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United States presidential election of 1972, American presidential election held on Nov. 7, 1972, in which Republican Pres. Richard M. Nixon was elected to a second term, defeating Democrat George McGovern in one of the largest landslides in U.S. history.
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The Democratic campaign
In January 1971 McGovern announced his candidacy for the 1972 presidential election. Initially, most political observers assumed that the party's nominee would be Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine. But McGovern's team hoped to mount a serious challenge in New Hampshire, which on March 7, 1972, would hold the first primary. A victory there, they hoped, would provide the momentum necessary to capture the nomination.
Early on, Muskie lined up leading Democratic politicians to endorse him, including Gov. John Gilligan of Ohio; Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers; Iowa Sen. Harold Hughes; and Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp. Muskie ran an exhausting campaign that stretched his energies and resources thin. Through January and February 1972, he shuttled between New Hampshire, Florida, Wisconsin and all the other necessary stops. On February 26, in New Hampshire, the pressure began to tell. Mounting the bed of a truck parked outside the offices of the conservative Manchester Union Leader, the state's largest newspaper, Muskie launched an attack on the paper's publisher, William Loeb. As he spoke of Loeb's unflattering remarks about Mrs. Muskie, the senator's voice cracked, and the crowd saw tears form in his eyes. The spectacle badly dented the image Muskie had tried all year to present—that of a calm, trustworthy, serene candidate. When New Hampshire voted on March 7, Muskie won the hollowest of victories, 46 percent of the vote, far below the predicted 65 percent. McGovern, reaping the benefit of his early start and vigorous organization, was close behind with 37 percent.
In Florida the Democratic battle turned over the issue of busing. In January 1972 a U.S. District Court judge merged school districts in Richmond, Va., and ordered that students be bused to achieve racial balance. Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, an opponent of federally ordered integration, entered the Florida primary and focused squarely on the issue. Florida Gov. Reubin Askew campaigned statewide against having an antibusing referendum placed on the presidential primary ballot by the Florida legislature. Lacking the votes in the legislature to keep the antibusing question off the ballot, Askew managed to have another question added: "Do you favor providing an equal opportunity for quality education for all children regardless of race, creed, color or place of residence, and oppose a return to a dual system of public schools?"
Askew's campaign focused the rage of many of his constituents on him, and the Democratic presidential candidates, of which there were 11, found themselves discussing busing much more often than they might otherwise have wished. Mayor John Lindsay of New York City, Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York, former senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, and Senator McGovern, all liberal candidates, spoke in favour of busing when asked. Sen. Vance Hartke of Indiana, Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas, and Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles, although on the ballot, were not campaigning actively. Senator Muskie and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota bobbed and weaved on the issue. Only Wallace and Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington spoke out squarely against busing.
As the race grew more intense, political observers began to doubt that, with 11 names on the Democratic ballot, anyone could win a clear victory. George Wallace proved them wrong by taking 42 percent of Florida's statewide vote and nearly all of the 81 delegates to the Democratic national convention. Senator Humphrey was second, with 18 percent, and got the few remaining delegates. Senator Jackson received 13 percent, just enough to convince him not to withdraw from the race. Muskie, with 9 percent, lost his front-runner status. McGovern, who had written off Florida early, finished with 6 percent. The antibusing referendum passed by 75 percent, and the equal-opportunity ballot question passed with 79 percent approval.
The Muskie campaign limped on to Wisconsin for its April 4 primary. With busing receding from importance, property tax became central, particularly for the Wallace and McGovern campaigns. McGovern's year-old campaign organization paid off, as he finished first with 30 percent of the popular vote. Surprisingly, Wallace finished second with 22 percent, buttressed by the fact that some one-third of the state's Republican voters crossed party lines to vote for him. Humphrey, who had worked 19-hour days in the state where he was supposed to be beloved as "our third senator," finished third with 21 percent. Muskie finished a distant fourth with 10 percent. The Wisconsin vote finished the candidacy of Lindsay.
Humphrey decided to focus his attention and waning resources on Pennsylvania's primary. Humphrey's decision suited the McGovern forces. Their plan called next for intensive work in Massachusetts, considered the most liberal state in the country, where they could expect courtesy if not outright public support from Sen. Ted Kennedy. On April 25 the strategies of both Humphrey and McGovern paid off, and the hopes of Senator Muskie were crushed between them. He finished fourth in Pennsylvania, behind winner Humphrey, Wallace, and McGovern, and finished a distant second to McGovern in Massachusetts. Muskie then withdrew from the campaign.
On May 15, as Wallace campaigned in Maryland, a state he was expected to win, he was shot four times by 21-year-old Arthur Bremer. Wallace survived, but he was paralyzed from the waist down. Maryland's voters surged out on election day to give Wallace a huge victory, his last of 1972. Wallace received many visits from Democratic and Republican politicians, and many wondered if he would endorse anyone else for the presidency. While he recuperated, many of his supporters began to move in overwhelming proportions behind Nixon's candidacy.
In the primaries that followed, McGovern continued to build up a lead in convention delegates. He was even more successful in the nonprimary states, where his devoted followers made certain that delegate-selection caucuses voted his way. But that success overrode the much more basic process that was taking place: the Democratic Party was tearing itself apart. One reason lay in the work of the commission that carried McGovern's name. Founded in the wake of the disastrous and violent Democratic National Convention in 1968, the McGovern Commission put forth guidelines for the selection of delegates. They were designed to open the party's deliberations to more young people, to African Americans, and to women. The guidelines worked, but they also functioned to diminish the participation of many longtime Democratic Party workers. Prominent national Democrats found themselves in some cases unable to find a spot on their own states' delegations.
McGovern's rise made many Democrats nervous. Some were worried about his antiwar views, while others thought that he went against traditional Democratic principles. For many, unfairly or not, McGovern came to symbolize a candidacy of radical children, rioters, marijuana smokers, draft dodgers, and hippies. With the California primary approaching, Humphrey tried to bring all the objections to McGovern together in a last attempt to save the nomination for himself. He excoriated his old Senate friend for his expensive ideas on welfare and his desire to cut the defense budget. It almost worked. Humphrey closed fast in May and early June, but the McGovern organization held on. McGovern won all of California's giant delegation, and he beat Humphrey 44.3 to 39.1 percent in the popular vote. The margin was not as large as McGovern had hoped for, and the bitterness of the fight, together with the effectiveness of the Humphrey charges, had not been lost on the silent watchers at the Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP).
