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Ryan Kirk welcomed guests and opened the ceremony in prayer. The Rev. Randy Huddleston, father of the bride, performed the ceremony. Music was provided by violinist Elizabeth Kirk of Montgomery and guitarist B.J. Price of Trussville.
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A PIONEERING furniture reuse project which has helped thousands of people on low incomes in Chard will close at the end of January.
FurniCare, which has an outlet in Boden Street, was the original furniture recycling facility in Somerset, set up 21 years ago.
It collects donated furniture from people who no longer need it and sells it at low price to those who are most in need, with proceeds from sales funding the operation.
South Somerset Association for Voluntary and Community Action (SSVCA), the charity which runs it, has taken the decision after consulting with staff who work at the outlets in both Chard and Yeovil.
The closure will affect six staff but it is not yet clear whether they will lose their jobs, as options for taking on other roles within SSVCA are being explored.
Meanwhile, trustees of the charity say they are refocusing their efforts into improving the Yeovil branch.
Nigel Engert, chair of SSVCA trustees, told the News: "It has been a difficult time for our staff while we have been reviewing the best way of providing a furniture reuse service to the residents of South Somerset.
"The decision to close FurniCare Chard will sadly result in the deletion of six posts but we are currently working with our colleagues to look at what other opportunities may exist within SSVCA for any staff affected by the decision.
"Although this has been a really challenging time the organisation is looking forward to working on its new plans for the operation and delivering a bigger, more comprehensive, service operating from Yeovil."
Both FurniCare Chard and Yeovil will be closed for the Christmas period from December 18 and 19 respectively and a grand sale will run from January 6 until the end of the month.
Cllr Jill Shortland, who represents Chard South on Somerset County Council, said: "I am saddened but not surprised.
"We are in difficult times and people are not replacing furniture – they tend to sell rather than hand over their used furniture; they can't afford to do otherwise.
"This is when people are most in need of furniture, but if there aren't the goods available, you do have to restrict the number of outlets.
"Charities are suffering in the same way many businesses are at the minute.
"Losing the Chard base means people will have to travel by bus, or find some other way to get to Yeovil or Taunton.
"Sadly, I think most will go to Taunton because that's where they sign on, so FurniCare will lose out on custom.
"I do hope at some point there will be the ability for people who are in need to access these services in Chard – it opened here in the first place because there was a need for it.
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If there is a CJ Spiller type RB at #17 I would take him in a heartbeat.
Give me a chain mover over the occasional homerun hitter, that's just me though.
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2.46) Jason Verrett - CB
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4.157) Lamin Barrow - ILB
5.173) Terrance Mitchell - CB
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IMO RB is the toughest position to evaluate because they each play under vastly different circumstances. Lacy is a perfect example.....
Pro: He did it playing with the best and delivered in the biggest games.
Con: He ran behind a group of behemoths who opened huge holes for him and wore down defenses.
Both arguments are valid. Then you have the Alfred Morris, Fred Jackson types. Nobody ever saw them play but I'm guessing that there was a good chance that often the first defenser that they met was in the backfield. Look at our own Willie Parker. He never saw the field at NC. Was that because he wasn't good enough or because the coaches had their favorites who they already were comfortable playing? Whatever the reason, we do know that FWP was an NFL RB, but I don't know who played ahead of him in college.
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When Justin Schaffner makes a latte, he doesn't just top it off with boring white foam. He draws in winter scenes, snowmen and flowers.
Schaffner, the owner of Echo Coffee Shop, etches designs on his lattes. He manipulates the foam with a small stick to create elaborate Christmas trees and peacocks.
He creates a three-dimensional portrait of a bear out of the lighter, fluffier foam that tops a cappuccino. He uses the espresso and sometimes even chocolate and cherry syrup to draw his designs.
Schaffner isn't alone. Some of the best baristas in Omaha are sending out their coffee drinks with a piece of art on the top. It's a seal of quality, and it's fun to look at. It's also serious business for coffee artists, who compete against one another to be named best barista.
Schaffner said he tries to send out every single cup with a piece of art on it. His shop, at 1502 S. 10th St., opened in April. Through the summer, baristas sent out drinks with geometric designs, flowers, horses and butterflies. As the cooler weather and holidays settled in, the designs changed to snowy winter scenes, holiday ornaments and a snowman with a small red scarf.
"They mostly happen by accident," he said. "Then I try to get it where I can do it repeatedly."
Some of the designs he made up himself, including a peacock and a turkey. Others he took from videos online.
While Schaffner draws designs in the foamy milk, other baristas in the area pour milk directly into shapes atop the coffee.
To pour good latte art, you need textured milk or microfoam, with very dense, packed bubbles. Kait Berreckman, the lead coffee trainer for the baristas at Aromas Coffeehouse, said it should have a consistency similar to wet paint. She describes the taste of the milk as a "naptime" — thick, creamy and warm.
"It's like what I would give to my cat, if I had a cat," she said.
When the milk is ready, she pours it under the crema, which is the top of the espresso shot. She pours slowly and carefully in a circle, which creates a base for her art, and then brings the pitcher closer to draw the final design. She knows how to draw a heart, tulip, wave heart and rosette — common designs for baristas.
Baristas at Aromas are not required to pour latte art, but many do.
"If your milk is really good and your espresso is really good, it's kind of hard not to pour latte art," Berreckman said.
Berreckman learned to make latte art while working in a slow Scooter's in Austin, Texas. She watched Youtube videos, then took a class at a coffee shop. She began competing in the art — winning a competition in Lincoln — and has hosted latte throw-downs.
Competition judges typically look for symmetry, contrast, difficulty of pour and texture of the milk.
Isaiah Sheese, an employee at Culprit Cafe and Bakery at 1603 Farnam St., knows firsthand what judges expect. He has competed in several national and regional latte art competitions and went to the U.S. Barista Championships last year. He has placed fourth and sixth in the regional competitions and 36th nationally.
The barista, who has nine years of experience, says he steamed milk for hours to get ready for competitions.
