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Filed under: Far East, Heroes Return, memorial, Singapore
At the age of 17, a year before he was called up to serve in the war, Charles Medhurst opened the telegram which told him that his 19-year-old brother had been killed in Burma.
Now at the age of 89, Charles is embarking on an emotional journey to the Kranji War Memorial in Singapore to find his brother's name.
"I had a terrible feeling as I opened the telegram," said Charles, from Greenwich. "I had to go and tell my mother, who collapsed. She never got over it. She never said anything when I was called up a year later but she must have been upset.
"I was called up in July 1943 and became a wireless operator in the RAF but they needed men for the Royal Navy so I was detailed. I'd never been on water before!"
As a telegraphist in the Navy, Charles had to take down Morse code messages at a speed of 26 words a minute. Charles found himself on HMS Malaya – a battleship that took part in the bombardment of German fortifications on the French island of Cezembre.
He recalled: "It was shattering. I was able to watch because I was off duty and we had to wear anti-flash hoods. When you have eight 15-inch guns firing broadsides it has quite an impact on you. It's frightening. At the same time the RAF was bombing the island as well. It was quite a long distance away but the shape of the island appeared to change from the bombardment."
Charles was due to take part in D Day but Malaya was replaced shortly beforehand by HMS Warspite. Malaya sailed to Scotland and took part in trials of updated versions of the bouncing bomb famously used in the Dambusters raid. Malaya moored in Loch Striven and while a crew including Charles was on board, inert prototypes were aimed at the ship, successfully striking Malaya. One was reported to have punched a hole in the ship's side.
"I do remember a dummy bomb actually hitting our ship while I was on board!", said Charles.
Charles sailed by liner from Liverpool to Halifax in Canada where he took a five day train ride through the Rockies to board HMS Beachy Head in Vancouver. From there the ship sailed via San Francisco to the Polynesian island nation of Tuvalu in the Pacific.
He recalled fondly: "We had a day's leave ashore and played football with the locals who gave me a gift of a necklace made of shells. I've still got the necklace to this day. They were such friendly people."
If Tuvalu represented a South Pacific paradise, the next destination was a stark reminder of the war that still raged elsewhere in the Pacific.
He said: "From there we went to Hawaii where we went to Pearl Harbour and could still see the tops of the ships that were sunk in the Japanese attack. When we got to Darwin in Australia, which had been bombed by the Japanese, it was like a ghost town. They were afraid of a Japanese invasion and many people had deserted the city. Parts of it looked like the set of a Wild West film with shutter doors swinging in the breeze."
After refuelling in New Guinea, Beachy Head sailed to the Solomon Islands and towards Singapore.
"We were only going at a rate of ten knots which was a little unnerving," said Charles. "However we had a skeleton crew of three telephonists so we were constantly on duty so didn't really have time to think about the dangers. We went from Singapore to Ceylon, or Sri Lanka as it is now, and from there our ship commanded mine sweeping operations around the Indian Ocean. I spent a week's leave in the hills which were so green and peaceful. By the time we got to Penang in Malaysia the Japanese had surrendered."
Charles returned home on an aircraft carrier via the Suez Canal and was demobbed in October 1946.
Charles said: "When I joined the forces I'd never been away from home. We were a poor family. I was lucky during the war – I didn't fight in the front line and didn't face the dangers that others did.
"When my brother was killed, all that my mother got was a telegram saying he had been killed on March 24 1942 and that there were no remains or personal effects.
"It wasn't until last year that I decided to try and find out more. I contacted the War Graves Commission and they put me in touch with the Royal Air Force. I received a very helpful letter about what happened. Henry was ground staff with the air force in Burma. They were being evacuated as the Japanese advanced but didn't get out in time. The Japanese launched an attack on the airfield in Toungoo with grenades and mortars.
"My brother Henry died aged just 19. He would have been 92 if he were alive today. When I think about how young he was when he died, it's tragic. He was just one of thousands."
Charles is currently preparing for his visit to Sri Lanka and Singapore where he will make an emotional visit to the Kranji War Memorial to find his brother's name.
Charles said: "It's important to visit the memorial and see his name – to see that he has been recognised for giving his life at such a young age."
Filed under: France, Heroes Return, memorial | Tags: film, France, funding, Heroes Return, History, Just imagine, Lottery Good Causes, Normandy, Robert Coupe, Second World War, veteran, World War Two, WW2, WWII
Just imagine if the Big Lottery Fund's Heroes Return 2 programme wasn't there to support World War Two veterans wanting to make a return journey to where they served. This National Lottery Good Causes film tells the story of Robert Coupe who applied for funding for a commemorative trip and has since successfully applied for a second trip.
Since 2009, over £25 million has been awarded to more than 52,000 World War II veterans, widows, spouses and carers across the UK for journeys in the UK and to countries including France, Germany, the Middle East, the Far East.
To use the new 'Good Cause Finder' to see projects in your area, or to find out more about Just Imagine January, visit www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk and follow Lottery Good Causes on Twitter: @lottogoodcauses
Filed under: France, Heroes Return | Tags: Commemorative, D-Day, D-Day landings, France, funding, Heroes Return, History, Normandy, Older people, Remembrance, Ron Rowson, Second World War, veteran, World War Two, WW2, WWII
In June 2012 Ron took part in the annual pilgrimage to Normandy with D-Day Revisited, his first trip back since 1944, which proved a very moving trip for him. His commemorative journey was funded by the Heroes Return 2 programme.
For more information about Heroes Return, call the advice line on 0845 00 00 121 or visit http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/heroesreturn
Filed under: Heroes Return, Remembrance Day | Tags: £27 million, Commemorations, Europe, Far East, funding, Heroes Return, History, Infographic, Journeys, Middle East, Remembrance, Remembrance Sunday, Second World War, veterans, World War Two, WW2, WWII
Since launching in 2009 the Heroes Return programme has funded more than 50,000 veterans to make commemorative trips to where they served in World War Two.
These journeys have included emotional reunions on the beaches of Normandy, meeting old comrades across the battlefields of Arnhem, pilgrimages to remembrance sites across the Far East, and attending events and commemorative trips across the UK.
- The Big Lottery Fund has paid for 55,001 veterans and their companions to visit places where they saw action
- £27m has been awarded under the Heroes Return programme
- 32,121 veterans have visited Northern and Western Europe (including the UK)
- 13,177 veterans have visited the Mediterranean and North Africa
- 1,997 veterans have visited Egypt, Libya and the Middle East
- 7,706 veterans have visited the Far East and the rest of the world
The Heroes Return programme has recently been extended to enable veterans to apply for funding to make second trips to the places they served across the world. The programme deadline for closure will now be end of 2015.
If you know a WW2 veteran who may be eligible for a commemorative trip please contact the Heroes Return helpline on: 0845 00 00 121 or visit www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/heroesreturn
Have you been on a Heroes Return trip to where you served or do you know of someone who has? We'd love to hear from you. Leave your comments below or join the conversation on Twitter using #HeroesReturn.
