled author.
Another aspect of the difficulty Hill presents to the reader has to do with his confrontation of the important problem of the relationship of poetry to religious experience. Hill has described this relation in his own poetry as "a heretic's dream of salvation expressed in images of orthodoxy from which he is excommunicate." Thus Hill gives readers the form of Christian religious poetry with a highly ironic and tortured relation to the content. In this respect, he is like many modern poets who want to be religious but are embarrassed or troubled about it because of something such as original sin, self-irony, or a desire to be original. He loves the old icons, the older and more obscure the better, because they have not been vulgarized. This could be seen or heard in Hill's first and famous poem "Genesis," which imitates in its meters Christopher Smart's magnificentSong to David. Hill, however, measures the distance between himself and Smart's ability to merge the political, poetic, and religious in the heroic figure of King David. Instead readers find the modern poet "Crying the miracles of God," instead of praising Him and his anointed psalmist. Does "crying" mean proclaiming (or, perhaps, inventing) or does it meaning lamenting or even screaming about the "flesh and blood and the blood's pain," and realizing that "no bloodless myth will hold." Hill always points to Christ's blood and suffering as the way to freedom, even as he also seems tortured by the ideal of martyrdom as well as religious commitment to church or state. Ultimately, poetry is a limited form of sacrifice that becomes a dangerous illusion if taken too seriously, and is at best a slight and brittle monument to the vast metamorphoses and suffering in history.
The thirteen new poems in this volume that he has added to hisCollected Poems focus on the sacrifice of public existence and the irony of placing the hope of futurity and sacrifice in state or nation. This is not a new theme in Hill, whose poems, particularly the Mercian Hymns, have addressed the relationship of the individual to the nation's, specifically England's, history and an uneasy tension between worldly kingdoms and the Kingdom of God.
The most striking of the new poems is a four-part piece entitled "Churchill's Funeral." The poem is not really an elegy for Winston Churchill, but a meditation on the price ordinary men pay for service to a state ruled by a heroic warrior. It begins with a meditation on the longing for the kind of noble music suited to a great nation. Instead, its five parts focus on the wounded of World War II, "the men hefting/ their accoutrements/ of webbed tin, many/ in bandages." The real antecedent to this poem has to do with another Churchill, John Churchill, Lord Marlborough, the seventeenth century English general who was so successful in the campaigns against Louis XIV, and about whom Sir Winston wrote a multivolume biography. Hill recalls Jonathan Swift's biting poem, "A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General," an attack on John Churchill, Lord Marlborough. Swift considers how many, particularly Irish, had to die to fulfill Lord Marlborough's military and political ambition:
Behold his funeral appears,
Nor widow's sighs, nor orphan's tears,
Wont at such times each heart to pierce,
Attend the progress of this hearse.
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Facing the Israel-Gaza conflict...as a child
How to talk to our young children about what is happening in Gaza without showing them hard pictures on the TV ? How to reveal them reality of this world without breaking their eyes with its violence ?
That is a real issue, that the medias don't yet really consider.
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A Square Enix game US fans of have hoped to get their hands on for more than two decades is finally crossing the Pacific.
Romancing SaGa 2 is a game that was originally released way back in 1993 in Japan, but it never made it stateside. And for a while, it was pretty painful for fans of old titles from the Final Fantasy developer—they'd gotten to play the first three games in the SaGa series on Game Boy way back in the day (only they had a different title: The Final Fantasy Legend), and the first of the next three games in the series, Romancing SaGa, made it to the US as a Playstation 2 game in 2005 and a mobile game for iOS and Android in 2009. There have been other SaGa games over the years, including the most popular game in the series, SaGa Frontier, but Romancing SaGa 2 and Romancing SaGa 3 stayed exclusive to Japan for all that time.
Until now, that is. Square Enix sent Romancing SaGa 2 to smartphones in Japan earlier this year, and English versions are coming to the US as well. That's kind of a big deal: while cult favorite old games like these often get translated and hacked by fans, this will be a new, official translation of a 23-year-old game many US players have never had a crack at.
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The plan is ambitious: surround the Sheraton Crossroads Hotel in Mahwah with retail shops including two big box stores, a movie theatre and a second hotel.
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Suffern Mayor Dagan LeCorte claims Mahwah's environmental study didn't take into account the impact on traffic in his village of 11-thousand residents. Flooding is also a major concern. Opponents of the plan say paving over 140 acres would worsen conditions in what is already a flood-prone area.
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Sevilla surrendered a crucial lead in last night's Champions League draw at CSKA Moscow.
Mark Gonzalez struck a magnificent equaliser to salvage a draw for CSKA Moscow in the first leg of their Champions League last 16 tie against Sevilla.
