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May 8, 2007
G31: Red Sox 9, Blue Jays 2
Beckett was once again great (7-5-1-1-5, 88), although Alex Rios did tattoo his first pitch of the game for a home run to left. ... After that HR, Adam Lind doubled on a 0-1 pitch and I'll admit I was a tad worried (having seen Beckett get shelled at Skydome last season) But he settled down. Working with an 8-1 lead helped, I'm sure. After allowing a one-out double in the second, he retired the next 11 batters on only 37 pitches.
The Red Sox played long ball, too. Youkilis hit a solo shot in the first, Pedroia had a three-run job in the second, Lowell hit a three-run bomb in the third, and then Varitek followed Lowell by pounding Zambrano's next pitch over the wall in dead center.
Devern Hansack made his 2007 debut in the eighth and had some control problems (he walked 3 of 6 batters), but only one run scored.
Varitek went 4-for-4 with a walk and scored three runs. Youkilis was 3-for-3 before leaving the game after getting plunked in the sixth.
Before Lugo doubled home Boston's last run in the eighth, he had a .301 OBP and a .299 SLG (now it's up to .306 and .314). It might be time to move him out of the leadoff spot. ... Then again, we're 21-10. We can afford to wait and see if he comes out of this slump.
Josh Beckett (2.72, 159 ERA+) / Victor Zambrano (5.63, 79 ERA+)
Against Beckett: Vernon Wells is 7-for-15, with 4 home runs, Overbay 3-for-14, Thomas 2-for-11, and Glaus 2-for-10.
Aganst Zambrano: Manny is 4-for-26, with 7 strikeouts, Hinske 6-for-23, Varitek 3-for-15, and Ortiz 5-for-12, with 2 home runs (also 7 walks for a .632 OBP).
If you're at Skydome tonight, swing by Aisle 116, Row 16, Seats 7 & 8 and say Hi. It's been a sunny, beautiful day today; I hope they open the roof.
Beth has NESN's "Cuddle Cam" clip of Manny and Sexy Lips. (Remy may be giggling harder than Orsillo, which I didn't think was possible.)
27 comments:
- Pokerwolf said...
Is it just me or is there a plethora of great pitching matchups in the AL East this year?
Every other game or so, my brain says, Those two guys are pitching against each other? AWESOME!
- May 8, 2007 at 12:44 PM
- allan said...
No. There is a dilution of pitching.
Haven't you been listening to McCarver, Kurk, Morgan, Sutcliffe, Kay, Shulman, Thorne, Berman, Buffy, et al. for the last x years?
- May 8, 2007 at 12:47 PM
- Sean O said...
"1. Clay Buchholz, rhp, Double-A Portland (Red Sox)
Ascending as rapidly as any pitching prospect in baseball, Buchholz struck out 17 batters in 12 innings last week. He didn't issue a walk and allowed just two runs on seven hits. The 6-foot-3, 190-pounder has a 1.98 ERA and 35 strikeouts vs. 3 walks in 27 1/3 innings. Just nine of the 55 lefties Buchholz has faced have reached base, while he has struck out 20 of them. He's positioning himself as a strong candidate to start in Fenway this season."
Shya. Psyched.
- May 8, 2007 at 12:53 PM
- allan said...
Tres bien.
- May 8, 2007 at 1:02 PM
- allan said...
According to the Globe:
"The Red Sox' lead of six games in the AL East is the largest advantage in team history after the first 30 games of a season. The next closest was a 5 1/2 game lead after the first 30 games of the pennant winning 1946 season."
Lineups here.
- May 8, 2007 at 1:16 PM
- thatdietcokegirl said...
manny's a little bi. fer shure ;) either that or he's bringing male romantic friendship back :D
i thought it was so cute. but you could feel the collective skin crawling-awkwardness between pretty much all het men everywhere tho--esp. remy and orsillo. hilarious.
- May 8, 2007 at 1:21 PM
- allan said...
I loved it too -- not weirded out in the slightest. (Funny how Lips keeps on talking to whoever through the whole thing.)
At first, I thought it looked like Manny was petting a nice dog. Then I thought it looked like Manny was one of those birds that cleans the bugs out of a larger animal's fur. But that wasn't quite the image I wanted to convey!
Let me know if it continues tonight!
- May 8, 2007 at 2:00 PM
- allan said...
Further proof that Manny is unique -- and doesn't care what anyone thinks about him.
I can't see many other major league players doing that, knowing it would get on TV and broadcast all over the place.
I can't see Giambi doing this to Pettitte on YES. (Tho I would like to!)
- May 8, 2007 at 2:03 PM
- Sean O said...
I can't see Giambi doing this to Pettitte on YES. (Tho I would like to!)
Roger would get jealous. -or- Just another case of the Yankees stealing something from the Sox.
..hour 44 'til the game. I don't know how hardcore football fans deal with 16 games a year.
- May 8, 2007 at 2:17 PM
- Zenslinger said...
Pe-DROYA! Well done.
I did watch the Manny/Julian video and it was hilarious.
- May 8, 2007 at 4:34 PM
- Zenslinger said...
Damn -- Lowell. Go go.
Two innings in a row the sequence goes: two outs, single, walk, 3-run HR.
Then, Varitek adds a solo HR! And I kept him out of my fantasy lineup in favor of Bard. Damn.
8-1 Sox after 2 1/2 innings.
- May 8, 2007 at 4:56 PM
- laura k said...
Further proof that Manny is unique -- and doesn't care what anyone thinks about him.
I thought that, too. Very cool.
And of course I agree with TDCG, Manny is a bit bi. And I mean that in the best possible way.
- May 8, 2007 at 7:55 PM
- laura k said...
Jays fans are getting stupider and stupider. This is not much of a baseball town.
Great game, tho, and a great night for baseball.
- May 8, 2007 at 8:06 PM
- allan said...
And in the 2nd inning, Zamboni got the first two outs on only 4 pitches.
Then Varitek worked a 7-pitch walk, Crisp drew a full-count walk, and Pedroia hit a 89 FB for a HR to left center.
Same deal in the third. Yook walks, but Tiz lines into a DP. Then Manny singles, Drew walks, Lowell goes deep and Tek follows with one of his own. Great.
Jays fans were a bit rowdy tonight.
- May 8, 2007 at 8:07 PM
- San Francisco Red Sox Fan said...
manny's a little bi. fer shure ;)
Before we jump to conclusions - let's just remember that both Manny and Sexy grew up in another country. If you have ever had the pleasure of travelling outside the U.S./Canada you may often see men walking arm and arm together and/or kissing each other. This does not necessarily mean they are gay, it is just proper decorum among men in other countries.
BUT...I did think that Orsillo laughed just a little bit too much if ya know what I mean. wink wink nudge nudge.
- May 8, 2007 at 8:53 PM
- allan said...
SFRSF: I was wondering about this also.
When you think about it, most of the hugging is not coming from the (possibly more uptight about these things) white guys.
Seeing the hugs and happiness and genuine joy in the dugout is one of the things that I LOVE about the Sox teams of the past few years.
- May 8, 2007 at 9:02 PM
- laura k said...
SFRSF: I've thought this for a long time, based on many things I see. I got my gaydar working. But believe me, it's no insult, coming from me. Quite the opposite.
And yes, I do think it's largely cultural. Latino culture is more demonstrative. I enjoy it.
But I also don't think it's an insult to be something other than heterosexual.
- May 8, 2007 at 9:05 PM
- thatdietcokegirl said...