Filed under: Far East, Heroes Return, Remembrance Day | Tags: Death Railway, Far East, Heroes Return, History, National FEPOW Fellowship Welfare and Remembrance Association, PoWs, Prisoner of War, RAF, Remembrance, Royal Air Force, Second World War, Thai-Burma, veterans, War, World War Two, WW2
As the nation prepares for poignant ceremonies to commemorate the heroism of a special generation on this Remembrance Sunday (Nov 10th), veterans across the country will be embarking on emotional journeys both in the UK and across the world to pay their respects to those who lost their lives over 70 years ago.
The Big Lottery Fund has to date awarded over £26.6 million to more than 54,000 Second World War veterans, widows, spouses and carers across the UK under its Heroes Return 2 programme.
Among those who have received an award is the National FEPOW Fellowship Welfare and Remembrance Association for a journey to Singapore and Thailand. The group, nearly all in their 90s, will be attending remembrance ceremonies in Singapore, and will travel to the infamous 'Death Railway' camp in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, scene of the Bridge over the River Kwai, to mark 11 November Remembrance Day commemorations.
Travelling with the group is 93-year old veteran POW William Mundy from Dartford, Kent. An RAF Aircraftman, William was 20 years old when he sailed from Gourock in Scotland on 3rd December 1941, on the City of Canterbury, bound for Kuala Lumpur. But as the Japanese made rapid advances through Malaya, William was re-routed to Batavia, (now Jakarta).
However, RAF operational life on the island of Java would prove to be short lived as William and his comrades were taken prisoner by the Japanese in Garoet, after the Dutch forces capitulated. Sent to Boei Glodok prison in February 1942, William then spent 1943-1944 incarcerated on Java, after which he was taken to Ambon, and then back to Java for another six weeks.
The Java POWs were set to work building airfields with 'chunkels' (wide hoes) used to chip away at the coral which was then hauled in baskets slung on poles. Only a third returned from these camps, as the death rate was one of the highest with the prisoners suffering constant maltreatment, beatings, starvation and illnesses.
He recalls; "We had to make a two days march from Ambon harbour to Liang, where we built an airstrip.
"On route to Liang is a Christian village, Waai. The villagers there took great risks, when we were working on the road through the village, to pass titbits under the walls of the hut to us."
"No matter where I was in prison, the diet was the same; breakfast pint of steamed rice and spoonful of sugar, mid day three quarters of a pint steamed rice and "green" water and in the evening one pint of steamed rice and the "greens" that had been cooked in the mid-day water.
"Only those who were working were allocated food, so we needed to share ours with those in hospital or otherwise sick."
"In Ambon it was breakfast before 8am and then a march of about three quarters of a mile to the airstrip, dressed only with a strip of material between the legs and so far as we could some sort of foot wear. Walking on the coral was soul destroying. There was a brief break between when we got there and started "work" and the arrival of the mid-day meal and another in the afternoon before returning to camp about six or six–thirty for the evening meal. Treatment, as experienced by all the prisoners was harsh as the 'powers that be' wanted the work finished yesterday."
In June 1944 William was put on a transport ship destined for the Thai-Burma 'Death Railway' but was taken off the boat at Singapore and hospitalised at Changi suffering from Beriberi disease. After six months in hospital he was transferred to the local Kranji prison as part of a forced labour group digging into the granite hillside to form bomb proof storage chambers.
After the Japanese surrender, William returned to the UK via Colombo, Suez and Liverpool on a Dutch boat in October 1945.
William said: "I think most people would ask why on earth I would want to go back to where I had such a traumatic experience. There are the war graves, where some of the 775 out of the 1,000 who didn't survive are buried, and I would appreciate the opportunity to reflect on their sacrifice. "
He continued: "Visiting the graves would also provide an opportunity to thank Almighty God for his grace, mercy, love and preservation which brought me safely back to the UK. I know I can continually do this but on the site would be very appropriate."
William, who plans to take plenty of photographs to record his experience of the trip said: "I would like these to be able to give my children and grandchildren the knowledge of what happened."
For more information about Heroes Return, call the advice line on 0845 00 00 121 or visit www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/heroesreturn
Filed under: Army, Heroes Return | Tags: Arnhem, Glider, Glider Pilot Regiment, Heroes Return, Holland, Lt-Colonel Jack Churchill, netherlands, Operation Market Garden, Rhine, South Staffordshire Regiment
Commemorating the 69th anniversary of Operation Market Garden (Arnhem, Holland, 17–25 September 1944) is WW2 veteran Arthur Shackleton, 94, from Dorchester. He will be making an historic journey to the battlefields of Holland 69 years on to attend key commemorations and pay respects to old comrades. Arthur will be supported by the Big Lottery Fund's Heroes Return 2 programme.
Arthur was part of a force of over 86,000 men who were involved in a daring operation to seize control of bridges and river crossings in Germany and the Netherlands. The Allied assault (September 17-25 1944) was initially successful, but ultimately ended in defeat with thousands killed and many more injured or taken prisoner.
Aged 25, Arthur was a Staff Sergeant, First Pilot in the Glider Pilot Regiment. Piloting a Horsa Glider, he transported troops from the South Staffordshire Regiment to a designated landing strip at Wolfheze, 8 kilometers from Arnhem, as part of the first wave of landings on Sunday 17th September 1944.
Arthur recalls: "We had quite a few skirmishes on the way to Arnhem. When we reached the Arnhem road just outside of the town we saw a German staff car with four bodies hanging out of it. I remembers seeing blood in the road which trickled down the side of the road into a little stream. We later found out that one of the dead was a German General Kusseins, commander of the town who against explicit advice had come out to see what was happening."
Arthur and comrades then came under intense air bombardment from Messcherschmidt fighters.
He said: "We realised after a while that they weren't shooting at us. They were attacking the gliders at the nearby landing zone. We heard that they had captured the allied battle orders from one of the crashed gliders. But the Germans weren't sure whether to believe the plans so they waited for the next landing. But the fog in England was so bad that the next wave of gliders didn't come so the Germans thought it wasn't going ahead, and dismissed it."
"We reached the outskirts of Arnhem and were in the middle of a battle when suddenly a man came running out of a hospital shouting that his wife was having a baby. He rushed up to me and grabbed my tunic begging me to help him. I pointed him over to a soldier with a red cross armband. That was the last I saw of him and I've often wondered what happened to him and his wife, and if the baby was born."
The Parachute regiment decided to put in an attack on Arnhem, and the troops positioned themselves outside of the town. Arthur and comrades took possession of a derelict house .
He recalls, "It was very dark, very eery, the windows were all blown out and the wind was whistling through. At dawn we started the attack. But they were waiting for us with Panzer tanks. Three hundred and fifty of us were killed in just one hour. It was over three quarters of our number. We were finally given the order to retreat and went back to Oosterbeek where they positioned themselves in and around the Hartenstein Hotel.
He said" I was looking forward to having four walls around me but we were never in the hotel. We were always patrolling outside around trenches looking to see who had been killed or injured. They were shells screaming over all the time. I was frightened to death. I thought we were all going to get killed."
It was 10 days after their initial landing that the troops finally got the order to pull out.
"Major Urqhuart came to tell us what was happening and asked the glider pilots to act as guides down to the River Rhine. At three in the morning we went down toward the river. As we came out of some woods we saw six troops. They were lost and making a lot of noise. Our Major told them to keep quiet. Then they were told to follow me. When we got down to the bank of the river I asked them to lay down and keep quiet. Suddenly I heard this burst of machine gun fire and I felt like someone had hit my arm with a sledgehammer. When I turned I saw that the others were dead. Then I felt my hand was sticky and blood running down my sleeve."
