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Abbott brothers and Phil Anselmo begin to have a highly publicized rift. Pantera breaks up. Drummer Vinny Abbott and brother/guitarist Darrell Abbott form Damageplan, while Phil continues with other various projects. On December 8th 2004 at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, OH, a couple minutes into Damageplan's set a "crazy fan" came onto the stage. He shoots Darrell Abbott dead at point blank range 3-5 times in front of a shocked crowd. A few individuals tried to take the shooter out and paid with their lives. Within about 5 minutes, a cop sneaks up on the shooter and blows his head off with a shotgun.
Darrell Abbott was the first Heavy Metal Rock star to ever be shot and killed onstage during a performance. It's been called "the worst day in metal history."
This event occurred on the 24th anniversary of John Lennon's death.
John Lennon was also murdered by a "crazy fan" with a gun, within the same hour of the evening, also attacked from behind.
On December 8th, 1984 - the 4th anniversary of John Lennon's death, Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley (Hanoi Rocks) died in a 1972 De Tomaso Pantera, driven by a drunk Vince Neil (Motley Crue), which had struck another car on their way to buy more beer.
According to Tommy Bradford (original Pantera Bass player), the band was named after the car before they actually knew what the word meant. He says this in an interview contained in the documentary film "Planets of Destruction."
Nathan Gale (Darrell Abbott's murderer) was the same age as John Lennon's murderer when he shot him (25).
Nathan Gale was born on 9/11/1979. According to Chris Armold's book written about the shooting, Gale weighed 11 lbs 11 oz when he was born.
The night of the Damageplan shooting began with a band called 12 Gauge. The night ended when Nathan Gale's head was blown off by a 12 Gauge.
"CAN YOU FEEL IT BUILDING/DEVASTATION IS ON THE WAY/FEEL THE HAIR ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK AS THE RUSH BEGINS" - First verse of Damageplan's opening song that night "Breathing new Life." Nathan Gale allegedly grabbed Darrell by the hair from the back before fatally shooting him.
Mary Clark, Nathan's alleged Mother, has been quoted by many media sources and even appeared in WE's "Secret Lives of Women" in 2009. However none of these interviews or the TV episode seem to be available anywhere anymore. [edit - I have since found this episode on itunes, you can watch it for $1.99]
Mary Clark initially bought the gun for her son as a gift, but Nathan (killer) had to pick it up in person and do a background check, which he apparently passed despite having a criminal record.
The only info we have on Gale's biological father and brothers are contained in the book written on the subject by Chris Armold. None were interviewed, the brother's names were changed (to "protect their privacy"), and all went virtually unmentioned in media reports.
Nathan Gale was allegedly diagnosed "paranoid schizophrenic" while serving in the Marine Corps shortly before being honorably discharged. However, the Marine Corpse has never confirmed this publicly citing privacy reasons.
Nathan Gale was dragged off the stage at a DAMAGEPLAN concert in Cincinnati eight months prior to the Alrosa Villa shootings. Although he caused $3,000 worth of damage to equipment, the band did not press charges and he did not appear to have a weapon that night.
Gale was spotted pacing outside the Alrosa Villa during the opening band's sets looking suspicious, according to a security guard. He was told twice by the same security guard he could not park in the first couple spots that he attempted to park. According to the Rolling Stone article, owner of the club Rick Cautela stated "One of my guys who helps to set up the bands eventually told him to leave."
Although there is much speculation on what drove Gale to kill that night, police investigators constantly maintained that "we may never know the motive."
Many people in the audience apparently thought the shooting was part of the act initially, including the owner of the club who kept pouring drinks as the first few shots went off.
Since Dimebag's shooting, mass shootings have been on the rise in America despite increased "security measures" all over the country.
According to www.schizophrenia.com about 1% of the US population has schizophrenia. Of that 1%, between 10% and 50% are suicidal.
"People with schizophrenia are far more likely to harm themselves than be violent toward the public. Violence is not a symptom of schizophrenia. News and entertainment media tend to link mental illnesses including schizophrenia to criminal violence. Most people with schizophrenia, however, are not violent toward others but are withdrawn and prefer to be left alone."
Suicide numbers are known to be much higher among schizophrenics than those associated with homicide. If suicide among schizophrenics is between 10%-50%, it would be generous the say 5%-10% are homicidal. To slice things even thinner, according to one study about 20% of schizophrenics live independently. Nathan Gale allegedly lived alone at the time of the shootings, although his mother did not live far away. So when we are talking about a full blown homicidal paranoid schizophrenic who lives alone, we are talking about a very rare type of person within an already extremely rare segment of society (closer to 0% than .025% of the population).
The probability of a rock star being shot and killed onstage before Dimebag was about 0%. This is based on the fact that there is no example of this before Dimebag's unfortunate shooting occurred. And as far as I know there is no instance of it happening since then either. Therefore, the possibility of a rock star being killed this way is about as close to 0% as you can get without being 0%.
When we factor in the rarity of Nathan Gale's condition combined with the rarity of this type of homicide, it is nearly impossible that the Dimebag shooting occurred the way we were told, according to the numbers.
"It was like a real bad movie. None of it seemed real whatsoever. None of it." - Vinnie Paul Abbott
One of the questions that comes up constantly regarding the Darrell Abbott murder is "why?" Some of the more popular answers are:
1 - The shooter was crazy and we can never truly know what his motive was.
2 - The shooter was angry about the breakup of Pantera.
3 - The shooter thought that Pantera stole his lyrics and didn't give him credit.
4 - Phil Anselmo's negative comments in the press about Darrell Abbott somehow drove Nathan Gale to shoot him.
1 - The first explanation is the main one which was repeatedly enforced by the media and the police investigators who made statements to the press. It is based on the assumption that Nathan Gale was paranoid schizophrenic, which may have been true. However, this was never officially confirmed by the military (who allegedly diagnosed him before honorably discharging him) or police investigators. It was "confirmed" by author Chris Armold through his own personal research and by his alleged communication with Gale's mother, a communication nobody can confirm but the author himself. Not saying it didn't happen, but we are basing an awful lot on his word alone. None of the other interviews with Mary Clark seem to be available anywhere at this time, other than a brief clip of her taken from a WE television broadcast which does not appear to be downloadable any longer. Part of the explanation as to why Mary Clark has been invisible to the public is that angered fans would likely want to hurt her or worse given what her son did and that she allegedly bought him the gun. But the fact she agreed to appear on a television documentary about "The Secret Lives of Women" seems to contradict this explanation.
2 - The second "why?" makes very little sense, because shooting the Abbott brothers eliminates any possibility of a Pantera reunion! Therefore, it's not an action consistent with being upset about the band's breakup because it makes the matter worse, not better. And if we are to believe Gale survived bootcamp in the Marines and had the foresight to plan 2 separate attacks on Dimebag, he probably was together in the head enough to realize killing the band members would not help bring the band back together. Of course, there is always the convenient explanation that the shooter was simply nuts and "we may never know the motive." That pretty much works for any scenario. But it doesn't mean we should close the book and stop looking for consistency and logic. Everyone does things for a reason, even if it is too obscure to see from the outside.
3 - The third "why?" doesn't make sense either because Phil wrote all the lyrics. Gale allegedly listened to "Vulgar Display of Power" over and over and anyone who does that knows that the lyrics are 100% Phil Anselmo. So if stolen lyrics was his beef, he'd be hunting down Phil, not the Abbott brothers - who only wrote the music.
4 - Last theory also doesn't work because Gale attempted to attack Damageplan once before the infamous Phil Anselmo interview ran where he said Dimebag "deserves to be beaten severely." Of course, there may have been others out back then that Gale may have read or heard, but this begins to stretch things beyond reasonable limits.
Maybe it's time to ask different questions. There's 2 basic questions that I have not seen asked anywhere.
Who benefited from the shooting of Dimebag?
Who was most damaged by the shootings?
Obviously Nathan Gale did not benefit from the shooting as it ended with his own head blown off. He went in with over 30 rounds which shows at least the possibility of intention to kill many people besides just ex members of Pantera, further complicating the alleged motive. It also shows that he intended to have a shootout and he can't have been so "crazy" as to think he would get out alive. So to figure out who benefited from the shootings, we need to expand our view outside of Gale, because he clearly had little to gain other than a moment of possible satisfaction before a violent death.