The Republican campaign
While the Democrats tore at each other, President Nixon was quietly following the strategy he had decided upon early. Without ever entering the state, Nixon received 67.9 percent of the Republican vote in New Hampshire. That resolved the question of whether his Republican opponents on the left and right, Rep. Paul McCloskey and Rep. John Ashbrook, had any chance at all of unsettling him. His reelection campaign was to rest squarely on the idea that he was the incumbent, too busy with the affairs of state to meddle in partisan matters. The CRP found no trouble raising campaign funds. The budget for the Richard Nixon–Spiro Agnew ticket was $45 million.
Nixon was beautifully positioned in early June, thanks to his sense of timing and of the long view. New Hampshire voters had been presented with a mix of television reports of their state's primary election campaigns and exciting news film of President Nixon setting foot in China. He was near to a summit meeting with the leaders of the Soviet Union. There was a rising consensus among voters that his handling of the Vietnam War was correct and that he was winding it down as fast as was prudent.
On June 17, 1972, five men were apprehended at night at the Watergate Office Building breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, and Democratic leaders thought they saw a political break. The intruders were laden with electronic eavesdropping equipment and were led by the director of security of the CRP, James McCord. The CRP's campaign director, former attorney general John Mitchell, quickly fired McCord, but the scandal had only begun to erupt. Eleven days later Mitchell fired G. Gordon Liddy, a counsel to the finance committee of the CRP, because Liddy refused to answer FBI questions about his frequent phone conversations with one of the Watergate bugging team. Mitchell himself resigned a few days later.
The Democratic National Committee, led by Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien, was vocally indignant and sued the CRP for $1 million. Furor over the Watergate case was stoked by later revelations that money used by Bernard Barker, one of the Watergate five, came from Nixon campaign funds raised in the Midwest.
The McGovern campaign reached the height of its power and efficiency at the Democratic National Convention, held in the heat of July at Miami Beach in Florida. McGovern delegates beat back an attempt to have the result of the winner-take-all primary in California declared invalid. The Illinois delegation, which was to have been led as usual by Mayor Richard J. Daley, was replaced with a new delegation that allowed higher proportions of women, young people, and African Americans; Daley had sensed the coming rebuff and stayed home. Once the delegations were agreed upon and seated, the nomination of McGovern was assured. Thereafter, however, McGovern's campaign began to falter.
McGovern wanted Ted Kennedy as his running mate, but Kennedy refused to join the ticket. Muskie also turned down McGovern's offer, after vacillating for two days. Others too declined, including Sen. Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. Askew had taken himself out of consideration earlier. Finally, McGovern settled on the dynamic junior senator from Missouri, Thomas F. Eagleton. In the flurry to get the ticket set, McGovern aides had made only a cursory check of Eagleton's background, and the senator himself assured them in a hurried telephone conversation that he had "no skeletons in his closet." Within two weeks, however, news broke that Eagleton had been hospitalized three times in the past 12 years for nervous exhaustion, had received psychiatric care, and had twice been given electroshock treatments.
McGovern's reaction did as much as anything could have to shatter in the public mind what he regarded as the core of his candidacy: his openness, candour, and credibility. At first he said he would have placed Eagleton on the ticket even if he had known about his medical history. In a quote that was to haunt him, he said he was behind Eagleton "1,000 percent." Simultaneously he began to drop hints that Eagleton would be dropped from the ticket. The press, angry at what they viewed as McGovern's attempts to use them, became increasingly critical. They began to headline other inconsistencies they saw between McGovern's utterances and his behaviour. Despite Eagleton's efforts to stay on the ticket, McGovern eventually persuaded him to withdraw. Sargent Shriver, Senator Kennedy's brother-in-law, became the new vice presidential nominee.
President Nixon and Vice President Agnew were nominated by acclamation at the Republican National Convention in August, and the small but noisy band of antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall in Miami Beach had no effect on the jubilation inside. The convention was a celebration, an advance victory party for what all within the hall felt was to come. Indeed, shortly before the 1972 presidential election, Nixon told a reporter that "the election was over the day he [Sen. George McGovern] was nominated."
General election campaign
The burden of campaigning for the Republican ticket was carried by a group of 36 "surrogate" candidates, an impressive list of cabinet officers, senators, and other Republican officials. Agnew campaigned rather quietly. The president had early laid to rest press speculation that Agnew might be dropped from the ticket in favour of John Connally. Connally instead helped Nixon by forming "Democrats for Nixon." The longtime Democrat and friend of former president Lyndon B. Johnson could not swallow the idea of McGovern in the White House.
The very existence of a thriving Democrats for Nixon organization pointed up the fatal flaw in the McGovern electoral equation. As a candidate from the left wing of the national Democratic Party, McGovern had made an effective effort to reform the party's delegate-selection procedures, and the new people had flooded the convention that nominated him, but many more were forced by the same reforms to stay home, not only from the convention but from organization meetings of the newly "McGovernized" state and local parties. In short, the McGovern candidacy shattered the fragile old Democratic coalition founded by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ethnic voters, blue-collar workers, and Southerners of all income levels did not see any McGovern Commission-type guidelines aimed at allowing more of them to take part in Democratic deliberations. Aside from procedural matters, there was also the fact that McGovern's very liberal views were anathema to many Democratic voters.
Nixon's campaign focused early and often on the more radical-sounding views of McGovern, highlighting his support of amnesty for Americans who fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft, his sometime musings that marijuana might better be decriminalized, and his support of legalized abortion (though with restrictions). In a manner not seen before in the 20th century, a Republican president managed to isolate his opponent on the very left of the American political spectrum. McGovern became, as establishment Democrats had feared he would, a "Goldwater of the Left." Nixon captured more than 60 percent of the national vote to 37.5 percent for McGovern. And only Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., kept McGovern from a total wipeout in the electoral college, which Nixon won 520–17.