"Olympians are lifting weights and doing push-ups and watching what they eat," Sheese said. "I'm not able to sleep at night because I drank so much coffee and I'm just sitting there steaming pitcher after pitcher."
He hopes to win nationals one day. "It's kind of like the 'Iron Chef' of coffee," he said.
Sheese will get the opportunity to show off his artwork when he opens a coffee shop at 40th and Farnam Streets next year.
"It looks easy, but it really does take a lot of practice," Sheese said. "Otherwise every coffee shop would be doing it, and every latte would be beautiful."


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text: Alan Newport Archives Email Author Follow @Alan Newport Gray And Green Perfect Color Pattern In Spring Beefs and Beliefs Save a little old forage to mix with that young spring growth and your cattle will perform better. Published on: May 16, 2013 Tweet Post to Your Wall. Email Blog RSS Permalink Print I drove up to Keith Long's place at Beaumont, Kansas, earlier this week to talk about saving winter stockpile forage into the spring grazing season. It's a topic I haven't covered very well in the past and when Keith and some others were talking about the issue on Kit Pharo's discussion group I realized from his description that Long would be a good one to explain this concept to readers. Simply put, it's long been known that cattle on wheat pasture in my part of the world do better if they have some dry hay to eat along with wheat pasture. Young spring grass, be it cool-season or warm-season is about the consistency and quality of wheat pasture.Grass shepherd: Keith Long manages his grass to give cows and calves a better mix of protein and energy in the springtime. I'll have Keith Long talking about this quite a bit more in the August issue of Beef Producer but here's a teaser for the August story. Young grasses and wheat pasture are very high in protein and relatively low in energy. Arguably they are out of balance with energy too low for the amount of protein. As Walt Davis always says, the killed some cattle with excess protein back in the early days of experimenting with rotational grazing in Europe. They did it by too-frequent rotations and too-short grass, thereby creating a forage base very high in protein and low in energy. Of course, this isn't good for the forage plants, either.Gray and green: Both the old gray forage and the lush spring forage are a little thinner this year than normal in the Kansas Flint Hills but this shows a pretty nice mix of both. Some people claim this is problem with wheat pasture and/or young grass plants is lack of roughage but I think that idea has been pretty well disproven. A Texas publication says the ratio of digestible dry matter to crude protein in wheat pasture is about 3 to 1 and that research suggests the efficiency of nitrogen use in the rumen of cattle is hindered at ratios less than 4 to 1. So it should be with very young, lush spring growth. Mark Bader, who owns Free-Choice Enterprises, is a big proponent of this energy-protein imbalance theory and recommends to graziers they do exactly this thing of saving enough old forage to supplement fresh spring growth for a time.Good pie: A cow pie of nice average consistency, not too runny, and without too much whole fiber present, shows a good nutritional mix. The way Long and other good, managed graziers do is they stockpile enough forage through growing season to get them through the winter and into the next spring. They plan to graze off the last of it during the first month or so of growing season and then be on all-fresh forage. This can be done with warm-season native grasses or with cool-season forages such as fescue. The dry forage from last year, despite its relatively low digestibility, can help balance the energy deficit in the fresh new growth. Long is grazing his cow herd in pie-shaped, or wagon-wheel-shaped, grazing cells. He cuts across the spokes of each paddock with up to half-mile runs of polywire to create one-day graze periods for most of the year. He says it's about seven to 10 acres per day for 226 cows with their calves and a stock density of between 25,000 and 30,000 pounds per acre. "I am probably grazing it a bit too hard but the spring has been so cold that the grass is very late starting," he says. On top of that he's been through two years of drought so it was pretty tough to save enough back. Normally, he says, he would have more brown, residual grass and more green grass by now. These temporary subdivisions of the eight paddocks in each cell work out to about 104 paddocks, Long says, so it will be 103 days before the cows come back to any given area. That should give plenty of recovery time, especially if this year brings a little more normal rainfall pattern. Incidentally, Ted Alexander in Sun City, Kansas, has long practiced the same pattern of stockpiling a little forage to help stocker calves get a good start and better performance when they arrive in April or early May.


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Review: this is absolutely the best canned salmon ever. I make salmon loaf or salmon patties using the canned sockeye. It is always top quality and I have sent gift boxes of this too many people out of state over the years
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Review: This canned salmon was my first purchase from Vital Choice. The consistency of the fish is excellent and the flavor is outstanding. I have eaten it with light mayo and relish as a salad on crackers, in a salad with greens, and straight from the can. Today, I reordered this salmon and added canned sardines in olive oil, both regular and spiced. I plan to work my way through the list of products.
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By Sondos Kholoki-Kahf, Staff Writer InFocus Magazine
"Sunni Arab Muslim parents invite correspondence for their daughter, 23, beautiful, very fair skinned, slim, educated, religious. Prefer doctor/surgeon/dentist/MD resident. Non-physicians need not apply; lawyers OK. Send picture and resume to email@example.com."
Faced with outrageous matrimonial requests like these, Jamal* believes he stands no chance in his mission to find a wife.
At 24, Jamal has already met two girls he thinks could have been "the one." The first candidate's parents refused Jamal's request because they thought he was too young. From there, Jamal hesitated to approach the second girl because he only had a bachelor's degree and had yet to find a job. That girl was married to someone else shortly thereafter.
"What those [experiences] did is give me a negative way of looking at myself," Jamal reflects. "Now the first thing I think when I see a pretty girl is, 'Man, I can't talk to her. I'm sure her parents have some engineer or doctor picked out for her,'" Jamal says.
Now working a steady job in the IT field, Jamal keeps a wary eye out for a potential wife. Although he feels disenchanted by the worldly demands of most parents, Jamal insists that marriage will protect him from haram (unlawful acts).
"It's very hard for young men to not dive into dating when it's so much more accessible and easy to do," he says. "We're expected to live like monks, and not everyone can do that. I believe that if it's this difficult to get married [now], then our kids and their kids are just going to give up on the whole thing and have relationships western style."
Working hard for the money?
Most scholars agree that if a man exhibits good moral character and religious practice, he should be accepted for marriage despite his current income, as stated in a hadith sahih (saying of the Prophet). Yet many scholars also warn against using marriage for selfish reasons.
