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For years, I used to hear about friends taking days off from work to play golf. I didn't get it. Even worse, when they would travel, they would always take along their golf clubs. I didn't get that either.
Now I am as bad as they are! I play regularly and I rarely travel without taking my clubs. Business meetings are scheduled by tee times. What is this world coming to?
I started playing golf five summers ago. Today, I belong to four golf clubs and carry with me a list of golf courses that I'm dying to play. Slowly, but surely, I check them off.
During the summer, because I have a home in the Hamptons on Long Island, New York, I am able to play an amazing number of great courses: Atlantic, The Bridge, Hampton Hills, Maidstone, National, Noyac, Sebonack and Shinnecock. Not bad for a weekend golfer!
For the first time, I would be going to Scotland to play golf. The plan was six great courses in seven days. I was told the weather may be cold, windy and rainy. No problem.
I was told they're all walking courses. Now, that's a problem. I usually ride. I have bad feet, am out of shape and have no stamina. This could be the first true test of my love for the game. Could I hang in there and show up to play each course?
I would be traveling with my wife, Hazel, and our good friends Tony and Janet Goldman. He's a 10 handicap and has played the courses of Scotland many times. I'm a 19. This could be among the great weeks of my life (weather permitting).
Thursday, June 22
As our Continental flight No. 16 from Newark entered Scottish air space, the excitement began. Below me, out my windows, I began to see gray, thick-layered clouds. Between the cloud openings, I began to see lush, green lawns and thick forests intermingled with numerous small lakes of mirrored glass. As I came closer to Glasgow's Airport, small houses dotted the landscape followed by large industrial buildings and high rises. My flight touched down at exactly 7:46 a.m. My journey had brought me to the birthplace of golf. I sensed the aura and the history and I felt the excitement of the moment.
Although I was unable to sleep on the flight over, my engine is running full throttle. We rented a car and were off on our first leg to the Westin Turnberry. After about an hour's drive, we checked into our hotel, which was first-class in every way. (For a listing of hotels in Scotland, see the map on page 104.) We settled down, had lunch at the golf course grill and then were off to our first match at the Turnberry Ailsa Course with a tee time of 2:40 p.m.
The weather was cold (in the 50s), windy (a two-club wind) and off-and-on light rain. Welcome to Scotland! Tony and I were introduced to our caddies, Ian and Steve. We stepped up to the first tee box, full of adrenaline, and hit our balls into the fairway. For the first few holes my game was awesome. I parred the first hole followed by four bogeys, which for me is as good as I get. Then my day turned to night!
My lack of sleep on the plane flight caught up with me. My body turned off. I crashed. No timing. No control of my muscles. I was a wasted man! And between the rain, chill and wind, I was getting the Scottish welcome I had heard about. I shot a rather weak 98. Tony started off slowly, but as my game deteriorated his flourished. We did not keep his score.
I returned to the hotel depressed. My game had been better than ever before this trip, and I had been shooting regularly in the high 80s to mid-90s. Would this trip turn into the trip from hell?
Friday, June 23
Friday morning we left the hotel at 7:30 a.m. for a 9:00 a.m. tee time at Royal Troon Golf Club (Old Course).
We were playing with two Scots: Douglas (the member) and John, a friend of Tony's. Again, it was cold weather, but fortunately there was no rain.
This was the most difficult course I've ever played...and I've played many. Very narrow fairways, many strategically located deep bunkers, and gorse (or rough) that's virtually impossible to get out of.
To make matters worse, I was in terrible pain. My legs and feet ached from walking the two courses. My heels were beginning to hurt so much I had sharp pains with each step.
The match was devastating for me. Not one well-played hole. I shot a record high of 106, while Tony shot a respectable 92. Was it time for me to return to New York?
Saturday, June 24
Although we had a tee time at the Turnberry Kintyre Course, I opted out. I needed to rest, sleep and rebuild my confidence, which was shattered. We drove to Edinburgh and checked into The Balmoral hotel. The others walked the city while I stayed in my room to soak my feet.
That night we had an amazing dinner at an Italian restaurant in downtown Edinburgh called Bellini. Interesting pasta and vegetable dishes washed down by a magnificent 1985 Gaja Barbaresco. My mood was somber. I was quite concerned that from a golfplaying standpoint, this trip would turn out to be a total disaster.
Sunday, June 25
The four of us drove the 20 minutes to Kingsbarns. It was a beautiful setting. While I was highly skeptical of the day ahead, my wife, Hazel, kept reminding me it was "only a game, lighten up and have fun." Easy to say, hard to do when you're on your first golf trip to Scotland! I prayed for help.
My prayers were answered. With sleep and rest, I returned to the old Marvin. I went out with a 44 and came back with a 45, for a round of 89. I had six pars and a birdie. Tony played extremely well with an 84, including 11 pars. There was a God!
While the course was amazing—among the most beautiful I had ever played—with its wider fairways, it proved to be a great venue for my mid-level golf game. The course reminded me of Pebble Beach, with its ragged rocks at the water's edge.
Monday, June 26
Today, we headed to the home of golf, St Andrews. This was the day I had been dreaming about. We checked into the Old Course Hotel. Out my window was the historic course. And I could see the famous footbridge.
My opponents this day were Johann Rupert, the South African entrepreneur and CEO of Richemont, and Jean Engelbrecht, who is partners with Ernie Els in his wine company in South Africa. I played against Rupert in March at Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach, Florida (see story, page 110 of the June issue of Cigar Aficionado), when I was teamed with Els. Since Rupert is a member of the Royal & Ancient, he was able to secure an otherwise very-difficult-to-get tee time of 3:20 p.m. There was a message in my room to meet Johann and Jean at 1:45 p.m. in the Sands restaurant off the hotel lobby. Johann is very competitive. Marvin is very competitive. This would be an interesting day. Would Marvin, the shotmaker, show up?
At lunch the teams were agreed upon: America versus South Africa. They and Tony would all play as 8s. I would play as an 18. Thus, I would get five shots a side. A five-pound Nassau was agreed. Although Johann had requested four caddies, only one was available. As we teed up on the first tee, a second caddie arrived. Genuinely courteous, Johann insisted that the Americans get the caddies while he and Jean use pull carts. The only stipulation was they could also have the caddies help to read greens. Of course, I agreed.
This match was without question the highlight of my trip. Pinch me. I was playing St Andrews Old Course. It was a magnificent day. And nothing could spoil it. Nothing.
The course offered many interesting challenges. The greens going out for the first nine holes had white flags, while the nine holes coming back had red flags. On a number of holes, other players crossed our fairway and there were a number of shared greens. While teeing off on a number of holes, you also had to drive on an imaginary line, as you could not see the fairway. The views were blocked by high gorse and mounds.