There were a few news stories which highlighted the fact that the Alrosa Villa had no metal detectors that night and that there were no security cameras. So theoretically, this event benefited the cause of those companies who manufacture security/surveillance equipment. It also stirred up the conversation about gun laws - further contributing to the argument that "people shouldn't have access to guns so easily." So in this way, the agenda to disarm Americans and erode the constitution has benefited. Also, the fact that Nathan Gale was not on his meds came up as a main motivating factor in his decision to carry out the shootings. Therefore, the pharmaceutical industry gets a good plug there. In short, the control structure in society that aims to keep civilians in check benefited from this event. Whether that was by design or by accident is not the point here, simply that these are the beneficiaries of the horrific event, if any can be named.
As far as who was most damaged by this event, on the top of the list would be the victims and their loved ones. Secondly, the bands and their fans were most affected by the shootings. And since Damageplan was still very new, Pantera and their fans would be the more obvious target, if one had to be named. This shooting successfully destroyed Pantera for good, further cemented the rift between Vinny Abbott and Phil Anselmo, and traumatized metal fans everywhere. So symbolically speaking, we can be sure this was an attack on the band Pantera and their fans - as well as heavy metal fans in general. This at least plays into the idea that Nathan Gale was angry at the band. But was there a larger hatred of Pantera than we even know?
"I have a devoted following that would do anything for me. Anything I say." - Phil Anselmo
In the 90s Pantera was a dangerous band. And Phil Anselmo was a very dangerous man. But not to you and I, the average fan. In fact, the band tended to empower their fans. They were not dangerous to their listening audience. But when they reached the top of the billboards, they became a danger to those in control of American society.
They were "Cowboys from Hell." And what young boy, and even many young girls, haven't put on a cowboy hat, imagined themselves on a horse, and held out fake guns and uttered the words "stick em up?" The image of the outlaw cowboy or the heroic lone Ranger who takes out criminals, or robs a bank...a freedom fighter who is above the law. Most of us have a deep childhood connection to such an image. Pantera tapped into that very American archetype and their southern pride and made their fans feel like they were part of it regardless of where they lived. "Don't mess with Texas." "Gimme back my bullets." "We're takin over this town."
The use of cannabis imagery became prevalent in their merchandise, well before it was legal. Again, tapping into the rebellious, free spirit of Americans and metal fans worldwide. The criminalization of cannabis has been well documented, as have its health benefits been. The promotion of cannabis was another reason Pantera was a threat. Only after years of constant struggle has cannabis become legal, and who knows for how long?
The use of the confederate flag brought Pantera, at least symbolically, into the political arena for real. Although many younger Northern metalheads may not have understood its history, the association with racism probably started right about there, not with a Phil Anselmo rant. I don't personally feel the band was seeking to promote racism in any way, the confederate flag is simply a symbol of southern heritage. However, given the history behind the flag it's always a slippery slope when brandishing it, and Phil Ansemlo himself has distanced himself away from it for this reason. But again, another reason Pantera was viewed as dangerous.
Phil Anselmo collaborated with Norwegian Black Metal musicians and even recorded some black metal of his own with Viking Crown and Eibon. The Norwegian Black Metal scene had a highly publicized controversy in the early 90s involving church burnings, murder, and a downplayed effort to promote nationalism. Although the key players involved were quickly detained and the movement smothered, the combination of Phil Anselmo and Black Metal was surely one that did not go unnoticed by "the powers that be."
The music video for "Mouth for War" is mostly composed of Phil Anselmo screaming at you in a manner extremely reminiscent of a boot camp drill sergeant. Of course Phil's message is not the same as the one delivered in the Marines, but the result can be comparable. The goal of the drill sergeant is to break down the new recruit and build him back up into the machine needed for the tasks passed down from above. When "regular people" start playing "drill sergeant" and delivering orders from an independent source, this is a threat to the power structure. Because if people begin to unite under an independent cause they can challenge the system and make a change. No change can occur without the consent and/or control of "the powers that be." This is the reason Americans are so divided today, because any movement that grows to a certain size gets taken out or co-opted.
When "Far Beyond Driven" hit to top of the billboard charts, this showed that the band had a very large audience. Bands, actors, politicians, or anyone who has a large following has an influence on society. Therefore, if that influence is not consistent with the "status quo" it is ALWAYS checked in some manner.
John Lennon was also perceived as a threat to the power structure when he compared the Beatle's popularity with the popularity of Christ. In fact, President Nixon tried to get him deported from the US more than once. Jim Morrison was also a threat to the power structure. "Break on through" meant "defy the status quo." People were listening and that made him a threat. Hendrix wrote "Machine Gun" against the Vietnam war. All these men died under strange circumstances. Even if we buy the stories told to us by the media, the after effects of these deaths tell us something loud and clear: if you challenge the control structure and people start listening, you WILL get taken out or somehow reduced in stature. It might come in the form of a crazy man with a gun, a tragic suicide, an unexpected overdose, or a public crucifixion of character by way of some form of controversy and/or scandal.
With all of this in mind, we come back again to Dimebag's murder on December 8th, 2004 and recognize the date of the anniversary of John Lennon's death as a very deliberate message. It's the message from the same killer, leaving his mark and showing us that he is still paying attention and reminding us of who's in charge. This is no crazy man with a gun, this is the devil himself. And some day we're gonna have to pull aside the movie screen and stare him down.
After completing this blog, I managed to obtain the official investigative report. You can read the follow up I did HERE
You might also be interested in the blog I did regarding the mass shooting at an Eagles of Death Metal concert.
Other popular blogs I have done:
The Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott Murder
The Chris Cornell Death
Star Wars and the Occult
America: Land of the Plumed Serpent
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Those of us who call the Maritimes home know just how beautiful it is here: swallowed up by the chilly Atlantic Ocean, home to the world's highest tides. From the deep green forests of NB, to the red sand soils of PEI, it's all so photogenic.
Instragram is full of pictures of our stunning Maritimes. One thing I really enjoy about the app is how it encourages you to take note of what's around you. To look at the little details, like the way the snow falls in perfect little spheres or the way the evening light filters through the forest trees . There are some Maritime instagramers who are really killing it. They promote our region with their incredible photography and they inspire me to get out and explore the region too.
The following is a list of some of my favourite Maritime Instagramers. It's by no means exhaustive. If you know of a great Maritime Instagramer that I should be following, please pass their name/handle along!
My Favourite Maritime Instagramers:
- Colin Swift (@colinscamera) – In Colin's bio he says, "It's beautiful, look around" and that he certainly does. He sets up regular Insta-meets and his explorations around the Maritimes result in some of the most stunning photos I've seen on Instagram, or anywhere for that matter.
2. Melinda Foster (@Melinda.Foster) – Melinda takes stunning nature and wildlife photos of southern NB. I am continually impressed by the patience that she must possess in order to get some of her shots. I love her photos because they show the wildness of NB in an up close and personal way that we city dwellers don't often get to see.
3. Jordan (@fundysnapper) – Jordan takes striking photos around my favourite city on the Bay of Fundy: Saint John. His streetscapes show off the history and architecture the city is so well known for, in it's very best light.
4. Amy Stackhouse (@amystackhouse) – Amy takes photos around Nova Scotia and I really love her attention to detail in her photography. Her shots are always so interesting and I find myself drawn into them and pausing to study all the exquisite details in each one.
5. Jordy Smits (@JORDY_SMITS) – In his bio, Jordy says he is a self taught photographer from The Netherlands currently based on the east coast of Canada. He does mostly night shots and his photos have a surreal and dream-like quality that I love. It's a different take on the Maritime landscapes that are so familiar to us in the day.
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Lady rosanna Found this boat on #grandmanan an at dark harbour. It has a natural barrier of rock separating the harbour from the ocean which made me wonder how this boat got here. #Nightphotography #Nikon #Boat #Nightsky #Night #enjoycanada #Night_Shooterz #Nightimages #Canada #longexposure #Lightpainting #Explore #amazing_longexpo
6. Morgan Haley (@coastalwanderings) – Morgan takes gorgeous photos from all around eastern Canada. I love how varied her shots are, from forest trails to dreamy beaches.
