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Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Posts: 2498
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:50 am
Post subject: Who celebrates Halloween?
I know it has its origins in Irish traditions. And I know it's beginning to catch on in France. I know Canadians celebrate it. In Vancouver everyone sets off fireworks exotic stuff for Angelinos who practically have to have a permit and a fire department safety crew standing by to light a barbeque!
I just put out some lights and got a gorgeous Rouge Vif d'Estampes/Cinderella pumpkin for the doorway.
And I found some marvelous battery operated lights that look like flickering candles that I can set in hurricanes among the pumpkin and fall flowers without concern for a flowing costume getting too close to a flame.
I'm getting excited!
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. -- Garrison Keillor
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Joined: 13 Nov 2004
Posts: 899
Location: Gold Coast Australia
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:05 am
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We don't celebrate it down here in NZ or Australia. Some of the stores are selling Halloween merchandise in the hope it will catch on. Occaisionally you will get some child at the door trick or treating but I don't keep sweets on hand so no point them coming here. I was in Montreal one Halloween and it is a big celebration in that city. In NZ we celebrate Guy Fawkes night on 5th November with fire crackers.
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Joined: 08 Aug 2006
Posts: 136
Location: France, Bordeaux
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:58 am
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Sorry Rainey, Halloween is not really catching on in France ! For about 3 or 4 years, it was quite the thing, but rather the commercial thing ! Stores had found a way to sell huge amounts of candy, some costumes too, and pumpkin producers were overjoyed. But it's already fading.
The spirit of the festival is totally foreign to us, and the custom is not ingrained, so children will go from door to door, usually on saturday evening !, not on Halloween night !, asking for candy, but not knowing the basic rules, or the magic phrase, "trick or treat" ! Plus the basic layout of french towns does not lend itself to this custom : no open alleys, houses usually are removed from the street, behind closed fences, so you have to pass the locked gate first to reach the door ! And in buildings, people are generally weary of strangers...
Not an easy thing to import an age- old custom in a land that never celebrated this particular festival ! Here the accent is on All Saint's day, november 1st. Dreary holyday where we gather at the cemetary to put chrysanthemiums on the graves of our dead, clean up the tombstones, then go home. And usually the weather is just as dreary, gray and wet ! As a matter of fact, we call All Saints weather ("temps de Toussaint") that kind of gray, sad, rainy, chilly, cloudy weather ! Still sometimes we get lucky and have a wonderful, indian summer-type weather that day ! Last year was a good example, beautiful sunny weather.
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Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Posts: 97
Location: Paris, France
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:00 am
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We DO!!!!.....well we are having a party for kids at my place. But the door to door trick or treating is sorely missed.
So far, in Paris, I only see it as a party excuse for the 18 year olds and over, and a new decoration idea in some stores!
Roast pumpkin seeds for us!
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Joined: 18 Oct 2004
Posts: 1654
Location: Within view of Elliot Bay, The Olympics and every ship in the Sound
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:25 pm
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I love Halloween, though not for the ghosts and goblins. I love tromping around in my Wellies ,(this is the only time I get to wear them), looking for the perfect pumpkins. The warm cider and the excuse to cook with pumpkin. On the day it self, friends come for a hot dinner out in the freezing cold, with plenty of calvados to keep us warm. The kids seem to enjoy trick or treating at out house because they get candy from four people instead of one. It's a very nice night.
"It's watery....and yet there's a smack of ham."
"It's hot ham water."
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Joined: 14 Oct 2005
Posts: 827
Location: Oakland, CA
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:14 pm
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And in chimes the Grinch...
Being an elementary school teacher and the mother of a son born on Oct. 29, I have had my fair share of Halloween celebrations! For all the years Ben was home, we had spider webs and spiders, a scarecrow, jack-o-lanterns, tapes of creepy noises, witches and ghosts decorating the house. I've had Halloween parades at my school and Ben's. We've gone to and hosted parties that included neighborhood trick-orr-treating with 15 or 20 kids. I handmade every costume he ever wore - including the Ninja Turtle one with a hand-quilted turtle shell and three fingered gloves! I manage to come up with some lame costume for myself every year - despite the vow that sometime I am going to make myself one wonderful costume so that I can wear it every year and never have to think about "What are you going to be for Halloween?" - a question that starts getting asked by mid- September at the elementary level!!
My current level of involvement in Halloween is to put a basket of candy outside the door, with a sign that says "Take one or two pieces, please!". Then we go out to dinner and to a movie. When we come home, it's all over and I go to bed a happy woman! There's NEVER any leftover candy to worry about and I am extremely relaxed!
Which is fine until the next morning, when I am peeling kids from the ceiling and they tell me they had 15 mini Snickers bars for breakfast!!!!!
L'appetit vient en mangeant. -Rabelais
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Joined: 09 Jun 2006
Posts: 932
Location: England
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:10 pm
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And in chimes the Griffin! (Ta Donna!) This is a short-ish article wot I wrote for another website a couple of years ago.
The Eve of All Souls Day is Halloween or All Hallows Eve. It is the day when the barriers between the worlds of the dead and the living are said to be at their thinnest. It is a feast of remembrance too as well as a reminder that the summer is over and it is time to gather in the harvest in time for the dead of winter.
The festival coincides with the Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced Sow-en) which was the last day of the Celtic year and means summers end. It was the Celts Festival of the Dead. Demons and evil spirits were said to freely roam around. Witches were said to hold their most important sabbats. Bonfires were lit as protection against the witches as well as to guide the more friendly spirits home and, charms were placed in barns to keep livestock safe.
Samhain was associated with burial mounds or barrows which were thought to be entrances into the other world. One of these was the Bronze Age barrow at Fortingall at the head of Glen Lyon in Tayside. A bonfire was built on the mound, known as Cairn nam Marbh or Mound of the Dead because it was believed to contain the bodies of plague victims. Great quantities of whin (furze or gorse) were gathered from the hillside and heaped on the mound. When it was blazing the whole community held hands and danced around it.
As it was believed that the dead returned to earth on All Hallows Eve, it was once the custom to leave doors open and food on kitchen tables for the ancestors. In fact, ancestor worship is widespread in many cultures and is no doubt the foundation of the belief in the afterlife as well as reincarnation.
In spite of these scarier aspects of All Hallows Eve, people also found it a time to celebrate before the winter really set in. It was a time for fortune telling and playing games such as apple-bobbing. It was especially a night for young women to find out their marriage prospects through such omens as the shape made by the continuous peel of an apple or the behaviour of nuts on the hearth. The apple peel thrown over the young womans shoulder, its shape on landing would indicate the initial of her future husband. The nuts on the hearth were lined up and given the name of prospective husbands. Then the young woman would say,
If you love me pop and fly,
If you hate me burn and die.
Apples were sacred to the Celts as were hazelnuts, which may explain these traditions. To guarantee a dream of her future love a young woman could make her shoes form a T shape, a potent talisman symbolising the hammer of the Norse god Thor. She would then say,
Hoping this night my true love to see,
I place my shoes in the form of a T.
It is also one of the best days to see faeries, at twilight and midnight when the moon is full. However, anyone looking for faeries should be sure to keep a running stream between them and the faeries. They should also be sure to carry a cross of cold iron, which the faeries dislike.
This is why I love All Hallows Eve. It is more an English festival in the feast day sense. Which may explain why for the French, the dull Day of the Dead merely means a chance to remember their dead and then go home. On the other hand it could be a great opportunity to indulge once home in autumnal food! And of course wine... a good glass of claret or Chateauneuf du Pape would be good!
Trick or treat tho' is an American spin on the festival, that has partly come back to Britain. Generally it's still not caught on here. It's seen here as an American thing.
It should not be confused with November the 5th tho'. That commemorates the day when 17th century terrorists tried to blow up Parliament when the King was at Westminster. Guido Fawkes and his co-conspirators were caught in the act hence the rhyme afterwards,
Remember, remember
The 5th of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot!