"At first it was numb then it started to hurt really badly as I got down to the river bank. I was put in a boat with other wounded.
We were crossing over when I heard this muffled bang and suddenly I was in the river on my back. All I could see were light flashes. I thought I was going to drown. Suddenly I felt my leg bump down into some mud and I heard someone say 'here's a body washed up' and I shouted, 'I'm not a body, I'm alive!'
Arthur was pulled to safety and after receiving medical treatment he was taken to Brussels and from there brought back to Birmingham where he recovered in hospital and finally discharged in late October 1944. However, Arthur was soon back in service and later took part in the Rhine Crossing of 1945, which eventually led to the defeat of the Germans.
For more information about Heroes Return, call the advice line on 0845 00 00 121 or visit www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/heroesreturn
Filed under: Army, D-Day, Heroes Return, RAF | Tags: Bonnybridge, D-Day, France, History, John Wotherspoon, Maureen McGinn, Normandy, Rose Gallagher, Royal Air Force, Scotland, Scottish, Second World War, Socttish Royal Engineers, South Africa, Stirlingshire, veterans, World War Two
The Big Lottery Fund today announces its latest round of funding made through Heroes Return 2, which enables veterans to embark on poignant visits back to the places where they saw action almost 70 years ago.
John Wotherspoon, 88, from Bonnybridge in Stirlingshire, made a special trip back to the beaches of Normandy in June this year. Thomas served in the 15th Division of the Scottish Royal Engineers and landed in France two weeks after the D Day Landings on June, 20 1944.
John said, "A lot of people don't know but there was still a lot of fighting going on. We were a mile or so behind the infantry guys; the Germans were really organised and we were being attacked from all sides. I was only 18 at the time and had never really experienced anything like that before. I have been back to Normandy before but on this trip I got to do things that I didn't get a chance to do the first time. It meant a lot for me to go back again. It's really hard to explain to people but it still makes me emotional after all those years."
Rose Gallagher, from Troon is going to South Africa in January next year. Rose said, "My husband, Thomas, was in the Royal Air Force and spent over three years of the war there training pilots. He died in 1992 but he used to talk about the place a lot. He loved the country but unfortunately he never got the chance to go back.
"He applied for a job there shortly after the War ended and even had an interview lined up but he met me and that was that. I'm going back with our daughter and we would like to try and go to some of the places he spoke about. It's lovely to get this experience and also have the chance to feel close to him again."
John and Rose are amongst six Scottish Second World War veterans who will be making poignant commemorative visits as part of the Big Lottery Fund's Heroes Return 2 programme.
Big Lottery Fund Scotland Chair, Maureen McGinn, said, "We are extremely proud to support veterans and their families to reflect on their experiences of the Second World War. The heroism of that time should never be forgotten and the stories we hear from those who served with such distinction are testament to that.
"Earlier this year the Big Lottery Fund extended the programme to enable veterans to apply for funding to make second trips. In this way, Lottery funding continues to assist these modest heroes and their families join up with their comrades and revisit the places where they demonstrated such dedication and bravery.


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New Inter-company Projects Functionality Added to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 CU7
This article is the next installment in our series documenting some of the major new functionality enhancements that Microsoft has made for professional services firms in the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 CU7 release. A previous blog in this series detailed the new Work Breakdown Structure paradigm. This blog will discuss new functionality in the area of inter-company project management.
The core target market for Microsoft Dynamics AX is in the upper mid-market and lower echelon of the enterprise market space. Many of the professional services firms in this target market serve a large multi-national client base of their own, and therefore have had to set up operations in foreign countries to support their clients. As such, many of the organizations that we work with have a requirement to manage multi-company projects and resource pools.
The most common scenario for these multi-company projects entails one legal entity, or company in Dynamics AX, being established as the contract-owning entity or the legal entity that has the contractual relationship with the end client. It is then common to have resources from one or more countries also working on the project. These entities are known as resource-lending entities. In the example that we show below, the US entity is the contract-owning entity that has the contractual relationship with the end client in the US, and India and Brazil are resource-lending entities, meaning that they also have team members working on the project.
It is important in these situations to ensure that revenue is being captured in the correct legal entity that is providing the services. This inter-company project accounting is one of the more complex processes that a global professional services firm has to manage since there are a number of issues that revolve around this, including revenue recognition, taxation, and other considerations.
In many organizations, the process that allows the resource-lending entities to capture the revenue for their portion of the services that were performed is to generate an inter-company invoice to the contract-owning entity, who then in turn bills the end client. In the previous version of Dynamics AX 2012 R2, there was not an actual inter-company billing model in place. Instead, the process of posting project timesheets in the resource-lending entity simply booked revenue directly into the general ledger in that entity and made the transactions available to the contract-owning entity for billing to the end client. So there wasn't as much visibility into these cross-company transactions or relationships.
In the new CU7 release of Dynamics AX 2012 R2, Microsoft has enabled an inter-company billing model that allows you to generate inter-company project invoices from the resource-lending entity to the contract-owning entity for the effort that they have provided on the project. So it's no longer managed behind the scenes – these inter-company transactions are very visible now. Some of the benefits of this approach include:
- More control - Since the resource-lending entities are often viewed by many organizations as more of an arms-length transaction, this inter-company invoicing process and corresponding AR/AP transactions more closely mirrors this.
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- Statutory support – This new process provides the ability to deal with local tax requirements in the foreign entities through the inter-company invoicing process.
- Transfer costs – You now gain more control over the transfer cost rules that exist between the entities, which is a common method for managing these inter-company transactions.
This new functionality will provide some solid benefits for international organizations that manage their multi-company projects in Dynamics AX.
Stay tuned for additional articles on some of the new enhancements in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 CU7 for professional services firms.
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Andy Yeomans
Andy Yeomans is Director of Business Development for sa.global, where his role is to help project-driven organizations evaluate and select ERP software systems to better manage their finances, projects, clients, and resources. Andy was instrumental in developing the organization's Microsoft Dynamics 365 industry solutions and practice area for the AE & Environmental industry. Andy has over 17 years of ERP experience and has helped dozens of AE & Environmental firms evaluate, select, and implement ERP software systems for their business.


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Obezbeđuje dovoljnu količinu proteina, naročito ako se jede u kombinaciji sa cerealijama. Bogato je biljnim vlaknima koja regulišu probavu i raznim mineralima, a sadrži malo masti. Sočivo snižava nivo holesterola, a pripremljeno sa aromatičnim travama i začinima ima antiejdžing efekat (usporava starenje).
Sinonimi: lentil plant | Lens culinaris
ETYM French lentille, from Latin lenticula, dim. of lens, lentis, lentil. Related to Lens.
1. Round flat seed of the lentil plant.
2. The fruit or seed of a lentil plant.
3. Widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder; SYN. lentil plant, Lens culinaris.
Annual Old World plant Lens culinaris of the pea family Leguminosae. The plant, which resembles vetch, grows 15–45 cm/6–18 in high and has white, blue, or purplish flowers. The seeds, contained in pods about 1.6 cm/0.6 in long, are widely used as food.