Going out, the American team was three up on the strong play of Tony. He shot a 41, as did Johann. I had a 46. Not bad! Jean had not played in several months and it showed. While he hits a very long ball, many landed out of bounds and he was in his pocket on many holes.
Coming back was a different story. Johann doesn't like to lose. He was playing without much help from Jean, who in all other ways is a delight. The South Africans were down four with four holes to play.
Johann declared, "We are down but not out." He started to make his move. On the difficult 15, he won with a bogey. Three down with three to go. On the 16th, he had a spectacular second shot to land six inches from the pin for a birdie. Two down with two to go. The pressure was on.
Seventeen was a lengthy 436-yard par four. Tony's third shot, an amazing 50-yard putt up and down several steep gulleys, stopped four feet from the pin. He then sank the putt for a par. Johann was in with a bogey five. The match was over.
Tony and Johann played the back nine extremely well with a 43 and 42, respectively. I had a 47. For the 18 holes, Johann finished with an 83, Tony an 84 and Marvin a 93. We didn't total Jean's score, as a courtesy.
The day finished up with dinner at the Seafood Restaurant (the winners paid) and then late-night drinks at the Old Course bar (the losers paid). We each downed three or four rounds of Scotland's best whisky and had a most pleasant chat about golf, Scotland and life.
The next day, Hazel and I returned to New York. Tony and Janet stayed on so Tony could play the very difficult Carnoustie Golf Links.
I walked four courses in five days. My feet were killing me. But I had a great time. I knew my first appointment the next day would be with my foot doctor. He told me I had plantar fasciitis. With some pills and some stretching exercises, the pain would disappear. As of this writing, it had. But not my grand memories from my first golf trip to Scotland.
For previous stories in Marvin R. Shanken's golf series, see My Day with Tiger in the December 2005 issue, and Confessions of a Weekend Golfer (My Day with Ernie Els and Gary Player) in the June 2006 issue.


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In small groups or individually, students make baseball cards for the players in the poem "Casey at the Bat." Students can use a word processor or the Character Trading Cards interactive to create their cards.
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DIY Papaya Face Mask
Hey peeps, pep your skin with the power of papaya! Woot-woot! Don't act like that wasn't fun to say. 😉
First things first, let's talk about why papaya is the shit, shall we? It's packed full of antioxidants, natural alpha hydroxy acids and enzymes that dissolve dead skin cells—improving skin tone and giving wrinkles a swift kick in the ass. Yee-haw!
What you'll need:
- 1/2 cup ripe papaya, diced
- 1 teaspoon soy yogurt
- 1 teaspoon agave
- A few drops of lemon juice
Blend ingredients in a food processor until smooth. Do not eat (you can have the leftovers after you hook your face up).
Slap that shit on your skin like there's a party on your face!
Wait about 15-20 minutes before rinsing off with warm water.
Follow up with toner, a light moisturizer, and a big ol' self bear hug for being a DIY badass! Weeee! Life is good! xx
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CALGARY - The ejection of unwanted guests from a house party that had been advertised on social media likely led to a stabbing that killed one man and seriously injured another, say police.
Meanwhile, a 19-year-old man and a 17-year-old young offender have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in connection with the incident at a home in Brentwood.
Officers were called to the residence in the 5000 block of Brisebois Drive N.W. at around 3 a.m., and found two men with stab wounds.
Both were taken to hospital, where one of them later died.
Police have not named the victim pending an autopsy, but he has been identified by family as Brett Wiese, a 21-year-old University of Calgary student who was a guest at the party.
His family said he was stabbed trying to remove the party crashers.
The other man, also in his early 20s, remains in serious condition in hospital.
Wiese's family was notified on Monday around lunchtime that charges were laid, and are pleased with the developments.
"We believe it's good and we will follow those charges through," said Brett's uncle, Kip Wiese. "We are focused on healing and grief right now as a family, but it's good news to have that process done."
Staff Sgt. Doug Andrus of the homicide unit said over the course of the night, the party attracted between 60 and 100 guests, most of them university students.
But five individuals who were not invited later showed up. Police were called at around 12:30 a.m. and spoke with the unwanted guests, who eventually left, Andrus said.
A few hours later, just before 3 a.m., nine people came to the house — including some of the five people who were told to leave — pulling up in two separate vehicles. At least four of them entered the home.
Wiese was fatally wounded and another guest was seriously hurt. Andrus said the second man could have died had it not been for the "great work" by responding paramedics and medical staff.
"We believe the motive is a targeted attack in the sense that a number of individuals returned to the party in response to the earlier incident. In other words, that these individuals were asked to leave the party," Andrus said.
Two knives were recovered at the scene and are believed to be the weapons used in the attack.
The party was advertised over social media, said Andrus, warning that "you cannot control who has access to that information."
"In this case, we had a number of people who did get the information, decided to attend uninvited. That led to an incident where they were asked to leave. In response to that incident, we had people return to the party and we now have one person who is deceased and another one in the hospital suffering from a serious injury," he said.
Police don't believe the accused killers knew the victims, said Andrus, declining to comment on whether the two accused offenders knew each other.
He said there's no indication the party had been out of control.
Police were not familiar with the home, which was being rented out by a group of university students who had been there for about nine months. He said the residents had even gone to their neighbours to inform them about the party.
"They were acting responsibly as far as dealing with their neighbours," Andrus said.
Late on Saturday, a 17-year-old young offender, who cannot be named, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.
The following day, Mitchell William Harkes, 19, of Calgary was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault and four breaches of various court orders.
He is expected to appear in court Tuesday morning.
Police still have several search warrants to execute and are waiting for the forensic crime scenes unit to be available to conduct further forensic examination at several other addresses, Andrus said.
A funeral for Wiese will be held Friday at 1 p.m. at the Ponoka Stampede grounds and is open to the public.
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The Volvo Ocean Race creates business for Volvo Cars
The Volvo Ocean Race is one of the most demanding team sporting events in the world. It generates enormous media coverage and offers a unique chance for race partners and sponsors to meet customers without the presence of competitors.
From a business point of view it is a goldmine of opportunities.
The ties between the Volvo Ocean Race and Volvo Car Corporation run deep. When the fourth race under the Volvo flag starts in Alicante in October 2011, the competing teams will embark on an eight-month-long adventure travelling around the world in some of the world's most treacherous seas. The race is the ultimate mix of world-class sporting competition and on-the-edge adventure, a unique blend of onshore glamour spiced with offshore drama and endurance. The extraordinary team spirit required, the demands on empowering leadership and the strong focus on safety and environment that characterise the race all add up to a perfect match for the requirements that Volvo Cars sets for engaging in a sport.
"With the Volvo Ocean Race we have a fantastic opportunity to reinforce the brand and highlight specific characteristics such as design, dynamic performance and innovative technology. It enables our effort to move the brand towards more emotive values," says Karin Bäcklund, Director Global Sponsorship at Volvo Cars.