For the results of the previous election, see United States presidential election of 1968. For the results of the subsequent election, see United States presidential election of 1976.
Results of the 1972 election
The results of the 1972 U.S. presidential election are provided in the table.
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|Sources: Electoral and popular vote totals based on data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections, 4th ed. (2001).
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Have you ever heard of chromolithography? I definitely hadn't, until I found out that I would be the educator on the team for the DAM's new exhibition, Thomas Moran's Yellowstone: A Project for the Nation. Lithography was familiar enough to me, and I'd used MOMA's "What is a Print?" website to quickly illustrate it in my college classrooms numerous times. But add "chromo" to the beginning of that word, and I'd entered new territory. I'd known that lithographs were often colored by hand in the 1800s, but chromolithography actually involved using the same printmaking method to add layer upon layer of successive colors. The end result is a stunning picture that looks more like a painting than a print.
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Image credit (top): Thomas Moran (American 1837-1926), Hot Springs of Gardiner's River from The Yellowstone National Park, and the Mountain Regions of Portions of Idaho, Nevada, Colorado and Utah, 1876, chromolithograph on paper, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, Gift of Gail and Michael Yanney and Lisa and Bill Roskens, 2001.40.1.


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Federal prosecutors intend to enter autopsy photos of the three Boston Marathon victims into evidence, but they want bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to see only the pictures that will be used in his trial.
On Monday, prosecutors asked a federal judge in Boston to grant a protective order that would bar Tsarnaev, 20, from looking at any autopsy photos of bombing victims Krystle Campbell, Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu unless the images are entered into the court record.
Tsarnaev is eligible for the death penalty if he is convicted in the April 15 attack, which killed three people and wounded more than 260. He has pleaded not guilty to 30 federal charges, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction.
Tsarnaev's defense attorneys are allowed to see any of the autopsy photos, prosecutors said in a filing. They just didn't think Tsarnaev himself should.
"Granting Tsarnaev an unlimited right to view the naked and mutilated corpses of the victims would needlessly invade the victims' privacy and expose their families to unnecessary anguish," the motion filed Monday said. "Just as each new viewing of a defamatory statement, or of an image of a naked child in pain or torment, causes new injury ... each unnecessary viewing of the autopsy photos is an avoidable harm."
As precedent, prosecutors cited cases in which state secrets and child pornography had been withheld from defendants when the materials were not expected to be used against the defendants in trial.
Defense attorneys had objected to Tsarnaev's having less-than-unfettered access to the complete set of autopsy photos in February, which prosecutors decided Tsarnaev's attorneys would view only by visiting the U.S. attorney's office.
"The autopsy photos are extremely graphic. They show the victims, who are all badly mutilated, in various states of undress, including completely naked," prosecutors said in their motion. "Although the photos, which are a standard part of all autopsies, are necessary, allowing Tsarnaev the unrestricted right to review all of them is completely unnecessary. He does not need to review photos that will not be used against him in order to prepare his case or exercise any of his constitutional rights."
Tsarnaev and his attorneys are already under a protective order in the case that bars them from releasing evidence. An hearing was scheduled for April 16 to discuss a request by Tsarnaev's attorneys to loosen the strict rules placed on him in jail, in which officials sit in on all his visits.
A trial date has been set for November.
Tsarnaev's attorneys are expected to argue that his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, swayed him into carrying out the attack, which was considered the most significant terrorist act on U.S. soil since the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks in 2001.


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Author Notes: I am not a big fan of Garrison Keillor but last year I read a rant he wrote about potato salad. The gist of which is if you have to buy your potato salad for the family reunion or fourth of July cookout you might be better of not taking anything. He flat out called those that buy the unreal yellow glop that comes in plastic quart container lazy and un-American. The funny part is I don't think he was trying to be funny. Never the less it is so easy to throw this together and there is no mistaking that you made this. I would not leave the skins on unless you buy organic potatoes. I grow them or buy organic so I don't worry, but if they are conventional potatoes you might buy bigger ones and peel them. - thirschfeld —thirschfeld
Food52 Review: Creamy and tangy, rather than gloopy and staid, this is picnic potato salad taken to the next level. Thirschfeld uses mayo as his base but then uses buttermilk, scallions and horseradish to lighten and brighten the dressing. A tablespoon of fresh dill is just enough to perfume the salad without overwhelming the other components. We love his description of how to tell when the potatoes are done, as well as his technique of removing them from the boiling water while still al dente, allowing the residual heat to finish cooking them through. - A&M —The Editors
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- Place the potatoes in a large pot and then add cold water to cover the potatoes by at least an inch.
- Add 2 tablespoons of salt to the water and place over high heat. When the water comes to a boil reduce the heat so it doesn't boil over.
- Cook the potatoes for 12-15 minutes depending on the size of the potato. The goal is to cook them until a knife slips easily into the potato, but the potato should get firm, or al dente, right near the center. The carry-over cooking will make them tender but not mushy. It will also keep the skin from peeling away.
- Drain the potatoes in a colander and let them cool to room temp.
- Meanwhile place the rest of the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and whisk to combine.
- Once the potatoes are cool, quarter them lengthwise, and add them to the dressing. Stir to coat. Taste and adjust the seasoning, adding fresh ground pepper and salt as needed. Cover and put it in the fridge until you are ready for it. Stir before serving.
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Selective Chemistry via Electronegativity and Electron Affinity from HV+ Ionization
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Selective Chemistry via Electronegativity & Electron Affinity resulting from a High Voltage, Positive Ionization
Oxidation state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of oxidation states of the elements - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Electronegativities of the elements (data page) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It's seemingly impossible for me to find the Wikipedia article that gave me everything I needed to know to validate the idea that a highly positive ionization of oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen will favor the formation of ammonium ion (NH3) over the formation of a hydroxyl ion (HO) and release more energy upon combustion (ignoring the increased difficulty of burning ammonia by itself by comparison to hydrogen alone since we're going to combine these two ingredients before they get to the engine). But maybe I can derive what I need to figure out from these four links above?
Hydrogen has three possible oxidation states of -1, 0, +1.
Oxygen has five: −2, −1, 0, +1, +2.
Nitrogen has nine: -3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3, +4, +5.