Dr. Mazen Hashem, sociologist and researcher on Muslim communities in North America, advises youth to view marriage as a heavy commitment, "not extended dating."
"If you view marriage as just having sex in a halal way, this is not a good enough reason [to get married,." Hashem says,
Ammar Kahf, a PhD candidate in Islamic Studies at UCLA and assistant imam at the Islamic Center of Hawthorne, agrees that the need to quench physical desires is not enough for marriage.
"The Prophet directed another hadith to men, that if a man does not possess the bare minimum to get married — financially, socially, physically, and emotionally — then they should fast," Kahf states. Fasting is a well-known technique to control one's patience and physical desires.
Nevertheless, Hashem believes it is unrealistic for parents to expect a young man to be financially stable straight out of college, and that parents should look to the individual's drive and potential instead.
"If a guy is just strolling in life, doesn't know yet what to do and is still young, he is not ready to get married," he says.
Accordingly, young men seriously studying journalism, education, and non-profit administration should have just as good of a chance of marrying from a respectable family as a medical student.
Imam Suhaib Webb, a scholar with the Santa Clara chapter of the Muslim American Society who is admired by many young American Muslims, is sympathetic towards this issue but offers realistic advice. "Today's sexual explosion is very frustrating, especially for single young brothers," Webb says.
"Physical needs are an important part of marriage, but at the same time, next to physical needs come the bills. Sisters have the right to ensure that her future husband will be able to look after her and her children's needs."
For those college students who have a solid idea of where they would like to end up in five years and possess good faith and moral character, but are still refused on the basis of their career path, Kahf believes that the implications will be devastating.
"I strongly believe that fathers doing this are committing a major sin," Kahf warns. "As the Prophet described it, it will be a fitna — a huge social problem that will never end."
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Tarek*,23, has been searching for a wife since his first year in college. With his parents' full support and a steady job under his belt, Tarek began meeting girls through relatives, friends, and online. None proved a match.
A few years ago, Tarek was perusing material in a masjid bookstore and saw a girl there he thought could be a potential candidate.
"She seemed to be waiting around the place almost as if she wanted me to say something, but I just didn't know how to approach her," Tarek recalls. "Was she interested, or was it just my imagination? I didn't want to make it seem like I was hitting on her because it would probably turn her off. It was mind-boggling and disappointing because I didn't know what to do."
Truly, Muslim men and women — especially those in the West — are missing opportunities to get to know one another in informal, yet religiously acceptable forums. With unplanned socializing out of the question, youth are scrambling for an alternative that will allow for careful interaction between genders.
Often times, men and women are completely separated to the point where they find it awkward to interact on a basic social level.
"We in southern California pride ourselves on our big Muslim community, but young singles don't interact much," Tarek said. "Isn't it strange that one friend of mine got married to a girl from Canada, and the other got married to a girl from the UK?"
Kahf acknowledges the absence of a social forum in current times.
"Traditionally, there was a forum facilitated through mothers, sisters, cousins, friends of the family, and was conducted in a healthy environment," Kahf says. "Many men here don't have such connections. Even a young college student who attends the MSA or a masjid once a week still does not find a healthy medium to find the potential wife."
Amazingly, one of the biggest complaints among Muslim women and men is finding quality within the quantity of available candidates for marriage. As one anonymous Muslim male puts it,
"Lots of times I felt like there were too few sisters to marry. The same four or five sisters would get recommended to me all the time. Sisters complain there are too few brothers, but I know so many brothers who want to get married. There are a lot of good sisters and brothers out there, but for whatever reason they're not connecting."
The lack of a social forum may be the biggest hurdle Muslims in America have to jump. Webb places the bulk of the responsibility of creating a forum on the current generation.
"I'm not thinking about finding a wife; your generation is living that narrative," Webb says. "Come up with ideas on how to find a spouse, and then ask community leaders, 'Can we do this?' These things need to be covered by the younger community, but with guidance from pastoral scholarly figures."
Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match
With all the challenges facing young men and women in their pursuit of a spouse, Nasreen Khan of Irvine understands the sheer importance of her role. Khan has been serving as a matchmaker for the Muslim community for more than 30 years
"There are girls and boys who may be suitable for each other, but they may not be aware so 'someone' has to introduce them," she says.
Fielding an average of four to five calls a month, Khan sees a trend among parents' requests: "Most parents want doctors, engineers, lawyers or computer experts who have very high incomes," Khan says. "The girls mostly want someone tall, handsome, good looking, or guys with charisma."
Khan is also dismayed at the worldly attitude towards marriage. In her experience, parents are the ones demanding more, thereby limiting the already waning spousal pool for their children. For example, according to Khan, about 90% of parents want their daughters to marry within the same culture, even though the girls themselves hardly care where the young man comes from.
In addition to maintaining that a potential spouse come from the same culture, parents make the process of finding a mate difficult for their children by "having extremely high worldly standards, not giving importance to religion and character, not willing to marry their children until they complete college, and refusing to accept the choice of their children," says Khan.
Khan estimates that 10% of couples she introduced to each other resulted in marriage. While that may seem like a small number, Khan reveals that many men and women reject proposals based on astonishingly trivial matters. For example, one girl refused an otherwise wonderful proposal because the boy was not tall enough. In another instance, a boy's mother refused a girl because her complexion was too dark.
"Most people perceive marriage to be just a social obligation rather than a religious one," Khan says. "I feel that our girls and boys, as well as their parents, need to be more aware and educated about the status of marriage in Islam, and take it seriously."
The long road ahead
Webb emphasizes that after identifying the problem, the Muslim community must make a joint effort to move into the solution phase.
"Our community has become indicters instead of inviters," he says. "If you look at any problem in the life of the Prophet, there was always a communal solution to a problem. We need to function in that way of a support group."
"Rhetoric has to be created by active people in our communities," Webb continues. "We can't give one khutbah or speech and expect a solution. We need opportunities like workshops or town halls that, for example, enlighten parents how difficult it is to get married."
