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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- It was supposed to be a safe haven for six months. Now, 40 years later, dozens of Cuban day laborers have grown old in what they thought would be temporary residence in this U.S.-controlled corner of Cuba.
Theirs is a curious Cold War subculture - an aged, dwindling population of Cuban workers that chose to side with the U.S. Navy in the early, chaotic days of Fidel Castro's revolution.
Rather than move on and resettle in the United States, these exiles have continued to work and live here with special Pentagon dispensation, some still shunning offers of U.S. citizenship, in a limbo-like existence, while they wait to go home.
Meantime, these Cubans live in Navy housing - rent-free. They get the best Defense Department healthcare - cost-free.
Most have retired on U.S. government pensions, but about a dozen still work. One bags groceries for tips. Another walks each morning from his bachelor suite to his clerk's job at a Navy supply office. Two are waiters at the Windjammer, a restaurant and nightspot on this mostly sleepy 45-square-mile base where sailors and the 64 special Cuban residents live in suburban-style white stucco housing - alongside international terror suspects inhabiting seven-by-eight steel cells.
Although they have been community fixtures for years, their story is seldom told. After months of requests, the Navy finally let The Herald get a rare glimpse inside the lives of these Cubans who live with a special Pentagon status: "Long Term Visitors."
The Cubans here are people such as Paulina Wilson, 70, who as a nanny and housecleaner left her two children in her mother's care on the communist side in 1962. She has since remarried, raised two more children and these days runs the Navy Hospital's linen room, neither ready to retire nor to move on.
"It feels like Cuba because it's Cuban land, " she said, explaining why she has spurned suggestions that she relocate stateside.
And there's Ramón Ramírez, 59, who helped his grandfather deliver fruits and vegetables on a boat that plied the Guantánamo River. He moved onto this outpost on Dec. 28, 1959, after he realized that his grandfather was right - communism was coming to Cuba. He was 17.
"My grandfather said, 'If you want to stay alive or out of jail, you'd better stay here, ' " Ramírez said. He has visited the United States, but always comes back to the base known as Gitmo because, after four decades, it has become home.
"We have the only geriatric Navy housing anywhere, " said Navy Capt. Robert Buehn, the base commander. "Don't look for any regulations that cover this. It's a funny place. It evolved this way and we're just trying to take care of the people the right way."
The oldest of the "temporary guests" are 90 and 91, house-bound widows who require visiting nurse care. Once a month, a Navy volunteer takes them to the graves of their husbands, who died here and were buried on the base.
The youngest member of the base's Cuban community is José, 5, the son from a recent union between a septuagenarian Cuban waiter called "Boxer" and a Jamaican contract worker who is less than half his age. Because of his father's status here, the boy can live on the base through high school.
One of the men has for years taught judo and karate to Navy children.
Another resident is Gloria Martínez, 69, a grandmotherly figure who can be found most days working for tips at the checkout line of the Navy Exchange, Gitmo's grocery store.
Like many, Martínez said she stayed, at first, because she thought the upheaval would be over soon. Her husband, a former army officer loyal to Fulgencio Batista, who ruled Cuba before Castro, had already sought sanctuary on the base. So on April 23, 1961, she drove right inside, after using a bogus identification card to pass a Cuban police checkpoint.
Everyone, it seems, thought the U.S.-Castro crisis would last "about six months."
Her husband, she said, was to serve as a scout for any counter-invasion of Cuba's eastern provinces. But the invasion never happened. So he worked as a base janitor and builder, saving money to one day move to Hialeah. He was killed in an electrical accident while working on a house in Hialeah during a visit. She buried him in Opa-locka, and, although their daughter and son have since moved to Florida, she said, after 40 years, Gitmo feels most like home.
"I 'm afraid to live in the States alone, " she said. "It's too crazy driving in Miami. If Cuba opens, I will go back and take the buses."
U.S. forces first came to Guantánamo in 1898, during the Spanish-American war. Five years later, presidents Tomás Estrada Palma and Theodore Roosevelt signed the first lease agreement to establish this U.S. Navy repair and refueling station. Over time, it became a magnet for Cuban workers, notably in the 1950s among young people who moved to nearby Guantánamo City and Caimanera from Batista's hometown of Banes.
Working with Americans was, for some, a family tradition. Some of their parents had worked for the American-owned United Fruit Co. in Banes, and so they came here to work as everything from ditch-diggers and translators to cooks and clerks.
Old-timers recall that the pay was good. Many earned 25 cents an hour.
When Fidel Castro came to power, he and other revolutionaries wanted to break the $2,000-a-year lease signed in 1934. They cast the base as an enemy interloper - an unwanted corner of colonialism in the Caribbean. The exiles here recall that police pressured workers to quit their jobs or, worse, spy on their bosses and co-workers. Cuban gate guards subjected workers to humiliating strip searches.
By 1964 Castro's anger had boiled so much that he cut off two-way vehicle traffic from the Cuban land that abuts Guantánamo - and accused the Americans of stealing Cuban water. The Pentagon countered by building a desalination plant.
Navy commanders also made their commuter workers a standing offer: Stay here and sleep in barracks until the U.S.-Cuban rift is settled.
Edgar Lewis, 78, who had worked on the base since 1943 as a translator, accepted the offer on Feb. 26, 1961.
"I was having my little problems with the Cuban police. I never started out thinking it would be so long. I lost my father, lost my mother over there - I never saw them before they died."
But life, he says, has steadily improved. After the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the workers moved from their barracks to a trailer park. Then in the 1980s they got the same housing as Navy families.
Today he and his wife, Loleeta, a Jamaican who works as a clerk at command headquarters, occupy a four-bedroom home in a neighborhood called Caribbean Circle near Gitmo's mostly brown golf course. Their daughter, Monique, 21, lives in Jacksonville with her brother.
Lewis recalled the base's boom-and-bust history, from its height during the Cold War when more than 10,000 troops were here to support an artillery battalion, tank platoon and DC-9 squadron.