7. Robert Hebert (@rbrthebert) – Robert is a self-professed adventurer and seems to take full advantage of the numerous outdoor opportunities available in New Brunswick.
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#kayak #kayaking #outdoorphotography #outdooradventure #outdoorsman #outdoorlife #adventure_lust #outdoor #outdoorlifestyle #outdoors #outdoorphotography #outdoorlife #outdoorsports #outdoorsman #outdoorsy #adventurous #adventures #adventuretime #adventure #adventurer #nbfall #explorenb #nb_photos #rei1440project #paddleview #perceptionkayaks #discovernewbrunswick #fortuaoutdoors
8. Andrew Ryan Munn (@PORTCITYMUNN) – Many of Andrew's photos feature one of my personal favourite Maritime locales: The Bay of Fundy. His photos display the raw power of the Bay as well as its calmer, gentler side at sunset.
9. Nick Jay (@JAYPROGRAMMER) – Nick is a photographer from PEI and his shots of the Island's landscapes makes me miss PEI's breezy and beachy vibe.
10. Bryn Robinson (@BRYNPHD) – I've just recently starting following Bryn on Instagram but she's got a great eye for zeroing in on the most interesting subject matter.


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This particular error is one I have seen a number of times after a client, or inexperienced consultant, has copied a database from the live server to the test server and run the scripts from the Microsoft Knowledge Base and thought everything was fine after logging in with the sa account (which is another good reason for not using sa as it hides a multitude of errors.
However, as soon as a user tries to log in, they receive the error message shown below:
Microsoft Dynamics GP
A get/change operation on table 'syUserDefaults' failed accessing SQL data.
The cause of this error is quite simple; the SID (Security Identifier) of the Server Login ID and of the Database User are different.
There are two ways of fixing it:
- Use SQL Server Management studio (SSMS) to delete the server login and database users and then save the user with a new password from within Microsoft Dynamics GP.
- Use SSMS to run an ALETR USER command on the database user to link it to the Server Login.
The latter option is by far the quicker, and there are two methods you can use to do this:
- Alter each user individually, which is only feasible if you have a small number of users.
- Alter all users in Microsoft Dynamics GP using a SQL script, which is by far the easiest method.


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One cause of painful veins in the hands is Buerger's disease, which typically affects small- and medium-sized arteries and veins, states WebMD. Blocked arm and leg arteries reduce blood flow to the fingers and hands, causing pain even when resting. As of 2015, doctors don't know what causes the blockage.
A strong link exists between using or being exposed to tobacco, and developing blocked arteries, notes WebMD. When significant blockages occur, gangrene may set in, mandating amputation of a patient's fingers. Patients with Buerger's disease typically experience inflamed veins and symptoms of Raynaud's phenomenon, such as cold, numb, discolored fingers and spasms of small arteries.


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I used to think that musicians had it made, meaning that their lives were enviable. Face it. You have a talent. You use it. And everyone loves you. But now, having watched A Star is Born, and The Great Caruso, I can see it's nothing like that.
Home with the flu, deciding if I should write to Puffs and offer them space here on the blog, I had a lot of time to watch television. I got lucky and caught a movie I never saw before, even though my father used to rave about it, The Great Caruso. Total fiction. But still. We can learn from this.
Grand Tenori.com lends us the pic of Enrico Caruso above. Thank you.
Most people my son's age aren't terribly familiar with the great tenors. This kid will soon be 20, so we can't call him Little anymore. When his older brothers were little I made them listen to Pavoratti on their way to school. But somehow the youngest missed this phase. I think cassettes went out the window and CDs were too expensive at the time.
Now, Bruce Springsteen, my son knows. I mean, Bruce Springsteen brought down the house on Super Bowl Sunday and the physicist-engineer-computer-scientist-still-undecided was at a party, so he must have watched and listened as thousands cheered on. I didn't really feel Bruce sang to me. The commercials, on the other hand. . .
Yesterday, at work, about 4 pm, two more patients to go before the finish, I started to feel sick.
What do you do if you're a therapist in this situation? Just say, "Ya' know, I feel sick. You're less important than me?" No. You don't. You rely on hope is what you do, and the work goes on.
I get through it and pick up FD who doesn't even have to say, "Go to bed. Rest up. I'll take care of dinner."
I mumble something about left-overs and stumble upstairs to get out of my clothes, close my eyes, listen to right-brain lectures on Ted.com, make a couple of calls and want to sleep, but really feel too sick to do that.
Eventually, if you don't eat or drink anything in these situations, your biology takes care of you.
I must have slept, because I wake up and FD is lying next to me. "I'm cold," he says. "It's nice that you have a fever."
See, life is good. I force myself out of bed and amble downstairs to heat up some hot water with lemon juice and honey, something my father swears is good for you on a good day and my mother patronizes. I drink it very slowly watching Turner Classic Movies.
Mickey (Woody Allen) is drooling over Holly, one of Hannah's sisters in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). If we were to take the movie apart for ethics, we would call it an abuse of power, the way he seduces Dianne Wiest, although she is a willing partner to the seduction, one of many in the film, although I came in on the second half. Mickey works as a television producer, she's a starving writer. It's an easy win for the Mic.
Oh, why not go on, I'll never return here. Perhaps the best part of the movie is Mickey telling over his suicidal wish to Holly, and how he almost shoots himself but misses. He wanders out of his apartment after this near suicidal act and roams around aimlessly, finally finding a theater. He's watching a Marx Bros. movie in a theater. He's watching Duck Soup and there is nothing funnier, as you may know, than Duck Soup.
Mickey can't help but laugh and enjoy himself. The Marx Bros. make life worthwhile. If there will be Marx Bros and the like, why would he ever want to miss out on that? Seems silly.
Another day.
On to Caruso. Much better!
The Great Caruso called my name the very next day. Two in the afternoon, watching television, what could be more decadent. Showered, changed pajamas,, canceled patients and never looked back.
Wikipedia tells us this operatic musical of Enrico Caruso's life is highly fictionalized. And if Wiki says it's fictionalized, probably none of the movie is true. Nevertheless, Mario Lanza stars as Caruso and some say that no one else could have conveyed the warmth and grace of the opera star, the richness of his personality, his nuances, generosity, and kindness quite like this.
And if you're looking for natural beauty in a movie, Ann Blyth plays Caruso's wife, Dorothy Benjamin. He meets her when she is a teenager. Doro is in love with the great tenor at first note; he marries her when she is in her mid-twenties. The socialite marriage made headlines, attracted congratulations from the likes of President Woodrow Wilson.
See, everyone loves tenors! And sopranos, too. And baritones. What is Bruce Springsteen, anyway? A baritone, I think.
Several opera stars make cameo appearances in this wonderful film, one that serves as a nice introduction to opera, by the way, rich in performance and designed to grab at the heartstrings. Caruso dies at the end, either from his addiction to ether, or a mysterious throat disease, we never know which, but it is premature, his death, the only thing true about his Hollywood ending.
Richard Hageman, Carl Benton Reid, Eduard Franz and Ludwig Donath appear in the film along with stars from the Metropolitan Opera, notably the soprano Dorothy Kirsten and Jarmila Novotna, Blanche Thebom, Teresa Celli, Nicola Moscona, Giuseppe Valdengo, Lucine Amara and Marina Koshetz.
It is a veritable tour of the Met.
Caruso, a poor son of a peasant family in Italy, an Adult Child of an Alcoholic (ACOA) rises to international stardom. Here in the USA it pains him that big donors to the Met want him to pander to rich people, to play to the Diamond Horseshoe. The Diamond Horseshoe, high society season ticket holders, I imagine, are the patrons with seats near the orchestra.
Caruso is told to keep his fists out of his pockets on stage, lest he offend them, the patrons of opera. This isn't classy, fists in pockets. He tells his socialite father-in-law-to-be that he will not play to the Diamond Horseshoe, that he will sing to the galleries, to the seats far away, way up in the balconies, for these people paid to see him, too. And there are more of them.