Before we jump to conclusions - let's just remember that both Manny and Sexy grew up in another country. If you have ever had the pleasure of travelling outside the U.S./Canada you may often see men walking arm and arm together and/or kissing each other. This does not necessarily mean they are gay, it is just proper decorum among men in other countries.
oh and i'm completely hep to that. believe me :) that's why i added the 'romantic friendship' comment. and mediterranean men are like this too (or so i've heard) very affectionate, kisses, huggles, etc.
but...hehe. i mean, you have to admit...that scene was a little...
like if that had been two girls in the dugout of a softball game....ya know what i'm sayin? ;)
anyway. no conclusions to be jumped, it's a non-issue in my little beating heart whether he likes the boys or the girls or both (and pretty clearly he quite obviously totally pretty much basically likes the girlies since he's married with childs. child?)
i was just sayyyin to say that's all :)
- May 8, 2007 at 9:50 PM
- thatdietcokegirl said...
But I also don't think it's an insult to be something other than heterosexual.
exactly. i was just gonna post something to this effect but i couldn't articulate it as i'm tired and need sustinence...;//
- May 8, 2007 at 9:54 PM
- Who Am I? said...
Yet another win for Beckett. I wonder how he would be doing if he didnt have the run support hes had? When Beckett takes the hill the Sox have scored 50+ runs in all of his starts combined. Take away that support, and take away his wins. However, I think the Sox will keep at it. They seem to be in a good rythm.
- May 8, 2007 at 11:43 PM
- allan said...
Take away that support, and take away his wins.
I don't agree. His ERA is 2.57. He has not gotten any cheap 8-7 wins.
Runs he's allowed in his seven starts: 1, 1, 1, 5, 2, 3, 1.
The Sox have won those games: 7-1, 14-3, 7-2, 7-5, 5-2, 6-4 and 9-2.
Two games he might have lost:
The 7-5 game, to NYY on April 21
The 5-2 game to the Orioles April 26. He allowed 2 runs early, Sox trailed 2-1 when Pena hit a grand slam in the 8th, Bot finished up.
So with Wakefield-like "support", he'd be 5-2 or 6-1, not 7-0. But his ERA would still be 2.57. That's the important thing.
- May 9, 2007 at 4:10 AM
- laura k said...
Seeing the hugs and happiness and genuine joy in the dugout is one of the things that I LOVE about the Sox teams of the past few years.
It's a big part of what drew me to the 2003 team.
- May 9, 2007 at 4:11 AM
- laura k said...
Take away that support, and take away his wins.
I don't agree. His ERA is 2.57. He has not gotten any cheap 8-7 wins.
A post on this, perhaps?
- May 9, 2007 at 4:12 AM
- Zenslinger said...
Work that man to the bone, L-girl! Lots of awesome posts in the last day or two, but that one might be worth the effort, too. As a fan, you had to feel kind of guilty at the way Beckett racked up wins despite pitching poorly last year. So far this year he's like some miracle dessert.
- May 9, 2007 at 6:01 AM
- laura k said...
So far this year he's like some miracle dessert.
All that yummy winning goodness with none of the finger-nail-biting calories!
- May 9, 2007 at 9:15 AM
- tim said...
Damn, I'm pumped for this game tonight. Knowing my luck they'll lose, but whatever...I'll be in the front row above the 'pen (sec 105)
I just hope that Dice-K pitches a perfect game - no baserunners = no pitching from the stretch = no bad innings = win!
- May 9, 2007 at 10:08 AM
- Jere said...
"Seeing the hugs and happiness and genuine joy in the dugout is one of the things that I LOVE about the Sox teams of the past few years."
Ess-actly. And also why I'm so confused as to all the Red Sox hatred. We're out to beat the Yanks, and we're fun as hell. I'd think the average Amercian would be drawn to that like, uh, like porn, or whatever it is Americans like.
People used to say about the Yankee teams of the late 90s, "How can you not like them?" And I thought, Uh, because they're boring? (And, duh, because they're the Yankees...)
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Am living up to my promise of writing you as often as possible as I realize sometime I might be handicapped and not be able to write you for days perhaps weeks but while the going is good I am going to write both you and Anna every day. I am feeling fine and have plenty of money therefore I am still enjoying myself and have great times during my leisure hours. I always manage to buy a meal each night and before going to sleep each night my appetite is well satisfied. The last day has brought us quiet some rain but like everything else we boys are used to it by now. I expect to go to a movies tonight. It surely is a long time since I last saw movies. How are all the folks home? I suppose Bob and Baby have gotten so tall that I suppose I would hardly no them if I saw them now. Its almost time for retreat or call to colors so I guess I will close now with love to you all.
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Some time ago I did some winter hiking near Toronto (Niagara Escarpment) and explored behind a waterfall to see how it would look with all the icicles. Needless to say it was amazing – exceeded my most hopeful expectations. Most impressive was this low rumbling sound that filled the whole cavity, it was a new dimension to my unusual Ontario based travels – sound.
Check out this video of behind an Ontario waterfall – here.
In line with the publication of my first book in 2005 (Rockwatching), in the video that I have linked to just above, I show a little bit of the local rock and the contact between the Queenston Shale and the Whirlpool Sandstone.


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Hi, and a very belated welcome to Grand Theft Wiki! Eganio brought to my attention your hard work on our wiki, and I've reviewed some of your edits. You definitely seem to be editing in good faith, and I thought I'd let you know that we have been considering whether adding a new Admin or two to the site will benefit the wiki. If that's something that would interest you, you may want to take a look at the Task List. These are some things that are taken care of on an ongoing basis to keep the wiki maintained and tidy. The quality of your edits, so far as I've seen, leaves nothing to be desired, so if these additional tasks are something you'd be willing to tackle every now and then, you may be considered for admin-ship. If not, please continue the great work you've been doing, and feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns. Most importantly, have fun! --GuildKnightTalk2me 04:38, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks! I appreciate the offer, but unfortunately I'm on something of an extended hiatus from the Wikia community right now (as a protest against the new ad layouts, eh, long story). If and when I return to active status I'll probably take you up on the offer, though.
- Thanks again for the welcome. --MattyDienhoff 07:28, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
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- Thanks, Gerard. :)
- My contributions page will be a bit quiet for a few days, as there are several other things occupying my attention right now, but I should be active again soon. Until then, I'll still be checking my emails regularly, so if you need anything from me leave me a message here. --MattyDienhoff 03:51, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
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Vehicle screenshots
Hi. If you took these screenshots that you uploaded, I like to know how you managed to do it. Some of them (like this one, and this) seemingly show as if they taken zoomed in (something GTA III and GTAVC are not capable of through my methods), which left me with the impression you were running the games in a higher resolution than 1280x1024. - ZS 12:34, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
- Hello. =) Yes, I took those two. I would have been running the game in 1600x1200 at the time, that's what I use in all games (whenever it's available). If the angle looks unusual, it's because I angle the camera downwards to get the player character out of the way. If that doesn't explain it, I don't know what would, because I don't have any special techniques otherwise. I hope that helps! --MattyDienhoff «talk» 12:41, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks. It's just frustrating that I can't never go beyond 1280x1024, not even in GTA IV or with a PC that runs it well. I hear you would need an additional GC or a widescreen monitor in order to access higher resolutions. If I had anything more than 1280x1024, my GTA III and GTAVC vehicle screenshots could surely be better. Then again, there isn't much details in these games' vehicles to require large images. - ZS 15:33, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
- That's puzzling. 1600x1200 isn't a widescreen resolution, and most CRT monitors support it (I can't speak for LCDs, though, I don't have much experience with them). What kind of monitor do you have? --MattyDienhoff «talk» 19:05, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
- 17" flatscreen LCD. Its dimension is pretty much incapable of supporting widescreen resolutions without distortions. - ZS 07:32, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
- Well 1280x1024 is the native resolution of many LCDs, and it's a different aspect ratio to 1600x1200. I guess your monitor doesn't support 1600x1200. --MattyDienhoff «talk» 08:38, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
- Huh. That might explain it. Guess I'll have to live with it for now. Thanks. - ZS 18:37, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Vehicle prices
The Sultan RS can be sold to stevie like happened on other day when i was playing gtaiv on PS3 it gave some like $2000 but its badly damage it may depend on the color when i sold 1 yellow sultan rs it gave me $0.Why? there is another car Roman's Cavalcade i sold it gave me $150000
if you are a moderator pls help me correct the mistakes im really too hasty
- I don't know. I know little about what governs the sell prices of cars.