Little doubt remains that many "good" Muslim men and women exist, but the obstacles involved in finding Mr. or Mrs. Right currently seem insurmountable.
Between pressure to marry within a specific nationality and parents who require their future son-in-law to have a certain salary, Muslims — especially American Muslims — face a long road ahead.
* Names have been changed.
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A compelling article, masha'Allah. Insha'ALlah I will read more thoroughly later on. I think with few exceptions, all Arab families look at $$$ first. My family is one of the rare ones that did not at look at $$$ first, and I still married late, but alhamdolellah, it was just what Allah chose for us.
Yes finding a good spouse is very hard , whether it is through the traditional route or through different avenues.
Just remember that marriage is risq. No one will marry your spouse other than you. So, keep on looking and trying, and insha'Allah Allah will guide you to each other .
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i don't think it's just arab families (desis being another huge sector of the muslim population).
i think eligible men and women should sit down with their parents and jot out their complete and joint expectations, and then literally cross off the irrational or downright ridiculous ones (emms and dees following a name being one of them).
i was a peripheral part of a conversation a friend of mine was having with her parents. they are dead-set on her marrying a guy from "UP". oh but converts are ok. as long as he's not black.
what if he's blue?
<--- that guy's pretty cute, i'd say
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The blue guy, but is he from UP???
Parents do have some slightly deranged views on the future spouse for their child.
My criteria is a muslim man who fears Allah above all else.
And when My servants question thee concerning Me, then surely I am nigh. I answer the prayer of the suppliant when he crieth unto Me. So let them hear My call and let them trust in Me, in order that they may be led aright. Surah 2 Verse 186
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My criteria is a muslim man who fears Allah above all else.
That's a good point in that you'd think a person who fears Allah would treat his wife right and provide for the family and be a loving husband etc. But sometimes I really have to wonder. Some people who are in all respects, outwardly really good Muslims have a lot of issues when it comes to maturity, dealing with sisters, communicating and so on. I think what the prophet saw said to look for in a prospective spouse is khuluq -- character. And I noticed that those brothers who have really good character -- have qualities like humility, generosity, kindness, friendlyness end up being good husbands as well. I think iman and in it's form "religious practiceness" tends to go up and down in life and while of course you need to start out with someone who at least prays, fasts and has belief in Allah I think khuluq should be a big part of what sisters look for as well.
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As salaamu alaikum
This was a good article but sadly it doesn't address the "why does the problem exist" question. Admittedly academic attainment plays a definite role in one's potential earning power and thus ability to provide so that is a criteria that shouldn't necessarily be "crossed off the list" but it does seem to be that having an advanced degree is a positive for men but is often viewed as a negative when it relates to women having them. I also notice too that most of the articles written on this topic focus on the problems encountered by the really young and how their parents play a role in the problem but doesn't addess the concern raised by the rest (who may not have the parent factor) and like it or not time is not in anyone's favor as we age every day.
I agree that maturity is not synomous with age because there are some people whose maturity level doesn't match their chronological age and so therefore anyone who lacks maturity should not be seeking marriage or considered marriage material but we know it happens if all other "factors" exist - degree/salary/"right" ethnic group.
It's just tragic that this issue/problem of artificial barriers exist.
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You mean ELVI$?
I was just wondering what you guys' thoughts were on Priscilla's current enthusiasm to keep up her late husband's image and Lisa Marie's duet with Elvis and her resolve to keep a positive image out there of her father. I am mixed on both especially Priscilla. Sometimes I feel she truly still has feelings that guide her that way and sometimes I feel Elvis has just become big business. With Lisa Marie, I feel that is all about the love of her father. On "Elvis by the Presleys" she was very hesitant to talk about the negatives and didn't on a few occasions, or stopped the conversation. I've seen her do this in other interviews too, I really respect that. As far as her songs, he is her dad why wouldn't want to express her feelings by writing about it. Anyway, wondering what you guys felt. thanks
Got my family, my kids, my books and my music, I'm good, yeah, I'm good.....
You mean ELVI$?
The Sun Never Sets On A Legend...
This is a tough one!
EPE but not only Lennon, Marley, Hendrix legacies and so on are all about business and making money!! This is what their "brands" are aiming at! Sell sell sell... Each of them trying to adapt their marketing image to match their products being sold. It is now the music business that rules not the artistry, a personnal insight from their relaitives or whatever... The innocence is gone for sure.
As Neil Yound said in a recent interview: what was great about Elvis was that innocence he had a very human character simple and authentic to who people may relate to. An iconic figure and the kind of hero you remember with a "smile on your face". He told about the Elvis picture he wanted to use as a cover in his last album, "Prairie wind" in which in pays tribute to E in the song "He was the King" and was willing to pay the price for it and how EPE refused to allow him doing that!
JHow ironic he said they may be willing t to use Elvis image to sell cars, pills or whatever sordi business that may be! and when it comes to Elvis most important legacy: his music, they turned him down personnally!! Can you believe that Neil Young being rejected by a bunch of marketing jerks!!
Parker has made a lot of babies....
Priscilla I guess is the only one knowing the real motivations driving her!
"Elvis By The Presleys" or, "Elvis by the Beaulieus", as Lisa and Patsy are the only Presley's in the production was by Priscilla and Lisa, so while it is a nice production it isn't unbiased and doesent draw on anything except what Priscilla approves of. There was an Elvis before Priscilla, there was an Elvis after Elvis and Priscilla.Originally Posted by Menwithbrokenhearts
A few things that Priscilla has done which dont garner favour with me are;
- Convincing Vernon to make her executeur of Elvis' will following his own death, even though Elvis had never expressed a wish for Priscilla to be involved in his will or the management of his estate.
- Her treatment of Elvis' relations once she assumed control of the Estate. Far too much to get into here, but suffice to say she upset a lot of Presley's. Aunt Delta never spoke highly of her until the day she herself died.
- Her redecoration of Elvis' home to the way it was when her and Elvis were together. Graceland is not as Elvis left it. She has redecorated.
- Her manipulation of Guarnlicks biography of Elvis to a pro-EPE stance; although since they paid for it I guess it was to be expected.