The most common varieties are the grayish French lentil and the red Egyptian lentil.
Sinonimi: lens system | crystalline lens | electron lens
ETYM Latin lens a lentil. So named from the resemblance in shape of a double convex lens to the seed of a lentil. Related to Lentil.
(Irregular plural: lenses).
1. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images; SYN. lens system.
2. Biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; it focuses light waves on the retina; SYN. crystalline lens.
3. Equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons; SYN. electron lens.
A transparent object with two refracting surfaces. Usually the surfaces are flat or spherical (spherical lenses). Sometimes, to improve image quality. Lenses are deliberately made with surfaces which depart slightly from spherical (aspheric lenses).
In optics, a piece of a transparent material, such as glass, with two polished surfaces—one concave or convex, and the other plane, concave, or convex—that modifies rays of light. A convex lens brings rays of light together; a concave lens makes the rays diverge. Lenses are essential to glasses, microscopes, telescopes, cameras, and almost all optical instruments.
The image formed by a single lens suffers from several defects or aberrations, notably spherical aberration in which a straight line becomes a curved image, and chromatic aberration in which an image in white light tends to have colored edges. Aberrations are corrected by the use of compound lenses, which are built up from two or more lenses of different refractive index.
Coal-mining town in Pas-de-Calais département, France; conurbation 327,000. During World War I it was in German occupation and close to the front line Oct 1914–Oct 1918, when the town and its mines were so severely damaged that mining operations could not re-start until 1921. In World War II it was occupied by Germany, May 1940–Sept 1944, but suffered less physical damage.
A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images


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ARTIZANA – Sankolo Collection – Mesh Dress & Headwrap
For the ultimate in Ethnic Couture I reach for the designs from the Fashion Haus of ARTIZANA. Today I show part of the "Sankolo Collection". The stylish mesh dress and matching headwrap takes me from a shopping trip at noon into the evenings best. Fitted for Maitreya and Slink Mesh Bodies, there is also five fitmesh sizes with alpha layer for Classic Avatars. Available in an … Continue reading ARTIZANA – Sankolo Collection – Mesh Dress & Headwrap


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SOUTHSIDE — Patrick Lister performed like the veteran pitcher he is when Southside needed him Saturday.
With a trip to the Class 5A state high school baseball quarterfinal round on the line, the senior stepped on the mound and hurled five sterling innings in helping the No. 5 Panthers defeat and No. 7 Etowah 6-1 in the rubber game of the series Saturday.
The Blue Devils won the first game Friday night 4-3, before Southside (28-11) earned a 7-1 win in the nightcap of the series between the Etowah County and Area 13 rivals.
Saturday's game didn't see quite the dramatics of the day before.
Still, a full house, which included seating packed to the point fans were forced to stand beyond the outfield fence, saw Lister lead the Panthers deeper into the playoffs where a series with Pinson Valley awaits.
Lister's level of play even surprised Southside coach Blake Bone.
"We knew he had the mentality to go out there and have a start like this," Bone said. "He's a competitor. He gave us a lot more than I expected. Our goal was to get a few innings out of him and get Andrew (Fuhrman) in the game. Patrick did a heck of a job for us."
Lister allowed two hits, one walk and no runs while fanning five.
"It feels great," Lister said. "The defense played great behind me. It is a huge rivalry, and it (the season) wasn't going to end with me, especially not with Etowah."
The Panther offense did its job in supporting Lister. Southside pounded 13 hits, while the Blue Devils had only four.
"We were able to get some good counts and get some guys on early," Bone said. "We had some timely hitting; that was a big key. We bunted the ball exceptionally well."
Etowah (28-11) used six different pitchers, but couldn't cool the Panther bats.
With Lister throwing the way he did, the two runs Southside picked up in the bottom of the first and second innings, respectively — an RBI single by Blake Devine and a suicide squeeze by Drew Mullinax — were all it would need.
"I felt confident from pitch one," Lister said.
Fuhrman relieved Lister in the sixth inning. He gave up two hits, including an RBI single to Blane Payne for Etowah's only run in the sixth. Fuhrman struck out the side in the seventh to end the game.
Southside built on its 2-run lead in the third when Cody Pylant singled with the bases loaded to bring in two more runs for a 4-0 cushion.
A fielder's choice and an RBI single by Fuhrman accounted for the final two Southside runs, both in the fifth inning.
Bone was very complimentary of both teams after the hard-fought series.
"Etowah had a great plan and came in here and played a heck of a series," Bone said. "I'm proud of our guys for the way they battled back after losing Game 1. You can lay down and tuck your tail, but our guys showed resiliency and did what it took to win the series."
The loss ended the Blue Devils' season.
"Southside has better ballplayers than us," Etowah coach Larry Foster said. "We have to play probably a perfect game for us to stay on the field with them. I'm proud of our kids for competing and doing what they did. We're getting better and I think it will be a good rivalry from here on."
The Panthers will travel to the Indians on Friday. The first game is set to begin at 5 p.m. and is a rematch of last year's quarterfinals. Southside swept the 2012 series on the road, winning 7-6 and 9-4.
"They have pretty good pitching," Lister said. "I just hope we can do the same thing as last year."
Southside beats Etowah 6-1 in second round of playoffs
SOUTHSIDE — Patrick Lister performed like the veteran pitcher he is when Southside needed him Saturday.


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She rose from battered bones and discarded dreams.
Dusted the sorrow from her cheeks and smoothed down the grooves the tears had set.
Set in her soul.
The pain had created so much destruction her self-worth caved in.
The Book says we were created perfect in his image but this construction gives in so easily to destruction.
Marred by failure: Hope escapes and defies all positive instruction.
But somehow something kept her motivated even though her heart was blacklisted and she found herself undeserving of any love and devotion.
A Single mother who did not even think about terminating the seed that began to grow within her even though she knew she couldn't build a garden lush enough to nurture it.
In light of National Women's Day 9 August 2013 (In South Africa) and to celebrate our National Women's month I felt the need to share an excerpt from a poem I wrote about my mother titled The Phoenix. We all know the popular tale of the phoenix that burned down to ashes but instead of succumbing to destruction it was reborn, renewed and rose even more splendid than before. The poem was inspired by my mother but ultimately I see the story reflected in a lot of women's eyes.
I cannot even begin to describe just how many phenomenal women I have met and come across. The sad thing is sometimes we forget just how incredible we are, we forget the battles we have fought and we are left maimed and forget the mountains we have actually climbed. And so, I constantly ask myself what makes us believe that we are so weak when ultimately we are so strong and unbelievably resilient? This time we have to look for the solution within, this time I really think we ought to turn the hand around and point at our chests.
We live in a world where a woman has become so objectified you tend to wonder if we even remember that we have intelligent minds, beautiful hearts (though at times, they may be bruised ) and deep mystical souls. It's a debate I have had in my mind for a while and somehow I always come back to how women have allowed themselves to become objectified. Sure, appearance is an awesome thing and I think the way you maintain yourself is a reflection of just how much respect and love you have for yourself but what we look like is not all who we are. I may sound like a feminist right now but we have to refuse to be bottled in to nothing but pretty pictures. I know single mothers (young and old), business women who created empires from their own mental capacity and toil, young women who grew up in tarnished homes but somehow grew up to become so beautiful and intelligent, women who have been abused who had the strength to walk away and so many more types of women who serve as shining examples of just how incredible we are. Why do we forget?