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Hey MattyDienhoff, the second phas of the Cleanup Project is underway. Instead of assigning out tasks to people, I'll let you go there and pick your own. Just sign your name next to the tasks you'd personally like to help out with, and get underway. Gboyers talk 23:04, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
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CBD oil, sold in stores throughout Ohio, is illegal and can carry a felony charge
By Shannon Houser | October 9, 2018 at 9:49 PM EST – Updated October 10 at 11:26 AM
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – CBD oil is available online, in every state and is commonly found on store shelves across Northeast Ohio; however, it's illegal and can result in a felony charge.
So, why the big confusion over the chemical compound?
"I got pulled over in a traffic stop and long story short, they found CBD oil," said Robert Faulkner.
It was July of last year when Faulkner was arrested in Richland County.
"I tried it for my anxiety. It didn't work for me at that particular time and I just threw it in the back on my truck," he said.
Faulkner said he bought it from a store in Columbus. He said the oil was made and manufactured from a hemp store in Cincinnati.
"I never went to the store and thought I was buying something that would potentially put me in prison," he said.
Faulkner was slapped with two counts of aggravated possession of drugs. He's awaiting a grand jury trial for the felony charges.
Here in Ohio, you cannot possess CBD oil. The laws aren't stopping people from buying it and it's not stopping stores from selling it.
Faulkner believes the reason is there is so much confusion about the law.
"I didn't knowingly obtain everything illegal. I went to a store to try to help me with an issue I have," said Faulkner.
THC is the chemical compound responsible for the high in marijuana. The DEA says they've learned through science, that CBD will always contain some amount of THC, even trace amounts that won't get you high.
But given the presence of THC, the over-the-counter oil is illegal.
Cleveland 19 found two local stores with shelves full of CBD oil.
According to the DEA:
"Any displays, sale or solicitation of CBD oil is illegal and individuals involved are subject to federal investigation and prosecution."
We found in some states, like in Texas, police are raiding stores who are selling CBD oil.
So why isn't that happening here if it's illegal?
The DEA wouldn't say, but did say stores selling it aren't immune from federal investigation.
Faulkner says he hopes officials and lawmakers can help make the laws more clear so this doesn't happen to someone else.
"I have an ankle monitor on right now. I have to go check in with probation. I spent four days in jail. This is impacting my life seriously, for something I bought in at the store to just try to help my anxiety."
CBD is covered by Ohio's medical marijuana law–and will be available to those with a medical marijuana card.
The FDA recently approved a CBD oil medication that is used to help treat epilepsy.
It can only be prescribed by licensed doctors.


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EPA New England seeks nominations for annual environmental merit awards
BOSTON (AP) � The New England office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking nominations for its annual environmental merit awards.
The awards have been handed out annually since 1970 to recognize environmental achievements in the previous year.
There are award categories for individuals, businesses, state and local governments, and other organizations, including nonprofits. There is also a lifetime achievement category.
Past recipients have included scientists, community activists, business representatives and public officials. An independent EPA panel will select the winners based on several criteria, including long-term effects on the environment and promotion of innovative ideas or techniques.
The deadline for nominations is March 1. Nomination forms are available at www.epa.gov/ne/ra/ema /
Winners will be invited to a ceremony this spring in Boston.


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WALTON, Kan. - The door to a hen house burst open on a chilly winter day and several south-central Kansas charter school students scrambled inside, squealing "Thank you!" to the chickens as they checked for eggs and replenished their grain.
It's a morning ritual at Walton 21st Century Rural Life Center, whose focus on agriculture saved it from closing. The school now attracts a steady stream of visitors from around the country who watch students learn through projects that range from selling eggs to showing pigs at the county fair.
The farm curriculum, although still relatively unusual, has been replicated in other Kansas schools and proven successful in more urban environments, including Chicago and Philadelphia.
"Kids love it," said Walton Principal Natise Vogt, adding that the students fight over cleaning up the animals' droppings. "That's one of the things that's important to us. We want kids to enjoy school. We want them to be happy and want to come to school, and that's what the hands-on learning does."
Located in a farming community of 235 people, the Walton school had barely 80 students when the school district decided to transform the kindergarten to fourth-grade building into an agriculture-focused charter school. Since making the switch in 2007, enrollment has grown to 183 students.
Only about 10 percent of the students at the school about 30 miles north of Wichita live on farms. But all of the kids beg to give Freckles the calf his bottle and Eeyore the donkey his breakfast ration.
Cody Eye, 10, of Newton, said students learn math by measuring food and make money for the school by selling the animals.
"It teaches us responsibility," he said. "It teaches us how to take care of animals."
The school's profile got a boost when the U.S. Department of Education, which provided a grant to get the school started, produced a video about the transformation. The community also bought into the project, with one farmer donating runt pigs and another loaning the donkey during the school year.
Today, parents frequently call the school, eager to nab a spot for their children; one of the latest additions to the waiting list was a 3-week-old baby.
The farming theme also has a long track record of success at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, where students care for piglets, chickens and horses and grow plants. More than 3,000 students apply each year for about 180 freshman-class openings, principal William Hook said.
"The nice thing is that even the kids who never revisit the idea of agriculture; they still benefit from their ag education, the ideals of get up early, work hard and stay late," Hook said.
In Philadelphia, the W.B. Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences' 130-acre campus features an area for field crops and livestock pastures. Students at the magnet school have designed an exhibit for a flower show and participate in meat and dairy cattle judging clubs.
The ag curriculum efforts aren't without bumps, though. Next Frontier Academy, an Akron, Ohio-based charter school serving seventh- to ninth-graders, had a goal of 150 students when it opened last fall. But by January, its enrollment was hovering around only 45 students, said John Hairston, one of the founders.
Still, Hairston was encouraged, saying the school is receiving more applications and that businesses are coming forward with donations, including a greenhouse.
"The whole premise of agriculture is sustainability, and that's what we are trying to teach our kids, to learn how to sustain themselves," Hairston said.
The Walton school, though never low-performing, has seen test scores increase by about 8 percentage points since switching to the agriculture theme. For the past four years, all of its third- and fourth-graders have measured proficient or higher in math, Vogt said, crediting that to the "excellent problem-solving skills" students learn.
Vogt said agriculture-themed schools owe much of their success to the hands-on projects.
Some fall flat, she says, recalling the boys who tried to make their own incubator to hatch duck eggs. The eggs went bad, but Vogt didn't mind because the students figured out that the reason was the incubator wasn't keeping the temperature consistent.
Other projects are wildly successful. Take the students who worried the barn wasn't warm enough for the newborn lambs, and designed a solar-powered heater.