Hydrogen's electronegativity is: 2.2
Oxygen is: 3.44
Nitrogen is: 3.04
The principle of electronegativity explains the affinity for one element to ionically bind with another.
The principle of oxidation state explains the energy contained in an ionic bond, and hence explains the powerful or weak storage of energy upon combustion. So...
Three hydrogen atoms of 6.6 electronegativity versus 3.04 for one nitrogen atom yields an absolute value difference of 2.96.
One hydrogen atom's electronegativity is 2.2 versus that of one oxygen atom's 3.44. Their difference is 1.24.
An electronegative difference of greater than 2 favors ionic bonding. Hence, ammonium ion wins out over hydroxyl ion.
Hydrogen's oxidation state at maximum positive ionization is +1, oxygen is +2, and nitrogen is +5.
The absolute value difference between one hydrogen and one oxygen is: (+1) - (+2) = |+1|.
Conversely, the absolute value difference between three hydrogen atoms and one nitrogen atom is a bit larger: [3 x (+1)] - (+5) = |+2|.
So, when under the influence of a powerful positive ionization (Herman Anderson used an excess of 70,000 volts) nitrogen will have a greater affinity for hydrogen as well as have a greater release of energy upon combustion. By comparison, the formation of a hydroxyl ion will not be as easy to form, nor contain as much energy, as will ammonium. All of this is in contradistinction to a non-ionized state, ie: the conventional norm of assumed operation of our internal combustion engines.
It's interesting to note that this principle of using a high voltage to effect a chemical favoritism between what would otherwise be unfavorable associations, is similar to the more advanced concept of using high voltage to split the water molecule (and thus save expenditure of electrical energy) rather than using high amperage (and drain the battery!).
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No need magic books or high voltage for obtain an working Meyer device.. all informations are wrong for preserve the secret .. all patents informations are not correct for not obtain working results. Water can be dissociated simply and use in a burner or engine.
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(CNN) -- Barcelona and Real Madrid have been fined for breaking Spain's anti-competition laws when agreeing a television deal for their domestic league and cup soccer matches.
The two clubs, along with Sevilla and Racing Santander, must pay almost €8.5 million ($11.5 million) between them, while TV production company Mediapro has been fined €6.5 million ($8.8 million).
They were found guilty by Spain's National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) of agreeing a TV rights deal of longer than the stipulated three years.
In 2010, the clubs agreed four-year contracts with Mediapro.
Real was fined €3.9 million ($5.28 million), Sevilla €900,000 ($1.21 million) and Santander €30,000 ($40,624) -- all in line with the values of their respective contracts.
La Liga champion Barca said Monday it intends to appeal its €3.6 million ($4.87 million) fine within the allowed two-month window, but would pay despite it having "an economic impact" on this season's operations "subject to a favorable ruling on future courts involving the refund of payment made."
"FC Barcelona's appeal is based on the consideration that the signing of the contract was consistent with the provisions of the General Law on Audiovisual Communication, and also that the contract of assignment of rights mentioned has not affected in practice the audiovisual market," its website reported.
"The contract was signed by the previous Board, dated June 9, 2010, four days before the presidential elections. That decision was challenged by some candidates."
Sandro Rosell, Barca's current club president, took over from Joan Laporta -- whose reign lasted from 2003-10.
Spanish clubs, unlike those in other top European leagues, do not have collective television agreements.
Real and Barca hold 50% of the top division's TV income, with the other half shared among the other 18 clubs.
It has helped the leading duo not only dominate the domestic competition, but also become two of the world's most wealthy clubs -- allowing Real to splash out $132 million on Gareth Bale in August while also tying star player Cristiano Ronaldo to a lucrative new long-term contract worth a reported $206 million.
Barca's financial resources are not quite so deep, though have improved since accepting shirt sponsorship for the first time in 2010 with the Qatar Foundation -- a five-year deal reportedly worth up to $225 million. The club signed Brazil star Neymar for $75 million in May.
The CNMC said in a statement explaining the ruling that the four clubs and Mediapro had committed "a very serious offense" by breaking its April 14, 2010 ruling on the acquisition of broadcasting rights for football competitions.
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EIGHT BELLS: Rob Moore
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Jan 9, 2012, 6:03 AM
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Rob Moore lost his courageous battle with lung cancer on January 5, 2012. He passed away peacefully at his home in Mill Valley, California, surrounded by his family. The outpouring of comments on Facebook provides some insight into the loss people felt:
- "A 'good one' has left the room…"
- "Sailing in San Francisco just got a lot less friendly."
- "One of the greats, on and off the water."
- "A source of much encouragement in my sailing career."
- "Always interested in others, their lives, and their perspective."
- "Never had more fun sailing then a late night watch with Rob!"
- "A prince among men and always helpful, not to mention genuine."
- "Treasured and wonderful memories."
- "Probably one of the nicest, kindest men I would ever call my friend."
- "Always interested in others, their lives, and their perspective."
- "One of the nicest people on Earth."
- "TRULY one of the good ones!"
Many people got to know Rob through the racing column that he wrote for Latitude 38 for 18 years. San Francisco Bay was where Rob honed his racing skills, and those skills coupled with his unfaltering enthusiasm opened up endless opportunities for him to sail on high-end programs all over the world. Offshore to Hawaii, Mexican races a plenty, the Caribbean, the Med a bunch, Europe, the East Coast - Rob did it all.
But there is little doubt that the unending stream of race invitations he received had as much to do with who Rob was, as they did with the obvious skills he brought to any program. He was warm and caring, with solid values and not a trace of ego. Rob always made you feel like you were the most important person in the room. Always - which probably has a lot to do with why so many of us will forever cherish the memories of time we spent with him - both on and off the water.
Rob was 58 - far too young to be taken from us, and from his very devoted wife, Leslie Richter. Perhaps Laura Priest said it best in her Facebook posting, "Rob - the world was a better place with you in it!" - Tom Leweck
MORE: The family will be planning a celebration of life in the not too distant future, and 'Lectronic Latitude has posted an excellent tribute to Rob on their website:
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The sailing community lost a favored son last week. Latitude 38 lost a treasured former colleague, and scores of sailors around the nation and the globe lost a personal friend with the passing of Rob Moore, who died peacefully at home on the afternoon of January 5, surrounded by family.