And so, after being objectified and labelled by the other sex they write books FOR US on how to live as women. What do we do? We flock to Amazon.com, CNA, Exclusive Books etc. because we hold so little faith in our inherent femininity and wisdom that we continue to seek approval from the outside world instead of consulting with the inside and living honestly with our values. Are we doing it for ourselves or to somehow be "accepted"? Introspection time ladies.
There is so much more to you than you give yourself credit for. Every now and then just look back at all your achievements and all the destruction/failure you have risen from. Do not succumb to other people's definition of who you are or who you should be – the best person who can define you is yourself. You are not just beautiful, but you are all intelligent, resilient, strong-willed and capable of building not just strong families but massive empires too.
It's time we take responsibility for how we feel about ourselves and start realizing our greatness. In doing that we should also uplift each other, I cannot fathom how we can wage war against ourselves and each other as well. To the amazing women in my life – thank you for always seeing my light even when I simply see it as a flickering flame. Thank you for being absolutely amazing and I doubt you would have made an impact in who I am if you yourselves were not phenomenal.
Happy Women's Month.
With Love. 🙂
Stay Committed.


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The three title words describe Carol very well. A Member of the BWC team.
This August will mark 20 years here for Carol. We are all very grateful for everything she does. Ask Carol how many times she has answered the phone over those 20 years when you call for an estimate for your basement.


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Chocolate Hills, Carmen, Bohol, Philippines
Photo by Dr. Rodilla Tumanda
by Bart Bull
The way the story gets told, he was, at bare minimum, bisexual. And that's to be gracious about the waterfowl. His most notorious film, 1926's Le Canard, was supposedly titled "Fuck A Duck" in English. Although that may itself be yet another canard. This is the kind of story where we'd better question everything.
Bernard Natan wasn't his real name. He was a Romanian Jew, so it's likely that Natan Tannenzaft or Tannanzapf probably wasn't really his real name either, though it does suggest he made his way across Germany at some point. And before he was shuttled back across Germany, he ended up owning Pathé, France's biggest film company. The one whose proud symbol is a rooster.
That's an actual fact — though declaring facts in the life of Bernard Natan is to take a swan-dive into the murkiest of French duckponds, into the cluckingest of poulet coops, into the near- impenetrable bird-poop of the closed-shutter French business-banking-judicial-governmental hierarchy of the 1930s. And then, even worse, to paddle into the time of the Vichy Government, when the Nazi occupiers were pleased and bemused to discover that they'd at last invaded a country whose citizens were not only willing to rat out the Jews but to help provide the proper enforcement mechanism too. Worse yet, when you come up for air, all you can do is breathe in the successful silence that followed the grand national collaboration.
Bernard Natan, Jew, foreigner, financial wizard, technological visionary, marketing seer and distribution innovator, studio chief and new owner of that ultra-modern French institution, Pathé, had appeared, the French courts were told, in scandalous stag films, lewd movies with elaborate sets and scenarios, films he wrote and directed and produced and then performed in as well. (As it was still The Silent Era, translation was a simple matter of, shall we say, inserts.) He was a sodomite, a foreigner, a pornographer, a Jew, and, of course, surely, a swindler. En plus, he had allegedly fucked a duck. It was enough to make a judge's knife hesitate above his medallions de maigret.
He was accused of fraud, of financial mismanagement, and he was, let it be said over and over again, a foreign Jew who fucked ducks on film — native ducks, noble French ducks. Early in his career, an emigrant, he had established a film company that produced nearly three dozen movies, and then he created his own production lab, Rapid Films, on rue Francouer, with labs and studios, workshops and soundstages that have since been transformed into le Femis, the French national film school. He created a advertising-publicity firm that still exists (under a less-troubling name, of course), he created the first footage of the 1924 Olympics, he built studios and stages and distributors and labs and projectors, and he produced major commercial movies.
In 1928, Charles Pathé, announcing that film was no longer profitable, stripped Pathé Cinema down to a shell company and sold off its assets. Bernard Natan risked acquiring it, transforming it into the dynamic Pathé-Natan. He began purchasing theaters, sixty-two of them across France; in September of 1929, he produced France's first talkies, licensing RCA's sound system for his new theaters; he re-launched Pathé's newsreels and added sound to the pioneering international news source that would be both distributed and widely imitated worldwide and which would lead to television news; by November of 1929, he had created France's first television company; it developed a transmission of television using telephone lines. He funded the research that led to the anamorphic lens, which led to Cinemascope and the contemporary wide-screen film. He innovated what we would now call vertical integration, controlling not only the means of production but the production labs as well, and the distribution and the theaters themselves. By 1930, no longer so convinced it was impossible to make money with movies, Charles Pathé wanted his company back.
Articles began to appear in the press, so many that they could surely be considered a well-organized campaign. Despite the fact that he'd been married to the same woman since 1909, despite the fact that he had two children, despite the fact that he made at least 60 major movies during the first half of the 1930s, he was now under steady attack: a Jew, an étranger, a pornographer, a pederast, perhaps even a foul violator of feathered fowl, and yet with his grasping grip clutching such an important economic institution of la France. A swindler, an embezzler? Surely. How could he not be?
The anti-Semitism of France in the 1930s is only so little remembered because France's next-door-neighbor was so successfully raising the standard, and because... well, there are other reasons too. After years of steady slander and innuendo, of gossip, and rumors in the press, all meant to destroy Natan's hold on the nation's most famous film company, in 1936, at the height of the Depression, the Tribunal de Commerce succeeded in appointing a receiver who proceeded to declare Pathé-Natan bankrupt. Natan continued to produce films; the firm continued to operate at a profit. But by 1938, just after Kristallnacht in Germany, Natan was arrested, and indicted, accused of fraud, of bilking investors, of negligent management and of hiding his heritage by changing his name.
Natan was imprisoned in 1939, and indicted yet again in 1941. This time he was convicted. Released in September, 1941, the Vichy Government arranged to have him placed on what is said to have been the very first train from France to Auschwitz. He was never seen again. Pathé (sans Natan) carried on with properly French management into the 1980s, based on the armatures Natan had created, and the theater chain he established lives on today.
If you should visit le Femis on rue Francouer, where once Bernard Natan first established his film lab, you enter the gates under a striking antique arch that still says "Pathé Cinema" with the fabled rooster emblazoned. On a sunny day, you will see France's elite film students smoking underneath solemn marble plaques with the names of those who died defending La Belle France against the Nazis. They are the cream of their generation, these film students. As ever in France, to succeed, to advance, to prevail, you must absolutely attend the proper school; all politicians, left, right and center, attend the same school, and all up-ranking military officers uniformly attend another. And le Femis is where the future of film in France is being instructed. There is, of course, no mention of Bernard Natan on those memorial plaques. In fact, to the degree that he is remembered at all — and he isn't, not much — he is noted in French film history as a swindler, an embezzler, and as a dirty duck-fucking pornographer. There is reason to believe he never did any such things, and much proof that he didn't, but he never got a chance to tell his tale. Putain. Fuck. Fuck a duck.