Kindergartners make lip balm from soybeans, one of the crops they study, and sell it for $3 a tube. Students learn about liquids and solids, fill the order themselves and have used the money they've raise to purchase two iPads for the classroom.
The kindergartners also hatch chicken eggs in an incubator to help them learn about the life cycle and help out with the school's pigs. After two first-graders show the hogs at the county fair, the animals are processed and the meat is used in school meals.
"My kids understand farm to plate," kindergarten teacher Rhonda Roux said. "We love (the animals). We care for them. But they understand that we do it to raise a quality product."
The older students are responsible for the sheep. During a recent class period, some turned raw wool into thread, while others practiced weaving and knitting using store-bought yarn.
Clayton Smith, 10, said he likes that students don't just sit around.
"We don't want to do papers all day," said Smith, who lives on a farm in Walton. "We can just learn from our teachers and being outside."
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The Metropolitan Opera's new production of Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) aired live in cinemas across the country on December 8 as part of the Met's continuing "Live in HD" series. The performance was effective, though not spectacular, and it did showcase a new production that gave a special twist to Verdi's opera classic. The history of the opera's production is a fascinating drama in itself. Verdi wished to set the opera, which he completed in 1859, in the true setting of early 18th century Sweden, around the intrigue that surrounded the assassination of King Gustavus III, but censors, disliking the depiction of a regicide of a European king, forced Verdi and his scenarist to change the setting to early 18th century Boston, where no such intrigues would have been characteristic, yet alone accurate. In subsequent years, however, the setting reverted to Sweden, with the king having his name changed back from Riccardo to the accurate (for Italian) Gustavo. This Met production reverted to the Swedish setting, but the production, directed by David Alden and designed by Paul Steinberg, moved the context of the opera up to the early twentieth century, favoring a largely minimalist set design with fairly plain costuming.
The story of the opera is filled with the recurrent Verdian motifs such as a love triangle between ultimately doomed lovers and political intrigue. Additionally, Verdi used the theme of the metaphysical, ensuring the lover's ultimate demise by placing a curse on them, one he also uses in Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, and La Forza del Destino. (One could argue fairly effectively that all of Verdi's lovers are doomed, but not all of them been cursed formally.) In this case, a fortune teller, Madame Ulrica (mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe) places the curse on the head of Gustavo (tenor Marcelo Alvarez), warning him that he will be struck down by a friend, in fact the next man to shake his hand, which turns out to be his most trusted friend, Count Anckarstrom (baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky). Anckarstrom's loyalty is turned when it is revealed that his wife, Amelia (soprano Sondra Radvanovsky), is in love with Gustavo, a love that the king reciprocates but does not consummate, as the thought of betrayal is unimaginable to both parties. Anckarstrom's rage blinds him to the truth, however, and he collaborates with conservative nobles who are looking to kill Gustavo and overturn his liberal reforms. At a masked ball in the opera's final scene, Anckarstrom murders the king, but not before the king reveals that Amelia remained faithful to him.
The opera's cast is far from superlative, but it is composed of veteran Verdi performers who bring off the work fairly well. As Gustavo, Marcelo Alvarez's voice is simply not powerful enough to sustain him through one of Verdi's more dramatic tenor roles and he is not able to measure up to the extremely high standard established by his illustrious predecessors in the role. He is dwarfed vocally by his Amelia, Sondra Radvanovsky, whose husky voice gives her great strength. Her characterization is not especially distinctive, but it is the best performance in the cast, and her deep, powerful tone (I was not surprised to find out she started as a mezzo-soprano) reminds me of another great soprano out of the Met's past, Zinka Milanov. As Anckarstrom, Dmitri Hvorostovsky possesses a strong baritone, though not quite the ringing voice associated with great Verdian baritones. This is the case, at least, until the third act, when in his big moment when he decides to betray the king, his voice does reach exceptional heights, suggesting he was keeping his power in reserve until he really needed it. In the role of the fortune teller, Madame Ulrica, Met favorite Stephanie Blythe has an appropriately foreboding tone to suggest that she is capable of portending doom. In the trouser role of Oscar, the king's assistant, Soprano Kathleen Kim possesses effective technique and especially impressive coloratura, but her voice, like her physical frame, is a bit undersized. The Met orchestra supports the singers spectacularly, as I would expect from one of the world's best orchestras, and Fabio Luisi, the Met's principal conductor, moves the score along beautifully, deftly handling the various sections of the opera which are, by turn, rhythmic, dramatic, and intimate.
David Alden's production was ultimately inconsistent in its effectiveness. I liked the design of the sets by Paul Steinberg. Rather than using a conservative setting, placing the opera in ornate royal surroundings, the sets are rather austere, using very little furniture or ornementation at all. Rather, the performers are given adequate space to move and more suggestion comes from their movements than can come from elaborate sets and costumes. Particularly striking is the set used in Act 3, Scene 1, set in Amelia's and Anckarstrom's home, whose angular designs and use of shadows suggest German expressionist cinema. I generally like to see newer, less ornate sets used because it brings the opera forward in time, making the genre less stodgy and helps to break many of the cliches used to characterize opera. Also, fewer visual distractions allow us to concentrate on the music, which is the main attraction. Unfortunately, one aspect of the production that didn't work and did distract from the music was the use of choreographed dance numbers in the first and third acts, which seemed completely superfluous, particularly a balletic movement by Oscar during the first act prelude in which he wears wings and dances in step with the music, which was not intended by the composer and is completely out of place.
The Met's HD transmission of Un Ballo in Maschera will be encored on Wednesday, January 9 at 6:30 PM.


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PARIS (Reuters) - A politically charged deal between the French government and ArcelorMittal to preserve jobs at an ailing steelworks looked at risk of unraveling on Thursday after the global steel giant ditched a bid to run an EU-funded project there.
ArcelorMittal ISPA.AS, 40-percent owned by India's Mittal family, withdrew an application to use the Florange site in northern France for an EU "green steel" pilot project that Paris had hoped could keep two idled blast furnaces going.
ArcelorMittal and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said the move did not mean the idea of using Florange for the ULCOS project to make steel with fewer greenhouse gas emissions was being permanently abandoned.
Separately, President Francois Hollande said all promises made to save the Florange site would be kept.
"I've seen the distress and anger and I know what's caused it. But my responsibility is to make sure Florange has a future," he told journalists in Paris.
A source close to the president said Lakshmi Mittal had made a promise to run an ULCOS project at the site, and that only a first version of the plan had been ditched.
Unions and local politicians reacted angrily to the news, with metalworkers briefly occupying the furnaces, and other employees staging sympathy action at two other ArcelorMittal sites.
"We urge Francois Hollande: retake control of this issue," CFDT trade union leader Edouard Martin told i>Tele television, warning the president to "stop these lies, this cheating".
ArcelorMittal, which has been under fire for months in France over its plan to permanently shut the Florange furnaces on the grounds they are not economically viable, said it could not currently pursue the ULCOS project for technical reasons.
"(This) is perfectly coherent with what is in the agreement signed with the French government," the company said, adding: "This in no way means the ULCOS project is being abandoned."
Firebrand leftist Minister for Industrial Revival Arnaud Montebourg raised the stakes last week by declaring Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal unwelcome in France and accusing him of lying. He also threatened to nationalize the steelworks, raising workers' hopes that were dashed by last Friday's deal.
Ayrault, whose government was appointed by Hollande after the Socialist was elected president in May, said in a statement that the European Commission had indicated that the project could be pursued in a future tender.
Asked about the deal, Ayrault told the Senate that the government had achieved its goals. "There will be no lay-offs: that was the objective we had set for ourself."