Strong business focus
The business focus will be strong at the 2011-2012 Volvo Ocean Race with a pavilion, shared by all the Volvo companies, where corporate guests as well as the general public can get to know the brand and its products. Volvo specifically invited 10,000 corporate guests for a unique two-day programme during the 2008-2009 Volvo Ocean Race.
At the various stopovers, business and brand seminars will be offered as well as demonstrations and test drives. There is also a strong focus on developing the stopovers, making them into a more active and entertaining scene for visitors.
"Our target group consists not only of people with a specific interest in sailing - the Volvo Ocean Race is a great adventure containing lots of human drama and it therefore attracts a wider audience," says Karin Bäcklund.
Core value reinforcement
Safety has been a core value for Volvo Cars since its very first car was manufactured in 1927, and safety is also at the top of the agenda for the Volvo Ocean Race. For example, the boats are equipped with GPS systems so the vessels can always be immediately located should something untoward happen. All competitors must complete a safety training course before entering the race. Furthermore, there are collaborative agreements with the various national coastguards and maritime authorities along the entire route.
When it comes to environmental care, sailing is the obvious choice since it does not use any power source other than the wind.
Media coverage and long-term relations
Media coverage of the Volvo Ocean Race is enormous. If we examine only the value of TV broadcasts, printed press and online media the return on investment is estimated at between 300 and 400 percent.
"The Volvo Ocean Race also gives us a fantastic opportunity to build long-term relations with customers all over the world, especially in countries with stopovers. During the last race, almost 4 million people visited race villages around the world. We are expecting even more this time," Karin Bäcklund concludes.
At the Geneva Motor Show in early March 2011 a limited edition of Volvo Ocean Race cars will be introduced. Expected sales volume is 7,500 units globally.
Facts and figures, Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012
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"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; …as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussel men; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries." The Treaty of Tripoli of 1797 [emphasis added]
"Freemasonry is the Church of Lucifer masquerading as a fraternal mystical philanthropic order. It fronts for Illuminati (Masonic & Cabalist Jewish) central bankers who started the US as a vehicle to advance their New World Order." [Illuminati Created the US to Advance NWO]
After reading Henry's most recent essay which made it painfully obvious that America and its citizenry have been brainwashed to believe that American was founded upon Christian principles and champions the Christian Faith when in reality, America is the Masonic empire with enough "Christianity" to keep the masses distracted.
For those still clinging to the fantasy, I submit for your review and consideration the Treaty of Tripoli of 1797. The treaty was originally signed in November of 1797 putting George Washington in the last year of his term. Interestingly enough, the American diplomat, Joel Barlow, previously served as the Chaplain in the Revolutionary army.
While there, he became good friends with Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine and read Enlightenment literature. Afterwards, Barlow abandoned orthodox Christianity and embraced rationalism and advocated secular government. Barlow wrote the original English version the treaty and himself penned article 11 (see above). The Senate approved the treaty on June 7, 1797 with official ratification on June 10, 1997 with John Adams signature. Interestingly enough, the wording of the treaty didn't raise an eyebrow when published in The Philadelphia Gazette on the 17th of June, 1797. While the Treaty of Tripoli isn't any longer in force, the wording and approval of our government validates the hypothesis that America is not first and foremost a "Christian" nation.
So, if America isn't a Christian nation, what is She? In my humble opinion, she is exactly what was proffered in Henry's article, in my own words: the United States of America is little more than the "host" for the infectious disease of the New World Order…Freemasonry simply keeps the fever up.
Ask yourself, what is being used by the Masonic Orders to keep the deception alive? Easy, Constitutionalist, "Tea Party", "Truthers","Birthers" and the like. What's wrong with all these? They simply are a distraction to make everyone feel like they make a difference. Any psychology student can tell you that feeling will win out over facts any day of the week until it's too late…psychologists call this cognitive dissonance. Case in point, all the hoopla over the Constitution, Bill of Rights and all other measures for "freedom" were undone by treaties such as the Treaty of Tripoli when the treaty became the benefit of the State with no consideration given for original intent.
Lastly, as mentioned above, in spite of the "right to keep and bear arms", militia members in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan of the Hutaree militia were arrested without so much as committing a crime. They were stripped of their weapons and charged, basically, with thought crimes.
Does a government that basis its governance on a Constitution, a Bill of Rights and is founded upon Christianity behave in such a way? You would think not; however, a government that is sequentially killing off resistance to better facilitate something much bigger and horrifying certainly does.
Does a government who governs upon the "foundation" of Christian principles involve itself in wars of aggression? Killing its currency? Stealing from its own citizenry only to transfer their wealth to foreign banks? Create jobs by shipping them to China? I think not.
Obama Last June – US Not Christian, Muslim or Jewish
Michael Lind "US is Not a Christian Nation"
Source: http://www.henrymakow.com/the_us_wasnt_founded_as_a_chri.html


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Can you work out the height of Baby Bear's chair and whose bed is whose if all the things the three bears have are in the same proportions?
A 750 ml bottle of concentrated orange squash is enough to make fifteen 250 ml glasses of diluted orange drink. How much water is needed to make 10 litres of this drink?
Sam's grandmother has an old recipe for cherry buns. She has enough mixture to put 45 grams in each of 12 paper cake cases. What was the weight of one egg?
Anne completes a circuit around a circular track in 40 seconds. Brenda runs in the opposite direction and meets Anne every 15 seconds. How long does it take Brenda to run around the track?
My recipe is for 12 cakes - how do I change it if I want to make a different number of cakes?
Can you work out which drink has the stronger flavour?
Explore this interactivity and see if you can work out what it does. Could you use it to estimate the area of a shape?
Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?
Mum, Dad, Tim and Jill moved into a new house. If they cut down the big tree, will it miss the greenhouse?
Peter wanted to make two pies for a party. His mother had a recipe for him to use. However, she always made 80 pies at a time. Did Peter have enough ingredients to make two pumpkin pies?
At the beginning of the night three poker players; Alan, Bernie and Craig had money in the ratios 7 : 6 : 5. At the end of the night the ratio was 6 : 5 : 4. One of them won $1 200. What were the. . . .
Is there a temperature at which Celsius and Fahrenheit readings are the same?
A garrison of 600 men has just enough bread ... but, with the news that the enemy was planning an attack... How many ounces of bread a day must each man in the garrison be allowed, to hold out 45. . . .
Mainly for teachers. More mathematics of yesteryear.
Which is a better fit, a square peg in a round hole or a round peg in a square hole?
When Charlie retires, he's looking forward to the quiet life, whereas Alison wants a busy and exciting retirement. Can you advise them on where they should go?
Making a scale model of the solar system
The triathlon is a physically gruelling challenge. Can you work out which athlete burnt the most calories?