Lewis was already retired by the mid-1990s when Gitmo became awash in tent camps for more than 50,000 Haitian and Cuban boat people who were intercepted en route to Florida. He was earning a government pension and refining his stroke on the golf course when Washington ordered a downsizing that closed up housing and cut the base population to 2,400 by late last year.
Now, about 6,000 people live here, both U.S. forces and contract workers.
In January, the Pentagon found a new purpose for Gitmo - America's off-shore detention center for international terror suspects from Afghanistan's Taliban militia and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda movement.
"The United States is in a state of war right now, " Lewis said. "This place is essential." By cultural measures, this place is less Cuban than many corners of Miami. There are no cafecito counters, and meals are spicy at The Cuban Club, a base restaurant where Jamaicans work in the kitchen, and the menus are in English.
Dennis Miller, 39, runs it. He was born on the base and went to school here and still lives with his Cuban-born mother, Paulina Wilson, 70, who has worked full-time in the Navy hospital linen room for 35 years. His father died years ago, as did his kid brother, who had moved to Miami and was killed in a train accident.
Now Miller says he prefers the solitude of Gitmo to the fast life of, say, Miami, which he has visited. "This is my home. I feel comfortable here."
So does his Santiago-born mother, who decided to stay in 1962 to earn money as the nanny to Navy officers' children - and find a way to send some back home to the daughter and son she had left with her parents.
"They told me that they thought it would last for six months, maybe, " she recalled wryly. "I'm still waiting for those six months."
Meantime, she has missed her parents' funerals and has only spoken to her two Cuban-side children by telephone through a third-country hook-up. "They're married now. They have their own children now. God give me the strength."
But, she said, she has made good on her plan to ship a share of her earnings to family in Castro's Cuba. Twice this year, she sent $600, via Canada.
"I'm glad that I'm here and I can help them. If I couldn't help them it wouldn't be worth it," she said.
Work is one reason that Harry Sharpe, 72, stays. He runs the buffet line at the Mongolian Barbecue at the Windjammer restaurant, where he pulls down a $2,200-a-month salary and gets two weeks of paid vacation.
It's a big improvement over the 12 cents an hour he earned his first day of work - March 30, 1953 - first pushing a wheelbarrow, then polishing brass plates in a command office. Another incentive, he said, is that housing has been free ever since July 30, 1963, when he finally moved in.
"My goal is to go back to Cuba and live when Castro leaves or when the U.S. lifts the embargo, so I can get my pension there, " said Sharpe, who is three years away from full retirement.
Sharpe has obtained U.S. citizenship and a home in Pensacola. And he has family scattered between the United States and Cuba. U.S.-born nephews Shannon, Sterling and Lewis Sharpe were NFL players. Two other nephews, the sons of a different brother, are doctors at a government-run hospital in Havana.
Yet, with a 30-foot boat here and free medical care that saw him airlifted to Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington D.C. for a thyroid condition, he is in no hurry to leave. If the Cuban system is unchanged when he retires, he says, he might move to Detroit, where a brother lives.
"Pensacola's too slow for me, " he explains. "And I don't much like Miami. It's too much 'Cuba' there. Everybody's the boss there. They're going to go back and take over. They've been saying that for 40 years."
Meantime, the Navy is grappling with increasing concern for the Cubans' deteriorating health, first recognized in a 1991 Navy command directive that authorized officers to "provide for the geriatric needs" of this special community.
Several have been flown to U.S. Navy facilities for surgery. Six receive meals-on-wheels, delivered from the hospital's kitchen. Among them is a woman with advanced dementia and no next of kin.
Soon, Buehn said, the Navy will assign a sailor full-time to oversee their needs. Now the work is done ad hoc by the command staff and Spanish-speaking volunteers.
Buehn said some of the last 64 may yet move away, to join adult children who have grown up and moved to the United States, mostly to Florida.
"Many have places they can go, " he said. "But they like it here. It's Cuba still."


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Mel Gibson's ex, Oksana Grigorieva, held a press conference on Monday in Moscow, Russia to announce a charity concert in Moscow that will aid victims of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster – but many of the reporters wanted details on her sudden split from the 54-year-old actor.
"I am anxious to talk about children," she told reporters during a press conference for the Give a Life charity. "It is more important for me than my relations with Mel."
The Russian-born singer, who has a 5-month old child with the actor, did offer up a cryptic explanation for their split.
"But if you want to know, I can tell you that after three years of relationship, we have split up – suddenly and recently. Unfortunately, I cannot give you the reason. But you will find out everything quite soon," she said. "Here is the official version: we split up by mutual consent and we will raise our daughter together."
Oksana also denied reports that Mel asked for a paternity test.
"It's not true," she said. "There [have] been a lot of lies written about us."
She also said she plans on removing a hammer-and-sickle tattoo from her ankle that Mel told her to get.
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Jason Kidd played in 1,391 NBA regular-season games and 158 postseason games.
But Sunday's matchup between the Orlando Magic and the Brooklyn Nets was a first for him: his first regular-season game as a head coach.
The Nets hired Kidd during the summer, just weeks after he retired as a player. He missed the Nets' first two regular-season games because he was serving a league suspension for drunken driving.
Kidd looked and sounded calm as tipoff approached.
"There are really no emotions," Kidd said. "This is basketball. For me and the guys, they've been doing it since we've been at Duke [for training camp]. So, for me, it's just to give them the plan and help them while they're out there."
Six Nets players have been selected to the All-Star Game during their careers: Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Joe Johnson, Deron Williams, Andrei Kirilenko and Brook Lopez. They've combined for 36 All-Star selections.
Magic coach Jacque Vaughn, who was Kidd's teammate for two seasons with the New Jersey Nets, thinks Kidd will command instant respect within the locker room.
"The respect is definitely there," Vaughn said. "It's about the temperament. It's about how you approach guys, the respect level that you have. Part of being a point guard is being able to put your ego aside a lot of times for the betterment of the team, and he's done that along the way. I think he's a guy that will take that challenge on of guiding the different egos that he has on his team."
Vaughn wasn't saying, however, that a coach needs to have played to earn respect from players.