- Her sometimes fictional autobiographical book; Elvis and Me.
- The amount of Beaulieus who are now involved with EPE and making a living off of Elvis' name and legacy. Elvis had nothing to do with them from 72'.
- Her donations to Scientology. The reason I list it is that her main income is from the estate and it is from this income that she donates money to a religion which Elvis expressed severe distate for.
On the other side; I do thank and applaud her for opening Graceland up to the public. For assuming control of Elvis' name, image and likeness to prevent any bloodsuckers from living off money which I feel only those whom he decided in his will should inherit. He worked for everything and I don't see any justification in anyone other than his family living off the fruits of his labour. It also prevents people from making a mockery of his name and image; although I do hope they do something about the Impersonators!
Lisa; I think she missed a lot due to her young age when Elvis died. But I have noticed shes not that bothered about Graceland/EPE/ Elvis' legacy. She is obsessed with being her own person - fair enough - but she is Elvis Presley's daughter and I would like to see her be more pro-active in the role of Elvis' daughter. She doesent have much to do with his side of the family or with his beliefs. She really hasnt done that much that I can talk about though.
These are just my observations. I can't say that I dislike them. They are the most recognised 'Presley's' after Elvis. Lisa is Elvis' daughter and looks so much like him it is astonishing. Priscilla, was a woman whom Elvis spent a considerable amount of time with and with whom he seemed to have been very very happy. Just as I believe he would be with us today had Linda stuck around, I too believe had Priscilla and Elvis remained together, he would be still here.
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Well in my opion, Priscilla is a first class baracuda The way she`s promoting herself in `Elvis by the Presleys` is a disgrace. It`s always the same old story;
Priscilla is the victim and Elvis is the bad guy.
Somewhere in the dvd set she makes a remark about Elvis` love for his fans. She says: suddenly i knew why Elvis loved his fans so much....they said all the things he likes to hear. This is not only an insult to Elvis but to all the Elvis fans in the world !!!
I never understood why all Elvis fans like or sometimes even whorship her, because this woman is just an ordinary money maker and the still uses Elvis` name to do so. The dvd set is an outrage it`s the story of the Beaulieu family and the all end up together (almost) screaming `thank you Priscilla !`for opening Graceland to the public, it`s disgusting
During the whole dvd she`s also still talking about `us`, but to my opinion Elvis stopped the `us` part already in 1972. Lisa Marie and Jerry Schilling said nice things about Elvis, their words showed true love for Elvis, but `the woman` is complaining all the time and that makes me sick. She still using those Elvis fans to make money, but she makes it very clear that she doesn`t like them at all.
Like i`ve said before; this woman is a real baracuda and the Elvis world would be much better of whithout her presence all the time. She must take a good look at the intervieuws that where given by Linda Thompson about Elvis. Linda never says one bad thing about him and still treats him whit respect, that`s the way it should be.
So let`s forget about Pris, her terrible book and even whorse film and this dvd set.
It brings nothing new to the real fans and it`s only there to let her bank account grew once again. Priscilla opened Graceland to the public that`s true, but she only did it for her own profit. It`s also because of her that `Elvis in concert` is still not officially released on dvd and we`re not able to buy pictures of Elvis from that period in the shops around Graceland.
In her opinion Elvis died in 1973.......do i need to say more??
Priscilla is the type of girl who just needs a bit of spanking (like E did with some chick in Blue Hawaii!).
I'd advise Priscilla to leave Scientology and go to Oprah and/or the church instead.
She (cilla) is his ex-wife and mother of their only child, though..!
lnicks Elvis did have very much contact with Priscilla and her family after 72. He always wanted her there for the openings in Vegas, and told her to bring whomever she wanted. He called her quite a bit just to talk even when he was involved with other girls. Probably a baracuda was what was needed after Elvis
s dad died, someone had to cut out the COl. who was still taking 50% off the top (not counting the side deals) and the estate was $500,000 away from going under. The baracuda got rid of the sharks and kept the wolf from the door. If she had'nt saved the estate the Elvis story would have had an even more tragic and sad ending. Instead it is the most visited private home in the country , after the W.House, and makes money for his daughter-bottom line thats what Elvis would have wanted his daugter secure. Now does Priscilla make a good living at it-you bet, too much maybe. Does she portray her self in a more favorable light than she should, probably but don't we all. I use to hate her after Elvis died but have some respect for the fact that she has worked to keep the estate for Elvis's daughter. I mean after Vernon died who else could have been trusted? Lisa could have taken the reins when the will specified and she decided I'm not into running corporations and its doing well, so she left her mom in charge. Shes much like her dad who also had no interest in the business end. From what I've read in other bios she can be ruthless, in business ruthless is the name of the game. I wonder where you get your info about Peter Guirlnicks books I have not heard of any connection between the estate and him(tht doesn't mean there isn't one Iam just curious)
I have never to this day understood what Elvis saw in her sure she was attractive but without a heart what does that matter.
She doesn`t like the fans (except when she has something to sell) and has never liked them in fact I`ll go as far as to say she doesn`t like people. They were always at the gate she says with distaste. She didn`t like the guys around him and she never showed any interest in his religious convictions infact she was so cruel as to burn all his books in the sixties.
Elvis on the other hand loved people and would give everything he could to please his fans and thought about others first something she has never done.
She has certainly got a high opinion of herself believing that Elvis could not love any other woman after her when in fact he did -Linda, Ginger etc.
Vernon did not want to leave Graceland to her but in his mind what choice did he have, he wanted Lisa to get everything that she was entitled and he thought the only person that would really look out for her would be her mother when in fact the only person she looked out for was herself.
She likes to go on about how Elvis made her dye her hair black but look at pictures of her in the sixties she had black hair, auburn hair and blonde hair all before she married him and I don`t believe that he made her return all her clothes if he didn`t like them as she states in Elvis By The Beaulieus!!!
I find it hard to believe as she says that she saw Elvis all the time after the divorce a) he was touring a great deal b) he was with Linda etc c) she was shacked up with her karate instructor who is without a doubt the most repulsive man I have ever seen how on earth you can go from Elvis to that is beyond me!