Everything about Caruso is charming, even his routine before each performance, although this is not a professional recommendation: a pinch of snuff in each nostril for mental acuity; a shot of whiskey to "relax the throat", and a glass of water to wash it down. You never see him drink anywhere else in the film, thus his alcohol use is wonderfully moderate. This in the day before beta-blockers.
He's a smash, of course. Every time he sings a note, we swoon. Well, some of us.
When he leaves the opera house, well-wishers outside on the street greet him as he is about to hop into the convertible with his valet and his driver. They beg, "Mr. Caruso! Sing something for us! We couldn't afford seats." And he sings for them. You could cry, seriously.
As you may know, if you have been reading this blog, my significant other is a musician, too. He made me cry on our first date (sure, an exaggeration, but Bach on the piano, when most people only know Heart and Soul, you would, too). So when Doro Benjamin tells Enrico that she fell in love with him the first time she heard The Voice, I could relate. It is the reason, tell your children, to practice.
She is discouraged from it, advised against the marriage. The life of a musician is a life on the run, they all tell her. He's never home. It is never about you. His performances come first.
His work comes first.
And his are charitable performances. How can a woman object to that? You'll like this. His voice is auctioned off at the Met for the Liberty Loan Home Fund. I suppose we need one now, too, a Liberty Home Fund.
Enrico tells Doro,
A man thinks he has a voice. The truth is, the voice has the man. The voice has to be somewhere, the man follows.I imagine Mrs. Springsteen has the same problem.
He did Born in the USA, right? It's likely that for every dollar Caruso performed for charity, Mr. Springsteen gives a thousand.
Perhaps the loveliest scene in this movie is near the end, when Caruso and Doro have a baby. He is informed while in concert, on stage. Someone in the wings whispers loudly, "It's a girl!"
He then whispers to the sound man, the little guy in that hole under the stage, "I have a girl! It's a girl!" Then the sound man wriggles out of the hole and whispers it to someone in the orchestra. Each musician whispers it into the ear of the next, "It's a girl!"
Then the gentlemen and ladies of the Diamond Horseshoe get the news, too, and pass it around, all are thrilled with the news, whisper it to the next person. The news floats through the opera house, all the way up to the highest galleries, and at the end of the opera the place is wild, everyone on their feet shouting,
Oh, it's good to see that kind of love, you know, on a sick day.


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From time to time, I still see them crop up on my Facebook news feeds: relationships described as "It's complicated." Sometimes it makes me chuckle. Occasionally (as in the case with certain friends I particularly care about) it makes me feel sad. However, it always elicits one wry response from some sardonic backwater in my brain: whose isn't?
While I love being married, it's certainly complicated. I cringe when friends ask me "how's your marriage going?" – not because its going badly, but simply because I don't know how to respond. Every day has a hundred moments of success, failure, discovery and frustration. Such is the nature of relationships, because they involve people. Glorious, messy, complicated people. I can give you the definition of the word "profligate." I can summarize "Anna Karenina." But I can neither define nor summarize Elizabeth. She is a wife, an employee, a Christian… but also much more. She is light-hearted and expressive… except sometimes when she's not. And it's not just her; the same is true for every other person that I know.
It's not just Facebook and marriage, however. The fact is, life is complicated. The more I read and think about theology and Christian living, the more I think we need to recognize this fact. I own so many books that purport to offer "the" solution. "The" view of culture. "The" position on politics. "The" final answers on doctrine. In almost every case, the singular answer they supply is singularly insufficient to address the problem they confront.
I'm not trying to undermine the existence of truth – or even of Truth, as much as it might frustrate some of you. What I am proposing is that truth is not necessarily simple. In fact, it is necessarily as complex as the thing it is seeking to describe. It exists in propositions, but also in contrasts, tensions, and situations. There are true and false words for a given object, but the final word might sometimes be a sentence or a paragraph, a story or a poem.
Since I'm notoriously abstract, let me offer a concrete example. H. Richard Niebuhr, in his well-known book "Christ and Culture," gives five different perspectives Christians have toward the broader culture (opposition, affirmation, synthesis, paradox, transformation). Interestingly, he argues that all of these perspectives can, at one time or another, be correct. While I might quibble with details in the book, this is a profound insight. In every culture, there are things Christians should approach in each of these ways.
This is because culture is necessarily a complex thing. It is not geographically consistent. Even within the same place, it comes in different shades and shapes. There are sub-cultures and counter-cultures. There are inconsistencies within cultures. To take one position over against the others is necessarily to belie this complexity, to pretend as if culture were a monolith rather than a mosaic.
The same is true in other areas. We cannot sum up Christian living with a simple purpose statement, because living involves a multiplicity of things. When we try, we either truncate life (as in those who separate secular and sacred vocations, or those for whom "spirituality" is a dimension of life disconnected from everything else) or offer a statement so broad as to be useless in particular application (it is true that I need to glorify God in all of life, but without complex application I still have no idea how to raise my children or what to eat for dinner). We cannot sum up church strategies with a single ministry model. Answering the question of whether to feed the poor, preach the bible, love the sacraments, evangelize the lost, worship God, seek justice or disciple believers with anything less than a "Yes" leads to distortion and error. In a real sense, we cannot even sum up theological truth in such easy propositions. God is holy, just, merciful, loving, angry, Three and One. Christ is our sacrifice, our ransom, our elder brother, our penal substitute, and our victor. While we can look at the relationships between these truths, we must not remove a single one of them or we become something less than Christian.
This point is important because we often live under the tyrrany of simple answers. We feel obliged to make our case for the eye, or the ear, or the foot, and to do so to the detriment of the rest of the body. This reality does not mean we should embrace relativism – if the body has cancer, we should not welcome it but rather cut it out. There are wrong answers to questions of culture, life and theology. But to deny every one of the above statements about God or Jesus is no more an error than to affirm all but one of them.
In practice, this means we need to constantly be on guard against either/or distinctions that pit truths against each other. This has come out a lot in my recent reviews of Brian McLaren's new book. He constantly offers us the either/or. Either we must stop loving certain doctrines or we will fail to engage with the world. Either we must embrace all religions as equally good or indulge in discrimination, hatred and genocide. However, this is not an error he alone makes. It is rampant in our world, in our churches, and in our own hearts. In the end, this is where the true battle lies. The sort of brazen confidence we crave, the world where we can give our pithy answer and consider the matter settled, simply doesn't exist. The beautiful thing about the bible is that it doesn't require such a world. It is a beautifully complex book, looking at God and history from a variety of angles, different times and places, in different eras and through different eyes. It is complicated enough to deal with the complexities of this world, and it should be lived out no other way.


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SOMERS, Mont., July 14 (ANS)–Grandma and Grandpa Rumley grumbled because their grandson was too young for military duty. Then their son was discharged after combat duty, leaving the Rumleys minus a representative in uniform.
So Grandpop tried to enlist, but was ruled too old. That was too much for Grandma. She headed for the WAC recruiting office and now is Pvt. Rumley.


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Hacken and Anderson visit Stuttgart
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Leaving the rarefied atmosphere of the Opelbad, Dick and I headed to the station to catch the next ICE train to Stuttgart. There we were met by Dr. Klaus Schreiber, emeritus head of acquisitions at the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. Klaus is familiar to a number of us WESSies through his online review journal Informationsmittel: IFB (http://ifb.bsz-bw.de), many of whose reviews are translated and abstracted in on-line and print journal Reference Reviews Europe (more below).
Klaus hosted us grandly, not only in being a fantastic guide to Stuttgart and environs, new and historical, artistic and technological, but also as a great cook. We began our tour atop the Fernsehturm (http://www.fernsehturmstuttgart.com; -- insert Dick's picture of the three of us), whence we could see far, all round the valley in which the city lies. Our tour included the city of Esslingen am Neckar (sister city to Sheboygan, Wisconsin), both an historic city and home to a large manufacturing plant in the Daimler Benz consortium, as well as a major Bildungszentrum for the company.