Nowadays, Bonfire Night involves an effigy of Guy Fawkes burned on a bonfire along with fireworks and a general good time is had by all.
Confusion comes fitted as standard.
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Joined: 29 Sep 2004
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Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:41 pm
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I think it's wonderful that cultures have their own indigenous holidays. So hooray for people who don't let commerce drive their wagon and hooray for people who share their traditions even when the larger culture is doing something else.
Donna- I hadn't thought what it would be like to have a classroom of kids on the day after. I had preschoolers whose parents were pretty successful at limits at least for the 2-4yos. And my kids went to a school with, wisely I think, had a day off on Nov. 1. But your tale of Halloween at school reminds me that I used to send these cookies to school for the kids' classroom Halloween parties:
Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Lemon Icing
Recipe By: Libby Foods
For cookies:
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 egg
1 cup pumpkin puree
2 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ginger
1 cup golden raisins
1 cup nuts, chopped
For icing:
2 cup confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon lemon zest, firmly packed
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
For Cookies, cream shortening. Gradually beat in sugar. Add eggs and pumpkin. Mix well. Set aside.
Sift dry ingredients together. Add to pumpkin mixture. Add raisins and nuts.
Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheets. Flatten slightly with a flat-bottomed glass dipped in water every 2 or 3 cookies as needed. Bake about 15 minutes or until firm to touch. Remove cookies to cool on rack. Ice with Lemon Frosting when cool.
For Lemon Frosting, combine the ingredients adding just enough milk for a spreading consistency.
Makes 4 dozen
Notes: Pumpkin in a cookie! These are soft and cakey. They have an interesting combination of rich, spicy, not too sweet flavor that is accented by the sweet-tart lemon glaze for complexity.
They are what began my love affair with pumpkin. The kids brought them to school in handled baskets with plastic ants and flies scattered over them and plastic spiders suspended on threads from the handles.
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. -- Garrison Keillor
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Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Posts: 2498
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:42 pm
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Actually, I enjoy the holidays I celebrate but I deeply
we got to learn more about other holidays around the world. How they originated. How they're celebrated? How they're changing?
It's a sort of cultural anthropology. The reason I brought Halloween up, for instance, is I'm curious how it originated in Ireland and really took hold in the US but didn't in other English-speaking cultures.
And then, of course, is the business of how much
holidays share with one another. Like how our Halloween coincides with La Dia de los Muertes and how they each deal with the loss of our dead. LDdlM, directly, and Halloween, tangentially and almost unrecognizably at this point.
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. -- Garrison Keillor
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Joined: 18 Oct 2004
Posts: 1654
Location: Within view of Elliot Bay, The Olympics and every ship in the Sound
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:16 pm
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Hadn't heard of Guy Fawkes until a few days ago when I finally saw "V for Vendetta". I didn't realise he was real. Why is this day celebrated?
"It's watery....and yet there's a smack of ham."
"It's hot ham water."
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Joined: 08 Aug 2006
Posts: 136
Location: France, Bordeaux
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:51 am
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Griffin, great post ! I knew a few things about the origins of Halloween, and your info is a great addition to my personal "inner library" !
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Joined: 18 Oct 2004
Posts: 1654
Location: Within view of Elliot Bay, The Olympics and every ship in the Sound
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:59 pm
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After my last post I made a mention of it to my husband, who was dismayed at my lack of knowledge on the subject. Wow. I have been thoroughly filled in.
"It's watery....and yet there's a smack of ham."
"It's hot ham water."
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Joined: 25 Sep 2006
Posts: 6
Location: Stockholm Sweden
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:22 pm
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The shopkeepers do their best to get us Swedes to celebrate Halloween but most of us don´t, anyway. It was more going on a couple of years ago with "scary" parties (I myself hosted a spider party once at Halloween) but now you don´t see much of it. But many children think it is fun to dress up and beg for candy and why not? It is so dark this time of year here!
The big holiday this time of year in Sweden is All Saint´s Day next weekend, November 4th, when we remember friends and relatives who has passed away. All graveyards are filled with lanterns and it is also common to put decorations made of pine, spruce, cones and other autumnal things on the graves. It is very very beautiful! Perhabs not a very merry holiday, but I like it anyway. You need a bit of both in your life, don´t you?
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Joined: 09 Jun 2006
Posts: 932
Location: England
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:33 pm
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Ahem, so now you know. One place it is celebrated is in Lewes, Sussex where Protestantism was so strong that not that long after effigies of the Pope were plonked on bonfires in Lewes. More recently it was Maggie Thatcher and no doubt before long it will be Tony Blair!
Many of our big holidays have their roots in pagan festivals. Easter is from the Saxon festival for Eostre, goddess of the Dawn. Christmas was originally Yule and in Scandinavia people often wish each other 'God Jul'. It's a matter of history. The coming of Christianity meant that the church had to consolidate it's power in Europe. In Britain it did that by assimilating Christian festivals into the pagan ones. It worked! But the roots of the original festivals still show through in little ways.
I agree with you too, I prefer the myth and magic of these festivals rather than the rush to make money out of them.
The All Saint's Day became more popular because of the potency of Christianity through Europe, hence it's easy transference to the US. Mostly it comes from, as Clivia says, the season being so dark. The harvest is over and people want to celebrate it being over and to also cheer themselves up in the dark days of autumn.
Confusion comes fitted as standard.
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Joined: 30 Sep 2004
Posts: 1855
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:26 pm
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A big thanks to Griffin and Clivia for their contributions!
Vivant Linguae Mortuae!!
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Crispy around the edges and soft in the center, this side dish—laced with fennel, onions, and slow-cooked kale—will please everyone at the table.
- Yield
- Makes 8 to 10 servings
- 2 pounds country-style white bread, crusts removed, torn into 1" pieces
- 3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 2 tablespoons fennel seeds
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
- 2 sprigs rosemary
- 1 dried chile de árbol, broken in half
- 1 1/2 cups minced fennel
- 1 1/2 cups minced onions
- 2 tablespoons fresh thyme leaves
- 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Slow-Cooked Tuscan Kale
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 3 1/2 cups low-sodium chicken or turkey broth
- 2 large eggs, beaten to blend
- Ingredient info: Dried chiles de árbol, thin, red, very hot 3"-long chiles, are available at Latin markets, specialty foods stores, and some supermarkets.
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Using your hands, toss bread in a large bowl while drizzling with 1/2 cup oil, squeezing bread to help it absorb oil. Spread out on 2 rimmed baking sheets, dividing equally; set aside.
- Toast bread, stirring often and rotating baking sheets halfway through, until croutons are golden brown and crisp on the outside but still a little soft inside, about 20 minutes. Let cool; return to large bowl.
- Meanwhile, toast fennel seeds in a small skillet over medium heat, shaking pan often, until seeds are fragrant and light gold, 2-3 minutes. Let cool. Using a spice mill or a mortar and pestle, coarsely grind fennel seeds; set aside. Alternatively, crush seeds in a resealable freezer bag with bottom of a heavy skillet.
- Heat a large skillet over medium heat for 2 minutes. Add remaining 1/4 cup oil and butter. When butter is melted, add rosemary sprigs and chile; let sizzle in pan for 1 minute, then add crushed fennel seeds, fennel, onions, thyme, and garlic. Season with salt and pepper and sauté until vegetables are tender and lightly caramelized, 6-8 minutes. Discard rosemary sprigs and chile. Add vegetable mixture and Slow-Cooked Tuscan Kale to croutons.
- Boil wine in same skillet over mediumhigh heat until reduced by 3/4, 1-2 minutes. Add broth; bring to a boil. Add to crouton mixture; toss well. Season with salt and pepper. Add eggs; stir to distribute. Transfer to a 13x9x2" baking dish. Cover with foil.
- Bake dressing until heated through, about 30 minutes (a knife inserted into the center should be hot to the touch). Remove foil and bake until bread is golden and crisped on top, 25-30 minutes longer.