Also the story how she was told by Elvis not to get close to the other wives because he had confided things about the guys to her what a crock! Her best friend was Joe Espositos wife for god sake. She says that they may of thought she was cold because of this what an excuse. They thought you were cold Priscilla because you are don`t go blaming Elvis.
She has changed her story so many times that I don`t think she knows what the truth is anymore.
As for Lisa I would like to see her more involved with the Elvis world coming to Memphis during Elvis week etc, a walk on once every five years during Elvis The Concert is not enough. It annoys me that she goes to Memphis during the quieter times of the year instead of when its Elvis`s birthday etc, it annoys me when for instance in 2002 during Elvis week she chose to watch the fans at the candlelight vigil through the mansion window instead of being amongst them. But I also know that her mother has stopped her doing things on certain occasions. She as also I believe bad mouthed him to her and If anyone watched the Oprah interview of them both together Lisa was very apprehensive at the end when Oprah was plugging the book, dvd, cd and All Shook Up musical while priscilla was loving it even though she had slated Elvis during the interview for giving Lisa too many gifts claiming that he didn`t know what it did to a child and that her life with him consisted of being in a bubble.
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Thank you so much for all your replies!
I watched the Elvis by the Presleys dvd again after I read your replies and I have to agree, she, Priscilla, is very much playing the victim and all about herself, whereas Lisa is very apprehensive to talk about anything unless it's a positive memory. I realize that Priscilla has done alot to preserve his image, but it seems obvious what her true motivations are. My guess is that her and Lisa don't see eye to eye too much on this. Lisa does seem more like her father in that respect. I like that about her. But it also seems Priscilla has an adequate amount of control over her as far as EPE goes. (reminds me of another business relationship a little!)
I didn't realize she had redecorated Graceland! That kind of pisses me off. It would have been nice to have seen it as Elvis left it.
I knew that Vernon had done that but I did not know that she had talked him into it. My guess though is that it didn't take much. Elvis wanted Lisa taken care of and protected and so did Vernon. I think that was his prime motivation. She still seems pissed at Elvis but she does know what side her bread is buttered on.eh?
Considering the pressures of being Elvis' daughter, EPE, her mother, all the fans, etc.... I think Lisa has done a pretty good job. I don't think she feels too comfortable in public situations especially when it concerns her dad. I suppose that could be alot or Priscilla's doing too.
Anyway. thanks again you guys!!!
Got my family, my kids, my books and my music, I'm good, yeah, I'm good.....
There are pictures on the net of the way it used be. Can't remember which site, but it was all done in Red, kind of funky. Linda decorated it that way. On the tour of Graceland you can see in the back of the house where Charlie had his apartement some of the furniture that used to decorate the living room in 77.
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I don't believe Elvis and Priscilla were as close after 72' as Priscilla likes to make out. You know in 77 she asked Elvis for $100,000 so her father could open a liquer store, Elvis never paid up - yet she moaned about it after he died, saying had he not her father would have eventually gotten the money.
Priscilla also gets far too much praise for the Estate. After Vernon refusing to put her in the will a few times, she finally caught him on his death bed and after she pleaded with him, he gave in. He gave in primarily because he thought the bank and Joe Hanks, the accountant would lead the estate in the right way. They were made executors as well untill Lisa was the right age. It wasn't all Priscilla. Jack Soden also doesent get the credit he deserves because he made a lot of savy business decisions. Priscilla isnt that good a business woman, she takes the credit but she doesent deserve all of it. As Soden said; "Scatter could have opened Graceland and it would have been a success."
As for Guarnlick. He was beholden to the estate financially. Those books are EPE products and the stance they take on certain issues is very obvious. He also uses primarily Priscilla and anyone she favours as a source. Billy Smith was Elvis' closet friend when he died, he was also like a little brother to Elvis ( not like the Stanleys who claim to be ), and he is barely mentioned in either of the books. I also believe he is guilty of plaigarism to a certain degree with that book. The publishing company lost money on the project. I believe it is seriously flawed and should not be taken as a definitve history of Elvis.
The Sun Never Sets On A Legend...
Lisa admitted on Oprah that she had only bonded with her mother in the last two years which means that she only started to get on with her when she was in her mid thirties which if I was Priscilla I would be very ashamed about.
I don`t agree with a lot that Lisa has said and done she has made some stupid mistakes (Michael Jackson for one) and said some stupid things but in regards to her father lets face the facts who has she ever really had to talk to about him, all the Presleys are gone and all that she has had are the Beaulieus and we know what song sheet they sing from.
I don`t think she has had any help dealing with his death and this shows itself by the fact that she can`t talk about the day he died. On every interview she resists going into that day it is obviously still painful for her.
I haven`t liked her attitude on a lot of occasions but I do feel that its a cover for whats really going on underneath.
This woman was once a 9 year-old girl who saw her father being carried out of Graceland on Aug 16 1977 and the first person she phoned was not her mother but Linda Thompson I think that says a lot.
Joanna, i`m glad to read that at least one Elvis fan agrees with me on the `Priscilla part`. I agree with you too about the things you`ve pointed out on Lisa Marie. The `Jackson move` was a bad move, Elvis wouldn`t have liked that.
It`s absolutly true that Linda was the first person Lisa called after Elvis` died and that indeed says it all.
About the Beaulieu family; I`ve visited `Elvis the concert` in 1997 in Memphis. The two of them where present there because `good old` Pris invited them. Pris said that they never attended an Elvis concert before and i didn`t understand that at all. Imagine .... Your son in law is Elvis Presley, the biggest entertainer in the world and during all those years you`ve never attended one concert of the man I think that points out exactly from what songsheet they sing !!
I didn`t know about the story that Pris talked to Vernon at the time he was dieing but it doesn`t surprise me at all. The woman is totaly evil in my opinion and that`s why i don`t understand all those fans who still protect her.
Do you remember the scene in the movie `Elvis and me` where you can see Elvis walking around the pool area at the Las Vegas Hilton eating pills like candy??