(Note: in 1999, Gilles Willem published an article, "The Origins of Pathé-Natan" in Screening The Past, Issue 8, and it was translated by Annabelle de Croÿ. I'm indebted to this remarkable effort at re-examining the restructuring of Pathé, at Bernard Natan's innovations, and at the financial and judicial machinations of that time.)
[Photo: Natan in the dock, c. 1936]
Southeastern Wyoming, Along Highway 130
Photos by Joe Carducci
Drawing by James Fotopoulos
From the Lapinator (patent pending) of Joe Carducci…
James Bowman at his site on the NYT's approval of President Obama's casual ironing out of ambiguity from forty or fifty years of American nuclear strategy. Apparently community activists don't pay much attention to such things. Presidents Nixon and Reagan were never more effective in the world than when the NYT, WP, CBS, NPR, et. al. had convinced that world looking in that we had elected a madman as likely to push the button as scratch their butt. Sarah Palin is discussed as well.
God writes a hell of a plot and it can even salvage His somewhat weaker characterizations, even in a setting as grim as the Katyn Forest.
The Sunday NYT went sorry-happy. The paper's status has gone to its head again. I suppose that's the whole point of working there now in these last days of capitalism and newspapers. Or maybe they'll apologize for it in the morning. Here's the lead editorial, however I can't in good conscience link to everything involved across the full six dollars of newsprint. But if it isn't Maureen Dowd demanding an apology from her Pope for embarrassing her before the Saudi Regime, it's Frank Rich trying to tie it all together in his column-and-a-half; they ought to just put the names in bold-face because his column has turned into a Kup's column, this week featuring Robert Rubin, Charles Prince, Alan Greenspan, Michael Steele, Charles Rangel, David Paterson -- all of yous apologize. Frank actually names those who needn't apologize: David Letterman, Matt Taibbi, and Jon Stewart. Elsewhere Rachel Donadio is exercised about her Pope, "As the Roman Catholic Church continued to battle a sexual abuse crisis, Pope Benedict XVI spent Friday evening watching a movie. And not just any movie: a biopic about wartime Pope Pius XII, one of the most contentious figures to haunt his five-year-old papacy." Didn't the last NYT tantrum take care of Hitler's Pope? I could've sworn there was a U.N. resolution, a hearty handclasp and Pulitzers all around over that one.
Still there is some fine reporting and foreign features which is where the real value in the paper lies. They tried to charge for their columnists several years ago and that was just a sad misunderstanding of which side of the foodchain is up. Here is what all that poundage of opinion and not-so-hot culture coverage counts on:
Lydia Polgreen in Bihar India.
Seth Mydans in Bangkok, with some great action photos by Agnes Dherbeys.
And now back to the commercial messages…
Alexei Barrionuevo reports from Volta Grande do Xingu that James Cameron got to live out his boyhood dream to be an Indian and on the front page of the NYT, albeit below the fold, "In the 15 years since he wrote the script for Avatar, his epic tale of greed versus nature, Mr. Cameron said, he had become an avid environmentalist." I'm very happy for him; I just hope he doesn't live in Los Angeles.
In the NYT Mag Paul Krugman explains Green Economics, which proves that one can invent economies out of whole cloth. Simply incentivize money-losing good things and tax profit-making bad things. Then when there's nothing going on anymore but rioting in the streets -- voila! -- you return to Princeton a hero.
I feel certain that Rupert Murdoch really enjoyed his Sunday Times.
NYT Monday editorial -- "First, They Get Rid of the Law Clinics". Does the unsigned editorialist really mean to invoke national socialism as in Pastor Martin Niemller's poem of 1946? Or are they trying to take a swipe at Laura Ingraham's recent construction which she applied to the coming tax regime (First they came for the rich…)? The cruder construction is likely more to do with Shakespeare's line of dialogue in Henry VI which Manhattan service-economy elites surely never tire of explaining is placed in the mouth of coup-plotters and is thereby pro-lawyer. But lawyers were of more value back when they were scarcer, any economist can tell you that. But I'm wondering if all those loyal NYT readers at NPR and the Comedy Channel will understand that.
Best sentence in the NYT Monday, maybe all week, in a live review of High on Fire by Ben Ratliff: "The riffs keep revolving until you feel as if you're playing them yourself."
And here's the story that really galvanized NYT staffers on Tuesday: Apple Polishers Delight: 4 Pulitzers for Washington Post; 3 for the Times, and 1 for Hank Williams!
The NYer takes it as its mission to provide just slightly more subtle and leisurely applied analysis as to why the Church ought be run from below, not that they really accept democracy per se. Hendrik Hertzberg lards it on: "Our largely democratic, secularist, liberal, pluralist modern world, against which the Church has so often set its face, turns out to be its best teacher -- and the savior, you might say, of its most vulnerable, most trusting communicants." I guess he forgot that modernity is doomed to be drowned in rising, boiling seas. He's also forgetting the rest of recent news about that modern world in his fever over how many criminals in the Church how many years ago? He prefers by ignoring the sexual brutalism in high schools and junior highs -- never mind colleges -- (see Christopher Caldwell 'The Kids Aren't Alright' link below). Well no, one can't expect New Yorker writers to be able to keep all that in mind when an opportunity to attack class enemies presents itself; the subscribers in Iowa demand it. Hertzberg means rather to applaud lawyers, judges and newsmen! I'll be kind and just note the problem of scale -- the Church is a large enough multi-national on-going philosophy of living applied to varying degrees of competence and inspiration by hundreds of millions of people, mostly now African, Asian, and Latin, that all manner of crime must be occurring somewhere within it at every moment. That's right, the Church even as we blog, is right now committing even plagiarism!
In Monday's NYT Ross Douthat dashes off a note to his own editorial board regarding which Pope might actually be the less culpable in the matter of their current campaign.
Nathaniel Popper on Raul Hilberg in The Nation:
But it is hard not to see the youthful anger of both Hilberg and Arendt--the expression of an inchoate Zionist zeal--occasionally ruffling their more sober later writing. Scholem perceptively pointed to something very personal in Arendt's work. In his letter, he told her, 'Your book speaks only of the weakness of the Jewish stance in the world. I am ready enough to admit that weakness; but you put such emphasis upon it that, in my view, your account ceases to be objective and acquires overtones of malice.' With Hilberg, such overtones are evident when he describes innocent Jewish families going to their death: 'During ghetto-clearing operations many Jewish families were unable to fight, unable to petition, unable to flee, and also unable to move to the concentration point to get it over with. They waited for the raiding parties in their homes, frozen and helpless.' The writing in the works of both thinkers rings with an almost visceral desire to distance themselves from the weak Jews… Yehuda Bauer, the eminent Israeli Holocaust scholar, recalls a moment when he was giving a lecture with Hilberg before a college class in Boston during the '70s. Bauer spoke about Jewish resistance to the Nazis; Hilberg began his rejoinder on a characteristically dry note before suddenly losing his temper. 'He yelled at those students and he said, 'How many of you have guns in your home?'' Bauer remembers. 'I said to him, 'You think there will be Nazis in Boston?' But he wasn't talking to the students--he was talking to the Jews in Europe. For a moment he forgot himself.'
Tim Johnston in the FT on the Thai class-war revealed when the wrong one kept winning elections until the bourgies got the coup they demanded from the King and the military.