Of particular interest to me as an ex-GI with military service in Germany during the Cold War was a drive through the town of Ostfildern (www.ostfildern.de), a city created in 1975 from four villages, one of which was Nellingen (first mentioned in 1120) and best known to Americans as the site of the Nellingen Barracks US Army base (1945-1992 – see http://www.billybils.de). In 1996 most of this major installation was torn down to make way for a planned town called Scharnhauser Park for working-class and other middle-income denizens, and the project has won major awards. Our drive concluded with a leisurely drive through the hills and the beautiful Weinberge, up to the original mountain of Württemberg, atop which sits the sepulchral chapel to Queen Katharina von Württemberg (http://www.grabkapelle-rotenberg.de), who died in 1819 at the age of 30. The next day was an extended walking tour of the city – in beautiful fall weather – and its museums, markets, and the historic Hauptbahnhof Stuttgart (http://www.stgt.com/stuttgart/bahnhofd.htm), the locus of a mammoth, long-term, and greatly contested railroad-relocation and urban-core redevelopment project called Stuttgart 21 (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,710388,00.html).
Reference Reviews Europe
A double issue of Reference Reviews Europe Annual, volume 15/16, will appear this spring. Supported and published by Casalini Libri, RREA features 200 abstracted review of German-language reference and bibliographical works published in 2009 and 2010, as well as 27 original reviews, by WESS colleagues, of non-German Continental reference works. The content of volume 15/16 will appear almost simultaneously in Reference Reviews Europe Online (¬¬RREO -- http://rre.casalini.it). CALL FOR ABSTRACTORS. RRE offers a unique and valuable research and publication opportunity for WESSies with a knowledge of German. The editors select IFB reviews to be translated and condensed (abstracted) into RRE, making these valuable reviews accessible to North American and other English-speaking scholarly audiences. Plans are also underway for the next issue, RREA 17 (covering publication year 2011), which will feature some special thematic sections (still to be fixed). CALL FOR REVIEWERS. RRE also provides the opportunity for all WESSies to contribute to the scholarly information and documentation process through critical reviews of new reference resources from the rest of Europe. This is a robust, growing part of RRE, and we welcome your participation. Contact Rebecca Malek-Wiley (email@example.com) or me (email@example.com) for more information and to sign up!


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AES67 is a very flexible protocol for transmitting audio data via Ethernet (AoIP). The protocol uses PTP (precision time protocol) for synchronising. AES67 is used in the Ravenna Network but is also an independent protocol on its own. Unlike AES50 and AVB, AES67 is not limited to a specific medium, it can be transmitted through any IP-based medium. The transmission itself is isochronous, which means that a minimum bandwidth is provided. AES67 can also be used in mixed networks, the QoS (Quality of Service) is provided by DiffServ, which, unlike IntServ, classifies the packages, so that clock-, audio- and controlsignals can be prioritized differently. The maximum transmission distance depends on the medium. AES67 doesn't need any special networks requirements. The maximum samplingrate is 96 kHz. AES67 uses five layers of the OSI model: IP on Layer 3, UDP on Layer 4 and RTP on Layer 5. RTP provides a flexible buffer, timestramps of the individual data packages as well as identification for the different data formats and streams. RTP does not provide a timely transmission in the right order and packages won't be resent. AES67 features a low latency (less than 5 ms) and thus can be used in live audio situations. The maximum number of channels is dependent from the network architecture.
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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a great show about beer and cheese on Beer Sessions Radio. Host Jimmy Carbone is joined by Lauren McDowell of Cheese Rank, Chris George of Cheese Journeys, Phoebe Connel of Lois, Alex Foschi of Im Fuchschen and Joel Shelton of Shelton Brothers Imports. They discuss the various ways to pair beer and cheese and why beer is superior to other beverages when joining forces with cheese! This program was brought toy ou by Union Beer Distributors.
"It's cheaper to buy a bottle of beer than a bottle of wine. If you find something that doesn't work - you can always buy another one." [18:00]
"If you look for three cheeses that look dramatically different, you'll get three dramatically different flavor profiles." [20:00]
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NEWPORT — PGA Professionals in the greater Newport area are offering PGA Junior League Golf, a fun and social opportunity that gives boys and girls ages 13 and under of all abilities the opportunity to learn, play and enjoy the game of golf.
PGA Junior League Golf takes a team approach to the game. Much like other recreational youth sports, kids wear numbered jerseys, and play on teams with friends, utilizing a popular scramble format for competition.
Facilities hosting PGA Junior League Golf in the greater Newport area include the Newport Country Club and the Orleans Country Club.
Recognizing the tremendous growth potential of the region, the PGA of America and the New England PGA Section have partnered to support an open enrollment initiative, with the aim of creating new golfers and introducing them to a game they can play for a lifetime.
The plan is for the New England open registration model to serve markets across the country next year.
"PGA Junior League Golf presents a welcoming and engaging way for kids to play and learn golf in a fun, engaging and encouraging team environment," said Mike Higgins, Executive Director of the New England PGA Section. "Kids are learning more than just a game they can enjoy for a lifetime. And PGA Junior League Golf is an excellent option for parents looking for a sport that develops character skills and life lessons for their children."
PGA and LPGA Professionals serve exclusively as captains for PGA Junior League Golf teams, ensuring kids are given the opportunity to learn from the experts in the game.
With parents and family members encouraged to serve as coaches, volunteers and spectators, PGA Junior League Golf involves the entire family and introduces them to an all-ages sport they can play and enjoy together.Are you on Instagram? Cool. So are we. CLICK HERE to follow us for a behind the scenes look at Newport Dispatch.


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Spend Saturday With Gus Van Sant
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Spend Saturday with our Gus Van Sant Double Feature Extravaganza! Beginning at 2:15 p.m. ET you can see some of the finest work the director has put out to date. In "Paranoid Park", which airs at 2:15 p.m. ET, Van Sant gives a dark portrait of adolescent longing and anxiousness. Alex, played by Gabe Nevins, is an unfulfilled and apathetic teenager who befriends a young anarchist at the local skater hangout a.k.a. Paranoid Park. When a tragedy befalls the teens, and the security guard chasing them, this traumatic experience is too much for Alex. Gus Van Sant offers up a mesmerizing yet bleak tale of youth gone wild and teen recklessness and consequences. It's a gorgeous film done in the simultaneously lush and stark style that has marked Van Sant's recent films, including "Last Days". Be sure to keep your eyes peeled for gossip rag fodder Taylor Momsen as Alex's virginal girlfriend, Jennifer.
In "Last Days", which airs at 4 p.m. ET, Gus Van Sant's takes an anonymous look at the final days of a very famous rock star. Blake, played by Michael Pitt, is an eerie stand-in for Nirvana's lead singer Kurt Cobain. He looks like him, he dresses like him, and he acts like him. The movie is languid and low-key to the point of almost being reminiscent of Andy Warhol's movies. But instead of watching someone sleep for three hours you see a man looking for something, anything, to set himself free. The pace of the film is so slow that the audience ends up waiting for something to happen almost as much as the angst-filled protagonist. We all know how the movie ends, but as we travel with Gus Van Sant on his directed meditation on those sad final days, the journey almost makes sense of that tragic finale. Almost.
"Paranoid Park" airs on IFC Saturday, May. 7 at 8:20 AM ET and at 2:15 PM EDT; Thursday, May. 19 at 12:30 PM ET and at 6:15 PM ET; Sunday, Jun. 5 at 10:30 AM ET;
Monday, Jun. 6 at 4:05 AM ET
"Last Days" airs on IFC Saturday, May. 7 at 4:00 PM ET; Sunday, May. 8 at 7:45 AM ET; Friday, May. 27 at 9:00 AM ET and at 3:30 PM EDT


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Bollywood Journal: How Did That Movie Get Here?!
By Beth Watkins
For years I've wanted to know more about the pragmatics of the Indian movie business in my hometown in the U.S. After an increasing number of full house screenings in 2011 ("Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara," "Dookudu," and "Ra.One") and a weekend that offered two shows of "Agneepath," it seemed like the right time to get a behind-the-scenes look.
In Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, my small city of about 100,000 people and a very large university, Indian films are hosted at the CU Art Theater, a single-screen cinema with a mission "to be the true independent theater for movie lovers." While its name may imply the theater mostly shows art films, its goal is much more expansive. A typical weekend lineup at the Art has a mix any masala screenwriter would be proud of: a big-name foreign or independent American film, maybe a thematic program like Oscar-nominated animated shorts, a cult classic like "The Big Lebowski," and a telecast of an opera or an HD presentation of a major museum exhibition.
The operator, Sanford Hess, explained that showing Indian films at the Art—and at many other theaters in other small cities—is a collaborative effort between cinemas and one extremely dedicated man from Wisconsin. Yes, the energy that (literally) drives these films to central Illinois comes from another state. Hemanth Teegala, who lives in Madison, Wisconsin, spends many weekends on the road, covering hundreds of miles, as he takes movies from city to city. Sometimes Mr. Teegala's route doubles back and forth, as the man who is also known as "The Movie Mahal" takes the first reel of a film to the next location while the second reel is unspooling at an earlier showing in a different town.
The prints, which are shipped from India, weigh about 30 kilograms and arrive on separate reels that must be assembled into larger platters of film. They also require an outlay of thousands of dollars, a deposit against the net proceeds of the screenings. "Hemanth is special," says Mr. Hess. "If he weren't involved, I can't imagine I'd be doing the Bollywood movies. There aren't any other communities like this," he adds, describing how self-motivated the local Indian community is in promoting and attending the films that come to town.
Mr. Hess is hoping a new business model will solve the problems of wrangling the reels. Because the Art still uses 35mm equipment, it is unable to screen digital format films that more and more distributors are using. "We can't finance $100,000 digital equipment through loans, and we're not going to get grants," he says.
To make sure the Art survives and is a lively, integral part of local arts and culture, the theater is being turned into a community-owned co-op with hundreds of shareholders and investors from among its patrons. "Digital will be really useful in getting new releases from India. It makes less and less sense for Mr. Teegala to get prints, which he can only show at a few theaters."
There are many other logistical and pragmatic concerns that have to be balanced when deciding whether to show a Bollywood film here. Mr. Hess explains that Indian films don't usually get U.S. distributors, whereas other foreign films do, which makes it very difficult for him to plan for them. Mr. Teegala gets a new release almost every weekend, but pre-existing scheduling commitments at the Art mean there isn't always a time slot available to show the film.
I've been to enough screenings to have witnessed the complicated math involved with slipping Indian mass entertainers in among the cinema's other offerings.
And with online newspapers, Twitter and other web-based communications making it so quick and easy to share opinions, bad reviews in India on a Thursday or Friday can hurt a film's chances on its opening weekend in the U.S. Piracy too is a menacing villain in the story of the Indian film business abroad. "It's short-term gain that has long-term harm," says Mr. Hess. "Because pirated versions are immediately available, the logical option to show films two or three weeks after they release in India isn't viable. So we show fewer films because they have to run in the first weekend to beat the pirates."
Mr. Hess feels passionately that seeing a film at home on your laptop is no comparison for the theater experience. "Watching a movie together in a cinema is special," he says, sharing my appreciation of the especially lively audiences at Indian films. He points out that a significant proportion of the audience tends to be families, and families buy lots of snacks, making them more profitable than a room full of adults.
Looking beyond the business benefits, he adds, "It's so nice to have 200 people on a Saturday afternoon," clearly happy to be a part of such a social event that may also be a comforting taste of home for people who love movies as much as he does. "Getting together with the larger community is such a positive experience."
Bollywood Journal is taking a brief vacation as I spend 25 days traveling around India. When the column returns in late March, I'll be full of stories of whatever filmi adventures I get up to and, if the stars align during the weeks in Delhi and Mumbai, at least one interview, too. And if you see a bespectacled American clutching a Shah Rukh Khan doll and looking lost, just point her to the closest cinema.
Beth Watkins has been blogging for more than five years at Beth Loves Bollywood. She is an expert on Bollywood history and lore as well as contemporary movies and actors (that's her on the left, with the Shah Rukh Khan action figure). You can follow Ms. Watkins on Twitter @bethlovesbolly.
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Earlier this year, chef Ronny Emborg moved from Copenhagen to New York take the helm as Executive chef at Atera. Normally after a chef departure I would wait a year for the chef to settle in but I took a leap of faith based on Emborg's pedigree (he spent some time at el Bulli under Ferran Adria, Mugaritz, and Geranium in Copenhagen). Copenhagen is a force to be reckon with so you really can't go wrong with a Danish chef. Besides, Emborg was able to retain Atera's two Michelin stars so he's off to a great start.
So on to the tasting menu...
I can sense a playfulness in his dishes but it's all his own. I'm glad the gimmicks were kept to a minimum and the local ingredients shined through and through. The plating was beautiful which is expected from the Danish chef. The dish that really stood out for me was the second dish of baerii caviar, pistachio, and beer. The flavor profile reminded me of the Oysters & Pearls dish from the French Laundry but this dish was very simple but exquisite. My second choice would be the turbot and shallot. I don't recall having turbot in past meals which I thoroughly enjoyed (what's in that foam!).
The wait staff were quick to take away dishes and flatware like ninjas. It wasn't abrasive nor stiff. Actually, the choice of music playing in the background really made the restaurant lively. When I arrived early, I was escorted to the basement bar to have a cocktail but I opted for a beer. Again, the staff was talkative when I had questions and there wasn't a sense of pretentiousness which I hate about U.S. restaurants.
Overall, this nondescript restaurant in Tribeca exceeded my expectations. I liked the fact that at the end of the meal I was given a copy of the menu plus a book of recipes from the staff. I look forward to the next volume of recipes.
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The Medical Clinic Is Closed – all other services are available
In 2009 the No-Fee Chronic Disease Medical Clinic was established at the Mission with the help of Executive Director Loren "Skip" Steffen, Medical Director Dr. Erin Kershisnik and many volunteers who were part of the planning group. The clinic was supported by individual donors, foundations and businesses with an interest in providing medical care to patients living in Thurston County with an income at or below 200% of the Federal poverty level and having no medical insurance. Primary medical care was provided by a host of volunteer medical professionals. The clinic was a medical home to patients with: diabetes, hypertension, asthma, COPD, and chronic heart failure. Clinic Manager Marissa Altamirano-Cruz says the Mission has been here to help fill a needed service gap in the community for those without medical insurance and lacking the income to pay for services.
We are indebted to all our donors and medical volunteers for their support over the years. To Marissa and the volunteer medical staff, thank you for your tireless love and commitment to everyone that came through the doors for help. You were the hands and feet of Jesus to so many and we wish you well.
Medical Records can be made available by calling the Medical Clinic phone number (360-357-6505) and leaving a message.
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The average American family today carries 10 credit cards. Credit card debt and personal bankruptcies are now at an all time high. With no legal limit on the amount of interest or fees that can be charged, credit cards have become the most profitable sector of the American banking industry: more than $30 billion in profits last year alone.
This documentary examines how the credit card industry became so pervasive, so lucrative, and so powerful.
Credit cards are a relatively recent invention. Until the 1980`s, they didn't play a prominent role in American life.
When this film was produced, 145 million Americans carried credit cards. Of these:
- 55 million paid in full every month
- 90 million carried balances
- 35 million paid the minimum required
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The children chose the colours they wanted to paint their paper plates. We used pearlised acrylic paint for an extra glittery effect. The youngest used a paint dabber rather than a brush to help him cover the card. Once they were dry the children had great fun sticking on beaks, eyes and feathers, all activities that enabled practise of fine motor skills.
The children love doing crafts where they can play with the end result and there was much fascination with the way they could rock their birds back and forth, making the eyes wiggle around!


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Family photography | Swansea, South Wales
It's that time of year when the word 'Christmas' is back in the air. My children yesterday put on the Christmas songs and cinnamon smell candles! It's totally in the air.
And it's that time of the year when you have to think about the tradition of taking your family pictures every year. So you can record how children are growing and everyone are changing.
If you are planning to come to me for a family photo shoot for Christmas gifts than it's the best time to book your space as the photo shoots are limited and you definitely don't want to leave it for the last minute.