Miami Heat players have a total of 38 All-Star selections, and their coach, Erik Spoelstra, is considered one of the sport's best coaches and best managers of egos. Spoelstra never played in the NBA.
Nicholson's night
Second-year power forward Andrew Nicholson recorded his third career double-double, scoring 17 points and collecting 11 rebounds in the Magic's 107-86 win Sunday.
"I just love seeing how aggressive he's playing, and when he gets the basketball, he's very confident," Vaughn said. "And his teammates are confident that he's going to make the right play. And, then, defensively, to see him get in-between the bigs and get rebounds for us on both ends of the floor? He knows that's what I want from him."
The big dunk
What did Vaughn think of Victor Oladipo's fourth-quarter steal from Deron Williams and the 360-degree slam dunk that immediately followed?
"Just a very aggressive play, and I wish I could do it," Vaughn said.
Small ball
In their first three games, the Magic were most successful when they played three guards simultaneously.
The team had employed a total of 29 lineups in those games, and 12 of those lineups outscored the opponent on a per-minute basis, according to the NBA's official statistics database.
Seven of those 12 lineups were three-guard lineups.
It should be noted that the sample size is much too small to draw any grand conclusions. Still, it was difficult not to notice that three-guard lineups had been successful for the most part.
"I think overall it gives us multiple ball-handlers," Vaughn said. "That gives us a great ability to get into our offense without delay."
Defensive improvement
Through Saturday, the Magic ranked 11th in the NBA in defensive efficiency, limiting opponents to 98.9 points per 100 possessions.
Orlando finished last season 25th in defensive efficiency, allowing 106.7 points per 100 possessions.
Again, it's too early to draw definitive conclusions.
But if the Magic can continue to play well on defense, it would be a sign of improvement.
"Defense isn't pretty," Vaughn said. "It's on us [as coaches] to kind of glorify that a little bit."
• Sunday was a homecoming for Nets assistant coach Charles Klask, who worked a decade for the Magic in a variety of roles, including as scouting information manager. Klask spent the last two seasons as a Detroit Pistons assistant coach.
• The Magic held the Nets to 38.2 percent shooting.
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A photographer testified Tuesday that while at Fort Hood for a graduation ceremony in November 2009, he took pictures of the gunman as he was prowling around during the 2009 attack.
The photographer, Steven Bennett, was among the last witnesses to take the stand before the prosecution rested Tuesday in the Fort Hood mass shooting trial of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan on Tuesday.
Bennett, who was unaware of the shooting that had taken place in another building at the base, said the gunman told him his weapon was a paintball gun and that it was for a training exercise.
The photographer said was skeptical and began following and taking photographs of the man, whom he identified in court Tuesday as Hasan. Prosecutors entered several of those photos into evidence that show the shooter walking as other people ran from the scene. Those photos have not yet been released to the public.
Bennett's photos also captured an image of the wounded suspect on the ground after a shootout with police.
Separately Tuesday, a sworn statement from Fort Hood police Sgt. Mark Todd, who is credited with taking down the shooter and did not appear in court, was read in the trial. Additionally, an Army doctor testified that Hasan told her a month before the shooting that "they will pay" if he was deployed to Afghanistan.
After the prosecution rested, the judge, Col. Tara Osborn, dismissed the jury and said "We'll resume tomorrow with the defense's case, if any."
Hasan has kept mostly silent during the first two weeks of the trial and it's not clear whether he'll take the stand in his own defense.
Court is scheduled to resume at 9 a.m. Wednesday.


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You can help contribute to SOC's cause without actually being at the con. I will be distributing a free pamphlet at the convention and I need some help.Now it's all about promotion, baby!
You know how in some advertisements, you'll see quotes of comments other people say about the thing being advertised? (Think movie ads and "two thumbs up"). Well I'd love to do something like that for the Seasons Of Constancy pamphlet. I would need three things from you:
1.Your name (or how you'd want it printed on the pamphlet)
2.A comment about the comic. Now of course I'd like nice things said, but don't worry about saying all sorts of good stuff. All I need is some honest thoughts about the comic.
3.OPTIONAL: URL to your website, if you have one. (name of comic too, if that's what it is)
With this, I'll put them on the pamphlet (and you see, what you get in turn is a bunch of distributed pamphlets with your URL). I don't think I'll get many, but I'll try to fit as many as possible on the pamphlet. Now the comments don't have to be totally "positive," and I do reserve the right to not post something, which will probably include the very negative ones ("Seasons of Constancy's creator should drop dead right now"), or the obviously patronizing ones ("This is possibly the next closest thing to seeing God - Bryan, I want your kids!!"). I'm looking for enlightening and meaningful things, from your heart!


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Since the introduction of Australias ground breaking Shared Parenting (child custody) laws in 2006, there has been a decidedly deceptive campaign by some to mis-represent these laws as being something that they are clearly not.
Following is a list of 10 MYTHS about Shared Parenting in Australia that have been commonly peddled as truths by these parties, but are shown to be nothing other than distortions, falsehoods or outright lies.
Top 10 Myths about Shared Parenting in Australia
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Top 10 myths about Shared Parenting (Child Custody laws) in Australia
By Sonja Hastings
Since the introduction of Australias ground breaking Shared Parenting (child custody) laws in 2006, there has been a decidedly deceptive campaign by some to mis-represent these laws as being something that they are clearly not. Following is a list of 10 MYTHS about Shared Parenting in Australia that have been commonly peddled as truths by these parties, but are shown to be nothing other than distortions, falsehoods or outright lies.
1. Children are forced into equal time arrangements by Australias Shared Parenting legislation
NOT TRUE. There is nothing mandatory about Australias Shared Parental Responsibility legislation (Shared Parenting laws). If anything, it has been described as a soft alternative to what was originally preferred by the majority in Parliament in 2006, being a rebuttable presumption of equal time parenting, which itself is not mandatory and is determined primarily on whether such an arrangement can be safe, practical and in the childs best interest.