Everyone knows that Elvis had a problem with his medication, but this scene is an absolute outrage Later in the movie you can see Elvis picking up the phone when Pris calls him. He has a naked lady in his bed, but how did Pris know that when she was on the other side of that phone
Priscilla was already complaining about her life with Elvis in the early sixties when he was out making movies and she was `left alone again in the castle`. My question is: why did she marry the man in the first place? She was already complaining about his relationship with Ann Margret, so why marry a man you don`t trust, who puts you in `isolation`, who dates other women and is never at home? The true reason in my opinion is MONEY!! She decided to marry Elvis and did everything in her power to realise that. It`s far from honest to complain and play the victim all the time when you knew what life with Elvis would be like.
Linda Thompson is much more honest in her intervieuws. She never wrote a dirty book about Elvis She never makes bas comments about him and she certainly is not complaining like Pris does all the time
There was a movie `Elvis and the beauty queen` once, but this was made whithout Linda`s cooperation. So thank you Joanna for backing me up, i`m sure this discussion is far from over. I didn`t even mention the role of the `little sister`Michelle in all of this, because i didn`t come to it. Her comments are almost the same as Priscilla`s, they all `know` facts whithout seeing it with their own eyes. The apple is not far from the tree in this case.
I`ve written a 7 page article about Priscilla`s role in Elvis life, her book/movie and this dvd projekt but there`s not one fanclub willing to publisch it, because they all say....you can`t say things like that about Priscilla! .....and my question is...WHY NOT, when it`s the truth
I looked thru my copy and saw no official connection to EPE. I also looked up reviews of the book and according to the New York Times it was a hugely succesful bio being on the best sellers list for weeks and after reading several reviews of the book and some reviews of his other works Guarnlicks he is considered a first rate straight shooter who tells it as he finds it , with taste and dignity.. The books notes and bibliography in one volumn were over 70 pages- explaining where all info came from and from who it came from as all books have to do. Credit is given where ever it came from. The people inteviewed appears to be a couple thousand(I could not find a total and my eyes are to old to count them) I was surprised not to see Billy Smith listed as a source. I have about 70 bios of Elvis and none is definitive. I would say read all you can (even the bad ones ) and judge the best you can for your self because as Elvis said "If you haven't walked in that mans shoes. or seen thru his eye..."Originally Posted by 0349054
KPM, I dont have my copy near me at the moment, so I cant go through it that much!
I don't think that Careless Love is the definitive biography of Elvis that
Guralnick's journalistic friends hyped in their reviews.
It's nothing but a huge re-hash of other books only Guralnick makes the mistake
of putting his own personal spin on things and he's way off base. He has a
bunch of wrong data, dates, times, people, etc..
For instance; Guranlick suggests that it was not only Parker who did not want to pursue the Barbara Streisand movie "A Star is Born." While Elvis
showed great interest in the project initially, it's Guranlick's feeling that overtime Elvis lost interest. Additionally, it is suggested that Streisand tried to take advantage of Elvis from a business point of view; sign him to a contract worth much less than he deserved.I don't believe it was time changing Elvis' mind. It was just the very next day that Parker killed it. Guralnick was led around by the nose by Parker, the same thing happened to Jerry Hopkins when he wrote his books.Thatt was Parker's favorite line, " it wasn't me, Elvis was the one who didn't want to do it!" he used that line whenever anyone questioned him about something that might have been good for Elvis that he killed. Funny thing is he only used it after Elvis died.He was afraid Streisand would inform Elvis a lot about business and that there were people standing in line to make deals with Elvis and/or represent him if he would break away from Parker. Parker would not expose him to people like that in fear of losing control.
One more comment about the Guralnick book. He writes that despite all
the weight he lost, Elvis looked "strangely bloated" during the Aloha
from Hawaii special, and that his expression during the show was
"glazed and unfocused."And that shows how bad Guralnick's opinions and critiques are. The fact is, that Elvis was in great shape, condition, and spirits for weeks before the trip to Hawaii, during the trip for the rehearsals and the actual two tapings and the night after the show.
Guranlick accepted a very generous advance (said by one of his close associates to be $50,000 -- a figure Guralnick did not deny when confronted by a Memphis jurnalist) from EPE to do a future book BEFORE he even started writing "Careles Love". I was recently told Guralnick paid the publisher of "Revelations of the Memphis Mafia" an extra $750 for the excesses "borrowed" from that book.
But the main thing to keep in mind is -- when he sat down to write "Careless Love," he was already under contract with EPE to develop another book for EPE. He borrows far too much from other books.
Careless Love sold 50,000 Worldwide by 2002, don't know what it is now, but it wasnt a mega seller. In comparison, "Elvis; What Happened?" sold 12 million copies worldwide, it is the best selling Elvis book of all time.
I do agree with you though; read as many books from as many sources as possible, although I do think people should read books from those around Elvis first and then move onto books like Guarnlicks - but if anyone can read Alanna Nash's books. They are brilliant.
The Sun Never Sets On A Legend...
To tell you the truth I have read Sonny West say Elvis was down to 165 for Aloha and if you look at him in the waist there is no way hes 165. 180 -185 he probably was 165 or 170 for the 69, 70, 71 dates but not on Aloha. As to the taking from other books as long as it is in the bibliography as coming from them
theres nothing wrong with it. Pick up any book about any person and you'll find many pages of acknowledgements. Elvis :What Happened was never a hardback It was a paperback and I got mine in 77 at K-mart for $2.59. After the initial month it went down to $1.99 on sale. I think K-mart ordered the largest paperback order in history up to that time. The hardback books were around $29.99(to stiff for me) I got mine when the big paperback s came out for $9.99
I'm not trying to argue I just think any writer is going to make mistakes and assumptions based on what he or she has uncovered.
I understand what your saying. It's just I feel that he is not very objective in the telling of the story, thats all! I had a pretty long winded way of getting round to it also!
The Sun Never Sets On A Legend...
Priscilla's concern for Elvis' image can be summed (no pun intended) up in three words.....MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!!!
If your an Elvis fan, no explanation is necessary....
If your not, no explanation is possible!