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Bronx Victory Memorial
One of the most impressive monuments in New York City, the Bronx Victory Memorial was designed by architect and landscape architect John J. Sheridan (1888–1954), and sculptors Belle Kinney (1887–1959) and Leopold Scholz (1877–1946). It consists of a landscaped plaza and a raised paved terrace in which stands a massive limestone pedestal with sculptural reliefs. At the center of the pedestal, a Corinthian column is surmounted by a gilded bronze victory figure. Erected in 1932 and dedicated in 1933, the memorial and adjacent grove of trees on the south side of Shore Road commemorate the 947 soldiers from the Bronx who gave their lives in service during World War I.
In 1921 the American Legion planted rows of trees along the Bronx's Grand Concourse, each with a bronze plaque, to a fallen soldier. In 1928 when the boulevard was widened and the subway built underneath, these trees were removed. At the behest of several veterans groups, the trees were consolidated into a Memorial Grove between Baychester Avenue and Eastern Boulevard (now Shore Road); these efforts coincided with a plan to erect a unified monument that would honor all servicemen from the Bronx.
Plans were submitted for the war memorial by Bronx Parks Commissioner Thomas J. Dolen to the New York City Art Commission in the spring of 1930. The original proposed site - south of Pelham Parkway and west of Baychester Avenue - was modified, to avoid both removing memorial trees and having a screen of buildings as a backdrop.
John Joseph Sheridan was a New York-based architect. He had been a designer for the James Gamble Rogers architectural firm and Starrett & Van Vleck Architects, well-known practices in New York City. He also was an apt choice to design this monument, as he had served as an infantry captain in World War I. As built, the monument he conceived was approached by two gravel-grout paths with granite flagstone borders around a lavish rectangular floral bed including forsythia, spirea, deutzia, mock orange, hyacinths, flame azaleas, and bridal wreath among other plantings. A hedge of barberry (Berberis) and Carolina hemlock (Tsuga) framed the entire garden.
On the south side, decorative limestone urns and terra-cotta pots flank a broad central staircase. At the terrace level, Cordova cream limestone reliefs, designed by Kinney and Scholz, depict regiments of soldiers marching into battle. Most striking is their "Lady of Victory" poised atop a stone globe at the apex of the 70-foot high column. Measuring 18 feet in height and weighing 7,300 pounds, the sculpture and the classical column are part of a long symbolic sculptural tradition dating to Greek and Roman antiquity.
The monument was dedicated in an elaborate ceremony on September 24, 1933, after a week's postponement due to torrential rain. Mayor John P. O'Brien (1873–1951), Commissioner Dolen, and former acting mayor Joseph V. McKee (1889-1956) all gave addresses. A parade, massing of colors, aviation display, and music by the Police, Fire, and Sanitation Departments' bands, added to the festivities. The statue was unveiled by Mrs. Julia Zimmerman, president of the Bronx Gold Star Mothers.
Though ushered into the world with fanfare, the monument suffered over time from faulty construction, environmental erosion, and vandalism. In 1943, Parks crews conducted a large structural restoration. Numerous graffiti removals and paint-overs took their toll on the surface of the masonry blocks, ornamental details, and sculptural reliefs. The gold leaf disappeared altogether from Victory, leaving her bronze surface exposed to the elements. A crack in the supporting globe represented a potential safety hazard.
Council Member Madeline Provenzano sponsored a $1.1 million capital project, which in 2001, completed the first phase of restoring the Bronx Victory Memorial. The renovation consisted of extensive cleaning, repair, and replacement of the limestone masonry and ornamentation. The missing eagle's head was recarved as was the massive globe supporting the statue. The bronze sculpture was removed from her perch, repaired, regilded, and installed on the new globe. During the course of reconstruction, a time capsule was unearthed that will be reinstalled with new mementos in a second phase of work including plaza and landscape improvements. On November 11, 2001, at 11 a.m., exactly 83 years after the Armistice that ended World War I, the restored monument was rededicated.
Bronx Victory Memorial Details
- Location: Pelham Parkway and Eastern Boulevard
- Sculptor: Belle Kinney, Leopold F. Scholz
- Architect: John J. Sheridan
- Description: Corinthian column surmounted by standing figure (heroic scale), on pedestal with four-corner extensions bearing urns; fronted by right and left base elements each with a bas-relief; terrace with steps at front has six urns
- Materials: Column--Cordova Texas limestone; Figure--bronze; Bas-reliefs--limestone; 4 urns--limestone; 2 urns--terra cotta
- Dimensions: Column H: 75'; Figure H: 18'; Pedestal H: 18' W: 50' D: 27'; Terrace H: 3' W: 164' x D: 82'
- Cast: 1933
- Dedicated: September 24, 1933
- Donor: Public subscription
- Inscription: A GRATEFUL CITY ERECTED THIS SHAFT / TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY / OF ITS BRONX COUNTY SONS / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WAR.
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After half a season gone he is outscored by his teammate and two Redbull drivers (Max gets 9 more points than Sebastian counting from Spain to Silverstone).
Somebody could said (Greg) it is down to bad luck, but there has been also lot of Sebastians mistakes, just two in last race- spin, and dangerously pushing Massa out of track and gets a penatly, outbreakes himself in Canada and loses shut to attack Lewis for win...
Last days all talked about Kimi and should we stick with him as number two driver or find another, but my question is should we stick with Sebastian as number one driver or push for another?
There are certainly fue drivers who can perform better than Sebastian, Alonso is one of them and is available. We all know Alonso was doing miracles in inferior car (Sebastian is far from miracles), should Ferrari get him back?


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Discussion in 'Kernel Questions' started by the87boy, Sep 11, 2006.
Aren't there some help?
Why don't you try this tutorial? http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21
I had followed it, but it comes with an error, when I had rebooted the computer, that says:
request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1
request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1
request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1
Does it hang during boot? Otherwise, I'd ignore it.
Yes, it stops, when that error comes
I think, it had something to do with the Cryptographic options, because it is doing it with everything in the Cryptographic options, I compile as modules
Can the reason be, that I get this error:
When I run:
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When I run the make modules_install before the make-kpkg-command (and there because the dpkg -i command), the dpkg -i command says, that the /lib/modules folder already exists
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Did you try to run the command afterwards?
No, but shouldn't it run before?
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I cant try it now, because I'm in US now, so it's very risky to reboot a computer with a new kernel or do anybody have some tricks to do that?
It's a trial and error thing, so if you don't have physical access to the system right now, you shouldn't do it (unless you have a serial console which lets you connect to your computer as if you were sitting in front of it, i.e. you can see the bootup process and everything else through this serial console).
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Carl Hagelin and Derek Stepan scored in a one-sided first period, and the suddenly healthy New York Rangers snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night.
Defenseman Marc Staal added just the eighth power-play goal of the season in the second period for New York, which ended an 0-3-1 skid in the second game of a four-game homestand and completed a three-game, season-series sweep of the Lightning.
The Rangers were bolstered by the return of top forward Rick Nash, who missed four games, and defensemen Ryan McDonagh and Michael Del Zotto. New York moved one point ahead of Tampa Bay in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
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Lightning counterpart Mathieu Garon made 38 saves, and Martin St. Louis scored Tampa Bay's lone goal in the first period. Steven Stamkos had an assist to stretch his point streak to eight, but his NHL-best goal-scoring run ended at six.
Tampa Bay, which fell out of a tie for the Southeast Division lead, lost for the fourth time in five games.
The Rangers carried a 2-1 lead into the second, but had to be shaking their heads they weren't ahead by more following their most dominant period this season.
New York stormed to an early two-goal lead that was cut in half, despite the Rangers tying a season high with 20 shots in the first and allowing a season-low three.
Hagelin started the scoring 7:23 in after he made a slick move to get free from defenseman Keith Aulie. McDonagh sent a pass from the neutral zone to Hagelin at the left point. Hagelin shifted as Aulie slid in front of him and crashed into the side boards. That gave Hagelin open space to glide into the circle, and he fired a slap shot that beat Garon.