Since the introduction of these laws, there has been a decidedly deceptive campaign by some journalists and single mothers groups to mis-represent these laws as being inflexible and mandatory in nature, and as a result forcing Judges to place children into unsafe or impractical parenting arrangements. Terminology such as mandatory and forced with have often been used in newspaper headlines or opinion pieces to portray these laws in a manner that is quite unequivocally untrue.
The Family Courts Shared Parental Responsibility Outcomes report underscores the fact that there is nothing mandatory about these laws, where the majority of court outcomes since the introduction of these laws still result in the child residing almost exclusively with the mother.
If these laws were mandatory in any shape or form, one would have expected that close to 100% of court outcomes would have resulted in equal parenting time arrangements, however as evidenced by the Courts own figures, the figure is significantly less at only 15% of outcomes.
So someone has been fudging the truth to quite a significant degree, and this should be an important point to remember when reading commentary on this debate. Given that some womens groups have described Australias Shared Parenting laws as another form of domestic violence against women, this debate is clearly about something more than what is best for our children, in the eyes of some groups at least. As a result, the misrepresentation of facts, the gender specific vitriol and in some cases the desperate attempt to associate Shared Parenting with Paedophilia, have been unparalleled in this country, even for an issue that is so typically vexed and controversial as family law.
2. The risk of Child abuse increases for a child in a Shared Parenting arrangement.
NOT TRUE. Children in Shared Parenting arrangements have the lowest recorded incidence of Child Abuse in Australia, even lower than that of intact families. Conversely, children in Sole Custody arrangements have the highest risk of Child Abuse in Australia. It should be noted that over 70% of all familial Child Abuse occur in single mother households, 1, 2, 3.
Some have highlighted the child-protective dynamics inherent in Shared Parenting arrangements as being similar to that already recognised in extended family structures. It has been argued that the broader nature of parental responsibility in Shared Parenting arrangements facilitates a natural transparency of care, given that the child is in frequent contact with both parents and the respective extended families.
This ongoing transparency of care optimises the safety and welfare of the children involved, by reducing the possibility of abuse occurring without one of the parents detecting it at an early stage.
These natural checks and balances are unfortunately less prominent (and in many cases non-existent) in Sole Custody arrangements, providing for greater opportunities for child abuse to occur undetected and for greater periods of time, as reflected in the statistics on child abuse.
3. The 2006 Shared Parenting laws have resulted in greater risks of family violence for mothers and children.
NOT TRUE. To the parents involved, Shared Parenting arrangements are no different to two-day per-fortnight arrangements in terms of the mechanics of contact and change-overs. Shared Parenting does not in any way increase the time that separated parents need to spend with each other, nor need it involve any physical or proximate contact between the parents.
According to the Australian Institute of Family Studies evaluation of the 2006 Family Law Reforms, a large scale government initiated study into the performance of these reforms, the study found that there was no link between the 2006 Shared Parenting amendments and any increased risk of domestic violence or assault against women and children.
In fact it has been argued that these laws have to a great extent taken the heat out of the most vexed issue in separation, namely that of a childs residence, precisely because of the more balanced and child-centric approach to such determinations.
4. Shared Parenting reduces Child Support commitments, which is why many fathers seek Shared Parenting arrangements.
NOT TRUE. Such comments underlie an element of gender arrogance in suggesting that only mothers can love their children enough to want to spend time with them. To be further made by people purporting to be feminists is beyond belief.
Nonetheless, the allegation is often made and is completely eroneous because Shared Parenting arrangements are typically more expensive for the average father than a non-custodial parenting arrangement.
Shared Parenting involves a duplication of investments, including new bedroom/s, new wardrobe of clothing, computers, furniture, toys and many other expenses, involving substantial capital costs.
Shared Parenting also shifts a greater proportion of the day to day costs to the fathers.
Many fathers in Shared Parenting arrangements have also reported a reduction in their overall working hours to accommodate their Shared Parenting arrangement, thus reducing their income.
The overall impact is that Shared Parenting arrangements provide for greater financial investment in the support of their children by fathers, as well as greater emotional, psychological and other forms of support.
The child/ren as a result get more overall support from their fathers, not less.
Single mothers on the other hand do receive less direct financial support from the respective fathers with Shared Parenting arrangements, which may go some way in explaining the worldwide campaigns by single mothers groups against Shared Parenting initiatives.
5. Children in Shared Parenting arrangements live a Ping-Pong lifestyle.
NOT TRUE. Shared Parenting arrangements are no different to two-day per-fortnight arrangements in terms of the frequency of change-overs. Children in Shared Parenting arrangements typically change-over their residence twice a fortnight. Children seeing their father only two days a fortnight also change-over their residence twice a fortnight.
The frequency of change-overs is IDENTICAL in both cases.
6. The 2006 Shared Parenting Family Law amendments are a one-size fits all arrangement.
NOT TRUE. The 2006 Shared Parenting laws allow for a broad range of parenting arrangements, from no contact at all up to 7 days per fortnight with each parent, and everything in between. As evidenced by the Family Courts Shared Parental Responsibility Outcomes report, there is nothing One Size about these new laws, which explains why the report was so difficult to compile in the first place.
Conversely, the pre-2006 Sole Custody laws mandated an outcome which was almost universally a one size fits all arrangement, that being Sole Custody to the mother and visitation to the father for two days per fortnight. This standardised arrangement was the fixed outcome in up to 90% of all child custody Court outcomes prior to 2006.
So lets be clear here, the pre-2006 Sole Custody laws were the entrenched, inflexible one size fits all arrangement, whereas the 2006 Shared Parenting amendments opened the gates to a broad range of outcomes, all depending on the unique circumstances of each case.
7. The Family Law Pendulum has swung too far in the other direction, and now the system favours fathers.
NOT TRUE. The chances of a father getting any type of meaningful parenting arrangement is still a minority outcome in the Family Courts.
Only 15% of Court outcomes result in an equal time arrangement, whereas only 14% result in some form of minority shared care arrangement. For a large number of Court outcomes however the result is still little or no contact for the father.