But in the most optimistic case, a potential start date would now be delayed by several years, throwing into question the idea that ArcelorMittal would keep spending money to keep the mothballed furnaces in working order.
A survey by pollster OpinionWay underscored a loss of faith in the government, with 76 percent of respondents saying they did not believe it could keep ArcelorMittal to its promises.
Metalworkers at ArcelorMittal's Fos-sur-Mer plant in southern France blocked the site's entrances to show solidarity with their peers at Florange. Workers in the plant's finished products section went on strike.
Union leaders at the company's Basse Indre plant in eastern France called for a 24-hour strike next Monday. Florange workers left the furnaces after being told a gas main that keeps it from falling into disuse would be kept on.
"We're angry to see Florange workers and their union representatives treated this way," said Michel Tosi, a CFDT leader at Fos. "They were fooled."
Michel Liegbott, a Socialist lawmaker for the surrounding Moselle region, told BFM television that the government had broken its commitments with regard to Florange.
"We've been conned. They are liars," he said. "They should have said what they are saying today six months or a year ago."
Last week's agreement, under which ArcelorMittal committed to preserve some 630 jobs at the two blast furnaces, was a crucial test of Hollande's pledge to stem a run of industrial lay-offs and revive French competitiveness.
France's unemployment rate hit a new 13-year high of 10.3 percent in the third quarter of the year, data showed on Thursday, piling more pressure on Hollande, who has vowed to halt the rise by the end of 2013.
ArcelorMittal had agreed to invest 180 million euros ($235 million) in Florange and keep the furnaces in working order so they could be used if its application to use the site for the ULCOS project was successful.
ULCOS (Ultra-Low Carbon Dioxide Steelmaking) is a consortium of 48 European companies and other organizations working to develop ways to cut CO2 emissions from steel production in order to curb the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
A European Commission spokesman confirmed on Thursday it had received written notification from ArcelorMittal that it had decided to withdraw its bid "due to technical difficulties".
($1 = 0.7652 euros)
Additional reporting by Chine Labbe, Elizabeth Pineau; Writing by Catherine Bremer; Editing by Paul Taylor and Michael Roddy


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SNY went justifiably nuts after Johan Santana pitched the Mets' first no-hitter, and the team's flagship network took advantage of the occasion to interview various Mets players about the feat. So here's a clip of their interview with pitcher R.A. Dickey, during which an unidentified dong emerges around the time Dickey mispronounces "annals" as "anals."
But to which Met belongs that dong? Your speculation below, or if for some reason you have intimate knowledge of this genitalia, let us know.
h/t to Saezy


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James Cameron is the king of the world once more.
"Avatar," his first movie since 1997's $1.8 billion-grossing "Titanic," has become the second-highest-grossing film ever, according to The Hollywood Reporter – giving the director with the top two spots.
As of Wednesday, the 3D epic has reportedly notched $1.14 billion in worldwide grosses, topping previous No. 2 "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King." The film is only the fifth ever to top the $1 billion mark.
"Avatar's" prolific run has occurred over a mere three weeks, leaving the hefty record of "Titanic" still potentially in its sights.
And in other good news for the sci-fi film, on Thursday, James Cameron was named one of five directors nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film at the DGA Awards. His competitors include ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow ("The Hurt Locker"), Lee Daniels ("Precious"), Jason Reitman ("Up In The Air") and Quentin Tarantino ("Inglorious Basterds").
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The KunstlerCast: Conversations with James Howard Kunstler
by Duncan Crary
300 pp. New Society Publishers – Nov. 2011. $16.95.
Outrageous, snarky, "madly engaging," bileful—these are a few of the terms that have been used to describe author and social critic James Howard Kunstler.1 But he's actually a great deal more than these things, as anyone who's really come to know him, even if only through his books and Internet postings, can tell you. His most personal writings reveal a human, vulnerable, wonderfully versatile, cheerful side that few people know exists.
At the same time, is there anything wrong with having a little fun with his contentious public persona? Journalist Duncan Crary, who's come to know Kunstler quite well, doesn't think so. His new book, The KunstlerCast, draws on four years' worth of weekly interviews with the author—in the course of an eponymous Internet talk show—and lumps them under the tagline "the tragic comedy of suburban sprawl." And Kunstler himself seems to be onboard, describing his diatribes as having "sort of evolved into a comedy act." So I say, why not?
This book is indeed great fun. Kunstler is a self-taught advocate of healthy urban environments and a vehement foe of suburbia, and he's at his wittiest when critiquing the human habitat of our times. In one of my favorite KunstlerCast lines, he points out the absurdity of the purely decorative porches on so many suburban homes: "The porch doesn't function, unless you're a leprechaun and you're eighteen inches high." He also gives a hilarious description of the Seattle Central Library: "It's a monstrous, hard-edged, glassy, steely heap…that looks like something that Keanu Reeves should step out of to inform the world that civilization as we know it is ending." (Indeed, Kunstler would feel vindicated by a Seattle Post Intelligencer article headlined "Too many people getting lost in new downtown library."2)
Crary and Kunstler are kindred spirits whose careers have followed similar paths. Kunstler, a theater graduate from the State University of New York, worked as an editor for Rolling Stone in the 1970s. Crary, a Gen X-er and fellow New York native, was a reporter before branching into communications consulting and new media. By the time his weekly show with Kunstler had begun, he had long been following Kunstler's work and looking to him for quotes in news articles he was writing on suburban sprawl. The two of them did their first podcast together in 2008, and it was such a success that it became a regular thing. There are now close to 200 episodes, all of which can be heard for free at Kunstlercast.com.
The book is made up of several thematic chapters woven out of show excerpts. Crary was careful to leave Kunstler's words as they were spoken but changed his own to allow for smoother transitions. He also peppered the book with lively sidebars in shaded boxes, mostly monologues by Kunstler on topics like the myth of country living in the suburbs, the inanity of modern-day living rooms and the promise held by experimental planned communities like Seaside, Florida.
The KunstlerCast draws on a philosophy about urban planning that Kunstler acquired over a career spent researching and writing about it. He first began this research as a reporter for The New York Times Magazine in the late `80s. One of his articles, an in-depth piece on why America had become so ugly, led to the book The Geography of Nowhere, which stands as the seminal indictment of suburbia. Kunstler continued this line of inquiry into subsequent books and also became affiliated with a traditional town planning movement called the New Urbanism. The vocabulary that he came up with for addressing America's built landscape is carried over into the KunstlerCast book, which begins with a "Glossary of Nowhere."
The first thing that Kunstler emphasizes about our built environment is its severe case of gigantism: everything's scaled to cars, not people. In one interview with Crary, he recalls walking into a Wal-Mart and finding it as overwhelming as the warehouse to which the Ark of the Covenant is banished in Raiders of the Lost Ark. He also describes parking lots in which "you end up feeling like you're in a surrealist painting where you can't find the horizon."
Crary complements these descriptions with an equally eloquent one from The Geography of Nowhere—indeed, the one for which the book is best known. It's a feverish rant on suburbia's "jive plastic commuter tract home wastelands, the Potemkin village shopping plazas with their vast parking lagoons, the Lego-block hotel complexes, the 'gourmet mansardic' junk-food joints, the Orwellian office 'parks' featuring buildings sheathed in the same reflective glass as the sunglasses worn by chain-gang guards, the particle-board garden apartments rising up in every meadow and cornfield, the freeway loops around every big and little city with their clusters of discount merchandise marts, the whole destructive, wasteful, toxic, agoraphobia-inducing spectacle that politicians proudly call 'growth.'"