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Christ's Hospital's pupils are celebrating their strong performance at GCSE, 88.4 per cent achieved A*, A or B grades with 65.5 per cent gaining A* or A grades – a brilliant result.
29 pupils gained at least ten A*/A grades and the 31 pupils taking the IGCSE Further Maths* gained five As, 15 A*s and 11 A*s with Distinction between them.
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Idk if this has been posted anywhere or anything but I can not get Blender up and running on my computer. I have tried 64 and 32 bit even though I have 64 bit system of Windows 7. I have an alienware laptop with the latest graphics card A AMD Radeon HD 6900 series, 8G's of memory, and other stuff that doesn't seem very important. This computer is less than 6 months old.
When I click on the Blender icon to get it up and running, it takes a moment. In the bottom right hand corner of my screen it says AMD Driver has crashed and recovered. What I get from Blender is a Black Command Prompt Box with the Blender logo. There is a small flashing underscore/dash/whatever, that sits there and flashes but I can not enter any commands I can't do anything with the program.
Every time I try to start up Blender it does this. Anyone able to help out or give me a suggestion. And make the explanation as Barney and Dumbed down as possible. I'm just now easing into programs like this with little familarity from Solid Edge Works from a few years ago.
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The secret is in the name.grimofnight wrote:...I have an alienware laptop with the latest graphics card A AMD Radeon HD 6900 series, 8G's of memory, and other stuff that doesn't seem very important. This computer is less than 6 months old.
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Your best bet is to go to AMD's site and download the latest driver for you video card. 6-months is plenty long enough for a newer version to be available. And who knows what custom-tweak version Alienware might have installed.
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August 6, 2008
Monroe Minerals Completes Fieldwork at Alexis River Uranium Property in Labrador and Boxey Point and Berry Hill Uranium Properties in Newfoundland
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Aug. 6, 2008) - Monroe Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:MMX)('Monroe') announced today that preliminary follow-up fieldwork has been completed at the Alexis River uranium property in southwestern Labrador, and at the Boxey Point and Berry Hill uranium properties in Newfoundland. Monroe is the project operator for the Alexis River property and Altius Resources Inc. (TSX:ALS)('Altius') is the project operator for the Boxey Point and Berry Hill properties. Monroe has the option to earn a majority interest in each property by making staged share payments to Altius and incurring defined minimum exploration expenditures.
Exploration commenced at Alexis River on June 24 and was completed on July 16, with the fieldwork being done by a four- person geological crew provided and supervised by Discovery Consultants Ltd. ('Discovery') of Vernon, B.C. The program included: (a) reconnaissance prospecting follow-up, (b) semi-detailed geological mapping, (c) systematic sampling across Anomaly Lake and two other lakes within the property, with a total of 174 lake sediment and 3 water samples being collected, and (d) collection of 14 rock grab samples. All samples have been forwarded to Activation Laboratories Ltd. ('Actlabs') sample preparation facility in Goose Bay, Labrador, with the analyses for uranium and a suite of selected other elements to be performed at its Ancaster, Ontario facility. Results are expected by late summer.Prospecting in the immediate vicinity of Anomaly Lake identified radioactive spot highs in outcrop and boulders, but these are not considered to be sufficient to explain the highly anomalous lake sediment results, which have ranged from 414 to 2,370 ppm uranium (0.049% to 0.28%, with average being 0.085 wt.% U3O8) and 175 to 1,070 ppm molybdenum (Monroe-April 23, 2008 News Release). Prospecting also discovered off-scale radioactivity (greater than 10,000 cps by Exploranium GR110G scintillometer) and yellow uranium oxides associated with pegmatitic zones in the southeast portion of Licence 10493, located some 3.3 kilometres east-southeast of Anomaly Lake. Although of exploration interest, this is not believed to be the cause of the anomalous uranium-bearing lake sediments in Anomaly Lake.
In addition to its anomalous lake sediment and water geochemistry, the 2008 fieldwork shows Anomaly Lake is also anomalous in that (a) it locally reaches depths of 24 metres versus other larger lakes in the vicinity which are only a few metres deep, and (b) there is a relatively abrupt change in the geology across the lake. These features indicate there may be a fault structure present beneath and along the long-axis of Anomaly Lake. Further work, including drilling to test for uranium-bearing zones beneath Anomaly Lake, is planned for the Alexis River property during fall 2008.
Exploration commenced at the Boxey Point and Berry Hill properties on April 30 and was completed June 28, 2008, with the fieldwork being done by a four- to six-person geological crew provided by Altius. The fieldwork included reconnaissance prospecting using scintillometers and the collection of 24 rock grab samples, 14 till and till concentrate samples, as well as 572 soil samples, with the bulk of the work completed at Boxey Point. All samples have been forwarded to Eastern Analytical Limited in Springdale, NL, with additional analysis performed at Actlabs for INAA/ICP analyses for uranium and additional elements. Partial results have been received and complete results are expected by late summer 2008.