These outcomes in no way support the myth that family laws in Australia favour fathers, indeed it only re-enforces the significant cultural bias that fathers continue to face across the complete spectrum of family, child and domestic regulations in this country.
The sad truth is that many of the institutions that have been set up to protect childrens interests in this country are driven by politicised mores aimed at promoting the welfare of women almost exclusively, relegating the often very real needs of both men and children. It is precisely because of this cultural abhoration that new laws have been required.
It should be emphasised that the danger of not playing the role of impartial adjudicator, of not assessing the facts on their merits, cannot be justified, as some do, as a re-balancing effort, as a minor inconvenience against men to bring equality back into the equation.
This practice is unethical and immoral, and costs lives, the innocent lives of many men and many children, lives that could have and should have been saved.
As sadly witnessed by the Dean Shillingsworth murder (boy in the suitcase), unquestionable signs of imminent danger were completely ignored by Child Protective Services for ideological, gender based reasons.
In this instance the child was placed back into sole care with his mother, despite the mother threatening to kill the child, and despite warnings from the family. The child as a result was murdered by his mother.
According to the NSW Ombudsman report into this murder, he lamented that the child protection authorities were more concerned about the welfare of the mother than her children. He complained that because their focus was on the mother they lost sight of the risk issues for the children.
The government in this instance apologised unreservedly to the family for the errors that brought about the murder of this innocent 4 year old child, but unfortunately this cultural under-pinning still pervades the system, at every level.
The sad truth is that the inherent bias in support of women by the System, at the expense of men and children, is just as pervasive as ever, despite the 2006 legislated family law reforms.
8. Australias Shared Parenting laws disadvantage Single Mothers
NOT TRUE. Australias Shared Parenting laws are progressive laws that provide greater independence, support and employment opportunities to all parents after separation, in equal measure, regardless of gender.
Parenting is a very demanding and onerous role. Single parenting is all the more difficult when all responsibilities revolve around one person. Single mothers in general forgo employment and other opportunities in order to satisfy their sole parenting responsibilities.
Shared Parenting provides a balanced approach to the workload of parenting, providing each parent a regular opportunity to periodically focus on their needs, whether that be employment, education, friendship or relaxation. It is also a progressive development that will empower women to become more than just mothers, and provide women an opportunity to fully engage in the work force to the same extent as men.
It may be a valuable suggestion to those people protesting for equal pay for women in Australia, to take a stronger look at womens groups themselves as the culprits denying women the opportunity to fully engage in the workforce to the extent that men. If women genuinely want the same employment opportunities and rewards as men, then they should be embracing Shared Parenting laws, not bitterly opposing them. Anything less than this is shear hypocrisy.
One should always remember that Shared Parenting is an extension of the original but now days forgotten feminist mantra that both men and women are equal, and their role in society should not be defined by their gender.
It is of course one of the great ironies that feminist organisations have become one of the most relentless forces against Shared Parenting initiatives across the globe.
9. Australias Shared Parenting laws focus on Parental Rights and not on the best interests of the Child
NOT TRUE. The 2006 Shared Parenting amendments are about protecting a childs natural right to a meaningful relationship with both parents.
The previous laws have created a generation of fatherlessness in Australia that is widely accepted as being of significant disadvantage to the welfare of children.
The legislation in this regard makes absolutely no reference to parental rights, but conversely does highlight the paramount consideration of the law to be the childs best interests.
For a shared or equal parenting time arrangement to be ordered, the Court must first consider whether such an arrangement would be in the best interests of the child, and whether such an arrangement is reasonably practicable. In all cases the Court is required to regard the best interests of the child as the paramount consideration.
This is how the LAW is stated, so clearly those people saying otherwise either have not read the law, have not sat through a family court proceeding, or are simply grasping at straws to condemn a system that they oppose for reasons other than what they are willing to say publicly.
10. The Australian public does not support Shared Parenting
NOT TRUE. Shared Parenting laws in Australia have been and continue to be overwhelmingly supported by the public, as evidenced by repeated surveys, polls and government initiated studies.
In fact if the publics view was to be taken into full account, Australias Shared Parenting laws would be strengthened to include a legislated presumption of shared care.
As it stands, on average between 70% to 90% of Australians have consistently provided unwavering support for shared parenting laws in this country, and only a vocal minority with vested interests, including lawyers, feminists and single mothers groups and have opposed such laws.
Sonja Hastings is a guest writer exclusively for Articles about men
13 June 2010
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- Ceramics.Org -- The American Ceramic Society's home page.
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Mary's Mother (moon) was keen-on philosophy and femininist issues and she can be traced in the Moon's placement in Sagittarius (biography: her mother was a philosopher and feminist).
Back to the Saturn inside the first house and quoting Christopher Warnock's example of a 'malefic' inside a house':
The 3rd house is ruled by Saturn, the Greater Malefic, who is also in Pisces. He has some dignity, but this is a somewhat uncomfortable placement for him as it goes against his basic nature. My sense is that as Saturn naturally rules melancholy and sadness, that his placement in Pisces is another indication of the presence of depression in pain in your life. His dignity, however, shows that this is not all to the bad, however and we can see from the other positive areas of your chart that this pain can bring wisdom and compassion for yourself and for others. Saturn in cancer has only term (between 27th until 30th degree).
So in Marry Shelley's case Saturn is not in term, since it is in the 9th degree of cancer. However there is an absence mother and a difficult childhood.