Is it cheaper to cook a meal from scratch or to buy a ready meal? What difference does the number of people you're cooking for make?
Build a scaffold out of drinking-straws to support a cup of water


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The trick to making perfect guacamole is using good, ripe avocados. Check for ripeness by gently pressing the outside of the avocado. If there is no give, the avocado is not ripe yet and will not taste good. If there is a little give, the avocado is ripe. If there is a lot of give, the avocado may be past ripe and not good. In this case, taste test first before using.
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- 2 Tbsp to 1/4 cup of minced red onion or thinly sliced green onion
- 1-2 serrano chiles stems and seeds removed, minced
- 2 tablespoons cilantro leaves and tender stems, finely chopped
- A dash of freshly grated black pepper
- 1/2 ripe tomato seeds and pulp removed, chopped
- Garnish with red radishes or jicama. Serve with tortilla chips.
- Cut avocado, remove flesh: Cut the avocados in half. Remove seed. Score the inside of the avocado with a blunt knife and scoop out the flesh with a spoon. (See How to Cut and Peel an Avocado.) Place in a bowl.
- Mash with a fork: Using a fork, roughly mash the avocado. (Don't overdo it! The guacamole should be a little chunky.)
- Add salt, lime juice, and the rest: Sprinkle with salt and lime (or lemon) juice. The acid in the lime juice will provide some balance to the richness of the avocado and will help delay the avocados from turning brown.
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Rex B. Hamilton reports on the 2012 TransWorld convention
March 24, 2012
Greetings, Fellow Haunters:
I had a lovely time at the TransWorld Halloween, Costume and Party Show in St. Louis the weekend before last. I was there for five days - Wednesday afternoon until Sunday afternoon. I have attended every TransWorld bash since 1997. I took something north of 800 photographs - youll see my favorite ones on my Facebook page.
The convention now takes up nearly all of the floor space at the Americas Center - downtown St. Louis exhibition hall. This year saw the first use, in my memory, of large classrooms/meeting rooms on the second floor. The first-floor classrooms/meeting rooms have been in use since the day that TransWorld first set up shop here in 2009.
The social events that I saw included:
The bar at the Rennaisance. The place is too darn small to hold all the people who want to attend, and the hotel doesnt have anything bigger to offer. At some point on every evening I was hemmed in by others trying to squeeze their way in. If you could find a place to sit, the joint was a big hoot because of all the people you could yak at. If not, you turned around and went somewhere else.
Opening Night Party, sponsored by Westland Insurance at the Morgan Street Brewery on Thursday, March 8. I had dinner at a swanky eatery called Carmines and arrived at Ken Donats (Westland Insurance) party after it had officially ended. But there were still plenty of people who couldnt stop having fun. The brewery has a lot of room - two 2-story buildings with a nice open patio in between them. It was a glorious night, with a full moon hanging overhead, so I opted to yak at people in the outdoor patio for a while.
Insane Shanes Kick-Off Party on Thursday, March 8. The place was jammed with people; it was a loud, rollicking affair. Shane seems to have a good thing going here. But if he were to ask me what changes would make the party even tighter, I would offer him these three: 1. Find a larger space (like the hotels ballrooms via the underground tunnel) 2. Erect a stage that lights and presents the costume-contest entrants, the emcee and the house band in a grand way 3. Set up a separate photo-shoot area where ghoulish posers can strike their best pose for the many cameras there.
The Newcomer Orientation on Friday morning, March 9, from 7:45 until 9 AM, Bill Criscione (Ghostly Manor) led a team of 7 owners of notable haunted attractions in an interactive session that sought to help TransWorld newbies understand the convention and how they could reap the greatest benefit from the time spent there. It was an unexpected treat when Dwayne Sanburn (The 13th Gate) graciously introduced me and handed me the microphone. I gave the room 45 seconds of what professional actors do and why owners need to embrace them.
The Haunted Attractions Association auction, 5:30 to 7 PM, Friday, March 9. Philip Morris (Morris Costumes) gave a 15-minute talk about his life experience with ghost shows and how he has scared the dickens out of generations of people with the costume he created that became known as Bigfoot. The old-timey videos he ran during his session were a blast from the past.
The Darklight and TransWorld Party at The City Museum on Friday, March 9. This party was sponsored, in part, by the Haunted Attraction Association. I had never been to the City Museum before and in the two hours I was there I only saw a small portion of this tangled, twisted indoor playground. Im a big fan of surrealism (a good example is Salvador Dali) and this place is surrealism on steroids. If I ever go again, Ill be sure to wear lightweight, beat-up clothing I dont care about and bring a pair of kneepads for crawling around on metal/concrete structures.
The HAA Annual Awards Banquet on Saturday, March 10 from 6:45 to 9:30 PM. My understanding is that the HAA is the merger of the IAHA and the HHA. The banquet was the same size and just as pleasant as last years soiree. Many deserving haunters were recognized and applauded that evening.
What caught my eye on the convention floor were these items:
The rusted-pipe scene in the Dark Zone by Dead House Designs. The setup was built out of PVC tubing, but the paint job was one of the best.
The large, spitting dragon in the center of the Scarefactorys Dark Zone booth. If you took the time to watch it, you saw a human being sitting right behind the dragons head controlling the monster with levers in hand. To me, this was a milestone. This was the first time Ive seen an animation of any size controlled by a technician. Up till now, animations were driven by computer programs, motion sensors and pressure pads - not people. Ive been yelling at haunt builders for years that all mechanical scares should be driven by actors, not software interrupts. Perhaps someone is listening.
The haunted fireplace/mirror-over-the-mantel piece by Dead House Designs was a first. A hidden camera secreted into the fireplace projected a real-time video of those standing in front of it onto the large flat-screen monitor that was dressed up look like the typical big mirror over the mantel. Face-recognition software captured your normal face, morphed it into a snarling, ghoulish visage
and projected it onto the fireplaces mirror. Its a lovely effect, but would severely slow down customer throughput if placed inside a haunt. This piece, in my opinion, would be best served by placing it in an attendee waiting area.
Scarefactorys shooting-gallery of zombies was another creative step forward for this company. This piece was arguably the best it has ever created. Sliding panels of all sorts allowed hidden zombies to slither out of the woodwork and menace the shooters. The whole thing is really pretty. But the shooting gallery, and a handful of other first-time shoot-em-up vendors on the show floor brings up this troubling question: are haunt performers prey or predators?
What I missed were:
Stan Jungs haunted house, Quarantine on 17th Street. I didnt get to act there because I was so late from the HAA party. The make-up came off around 10:30 PM
Many more hours at the hotel bar. If you could hang out there all night, every night, you would have learned so much about the haunt industry.
All the other haunters who were on the show floor whom I did not encounter, purely by accident. There is simply too much for one person to do at TransWorld. But I gave it a good try.