The Boxey Point property is in the Fortune Bay area along the southern coast of Newfoundland. Initial rock grab sampling done by Altius in 2007, with the samples being collected from altered conglomerate exposed in steep sea cliffs along the western margin of Boxey Point, gave results of 738 to 1,498 ppm uranium (0.09 to 0.18% U3O8) (Monroe-January 15, 2008 News Release). Further work, including geological mapping at Boxey Point followed by drilling to test for uranium mineralized zones, is planned for the Boxey Point property during fall 2008. In general, Altius reports that the initial work at Berry Hill does not support further exploration on that property.
In reviewing the latest exploration results, Derek J. Moran, President of Monroe, commented "Monroe is pleased the recent fieldwork results from two of its uranium properties, Alexis River and Boxey Point, are sufficiently encouraging that drill testing is being recommended by their consulting geologists and by Altius. As a result, Monroe plans to drill test both properties during the latter part of 2008, subject only to the permitting approvals required from government and the availability of suitable drilling contractors."
Reg A. Olson, Ph.D., P. Geol. is the designated Qualified Person for Monroe on the Alexis River, Boxey Point and Berry Hill projects.
Monroe also announced that henceforward its main e-mail address would be [email protected]
Monroe is engaged in the assembly of an international portfolio of uranium exploration projects. Its strategy is well defined: enhancing shareholder value by combining technical expertise, corporate development skills and professional management. Monroe's shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol MMX. For more information please visit www.monroeminerals.com.
Altius Resources Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Altius Minerals Corporation. Altius Minerals Corporation's principal business activities include the generation and acquisition of projects related to natural resource opportunities in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. For more information please visit www.altiusminerals.com.
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text: Why a dedicated employee engagement strategy is crucial Written by Guest Author | October 19, 2016 | 0 Comments It doesn't matter how many people tell you otherwise – managing a team of people will always be tough. You certainly can't leave such major things as productivity and morale to chance – instead, you need to have a dedicated employee engagement strategy to ensure that your workers continue to feel sharp and excited about what they do. The very real benefits of employee engagement Employee engagement isn't just some 'buzz term' spouted by recruitment companies – something that sounds nice enough, but isn't terribly relevant to the real world of business. In truth, it makes a huge amount of business sense. When you effectively communicate to your employees the values of your brand and why what you're all doing actually matters in the grander scheme of things, guess what – they're more likely to care as much as you do. Whether you want your employees to secure more leads, break their monthly sales targets or just be more productive on a day-to-day basis, an employee engagement strategy is vital, inspiring your workers to focus and strive for more. So many businesses spend so much time seeking out new workers, that they forget to cater to and cultivate the talents already under their wing. If you keep abreast of how your employees are performing and feeling, you can better identify and resolve any problems before they escalate and impact on your firm's bottom-line performance. What are the engagement techniques that work? There are many great ways to better engage your employees. First, however, you must keep in mind that everyone is different. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to employee engagement – those working in a technical role, for instance, are likely to be inspired by rather different things to those whose position is customer-facing. Don't forget the many software solutions that also exist to enable you to get the most out of your workforce. Even Facebook, for example, is now entering the world of work-oriented solutions that enable employees to collaborate and share ideas with each other, and the end result for you could be a more dynamic workforce. Another great way of keeping your employees engaged is offering regular feedback on their work and suggesting ideas for improvement. With just a few words said, you may find that those workers who have struggled to be productive or secure new leads suddenly gain a new lease of life. Combine the best-honed employee engagement strategy with the assistance that we can provide here at Webrecruit with the hiring of new staff, and you can maximise your chances of leading a truly unified and motivated team. Tags: Recruitment Companies


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News, reviews and photographs of Modern Fashion Dolls including Sybarite, Kingdom Doll, Fashion Royalty, Tonner Doll, Gene Marshall, Barbie and my own experiences as a doll collector.
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Nu.Fantasy Gretel is in the House
She is as pretty as her promo pictures promised. Beautiful face and lovely hair. This one is a winner!
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Oh she is Beautiful!!!ReplyDelete
Thank you for showing us, Terri.
Not a huge fan of the green eyeshadow, but at least it is light! MFD still hasn't received their dolls... So I still have some waiting ahead...ReplyDeleteReplies
They had to do something to make her look different from the other Edens. I think she is lovely and I adore her hair! It's the boots I worry about. I won't even try to get them on her legs.Delete
- Carine3/5/12, 12:38 AM
I don't think she is worth that price, but ordered her anyways. The skirt could have been less puffy, but luv the top.ReplyDelete
Still waiting on order as well.
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