Robert Kent Moore was born on September 26, 1953, in New London, Connecticut, to Kent and Marge Moore. He and younger sister Marnie were raised in Mystic, and their playground was the waters nearby. Rob was a mischievous and energetic youngster, always pushing the envelope for new adventures. His parents were avid sailors on Long Island Sound (young Rob helped his father build several boats in the backyard) and introduced the children to sailing at an early age. Rob loved sailing from the start, but became easily bored by the sedate pace of cruising and daysailing. His penchant for more excitement soon had him seeking spots on racing boats, where he proved a quick learner. By the time Rob enrolled in Brown University, where he would earn a degree in American Civilization, he was already an accomplished sailor and a key member of the Brown Sailing Team, along with Eric Kreuter, Brad Dellenbaugh, John Burnham and others. By the time he got his MBA from Columbia, he had several Block Island Race Weeks and Bermuda Races under his belt, and was a sought-after crew and delivery skipper.
Rob first came to San Francisco in 1978, ostensibly to look for a job in finance, but also because he wanted so see firsthand this place where they said the wind blew hard all summer and the tides ran strong. He was not disappointed. His first few sails were aboard various boats, but his first real regular big-boat ride was with Bill Twist on Bill's Peterson 43 'Stuff'. Rob was so hooked on local sailing that his family remembers he didn't even come home to pack. He just got a job (eventually working for Twist) and bought new clothes and other necessities as he needed them.
The first boat Rob owned on the Bay was Urban Guerilla, a well-used Santana 20 that had achieved minor notoreity by broaching and sinking during a race on the Berkeley Circle. (There's a great Dianne Beeston photo of just the top 4 feet or so of the mast and sail sticking out of the water.) As the story goes, the then owner tied a floating bottle to it, collected the insurance, went out and raised the boat, hosed out the mud — and sold it to Rob.
Within a year of moving West, Rob met Carl Schumacher. The two immediately hit it off and became close friends. Rob eventually bought Summertime Dream, the 26-ft quarter tonner designed and put together by Schumacher in 1979, and whose win in the Quarter Tonner Nationals that year launched Carl's career as a naval architect. Schumacher was a huge help in 'educating' the Connecticut Yankee in how to sail the Bay's tricky waters. Rob and Carl sailed together many times, and Carl even 'awarded' Rob one of the first major trophies the boat had won, which was a half-hull. No matter where he lived, Rob hung that half-hull in a place of honor in the house, while most of his other silverware from various races — and there was a lot of it — languished on shelves or counters filled with paper clips or M&Ms. (Over the years, Rob also owned and sailed Sundance [SC 27], Grumpy Old Men [another Santana 20], Confederacy of Dunces [Holder 20 trailered to various venues for the Lake Circuit] and E Ticket [Olson 25].)
One of the great Rob stories was that he 'owned' Summertime Dream three different times. Rob financed the first two sales himself. The first owner defaulted on the note and gave the boat back. The second time it went to a rich kid from Brazil (who painted it dark blue and affixed the giant letters BRA to the mainsail). He offered to trade it back to Rob for a Hobie 16 (!), so Rob went out, found a cheap Hobie Cat, and got the 'Dream' back again. The third sale was a charm, because it 'stuck'. Notably, Rob sold the boat at a profit each time.
Rob first came to the attention of Latitude 38 when he won his IOR class on Summertime Dream in the mid-80s and was featured in our Season Champions series. (This writer recalls his initial impression of Rob as being a cross between a red-haired Mark Twain and the Lion King.) Rob later submitted an article on the 12-Meter Worlds which appeared in the March, 1986, edition. Ever one to buck tradition, Rob finally said good-bye to the world of high finance (where he once received a new BMW as a holiday bonus) and hello to the ink-stained, midnight-oil-burning, largely thankless life of a journalist in October of the next year, when he was hired to be Latitude's new Racing Editor.
By that time, Rob had done more racing, and knew more about racing — locally, nationally and internationally — than the entire rest of the staff combined. And that included all the past employees. Among the many left coast events on his resume by then: A Puerto Vallarta Race (on the SC70 Citius), two Cabo Races (E37 ReQuest and Farr One Ton White Knight), two TransPacs (E37 Morningstar), a Kenwood Cup (Bladerunner, R/P 47), Antigua Race Week (Kookaburra, Swan 46), a handfull of Big Boat Series (most aboard Bladerunner) and literally every local event on the Bay and in the ocean — back when the latter meant brutal boat-busting 100 or 200-mile courses like the Buckner and Jr. Waterhouse. (Once asked if he knew the date that the Australians finally wrested the America's Cup away from the New York YC, Rob immediately replied September 26, 1983. When asked how he knew that, he said, "Number one, it was my 30th birthday. And number two, that's also the day we got dismasted in the ocean on Summertime Dream and had to be towed in by the Coast Guard.")
By the time he stopped making entries in his sailing resume in 2009, Rob had compiled at least a dozen Coastal Cups, 10 MEXORCs, 6 Ensenada Races, 2 Swan Worlds (in Sardinia), 4 Bermuda Races, several Key West Race Weeks, 1 Pacific Cup and 1 Pineapple Cup (Ft. Lauderdale to Montego Bay, through the famed Windward Passage). He was a two-time winning crew (for Paul Cayard and Ed Baird) in the Bitter End YC Pro-Am, and a four-time winning crew for John Jennings in the Masters Regatta.
That's not to mention the many races he also sailed locally, or the fact that Rob often delivered the boats he raced on back from Mexico, Hawaii, Florida or other ports. Or the time he devoted to race management at the Sausalito YC and later Corinthian YC. (He was also a member of the prestigious Storm Trysail Club.) Or his longtime duties on the Bay Area PHRF Committee. Or his many years of being part of the selection committee for the Rolex Yachtsman/Yachtswoman of the Year awards.