Family photos are great as framed portraits to give to the grandparents and greeting cards to send to all your relatives and friends, and have a beautiful piece of art on your wall. Just as a reminder for children and yourself that you always belong here, in this FAMILY, whatever happens.
Portrait Photography Studio| Swansea, South Wales
I'm so glad I have this beautiful photography studio in Swansea city centre.
On the day this family came for a photo shoot, it was raining. Just like it does on the most of the days here in Wales. I used to photograph on location only when I started. But now I'm so lucky to have this amazing place where I can welcome families as big as there is (the biggest group I had in my studio was 14!), sun or rain.
This beautiful family gathered together for Jonathan's graduation ceremony. He just finished studies at Swansea University and now is ready for the new chapter in his life.
That's an important reason to celebrate. Every achievement is worth celebrating. And it's best to celebrate with a portrait.
This family ordered a book with all the pictures from the photo shoot. What a keepsake to keep!
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Westbound Interstate 70 traffic delayed at Copper Mountain due to truck fire
(Update at 4:14 p.m.): One lane is now open going westbound.
The Colorado Department of Transportation closed down a section of westbound I-70 along Copper Mountain following a semi-truck fire near Vail Pass earlier today, according to Josh Lewis of the Colorado State Patrol.
At about 11:40 a.m. the brakes of a semi-truck burst into flames near mile marker 183 going westbound on I-70. The flames eventually engulfed the entire truck, according to Lewis. The westbound lanes are currently closed as a precaution while fire crews work to remove cargo from the truck, according to Trooper Colin Remillard.
No injuries have been reported. Remmillard said they hope to get a westbound lane open within an hour.
As of 2:07 p.m., according to communications from the Vail Public Safety Communications Center, Interstate 70 westbound remains closed at mile marker 195 (Copper Mountain) due to a major truck fire. While the fire is out, this will require containment and clean up.
I-70 WB: Traffic delays in area at Exit 195 – CO 91; Copper Mtn (near Vail Pass). Minor delays due to a vehicle fire West of Vail Pass. Westbound I-70 Closed at Copper Mountain.
— CDOT (@ColoradoDOT) June 11, 2018
An Eagle County Alert sent at 12:02 p.m. states that there is a traffic incident on Interstate 70 westbound at mile marker 183 near East Vail. The road is closed. Expect delays and use caution in the area.
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By Elli Wilson
Alexis Jay's report on the abuse of over 1400 children over a 16 year period in Rotherham, and the "collective" failings of the police, social care and the local authority makes for tragic, uncomfortable reading. Unfortunately, whilst the scale and extent of the victims' suffering and the authorities' failures were certainly shocking, they did not surprise me. Britain today is still a deeply prejudiced country in which sexism and classism run deep, social services are underfunded and overstretched and young, underprivileged victims are likely to be dismissed as 'unreliable' or even complicit in their own abuse. In such conditions, it is hardly astonishing that vulnerable children and young people are abused and then failed by those meant to help and protect them.
With so much public anger and disgust over what happened in Rotherham, there would seem to be no better time than the present to start a national conversation about what causes rape and sexual abuse and how it can be prevented. However, in a depressingly predictable state of affairs, much of the coverage of the horrific abuse has focused on the fact that the perpetrators were predominantly British Pakistani and most of the known victims were white working-class girls.
In reality, perpetrators of sexual crimes in Britain are predominantly white. The only trait that almost all perpetrators of rape and sexual abuse share is their maleness. Sexual violence is not a crime committed by one ethnicity against another; it is a crime of male violence against women and children. Alongside class, gender is the overriding factor in the Rotherham abuse case, as with all other incidents of sexual violence.
By focusing on the ethnicity of the perpetrators in Rotherham, there is a danger that the threat of rape and sexual abuse will be othered and obscured. It is far easier and more comforting to think that such horrifying crimes are only a problem for certain sections of society, than to face the fact that in 21st century Britain children – primarily girls – are abused and exploited across all socio-economic groups and by men of all races. This is not a problem that we can safely categorise as belonging to one section of society whilst shaking our heads disapprovingly; the causes are deeply rooted in our attitudes and our establishment.
This is not to deny that different communities have different challenges in the fight to tackle abuse. For instance, Ruzwana Bashir eloquently described the culture of shame that can make it difficult for British Asian victims of abuse to seek help and justice. However, it is not as if survivors from all backgrounds don't encounter disbelief and victim blaming attitudes. This is precisely the problem with the media's fixation with ethnicity in relation to systemic sexual abuse; it hides the fact that the factors which contributed to the Rotherham scandal are not specific to a certain sub-culture but rather permeate all levels of society.
The scale of the abuse in Rotherham unmasks the toxic misogyny and classism that intersect to create an environment in which underprivileged girls can be raped, and then held in contempt by those meant to help them. Whilst the details of the Rotherham scandal may be particularly shocking it is important to remember that such abuse does not exist in a vacuum. If we do not engage in serious work to change attitudes of the public and those in power, and to end misogyny and victim blaming, then many other girls will be the damage of society's collective failure.


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IT'S not easy to come up with a second act when your first act was being Jim Carroll.
He was the author of "The Basketball Diaries," a cult-classic memoir of his drug-fueled misadventures as a teenager in the 1960s; he then became a celebrated downtown poet; and then, the star of his own hit rock band.
Mr. Carroll had lived a panoramic New York youth that his fans had turned into legend.
But by the time he died of a heart attack this Sept. 11 at 60, Mr. Carroll, who had once hung out with the Rolling Stones and Allen Ginsberg, no longer bore much resemblance to the downtown cover-boy with the chiseled cheekbones and flowing red hair.
His once-powerful athlete's body had been weakened by pneumonia and hepatitis C, said Rosemary Carroll, his former wife, who had remained a close friend. At times, circulation problems in his legs prevented him from leaving his apartment. His trademark hair was flecked with gray, and often tucked under a wool beanie. His cheekbones were hidden behind a white beard that plunged to the collar of his T-shirts.
Mr. Carroll had moved back to Inwood, in Upper Manhattan, to the same building where he had grown up. "Jim would often sit home with these heavy curtains drawn shut," said Martin Heinz, a friend, one of the few to maintain contact with him in the last months.
But Mr. Carroll did have a purpose. He was trying to finish his first novel, tentatively titled "The Petting Zoo," an ambitious book about an art-world prodigy of the 1980s, Billy Wolfram, who is driven by early fame into seclusion, where he suffers psychological and spiritual crises. It didn't take much to see the autobiographical thread.
In his teens, Jim, a scholarship student at the elite Trinity School and fledgling heroin addict, was a high-school basketball star who shot jumpers on the same courts as Lew Alcindor. The journal he kept between the ages of 14 and 16 dark comic accounts of ducking class to cop drugs, steal cars and hustle in Times Square earned the praise of Jack Kerouac and later became "The Basketball Diaries."
He became involved in the downtown poetry scene, receiving praise as a new Rimbaud. In his late 20s, he tried rock 'n' roll, nudged by his old girlfriend Patti Smith. He was soon jamming with Keith Richards, and formed the Jim Carroll Band, whose first release, "Catholic Boy," has been described as the last great punk album.
"Jim was really in love with the concept of his own phoenix-like rise, which had happened repeatedly in his life bottoming out, then transcending his negative circumstances with an undeniably brilliant work of art," Ms. Carroll said.
A "brilliant work of art" is what Mr. Carroll's ardent, loyal fans were hoping for in his novel, and what the writer himself must have passionately wished for. A successful novel might have meant that he would not be marginalized as an aging "punk poet," as he was in some recent obituaries. Given his health, it might have constituted his most unlikely comeback yet.
But Mr. Carroll, who had specialized in street-rap diary entries, poems and song lyrics, found adapting his literary voice to long-form prose challenging. "He definitely wrote a lot and tossed a lot," said Betsy Lerner, his agent.
And "he worked irregularly," she added. "Sometimes it was a struggle to pick up the thread again, but once he did, it would be amazing. He'd have these tremendous flights. He was still very much in the old Romantic school, I guess."