You know I read all these books so long ago, they kind of blend together, I remember points and forget where they came from. I guess it would not hurt to re-read a bunch of them to know where what came from. A lot of things are basically the same but points of view and personal stories differ. I have noticed Lamar Fike always seems to have a more negative view of Elvis compared to some others. He tempers it with a disclaimer of sorts, but the drift is almost always negative. Schillings is upbeat and pretty much stays away from dirt or gossip(but hes associated with the estate on and off) I think you could view Elvis as a saint or a sinner depending on who you get the story from and how its told.
And the facts could be the same, its just point of view and how its presented. Ususally the truth is in the middle, not always but a lot of the time.
Totally agree.Originally Posted by 0349054
Nevertheless, the scale of the book - even if much of it is stitched together from other publications/interviews previously done - is to be commended.
I actually find the truth to be a mixture of your opinion and Guralnick's.He writes that despite all
the weight he lost, Elvis looked "strangely bloated" during the Aloha
from Hawaii special, and that his expression during the show was
"glazed and unfocused."And that shows how bad Guralnick's opinions and critiques are. The fact is, that Elvis was in great shape, condition, and spirits for weeks before the trip to Hawaii, during the trip for the rehearsals and the actual two tapings and the night after the show.
Have you ever seen any pictures of Elvis sitting inside the helicopter just before/as it touches down? His eyes definitely look drawn and vacant. When he gets out of the helicopter, he practically blanks the Hawaiian girl that's dancing to greet him. Then he does a short interview with that reporter - and if you've heard it, you'll know he gave fairly indifferent, monosyllabic answers. Now, while these latter two observations could be dismissed as a man simply impatient to greet the crowd and even the first observation could be dismissed as Elvis merely being pensive, I have to wonder... There's just something different. That fire, that passion is still inside of Elvis - but something is obscuring it. It takes more on stage to unleash it. He no longer has the energy or enthusiasm of 1968, 1969 or even 1970. Rocking numbers like C.C. Rider, Burning Love and Suspicious Minds are wheeled off with such a dispassion that Elvis really doesn't seem bothered about even ATTEMPTING to deliver them as he only he could. Then there are the distant expressions on songs like "It's Over" (admittedly, an emotional song - but he looks genuinely depressed in parts) and a failure, despite what appears to be joyfulness while performing it, to fully articulate the words on "Johnny B. Goode". There are also a frightening number of mistakes made during the rehearsal concert. At times, it seems like Elvis' mind is elsewhere.
I've even read somewhere - though this could be completely false - that Elvis was strung out on his balcony the following day/evening. If true, this couldn't be more damaging. A man that should be on top of the world experiencing the depths of despair! Perhaps he was reflecting on his divorce, perhaps he was thinking ahead to his Vegas commitment, but one thing's for certain - this wasn't the bright, bouyant and totally driven artist of five years earlier!
Now, don't get me wrong here: I LOVE Aloha. Elvis really does tear through many songs and clearly experiences many moments of ecstasy. It's a solid hour of groundbreaking entertainment. But Elvis had just had another birthday and formalised the divorce papers - this was surely affecting him for the worse. Moreover, he didn't seem too bothered about his appearance in 1972 - when he was going in front of high resolution film cameras! What does that tell you? As much as it appeared that he had got back on track for Aloha, there was something else going on. A person suffering the severe depression that gripped Elvis doesn't just get over it. He was depressed in 1972 and depressed in 1973; Aloha is sandwiched right in the middle and does not represent an Elvis at his peak publically or privately.
But again, that's not to say it doesn't have things to cherish - it surely does! It's its own thing: good and bad. It even has things to offer that the Comeback Special doesn't and vice versa. But it's not above criticism, and in the arc of Guralnick's narrative, I think he gives it the assessment it's due. He's not necessarily towing the EPE line as much as he's honestly giving his views. Guralnick is lamenting the "unmaking" of a great talent, and in this context, he is surely right to be speaking negatively by 1973 - a year that ended with a bizarre outburst by Elvis on stage and would be topped by an even stranger one the following year! Guralnick isn't us and we are not Guralnick. I think his views are ultimately sensible - if shaped by the subjective biases that human minds are wont to make.
Anyway, back to your regular programming.
Speaking of which, I'd like to add a point to your very incisive "Priscilla" list!
As much as I love "Elvis by the Presleys" for its tasteful presentation and archive material (video footage and audio snippets!), the very title is a contradiction: as you've pointed out, Priscilla is really a "Beaulieu", not a Presley! What's more, her parents pull some odd and, to my mind, false expressions throughout their segments! For every bit of truthfulness in "Elvis by the Presleys", there's a fair amount of treachery and deceit in evidence! However, this takes the cake... The special opens with a chapter called "Elvis: Meeting Priscilla", and as if that wasn't enough, then proceeds with a second chapter called, "Elvis: Introducing Mrs Presley". The whole thing is VERY one-sided. For better or worse, Elvis' legacy is now firmly in the hands of this woman. The Colonel may have grabbed Elvis by the neck - but Priscilla has him by the balls. As that song goes, "the female of the species is more deadly than the male..."A few things that Priscilla has done which dont garner favour with me are;
- Convincing Vernon to make her executeur of Elvis' will following his own death, even though Elvis had never expressed a wish for Priscilla to be involved in his will or the management of his estate.
- Her treatment of Elvis' relations once she assumed control of the Estate. Far too much to get into here, but suffice to say she upset a lot of Presley's. Aunt Delta never spoke highly of her until the day she herself died.
- Her redecoration of Elvis' home to the way it was when her and Elvis were together. Graceland is not as Elvis left it. She has redecorated.
- Her manipulation of Guarnlicks biography of Elvis to a pro-EPE stance; although since they paid for it I guess it was to be expected.
- Her sometimes fictional autobiographical book; Elvis and Me.
- The amount of Beaulieus who are now involved with EPE and making a living off of Elvis' name and legacy. Elvis had nothing to do with them from 72'.
- Her donations to Scientology. The reason I list it is that her main income is from the estate and it is from this income that she donates money to a religion which Elvis expressed severe distate for.


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