Besides its ugliness and its pernicious effects on the human soul, suburbia has yet another, ultimately more fatal, drawback: it won't run at all without cheap, plentiful oil. This is a message that Kunstler has been trying to spread since 2005, with the publication of his sobering The Long Emergency. His grim predictions in that book earned him a reputation as a "doomer" in some circles, no matter the impeccably rational basis for his arguments. Kunstler's vision of our impending Long Emergency is a major theme of the podcast interviews. Crary quotes him as saying that in failing to plan for the inevitable decline of oil, we "ran ourselves up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up."
His Long Emergency consists of a wrenching period of transition from today's unprecedented affluence to a resource-constrained future. The chief economic activities of this future will be farming and recycling the scraps of our present society. Kunstler does, however, find plenty of reason for hope; he just objects to doling out hope freely. "I am not a hope dispenser to passive consumers of hope," he tells Crary.
Hope, in his view, is not something that can be handed from one person to another. It's something that people generate for themselves as they successfully meet difficult circumstances. Kunstler believes that today's young people will have to be heroic in order to rise to the challenges ahead. As they migrate back into the countryside to work the land, they'll discover that the legions of now-abandoned towns and small cities across America still have much of their original fabric intact. Reactivating them in an era that once again requires walkable communities will be quite doable, believes Kunstler. And he finds that cause for hope.
Kunstler has many other creative endeavors besides his social criticism—so many, in fact, that it's delightfully difficult to put a finger on any particular one that defines him. He's authored nearly a dozen novels, ranging from coming-of-age to farce to post-oil speculative fiction; published a three-act play; performed in a traveling theater troupe; and even been a longtime sur le motif painter of the countryside around his home in upstate New York, highway strips and all. It's a measure of how all-encompassing The KunstlerCast is that it hits on most of these creative pursuits.
The circumstances that first brought the KunstlerCast show into being were quite extraordinary. The only other example that comes to mind of a program in which the same celebrity guest appears every week is Me and Mario. This was a long-running NPR series in which Alan Chartock spoke weekly with then-New York Governor Mario Cuomo. Chartock eventually adapted their interviews into a book much like the KunstlerCast book, titled Me and Mario Cuomo: Conversations in Candor. However, Crary's superior volume has the guts to truly grapple with the harsh realities shaping our times—realities that few dare discuss out in the open.
1 Reihan Salam, "Heralding The End Times: Review of: World Made by Hand," New York Sun, arts and letters sec., Mar. 5, 2008: 15; E.J. Hurst, "The KunstlerCast: Conversations with James Howard Kunstler by Duncan Crary," New Society Publishers, Nov. 10, 2011, http://www.newsociety.com/blog/2011/The-KunstlerCast-Conversations-with-… (accessed Jan. 26, 2012); Leslee Goodman, "Empire of the Stunned: Social critic James Howard Kunstler believes that what killed America's economy could make society stronger," Utne, January-February 2010 issue, http://www.utne.com/Environment/Empire-of-the-Stunned.aspx (accessed Jan. 29, 2012).
2 Kery Murakami, "Too many people getting lost in new downtown library," Seattle Post Intelligencer, Sep. 4, 2006, http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Too-many-people-getting-lost-in-n… (accessed Jan. 27, 2012).
Frank Kaminski is an ardent Seattle peak oiler, a connoisseur of post-oil novels and a regular book reviewer for Energy Bulletin. Email him at frank.kaminski AT gmail.com; visit his site here.


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In May 2011, council member Carl DeMaio launched San Diego 311, a Smartphone application that allows San Diegans to connect directly with the city government. The app was designed and built in Los Angeles by CitySourced, Inc. and was last updated on July 12.
Now at version 1.5.1, San Diego 311 lets citizens report civic issues, like potholes, graffiti, broken sidewalks, and broken street lights, to the city for quick resolution.
The application description states:"This mobile reporting platform will improve how San Diego delivers services to your neighborhood. By downloading and using San Diego 311 you will be make our city a better place for all residents of San Diego to live."
Of the 1,000+ downloads, eighteen people have +1'd the app on Google Plus, and twenty-five have rated it. With an average rating of 3.5 stars out of 5, nineteen users have left both negative and positive reviews.
D like the letter :) remarked with a Samsung Galaxy S on version 1.4.3 in January 2012: "This app actually worked for me! I reported a dangerous street corner and a few weeks later they installed a yield sign."
Enjoypb raised the issue of user security and privacy from an HTC Thunderbolt on version 1.4.0 in May 2011:
"Not a fan of application collecting user data and cell number to report things, like graffiti as savvy attorneys for taggers (including those for gangs) will soepena reporting users' info. Far cry from being able to report as 'anonymous' and should be clearly indicated to users."
User security and privacy may be a point of interest to potential downloaders. The permissions required to download the current version of San Diego 311 allows the application access to a user's hardware controls, location, network communication, phone calls, storage, and system tools.
It will be interesting to see if this application catches on in San Diego, and what effects it may have on the relationship between citizens and city government. If more users download San Diego 311 and it proves to be a legitimate platform to augment the actualization of direct democracy, hopefully we will see the application's definition of "civic issues" expand.


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July 9, 2010 Library of Congress Seeks Volunteer Docents
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The Library of Congress is recruiting the 2010 class of volunteer docents to lead tours of the nation's oldest federal cultural institution.
To best serve the more than 1.75 million visitors who come each year, eager to view the magnificent Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C., and learn about the treasures it contains, the Library=s Visitor Services Office relies on more than 300 trained volunteers to greet and direct the visitors and to conduct tours.
Each fall, the Library's Visitor Services Office offers a 16-week training program for volunteer docents who will gain the skills necessary to lead tours of the Thomas Jefferson Building and answer questions about the Library's collections and services. The 2010 training session for docents will begin on Sept. 7, 2010.
Docent training classes will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from Sept. 7 through Dec. 16 at the Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C., on Capitol Hill. The nearest Metro stop is Capitol South.
The training curriculum covers all aspects of the Library and is specially designed to prepare docents to give interesting and informative tours of the Thomas Jefferson Building and include a range of information about the Library. The classes are presented by Library staff as well as experts from outside the Library. The curriculum focuses on the past, present and future of the Library; curatorial divisions; public programs; collections care and use; organization and infrastructure; and the art and architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building. In addition to classroom training, the docent class will go on field trips and outings.
Once the training has been completed, participants will be thoroughly prepared to lead tours of the Library. Docents in training each will present a qualifying tour to an audience of their choosing before providing their first public tours. On average, volunteer docents work one four- hour shift per week, providing two tours. Volunteers are eligible for free parking and discounts in the Library Shop and cafeteria, as well as for free flu shots. In addition, an active enrichment program organizes field trips for volunteers to visit institutions around the Washington Metropolitan region. For more information about the program and other volunteer opportunities, contact James Hughes at (202) 707 9867, firstname.lastname@example.com, or go to www.loc.gov/visit/volunteers .
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ATLANTA — The country music trio Lady Antebellum is featured on the cover of the new 2012 Georgia Travel Guide, which has an interview with the group's members discussing their favorite spots to visit in the state.
Featuring the Grammy-winning band in the color, magazine-sized travel guide is one piece of the Georgia Department of Economic Development's strategy for boosting travel to the state. Plans unveiled Tuesday include a new tourism campaign called "The South With A Twist" that will promote Georgia tourism using photographs that evoke a contemporary, modern feel.
State officials say visitors spent $21 billion in Georgia in 2010. Tourism employs more than 391,000 workers statewide.