If I had to pick a single hour out of the entire convention that was the most enjoyable, it would be this one: From 1 to 2 PM on Saturday, I worked (in costume and make-up) at the Midwest Haunters Convention booth in the very center of the show floor. What made it an enjoyable time is that I shared the booth with another long-time haunted-house veteran in make-up - Scott Spookmeister Kelley. (Youll find a photo of the two of us on my Facebook page.) We had a lot of laughs startling, entertaining and posing for photographs with the many attendees that surged by us. The booth was a corner booth, so we had people walking by us in all four directions.
Many of the folks that Scott and I spoke to already knew about and/or are planning to attend Midwest Haunters Convention from June 8 - 10 in Columbus. Well both be there and we hope you will, too.
If you enjoy attending haunt conventions in the Midwest, theres another one for you in 2012 - the Great Lakes Fright Fest in Petersburg, Michigan on June 1 - 3. In both 2011 and 2010, I could not attend Midwest Haunters Convention _and_ Great Lakes Fright Fest because of an unavoidable scheduling conflict. Both events, those two years, took place on the same weekend - you had to choose one or the other. This year will be a sigh of relief because the conventions will occur on consecutive weekends
Great Lakes Fright Fest is so unlike most other haunt cons: the attendees are mostly yard/home haunts. The show is held at a quiet, well-maintained private campground. The classes on Saturday and Sunday are free. Families and dogs are welcomed with open arms. There is always plenty to eat and drink. And there is a real, working haunted house that everyone helps construct and is then open to the public on Saturday night.
My thanks go out to Joe Thayer and Jennifer Braverman, the brains behind the convention, for a fun-filled weekend of haunted delights. Every which way you turned, you met someone interesting, saw something spooky or learned something ghoulishly new. Could it be anything other than TransWorld?
Very truly yours,
Rex B. Hamilton
13939 Clifton Boulevard
Lakewood, OH 44107-1462
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Charles F. Hansen
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Mr. Charles F. Hansen earned a degree in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1965. After graduating, he joined the Grain Processing Corporation in Muscatine, Iowa as a Process Engineer. In 1966, he returned to his native town, Neenah, Wisconsin, as a Chemical Engineer with Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Soon after joining Kimberly-Clark he was transferred to South Carolina, where he participated in the construction and start up of a new tissue manufacturing facility. Subsequently, Mr. Hansen moved into operations, managing the production of several different consumer products including KLEENEX facial tissue, KOTEX feminine napkins, and HUGGIES diapers.
After being involved in mill operations in Neenah, Wisconsin; Corinth, Mississippi; and New Milford, Connecticut, he became director of Coform Development in 1984 at the Kimberly-Clark Research Center in Roswell, Georgia. From 1985 to 1989 he served as mill manager of Feminine Care Production in Conway, Arkansas. In 1989 he was named vice president of operations for Pulp and Newsprint at Coosa Pines, Alabama. He returned to Neenah, Wisconsin in 1993 as vice president of operations for the company's feminine care products.
Mr. Hansen has four married children and twelve grandchildren and has been very active in family and church organizations wherever he has lived. He has been on the board of "Young Life"; he was one of the founding elders of Fellowship Bible Church, Conway, Arkansas; and he is currently Chairman of the Governing Board of Calvary Bible Church in Neenah, Wisconsin.
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In its commitment to place, NBC's "Friday Night Lights" is something like a William Faulkner novel. Faulkner understood from his own life, lived, as he said, on "a little postage stamp of land" in Mississippi, that one's character is profoundly shaped by the geographical, familial, religious and social contexts in which one lives. Many of Faulkner's novels are set in Yoknapatawpha County, modeled after a real place—Mississippi's Lafayette County. Similarly, Friday Night Lights, now in its fifth and final season, is set in the hardscrabble, high-school-football-obsessed west Texas town of Dillon, a fictional community modeled on Odessa, Tex.
Dillon is not a transient place. People are rooted there because they either lack the means to move or cannot imagine living anywhere else. This is one reason Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch), the town's football star, has made "Texas forever" his catchphrase. People are marooned there. And when everyone knows everyone else, there's no private sin. When the car salesman Buddy Garrity (Brad Leland) cheats on his wife, everybody knows. The reverberations affect his children, his business and his social life as one of the team's boosters.
Religion is part of life in Dillon in more than a superficial or pietistic way. Neighbors see each other at church on Sundays, pray together before football games and occasionally worry aloud that their actions, like not offering a ride to someone stranded on the highway, might be un-Christian. So as Buddy Garrity starts losing his children's trust, it matters to the whole town. Whatever you think about the town's values, the residents' fierce commitments make for fascinating viewing. (Note: the show's final season began on Oct. 27. The previous four seasons can be watched free on the show's Web site. This season airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on Direct TV and will be aired again later this year on Fridays at 9 p.m. on NBC.)
No show since HBO's crime drama "The Wire," set in Baltimore, has tilled what T. S. Eliot called "significant soil." "Friday Night Lights" is superb television because it gets one place just right and, by extension, much more. Most television shows, by comparison, are set in sound-stage no places, nominally called New York or L.A., if they are named at all (think "Friends"). Such places may be mildly amusing distractions from the actual locales we call home, but little is ultimately at stake, and what is at stake feels contrived. When television writers and producers tackle middle-American places, they often turn the people (who worry about money, drink beer, watch sports and raise families) into maudlin caricatures (think "Seventh Heaven" or "My Name is Earl").
In "Friday Night Lights" the stakes are family, God and football. (The show was adapted by Peter Berg, Brian Grazer and David Nevins from a film based ona book of the same name by Buzz Bissinger.) Its creators have refused to turn their characters into clichés. Just when you think a character like the head cheerleader Lyla Garrity (Minka Kelly) is merely a superficial young woman, she grows up and surprises you.
The overarching plot focuses on the family of Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler), the football coach, and his wife, Tami (Connie Britton), the part-time volleyball coach and school counselor turned principal, and their two daughters. The Taylors are the center of an interlocking web of characters, many of whom frequently ask Eric and Tami for help on and off the field. As many critics have noted, theirs is the best marriage on television. While most television husbands are mere punchlines, barely able to plan a night out, Eric is different. When he takes a coaching job in Austin, his family back in Dillon begins to unravel without him, and he returns.
Eric and Tami are each other's biggest fans, always in the stands at each other's games. And while sports is a religion in Dillon, the couple's relationship transcends football and volleyball. When Eric is facing a difficult decision, he visits Tami's office for advice. After they fight, they apologize. When they have a late-in-life accidental pregnancy and Tami thinks about quitting a job she loves, Eric counsels against it.