Hagelin thrust his arms in the air to celebrate his seventh goal.
The Rangers struck again 1:17 later when Stepan netted his fourth. New York dug the puck out of the corner, and passes by defenseman Dan Girardi and captain Ryan Callahan set up Stepan in front for a quick, hard shot that he seemed to know was heading in when he let it go.
Tampa Bay got within 2-1 with 3:51 left on just its second shot. The Lightning, who entered as the highest-scoring team in the NHL with 70 goals, added to their total when St. Louis got behind Nash for a perfect redirection in the slot off a drive by defenseman Eric Brewer.
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NOTES: Stamkos has points in 17 of 20 games. ... The Rangers also had 20 shots in the first period against Washington on Feb. 17. Their previous low for shots allowed in a period this season was four, done twice. ... The first-period shot totals were also the most allowed by the Lightning this season and the fewest they have recorded. ... Lightning C Cory Conacher had a six-game point streak snapped, the longest run by an NHL rookie this season. ... Tampa Bay, 3-6 on the road, began a four-game trip.


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Shakespeare's famous line; 'Once more unto the breach' taken from Henry V, Act III, 1598 captures my #dayofarch 2011 quite nicely! For my breach is also associated with a gap in a high city wall or perhaps more accurately a 850 year gap that still to this day forms the main thoroughfare in to the heart of a historical medieval city.
I am actually talking about Elvet a medieval bridge built around 1160 by Bishop Hugh Du Puiset; once guarded by gate and tower protecting the historic City of Durham. Why once more? Simply because it has been a three year exploration by me of the River Wear as it flows under Elvet Bridge and around the stunning peninsular that forms the World Heritage Site. The sole purpose of the explorations many often undertaken in extremely challenging conditions using sub-aqua diving equipment is to recover medieval and post medieval artefacts from the river bed.
My #dayofarch should have actually been much different but for a late cancellation I was due to be some 270 miles south in the study rooms of the British Museum in London researching their collection of lead cloth seals. As it happened Friday 29th July started quite early enough as I had to take my daughter Sarah to Newcastle airport to catch an 8 a.m. flight. Then followed a 74 mile drive south for a hastily re-arranged family day out in another historic city this time York. Fortunately my detour from archaeology was not terminal as I was kindly allocated 60 precious minutes to take in the Roman and medieval splendours of the Yorkshire Museum.
Arriving back in Durham City where I live at 6.p.m. was actually quite good timing as it meant that the bulk of the river traffic – tourists on hired rowing boats, Durham University peeps with their torpedo like super fast 8s and the dreaded Prince Bishops river cruise boat with its huge propeller should have pretty much vacated the stretch of river I am currently excavating.
Strangely for this time of year I had not actually dived for the best part of three weeks. My previous dive was done with TV cameras following my every move both above and under the water not to mention spending much of the day discussing medieval river artefact's with the delightful historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes! And so as any diver will tell you pulling a diving drysuit on after a prolonged spell of inactivity is no easy nor pleasant task.
My usual entry point in to the river this late in to the summer was now heavily overgrown; Himalayan balsam seed pods exploded violently all around me as I picked out a path through the now giant plants down the steep bank to the water's edge. My usual (just submerged) rock clearly visible through the clear water was still in situ, as indeed it has been for the last three years; it's partially flattened upper surface proving an ideal platform to sit and put my fins and dive mask on.
The last thing a diver needs at this point is to realise that their cylinder first stage valve is not open. However, complacency is a real danger and a full kit check had been carried out back at the car park – my demand valve fed me cool air. I spat in to my dive mask and gave it a rub before rinsing it in the river water and shaking it dry and in less than 18 minutes from leaving home I slipped under the water – again!
My first thoughts were wow how warm is the water and great the underwater visibility is superb! A thin deposit of silt no more than .5 cm deep lay like newly fallen snow on the river bed, its pale brown colour suggesting a peaty origin. Heavy rain fall two weeks earlier in the area of the Pennines near the source of the river was almost certainly the culprit. I remember not being too deterred by the silt deposit I had seen it many times before, a few fin strokes around the gully I had planned to continue searching would send it off downstream.
The flow of water at my dive site is unusually slow, the current held back by a series of weirs further downstream. Within 3 minutes of entering the water I was positioned directly above the gully I was looking for. I call them gullies for an obvious reason as they are quite simply a series of narrow channels worn in the sandstone bedrock by centuries of water passing over it. Some gullies are wider, while some gullies are deeper than the others.
Conditions this evening 2 m underwater on the river bed were as good as they probably ever get. Although the visibility is really important much of the work I do underwater recovering the artefact's is very physical; imagine working intensely for an average of around 140 minutes in one single location. Concentration is essential, meticulously picking through pebble after pebble looking for artefact's that quite often can measure as little as 1 cm. You cannot simply drift off in a day dream thinking about what's for supper when I get out or how many goals will Sunderland put past Newcastle when they meet at the Stadium of Light in August. Forget nitrogen narcosis or the bends the one really dangerous threat to diving in the river is the possibility of being struck by the propeller of the Prince Bishops boat. However, if you maintain your concentration throughout the dive you will pick up the faint chuk chuk chuk the boats engine makes well before it gets anywhere close, giving you plenty of time to swim off to the safe shallow river edges.
So what medieval or post medieval artefact's did I recover on #dayofarch Friday 29th July 2011 from a single gully formed in the sandstone riverbed? In short tonight's haul was fantastic! predominately from a 16th century origin they were in the main made up of dress accessories, items linked to trade, industry and a few pieces of broken pottery. These ceramics are just as
important as they help date the artefact's as they come out of the stratified layers.
The picture below shows tonight's haul – yes from only one dive! I only just managed to capture enough of the setting sunlight to take the picture so apologies if it's not the best. As you can see the haul is predominately made up of small finds. The first artefact that I picked up was nicely decorated 16th/17th century button which was quickly followed by a lovely small copper alloy coin weight with what appears to be 3 fleur-de-lys within a shield beneath a crown. Several pins quickly followed (twisted wire head type) as is the norm for this area, then some nice decorated mounts. The mounts are prolific and appear to be unused. Although the majority of mounts I find are copper alloy like the star shaped one pictured; several are actually lead and the two small lead mounts found this evening show a typical five pellets on the top.
It's my theory that the majority of the dress accessories I am finding are new or should I say have never been used. They almost certainly were items that were once offered for sale by a trader or local merchant very possibly located on Elvet Bridge itself. A classic example of these 'unsold' artefacts are the many small 'beaded' mounts, the stems of which remain straight – had they been pushed through a leather strap for example the stems would have been bent at right angles to effectively hold them in place.
Only pausing to remove a small sliver of glass that embedded its self in my finger I continued to recover artefacts at a rate of approximately one per minute (I wonder if anyone else in the world found more artefacts that me today?). The main focus for me on every dive is to try to find more lead cloth seals. The reason is simple as I now have a significant assemblage of medieval and post medieval cloth seals all recovered from the same stretch of the river. Two weeks ago I was at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum researching their collection of
177 lead cloth seals mainly recovered from the water channels that run through the medieval city. Prior to this evenings dive my total number of cloth seals stood at 171 – unbelievably I found seven tonight! Who's the daddy now! Two of tonight's cloth seals are really interesting, one seal features a standing man possibly holding a spear and a second seal appears to be a dragon or griffin rampant to the left. Hopefully I can find some parallels in Geoff Egan's Occasional Paper 93!
I should point out that previous to my early discoveries of cloth seals only two others had been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) database as being recovered north of Yorkshire and only one of those was in County Durham. Research to date indicates that the cloth seals in my collection appear to have arrived in Durham City from as early as the 15th century continuing right through until the 18th century. Arriving attached to cloth from locations across England and Europe for example Augsburg in Germany.