His rides varied from small craft — like Confederacy of Dunces, which he trailed to various venues on the Lake Circuit, to big boats like Swans (including Moneypenny, a Swan 601), and sleds (various SC 70s and the N/M 68 Pandemonium). Favorite boats/campaigns over the years included the years spent aboard Bladerunner, the Andrews 43 It's OK! and Morpheus, a Schumacher 50 owned by Jim Gregory — who Rob taught to sail in Stamford, CT years before. As Rob, ever humble, observed a while back, "He now teaches me." Responds Jim: "Rob was always my favorite person to sail with."
Epic non-racing highlights of Rob's long sailing career include a Florida-to-Connecticut delivery in hellacious conditions (the wind instruments blew off the mast but later reports indicated 60 knots) with Eric Kreuter "when we were in college and didn't know any better;" and "playing roofball with Drake Sparkman at Block Island Race Week."
Rob's 18 years at Latitude 38 were rife with stress, long hours, occasional all-nighters, 'deadline dinners' consisting of a family-size bag of Fritos and a six-pack of soda, occasional embarassment, epic writing, epic friendships, epic creativity, and lots of laughter. Lots of it.
To the initial dismay of this writer, who sat next to him through the whole campaign, Rob was a natural. Right out of the blocks, he had a great feel for the amount of coverage each event needed. His already encyclopedic knowledge came through with each piece, and he was so fanatical about getting things right that — more than once — he called a source very late, sometimes literally midnight, to check the spelling of a crewmember's name. (Is that Tracy with an "i" or a "y"?)
Robs integrity in matters of writing — and life — set the bar high, and elevated all of the writing at the magazine. Particularly his oft-phrased admonishment to "add value". To Rob, it made no sense to run something, such as a press release, verbatim. His reasoning was that it was probably going to appear in 100 other publications and that just rerunning it again added no value. So he added value — by calling all the principles involved in the release and constructing more of a 'true' article out of it, which usually included much more pertinent and up-to-date information. His articles were the same way. Everything Rob wrote added insight — and value — to the event and the sport as a whole. Few other writers in any sport are able to achieve this on a consistent basis.
Rob's writing expertise extended beyond just racing. When 9/11 happened just weeks before the 2001 Big Boat Series — and that year's regatta was (appropriately) cancelled — we were all in shock like the rest of the world. But we also now had eight blank pages to fill. In just a few short days, Rob put together the Big Boat Retrospective, one of the most fun, bittersweet and entertaining pieces ever to run in the magazine. While tracing the BBS from its origins in the '60s to present-day, Rob hit all the right buttons and ran all the right photos, mentioning such legendary boats as Baruna, Imp and Kialoa, and running photos of 'young guns' like Dave Ullman, Dennis Conner and Tom Blackaller back when they were still considered mortals.
And when that weather bomb exploded on the 1998 Sydney-Hobart fleet, taking the lives of 6 sailors with more than 50 others being airlifted off maimed and sinking boats? Rob wrote that story, too. To this day, it is the most concise, accurate and horrific account of that tragedy short of the book that later came out.
The most difficult assignment Rob ever had? The memorial article he wrote about friend and mentor Carl Schumacher after Carl's untimely passing in early 2002.
Rob left Latitude 38 in the fall of 2005. He continued to sail throughout most of 2010, preferring in this phase of life to 'go retro' as part of Hank Easom's crew on the lovely 1937 8-Meter Yucca.
In the summer of 2009, Rob developed a persistent cough. When it wouldn't go away, he went to the doctor. Three times he was told it was nothing serious, given medication and sent home. The cough persisted. Urged to get a second opinion, he did, and it was a shocker. Just before Christmas of '09, he was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer — the most advanced stage. He never smoked. He was given nine months to live.
He responded well to the inital chemotherapy regimen. His cough went away and he resumed an outwardly robust existence. The chemo, combined with living clean, eating healthy, and the love and devotion of wife, Leslie, allowed Rob to lead a mostly normal life for two more years. Even the doctors were amazed.
To say he treasured every single day of it wound be understatement.
Besides sailing, it was time enough to devote a few more months to his second love — hiking and enjoying the outdoors. Although his career and most of his free time was dedicated to sailing, spending time in the wilderness fed Rob's soul. Over a period of several years, Rob and Leslie had begun construction of a yurt (a sort of round, bent-wood-framed "cabin") on a remote piece of land in the San Juan Islands. Now they dedicated time to finishing it, and spent many a summer month living and hiking in the surrounding wilderness.
Closer to home, they made regular treks to Mt. Tam and other nearby hiking grounds such as Yosemite. But what Rob relished most were his trips to southwest Utah to visit places like Moab, Red Rocks and Indian ruins — former stomping grounds of his favorite author, Edward Abbey, who wrote Rob's favorite book, Desert Solitaire. Among the many memorable word images from that book:
"May your rivers flow without end . . . where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags . . . where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you — beyond that next turning of the canyon walls."
Fair winds, old friend. Thanks for adding value to all of our lives. The world will not be the same without you.
— xxx —
Rob is survived by his wife, Leslie, Mother Marge, Sister Marnie, her husband, Scott, and her children Philip and Katherine. Anyone interested in honoring Rob with a donation are encouraged to do so in his name to the National Lung Cancer Partnership, (
), Hospice By the Bay (
), or through a special fund set up at the Marin Community Foundation (
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I am broken hearted to learn of the passing of dear Rob Moore. I have drifted out of the sailing scene in the last few years and it is devastating, unexpected news to me. I have raced with Rob (introduced to me by Tom Leweck) on my own boat here in California and Antigua and on other boats in Sardinia and in Cowes. Modest but knowledgeable. Passionate but polite. A fierce competitor, but he never seemed to lose that sense of innocent wonder at the beauty of our sport.
Vale Rob.
John Jourdane
Rob was a dear friend. We would finish a race, and see Rob's smiling face, then sit with him over a beer, and enjoy telling him our stories, as he wrote in his notebook. He was a consummate journalist, always an optimist, a great sailor and a friend to everyone in the yachting community. We have lost one of the really good ones. Sail on in peace Rob.
Molly Suzanne Cole
I met Rob when I was 16 and he was covering the HaHa with Richard for Latitude 38. I was living in Mexico on a boat with my parents, and years later, he was an integral part of my introduction into the elite sailing circle in San Francisco. I moved to California on a whim at 19 years knowing only a handful of people and Rob was one of them. He gave me advice and made introductions that turned into friendships that have lasted years. What a wonderful, kind, selfless man. Rest peacefully my friend.