"I always used to tell him, 'It's the much anticipated' " Jim Carroll novel, Ms. Lerner added. "Then it was the 'long-awaited.' Then it was 'ten years in the making.' "
By the time he died, the book was in its final edits, close enough to completion to publish posthumously, perhaps by the fall of 2010, said Paul Slovak, his editor and the publisher of Viking.
In his last years, Jim Carroll did venture out, if infrequently, to Narcotics Anonymous meetings (he had been sober since the '70s), and joining friends for a "breakfast club" at a Chelsea coffee shop.
At these gatherings, Mr. Carroll was not the scathing street punk described in recent obituaries, but rather a raconteur and yarn-spinner in the grand Irish tradition. His stories about Greek philosophy, old movies, his youthful adventures on the streets invariably spun off in epic digressions.
"It would often take three or four breakfasts to get the end of a story," recalled Mr. Heinz, 48, his friend and breakfast club regular.
There, Mr. Carroll sometimes discussed his ambivalence about his time in the spotlight. And in private, Mr. Carroll's thoughts on fame and his life could be searing:
"My self-sabotaging tendencies in all aspects of my life, along with the validation needs you referenced, go without saying," Mr. Carroll wrote in a 2005 message to Mr. Heinz. "There are deep seeded reasons for both, but the latter is also an outcome of the way you are spoiled and coddled by managers, women and media et al when you are on top, and the quickness with which everyone scatters when you recede a moment."
During the last breakfast club meeting on Sept. 4, Mr. Carroll seemed in good spirits, Mr. Heinz said. He recounted tales from what he called his happiest period, in the 1970s, when he was living a simple writer's life in Bolinas, Calif. He had gone to escape heroin, as well as the amphetamine pace of the New York creative scene, recalled his friend Anne Waldman, the poet, who visited him there.
To Mr. Heinz, Mr. Carroll looked gaunt, even by Jim Carroll standards. At 6-foot-3, he was so stooped that he seemed four inches shorter. The outline of his skull was clearly visible beneath his cheeks, Mr. Heinz said. His arms looked like skin over bone.
He did eat regularly, his friends said, but could not keep weight on. He was deteriorating physically, even as friends took him on weekly trips to the grocery store. Ms. Carroll, an entertainment lawyer now married to the music executive Danny Goldberg, hectored him about seeing a doctor (he hated doctors, but finally relented).
Mr. Carroll seemed acutely aware that he was aging beyond his years, his friends said. A few years ago, he ended a relationship with a much younger girlfriend, telling her "you can do better," Mr. Heinz recalled.
As his health declined, he made fewer public appearances. When he did, some fans expressed shock over his condition. Two years ago, Mr. Carroll was invited to read passages of "The Petting Zoo" at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Mr. Carroll seemed lost onstage, fumbling through pages of the manuscript. "There's typing on both sides of the page," he said, according to an eyewitness account on a blog called the Ephemerist. "No wonder I can't find what I'm looking for."
As he had so often, he saved himself with humor. After the awkward reading ended, one witness recalled in a blog comment, Mr. Carroll shouted: "I don't even know what I'm doing here. I'm from Manhattan, man!"
Money struggles were another distraction, friends said.
He was still living off a 2003 book advance in the low six figures, and the small royalty checks continued to trickle in. (His hit song, "People Who Died," was used in Steven Spielberg's "E.T.," for example.) "He would sit and do his banking on Friday," Mr. Heinz said. "There was always a variety of checks for $12, $24, $48."
THE need for a cheap apartment in part led Mr. Carroll home to Inwood in the summer of 2008, in spite of his history with the neighborhood. In "The Basketball Diaries," Mr. Carroll used the nosy old ladies on its park benches and the reactionary hard-hats in its bars as a comic foil.
Jim's underground appearance and lifestyle back then caused a lot of family turmoil, said Tom Carroll, his brother and only surviving member of the immediate family.
"Our father was a bartender in a conservative Irish neighborhood and had to listen daily to disparaging comments made by his customers about Jim such as 'druggie' and 'hippie,' as well as referring to Jim as 'his daughter' because of his long hair," Tom Carroll wrote in an e-mail message. "In addition to their heartbreak about his drug use, this was a significant source of tension between Jim and our father." (In fact, Jim's hair in high school was shorter than Paul McCartney's "but still too long for an Irish-bar crowd," Tom added.)
But by the '90s, he said, father and son had patched things up. And by the summer of 2008, his childhood address at 585 Isham Street in Inwood might have seemed like a peaceful place to write.
THE focus of the ground-floor apartment was the desk, a padded cart beneath it to elevate his aching leg. There, he plowed through plastic bins of sliced pineapple, a reward for a session of hard work.
The only decorations were a poetry event poster and a photo-triptych of Kurt Cobain. For months, boxes of books remained unpacked and the windows were bare. "He said that sometimes neighbors would smile at him, and he was just sitting there in his underwear," Mr. Heinz recalled.
Certainly, the neighborhood held a lingering power for him. The strict Irish-Catholic culture there had had shaped him, after all, even as he rebelled against it. "The family was gone, but he was somehow coming back," Ms. Waldman said, adding, "There's a lot of the poetic there, of coming full circle, landing, as you're pulling back from life, and finding sense and sanity and comfort in that. He had a real sense of fragility. I think he knew his days were numbered."
This August, Mr. Carroll canceled multiple appointments to see Ms. Lerner, his agent, citing doctors' appointments. The last time she had seen him, a year before, she had listened to hours of rambling, if hilarious, digression. She finally persuaded him to sit at his computer and discuss the novel's third and final section. The other two were largely finished. The book was close. Near the end, however, Mr. Carroll receded again. He stopped returning Ms. Lerner's e-mail messages. He seemed to be "grappling with the last questions about life through this character," she said.
Mr. Carroll was alone the day he died. A neighbor peering into his window apparently saw him slump to the floor and called 911, Tom Carroll said. ("Classic Inwood," joked Tara Newman, a friend who also grew up there.)
In the final passage of "The Petting Zoo," Billy Wolfram, accompanied by a mythic raven, succumbs. He is also alone, and too young to die. But his death is not without ecstasy.
Finally, a last sigh of consciousness rocked him gently on the deck of an old schooner ship. Billy's body, dark blue like the storm clouds preceding the storm, shuttered and his eyes closed dull and loosely. Sensing young Wolfram had given up the ghost, the raven glided back down aside the dead artist, whispering a last demand.
"It's time your eyes remain shut, Billy Wolfram. Now is the time, so get on with it. Take that single step and fly."


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PLYMOUTH, Mich. – Brij Singh (Los Altos, Calif.) has been named the 10th recipient of USA Hockey's Brendan Burke Internship. Singh will be based at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, Michigan.
Established in 2010, the Brendan Burke Internship is awarded annually to a recent college graduate who is pursuing a career in hockey operations. The internship was founded in memory of the late Brendan Burke, who served as a student assistant for the Miami University men's ice hockey team and was tragically killed in a car accident on snowy roads at the age of 21 on Feb. 5, 2010.
Singh's responsibilities will include interfacing with the National Team Development Program, national teams, international events and player development camps. He will also gain exposure to USA Hockey's acclaimed American Development Model and Coaching Education Program.
Singh graduated from the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business in May 2019, and will complete his dual-degree from the University's School of Kinesiology in December. Singh most recently worked with the NTDP as a marketing intern where he assisted with in-game promotions and fan experience.
While attending college, Singh also gained experience with the NHL's Nashville Predators as an amateur hockey and fan development intern, with the NHL as a corporate social responsibility intern and with the United States Olympic Committee as a diversity and inclusion volunteer.
NOTES: Previous Brendan Burke Interns include Gabriella Switaj (Kent, Ohio/Boston College), Matt Williams (Rochester Hills, Mich./Western Michigan University) Colin Mayberry (Cranford, N.J./Bryant University), Lyle Gregory (Branford, Conn./Hendrix College), Phil Cohn (Westfield, N.J./Union College), Tom Minton (Pipersville, Pa./St. Joseph's (Pa.) College), Ryan Breen (North Falmouth, Mass./Providence College), Stephen Greenberg (West Tisbury, Mass./Boston College) and Cole Burkhalter (Knoxville, Tenn./Canisius College).


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