The seven cloth seals that I found this evening were clustered in a stratified layer which also contained a really strange lead alloy mount. I am only calling it a mount for the time being as it has a bent stem or pin on the reverse. The front features a face of what could easily be described as a cherub; you may be able to see it third from the bottom right hand side of the picture, (I will add another picture of it tomorrow) any suggestions of what it could be would be appreciated.
Just below this stratified layer the finds as you would guess should be older and this may well be the case with the four or five circular form buckles (see Egan 2002, P.58 (28)) that I found. Although the central iron pins are missing many others similar in style yet complete buckles have been found very near to this gulley and they are almost certainly dated from the early 15th Century. A lead spindle whorl was also found at the same depth as the buckles, this singular find bring the total of lead spindle whorls recovered to 32 most unlike this one most are decorated with pellets.
The only distraction to recovering tonight's artefacts was the need to keep checking my air contents plus some crazy person throwing stones at the point of the river where my exhaled air bubbles hit the surface. The stones make a loud plopping noise and fall harmlessly to the river bed around me – I never surface to see who throws the stones for the fear of being hit on the head, strangely it is something that happens more often than not!
Many small pieces of waste lead were found, a few of which were window came, other finds include; tools (possibly for working with leather), a knife, twisted copper alloy loops, lead tokens – one with a nice anchor, a solid cast (bi-convex head) button Circ. 1650, a partial horse shoe, a copper alloy rivet, a circular lead alloy pan-weight, iron nails, a fragment of a jug handle and iron key. It will take me around two weeks to clean the artefacts, bag then record them.
There is a serious side to my endeavours in the river; it is not just a crazy dangerous hobby. For the last three years many artefacts have been loaned to Durham University Archaeology Department where their MA students have researched then as part of their studies. In addition and by working very closely with my Finds Liaison Officer Frances McIntosh to date 350 artefacts have been added to the PAS database. All being well in 2012 I am set to undertake an MA by Research in to the assemblage perhaps focusing on the considerable lead cloth seal collection.
The finds that have been recovered so far total over 2000 artefacts and will without doubt help to re-write the history books of Durham. If you are a small finds expert and would like to help identify many of the unusual artefacts then please do get in touch email@example.com plus you can follow news of the assemblage and indeed what
my latest discoveries are by following me at twitter.com/garybankhead
I hope you have enjoyed reading about my Day of Archaeology 2011!


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I can't say it enough: I love meat. The pink, the red, the white stuff, I'll devour it all. If I grew up in China, IF, I'd probably eat dogs, too. Then again, I was born and raised in Europe and yet never ate a horse (at least not to my knowledge). Though horse meat was readily available to its enthusiasts (were they?), it just never sounded good. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that, when I was in my teens, my room was plastered, floor to ceiling, with posters of horses, plus an occasional image of Patrick Swayze and Mel Gibson (the real life mad man turns out) tucked in between.
Maybe Mel Gibson ate horses? Or dogs??
Here is another thing I not only am crazy about, but also can't live without. So can't you. The thing is the Earth with its abundance of life forms, with its breathtaking beauty, with its mind-boggling complexity, with its mighty power of creation…
I watched this video today, made by a very cool organization called GOOD, where I heard it again: meat production creates three times the green house gas emission as veggies, eggs, grains, or fish. The video is not a dooming project, it's educational. See what small changes you can adopt in your every day living that will help not only to save you BIG BUCKS but also contribute to global energy savings and thus help protect our motherland.
When you go grocery shopping this weekend, plan your menu for your next Meatless Monday. You'll find countless ideas for satisfying and nutrient-dense meals made with no meat on the pages of yours truly (ONE MORE BITE). For a quick reference, however, I'll throw in another one today.
This is one of those dishes I actually don't plan for. Funny enough, the only ones I do are those meat-heavy platters. Every week I get a variety of vegetables, whatever calls my name and with no agenda. Around 4 PM on a mid week day I enter the kitchen and poke my head into the refrigerator trying to figure out what to make for dinner. Slowly, one by one, I begin to pull out various greens and land them on the kitchen counter. Next, I go through the pantry cabinet and look for grains or pastas, beans, nuts, dried fruit, canned anchovies, tomato paste, etc. From a basket in the corner I grab an onion or a couple of shallots, a head of garlic, maybe a couple of potatoes. At this point, while I may look calm and relaxed on the outside, in my head I undergo a violent and calorie-consuming brainstorm.
Within minutes my kitchen turns into a mad scientist's lab with lights blinking, cupboard doors slamming, windows shattering, and other inexplicable explosions visible on the horizon. Half an hour or so later I come out, as if nothing ever happened, with a complete dinner, plated and all.
It's as easy as cooking rice and adding to it a handful of frozen edamame beans minutes before its done. It's as easy as finely chopping a shallot, garlic and chili pepper and tossing them together on a hot pan with a touch of olive oil and a handful of almonds. It's as easy as parboiling string beans and florets of broccoli in salted water and then adding those guys to the pan with the nuts. Drop in a handful of sweat peas, drizzle with soy sauce, rice wine vinegar or lime juice, even a touch of honey. Serve over the rice, garnish with fresh herbs and sprouts of any kind, and ENJOY immediately. I guarantee, you won't even notice there was no meat on the plate.
Some days, when a special someone, like my friend Tamara who also happens to be an incredibly knowledgable and skilled acupuncturist (she's funny, too!), comes over for dinner, I think things through and prep ahead. She follows what I call a relaxed vegan diet. Her household is free of animal products, however when out and about she will occasionally enjoy a piece of cheese, or pastry. She lives her life labels-free, thus allowing herself to be mostly content with what is, rather than stressed out with what's not. I admire that quality in her as it's not as easy to attain as it is to write about it.
We ate together last night, and I wanted to celebrate her joy de vivre by creating a dish bursting with flavors, textures, and colors, while respecting her vegan preference. Hence, I juxtaposed dark Mahogany rice with roasted peanuts and basil oil (all sunk in) against white and raw celeriac salad with walnuts and creamy sunflower seed vinaigrette. On a bed of bright orange sweet potato mash I laid green zucchini and bok choy, plus a handful of garbanzo beans made Southern style (meaning fried). To add texture I sprinkled nutty hemp seeds over the rice and red teardrops of pomegranate seeds all over the plate. A couple of edamame beans delivered another building block of protein, and made the meal complete.
Cooking is fun, especially when you think outside of the box and keep reinventing yourself. Mother Nature gifted us with thousands of incredible varieties of edible plants. Whether you like them raw, cooked, dehydrated, even fried (however rarely), chances are you'll never get bored with them. So get jiggy with it!
Guess what, no animal was harmed in the process of writing this post. On the contrary, Cosmo napped on my lap all along with my left hand scratching his ear while the right one typed each letter o n e b y o n e.
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Former Pats tight end Aaron Hernandez fought a fellow inmate at Bristol County Jail today, according to a report. If true, the other guy sure is stupid for choosing Aaron Hernandez as a target.
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Sources tell us the former New England Patriots tight end — who is usually segregated from the general population — was allowed to take a walk in an isolated hallway ... but somehow came into contact with another inmate.
We're told Hernandez recognized the other inmate and launched into an attack — beating the other man up pretty badly.
Sources tell us ... Hernandez and the other man had been beefing all day long. One source says the other guy had been harassing Aaron nonstop. Clearly, Hernandez was pissed.
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Martyrs Agapius, Publius, Timolaus, Romulus, two named Dionysius, and two named Alexander, at Caesarea in Palestine - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 4
Your soul aflame with love for Christ, / you gathered a company of illustrious athletes, O glorious Agapius. / With them you excelled in righteous contest, / and together you were beheaded by the sword. / Henceforth always pray for the forgiveness of our sins!