Regarding her mother's death, I would diagnose that one indicator is that there is a square between Venus and the Ascendant. Ptolemy gives us the following nice quotation in the Tetrabiblos:
If, however, Mars be succedent to the Moon and Venus, or in quartile or opposition to them, or, if Saturn be similarly aspected to the Moon only, and both of them be void of course or retrograde, or cadent, adverse accidents and disease will attend the mother; should they, on the other hand, be swift in motion and placed in angles, they portend that her life will be short, or grievously afflicted. Their position in the oriental angles, or succedent houses, particularly denotes the shortness of her life; and, in those which are occidental, her affliction. In the same manner, should Mars be thus aspected to the Moon (and should that luminary at the same time be oriental), the mother's sudden death, or some injury in her face or eyes, will be produced: and, if the Moon be then occidental, death will be occasioned by miscarriage in parturition, by inflammation, or by wounds. Such are the effects which ensue from these aspects made by Mars to the Moon; but, should he make them to Venus, death will then take place from fever, some latent disease, or sudden sickness. Saturn's aspect 1, to the Moon, when she is oriental, inflicts on the mother disease and death from extreme colds, or fevers; but, should the Moon be occidental, the danger arises from affections of the womb, or from consumption.
If we apply both planets signifying mother (Venus or Moon), they are shaping two obvious squares, the first with the ascendant and the second with mercury.
On the other hand, the Sun is forming a nice sextile with Saturn, and the Sun is in the fourth house, representing also her house and early years. The fact that she is choosing her future partners from her father's circle of associates is not shocking, since her relationships are ruled by Capricorn, the sign that Saturn is ruling. (Mary Godwin began a romantic relationship with one of her father's political followers). Finally even her partner is involved with society and politics and the Capricorn influence in regards of power and politics is 'playing-out'.
The fact that she is trying to 'resurrect' death into life in her writings may be the effect of Saturn inside the Ascendant and sextile the Sun (life-bearer) inside the fourth house.
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- "Man kiluva lómi sangane,
telume lungane
tollalinta ruste,
vea qalume,
mandu yáme,
aira móre ala tinwi
lante no lanta-mindon?"
- ― Early version of Oilima Markirya
Qenya (pronounced [KWEN-ya])[1] was the original name of the High-Elven tongue which gradually would change into Quenya of the Lord of the Rings.
In the earliest versions of the legendarium Qenya (as every Elvish language) belonged to the Oromean phylum, derived from the language Orome taught the Quendi. It was the language of the First Tribe of the Elves, the Lindar (Vanyar in the later legendarium) and for this it was also called Lindarin.[2]
Qenya goes back to at least 1915 when Tolkien compiled the "Qenya Lexicon".[3]
Qenya was started by Tolkien who wished to emulate the phonoesthetics of the Finnish language. Early Qenya has been reported to have much more Finnish influences, compared to the later stages.[4]
During that time, Tolkien used to write the sound [kʷ] simply as a single q. Therefore both spellings Qenya and Quenya are always supposed to be pronounced the same ([ˈkʷeɲa]). While writing the Lord of the Rings, Tolkien decided to adopt the romanized spelling qu and replace k with c. These changes were mainly aesthetic in order to accentuate the role of Quenya as an "Elf-latin". This does not alter the pronounciation.
Difference between Qenya and Quenya
Since the High-Elven language changed throughout Tolkien's lifetime from its conception until late in his life, some Tolkienists and linguists deliberately use the spelling "Qenya" (without "u") to differentiate the early version of this language from the later.
Such Tolkien linguists note "a dramatic change" after which the language somehow stabilized after 1940. One of such changes was that later Quenya does not display the "number of borrowings and obvious influences of real-world languages" that Qenya did.[5]
Helge Fauskanger used to refer to the early stage(s) of Quenya as "immature Qenya" in order to make clear that he refers to Tolkien's point of view and not an archaic form of Quenya of Valinor.
The differentiation between Qenya and Quenya has been criticized as artificial, since it neglects the continuity and gradual evolution of the language; although Tolkien replaced old ideas with newer ones, there is no indication that he divided his conception into stages, and no definite point which separates Qenya from Quenya can be traced. Also, the term "immature" was considered controversial and derogatory.[6]
See also
- ↑ John D. Rateliff, Jason Fisher, Patrick H. Wynne, et al. (mailing list discussion), "a quick question" (#24071 and related messages; dated 29 January 2013), Mytsoc mailing list (accessed 30 January 2012)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Part Two: Valinor and Middle-earth before The Lord of the Rings, V. The Lhammas"
- ↑ Helge Fauskanger, External history of Quenya from Ardalambion
- ↑ Harri Perala, History of Quenya From Our Point of View
- ↑ David Salo, "Re: Bringlast and mustard (Message #36298)" dated 16 July 2012, Elfling (accessed 16 July 2012)
- ↑ Patrick Wynne, Are Goldogrin and Qenya "primitive"?
External links
- Thorsten Renk, Early Qenya grammar (includes comparisons with later Quenya elements)


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Every other Thursday, we bring you Nicholas Day -- on cooking for children, and with children, and despite children. Also, occasionally, on top of.
Today: The many ways sweet potatoes will keep the kids (and you) well-fed.
There are many things my refrigerator did not house before I had children. It did not house a Tetris-like collection of tiny leftover tupperware, which, if examined by an archaeologist, would turn out to contain everything Isaiah has not eaten over the course of his life. Also: sweet potatoes.Is there anyone without a child who regularly purchases sweet potatoes? The sweet potato industry survives on the backs of parents and Pilgrims. For most adults, sweet potatoes are like turkey and cranberries: they are so identified with Thanksgiving that to eat them at any other time requires a really good reason. But for children, sweet potatoes are the candy you are always allowed to eat: I knew a preschooler who, like some beta-carotene-starved coal miner, sat down to an entire roasted sweet potato every day for lunch. (And then she slumped over, presumably. If nothing else, it seems like a good way to prevent your child from giving up nap.)
For parents, the only reason to say no to sweet potatoes is that they feel like cheating. There is no nutritional reason; they are freakishly nutritious. Sweet potatoes are like coffee: they only seem like they should be sinful. (And sometimes they only seem like they are sweet potatoes. Next time you visit the produce section, notice how the yams are all huddled together in desperate silence, hoping to be mistaken for sweet potatoes. In our household, if we discover a yam, we are merciless: we hack it into small pieces and roast it. Then, vindictively, we eat it.)An entire roasted sweet potato is a fine thing, especially if mashed and fattened up for supper. But most of us can only eat so many. Which is why for several years now, I have been combing through cookbook indexes, searching for sweet potato recipes that do not include the word candied.