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Shooting victim's mother: 'I know he would want me to forgive'
Man struggles to deal with accidental shooting of best friend
A man who shot and killed his best friend and the victim's mother said they are still struggling to make sense of what happened.
Donald St. Laurent, 29, was shot and killed in his Hudson apartment last year. His friend, Christopher Bazar, took full responsibility for the shooting, and St. Laurent's family begged the judge to be lenient.
The memories of what happened on Dec. 2, 2011, are still fresh in Deb St. Laurent's mind.
"And I was coming home to make him dinner, I was coming home to make him dinner, and I was too late," she said, sobbing. "I was too late."
Deb St. Laurent said she can't bear to move out of the basement apartment she shared with her son and his best friend. She said the memories -- even the painful ones -- bring her comfort.
"This was Don and Chris' room," she said, pointing out the room to News 9's Amy Coveno. "It happened right here."
"Before I know it, the beers are gone," Bazar said. "I guess it's 8:30 at night."
Bazar said he and Don St. Laurent drank 18 beers that night and for some reason starting messing around with Don St. Laurent's loaded shotgun.
"They were watching TV, and Don went to the bathroom, and he was coming in, and there was a coffee table there and (the gun) was on the coffee table," Deb St. Laurent said.
"It hit him right here and tore through out the back," Bazar said. "It might have taken a chunk off the top of his head, but I'm not completely certain."
Bazar said his best friend dropped to his knees, killed instantly. He said he could feel recoil of the buckshot burning his face as he dialed 911.
During the call, Bazar admitted shooting his friend.
Operator: "Did he do this? Is this self-inflicted? Did he do this to himself?"
Bazar: "No"
Operator: "No?"
Bazar: "I shot him."
"I can't believe I took my brother. I took my brother out," Bazar said. "And when I say it like that, I sound selfish because I sent a tsunami of emotional pain through his family, his friends."
"My son loved him, and I know it was an accident," Deb St. Laurent said. "And I know that this is what my son would want me to do."
Deb St. Laurent said that what her son would want her to do is forgive, complete absolution for the man who killed him. And she's not alone.
One by one, Don St. Laurent's family addressed the court, begging for leniency. They described Bazar as a brother, a son, a member of their family.
"If the family wanted me to spend the rest of my life here, I would have. If that's what they wanted," Bazar said. "Somebody has to pay for what happened. As his best friend, as the culprit, absolutely."
Bazar was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter.
Bazar calls Deb St. Laurent every week. He also writes her a letter every week. Bazar's mother died when he was young. He calls Deb St. Laurent "Ma" and said she's the only support he has in New Hampshire.
"I'm forever grateful for the family," he said. "I love Deb."
"I miss (my son) so much," she said. "But I know he would want me to take care of Chris and forgive Chris. I know he does. So I always will.
Bazar describes himself as an alcoholic who could put away a staggering quantity of whiskey, vodka, beer -- whatever was available. He said he will never take another drink again.
His goal to be able to talk to high school students about the addictive, dangerous lure of alcohol, and he hopes young people will learn from his tragic mistake. He called his interview with News 9 his first step toward that goal.


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Just got back from spending a month in Equatorial Guinea doing research for the new Bradt Guide to Equatorial Guinea, which is coming out in November 2015.
I visited:
Bioko - including Malabo, Riaba, Moka, Luba, Batete.
Mainland - including Bata, Rio Campo, Mbini, Acalayong, Cogo, Monte Alen, Niefang, Micomeseng, Ebebiyin, Nsong, Mongomo, Oyala (Djibloho), Nsork, Aconibe, Evinayong.
Corisco Island
Annobon Island
Thought I'd answer some of the frequently asked questions on the forum here to help everyone out and encourage a few more visitors!
How do you get a visa? Isn't it really difficult?
In short, yes, getting a tourist visa to Equatorial Guinea is extremely difficult. It took me seven weeks of hassling the embassy in London to get one. I have heard similar tales from elsewhere in Europe. The main issue is that they always want an official letter of invitation, which has to have been signed off by the Ministry of National Security. This is impossible to get for anyone but a business working in the country. You can pay a tour company to do it for you (like Ruta47, Besari Bohopo or GuineaTur - email@example.com, email@example.com or email@example.com)but this is expensive, and they usually only help out people who are using their services on arrival.
Your best bet is to get in without an official invitation. You can do this by either applying at an embassy that is less fussy about their paperwork (some African embassies, and the Consulate in Gran Canaria come to mind), or by submitting a vaguely official looking letter of invitation that has not been accredited by the Ministry of National Security. I went for the latter option, using a letter of invitation written by some contacts who were working in an NGO in Malabo. Although they weren't happy about it, in the end the embassy in London issued the visa.
How bad is the corruption? Won't I get shaken down constantly?
Having heard all the horror stories, I was pleasantly surprised by the country when I arrived. Yes, there's a serious problem with corruption, and yes, you will be hassled by the police, but it's nowhere near as bad as people say and certainly not the worst place in Africa for it. As long as your paperwork is in order and you remain calm and polite, there is no reason to ever pay a bribe. I was asked for a "Fanta" on a daily basis at checkpoints for over a month (the subtle police way of asking for 1000CFA) and never handed over any cash. A couple of tips for avoiding corruption:
- Once you arrive and have your Tourism Permit (which also acts as your photography permit) get a colour photocopy made. Likewise with your passport, visa and entry stamp. Now get them all laminated. Hand these over at checkpoints, NEVER the original. This gives the police far less leverage over you.
Carry your documents with you at all times. This is a legal requirement.
If you're travelling a route where you know there are a lot of checkpoints (for example, there are six on the road from Bata to Mongomo) then do it early, before the police have a chance to get too drunk. Or do it in the pouring rain, when they're less willing to man the barriers!
When taking a local taxi, ensure the driver has all the vehicle documentation in order. Once they have checked your documents and found them in order, they may start hassling the driver as an alternative route into your wallet.
Be subtle when taking photos and never take photos of strategic objects. Even though I had a photography permit, I never got my camera out in front of police. I would line up my photo, check the coast was clear, take it then move on quickly. Despite being careful I was still detained for over an hour in Mbini for taking photos!
When you arrive in a new town, go and present yourself to the Comisario de Policia immediately and give him a photocopy of your tourism permit. This is not a legal requirement, nor will the chief of police have any idea what to do with the paperwork you hand him. However, they are invariably friendly and thankful that you have acknowledged their status. You will then be free to roam the town in question with no hassle from their subordinates.
How do I get hold of money? Are there ATMs?
The Central African Franc (CFA) is the official currency and is accepted everywhere. Your next best bet is Euros. You can change these easily in any town, just head to the nearest shop. They will usually give you a good rate. There are Societe Generale cashpoints (ATMs) in many towns across the country, and these accept international Visa and Mastercard. I used cashpoints in Malabo, Bata and Mongomo while travelling, and was rarely at risk of running out of cash with a little forward planning. Do not count on any business beyond the five star hotels accepting your credit card for payment though!
How do you travel around the country?
The roads across the entire country are excellent and mainly empty. Local taxis and minibus services cover the entire country. They are cheap, crowded and plentiful. You can get from Bata to Ebebiyin on the mainland (the entire width of the country) for about 3500CFA. Likewise, heading from Malabo to Luba on Bioko Island is only a few thousand CFA. Turn up at the bus stop early, load up and wait until the vehicle is full.