Dobbs Davis
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Rob was always respected by us in the word-smith trade for his entertaining mix of facts and acerbic insight that helped make Latitude 38 such a great read.
But for me I will always be grateful to him being the editor of my first published sailing story some 20 years ago, and how his relaxed yet persistent coaching style helped put me at ease and not make a complete hash of it. Sail on, Rob, we'll miss you.
Terry Hutchinson
It was with great sadness when I read from Rob's blog about his passing. Can't really say anymore then what has already been said as Rob was just a good guy. He will be missed! All of our thoughts and prayers go out to Rob and his family.
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Jan 10, 2012, 7:33 AM
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Judy and I were saddened to hear of Rob's untimely death. Rob raced the Newport-Bermuda on my watch in 1976 and returned with both of us on "Sonny". He was a bit woolier in those days with a long full red beard, and a pixie sense of humor.
The other watch was somewhat staid, and took a light weather passage with more solemnity than our watch felt was needed. Since the wind was so light, Rob decided we needed more tell tales. So, he proceeded to drape the rigging up to the second spreaders with toilet paper, the lightest material available. The other watch captain wanted me to take it down, but since I wasn't the climber Rob was, I refused. (I figured the half life of toilet paper was short enough that it would be gone before we reached Bermuda)
We were each given a flashlight at the start of the race, and Rob taped his to the leeward shrouds to put light on the genoa's tell tales. It worked fine for quite a while, but there were no spare batteries, so he had to borrow other's lights.
On the return trip we equipped the boat with a huge fishhook to nail a shark. Judy contributed a chicken carcass and we towed it astern on what line we had, but it was too close to the boat, and jumped from wave top to wave top. I mentioned this then went below to navigate, when I asked on deck how far out the bait was the answer was "I donno, how long is the mainsheet anyway?"
We loved Rob and were very sorry to hear of his passing, he will be missed on both coasts.
Pip & Judy Wick
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Rob's passing has been eloquently written about but one of the tributes missing was the many years Rob served on the NCPHRF committee. All, very sad, to see three valued friends and members of NCPHRF that have left us now, Jim, Carl and Rob. To say they are missed, both as friends and members, is indeed an understatement.
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With all of the heartfelt and well-deserved tributes to our departed sailor/writer pal Rob Moore, two months earlier he offered one to his wife, Leslie, for her all-round support, including her thoughts in the blog, "
Rob's Adventure: Sailing Upwind In a Storm
," for which to the end they alternated as authors (and she as a professional photographer) over more than two years, detailing the up and down diagnoses, the unpleasant details of the treatments and how it all dominated their lives. Two of the later postings:
Nov. 8: (Rob) I am really proud of Leslie for organizing the
Free to Breathe®
hike on Mt. Tam on Sunday in observance of National Lung Cancer Awareness month. Despite threatening weather, 17 friends met at Rock Springs parking lot on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. to partake in either the 1-mile walk up to Dad O'Rourke's Bench or the 5-mile hike on Coastal/Laurel Glen/Cataract trails and back to the parking lot. Sunday was the best day I've had in a long time — thanks, everybody! . . .
On the whole, I feel like I'm rallying a bit thanks to Criz and just need to get through the next few weeks of feeling crappy until the effects of the radiation treatments wear off. I also realize that this is a grace period, that none of these treatments or drugs will beat this horrible disease forever. Rather, you co-exist with it, make peace with it, and try to enjoy every day. . . . Sunday was the best day I've had in a long time — thanks, everybody!
Nov. 10 (Rob) Two auspicious milestones to report today — the 100th blog entry in "Rob's Adventure" and, more importantly, this is the two-year anniversary of my diagnosis with "normal" people, to full-time cancer fighters. Two years — just think of it! Our heartfelt thanks to all.
Jan. 5 (Leslie) It is with a heavy heart that I let you know that Rob passed away peacefully this afternoon at home, surrounded by his family. Even the cat was on the bed. Thank you to everyone who wrote to us with wonderful stories from your good times together. We read each and every note to him, and he was very touched (as were we all).
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, "Windward Passage":
This poem written by Victor Hugo was read at both of my folks passing. It seemed appropriate for Rob:
I am standing upon that foreshore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at she hangs like a speck of white clouds just where the sea and the sky come down to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says, "There! She's gone!"
"Gone where?"
"Gone from my sight, that"s all"
She is just as large in mast and spar and hull as ever she was at my side; just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of her destination. Her diminished size is in me, not not in her. And just that moment when someone at my side says, "There she's gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!"
And that is dying.
On a lighter note I remember a particularly windy Cal Coastal Race with Rob. We were both hanging f
rom stanchions vertically with the cockpit awash and the keel slapping and Rob turned to me and said, "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into Halfdeck".
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All friends and family are invited to attend Rob's Celebration of Life on February 12th from 2 to 5 pm at Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon.
Casual attire please, no ties allowed! For the sailors, crew shirts are encouraged, maybe even one of those old ones in the back of the closet from a boat you sailed on with Rob.
We will have a few prearranged speakers, and an open mike for people to share memories of Rob – not an easy thing to do for most people – but it would be great to hear some of your stories. Anyone who wants to be sure to have some speaking time should contact me in advance if possible. Rob's email is still active, so you can use that if you don't have my email address (not something I want to put on this public blog).
Wayne Moskow
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It is sad to learn about Rob passing on. He was a great sailor. He help me so often with adds at Latitude 38.
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After showcasing plenty of star power in their storied history, the Lakers have mostly fielded a roster of nameless players this season.
Couple that reality with the Lakers' persistent losing, and they won't feature any players in the NBA All-Star game for the first time since the 1995-96 season.
Kobe Bryant won't play in the 2016 All-Star Game on Feb. 16 in New Orleans because of a fractured left knee that will keep him out for at least three more weeks. Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni has another theory why Pau Gasol didn't make the cut.
"Numbers don't mean a lot if you're not winning," D'Antoni said. "You have to be careful about putting someone on the All-Star team, unless you're in the East probably. If you don't have a winning record, it's tough to get in there."