This is not a rich vein of inquiry. Especially—and I know I am wrong—if you have never been convinced by sweet potato soup. But there are ways. There is hash. There are curries. There's Rivka's yam-zucchini-chickpea salad. (Yes: yams. But let's move on.) Lately our household answer has been a different sort of sweet potato salad, a toned-down version of EmilyC's sweet potatoes with bacon and arugula.Ours looks like a ballpark parody of a salad—take arugula and pile sweet potato fries on top of it. But it works. It's a variation on something I first had in, of all places, Israel. (Which is also, strangely, where these superb sweet potato pancakes hail from. Maybe all the good sweet potato recipes are hiding in Israeli cookbooks.) There are lots of bite-sized, bronzed sweet potatoes; some hearty salad greens; some nuts and some feta; and a player to be named later (avocado, pear, egg). Serve with turkey on the side. Way on the side. Like next month.
Yes-We-Can-Have-Sweet Potatoes-for-Dinner Salad
Serves 4, lightly
3 large sweet potatoes, peeled1 bunch arugula1/2 cup feta, chopped1/2 cup walnuts1/2 cup whole scallions, tops and bottoms, roughly chopped
1/4 cup olive oil2 tablespoons sherry vinegar1 teaspoon mustard1 garlic clove, crushed
See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
Photos by Linda Xiao
A New Way to Dinner, co-authored by Food52's founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, is an indispensable playbook for stress-free meal-planning (hint: cook foundational dishes on the weekend and mix and match 'em through the week).
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Book Title: "The [Revised] Franchise Formula: A Guide for Franchising your Business in the New Economy"
I am a lawyer for entrepreneurs and, in particular, a lawyer that represents successful business owners looking to franchise their business and have multiple stores opened throughout the nation. The book is about taking your small but successful business and franchising, i.e., sort of like McDonalds and the many other brand name companies involved in various industries located throughout the country.
The book is about what it takes to start a franchise. It deals with the many legal issues and regulations that "new franchisors" will face and how to practically deal with this process.
My articles about franchising are located at http://www.newyorkfranchiselaw.com (this site is being redesigned - please do not follow any design elements at this site)
My audience is comprised of successful, independent and highly energized entrepreneurs who have worked hard to create successful small and medium size companies (in all industries, i.e., childrens education, restaurants, repair services, etc...) and who are now looking to expand their business and their brand through franchising, i.e., create a system focused on established trademarks and operations and grant the right for other people (franchisees) to open their own location.
The book is focused on empowering my audience with critical information that will allow them to (a) determine whether or not franchising is right for them (b) understand the legal issues involved and (c) allow them to take control of this process and expand their business
The current design specifications from the publisher (self-published) at present will be attached. This project requires:
(a) Design of both front cover;
(b) Design of back cover, including space, possibly for a photo and a summary of the book;
(c) The Cover, at some location should include my name: Charles N. Internicola, Esq., Franchise Lawyer
(d) The design will also be used for some print magazines and should also be in a high resolution format, in addition to the requirements for print;
(e) In terms of design, please note the following:
- My audience is comprised of highly energized entrepreneurs so the design should be cutting edge and equally energized;
- The audience is not lawyers so please, no boring legal type covers;
- The design should focus on the some key components raised in the title, i.e., "Revised" "Franchise Formula" and the "New Economy" basically I am laying out the building blocks for for how the small entreprenur can leverage himself or herself in this new economy and expand his or her business through franchising;
- Sort of looking for a David vs Goliath approach, i.e., my book is partly based on how the small successful business owner, equipped with the info in my book (and leveraging off of the new economy) can take on the
- Definitely like the "formula" concept. Just so you have a better understanding of what is involved in the"franchise formula" some components include: (a) an established trademark recognized by consumers (b) an established trademark that is registered with the uspto (http://www.uspto.gov) and is therefore may be legally protected (c) a successful business with a proven track record, (d) established systems for running your business, i.e., serving customers, delivering products, advertising, etc... and (e) compliance with the significant regulatory framework. In particular before you may offer or sell a franchise you must have a lawyer prepare disclosure documents that provide potential franchisees with information about what they are buying into. This regulation is both "Federal" and State.
- The design should not be based on actual photo images, should not look like a comic book but rather a whimsical approach involving the franchise formula, david v. goliath, empowering the new class of entrepreneurs and sort of lifting the veil from the old economy and leveraging the new economy where smaller is better.


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David Geffen: American Masters
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Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and AMERICAN MASTERS executive producer Susan Lacy paints a portrait of Geffen, who narrates his rise from working class Brooklyn boy to billionaire entertainment power broker in extensive interviews. Revealed as a complex and compelling man, his far-reaching influence - as agent and manager, record industry mogul, Hollywood and Broadway producer and billionaire philanthropist - has helped shape American popular culture for four decades. G
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Jabber plugin
compile "org.grails.plugins:jabber:2.0"
grails install-plugin jabber
The Jabber plugin is a tiny Grails plugin for interacting with Jabber services (such as Google talk). You can send messages to Jabber from all your controllers and services, and you can optionally registered a listener in one of your service classes to be notified of incoming messages.There is a little configuration required in your /conf/Config.groovy file. Add the following section and point it to your jabber server of choice:
If you are using it with Google Talk, you will want your settings to be something like:
chat { serviceName = "local.decaf" host = "localhost" port = 5222 username = "glen" password = "password" }
Once that's in, you can happily invoke sendJabberMessage(userId, content) from any of your controllers or services:
chat { serviceName = "gmail.com" host = "talk.google.com" port = 5222 username = "[email protected]" password = "your_password" }
If you'd like to listen for incoming Jabber messages, you need to add an 'expose' list similar to the JMS and Remoting plugin (which I used as the sample template for my plugin) to one of your service classes.
sendJabberMessage("[email protected]", "Just a tester....")
And you're off and running!
class DemoService { static expose = [ 'jabber' ] def onJabberMessage = {msg -> println "Eeek a message.. From ${msg.from} with body ${msg.body}" } }


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Doors open at Noon, Dinner served at 12:30 p.m.