Jonathan Kay in the National Post on Canada's racism.
Dorothy Rabinowitz in the WSJ on Tom Hanks' need to believe in America's reflexive racism.
It had not, or course, been necessary to remind Americans of who they were and were not. No menacing hordes, then or later, ever threatened American Muslims -- and it has been an insult to the nation to have been lectured to the same way after every attempted terror attack, as though wild mobs of citizens might actually run through the streets attacking Muslims. Even as the ruins of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon still smoldered, countless Americans had reached out to their Muslim neighbors to reassure them.
The NYT is in the car with Tariq Ramadan, the new Said manque who was cheated out of being "a tenured professor of religion, conflict and peace-building at the University of Notre Dame" (that may count as positive coverage of Catholicism). -- Either the bomb was in the other car or Bill Keller considers Kirk Semple expendable.
Two weeks back we saw Ron Rosenbaum's coverage of Paul Berman's dismantlement of Ian Buruma's book; this week the NYTBR gives it to Peter Beinart who is deeply impressed. He does "quibble" with Buruma's claim that "American Christians… sometimes feel more akin to conservative Muslims than to secular liberals." This sounds like some mysteriously approved form of racist insult, but it should be remembered that there was something of an ecumenical backfire watershed moment in 1994 when the U.N.'s population conference in Cairo foundered when varied faithful of the Middle East, and darkest Africa balked at the gifts of contraception, sex-ed and abortion from the ice people of the great white north, who naturally took to blaming the Pope John Paul II, who must've stood there squinting his blue eyes against the sun uncomprehendingly. 9-11 headed all that off and global warming became the U.N.'s new chew-toy.
The U.N. and the last genocide. David Bosco in the WP tracks the Rwandan ambassador-to-the-U.N. during the massacres, Jean Damascene Bizimana, to a French-owned plastics company in Alabama:
Canadian Gen. Romeo Dallaire… told me that Bizimana and top officials in Rwanda used satellite phones to stay in touch even as the carnage was raging. Regime officials, Dallaire wrote in his memoir, 'were always ahead of me in the field and could adjust to any initiative I tried. Through [Bizimana] they knew exactly what the council was going to do' He is particularly bitter that Bizimana knew more about the Security Council's decisions than he did. 'There I was with my small team of intelligence officers who were risking their lives for crumbs of information,' Dallaire wrote, 'while the extremists had a direct pipeline to the kind of strategic intelligence that allowed them to shadow my every move.'
Many Rwandan expatriates have settled in Upstate New York, but to my surprise, Bizimana's name and number came up with an address in Opelika, a city of fewer than 30,000 people, beginning in the summer of 1994.
Daniel Ford on Robin Olds' posthumous autobiography, A Man on a Mission:
When Robin Olds flew his first mission, in World War II, a fighter pilot needed to be young enough to withstand high levels of G-force. It is not unusual in combat for a pilot to be jammed into his seat by six G's—six times the force of gravity—so that he suddenly weighs half a ton. The blood rushes out of his skull and his vision may dim to gray, then black. By the time of the Vietnam War a G-suit, with its inflatable bladders, could substitute for the suppleness of young muscles, and electronics went far to make up for reflexes that were no longer youthful and fast.
So the modern U.S. Air Force is routinely able to put majors and colonels in the cockpit—but it is so dominant at the moment that in the 21st century no American pilot has shot down an enemy aircraft. Who in his right mind would challenge the U.S. in the air? This turn of events makes Robin Olds—107 combat missions as a youngster, 152 missions as a full colonel and 16 aerial victories—one of a kind. His career couldn't have happened in the old days, when middle-age men didn't fly combat missions, and it is unlikely to happen again. The whole fighter-pilot ethos, from the cigarette to the mustache, from the rule-breaking to the red stars on the fuselage (each denoting, in Vietnam, a MiG fighter shot down), is a relic of the past.
Mythili Bhusnurmath in The Economic Times, financial paper of the Times of India group:
Using airpower has been a big no-no since the one and only attempt in Mizoram backfired in the 1960s. But today it is possible, as US attacks against the Pak Taliban have shown, to zero in on specific targets with minimum collateral damage. Remember the troubles in Punjab did not end till the state decided to use brute force. But before it could do that it had to win the tacit approval of the public and that happened only when terrorism entered drawing room conversations in the capital. Today talk of the Maoists has replaced the Sensex in the capital's drawing rooms. This is the tipping point for Mr Chidambaram to 'do a Gill'.
Shadi Hamid in the CSM on Bush Nostalgia in the Middle East. What little discussion remains of democracy for Muslims still neglects to understand that it is a good thing if Islamists win an election for then they must leave heaven behind and administer water and sewers, port facilities and roads and bridges, or debase their political currency for the forseeable future. They might then keep power by fraud as in Iran but this also seals their fate. Unfortunately, there is a window closing on this and that is the arrival of nuclear weapons in the Persian and Arab worlds. Because when the sewage is backing up and the bridges collapse into rivers and the shelves are bare an Islamist will just contrive to hurry along to Heaven.
Christian Oliver in the FT on the footrace to North Korean souls between Protestantism and Buddhism:
'Buddhism is regarded as a patriotic institution in North Korea, associated with the nationalist movement and fighting Japanese colonial rule,' (Bop Ta) said, but added temples were often tourist sites. North Korean Buddhism is waning. Hwang Jang-yop, a former senior communist official and North Korea's most high profile defector, says the monks at temples there are 'fakes'. Bop Ta said North Korea's outlawing of Chinese script prevented proper study of ancient texts and that monks also defy tradition by marrying.
The IBD: Paul Volcker, Inflationist. More good plotting.
Hillsdale College power couple in the WSJ on the end of the depression.
Roger Pilon of Cato in the CSM, on the hearings to come to replace Justice White, I mean, Brennan, no Souter, or maybe Stevens:
The party's base, already disappointed with Mr. Obama, will doubtless press the president for a liberal replacement. But with the growing 'tea party' movement raising long-ignored constitutional issues, even a moderate nominee will face questions congressional Democrats would rather leave buried. Chief among those is that most basic question, brought to the fore by 'ObamaCare': Are there any longer any constitutional limits on federal power?
Christopher Caldwell in the FT, "The kids are not alright", on the suicide of Phoebe Prince in South Hadley, Mass.:
Getting rid of the old punitive morality that surrounded sexuality seemed like it would do no one any harm, and relieve a lot of unnecessary anguish and guilt. But young people have not reacted to it as theorised. They will gladly skip the 'morality' part. But in a world as socially competitive as that of teen dating, the 'punitive' part is simply too useful a tool to do without. So people proclaim themselves free of moral hang-ups, and yet throw around words like 'slut' and 'whore' with an abandon that no previous generation ever did. It is unlikely there was any moral disapproval in the taunts to which Prince was allegedly exposed. It might have been better if there had been.
Terry Teachout in Commentary on Brad Gooch's biography, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor:
Because these stories are in the broadest sense comic -- and because they portray a culture of which most educated Americans of the 50's knew little or nothing -- it was inevitable that they would be misunderstood by many of their first readers, who wrongly pigeonholed their author as a purveyor of the same Southern gothicism and grotesquery that they had previously encountered…. O'Connor was unsurprised by such obtuseness. 'I have found,' she wrote with dry amusement, 'that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.'