In a recent interview with National Public Radio, Connie Britton said that she and her co-star Kyle Chandler were committed to portraying a solid marriage on television. "We didn't want this to be a marriage where we ultimately were addressing infidelity.... We really wanted to deal with the authenticity of what it is to try to make a marriage work." Their characters are compelling because of their commitments, not in spite of them. With a lot at stake—a marriage, two kids, two jobs, an entire town counting on a win Friday night—there's a lot to lose.
Eric and Tami are raising their daughters with care, visiting team members in the hospital and forever answering the door in the middle of the night to respond to an anxious parent or teenager. They show little vainglory, though as a result of their selfless lives, they are constantly fatigued. When the hard-partying running back Tim Riggins is caught sleeping in his truck outside their house with nowhere else to stay, Eric wordlessly throws him a sleeping bag. This understated hospitality captures something essential about small-town Texas.
"Friday Night Lights" also understands the town's faith life. When Lyla Garrity's life implodes, her parents divorce and she cheats on her injured boyfriend with Tim. She then gives up partying, "gets saved" and joins a Bible church. Riggins teases her, "What'd you do, join a cult or something?" But when he attends a service at her nondenominational church and the preacher says, "God loves you," Riggins is surprised that he feels moved. "I felt something so strong that it made me wonder if everything you've been sayin' isn't as crazy as what everyone thought," he tells Lyla. "It's hard for me to understand that feeling. It's kind of embarrassing. It allowed me to feel a part of something, part of the people, part of you, part of God. Even sayin' that's scary. Did you feel it?"
True to life, both characters stop going to church and almost immediately fall back into bed with one another. Still, viewers can sense real power in the church scenes, not unlike what the characters feel in each other's arms or, in Riggin's case, on the football field. The church was there when needed; the people there were mostly good.
Shot in Austin, Tex., "Friday Night Lights" boasts a lush documentary feel: a big sky, tiny churches, trailer homes, practice fields and Applebee's restaurants speed by, as if from the seat of a passing car (or truck). And because this is both Texas and television, there are lots of good-looking people. Shot with three cameras, no rehearsals and no blocking, it allows a gifted cast to hone its craft before your eyes and, in the process, tell you something about someone's hometown.


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Business Insider has republished an (edited) version of an Introduction to Bitcoin talk I gave to a professional conference last year. You can find the original, unedited version on Slideshare.net.
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If I have to watch one more commercial with Obama taking stabs at McCain, or vice versa, I might, might just pass out! Seriously. One more commercial with chickens being cooped up in a cage, or yes or no on eight, AGH! I can't take it anymore. Take down all the signs littering my running pathway, clean up the streets again! I can't take looking at last names for this position, or vote this for this anymore! I feel like this!
Anyways, with election day tomorrow, there are some sick free deals to be had, and many restaurants are taking advantage of them. Hey, the economy's down, go big and give away free stuff to win people back. I'm a believer. Keep your coveted, "I voted" sticker all day, and get freebies all day long! Long Live Democracy!
Anyways, for all you java junkies, Starbucks is giving away one tall coffee to anyone who votes. I assume this is when you are wearing the 'I voted' sticker. Want to read more, click here.
Anyone else running in the morning? This gives you free reign to celebrate or drown your sorrows in either delicious ice-cream, or donuts, or both!
Krispy Kreme Donuts is giving away a star shaped patriotic sprinkled original flavored donut to everyone with the "I voted" sticker. Looks super tasty! To find your nearest Krispy Kreme go here.
If you live in the Orange County area, feel free to check out all these election deals @ Fast food Maven, for local steals and deals for tomorrow. You'll be finding me at the Daily Grill for free appetizers!
Also, since were are pretty much covering all fast food today, check out Jack in the Box for the latest installment on Jack Antenna Balls, "Beanie Jack." The new ball features Jack wearing a multi-colored beanie cap topped with a propeller. Beanie Jack are selling for $1 at participating restaurants. And Jacks lookin' out to help! Seventy percent of Beanie Jack sales will go to Big Brothers Big Sisters.
ALSO! The winner for my first ever giveaway of the Marathon Pace Band is KIM from KIMPOSSIBLE!!!!! Hooray!! :) Her PR for a marathon is from the Kentucky Derby Marathon on April 28, 2006 and it was 4:56:43, and she is now working towards a 4:45! :) Hopefully the Marathon Pace Band can help her reach her goal! Congrats Kim! I will be having another contest soon that my involve a SPIBELT from Overton Fitness!! Once I get mine to do a review I'll also be giving one away… Stay tuned!
Hope everyone's weekend was great, I struggled through five miles on Saturday, but my cold is subsiding and I am going to run to my polling location tomorrow morning before work. I was on the elliptical last night at the gym watching the football games, and it looks like my fantasy team might surprisingly squeak out a win tonight! Tonight I am going to hit up the gym again with some dreadmill running and weights. I'm really working on toning and firming. As they say in the movie "Knocked-Up", don't lose weight, just tighten. :)


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Paraguay leader's abrupt ouster plunges country into instability
ASUNCION, Paraguay -- President Fernando Lugo's rapid impeachment and ouster by lawmakers has plunged Paraguay into crisis and unleashed a wave of criticism by fellow leftist leaders in Latin America.
The former Roman Catholic bishop elected on a pledge to help Paraguay's poor said he would step aside following Friday's Senate vote to remove him from office, even though he called it a blow to democracy.
His quick acceptance of his ouster appeared to have prevented a bigger confrontation and potentially violent protests in the streets of Paraguay's capital of Asuncion, where his supporters had gathered. But other South American presidents were critical of the impeachment trial, which several called a de-facto coup d'etat.
"This goes beyond Fernando Lugo. It goes beyond Paraguay. It's about true democracy for all of our America," said Ecuador's leftist president, Rafael Correa, adding that his government will not recognize any government in Paraguay other than Lugo's.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he won't recognize the "illegal and illegitimate government" that replaced Lugo either. Chavez said his ally "preferred the sacrifice" of stepping aside, and that the trial had been a setup.
In Argentina, the government of President Cristina Fernandez said it "is not going to validate the coup d'etat that just occurred" in Paraguay. Bolivian President Evo Morales also called it a coup.
Chilean Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno said "we are worried" that Lugo's ouster "did not fulfill the minimum standards of due process and the legitimate defense that any person deserves." He said his country would decide its position toward the new Paraguayan government in the coming days.
The rapid and negative reaction by many South American governments does not bode well for the international acceptance of newly sworn-in President Federico Franco.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos also expressed concern. "These legal procedures shouldn't be used to abuse," Santos said at a news conference. "What we want is to help stability and democracy be maintained in Paraguay."
Santos said that on Thursday during the Rio+20 environmental summit in Brazil, presidents of the South American country grouping known as Unasur agreed to send their foreign ministers to Paraguay in hopes of halting Lugo's ouster so he could serve out his remaining eight months in power.