If you're in a rush or want a bit more comfort, you can buy out all of the seats in a taxi and use it as your own personal rental. As an example, a seat in a taxi from Bata to Niefang is 2000CFA. I bought out all five seats and travelled there on my own for 10,000CFA as I was in a rush (about €15 total). You can talk most taxi drivers into giving you some sort of discount as they are heading off more quickly (so can cover more total fares in the day) and are using less fuel.
There are car rental companies in Malabo and Bata but they are very expensive and require a massive security deposit to take the car. I saw one offering rentals from the Ibis in Bata where the cheapest car was about 70,000CFA per day (€106) but they needed a 250,000CFA deposit (€380). Given the driving standards in the country, I would not be comfortable handing that over!
There are also local drivers available but I found them to be expensive. Anyone with a decent car and proper paperwork was asking around 80,000CFA per day minimum. I found a few cheaper than this (45,000CFA a day) but they were invariably unreliable (both in terms of their paperwork at checkpoints, their punctuality and the mechanical performance of their vehicle)! Also, going this route makes no sense when you can just turn a shared taxi into your own rental for much cheaper (I got from Bata to Mongomo for 52,000CFA split across four shared taxis that I bought out).
What are internal flights like?
There are about eight flights a day between Malabo and Bata, taking about 45 minutes. One way tickets start at 48,000CFA. I would recommend flying Punto Azul. They are slightly more expensive than Ceiba Intercontinental, but so much more organised! The airport in Bata is ok to hang out in. The internal flights section of the Malabo airport is a bit of a dump.
How do you get to Annobon?
You only have one air carrier: Ceiba Intercontinental. There are flights on Fridays and Mondays. The cost is around 120,000CFA from Bata and tickets can only be bought at the airport on the day of the flight (annoyingly). The journey takes 90 minutes and will invariably be delayed. They will probably also lose your bag somehow as Ceiba are useless! If you don't want to take the plane you can jump on a SOMAGEC (construction company)cargo ship from Cogo which takes three days. Departure times and dates are irregular. For this you will need a permit from the police station (which is free). You will need to take all your own food, drink and sleeping equipment. Good luck, as the boat is an old Greek car ferry and not exactly luxurious!
How do you get to Corisco?
You jump on a SOMAGEC cargo ship from Cogo. It's free but you need a permit from the police station. The ship can only dock in Corisco at high tide, so it leaves Cogo three or four hours before high tide. Check locally for times. Corisco is amazing and from there you can get speedboats to Libreville for 10,000CFA or rent a boat and visit Elobey Grande and Elobey Chico!
Is Equatorial Guinea expensive?
In short: yes. Don't expect value for money, especially when paying for accommodation. You'll be lucky to find anywhere for cheaper than 25,000CFA in Malabo or Bata, and at that price point you're not going to be staying in a very nice hotel! If you cannot stay with friends or a contact, I would recommend checking out Couchsurfing or Airbnb before you arrive. Failing that, it's going to be expensive.
Outside Malabo and Bata accommodation options are limited, but less expensive. In some provincial areas I found a room with a bed and a fan for 5000CFA per night, which is good value. Bring your own sleeping bag as the sheets tend to be musty. For 40,000CFA you can stay in a nice air conditioned room with en-suite, hot water, fridge and satellite TV etc. in most cities outside Malabo and Bata. An ok room with no AC will set you back between 15,000 and 20,000CFA.
If anyone's interested, the photos are here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100990499682859.1073741842.36812366&type=1&l=f860d5fa35
Any questions, let me know!


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On Sunday 18 November 2007 - following quite literally in the footsteps of Fathers Louie Vitale and Steve Kelly - Mary Burton Riseley, Betsy Lamb & Father Jerry Zawada crossed the line at Ft Huachuca to demand an end to torture by the US military and the Bush administration. Their act of conscience resulted in their arrest and trial on charges of tresspass, failure to yield to orders to halt, and conspiracy - combined convictions having a potential sentence of years in a federal penitentiary.
The Festival of Hope took place on 3 February 2008 at St Mark's Presbyterian Church in Tucson, AZ - the eve of their trial in Tucson Federal Court. Unfortunately, Lamb and Zawada were unable to attend as they were incarcerated without bail at the time of their arraignment in early December due to violations of previous probabtion and bail restrictions from previous protests. Neither was Riseley able to attend as she was severely afflicted with the flu though she was able to appear at the trial the next day and, though weak, spoke eloquently and forcefully on the reasons for her actions.
The Festival was a show of support by the Tucson activist community - organizers of the Ft Huachuca protest - and included
It must be noted that Tucson has been a hotbed of activism since the Contra War era and birthplace of the Sanctuary Movement which served as a modern day underground railroad conducting Central American refugees - many of them victims of torture by US supported death squads - to safety in, ironically, the United States. See the RFS! program The Sanctuary Experience for an interview with our own Dorothy Pine who aided refugess at the risk of a federal prison sentence.
The trial took place on Monday 4 February 2008 in Tucson feral court and though found guilty of trespass and failure to yield, the more serious charge f conspiracy was dropped. During the sentencing portion of the procedure, the defendants were permitted to speak on the reasons for their civil disobedience and acts of conscience. All spoke movingly of their commitment to justice and when questioned as to whether he would violate the orders of the court or his sentencing conditions, Father Zawada refused to say that he would not do the same thing again if his conscience so dictated.
At the conclusion, Zawada & Lamb were released from custody and all three were sentenced to two years probation and a $5000 fine that could be paid by 500 hours of community service at a value of $10hr. The judge went further to state that she would review the evaluations of their probation officers and that they would be allowed to perform their community service for anti-torture or other activist organizations so long as they broke no laws.
The now annual demonstration at Ft Huachuca has occurred for four years and is inspired by and in solidarity with the much larger annual demo at the gates of Ft Benning, GA. That demonstration began 18 years ago and now brings over 20,000 citizens to call for an end to torture and US policies of war and oppression.
Ft Benning is the home of WHINSEC, formerly the School of the Americas, now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation but it continues to be the School of the Assassins. This is where the US government recruits succeeding generations of young army officers in countries throughout Latin America and indoctrinates them in the US policy of hemispheric domination and the use of the most brutal means of suppressing, disappearing, torturing and killing their own fellow citizens in the interest of US policy. The list of those that have commited the most bestial acts in their home countries is heavily weighted with SOA graduates and the influence of their training on the military forces of their home countries tilits the political balance toward perpetuating the oligarchies that have long afflicted Latin America and impede the development of true democracy.
Carlos Mauricio (see his RFS! interview) spoke in harrowing detail of his disappearance and seemingly miraculous reprieve from a death squad dungeon. His story, as he describes, is not his alone, but that of hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans similarly treated by the US backed death squads. The ultimate horror of these crimes is that they are being repeated by US forces and their proxies routinely and without accountability on a worldwide basis today. What was done to Carlos and others 25 years ago is now being done to Iraqis and anyone else who falls within the grasp of the US military, intelligence, contractor/mercenaries, and proxies in 3rd countries throughout the world. We now know the horrors of Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo but have forgotten that these same crimes were the methodology of the Reagan era Contra Wars and have been used against millions throughout our history.
Ft Huachuca is the home of the Army Intelligence Center which is responsible for all manner of hegemonic methods but is particularly noted here as the place where the curriculum for the School of the Americas is devised and where the interrogators / inquisitors of the US War of Terror are trained. The Tucson activist community has undertaken confronting this menace in conjunction with the School of the Americas Watch which organizes the annual demonstration at Ft Benning as well as promoting human rights here and abroad year round.
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Chrysler Recalls SUVs After Dozens of Reported Fires [Reuters]
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