Gasol has averaged 20.6 points on 50.9-percent shooting, 12.1 rebounds in 35.1 minutes per game through 14 contests. That marks a sharp increase from his totals in November (14.9 points on 43-percent shooting and 10.3 rebounds) and December (15.5 points on 46-percent shooting and 7.8 rebounds).
"He's had All Star numbers, but he didn't have them all year," D'Antoni said. "He had them the last couple of months. To be fair, that makes it tough."
Campaign season
Lakers shooting guard Jodie Meeks outlined a few hopes on the horizon, and both elements may play out beyond his control.
After ranking 25th overall in 3-point shooting (41 percent), Meeks expressed interest in competing in the NBA's 3-point shootout during All-Star weekend.
"It would be good exposure for the organization and myself to have somebody in it," Meeks said. "I also feel confident I can win."
With the Lakers exercising Meeks' $1.55 million team option early in the 2013 offseason, he also strongly stated his desire to stay here.
"I like the city and love it here," said Meeks, who has averaged a career-high 14.6 points on 45.4-percent shooting. "The coaching staff is great and it's a storied organization. I always pictured playing in a organization that's prideful about winning. I love it here and hope I can stay a long time."
Only six players will compete in the 3-point shootout, and various reports suggest Golden State's Stephen Curry, Minnesota's Kevin Love and San Antonio's Marco Belinelli will compete for the Western Conference.
"I wouldn't be disappointed," Meeks said. "I feel like I'm good enough to do it, but I also can get rest. It's a win-win for me."
Bryant, Steve Nash and Robert Sacre remain the lone Lakers under contract beyond next season, reflecting the team's hope to maximize financial flexibility. But D'Antoni considered Meeks' play a bright spot in an otherwise dreary season.
"He still has to add on his open-court layups," D'Antoni said. "But he's become a consistent shooter, consistent defender and a guy who doesn't make too many mistakes."
Injury update
Lakers guard Steve Nash expressed optimism he could play Tuesday in Minnesota after missing the past 40 games because of nerve issues in his back.
D'Antoni sounded skeptical Jordan Farmar would play against Minnesota because of the sensitive nature surrounding his torn left hamstring.
Guard Steve Blake shot plenty of 3-pointers during pregame warmups, but reported still feeling pain in his hyperextended right elbow.


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Facts, written and oral records, eye witness statements. These are the sources the historian must use to write credible history. Hence it is relatively easy to write about events and issues for which there are contemporary accounts or where there are physical remains. Likewise recording the lives of famous people is made easier by the existence of diaries, letters and other records.
But what about the people who have left no written record of themselves? How does the historian write about them? With difficulty! The fears, hopes, aspirations they had for themselves, the cohesive forces that held their communities together , and those that divided them, can only be gleaned from the observations of the more learned or literate who, as often as not coloured their opinions with their own prejudices.
The Irish I chose to write about for my PhD were just such a group. At first glance they were the Catholic laity, the people who filled the cathedral on Sundays, donated to building funds and sent their children ot Catholic schools. They also drank heavily, bemoaned their own and Ireland's misfortunes as if they were one and the same, and they exhibited a blind obedience to their clergy. They were all the same, or were they?
Sure, there were some who were still 'worshipping the sorrowful legends of Ireland' as James Joyce has one of his characters in A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man doing. They were giving themselves an excuse for their own failings. Every misfortune, every blunder, every offence could be added to the accumulated persecution Ireland had suffered at the hands of its colonial masters.
But these people, as I found out, were no more typical of the Irish in Ballarat than were those who had seized the opportunity that gold digging had offered them, or others who had seen the possibilities that were to be had in becoming a provider of goods and services to the gold diggers. The Irish who were to be the subjects of my study were all sorts. Some were devoutly religious, others antagonistic to the power the church tried to exert. Among them were the ambitious, the lazy, the drunken and sober, the proudly Irish and those who classed themselves as Australian. I needed to included the whole range in my novel.
I had originally thought about setting the novel in the back room of my great grandfather's drapery business in Rubicon Street where family legend has it that he taught Gaelic to a group of friends dedicated to preserving in Ireland and abroad. But they were hardly representative of the Irish in Ballarat. While many of the Ballarat Irish had come from counties were Gaelic was still in regular use, others had never spoken it and the Church did not promote its use.
The Globe Hotel stood a few doors away from the drapery business and it seemed to me to be a better venue for the Irishmen of my novel to demonstrate their diversity as they grappled with the issues which concerned them, their Church and Ballarat generally. The Globe still stands although only the wooden bar bears any resemblance to the timber clad pub of The Liberator's Birthday
The Liberator's Birthday
I am interested in bringing history to life through telling a story using fictional characters in a well researched historical plot. I am going to explore the historical fiction genre to see how useful it is in honing in on aspects of history which are often overlooked or brushed aside by mainstream historians.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Getting to know the Irish
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A few years ago my husband began the trek to Ireland to uncover his family roots. It was so interesting to me to see how different the country is (compared to the US) and how they still kept records in churches!ReplyDelete
Best of luck with your book
Having a quest when you take a trip somewhere makes the journey all the more exciting. I hope your husband found that.ReplyDelete
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I had a lasik surgery last Thursday. The doctor didnt use wavefront lasik for me. He explained that i am very nearsighted--my right eye was -1000 and left eye -950; if he uses wavefront lasik, more tissue would be removed. So, introlasik was less risky and he did it. Was he correct?
Now, my right eye vision is 20/40 and left eye 20/30. I can not see very far. I also expereince double-images which bother me a lot. What cause double images? When do they disappear? My vision has been relatively stable since the day after my surgery. Do I need an enhancement surgery? If I need it, can the wavefront lasik procedure be applied to my eyes?
Before I had this lasik surgery, another local doctor said I was very nearsighted and not good for LASIK. His explanation was that my cornea would be so flat after surgery that could cause me lose my vision. Therefore, He recommended IOL. But my current doctor, the socalled most expereinced, said that he would recommend lasik because IOL involves more implications. He also added that he would only consider IOL surgery for patients with -1300 or so, but for me (-1000) he recommend Introlasik surgery. What is your opion?
I will greatly appreciate your answer~