"But unfortunately that was not possible ... and Congress proceeded with a political trial to remove President Lugo from power," the Colombian president said. "We very much lament what has happened."
Mexico's foreign ministry said in a communique that although the process followed procedures laid out in Paraguay's constitution, "Mexico considers that said proceeding didn't grant ex-President Lugo the space or time for his defense."
Amid the criticism, Franco directed his foreign minister to try reach out to the region's governments.
"The foreign minister of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, said the situation in Paraguay is grave. Therefore we want to show that the political trial is a constitutional tool that is legal and legitimate," said Franco, who had been vice president under Lugo.
During the trial in the Senate, Lugo's supporters had massed in the streets facing off with riot police. But Lugo later went on national television to say he would step down.
"I say goodbye as president," a smiling Lugo said.
The Senate tried Lugo on five charges of malfeasance in office, including an alleged role in a deadly confrontation between police and landless farmers that left 17 dead.
After the five-hour trial, 39 senators voted to dismiss Lugo, while four senators voted against and two were absent.
It was a dramatic demise for the once-popular leader who previously had stepped down as a popular Roman Catholic "bishop of the poor" to run for the presidency amid a leftward swing in South America.
Lugo's removal after nearly four years in office highlighted his inability to find a balance with one-time allies who increasingly disapproved of his leftist policies and strident, uncompromising style. The trial came a day after Paraguay's lower house of Congress voted to impeach Lugo.
Crowds of pro-Lugo protesters took to the streets condemning the impeachment trial and expressing support for the president. When several dozen young protesters tried to break through a police barricade to reach Congress, police in anti-riot gear drove them back on horseback and using tear gas and water cannons.
Some protesters listened to the vote on speakers set up in the street, and booed lawmakers who voted for Lugo's dismissal. When the vote was over, some chanted "Lugo president!" Others wept. After Franco's swearing in, the crowd of protesters waned.
Franco, of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party, is now to serve out the rest of Lugo's term, which ends in August 2013. The 49-year-old Franco has political experience as a former state governor and at first had been part of a political alliance that supported Lugo.
Lugo decided not to attend the trial, instead watching on television from the presidential palace while his lawyers spoke on his behalf.
The Senate rejected a request by his lawyers for a period of 18 days to prepare their arguments. The Senate's president, Jorge Oviedo, said there were no grounds for such a request.
"I'm angry. More than because of the impeachment trial, because of the reaction of the Liberals who are celebrating as if they won elections," said protester Fiorella Galli. "The country is in a complete situation of insecurity and instability."
A smaller group of pro-Franco demonstrators gathered for a separate rally during the congressional proceedings, holding signs reading: "The trial is constitutional."
"I think Lugo had to go because he didn't do things well," said Carlos Solis, an engineer who said he thinks Franco will be a better president.
Lugo left the presidential palace on Friday as the military guard formally saw him off with a bugle tune.
The impoverished, landlocked nation has a long history of political instability. Some in Paraguay were initially concerned that the political showdown could spark street protests such as those that followed the 1999 assassination of Vice President Luis Maria Argana.
Some analysts said later that Lugo's quick acceptance likely avoided a more severe and potentially bloody crisis.
"He seems to have handled it very well, considering he had no real opportunity to mount a defense. So far his actions have probably prevented violence," said Stephen Johnson, director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "When all the dust settles, Paraguay will need to amend its impeachment procedures to assure a more transparent, orderly process. Presidential removal is an area where many Latin American constitutions are weak."
Lugo was elected four years ago on promises of agrarian reform to help the country's many poor and landless people, but his more moderate government allies have increasingly turned against him in recent years.
Lugo's impeachment trial was triggered in part by an attempt by police to evict about 150 farmers from a remote, 4,900-acre (2,000-hectare) forest reserve, which is part of a huge estate. Advocates for the farmers said the landowner, a politician, used political influence to get the land from the state decades ago, and say it should have been put to use for land reform.
Six police officers, including the brother of Lugo's chief of security, and 11 farmers died in the clash last week. Lugo's opponents blamed the president. Lugo had expressed sorrow at the confrontation and accepted the resignations of his interior minister and his chief of police.
The president also was tried on four other accusations, including that he improperly allowed leftist parties to hold a political meeting in an army base in 2009; that he allowed about 3,000 squatters to illegally invade a large Brazilian-owned soybean farm; that his government failed to capture members of a guerrilla group, the Paraguayan People's Army, which carries out extortion kidnappings and occasional attacks on police; and that he signed an international protocol without properly submitting it to Congress for approval.
Lugo's support had steadily eroded recently, while his opponents had grown stronger, said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank in Washington. "It is hard to see the offenses leveled against him as anything but a pretext for removing an unpopular president," Shifter said.
"If presidents were ousted because of the reasons cited in this case, there would be few Latin American presidents left in office," he said. "The opposition simply didn't agree with Lugo's policies and didn't approve of the way he governed. As a result, the opposition manipulated the system, adhering to the letter of the law but departing from the principle of democracy."
Lugo's election in 2008 had ended 61 years of rule by the Colorado Party, and he had regularly clashed with Congress, where he had few firm allies.
Lugo's relationship with Franco and the moderate Authentic Radical Liberal Party quickly deteriorated after he was elected with their support. His partners were upset after he gave a majority of Cabinet ministry posts to leftist allies, and handed a minority to the moderates.


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Theodore A. "Ted" Dietz, a retired shipyard electrician who earned the sobriquet of "40-Watt Dietz" from fellow volunteer crew members aboard the Liberty ship SS John W. Brown, died Feb. 3 of heart failure at his Severna Park home. He was 91.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Dietz was a 1942 graduate of Franklin K. Lane High School.
"He enlisted into the Navy before he formally graduated from high school and his mother received his diploma," said his wife of two years, the former Mary Bartlett.
"I concentrated on art in school, had a terrible time with English. I did some painting, some commercial design," Mr. Dietz told Ernest F. Imhoff, a former Baltimore Sun editor who wrote "Good Shipmates: The Restoration of the Liberty Ship John W. Brown."
"I graduated a month after Pearl Harbor, when I was twenty," he said. "My [high school] adviser was a reserve commander in the Navy. He said, 'Go in the Navy. You get a place to eat and sleep.'"
The Navy sent Mr. Dietz to electrical school and then mine school, after which he joined the crew of a minesweeper as an electrician.
Because Mr. Dietz suffered constant bouts of seasickness, his commander had him transferred off the USS Tide, which was sent to Normandy and was sunk a day after the June 6, 1944, invasion, after striking a mine.
"Being seasick saved my life," he told Mr. Imhoff.
Mr. Dietz later joined the crew of the USS Wyoming, a gunnery training battleship that sailed the Chesapeake Bay, where he learned how to rewind AC and DC motors and attained the rank of second class electrician.