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The end of year is looming so naturally, Christmas-themed movies! Both these films deal with holiday family reunions with Four Christmases taking the more comedic gag approach and Nothing Like The Holidays appearing to be more of the "heartwarming" type of movie. While both films look nice, I'd say I have a preference for the less commercial Nothing Like The Holidays. Tell me what you think in the comments.
Four Christmases
Four Christmases is directed by Seth Gordon (The King Of Kong) and written by newcomers Matt R. Allen & Caleb Wilson with Jon Lucas & Scott Moore (Rebound). It stars Vince Vaughn (Fred Claus), Reese Witherspoon (Rendition), Robert Duvall (We Own The Night), Jon Favreau (Iron Man), Sissy Spacek (Hot Rod) and country singer Tim McGraw (The Kingdom) among others. It premiers in the US on Novmber 26th.
Nothing Like The Holidays
Nothing Like The Holidays is directed by Alfredo De Villa (Adrift In Manhattan) and written by Rick Najera (1 episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman), Alison Swan (Mixing Nia) and newcomer Ted Perkins. It stars John Leguizamo (Righteous Kill), Alfred Molina (Silk), Freddy Rodriguez (Grindhouse), Jay Hernandez (Lakeview Terrace) and Luis Guzmán (Cleaner) among others. It premieres in the US on October 12th and was previously titled Humboldt Park.


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Police and protesters skirmished around the Bank of England on Wednesday as world leaders gathered for the G-20 summit.
Thousands of anti-capitalists, anarchists, and environmental campaigners descended for protests in several locations in London, including its financial center around the Bank of England, Britain's central bank.
Protesters broke several dark tinted windows of a Royal Bank of Scotland building and crawled inside. They also spray-painted the word "thieves" and the anarchist symbol on the side of the building. Read full article »
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Redlands Connection is a concoction of sports memories emanating from a city that once numbered less than 20,000 people. From the Super Bowl to the World Series, from the World Cup to golf's U.S. Open, Wimbledon and the Olympics, plus NCAA Final Four connections, Tour de France cycling, major tennis, NBA and a little NHL, aquatics and quite a bit more, the sparkling little city that sits around halfway between Los Angeles and Palm Springs on Interstate 10 has its share of sports connections. – Obrey Brown
Just take a glance at the past female champions at the 34-year-old Redlands Bicycle Classic.
Mara Abbott and Kristin Armstrong. Genevieve Jeanson and Lyne Bessette. Judith Arndt and Ino Yono Teutenberg. Don't forget Amber Neben, Mari Holden or Ruth Winder, either.
It's not 34 years for the women, by the way. Women's racing didn't join the Redlands Classic lineup until the early 1990s.
That glance at the overall Redlands Bicycle Classic championship lineup is a Hall of Fame list, a stunning one, to say the least.
Name the gal and, chances are, she's raced at Redlands.
Holden, along with Jeanson and Bessette, a pair of Canadians, are just part of the list. Multiple Olympic gold medalist Armstrong signed off on a brilliant career by winning the 2016 RBC.
Throw in Neben and Abbott – great climbers, racers and mountain cyclists.
Until this year, 2018, purses haven't been the same for women as they are for men at Redlands. Is it shorter races, perhaps?
Some of racing's most powerful female cyclists have shown up to beat the RBC field.
Some, like Jeanson, were caught doping – and penalized. She was never disqualified from Redlands, however.
Since Redlands officials did not erase its own histories – no one seemed to test positive locally – Jeanson goes down as a two-time champion.
She beat Kimberly Bruckner one year.
A year later, the great German champion, Judith Arndt, beat the sensational Jeanson.
But Jeanson returned a year later to edge Bessette, her countrywoman.
But Bessette, in 2004, got Jeanson back in another 1-2 finish.
Don't leave out Jeanne Golay, who proved superior in a variety of events. The 1994 RBC champion was a national criterium champion, national time trial champion, plus a three-time national road racing champion – with plenty of overseas success.
Then there was French Olympian Jeanne Longo.
Perhaps past her prime in showing up at RBC, or maybe she just wasn't on form, the remarkable Longo was a multiple world champion in both road racing and time trials. She won a few national titles as well.
As for the Olympics – second in 1996 Atlanta time trials, third at Sydney 2000, 10th in the Athens 2004 road race, fourth in the Beijing 2008 time trials – Longo had no podium finishes at Redlands.
Another European, however, Germany's Ino Yono Teutenberg, deserves prominent RBC mention.
A two-time Olympian, who retired in 2013, racked up more than 200 triumphs over 15 racing seasons. Count Redlands, in 2009, among those victories, beating multiple RBC champion Neben by one second.
Teutenberg raced for the dominant Saturn Cycling Team, from 2001 to 2003, where she and her teammates – Arndt, Petra Rossner, Bessette and Bruckner, among others, rode together to some fairly legendary results.
As for the Olympics, Redlands paid the price to host the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials at which eventual 2005 Redlands champion Christine Thorburn won her way to Athens.
Ruth Winder, the 2017 RBC champion, is only 23. She's bound for the European classics with a new team, Sunweb. Winder probably hasn't yet scratched the surface of her cycling future.
As the new cyclists head off to promising careers, the older cyclists have wound down.
Armstrong (no relation to Lance, incidentally), for instance.
There were a few Redlands podium spots for Armstrong, the USA Olympian who won gold medals for the time trials in 2008 Beijing, 2012 London and in the 2016 games.
Third overall to Bessette and Jeanson in 2008, Armstrong came to Redlands in 2016 in preparation for the Rio de Janeiro Games.
Her lone Redlands stage victory turned out to be at Highland. Chasing her all the way to the end was Neben, a three-time RBC champion, along with the remarkable Abbott.
Armstrong beat an injured Abbott (broken collarbone) by 32 seconds.
A few months later in Brazil, she won her third Olympic gold medal.


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In a little publicized coup, Chinese martial artists have stormed the White House. The White House Theater, that is.
A Beijing-based performance company purchased the iconic venue in the entertainment mecca of Branson, Mo., for $3.5 million, renovated it and launched
"The Legend of Kung-Fu" in June.
Where once there was gospel, "patriotic tributes" and Sonny and Cher impersonators, now there is a cast and crew of 68 Chinese putting on an action-packed Vegas-paced show featuring a mix of martial artists, actors, singers and drummers. Locals say they are thrilled with the foreign takeover.
"One thing we like is they bought a theater that was vacant," says the city's public affairs director, Jerry Adams. "And they gave people one more reason to visit Branson by offering a different variety of show. … They've been excellent business partners."
As Chinese become wealthier, they are seeking investments around the world: mines and oil wells, banks, hotels, real estate, technology, manufacturing and food companies.
The big deals capture the spotlight, especially when they are controversial or are killed by politics. But this week, as Chinese President Hu Jintao visits the United States, he will seek to highlight another type of deal — the deals that don't merit political furor but are courted by local governments to bolster economies and create jobs.
That includes little-noticed deals such as the White House Theater that become part of the fabric of American towns.
In 2010, the value of the biggest seven Chinese deals—not including bond sales—totaled more than $6.16 billion, roughly the same as in 2009, according to the conservative Heritage Foundation, which compiles a database of Chinese investments that have a value of more than $100 million. The group's database shows that there were no Chinese investments of more than $100 million as recently as 2005.
"But that's living in this world that we can see … involving big investments and big companies," says Derek Scissors, Asia Economics Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
"Public perception in America and China is dominated by the high-profile deals," says Thilo Hanemann, research director for Rhodium Group, an economic research firm in New York. "The real story is of the small and middle-sized deals that provide jobs in manufacturing and services."
Smaller deals like the White House Theater are very difficult to track. Many Chinese investments come through intermediary companies or third countries, and some are not counted as foreign investments though they are foreign in all but name.
For instance, Chinese-born tycoon David Liu bought seven distressed apartment complexes in the Phoenix area last year for about $480 million ($133 million in cash plus assumed debt). Liu, now a U.S. citizen, would not be considered a foreign investor, though he reportedly made most of his money through real estate deals in his hometown Beijing.