For 133 years the Reading Liederkanz delivers authentic German culture, festivals, food, and drink in Berks County! Home of the #1 Rated Oktoberfest. All are welcome!
Reading Liederkranz German Singing & Sports Society
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Monday & Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 5 p.m.-11 p.m.
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The Grange History and Heritage
The Grange: Overview
Learn more about this national historic site, built in 1817, given to the Art Museum of Toronto in 1911, and now restored to the 1835-40 period
The Grange: Building Stories Site
The Grange has been added as a feature site on the Building Stories website and smartphone application that enables Canadians to participate in identifying important community heritage assets. Visit the website and download the free mobile app.
Murmer: Hear You Are
[murmur] is a documentary oral history project that records stories and memories told about specific geographic locations. Hear You Are is an online exhibition of [murmur]'s presence in and around Grange Park in Toronto.
Collection X: The Grange
This online exhibition recounts the story of the historic Grange house and its inhabitants.
History of the Grange
The Grange was the first home of the Art Museum of Toronto (later to become the Art Gallery of Ontario) and rests today as a historic Georgian manor in downtown Toronto, Canada...
The Grange: The Family
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El Vítor procession
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- When?: Sep 27, 2020
- Where: Mayorga
- More information : http://www.mayorga.ayuntamientosdevalladolid.es
- Autonomous region: Castilla y Leon
- Province/Island: Valladolid
- Category: Festivity of National Tourist Interest
Fire, song and prayers to the Saint
Every year, on 27 September, the feast of Santo Toribio de Mogroviejo is celebrated in Mayorga. It commemorates the arrival of the Saint's relics to his birthplace. There is a procession called El Vítor, where residents of the village walk with flaming torches made out of grape skins, from the Saint's house to the shrine. During the procession there are singing and fireworks, and the celebration finally ends up in the village's local associations.
Santo Toribio de Mogroviejo was a missionary in Latin America. The tradition of the El Vítor procession dates back to the 18th century, when village residents took to the streets with torches to celebrate the arrival of the Saint's relics. A shrine in his honour was built in Mayorga in 1737.
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- Date: Sep 27, 2020
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Experience an entire 16-week semester of in-depth art exploration! During this 3 hour class session specifically designed for homeschoolers ages 5-8, we will delve into drawing, painting, sculpture, clay, fiber arts and more through a hands on creation experience. Each class will have a balance of open ended creative exploration in addition to art instruction to learn new skills and techniques in a variety of mediums. Children will thoroughly enjoy learning, exploring, observing, and creating in an inclusive and inspiring environment.
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Maryam: Crown This Beauty
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Where She's From: Maryam Hassan was born and raised in England. "The most important thing I got from my parents was that there is so much to the world than what we see," she tells The Black Star News. "My dad is from the tiny island of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean so I was blessed to travel much of the world from a young age as my parents wanted their kids to have open minds and open hearts."
"I have an amazing support system in my family though and knowing that I have unconditional love behind me inspires me to do anything I put my mind and heart to," Maryam adds.
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"I was a successful child model and appeared in countless TV shows, commercials and catalogues and I guess I just never stopped. I'm pretty much a veteran in this game. But I enjoy modeling; it's the only work I've ever known."
Maryam also enjoys the work she does for the foundation she launched www.mypace.com/thezanzibarcharity which allocates funds for women's centers, schools and orphanages in Tanzania and Zanzibar. "I also aspire to become a political correspondent and flex my journalism skills," she says.
Maryam is proud of the numerous campaigns she's been a part of, including, a commercial in the Italian Alps last year for the Olympics and representing England as Miss Beautiful in Malta.
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"I'm a brand junkie and particularly European," she says, when asked to discuss how she prepares to step out. "I adore Prada purses because they are so classic. I only wear Dior Poison perfume, that's my thing. And for my face I love Ling, Karin Herzog, Dr. Gross and Dermalogica for my skin. Clothes, I don't have a favorite brand but my favorite stores are Intermix, Saks Fifth Ave and netaporter."
This Aries's favorite rides include the Mercedes McLaren and the Porsche Cayenne.
Maryam's Words Of Wisdom: "Never nag a man."
Maryam's Secrets Of Success: "Family foundation, faith and confidence."
Maryam's Favorite Three Movies: "The Lion King, Napolean Dynamite, The Color Purple."
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Michael Bay is back in Chicago and he brought the Autobots and Decepticons with him.
Filming for the new "Transformers" movie began today at McCormick Place and will continue throughout the weekend in the Near East Side and Uptown neighborhoods.
According to a flyer distributed to businesses and residents, helicopters, live stunts and pyrotechnics can be expected Saturday and Sunday from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The filming locations mentioned on the flier for Saturday and Sunday include East Randolph Street, from North Stetson Avenue to North Field Boulevard, and South Columbus Drive, from East Jackson Drive to East Randolph Street. Aerial work is scheduled for 7 a.m. -10 a.m. both days and will include North Michigan Avenue, from East Lake Street to East Washington Street, and North Lake Shore Drive, from East Chicago Avenue to East Monroe Drive. The flier adds that there will be "helicopter filming above 500 feet in the proximity of (the Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower) and (Metropolitan Tower)."
Expect traffic delays and intermittent street and pedestrian walkway closures in the area, in addition to parking restrictions from noon Friday to 11 p.m. Sunday. Those who want to watch filming should note that certain streets will be restricted to local access only.
Filming for "Transformers" will take place at the Uptown Theatre in the Uptown neighborhood at some point as well, according to the historic venue's Facebook page.
The previous movie in the Transformers franchise, "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," filmed just blocks away from this weekend's shoot on North Michigan Avenue and East Wacker Drive (among other locations) in 2010. The new installment takes place four years after the last one and stars Mark Wahlberg ("The Fighter"). Paramount Studios estimates that "Transformers" will contribute $27 million to the local economy.
- Chicago Tribune columnist Luis Gomez contributed