Jill Lepore in the NYer on the Henry Luce - Harold Ross feud manifested in their magazines, Time and The New Yorker:
Ross was born in a prospector's cabin, in 1892; Luce was born in 1898, in a missionary compound. Ross never finished high school; Luce went to Yale, like his father before him. A person could be forgiven for expecting Ross to have been the one to start the magazine edited for the old lady in Dubuque and Luce to have started the one that wasn't. That just the reverse came to pass explains some of the waywardness between them.
Robert McCrum in The Guardian on "the worldwide dialect of the third millenium".
Carolyn Cui in the WSJ on Chi-comedy.
One of the jokes he told at Beijing's Haidian Theater, Mr. Wong says, was about parking: 'I'm not good at sports, but I love parallel parking. Because unlike sports, when I am parallel parking, the worse you are, the more people are rooting for you.' …That didn't get as many laughs in China as it does in the U.S., probably because Chinese drivers park wherever they want to, he says. Last month, Mr. Wong performed before Vice President Joe Biden in Washington, earning a standing ovation at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner. To prepare, he read Mr. Biden's biography, he told the crowd, and, after meeting him, declared: 'I think the book is much better.'
The Stooges' remarks at their Hall of Fame induction.
The Stooges' "Search and Destroy" there.
Here's Jon Savage's summation of Malcolm McLaren in The Guardian, which touches gently on his limitations without measuring what those did to the one important thing he had anything to do with. Savage's book, England's Dreaming, goes deeper into it all but even that is a bit charitable to McLaren.
Contempt is something few can carry, primarily because it argues ultimately for either murder or suicide. Godard named it with his film which involved international film production itself, but in popular culture it was probably a New York thing even then, introduced and branded as we now say by Andy Warhol. That story as it pertains to music is told very well in the book, Please Kill Me, by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain; it begins in 1965 (before Hippie let us note) with the Velvet Underground as presented by Warhol. Of the figures riffing by in this oral history's prologue, only Danny Fields has anything one could call a love for music and he explains being unable to convince Lou Reed and John Cale that they should get away from Warhol's "corny" presentation and trust in their music.
Savage's book covers McLaren's experiences in early-seventies NYC with the New York Dolls. It's hilarious. Taking what he'd learned back to London he was allowed a do-over he may not have happened upon had he stayed in NYC and tried to get involved with the earliest punk bands there. The media and money were tightening up in the American music industry after 1972, but in the hot-house London-based economy of British newspapers and record labels the punk paradigm shift could happen on the front pages, on the BBC, and at the top of the charts.
England's Dreaming was one of the few books I read before updating my own book, R&TPN, and what struck me most reading the impressive blow-by-blow was that all the hubbub in the media was caused by the simple, natural loutish behavior of Steve Jones and Paul Cook topped off with the reaction shots of Johnny Rotten grinning. All Malcolm had to do was blithely defend it, which according to Savage he decided to do only the day after the infamous Bill Grundy "Today" program appearance; Malcolm had originally been unnerved himself by the swearing. But that show was actually the perfect demonstration of what it was all about! Grundy, a middle-aged straight, was flirting with the punkettes with the band on live television and the Sex Pistols were disgusted at him! And one motor of cultural revolt is surely that young men attempt to keep the females of their cohort for themselves against the poaching of their elders who always have more to offer. So culture and fashion, where young males can with a little ingenuity and gall pull a cool-switch and make older males look suddenly hopelessly out of it is a perennial tendency. Again Britain was ripe coming off the hippie boom due to the careful and conscious tribalizing of youth factions and the Sex Pistols were suddenly hunted by the same Teddy Boy fifties-styled rockers that Malcolm had given up on just five years earlier.
It was McLaren's perverse American tour-dates and his use of Sid Vicious thereafter in NYC that really turned off many; it was passive cruelty worthy of Warhol but McLaren didn't get shot. And its major accomplishment was to plant a useless Sid-clone in every American punk rock scene thereafter -- those scenes necessarily made up of far less decadent go-getters for all the decadence of the American music and media industries. And this doesn't even address the problems this Brit re-branding of punk rock with Situationist pretense and vomit made for the ongoing attempt to crack that American music blockade by The Ramones, Television, The Weirdos, Black Flag, etc.
In any case it wasn't until after Nirvana's galvanization of the industry for punk in 1991 that the deal was easy enough for the now older, wiser ex-Sex Pistols to reunite and tour. When John remarked that now they'd finally get to be a band, that was not an indictment of the London newspapers or ITV but of their manager who had thought them terrible. The Sex Pistols weren't the only thing Malcolm had contempt for.
Billy Childish on authenticity and originality:
Then again it's only pseudo-cleverness, 'cause it's not actually clever at all, it's sort of that adolescent covering your tracks. Because it's neurotic, really, it's not genuinely clever, it's trying to be clever, trying to be an adult by being sarcastic. It doesn't have any affiliation with real cleverness, that is sort of the feeling you get, that they want to appear smart. But it's pseudo, a lot of these things are not what they appear to be. People don't call things by their proper names. They're always trying to outwit their critics. You know, like, by any sort of adolescent manoeuvre they can come up with. My claim to originality is [that] authenticity is far more important. Most people seem to think originality would have something to do with authenticity but not when it's... most originality is pseudo-originality. The only way to become authentic, in other words, to have any original ideas at all is to be an authentic first. Because if you're authentic you're true to your calling, to your heart. Follow your star, the thing that leads you and inspires you, and that means that something else might come through which comes close to the notion of originality. To strive for originality in itself is a pointless adolescent preoccupation.
Paul Beston in the WSJ reviews Andrew Potter's book, The Authenticity Hoax:
Mr. Potter notes that the search for authenticity often ends up as a status-seeking game... The local-food trend illustrates what Mr. Potter calls 'conspicuous authenticity,' by which the well-heeled embark on a 'perpetual coolhunt,' whether it is for authentic jeans, pristine vacation spots or mud flooring....
Stanley Crouch in the Daily News on the film Facing Ali.
Part of what makes Facing Ali such a good film is that it does not miss out on the truth of Ali's connection to the cult that Malcolm X bitterly attacked after he went to Mecca and claimed to have been misled and deceived by Elijah Muhammad. One of the reasons that nothing is said, especially by black writers, politicians and the media, is that Louis Farrakhan scared the pants off of them…
The film is made great by the men who fought Ali and suffered at his hands whenever he had the chance to belittle them as servants of the 'enemies' of black people, as opposed to himself, the shining race hero... What is most overwhelming about Facing Ali, however, is the human grandeur of those men who won or lost fights to him. They bled, they suffered, they were treated unfairly and they were disappointed - but they prevailed in deep human terms. The size of feeling and the depths of philosophical understanding heard from Joe Frazier, George Chuvalo, Larry Holmes, Ken Norton, Ron Lyle and George Foreman will startle those who think that his opponents were as intellectually limited as Ali was and probably still is.
Obituary of the Week: Arthur Mercante Sr., Boxing Referee
On the NYT sports page is George Vecsey's reprise of the ancien Howell Raines regime's campaign, Billy Payne is the Pope, and women are little boys, or something like that.
Allen Barra in the WSJ on Jim Bouton's Ball Four.
(Thanks to Steve Beeho)
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