Hanemann, of Rhodium, points to some of the deals that tend to be overlooked: A $29 million investment in Suntech Power Holdings to make solar panels in Goodyear, Ariz.; a $46 million infusion in Moberly, Mo., to open a plant making a sugar substitute; $10 million invested by China's sporting goods company Li Ning to open a store in Portland, Ore.
When Hu visits Chicago this week, he reportedly is going to visit a newly opened solar panel plant in Rockford, Ill., built with a $12 million investment by Chinese auto conglomerate Wanxiang through its U.S. operation.
The company that bought the Branson theater, Beijing-based China Heaven Creation International Performing Arts Co., hit just the right chord, to hear locals tell it. The 1,200-seat theater is one of about 45 show venues in the community — part of a tourism industry that is the lifeblood of the small town. Branson, with a population just shy of 8,000, gets 8 million visitors a year, according to the city government.
Infusion of new blood
But the city has been in need of fresh G-rated acts to update its look. Branson gained a reputation in the 1970s as a country music destination after Roy Clark took a shine to it and set up his Roy Clark Celebrity Theater there. Later, it attracted crooner Andy Williams (still performing in Branson at age 83) and big band leader Lawrence Welk, aka Mr. Wunnerful. Welk's theater finally turned to Broadway musicals and lively fare for baby boomers.
Over the past several years, the city has worked to shed its reputation as a playland for the elderly. With the addition of a Titanic museum, family shows like "Peter Pan," and the town's first upscale shopping mall, the average age of visitors has dropped to 54 from 58 in 2005.
"(The kung fu) shows are family-oriented, like all shows in Branson," says Adams, the city official. "We are marketing to a younger demographic. We feel this show fits right in."
China Heaven also bought a large bed and breakfast in town to house its Chinese cast and crew. There are about 20 American employees.
According to Branson economic development director Garrett Anderson, the investment has prompted other Chinese investors to inquire about the town.
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Jim Rader, the Branson Realtor who represented the White House Theater seller — an elderly man who was no longer up to operating the facility — says the Chinese drove a hard bargain. They got the theater on 12 acres for just $3.5 million, down from an asking price of $5.5 million.
Rader exudes enthusiasm about the investors.
"They were the grandest folks I could ever hope to deal with," he says. "They were just good people. They were business people, but interested in everybody and everything."
Likewise, China Heaven says it received a warm reception by the chamber of commerce and the community at large.
"Based on our experience, the local city government, peer professional artists (and the) audience, are all friendly to our entertainers and show," the company said in an email reponse to questions. "We did not feel (push-back) within our half year operation."
Deals that end amicably are probably more the rule than the exception — and certainly far outnumber the number of investments that get flayed in Washington for a mix of political reasons and real national security concerns. Hanemann says such problems have an outsized impact on investor confidence.
"The U.S. doesn't have a defined list of sectors that foreigners can or can't invest in as China does," he says. "There's no clear definition, and there are different domestic groups who want to use the lack of clarity to politicize them."
"But the failed deals have a lot to do with perception. Chinese investors may not feel welcome."
Derailed deals
Most notable among the deals that have been derailed in the United States was a 2005 bid by Cnooc Ltd., the Hong Kong-listed unit of China's largest offshore energy explorer, to buy California's Unocal Corp. for $18.5 billion.
In July, China's Anshan Iron and Steel Group withdrew a bid to buy a 20 percent stake in a small U.S. rebar mill, Steel Development Co., after 50 lawmakers who make up the U.S. Steel Caucus opposed it on grounds of national security.
John Correnti, CEO of the U.S. steel company said the investment would create 1,200 construction jobs, and 200 permanent steel jobs. He called the national security argument "laughable."
Anshan is now is reportedly considering purchasing a smaller stake in the plant, a sign that investor confidence may be improving.
To be sure there have also been Chinese investments in the United States that have churned up frustration while jobs are scarce and anxiety is running high. Many lawmakers and ordinary Americans believe China has been manipulating its currency, keeping it artificially low to boost its exports, consequently causing the U.S. to lose jobs to Chinese companies.
In that kind of atmosphere, politicians want to be sure they don't end up taking the flak if a deal ends up costing American jobs.
"If they come in and buy one of our hotels and operate it, that's fine. It keeps running and they still hire staff," says Bill Stafford, president of the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle. "What you don't want is to say: 'Good news! The Chinese are investing $100 million to buy XX company. … Sad to say they are moving the company out of the country.'"
Perhaps the ambivalence helps explain why top brass from China Heaven have gone out of their way to show they are community-minded. They quickly joined the Branson Chamber of Commerce and the local entertainment marketing association.
It may also account for why, before they finalized the White House deal, they showed up at Branson City Hall one day, with no apparent agenda other than to introduce themselves.
"Our first contact with (China Heaven) was not them asking us for incentives," says Anderson, economic development director for Branson.
"They came to City Hall in almost a formal and ritualistic way. … I think they were coming to ask us for our blessing."


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Ronda Rousey's star continues to rise, and her latest appearance scored Showtime its highest Strikeforce ratings of 2012.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today learned from industry sources that this past weekend's "Strikeforce: Rousey vs. Kaufman" averaged 529,000 viewers on Showtime.
Additionally, a peak viewership of 676,000 tuned in during the night's main event, which saw Strikeforce women's bantamweight champion Rousey defeat former title holder Sarah Kaufman in just 54 seconds.
"Strikeforce: Rousey vs. Kaufman" took place this past Saturday, Aug. 18, at Valley View Casino Center in San Diego. The main card aired on Showtime following Showtime Extreme-televised prelims.
The viewership numbers include the both the live broadcast, which is distributed to Showtime's East-coast viewers, as well as the same-day replay, which represents the tape-delayed broadcast to Strikeforce's West-coast subscribers.
Showtime officials said that when a Sunday-morning replay of the event is considered, a total of nearly 900,000 viewers watched the event.
Strikeforce's five 2012 events have now averaged 445,800 viewers. By comparison, Strikeforce's eight 2011 "Arena Series" events drew an average audience of 521,375 viewers on Showtime.
The Showtime ratings for Strikeforce "Arena Series" shows since 2011 include:
- "Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Silva" (February 2011): 741,000 viewers
- "Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum" (June 2011): 624,000
- "Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Henderson" (July 2011): 571,000
- "Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Cyborg" (January 2011): 561,000
- "Strikeforce: Rousey vs. Kaufman" (August 2012): 529,000
- "Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley" (April 2011): 528,000
- "Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey" (March 2012): 472,000
- "Strikeforce: Heavyweight Grand Prix Final" (May 2012): 463,000
- "Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal" (December 2011): 460,000
- "Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Kennedy" (July 2012): 420,000
- "Strikeforce: Feijao vs. Henderson" (March 2011): 412,000
- "Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Jardine" (January 2012): 344,000
- "Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Kharitonov" (September 2011): 274,000
For complete coverage "Strikeforce: Rousey vs. Kaufman," including the night's official results, check out the MMA Events section of the site.
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Yield: 60 macaron cookies or 30 sandwiches.
For these cute little leaves, I used Wilton's Ready-Made Gum Paste. The toughest part of using gum paste is coloring it. Add a dab of gel food coloring onto a bit of the gum paste, and then play with it as if it's playdough, smushing it all around so the color spreads. The actual leaves are super simple to make. Roll the gum paste out with a rolling pin and and cut the leaves out with a gum paste cutter, which is just like a mini cookie cutter (I have gum paste cutters in different flower and leaf shapes). That's all! They'll harden overnight. Attach the leaves to your macarons or any cookies using a dot of corn syrup or royal icing.
This is adorably written! It was so enjoyable to read! And the finished product looks heavenly as well! This post was too cute in all ways! :)


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So, I spent the "Day of Archaeology" monitoring a seismic crew as they worked a few thousand acres near a mine northeast of Winnemucca, Nevada. This was actually on July 26th since I didn't work on the 29th. Our schedule is 8-on, 6-off and. I'll start by describing, as best I can, what seismic is.
The seismic crew consists of about twenty ground workers, a few truck drivers, a recorder, and a geologist. The ground people lay out cable that stretches from north to south across the project area, a distance of up to five kilometers. The truck drivers drive east/west across the project area and vibrate the ground in prescribed intervals. The vibrations cause shockwaves that penetrate the ground hundreds of meters deep which then bounce back to the geophones that are running north/south. We are told that the goal is to determine the geological structures that exist beneath the ground so the mine can decide whether they want to excavate that area or use it for waste rock. I spoke to someone this weekend that works in the business and he says they are looking for oil and that eastern Nevada is sitting on a huge, very deep, oil field. I'm not too sure about that.
As monitors, we were assigned with the care and protection of the cultural resources across the project area. The survey was recently completed and the report has not yet been approved by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) or the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO). Since the sites remain unevaluated, none of them are cleared for construction. As a consequence, no vehicle traffic whatsoever was allowed across the sites and all foot traffic had to be observed by an archaeologist. We watched for disturbance of artifacts and features by foot traffic and by the electrical cords that the crews were laying out. We also watched to make sure that the seismic crew didn't disturb any artifacts. People like projectile points (arrowheads) and usually don't see anything wrong with putting them in their pockets.
A lot of monitoring involves a lot of sitting around for hours waiting for something to happen and then working furiously for a little while. This was no different. When you are monitoring you are on the schedule and time frame of the construction crew you are working with. That's why we were putting in about 13 hours a day. When you are sitting you tend to feel like you should be doing something. I usually read or listen to podcasts. For the seismic monitoring I couldn't even be away from my truck for very long. A call could come over the radio at any time and you have to be where you are supposed to be as quick a you can.
While monitoring, you have to get over the "high and mighty" feeling that some people tend to get. You are typically working with people that, at most, graduated high school and went right into the construction field. They usually see us as highly paid scientists. It's likely that they are getting paid more than you are! They just don't know it. When I'm conversing with construction workers I certainly don't try to minimize my field or the education requirements but I don't try to make it sound like more than it is either. No one responds well to that.
I wish I had something more exciting to talk about for the Day of Archaeology event but the reality of cultural resource management (CRM) archaeology is that many of your days will be like this. Sometimes you go weeks or months without finding an artifact. You may go an entire season without finding a feature. This work needs to be done, however. A project area that doesn't turn up any artifacts or other interesting finds still tells us valuable information.
Follow more of my experiences as a CRM archaeologist at my blog, Random Acts of Science. See you in the field!
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red farriaie...you can never trust renderings...so far tower 2 and 3 will both be over 1100 feet...tower 2 will be 1200+ and tower 4 will be aroun 980 and tower 5 is excactly 871ft
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red farriaie...you can never trust renderings...so far tower 2 and 3 will both be over 1100 feet...tower 2 will be 1200+ and tower 4 will be aroun 980 and tower 5 is excactly 871ft
Just says Gehry is the likely designer of the tower.
This, plus the Calatrava tower...things are looking up for the east side of the Financial District.
Seems Gehry is Ratner's favorite architect now. I put the tower between 500 and 600 ft....
Hopefully more than that since a substantial part of it is not going to be residential. Also, 50 stories is just an appproximation. I've heard 56 and 57 stories reported before.
Hospital looks to build 50-story apartment tower
By Elizabeth OBrien
Local residents packed a Community Board 1 committee meeting on Tuesday to hear a presentation on the future of the N.Y.U. Downtown Hospital parking lot site.
A lawyer for the hospital confirmed that the site, bordered by Spruce, Beekman, Nassau and Gold Sts., is under contract to developer Bruce Ratner, who has proposed a mixed-use tower of about 50 stories, with apartments, Pace University dorms and classrooms, and hospital outpatient facilities. Representatives for Ratner were invited to the meeting but declined to attend, said C.B. 1 district manager Paul Goldstein.
Residents who live near the site at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge expressed concern about the tower blocking their natural light and decreasing their property values. They questioned why their input hadnt been sought in the planning process and called for public forums where they could voice their opinions.
Overall, this hasnt been a great first step, said Philip Toy, a resident of 140 Nassau St., after the meeting.
An official for the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development said the only city control over the property involved a contract between the city and N.Y.U. Downtown Hospital, stipulating that the land could only be sold to a non-profit organization. The city would move quickly to grant permission for Ratner, a developer, to buy the site, said William Carbine, an assistant commissioner for the agency.
The hospital urgently needs revenue from the sale of its land to bolster its flagging finances, said Stephen Lefkowitz, an attorney for the hospital. In return for allowing a private developer to buy the site, the city has asked that the hospital remain in the same location for decades to come and not reduce its services, Lefkowitz said.
Up until now, representatives of the hospital and Ratner had declined to confirm that there would even be a tower on the site.
Ratner has filed a statement of intent with the city Housing Development Corporation for $210 million in Liberty Bonds financing for the project, according to Tracy Paurowski, a spokesperson for the agency. In expressing interest in this federal 9/11 aid, Ratner indicated there would be 370 apartments in the building, Paurowski told Downtown Express earlier this month. Lefkowitz said on Tuesday that there would be about 350 apartments built.
When asked whether renowned architect Frank Gehry would design the site, a story first reported by Downtown Express, Lefkowitz said he had heard talk of Gehrys involvement but declined to confirm it.
Goldstein said that C.B. 1 would organize a public forum on the hospital site and would invite representatives from the city, the hospital, and the developer.
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Has construction for this started yet? Any pictures of what It may look like? Thanks! :D :D :D
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When asked whether renowned architect Frank Gehry would design the site, a story first reported by Downtown Express, Lefkowitz said he had heard talk of Gehrys involvement but declined to confirm it.
NY Post...
By WILLIAM NEUMAN
April 19, 2004 -- Developer Bruce Ratner plans to use high-wattage architect Frank Gehry to design a 55-story, $210 million luxury apartment tower in lower Manhattan, after signing a deal to buy the site from NYU Downtown Hospital.
Ratner recently tapped Gehry for a proposed Nets basketball stadium with an adjoining office and residential complex in Downtown Brooklyn - but while approval for that deal is still far off, the lower Manhattan project may be closer to becoming a reality.
Sources familiar with the deal said Ratner has signed a contract with the hospital to pay in excess of $85 million for a parking lot between Spruce and Beekman streets, across the street from Pace University.
The deal also includes some 40,000 square feet of rent-free office or clinic space for the hospital and 400,000 square feet of dorms and classrooms for Pace.
Last February, the developer's Forest City Ratner Cos. received a preliminary authorization from the city's Housing Development Corp. for $131.4 million in tax-free Liberty Bonds to cover the land purchase and part of the construction costs, according to agency spokeswoman Tracy Paurowski.
Gehry is listed as the architect in HDC documents, which estimate the total cost of the project at $210 million.
The sale is expected to be finalized by summer.
In a recent meeting with members of Community Board 1, Ratner said he will use Gehry as the architect, and he has also committed to use Gehry in talks with hospital and city officials.
A Ratner representative, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Gehry will design the building.
To design $210M bldg.
Gehry ugly is better than ordinary ugly. :P
I just hope Ratner doesn't think that if an architect's a celebrity, then he must be great.
Frank Gehry is not a very pretty man.
He's certainly not a celebrity for his looks.
If you're implying I said what I said because I don't like Gehry's work, you're wrong; I like some of it and I don't like some of it.
No, what I said was in response to his picture...
Not one of the prettier mugs I've ever seen.
im a student at Pace and i saw the president of the school give a speech where he mentioned the school is in discussions with Ratner to get part of the building. The school really wants and needs this space to expand around downtown. Ill be graduating in 3 weeks so it doesnt really affect me but it would be great for Pace to expand more around downtown similar to how NYU is spread out in various buildings around Washington Sq Park.