Mr. Dietz remained in the Navy after the war, where he was a chief warrant officer and later public information officer. He served aboard the San Marcos, LSD 15, which was the lead ship in the 1962 Bay of Pigs Invasion.
After being discharged in 1962, Mr. Dietz went to work the next year at Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., where he was an estimator until retiring in 1983.
He later worked as a marine consultant with MARserv LC in the late 1980s.
Mr. Dietz was in his 50s when he earned a college degree in 1976 from Anne Arundel Community College, which he attended with his son.
He became involved with the John W. Brown in 1988 after agreeing to become chief electrician. When he visited the ship, he told Mr. Imhoff, "Oh my God, they have no idea what they're in for."
After inspecting the electrical system of the ship, which had been idle in the James River National Defense Reserve Fleet for five years, Mr. Dietz pronounced it "deplorable" and set about rewiring it.
In what seemed like an almost impossible undertaking, Mr. Dietz and his crew were able to make the ship electrically operable in three years and in time for its first voyage in 1991.
"His work didn't stop with wiring. In recent years he and his crew made many other ship improvements such as an electronically enhanced public address system, a new fire alarm protection system, emergency fire control stations on the bridge and in the engine room and repairing other devices," Mr. Imhoff said in an interview.
As "chief power saver," said Mr. Imhoff, Mr. Dietz earned the nickname of "40-Watt Dietz" for his "constant incantations of 'Turn off the lights,' or 'Shut the doors' or 'Buy small light bulbs.'"
Mr. Dietz continued working on the Liberty ship until the end of November 2012, said Mr. Imhoff.
He was a tireless crusader for the ship and handed out brochures in order to get new members to join Project Liberty Ship, which owns and operates the John W. Brown.
"He loved the Liberty ship. He was always trying to raise money for the ship," said Mrs. Dietz, the widow of a John W. Brown volunteer.
"He was passionate about that. When he was in the critical care unit for 21/2 weeks, he was asking the doctors and nurses to become members," she said.
In addition to his work aboard the ship, Mr. Dietz enjoyed sketching and painting. He was an avid collector of stamps, coins and old-time shaving mugs.
His wife of 62 years, the former Marian Bagnall, died in 2009.
A memorial service will be held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church, 611 Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd., Severna Park.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Dietz is survived by a son, Theodore Emmens Dietz of Arnold; a daughter, Marian Day of Oriental, N.C.; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.


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Even before the first legal briefs have been filed in a British or World Court seeking reparations for slavery in 14 Caribbean island nations, legal luminaries are squaring off publicly.
And the words of a former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and the U.K.'s current Foreign Minister, William Hague, as well as former French president Nicholas Sarkozy may come back to haunt them as Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, the Bahamas, St. Vincent, Haiti, St. Lucia, Belize and their Caricom neighbors continue to press their case for compensation.
But while Leigh Day, the London law firm retained by the Caribbean states to argue the region's case in court against Britain, France and the Netherlands insists the countries in the region have a reasonably good case should the matter end up before the International Court of Justice at the Hague, Roger O'Keefe, Deputy director of the Lauteracht Center for International Law at Cambridge University in England, has cast serious doubt on the Caribbean states' ability to be awarded any money for the victims of what is generally recognized as a crime against humanity.
"There s not the slightest chance this case will get anywhere," O'Keefe was quoted as telling the New York Times. Indeed, he described the Caribbean's claim for repartition as an "international legal fantasy".
Not so, argued Martyn Day, senior partner of Leigh Day, who insisted that the Caribbean's case could start at the ICJ as early as next year.
"What happened in the Caribbean and West Africa was so egregious we feel that bringing a case in the ICJ would have a decent chance of success," said Day. "The fact that you were subjugating a whole class of people in a massively discriminatory way has no parallel."
In the meantime, Caricom states have taken their case to the United Nations General Assembly, where heads of government or foreign ministers of several countries, including Baldwin Spencer of Antigua & Barbuda, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Portia Simson Miller, leader of Jamaica and Kamla Persad Bissessar, Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister have thrown their collective weight behind compensation for slavery which ended in the 1830s when Britain paid 20 million English pounds sterling to slave owners for the loss of their assets. Dr. Nicholas Draper of the University College of London put the present day vale of that compensation package at about $21 billion.
Dr. O'Keefe says there is another reason why the case against Britain may not stand legal scrutiny. It is that while both the Netherlands and Britain have accepted the ICJ's jurisdiction, the latter excluded disputes that arose before 1974.
"Reparations may be awarded only for what was internationally unlawful when it was done," the Cambridge University legal expert argued. "And slavery and the slave trade were not internationally unlawful at the time the colonial powers engaged in them."
There is more. Although there have been cases of reparations being paid for the "actions of long dead leaders and generals remain a touchy one all over the globe," according to the New York Times, Turkey wouldn't pay compensation for the mass deaths of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire but West Germany paid reparations to the Jews for Crimes during the Nazi regime. Just the other day Leigh Day succeeded in getting Britain to pay reparations to Kenyans for the brutality during the 1950s Mau Mau uprising.
"Critics contend that it makes no sense to try to redress wrongs that reach back through the centuries, and that Caribbean countries already received compensation through development aid," stated the Times.
But what about the assessments of slavery and other crimes against humanity as outlined by different European leaders?
For instance, Hague, the British Foreign Secretary, Hague, called slavery "brutal, mercenary and inhumane from its beginning to end." The Caribbean states are hoping that Hague who once led the British conservative party may be forced by the ICJ to put British money where its mouth is.
When Blair was Prime Minister, he called potato famine in Ireland in the late 1840s "something that still causes pain as we reflect on it today." That too could be cited in any court cases on slavery.
In France, former President, Sarkozy once linked a debt cancelation plan for Haiti with "the wounds of colonization."
Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles, Principal of the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies in Barbados, has argued that reparations were "Britain's Black Debt" for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide."
Baldwin Spencer, Antigua's Prime Minister agreed with Sir Hillary.
"Our constant search and struggle for development resources is linked to the historical inability of our nations to accumulate wealth from the efforts of our people during slavery and colonialism," asserted Spencer who insists reparations must be used to repair the damage done by a mix of slavery and racism.
It's a position that is strongly backed by Dr. Gonsalves who told the UN General assembly during a session resided over by Dr. John Ashe, Antigua's Ambassador to the UN that compensation was due the region and he invited the European nations to enter into deliberations with the Caribbean to resolve the issue amicably.
Indeed, the Caribbean has placed considerable emphasis on diplomacy and discussion while keeping the legal option open.


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As a supplement to Monday's blog post, note that Cornell's Legal Information Institute provides a useful Web page that brings together links to the primary legal materials (constitutions, statutes, cases) of the fifty states and the U.S. territories. Simply click the link provided here, and then click the link to the state whose materials you seek.
Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat